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>>12125692 (Cross-thread)
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>>12134442
I think low preorders + negative sentiment over the function row of buttons below the screen. The poll is basically asking if people want the RP5 design but then they ignited the d-pad wars by polling for analog stick position
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>>12134442
they had low IQ
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What they should’ve done was keep the rp5 design for the babbies then create an actual handheld that doesn’t need grips and has a way better set of speakers on it. Idk why retroid abandons designs, they obviously succeeded with the goyim here
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>>12134450
I know they already have the “g2” but I’m talking keep the other upgrades on it, the 120hz screen and battery

Then build your better one
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>>12134409
I get there are other and cheaper alternatives but I specifically wanted it for oled screen and 120hz. The Mini looks nice but doesn't have the 120hz.
Not a fan of widescreen but it would give me an excuse to reply some PSP games I've been meaning to play.
Putting the stick on top feels like it's taking a shit on even the idea of using the dpad as it's going to feel bad, but having the stick on bottom is fine. I had a psp and vita and never had an issue with the sticks being on the bottom.

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Give me any game titles where you could play as a girl.
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>>12129329
Metroid is famously a girl
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>>12134010
I think he meant the hobbit image
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>>12134213
We know
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Oni
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>>12132279
Isn't there an ending where you marry her though?

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Kino, everyone won
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It appears the Chadurn’s superiority has led to some controversy again.
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>>12133263
This is what happens to a fanboy. The literal reality was the opposite.
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Parading that Panzer Dragoon Saga is the absolute best thing you have to go up against OoT is basically humiliating yourself.
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>>12134070
It's a good game, haven't you played it?
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>>12134002
You are literally being the guy on the left.

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>Retro game series has no reason to return to these days
Can you think of a better example? I have no idea how some of you still unironically play the Wizardry series. It has aged incredibly poorly.
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>>12133763
Literally have never seen a dqfag or smtfag shit on wizardry
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>>12133536
that place is just wrpgfags vs jrpgfags and occasionally juxtafag, it's so shitty. doesn't even allow action rpgs like castlevania either.
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is Bard's Tale better than Wizardry
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>>12134237
Depends which Wizardry
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>>12133095
You ever played first edition D&D? You ever played a tabletop war game? Kinda the same thing.

Heavier focus on the combat rather than story-telling with the idea that you create a story as you go in your head. If you're not willing to come up with little stories of your characters around a campfire or imagine what kind of person your mage is, Wizardry isn't really for you. Its main focus is dungeon crawling and combat but with enough there that it also works as an engine for building stories about your characters too.

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Does /vr/ remember Kenji Eno?
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>>12132785
Nta, but his actual comment was on the art direction. You’re being pedantic and focusing on a slightly poor choice of words in an irrelevant part of his comment.
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>>12129958
>What games do you have in mind?

I just mean any larger scale FMV game from 1994-1994 or cinematic cut-scenes. Off the top of my head, The Daedalus Encounter, which did use live actors, but the backgrounds and effects were done with SGI workstations. Phantasmagoria did the same thing. Cyberia would count, even though I think D is actually animated better. The overall quality of the renders in D do not look as good. Ecco II: The Tides of Time for the Sega CD used SGI rendered video, despite it being very low colour due to the limitations of the Sega CD. Rare was using expensive machines for Donkey Kong Country and Killer Instinct. An Amiga 4000 would have been on the lower end of the spectrum for rendering hardware in 1995. I would imagine that those machines were heavily upgraded as well. But, D is still a really good showcase of the Amiga 4000 hardware; when it comes to early 90's CG rendering on a budget. The game does use things like procedural textures, some form of approximated ray tracing (not actual ray tracing).
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>>12134339
>I just mean any larger scale FMV game from 1994-1995

fixed
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>>12132326
Some early PS games came in those. I know Warhawk did because I had it. I think Twisted Metal and Wipeout did too.
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Does /vr/ remember Kenji Eno punching a Sony executive and writing a children’s book about the dangers and benefits of nuclear power?

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Who is actually getting filtered by the battle speed in FF9, or the door animations in Resident Evil? Seriously? I've seen years worth of bitching about these on this board, yet me, an actual ADHD zoomer who wouldn't feel a smidge different on meth never had any issues with these games; there has to be some other form of mental retardation at play preventing people from appreciating them.
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>>12131948
Do you mean like a big game back then or a 3d platformer?

PC gamers had so much choice with all the PC-first and PC-only games that we got back then. Big franchises, big IPs, new IPs, new studios that would become big names and bunch of different genres.
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>>12132278
A big 3D platformer. What did you have, Croc? LMAO
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>>12130142
No.
>>12132315
Fair, if you really liked platformers or children's games, you probably wouldn't like the PC. But PC gamers of the late 90s tended to be multi-genre enthusiasts, and had access to free games, so choices abounded and games could be looked at objectively.
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I didn't know FF9 was considered "slow" until after I finished it and started participating in discussions of it online
it just felt like a normal JRPG battle transition to me.
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>>12120046
>7
>good story
ah yes. Son Gohan, Jennifer Connelly, and Danny Glover reenact Fifth Element as seen through the eyes of a 14 year old

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>post em
How is your gaming setup coming along, /v/?
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>>12133489
I got a newer AVR recently, and since it doesn't convert analog video to HDMI, also got a cheap RetroScaler 2x. Decent hardware for the price. It allows me to use the better S-Video input on my N64, but now I don't have component video capability for my Xbox. Debating whether to bother with that when I can play my old Xbox games with my 360.
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>>12134276
>vulpine studios
anon, why do you have furry porn on your wall?
more importantly, why do you have 3 copies of qbert?!
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>>12134276
Beautiful. Love the all black 2600. I know I’ve seen the thing on top of the Sears Intellivision, but I can’t quite place it.
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>>12134298
>Did you grow up with them and are an oldfag, or just like them for some reason?
A mix of grew up with them and just like em. I'm definitely not an oldfag though. I'm part of that weird in between space of young millennials that are too old to be zoomers but barely remember life before 9/11. Grew up with a mix of Windows 98, the PS2 and the Wii. I wasn't poor growing up but wasn't rich either, and since you only got a new game on Christmas and your birthday or after saving up your allowance for months, I bought a lot of retro game compilations since they were often cheaper and gave you a lot of games for your money. Activision Anthology, Intellivision Lives, Namco Museum, Atari Anthology, those types of games. So I grew up with the games, but not with the systems, if that makes sense.
>>12134312
I dunno, why do you know furry artists from their signatures, anon?
Also because every unlabled Parker Brothers game turns out to be Q*Bert.
>>12134358
That's an Entex Pacman2, it's a second Gen hand held that runs on four C batteries and only plays PacMan.
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>>12134276
This nigga fucks.

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XBOX, the peak of the Tom Clancy games.
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i own all of those on xbox except black arrow, lockdown, critical hour and ghose recon 2.

Honestly I didn't even know double agent or advanced warfighter had OG xbox releases, I played those on the 360
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>>12133973
Pandora tomorrow is underrated
Also Ghost Recon and Island Thunder were fun
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>>12134117
im pretty sure the og xbox releases of double agent and graw are completely different games too
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>>12134103
spacing out releases is a good thing lest you run into the problems that call of duty and most sports games run into.
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>>12134103
He was still alive in the OG Xbox era. Then they had to jump through hoops to get stories through his estate that was humping his still warm body after

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Specific discussion of this new-ish Super Metroid hack that was quite a few years in the making. I'm playing it now. Not really my favorite so far.
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>>12134318
>..................he doesnt know............

https://youtu.be/WC_NKN5OsEE?si=FT4iqKaPEjUDav0U&t=16
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>>12134331
project base speed booster makes all complaints about speed booster puzzles moot. they are braindead simple with it and none are required before you get it.
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>>12134327
>>12134337
I have to stop for now, but I learned long ago never to trust anybody's opinions about something you're interested in. I'm just sad I missed the boat on the release of this thing. Would have been fun to see everyone's thoughts.
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>>12134357
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_bm0kwbtA
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>>12122614
sick fucking tranny freak

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Grand Theft Auto III could have saved SEGA if it were released exclusively for the Dreamcast.
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>>12133804
>dreamcast
>saturn
I think you mean the SEGA SYSTEMS
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If the Dreamcast was a robo fuck bot that sucked your dick then the Saturn would have been saved.
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>X would've saved sega
i thought these threads were banned on sight
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>>12133694
This
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>>12133953
/vr/ only exists for uncs to debate over how SEGA could still win.

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This was the best game of the early 00's and probably one of the best games of all time.
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>12134359
Retro doesn't mean "everything from 20+ years ago" either
Do you call Wi-Fi retro tech?
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>>12133303
Its my favorite Halo campaign. Still though I think it could have been perfect with a bit more added to it in regards to weapons and enemies to fight. Also I am one of few that didn't mind the repeated levels with backtracking although they could have tried to find a way to improve upon it to not make it so monotonous for most of the rest that didn't like going back to these levels.

I think its fair to say the campaign is 10/10 until you get to the Library. By then you have seen really all the game has to offer and after that level is when the repeated levels and copy pasting really starts to show.
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>>12134215
t. Was bullied by some kid who owned an xbox in middle school and never got over it.

He's gone now. It's okay to put your trauma behind you, sport.
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Thank you for your service, OP.
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>>12134230
I wasn't allowed to watch the simpsons and I didn't have any consoles. But you are right about gamecubes.

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ITT: console aesthetics. Color variations, Limited editions, custom shells, etc.
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>>12133505
Never understood why they didn't release the PlayStation in this color.
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Funtastic Purple.
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>>12133976
Cause big black coc- consoles belonged to Sega at the time…

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This is NES game called Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Parsley Jō, it features a bunch of characters from other titles (simon from castlevania, contra guy, the baby from some other game). It also had a variety of stages that played like other games. It is a pretty good game

Back then I was a kid, a friend of mine had this game and trolled me into believing that it was custom made. He said he paid a person to combine 3 games into one.

Thanks for listening
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also the baby was OP, he converts enemies into clouds that you can jump into and you could farm items that way which was unique to him
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Amazing game, as expected of the Konami of those days
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My favourite Belmontvania is Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2

>>12131336
>Back then I was a kid
Japanese or eastern europe?
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>>12132219
europoor
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What a coincidence, I just gave this a go last night. Pretty fun, going to try clearing it. Had a laugh when the twinbee stage showed up out of nowhere.
Also tried the first Wai Wai world - not sure about that one. It's the kind of side-scroller where you need to move within an inch of the edge to scroll it, so you never can see whats coming. Seems like a strange thing to do, Konami knows better.

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Any good eroge besides stuff from Alice soft and Yuno that isn't just shovelware? I know moon runes so don't care if they're untranslated.
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>>12129896
>Seraphita
The customizable sex scenes seem really interesting at first since you can choose who gets involved and whether they take a dom or sub role... but since the cast is so large there is a lot of generic filler stuff in the various combos. Fun enough to go through once and try out all the variations at least.
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>>12128660
I never knew there were games out there that exceeded 12 floppies
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>>12130872
Yeah, the customizable scenes are a bit gimmicky. The story is mostly linear so it's a way to add a bit of player choice and pick your favorite combos. Still amazing to see the sheer amount of CG the game has.

I just love light-hearted futanari stuff and wacky characters. Reo makes for a cool and pervy protagonist, Ryouka for big-tiddies tomboy energy, Aya the computer nerd, hot dommy mommy Mikoto...
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>>12128635
This is a given, but the other games by Hiroyuki Kanno and Ryu Umemoto (Desire, EVE Burst Error) are worth checking out.
X-GIRL is really cool. No English version though.
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>>12128963
"ittai" is not appropriate in that context

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So, what older DOS games are still worth checking out prior to the 90's Apogee/id/Epic/etc. stuff everyone knows and talks about? I understand many of them are made with an older (not to say primitive) approach to computer gaming and require getting into a bit of a different mindset going into them, without much if any handholding and reading the manual being absolutely necessary in many cases. Which ones still make the cut, in your opinion?
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EGATrek is an graphically updated and enhanced port of the old 1970's mainframe Star Trek videogame.
It's a very simple game, you just need to locate and kill all the totally-not-Klingon alien enemy ships(and possibly bases) using your lasers and torpedoes. You move around on 8x8 grid sections of space, and you have to clear all the enemies out of an area of space that is 8 grids by 8 grids large. There are friendly bases around where you can dock to get quick repairs, a recharge, and a restock of crew and torpedoes if you are down any.
This port is a bit more complex than the original with more detail in your ship systems and combat. If your warp drive gets damaged, you are stuck in your current grid until you get it repaired. If the engines get damaged, you can't move. Sensors getting damaged means you are blind. Damage to lasers or torpedo tubes means you can't use them until fixed. Do you repair where you are and hope no enemy warps in and starts attacking you while you are damaged, or do you risk trying to get to the nearest friendly base for repairs? Prioritize power to shields or lasers?
You can send scout teams to check out planets and possibly pull some more energy crystals to power your lasers, or lose some crew. You or enemies can hit stars with torpedoes and cause them to go nova or supernova. One sends your ship flying across the galaxy, the other is usually fatal, and both usually render the sector a deadly wasteland you can't travel to without dying. Enemies can target and attack friendly bases, reducing the support you have if you can't defend them quick enough.
Five difficulties give you everything from Baby's First Star Trek clone playthru to a mostly fair challenge for experienced players. I say mostly because at any time some asshole can warp in and hit a star and kill the both of you. Shit is real out in space.
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Before 90 you enter the home computer era, when games were often ported to several different platforms, occasionally including DOS. Very few games were made specifically for DOS.
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>>12133852
Drug Wars (1984)
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>>12133852
Porno Adventure, from 19fucking81. No, it's not actually good, but the fact a game like this came out that early is pretty hilarious.
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Sopwith 2, although the title screen just says SOPWITH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aekIZpeJ27c


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