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.
>>12638010If she hadn't spent the entire playthrough cheating, she would have improved by the time she got to this bossfight and would probably have enough skill to actually enjoy the experience.
>>12640119Lowest IQ reply in this whole thread. Seriously dumbest shit I've read all month. Congratulations.
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>>12641737>I DO care if people use save states to cheat at a single player game, and then complain that they had a bad experience.>"Oh this game sucks it was too short / it was too easy / I didn't feel invested / it just didn't click with me"We should gatekeep more because it causes people to write off retro as a whole
>>12640005>Are they just mad that save states allow me to beat in an hour what they wasted their entire childhood to master? Yes, I beat BattletoadsI am mad people like you lie to yourselves. Lie to me that's whatever. I'll simply calmly state the obvious; you didn't beat the game. But you believe in your own lie. People who believe their own lies are mentally stuck. They(you) are at a dead end and instead of turning back to walk the right path, you stay there and cope by lying. Endless amounts of cope, is what we have to deal with. An endless amount of cope means an endless amount of complaining about the cope. Cheat all you want, but have some dignity man stop pretending you're not cheating.
I got the red heart gem but every door is now locked. I thought surely you can use the red heart to open the heart door? Nope. Maybe you can burn it in the fireplace as a sacrifice? Nope.Assuming I just missed some stupid tiny detail that blends into the environment and looks the same as every other piece of generic background trash that you can do nothing with. I'm sure I'll figure it out soon, but man, awkwardly running back and forth between these empty rooms with the shitty tank controls and constant camera changes is just not fun at all.Also the controls are terrible (I just love the first puzzle where you figure out the solution in 2 seconds then spend five minutes awkwardly fidgeting with the tank controls trying to move these statues), the combat is braindead, the long door animations are obnoxious, and the constant inventory juggling gets old quick.The vibes and atmosphere are great, I love the font and hoq the little environmental descriptions immerse you in the world, but everything about the gameplay is just clunky, awkward, and unfun. This is uniquely a classic RE problem, I've beat tons of games before, after, and on the PS1 that feel and play miles better.
>>12640115>>12640386It being Chris' desk doesn't even matter or affect anything said ITT. There is still no reason a tiny blue folder that looks like any piece of trash on the desk is hiding a medallion perfectly flush underneath it and you have to stand in one tiny 1x1 pixel square directly in front of it to interact with itIt's laughable because everything else in the game is so braindead simple and blatantly signposted yet this one thing, literally just picking up a folder, is somehow the hardest thing in the game by far>>12640356Projecting brown retard
>>12639376The gem is not heart-shaped.
>>12640673Yeah OP is just a retard and tried shoving a rock in a keyhole. You think he tries to open his real life doors with rocks too?
>>12636658do you know what game FAQ the website is?
>>12643250>game FAQ the websitesIt's gamefaqs, newfag
Qrd on Langrisser V patch created with AI? Trannylaters seem to be seething over it. Is it any good?
>>12639901Idiocracy is now reality.
36 replies and not one person has pointed out OP is a phone faggot.>>12638789Kill yourself phone faggot.
>>12640131Yea buddy you told him
>>12638989It's definitely worse now because before it was just a quiet niche - present internet culture has provided spotlight and monetary incentives for acting particularly douchey.
>>12638789>why are people so tired of fan translators
Street Racing Syndicate is a better tuner street racing game than Need for Speed Underground
>>12639993Fuckin' bombass soundtrack actually
>>12642306The fact that all the good classic racing games are no longer on Steam but this is still being sold is so funny
>>12639905Compared to NFS games it’s nothing.A lot of hard races in those older NFSs you could cheese by driving slower for a bit then going flat out at the end of the race.
>>12639756>SRSA game about getting your dick chopped off? On the GameCube? Outstanding.
>>12642637>knowing the medical term
I have a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI card. I know for a fact it hasn't bee repasted since 3dfx glued the fucking heatsink on.It's working fine, but should I still repaste it? I was going to just mount a 40mm Noctua on top since taking this shit off would be a PITA.
>>12643263the old GPUs generate so little heat that it's probably fine?even sticking an extra cooling fan in your rig would be fine.
Why wasn't she the MC for SF3?
>>12643226that nigga hasn't been around in years lol
>>12643234He wrote the wiki when he was around though
>>12643234What? His last match was less than a month ago.
>>12643242he doesn't compete at shit anymore, nobody really talks with him, and an active head is someone who's had a match in the last few days at most, not a month ago lolnigga moved on, he ain't an a2 player anymore. it happens, people leave the scene, life is life
>>12643242"less than a month ago" is an extremely low bar for determining someone's activity, and assuming you're talking about a match fightcade, doesn't really mean anything in terms of being active in the community
Resident Evil 3 is the best game in the classic PS1 trilogy>The QTEs make sense and are tense, Nemesis stalkings are intense and escalatory, blowing through hordes of zombies, completing a bunch of interesting puzzles really one of the best bursts of resident evil there is>No love story, not much of new lore in it - just pure action and survival. >UBCS (Carlos, Nikolai and Mikhail), and they're still hopeful about helping evacuate civilians. You can also read about this in the files scattered around. However, once Jill reaches the Clock Tower and Park, you find communications (between UBCS and Umbrella, and also between their office branches) that the whole Raccoon City operation was sacked, that the military are going to nuke everything and there's no way Umbrella can dissuade them anymore (you find this fax in an improvised HQ at the graveyard). They change objectives from evacuating civilians to just evacuating executives and copying leftover files. Everyone should find a way to escape by the deadline, or they'll be on their own.>Jill being able to visit the police station, Clock tower, the park, most of the side areas like the gas station or the newspaper building, the factory >Nemesis seems unkillable on the first go, but gives you a reward every time you kill him>choices are more than just "route A - route B">crafting allows for flexibility of the guns you fancy this round>Bonus Eagle & Western Custom M37 >Nemesis has 900 HP for Carlos instead of 800>You want STARS? I'll give you STARS.>Earning them points for the unlimited weapons was fantastic. Blitzing through the areas saving the civilians
>>12643182I disagree. After we are treated to a fantastic opening cut scene we get a slide show of Jill sitting around in a tube top with her thumb up her ass watching the city burn. Everything up to the RPD is under whelming and the RPD itself was badly underutilized to the point that Jill should not have even stepped foot in it.The game hits its stride after exiting the RPD the Clock Tower. The QTEs make sense and are tense, Nemesis stalkings are intense and escalatory, blowing through hordes of zombies, completing a bunch of interesting puzzles really one of the best bursts of resident evil there is.Then the game hits the skids at the hospital and never recovers. The park sucks, gravenagger sucks, the bridge sucks, dead factory sucks, piss valve fight sucks, block puzzle Malaysia sucks.Solid and fitting closing cutscenes tho! Epilogues suck.
I like how bosses have B solutions to them just like in RE1, something 2 was sorely lacking.
>>12643182Sorry OP, RE3 is my personal favorite too but it's basically an expansion pack for 2 which is simply better.
The nemesis fights are very frustrating because the dodge mechanic doesn't work well half the time, particularly in tight areas.You'll dodge but since there is no space she'll just dodge and stay in range and get smacked or grabbed, so at some point I just gave up on dodge and just manually dodge everything because I could not count on it to work as intended.I noticed how you didn't actually mention the combat which is on purpose probably because when the thing that distinguishes this game from others is not pulled off properly, that is a big blow to the game.Also the level design is not as tight as in the first RE nor as big as the second, it's in this weird middle ground where it does neither as well while also not introducing anything new.It's still a good game but there is clear reason why this one is talked about the least.
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?
>>12642064This is the kind of thing that's possible and maybe even becomes intuitive if you've played classic TR enough but still honestly isn't going to be easy for the average player even after completing 1-5.The only thing you accomplish by expecting new players to be that good straight away is to push them away from playing these games.
So I just finished a level where it's bringing more enemies back but the difference is that only one enemy actually dropped one ammo drop and every other one dropped nothing.There were quite a few of them too.So is this normal or does the game have some kind of adaptive difficulty?It's weird that suddenly the game has just switched things up like this and is no longer operating under the same rules.Right off the bat in this level it's ramping up the enemies again too.
>>12642064
>>12642064>a veteran Tomb Raider player, playing it for the first time.his channel is entirely dedicated to tr and he died 800 times lol (my personal count was 450 and i know another anon here got 250)there's absolutely trial and error but it's not a bad thing
>>12642882There's no adaptive difficulty at all. Some enemies just drop items, some don't. It's always a good idea to walk over their corpses and press the action button to see if there's anything hidden under them since sometimes it's hard to tell.Protip if you haven't figured it out on your own yet: You can usually avoid getting shot by enemies with guns if you run up close and roll behind them right as they begin to aim. They'll have to reposition to aim again, giving you some time to shoot them a bit. Repeat until they're dead.
Someone just left this 36 inch CRT at the end of their driveway for anyone to take. So I did. Was this a good find?I'm new to the whole CRT thing.https://crtdatabase.com/crts/rca/rca-f36689
So what's a good S-Cable to get for my PS2 Slim?
>>12642835insurrection industries seems to be the most recommended, I use a tomee s-video cable for ps1 that also works with ps2/3 multi-out, it seems to be ok but it has a composite and s-video out so it might have a degraded s-video signal. I have it set up with a switcher on ps1 so you can swap quickly between composite and s-video for different games
>>12641679This is how developers tested and played their games
>>12643103That's a small CRT on one desk in one office. Developers used many different set-ups.
>>12643228>>12643103whole thread about this topichttps://warosu.org/vr/thread/12246003
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I FOUND MY LOST NACHO
>>12642196Cool retro character. What's he from?
>>12643208not that anon, but I'm hoping its this
The Variety tv series "Game Center CX" has been around since 2003, covering a variety of retro video games, from the 1980s and onwards. Given taht it's been on the air for over 20 years, it is remarkable how many major games they have not highlighted yet. Which do you think is the most egregious and wish do you wish to see the most on the show before its end?
>>12636797incredible crisis.
for me? it's parasite eve.
>>12640049i don't know
>>12641531Not them but its not like gccx is some secret hard to find shit. You have no right to complain.
for me its bust a groove.
>cue trist themeI got my battle chest in 2001. Why play modern blizzard slop when this masterpiece is still up and bNet is up? Ladder just starter last Friday. Come play one of the best games of all time while it's still up. 26 years. That's history. That's legacy. That's true GOAT status. Legendary status.Modern developers don't have anywhere near the talent or skill to make a game this good anymore. Why play modern blizzslop? Why play d3 or 4 when they are cheap rip offs? Why play soulless slop like resurrected when the GOAT is still up and running? All D2R did was give it the same crap graphics every other game has. Not original. Not cool. Not inspiring. Just a cheap cash grab. Yes the stash is better. Who cares when it's soulless garbage?Play D2 Legacy because who knows how long it will be around for. For the nostalgia. For the based early 2000s era graphics. It feels more real. It plays more real. The experience is vastly superior to all modern blizzslop. Lots of helpful players to gear you up. Very friendly. Head to Junk Drop Inn room and start a new char today.
>>12643057OP, Diablo 2 came from an era where we own our games. It's not going away, the private servers are peak D2.
>>12643057>All D2R did was give it the same crap graphics every other game has. Not original. Not cool. Not inspiring. Just a cheap cash grab. Yes the stash is better. Who cares when it's soulless garbage?Controller support. Diablo has always been better with a controller and that single feature alone made it worth it.
>>12643057I only play PD2. Fuck D2R and fuck Blizzard.
>Why aren't you playing D2 Legacy LOD before it's gone? I've been playing older versions, 1.05 right now, and it's been kicking my ass more than ever.
The real win of D2R was the solid controller controls.
Was bringing Wesker back a mistake?
Wesker? He's locked up in my basement (ha-ha)
>>12643002Yes, they went full anime starting this game
>>12643002Only reason it happened was because Mikami was fuming over Dante.
I liked it
Both 1 and 2 are shit and incredibly over rated by the people that like them. Boring level design, getting all the collectibles in each level is tedious, the controls and physics aren't good, entire game over all just feels slow, I could go on. If it wasn't Pac-Man these games wouldn't be remembered at all. I'd rather play just about any other 3D platformer of the era over it.
>>12641081It's a great game. One of my favourites alongside Crash Bandicoot.>>12642920Kill yourself
>there is a Pac-Man World 2>and 3:O>6th gen platformer:/
>>12643026Correct. Newer = less soul
Anubis Rex (the 2nd boss) was the worst part of an already enjoyable game, the fucker was brutal and the running platform mechanic malfunctioned frequently.
>1 week passed since translation dropped>0 discussion anywheredid it not live up to the hype?
>>12642963Kek, >>12642951 called it. You got BTFO
all the comments on cdr are just glad it got translated while not even posting screenshots of the game lolthose retards (and (You)) dont even play games
what did he mean by this?
if you have been around retro gaming for 10+ years you kind of already knew that it wasn't the best game ever . I remember a guy who moved to Japan going through and playing a bunch of untranslated games and rating them and saying this one wasnt all what it was cracked up to be.
>>12642917What he dreamed up last night
