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I putted my eyeballs on this and i get an impression of shitty mid-2000s mech games
>>12630218better than the second one, for sure
>>12630218God this game rules and fucks
Well it certainly tried to do them the most comprehensively.
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You are always fighting about save states, well I am going to tell you the truth. What I am about to tell you is not an opinion, it is objectively fact. Some of you can't handle the truth, but here it goes:You can use save states anytime you want if it makes you happy. You can justify the use of save states any way you want. You can say "I have more fun this way" or "I don't have the time", etc.BUT DO NOT LIE TO YOURSELF.The reason why so many people refuse to use them is not due to some purist reason or challenge. The truth is that a lot of games were designed around the use of save points. I am not here to convince you that I know what the "devs intended", but it is undeniable that save points were often deliberately placed. While it is true that save points were a limitation of the technology at the time, games incorporated these limitations. The reason there is a save point after a tough boss battle is because you could finally breathe a sigh of relief after beating the boss. The reason a certain dungeon was tougher than the others? The developers purposely didn't include a save point in it, even though all the other dungeons did. When you use a save state in an area that never had that option, it is quite literally a cheat code and can absolutely change the way the game feels and break the difficulty. Even using a save state so you can resume later is still really close to the fine line. You should only use a save state in an area where the game lets you save, and at that point you might as well just use the save point the game offers you, since it allows you to experience the save screen, save icons, etc.If you use save states, you didn't experience the game the way it was meant to be experienced. You literally (probably) cheated, and therefore, YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME. This is not an opinion. It is literally a fact. But some of you can't handle the truth. Let the autistic screeching commence!Thanks for reading my blog and attending my TED Talk.
>>1262970673rd post best post/thread
>>12629580If you care about whether people use save states, you're a tranny.
>>12630584If you don't care about whether people use save states, you're a faggot.
I build software tools to help me savescum easier in games that try to lock it down. Sometimes there are these things called real life responsibilities that no-lifers don't seem to get. I could not care less about any of your delicate faggot sensibilities. The idea that you get self worth from completing a game at all is much more reflective of how much of a little bitch you are. Get a hold of your life OP (and anyone else).>>12626940FPBP
>>12627162do you also pay women dressed in leather to spit in your mouth?
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>>12630825Brick Hammer maybe? the R36S has a billion colors so maybe that
>>12630825TrimUI Brick Hammer is the cheapest vertical handheld I can think of that comes in green. It will play PS1 and under just fine and has a nice metal shell. They're about $90-$100 right now, but if you wait a week or so there will probably be a sale on AliExpress. I got one during the sale that just ended for $78 after shipping and taxes.If you just want to play Gameboy, the FPGBC is probably a little over $100 after buying the PCB and materials from their website and a cheap flashcart on AliExpress. You can even use an OEM GBC shell from a broken unit instead of the cheaper molds they make if you want it to be nearly 1:1.
I wanted change the FW of my RGB10x.Should I go for ROCKNIX or Arc R?
Thor Chads, I'm wanting to give rocknix a try. I have everything setup on the android side of things so I'd use an sd card to boot rocknix. Is there a way to use the sd card to boot, then use the roms on the internal storage that I put on there for android?People are saying it doesn't work like that, but I fail to see why it wouldn't?
>>12630740>>12630750Wish I had splurged for the max model instead of the pro, fug
>don't feed the machine bro>if you didn't 1cc the game, you didn't beat the gamehold the fuck upjust how many coins did YOU assholes feed to git gud in the first place, huh??
You will never be japanese
>>12630850Sounds good to me. I'll just keep on playing their games and ignoring assmad murricans who think people actually care about how they played it.
>>12630823no, my point still stands. most people didn't own (or work at) arcades. you have some statistical copy/pasta that no one read, good for you. but don't tell me that what you initially described was anywhere near commonplace. it is you who has a warped reality. it's a big world out there anon, with lots of perspectives. you are neither right nor wrong.
>>12630280If you had to pay .50 cents every time you died yeah probably not.
>>12630868You're an idiot who doesn't know the difference between "most people didn't do something" vs the raw numbers of people who exist who *did* do that thing. There is a key difference between these concepts. Most people have never played a game of frisbee golf in their life, yet millions of players exist. By your logic these people and their experiences can't count as a "you" perspective because they are "rare" and "most people don't do that". Yet at the same time an objectively notable population of people engage it that activity to the point where there's a national championship that pays $50k to the winner. Your zero-sum perspective of "if most people didn't do it, nobody did it" is one of the worst cancers on /vr/.
>get to the second boss>he starts bouncing around spamming projectiles at light speed and glitchily bouncing around to dropkick you for half your healthArcade games are such a meme. You can't make a well balanced game in the format, it wouldn't be profitable. Sure once you know the unpredictable nonsense the game will throw at you, then you can get le 1CC, but is it even worth it?
for me its mack the mummy nigga
>>12630894WTF I have to practice to get good? Shit game
>>12630914>practiceYou mean memorize exactly what bullshit the game is going to do next to extract more quarters. Absolute waste of time, more so than anything else in gaming.
Who did YOU like?
>>12630649/thread
>>12630579YuffieI want to get a body pillow of her
Rinoa and her romance is adorable
Tifa > Garnet > Rinoa
Yuna and it's not even close
Don't see one of these kind of threads, so I guess I'll make one. Post whatever mods you've done or are interested in for retro systems.I recently did a USB-C mod for my Original Xbox. Was wondering how much power it took, and according to this power bank, draws between 49-55w in the menu and an extra 5-10w in games like Ninja Gaiden Black and Metal Wolf Chaos.It's a 1.0, disc drive not connected, using an SSD, thermal paste replaced, and quiet fans installed. I also have the official component adapter so said games were likely running in 480p. Fiddled with the vibration toggle and it draws an extra 0.2w for the duration of the vibration.I'm wondering, what're the most power hungry games for each system in gen 5-6, homebrew or official? May check on other consoles for their power draws for shiggles. Already checked the Saturn and that's drawing about 6w playing Princess Crown. Most games on the system probably don't have a big power draw, but open to being wrong.
Name a better western programmer than Ed Boon. Mortal Kombat 2 AI is a work of art.
>>12626762Dave Perry
>>12626762Easy. Not only the best programmer but the best at all things games.
>>12630702Cringe meme post and you'll never make me dislike Tommy.
>>12630719>you'll never make me dislike TommyIt wasn't intended to. Anyone who goes against gaming racists is OK in my book.
>>12629048I remember hearing the ai in MK2 always counters throws. Even if they're in the dying "finish him" pose they'll counter your throw.
Why was Nintendo so quick to abandon the arcades? They still released some arcade games during the early NES era but after that they were focusing exclusively on consoles. Most of the other japanese developers still had a thriving arcade division throughout the 90s until the early 00s, even if their home console games were more successful. I understand it's important to give unique experiences to your console but why not bring some of their more arcadey games like F-Zero, Star Fox, Mario Kart or hell even Smash Bros. to the arcades for some easy bucks?
>>12627659I wonder if that would still be the case if they ported Heli-Fire to the Famicom & VS System like they initially planned to.They also FINISHED this lost port but decided not to release it for some blank reason according to Gigaleak data.
>>12629187NSO releases are likely.Hamster's Console Archies are still stuck on obscure 3rd party releases so no first party Nintendo (or even Sony (Parappa The Rapper, Jumping Flash, Ape Escape, Doko Demo Issyo, ect) since they allowed Sellar Blade on Switch 2) games yet.
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>>12627565>why did Nintendo stop engaging in the only market competing with their flagship product while the writing on the wall said consoles were the futureI dunno genius, its a mystery.
>>12627565>why not bring some of their more arcadey games like F-Zero, Star Fox, Mario Kart or hell even Smash Bros. to the arcades for some easy bucks?>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart_Arcade_GP
ocarina of time and Majora's Mask both follow a single mutable timeline: Your actions in the past change the future. Beans, the song of storms, etc... So when you beat the game, you just assume you changed the future for good. You don't assume there's any dbz dark timeline shit.When wind waker comes out, the game just tells you that ganon escaped but the hero didn't return. Nothing in this game suggests your playing a particular timeline.It's twilight princess that fucks everything up, because twilight princess existing alongside wind waker, requires branching multiverse string theory. This is where the timeline retcon madness begins. TP was the source of the cancer.
>>12630876I meant majora
>>12630876Those other games all take place in Hyrule and they're not under the water.
>>12630764>lore and continuity >in zelda gamesCope
>>12630887yeah, before it was flooded. derp
>>12630905No, they can't happen since Wind Waker establishes the Hero of Time left and then Ganon came back and Hyrule got flooded. No other game happens between then.
Post bad retro games that were packed with soul
>>12629732It's hardly a game, let alone a bad retro game
For me, it's Fly Swatter
Mario Paint has a sprite-maker tool, animation tool, and music composing tool.As limited as it is, it's still awesome and works pretty well.
i once made the "look how hard i can pee" comic on the animated section kek
>>12629914>not even posting the semi retro nds one
So I just finished the first Tomb Raider, 4/10 game at times it almost starts getting fun but tedium and cheapness prevents it from actually being enjoyable for very long.The camera was terrible, the controls are sluggish and delayed.The combat is bare bones and braindead yet obnoxious because enemies have real movement unlike Lara's clunky, slow self and are hp sponges, if they get on top of you or corner you they can tear through your hp in seconds.There are ambushes everywhere in absurd places and the final level was one of the worst I've ever played, insta-death trial error room after room after room and so on.The visuals are also terrible, from the models, to the environments to the tile texturing being the worst I've ever seen.My question is this. Is the first game the rough draft that the series builds on to a competently made series or is this it, is this what Tomb Raider is?
>>12630645The TR1 story has never been beaten. TR2 nailed the classic level design. TR3 nailed the gameplay. TR4 is the best overall classic product but isn’t the best at any one thing. TR5 is terrible. IMO TRA is the pinnacle of the series and is the only one worth playing in 2026.
>>12630667The story in TR is basically that the big bad is the same as Wesker's goal in RE5, forcing evolution on humanity through harsh mutations.>>12630654The atmosphere was okay for the most part, that is when you weren't fighting silly motherfuckers like a guy skateboarding, firing uzis and spouting Pulp Fiction parody lines.All the humans were silly and the locals are not varied enough to keep you from getting bored of the same thing after a while.Lara also moves so slowly that simple tasks and traversing takes so long.What I would like to see in the next game is moves that are pulled off quicker and are initiated quicker, along with being able to switch actions instead of having to wait for an animation to play out fully before you are allowed to do something else and the camera lagged so far behind Lara at times and went ape shit in tight spots, particularly in combat.Well, I'll try TR2 for a while and see if any of my quibbles were addressed.
>>12630645I recently replayed the first TR (remaster but with original graphics mode), and honestly I had just as much fun now as I remember having back then. Maybe TR just isn't your cup of tea.
>>12630645If you had this much trouble with the first game just give up now and play something easier. TR1 is one of the easiest games of that gen.
I've played 2 a bit now and it feels more responsive and she moves a bit faster, so far so good, it seems they upgraded the camera too.Now it needs sharp level design and it will be a much better experience.Not sure how I feel about the changes to saving, it would cut down on frustration but it seems too forgiving.
>play "hidden gem">it's mediocre and borderline shovelware with little appeal that failed for good reasonEvery fucking time
>>12628820It's a game that combines 2 different genres, but it does both of those genres extremely poorly.But for some reason, sticking them together in a single game makes people think it's amazing for some stupid reason.That game blows. And by the way, when it came out it did not review well. EGM, one of the few outlets to review it, gave it 6 / 5 / 6 / 7.I think one other mag reviewed it and gave it 70.The praise for this game only came about when people too young to have played it on release discovered it via emulation and thus the "le hidden gem" tag was applied to it.t. owns a mint conditon CIB copy that i bought for peanuts about 20 years ago before anyone knew about it, and spent many hours forcing myself to play it.>>12629965Horse shit. There are plenty of fantastic 3rd generation games that are immensely enjoyable today.>Arcade coin munchingAnother horse shit meme perpetuated by people too young to understand how video games were made at the time (They were made by small teams, the programmers were the ones testing the games, and thus they made them hard because they thought they were too easy, NOT because they wanted to steal you coins or to artificially extend the length of the games etc. Nowdays games are focus tested on women, which is why they are much easier).
>>12630573It's not bad, it's a strange in between middle ground of genres that kind of presents a diluted version of each. Which impacts the appeal in odd ways.
>>12630784>>12630784It's terrible at both, the two don't even interact in any way, and it's basically just two sloppy halves lazily frankensteined together.It's not even like top 500 of NES library
>>12630826You kind of just have to take it for what it is. I did and I enjoyed it. But it dragged on for a while and got repetitive. As far as NES games go I think it's definitely very good, not among the best but it represents a time where technology was limited so designers tried new things and it's fine. There is no reason to be upset.
>>12630826The two interact pretty well.
last thread:>>12591874last weekend map download:https://litter.catbox.moe/pkopyicgokafdiia.parkAwesome Downloads:>OpenRCT2 - Currently the best way to play RollerCoaster Tycoon. We use the latest stable version for multiplayer unless otherwise noted:https://openrct2.org/downloads>UCES - includes all objdata files already extracted from each scenario upon loading, and includes tracks:http://www.mediafire.com/download/7wcrq3xl266d1bj/UCES.zip>Amazing Earl stuff - adds some custom-made rides and scenery:http://www.mediafire.com/download/f3jzct5v8kbzdfj/AmazingEarl.zipComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
If I make a workbench with all of our usual objects, will you guys use it as a base to create these new maps?
>>12630758I would at least give it a shot
>>12630664Well don't build on the sand, build on the big ass rock
>a bunch of Harry Potter stalls in my objects folder>all of them sell some kind of "alternate" food>the guests usually buy the alternate food instead of the themed food0/10 they're all ruined. Never using these again.
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