https://www.rockman-corner.com/2025/04/keiji-inafune-blamed-arrogance-for-mega.html
>>12187505It still is. First of all, the style of JRPG Final Fantasy used to be was a dungeon crawler lite with random encounters. Nowadays if you don't have slow moving visible enemies you can avoid while you leisurely explore dungeons with no danger, if there are even dungeons, people will call your game "outdated". Second, Final Fantasy used to be the king of RPGs as far as mainstream recognition goes, which makes Squenix think it still deserves that top spot, and the only thing holding it back is it's outdated gameplay. Because you can look at E33 sales numbers and think it's all great for an RPG, but Squenix is chasing Cyberpunk or Skyrim numbers, those are the RPGs they're competing against (or at least think they are) and they can't do it with turn based.
>>12187558They were like $60 for a 4" tall figure. And if you wanted her without her hat, that was a seperate $60 release exclusive to amiami.
>>12183265This has always been my problem with MML: aside from the character models the game looks really flat and unexiting. The world is all empty hallways that fall into nothing
>>12187676Not a problem for marble fag, he has lots of money despite his moaning about being poor
>>12187641It is not a "dead genre", you tard. Plenty of people, including Square, are making successful jrpgs for the core audience.
Tina Armstrong my beloved
>>12187632Sorry, got the wrong pic
>>12186389Tina began her life inspired by Terri Runnels, only for DoA2 and 3 turn her into Trish Stratus because late Oatmeal-Sama saw her.
>>12187675I favor the theory that Tina represents Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke.
Her DOA 1 and 2 themes are the best in the series
>>12187640Bongchads.... I kneel
>>12186715Longbox RE1 is definitely not easy
>>12183002I loved this game growing up. It was so much fun, and well... magical. I played Castle of Illusion a few years ago for the first time, and I actually think it's slightly better, even though it's older and simpler.
>>12186715with mgs1 and silent hill it's more so their normal modes just being sloppy, player has access to way too much healing for the damage enemies and bosses dole out.
>>12183003Post your Romancing SaGa 2 clear save.
>>12186715doom really has to be played pistol start, it's not a meme, the weapon snowball is retarded for the way most of the levels are designed.
Any Breath of Fire fans out there?I ignored this franchise as a kid, but just played through the first 4 games over the past yearIt was interesting to see how the games evolved from 1994 to 2000; a snapshot of what RPGs were like at that point in gaming historyIt was always great to see Deis appear in some form or anotherI enjoyed BOF4 the most, by farI know that BOF5 was made by a completely different team, but played the first few minutes of BOF5 and actually thought it seemed interesting, so I might continue playing itAny thoughts to share on the franchise? Memes? Waifu debates?
>>12186414Why are you feeding attention to a retarded frogposter?
>>12186831How can you tell he's French?
I beat the first game a while back, got a few hours in to 2 and remember dropping it because I found it both really difficult for some reason (everything hits like a fucking truck) and because some item combining trial and error minigame, I think it was cooking, was really pissing me off.
>>12186414NTA and while I can still enjoy jrpgs that have it, autobattle does imply the combat is so braindead that you can just automate spamming attack over and over again for most fights. It's just boring.
>>12187850the beginning of BoF2 up until you finish the well in captain is really harsh, no healers and 3 characters that go down in two strong hits
It's more fun than X3, X5, and X7. The difficulty isn't even overbearing, plus the whole softlock stuff is a hoax (you can't permanently miss critical parts since Nightmares don't spawn near certain reploids). I love X6 and I'm not ashamed of it.
I have no idea why anyone would not like a platformer where you can't see the level, or your character is surrounded by bugs so you can't shoot, or you are fighting copy pasted robot snakes that don't animate.
>>12186901It's already gay looking from the cover
>>12186901Please upload footage of you playing the game. I want to see you enjoying the game. All of it. There is maybe 2-3 good levels, but that does not count the whole game.You are sideswiping a lot of bullshit, like Ground Scaravich's stage, like Blaze Heatnix's stage, like Gate's first and second stage, etc. And you gotta do it without getting completely raped for damage. You said the difficulty isn't overbearing so it should be easy for you! It's not like there's incredibly unpredictable, random enemies in fucking climbing sections with shitty minibosses or anything-
>>12186901true for x5/x7, but x3 is fine and one of my favorites with the zero project romhack. also while you're right about not being able to miss important parts, the fact that you can even get to the fortress stages without those parts is stupid in and of itself. imagine having to go through all the maverick stages in their fucked up state not knowing which one you need in the 00s if you didn't have the internet. why didn't they just design a level that both x and zero could beat without any parts in the first place? granted x at least has the spikebreaker armor (which you need the other armor to get, so there's still more annoying backtracking), but iirc that fucks up your mobility too which is really not ideal for the boss.
feels like you people are talking shit out of your ass, you can beat the game without any parts just fine, speedster/hyper dash is only needed for unarmored X and shadow armor for that one jump intended for air dash, did everyone forget you start with the falcon armor? unarmored X is a meme option that exists for completion's sake, it would be nice if you faggots played the game before discussing it
>Try to keep things /vr/ related: Focus should be on 6th Gen Consoles and older. Slight off topic is fine so long as it's related to CRTs, such as later 16:9 models, HD models, etc. Systems with backwards compatibility are also safe territory, as are re-releases on newer hardware. PC CRTs are also welcome and appreciated. >Produce OC! Bust out your camera and take photos of your CRTs displaying all sorts of games, featuring all sorts of tubes, using all sorts of signals. Getting good shots can be hard, but if you take enough, at least a few will turn out alright. >Try and give as much information as possible when asking for info on a specific set, or troubleshooting an issue to expedite and help you may receive. As always, Google is your friend and we are your friends with benefits. Do people read this? Older archived threads aren't a bad place to look either; Seriously, there's literally 6 years of backlog at this point. >Share appreciation for others choice of technology and personal philosophy of gaming. Always remember to show courtesy in your discussion and moderate yourselves first. Limited discussion of video processing and scaling devices is alright, but remember to keep the focus on CRTs and CRT accessories. CRT Pastebin (Never Ever) : http://pastebin.com/1Ri5TS3x (embed) Guide to CRT Hunting : http://pastebin.com/H9H9L2LQ (embed) Guide to Video Monitors : http://pastebin.com/pQX4N6gZ (embed) General Purpose CRT Adjustment Guide : http://www.arcaderepairtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/guide_setup_adjust_arcade_monitors_v1.2.0.pdf S-Video Pasta : http://pastebin.com/rH2h6C7W (embed) BKM-10R Protocol Info : http://pastebin.com/aTUWf33J (embed) JVC RGB card cloning guide : https://pastebin.com/EXqMBfcY (embed)
>>12187620Anon, there are TVs with native RGB input.Hence>Why would you mod a TV that's already RGB capable?
>>12187692I know and there are people who mod RGB input onto their TVs
ps1 is better with composite to hide the dithering
>>12187796That problem is overblown. The CRT mask is enough to make PS1 dithering a non-issue.
>>12187402https://litter.catbox.moe/liyiy1qpnay48uyu.MOVsome video i took of it from my phone(save video as if it doesn't preview)
why this little nigga yelling so much
Some of those old japanese games had a way to subvert your expectations based on how their characters look.Gen'an Shiranui is an edgelord goblin that wants to understand what evil is, but he's actually a pretty nice guy.Axel Hawk, the retired boxing champ from Fatal Fury 2 that busted many people up, is actually a really nice guy and his most famous artwork is of him visiting his mother.Most characters from Soul Calibur are actually good people, even if they look really edgy.On the other hand, Fo Fai of Toshinden fame is actually one of the most evil characters from the series, even if he looks like a walking sage old man troupe. Even the way he died leaves no leeway to any kind of redemption (trained a monkey to kill people, monkey killed him).
Fighting games always have cool character designs and I want to get to know these characters and go on adventures with them but all they do is move back and forth in a small area and fight one guy at a time.
>>12182541What game?
It sucks that after SS1 they abandoned the concept of high damage non-ult strikes and that in later games you have to cut a dude 20 times to win instead of a couple strikes deciding the game.>>12186730Samurai Shodown
>>12184839Those aren't new tropes nor invented by Japan. "Gentle giant" is one of the biggest cliches across all media, and so is evil guy who actually fails at being evil.
>>12187662Him being a desert thief makes him more endearing.
>>12187690I don't want him to be endearing. I want him to be a pig orc I plug with silver arrows and then he's a pile of dust with a gold triangle in it.
Was Ganondorf just a "human disguise" of Ganon, or it's the other way around and Ganon is a new demonic form born from Ganondorf?
>>12187697Good question. Ganondorf is a Gerudo male from birth so that was the first time he transformed into Ganon.
>>12186228Majora's Mask
Zoomer here. What was game piracy like in the 90s?
>>12185982really big in Spain (1996-2007), in magazines, stalls, some shops, sony was forced to make a TV ads at tv prime time hours to raise awareness against piracy
>>12185982It was like a lot of things. 10 years is a long time. More than half your totally 18 years of life. There were many systems commonly in use with a variety of media during that time.>>12186046>pirated discs for ps1 and ps2What an amazing third world country where you had pirated PS2 games in the decade before it was released.
>>12186827>close this dialog box when download completeskek
>>12185982A friend of mine got a mod chipped Playstation in about '99. Nobody really cared that much because the PSX was pretty much finished in our eyes and everyone already had the games they wanted; I think we pirated some random stuff that hadn't been quite good enough for anyone to have bought, like Resident Evil 3, but nobody ever finished anything pirated. We had a Dreamcast that someone bought Soul Calibur for right after launch and no other game on Dreamcast was worth playing so no one ever pirated for it. That friend group died off before mod chipped PS2s would have been a thing.
making the same thread on multiple boards should be banned
>Nintendo developed a very modern and sophisticated combat system for Ocarina>designed exactly 0 enemies to take advantage of itWhy is every fight so gimmicky? Thankfully the bosses in Majora actually rock since the objective is to beat the shit out of them with your sword.
>>12187397...cont. is yet another reason why the game remains eternally evergreen and continues to be the GOAT. There is nothing preventing hacks from simply changing up enemies to take advantage of all it offers, and a few of them do this already. Everything the game does is either close to perfection, or flawed, but only in a happenstance way that can be made amazing with ease. There's no other game that's totally great in so many ways, many of which hardly even get talked about despite how much they impact the experience or are at least amazing proofs of concept.
i've said it once, i'll say it again. you want to see OoT shine? do a 3 heart low% run, deathless if you can manage it. fights will start to take on a whole new layer of depth.>b-but muh self imposed challengesyou can beat a shmup playing like shit, you can also beat it and get the high score. it's no different for OoT. whether it's high score or a cleared profile with minimum items, both reflect the effort put in and there's tangible evidence of that effort in both cases. i draw the line at shit like hitless runs which are not only fun-sappingly autistic but have no system in place to record the data.
>>12187745I like turning off random item drops from enemies and bushes, setting damage taken to double, and not using fairies in a bottle.In the Shadow Temple, I ended up using the big fairy spawns quite a bit to heal up and fill my magic. They put a lot of them in there.
>>12187745>it's no different for OoT.It is though, because while OoT can be made harder in the game natively, the gameplay then becomes a somewhat tedious exercise in knowing how to not get hit. It's generally easy to avoid damage, but learning exactly how to make sure you're not fucked over by enemies with low hearts mostly just requires more caution than normal.I'm saying this because I truly believe that the game provides everything you'd need to make a game that's actually satisfyingly dynamic and packed with challenging action, and then some, but it's just too passive and slow and biased towards caution by default, even if you avoid heart containers.
>>12187745Beat the water temple with 3 hearts and no blue tunic Beat shadow and ganons tower with no lensNever get fire arrows >>12187413People seriously forget Nintendo contribution to 3d 3rd person games. There's such a distinct pre Mario64 and post Mario 64 era you'd have to be up your own ass to dismiss that. Even by the time Zelda came out they were still way ahead of the competition. Go play castlevania 64 or death trap dungeon or nightmare creatures to see that so many devs struggled to make this feel as snappy smooth and intuitive as OoT. Nintendo is a shit company but you can't take away those contributions
Was History kinder to XBOX than the Gamecube?It seems people have more fond memories of gaming on XBOX than Nintendo's Gamecube.
>>12170117Cause Melee is for troons
>>12178042yeah the most frustrating thing in wipeout is how punishing it is. in f-zero it's much easier to go fast and stay that way.
>>12168987Xbox had Halo and…?
>>12168973Xbox has Halo; GameCube has Luigi's Mansion.
>>121689736th gen gaming as a whole has now garnered an outsized positive reputation that omits no system of the era. Saying gaming peaked in this generation is not a controversial statement, and all game systems would be tapped for examples without qualifications.
In 1998, was OOT viewed as a children's game like Mario or did it have a teenage/PS1 appeal?
>wasn't alive in 1998You must be at least 40 years old to post here, OP.
>>12184895>Zoroastrian chantingThis is the absolute first I've heard of this. Please explain what makes the chant Zoroastrian and not Muslim. What language is it in even?
>>12176914it was just a normal game from what I remember. even though N64 was far less popular than PS1, kids still had it and talked about OoT and Super Smash Bros. and stuff. Nintendo didn't really become cringe and kiddy until the GameCube.
>>12187630yeah, I've always heard that it was a Muslim chant in Arabic. maybe the confusion is because Zoroastrianism literally has fire templeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_temple
>>12178667>The average teenager in the late 90s were playing the console gamesYeah, Tekken, Resident Evil, Goldeneye, Gran Turismo, and sports games (Madden, NBA live, etc)>PC nerds in the 90s were a small minority Not as small as you imagine. It's small compared to the total number of little kids playing Mario and Zelda but Half-Life and Starcraft had sales competitive with top 10 titles on the N64.
Who did you main?
>>12175243some say he was mr. cool ice
>>12174552Subzero obviously
>>12174552Cyber Smoke
Reptile, because rule of cool. Mileena in the later games because rule of coom.
>>12174552Scorpion because I'm pretty average
never played a sonic game, which ones are worth playing and why?
Is it worth going through the tedium of collecting chaos emeralds in 1 - 3/knuckles?
>>12187589>glitches that 99% of people never encounter means the game is unfinished ok
>>12187616For 1-3 you just get a different ending screen so not really. You also get Super Sonic in 2 and 3 but it's more of a novelty, you're not really going to use it outside of the novelty factor of seeing it for the first time. For 3&K it's definitely worth it as there's a final level that's the only real challenge in the series.
>>12187626Glitches you have to execute on purpose, on specific ports at that, mind you.
>>12187635Good to know. That's been my primary concern playing sonic since I found the bonus levels annoying and I'm obsessed with unlockables. I know for a fact the games are beatable without saves having watched friends back then do it.
The single best action game ever made.
>>12187571NG2 is a much more fun game.
Bayonetta is better
>>12187571>>12187604Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition is a much better game.
