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The remake of Riven comes out tomorrow. The demo is out now and it appears they have changed a lot of puzzles and rearranged places, which so far I think is awesome.The big issue for me and probably a lot of people is that the 3D model characters that replaced the FMV actors look kind of cartoony and kind of take you out of the immersion a bit, which was one of the strongest points of the original. Also, the environment looks great at times but awful at other times (a lattice doorway, some plants).Anyway, now that I know what's subpar about it, I am looking forward to seeing what they did with the rest of the game, and seeing all the changes they made, hopefully they don't suck but it's good in the demo.
So I am back after having completed Myst. Very glad to have finally completed the game, surprisingly I got a lot farther when I was a little kid than I remembered. As I would explore an age, I would see things that sparked an old memory. Either way, a lot of fun. I am taking a break before I play Riven. Should I play the OG game first? Are classic FMV movies possible like in the myst remake in the riven remake?I'm conflicted because the myst remake looked great on my setup, but I had already completed most of the original game when I was young.
>>11067261Try out the OG first.
>>11067261>>11068634I agree, I'm playing through the original for the first time and it holds up
>>11068634>>11068939thanks, I was leaning towards the original as I really liked the pre-rendered backgrounds and FMV clips of the OG Myst.
>>11067261I've been playing OG Riven as well here, it's lots of fun. You can hit your head on the wall with the puzzles and then appreciate what the remake did different. Also don't check any walkthroughs and minimize getting hints, the payoff is much more rewarding.>>11054330Haven't gotten back into it yet...
Share your top 100 charts and give recs!It was kind of difficult to think of my top 100 favorite games, but it got me thinking about games I haven't played in a long time that I really want to replay again now.
I'm not sure there are even 100 games that I truly love. Yes I understand that isn't really how it works but still having a top 100 list where like half of the games are>eh, I guess they were good, whateverfeels retarded. Top 25 is probably the optimal variant for most people unless you are a big fan of a fuckload of games
>>11068929I get what you are saying. I mostly wanted to do a top 100 to think back to games I loved but forgot about and give me an excuse to go back to.As well as see other peoples charts and get/give recs
"Really really nice" Edition>LinksRetro sizer https://retrosizer.com/Retro handhelds spreadsheet https://pastebin.com/ZyqXr19rSoC Comparison https://versus.com/en/mobile-chipset>Where to buyAliexpress, gogamegeek, litnxt, keepretro, mechdiy, Anbernic/Retroid official websites>Best BrandsRetroid (Well built, powerful, but $100-200 range), Anbernic (Balanced price, power and build quality, avoid the RG Nano), Powkiddy (Cheap, low quality builds, interesting shapes), Miyoo (One hit wonder), TrimUI: (Good build quality, shitty software, good price).>What do I buyPost your preferences: Money (20$ - 300$), Shape (horizontal, vertical, clamshell, square), Pocketable or not, OS (Linux, Android, Both), Systems (Pre PSX is 8, 16, and 32-bit eras, PSX with extras, Dreamcast and N64, PSP and DS, PS2 and GC/Wii capable)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11068898What makes you think we are going to see anytime soon the RP5 and why do you think it will have an OLED display?
I read on transcord that a new TSP firmware upgrade is about to drop.
>>11068951I mean, Retroid updates their lineup about once a year. I assume RP5 might come out in early 2025. But then again maybe not.OLED is being pushed everywhere, including handhelds. I know it's a cheap device, but today you can hardly find an IPS phone anymore, even cheap shit.
https://www.youtube.com/live/wrhtSdTA2-0?si=AJG5zW9j3rBQmPHK
>>11068982Nasty color.
So finally beat Daggerfall after many times of never getting through the main quest and the final dungeon. Do I suck or is it ridiculously obtuse at times and unfair? I had to look some things up because I got stuck a few times.What did you guys think about the final dungeon, good or bullshit?
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>>11066315I have really limited memories of the game despite beating it. I must have liked it at the time because I don't finish games I don't like but I've never had a twinge of interest in replaying it for like 15 years. Like a lot of people I have completely lost any sense of glamor in procedural generation.
>>11068707cope and seethe troon
>>11068845dude you sound like a fucking bimboits literally a 3D dungeon crawler you colossal retard. you "thought it was all flat" because youre a stupid fucking faggot. games prolly been freeware for longer than youve even been alive
>>11068841you should replay it again now with the source port. buncha mods coming out for it weekly
8 hours in, 80% scan log, saved just after getting screw attack in Sanctuary Fortress. The level design has completely fallen apart. There's still good parts. After beating the spiderball guardian, there's a missile tank that leads you out several rooms away. However, if you know you know, immediately after getting spiderball you need to return to Torvus Bog and obtain the power bombs. I figure the devs intention here was to use the elevator to Agon Wastes, and then to use the elevator to Torvus Bog. That places you approximately in the chamber above the powerbomb guardian. However there's an elevator back to Sanctuary Fortress that's telegraphed by power bomb doors, and it's really clutch after the fact. This region reminds me of Chozo Ruins, so many paths lead really far out of the way, and you have to do a task, and then come back the way you came. A standout was the second Dark Samus fight, you actually fight her up an elevator shaft. Afterwards you jump through a portal two times and receive the echo visor. After that, you start having doors lock on you, and you have to switch visors and defeat a drone to proceed through areas you come back through. I think a better way to do this would be to open up new paths that connect pivotal areas together, such as a ventilation shaft, having to use the echo visor to gain entry, and having very tight shortcuts around the facility. I didn't mind jumping between light and dark worlds before, because you usually do a lot before going back. Sanctuary Fortress however quadruples down on portal jumping, and it's only for one thing, and it's always in the same room, or just one room over. Agon Wastes is the best region in the game with the best level pathing. I'm thinking Metroid Prime 2 is equal to Metroid Prime 1 now, probably an 8/10previous threads >>>/v/681325694 >>>/v/681058918
>Mad Because Bad: The Thread
>>11068193Anon, if you're going to write essays about how Prime 2 is bad, don't be too stupid to turn the hint system off.
>>11068376Imagine a current day sperg navigating a menu that doesn’t look like it came off an iPhone.
>>11064076The boost ball jumping makes it all worth it
>>11066034People are shitting on you but I agree. MP2's navigation is way less intuitive than MP1's. MP1's was perfect and 2 is a clunky mess. These are 2 of my favorite games and I replay them yearly or more, but MP2's navigation trips me up at least once or twice every time.
I think you all know the drill... it's time for some *looking good* action, so post your setups, the shaders you like to use to replicate CRTs or LCD screens from old handhelds, or maybe even any shaders that fall under a different category. It's always fun to see what everyone's daily driving around here and discussing it, sharing tips and a few tricks to making it all look its absolute best.
>>11067252I used CRTs all my life as well, which is probably considerably longer than yours, and I use shaders now because I'm not some pathetic posturing autist child who needs to transform how he plays with his toys into a religion.
one time i accidentally started MAME with a GBA preset and i liked it so i've continued doing itGBA games can also look good with CRT shaders
>>11068909it has its charme
it looks better in-person but windows 10's built-in screencap software doesn't work well with hdr and i'm too lazy to fix/find something else
You only have three games that you can recommend someone play from the NEC PC Engine. What games are you recommending? For every game the person doesn't like they get to kick you really hard in the balls.>no supergrafx allowed>hard mode: no rondo of bloodmy 3 recs>ys iv dawn of ys>soldier blade>parasol stars
legendary axelegend of valkyriecotton fantastic night dreamsplus a pack of benson & hedges premium soft pack
>console with a bunch of shmups>controller is ass for shmupsWhat did they mean by this?
>>11068943Devil CrushR-Type USAYs I and II
>>11068972There is an arcade stick you can buy iirc
>>11068943Gate of thunderLords of thunderRondo of blood
Which of the classic Wario games are best?
>>11067943Bold of you to assume the people who decided they wanted to do Wario games instead would have continued to work on Mario if they couldn't get the OK.
>>11067943I'm glad they innovated and tried something new instead of just making more mediocre Mario 3likes
>>11067834I enjoyed Wario 2 and Virtual Boy Wario Land the most
IMOWL3>>WL4 > SML3 > WL2WL3 is not for everyone, but it has peak puzzles and pushes the gameplay to the limit, it's basically Wario + Metroid + a bit of SM64WL2 is all about collecting useless coins and breaking walls and nauseamWL4 is between those, puzzles but also pointless collecting, though the graphics are great it's also a tiny bit style over substanceSML3 is alright, it's much more of an action/platformer thoughHaven't played VB WL, they say it's ok
>>11068961VB WL is SML3 but with much smoother gameplay, legit great game stuck in a eye exam console
Metal Gear Solid on the PS1 is the absolute peak of the series, the best 3D metal gear game, the best story, the best filmography, and has exactly the right amount of cheese for flavor without coming across as parody of Kill BillMGS2 is fine, but the series is already clearly becoming stupid from this game onward and it lacks any of the grit, grunge, and artistry of MGS1.MGS3 is very good as a game with lots of emergent gameplay, but again fails to be a serious interesting thriller/drama with a compelling story.MGS4 and on are not worth even making a hypothetical case for.MGS1 was good on accident. The limitations of the hardware and the significantly less powerful Kojima still being reined in and preventing him from making snake backflip off of missiles are integral pieces to the puzzle of "What makes MGS1 so good?" Just play twin snakes if you don't believe me.Discuss.
>>11067591Everyone knows MGS3s message is "russians are faggots in every sense of the word"
>>11066665>>11066676>>11066681Japanese text on 90s games was a stylistic choice. Japan was seen as a place from the future back then, given all its technological advancements.
>>11059993>it lacks any of the grit, grunge, and artistry of MGS1I don't know what you're talking about. MGS2 talks about heavy shit while being THE art game.
MGS1 is the only one of the games worth playing in English. The rest are abysmal, MGS2 was massacred, MGS3 at least had decent voice direction, everything after this was dogshit on every level.
>>11059993You are right, no I won’t elaborate
This is a great game and anyone who says otherwise is a retarded zoomer
>>11067982>b bb but the game.com is inferior in every measurable way compared to the DMG GameBoy.
>>11064350it plays more games than you idiots have braincells
>>11068436There were absolutely 0 portable systems that were better than the Original Gameboy by any measurement until the next handheld made by Nintendo.
>>11067198Thank you, those videos are much better. And the gamecom still looks miles worse in motion.
>>11064350you've never played any game.com games huh
When I was a little kid I had this neighborhood friend who owned an NES as well as the infamous SMB/Duck Hunt cartridge and we would often play those games togetherI especially liked Duck Hunt because you could shoot things with the Zapper, and not being a video game expert I had no idea that such technology even existed and it fascinated me, but the funniest thing about the game is that if you would shoot the grass area at the bottom of the screen every once in a while the dog would emerge from the grass making an 8 bit whining sound, with his paws on his chest in an "I've been shot" gesture, only to sink back under the grass a second later. I used to shoot the grass on purpose all the time because I thoght it was hilarious.Fast forward a few years, I find out that the whole "shooting the dog in Duck Hunt" is just an urban legend and you can't actually do it (I've even tried it on my own copy that I boguth a few years back)....only problem with that is that I distinctly remember doing it all the rime as a kid, both because it was funny and to annoy my friend, it's still so fresh in my memory even after all these years, I could swear to God that it happened
>>11065831>your medicaciónlmfao
I got a weird one. I dreamed of the future.... in a video game. >be playing DaS with a friend of for hours upon hours and weeks upon weeks>we spend days just ganking people and having a good laugh about it>suddenly get this vivid dream>I could go into a ton of detail, but suffice to say, it's of the beginning area of the DLC (the one with the mushroom lady coming out of the tree)>talk to her in the dream>remember my friend being absolutely floored by the areaNow here's the fun part>me and my friend didn't know a thing about the DLC and had never seen a bit of it in screenshots or videos>one day friend finds out about it, calls me up, tells me how to get there>we both decide to do it that night>beat the boss guarding the DLC>get to the forest>my jaw drops>It's exactly like my dream to a TComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11065698Weirdly, I have the similar memory about another NES Zapper classic: Wild Gunman.I've played it at my mom friends' house when I was like 6, and there was an oddity in that version. In "normal" game, bandits are appearing from either left or right side of the screen (or both), and there are no more than 2 of them simultaneously.The game I saw, bandits were stepping from left edge of the screen to right, forming a line. You could only shoot one of them who currently stood in the middle, and they were reacting to it by moving their mouths as if they were cursing, then moving in line to the right. I didn't really catch on the point of gameplay then and never saw this version ever again, there's a 99.9% chance of it being fake childhood memories.It could be your case, too. Or maybe your friend got some weird early clone/bootleg that no one dumped.
When I was a kid our NES was a shitty hand-me-down that didn't always read carts right. One time my brother and I started up Duck Hunt and the cart corrupted, leaving the menu text to say1 FUCK2 FUCKSPretty much the funniest thing that can happen to a kid. Too bad we didn't have cameras of our own to use back then.
>>11068802My Famiclone started to get glitchy near the end of its lifespan (i think cartridge slot getting loose is a very common problem, I have that on another clone too), it could mess up graphics and letters randomly, but it was weirdly consistent with some games. Robocop 3 always displayed its title as BOBOCO N at the start screen, never anything different.This game is BOBOCO N for me ever since.
Misinterpreted visuals thread.Hard mode: No Emperor Gestahl.
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>>11068887fucking furries
>>11068887i see it now.... but you saw that when you were school-aged?
>>11065512The "What I thought it was" is correct.
On a GBC screen, I had no fucking idea what this sprite was supposed to be. At first I thought it was a fish, and I had no idea wtf to do. I never bothered going into the pokemart for like a day because I was a dumbass elementary school kid
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>>11059723My top 5 wishlist:>goof troop>DoReMi Fantasy Milon's DokiDoki Adventure>Musya: The Classic Japanese Tale of Horror>Operation Logic Bomb>Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
>>11067021> まさかのお助けアイテムIs there a mouse controller for virtua cop Saturn? Because 9/10 it feels like that’s the helping item he gets halfway through the challenge
>>11067954https://segaretro.org/Shuttle_MouseYep, compatible with Virtua Cop.
>tune into the twitch stream>it's Lemmings again
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Faksanadu
>>11068380and this is a mix between Metroid and Zelda 2 but with self contained levels
>>11068380also there is the Knightmare II Maze of Galious
>>11068380>Any other games like this that use the 2d combat and open world nature?Yeah, Dragon Buster, like I already said, >>11064071 .
>>11068380Athena but it's superjank. Cute though.
>>11068395Is this for the snes?