Would of Doom II/2 have been better with a sniper rifle?
>>12840829Yes
>>12842607i did git gud in the 2000s and they nerfed the weapon in quake live loli'm of the opinion it should be even weakermost sniper rifles especially in bungie fps are full retard broken
>>12840829No, the Doom weapons were the perfect mix. No FPS, before or since, has ever matched its arsenal.
>>12842739they really haven'tthe only way to make a shotgun more chad than the doom 2 double barrel is to probably escalate to a quad barrel
>>12840829You can't look up and down, so no.
If all I want is a basic upscale from my consoles to 720/1080p without any fancy features and stuff, what's the cheapest best upscaler?
>>12842396Yeah my old fat Sony Bravia does this well even though it's missing advanced settings of other models
>>12842426What's the setting called?
>>12842485There is none, you just select the input and It looks good so there is no reason for further magic tricks. It says 768p every time I think.
you want a good one though if you want to avoid input lag and improper scaling and incorrect recognition of 240p as 480i.if your monitor has low latency anyway then a Retrotink 2X will get you a clean stable 480p image to use which most monitors are well-equipped to scale fast, but if you don't want to risk it then get an OSSC.
>>12842315tink2x is overpriced dogshit, ossc is ass for 480i, get a gbsc.
Instead of embiggening the map from III they shrunk it down but added more alleyways which is more cromulent I guess??
the issue with Vice City is Miami just isn't interesting for a big open world map. outside of Miami Beach, there's nothing going on. you got a few blocks of downtown, a block of Little Haiti, a block of Little Havana, and then it's just suburbs and retirement communities.
>>12841006Crazy what used to be acceptable. It's no wonder they could shit out three GTA games in three years back then.
>>12842212Tell you what, make Vice City 2, fill 90% of the map with retirement communities full of fat retired CEO boomers walking around their lawns, add a chainsaw, a bulldozer and a flamethrower, and I will buy your game.
>>12842212>retirement communitiesI’d call them “affluent communities,” places like Brickell, the Grove, Gables, and Midtown. Plenty of younger people in those areas. But yeah you’re overall right. GTA6 wisely goes beyond Miami into other interesting parts of Florida.
>>12840957you're just salty that sims 3 is better than sims 4 to this date, i mean you can literally build vice city in it as it's shown here for crying out loud
Should I try Gran Turismo career mode or just play Burnout?
>>12842517How so?High Stakes complete edition has the most fun driving model among ps1 racing games
>>12840329Crazy how if you just look at the thumbnail it's literally indistinguishable from real life. Amazing what they were able to accomplish with PS1 hardware.
V rally is better. Dreamcast version. I have so much fun every time I play.
>>12842741Hmm. I am going to check the Dreamcast version out. Great idea.
>>12842696I played it for the first time recently and I'd put it over Gran Turismo if it had more cars. Still great game. Underground series feels like such a step back
Previous thread: >>12795990>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/1Ri5TS3xGuide to CRT Hunting : http://pastebin.com/H9H9L2LQGuide to Video Monitors : http://pastebin.com/pQX4N6gZGeneral Purpose CRT Adjustment Guide : http://www.arcaderepairtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/guide_setup_adjust_arcade_monitors_v1.2.0.pdfS-Video Pasta : http://pastebin.com/rH2h6C7WBKM-10R Protocol Info : http://pastebin.com/aTUWf33J
>>12839430Do so, dvd players are quite cheap and you can find them everywhere. Certain shows will look just ok on them and you might prefer an hdtv, but some are absolutely stunning
RGB slotmask is just the best, especially 28"Real arcade feelJust beat metal slug on it, looks so good>>12839595Trinitrons and especially flat SD Trinitrons are a meme.Slot mask is king
>>12842681They are both good faggot. Stop trying to make CRT console warring a thing.
>>12842685Oh I didnt mean for it to sound like that, I own a 20 inch PVMBut I personally think Slotmask is the best choice 240pPreference, I like slotmask RGB because it looks just like Arcade machines, I mostly play arcade games
>>12840190>KeychronThis is slightly off topic but are they any good? They're the only ones smart enough to make a full sized IBM style wireless keyboard. But I've heard their customer support is shit ass, and it's 100 freedom bucks. I would just buy the 8bitdo one, but they refuse to make a proper full size.
Tooie is way better than Kazooie. BK has several points in its favor admittedly, but it's really not close. BT is in another fucking ballpark entirely and BK pales in comparison.You just don't like it as much cuz Tooie assumes the player is reasonably smart/curious, competent, doesn't need their hand held, and will be fully engaged with the game. It was designed with the assumption of the player spending a lot of their time, care, focus and investment into the game. BT upped the ante from BK, but that's literally not a bad thing at all. The fact the game has a lot of meat on its bones just means you're eating good.It's not Banjo-Tooie's fault that your brain has been fried by smartphones. You got filtered the fuck out. Banjo-Tooie didn't fail to live up to your expectations. You failed to live up to Banjo-Tooie's expectations.
>>12839683Damn bro you like banjo tooie? You MUST be a genius living at your mom's house. Lmao you fuckin idiot
>Tooie assumes the player is reasonably smart/curious, competent, doesn't need their hand held, and will be fully engaged with the game.For the people who well and truly get their jollies from the base mechanics of steering a little fuzzy dude around a britbong cartoon world, I think this argument rings true, and I hear the same defense from the DK64 diehards. But you've also got to realise that most gamers, both old and new, are not collectathon autists like yourself. For you, the 2-3x increase in collectables and backtracking is an unambiguous positive because that was what you came to Kazooie for. I like Kazooie because it has tight level design, decent platforming and a well paced carousel of environments. Tooie is a downgrade in all three of those aspects, so I like it a lot less. I don't care if the levels are bigger and there's more shit to pick up and backtrack to, because those things are not what I find fun about the genre. You've got to think outside your own preferences and understand this, or else you'll just be seething forever.
>>12839683it took me 15 years and at least 4-5 attempts to finish tooie despite loving the first game. I remember buying it at launch and I dont know what it was but it never clicked. it was obviously more of the same, literally what everyone wanted but it somehow was too much.
>>12839683tooie is my favourite game ever, but when i last beat it (as a kid) i was sick of playing it, and i knew it would be a massive commitment to play it again. like ff9, my other favourite game ever, i can't see myself playing it again. it came out 25 years ago, and it's still the most exhaustive platforming game ever made, people say it isn't tight like BK, but after you beat BT and go back to BK you're left wanting more, it feels empty and like a prototype compared to BT, showing that BT is in fact "tight". it's not fair to compare BT with DK64 either, because the tag barrel forces backtracking and revisiting areas, artificially extending the length of the game, BT has transformations sure but it's not to the level of DK, having multi-world jiggies and objectives is a different thing entirely. they really figured out how to maximise the scope of a game, it mogs the shit out of zelda in that respect, and showed that they knew what to do with threeie, but they weren't given the respect or time to make it happen, and nobody has followed in their footsteps because they all miss that the whole idea was to make grand but tight experiences, not short levels, not relic races or whatever the fuck artificial replayability you can conjure, but make the worlds feel deep and alive. that is the essence of collectathons, collecting shouldn't be the emphasis, but using them sparingly to guide the player through the world in interesting ways, interacting with characters, and immersing them into it.
>>12839683>Tooie is way better than Kazooie.If that was true people wouldn't have to make weekly threads saying as much.
I love the GBA sound chip. pure early 2000s feelshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3_lxUW-fEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YONKhHMi23whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai3Lr-Sgyuwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS_rn1ZlCx4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFWOvIrBCgc
BRAPhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIXaXB62Tk
>>12842428then how does it make sound
>>12842705With the power of friendship!
>>12842705>>12842717Through its speakers
>>12842705Regular operation is just feeding two channels of CPU built PCM signals through a DAC (similar to how integrated motherboard audio works). It also has a GB APU for backwards compatibility, although some GBA games also use it.
>game is radically different from the series' usual gameplay, yet officially not designated as a spin-off>it's one of the best games in the franchisePost 'em, /vr/.
>>12842187I think you shouldn't clog up a potentially interesting thread with pedantry.
>>12841762I'm a zoomer and... zelda 2 is my favourite zelda game, not many games really made you feel like you're going on a real quest like this one did. I think the difficulty compliments it, definitely not near as cryptic as the original zelda but not that easy either. It's a good blend, and I like how the NPCs actually make the world feel alive unlike the last game.
>>12842597How is it being pedantic? The game devs had only made one previous Zelda game when they were working on Zelda II. They didn’t know what the overall series was going to be like yet at the time. Like I said, Majora’s Mask is a better example.
>>12842712On top of that, I even provided another example here >>12842162
Final Fantasy XI is another obvious one. It’s an officially numbered entry despite being an MMO.
Can we all agree that this was the coolest period in the 2D fighting games history? Even excluding Super Turbo, which is essentially a souped up CPS1 game.Street Fighter Alpha games, Marvel games, Darkstalkers games. Which are your favorites?
>When a composer for a CPS2 game needs an electric guitar power chord:
One thing I detest is the soi capcom audience I have to share my childhood games with. The whole reason it was cool was because X-Men was masculine at the time and because the SFII anime tried to be edgier than Capcuck would ever have the balls to be again, take away that atmosphere and fuck you.
I am trans btw
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What are some controversial games that are most likely never to come.>still surprised we even got princess maker 2 in the modern era
>>12839568What beasts?
>>12837358>YiWho?
>>12832532I remember this one! Got it from the clearance bin at Electronics Boutique back in the day. It wasn't really controversial as I remember, though you could develop nukes. It just got boring after a few plays.
Someday Atlus will finally port official English versions of the old SMT and Persona games, but Giten Megami Tensei ain't never coming back.
>>12832148>game called Manhunt>men are hunted in this game>complains there aren't any women to hunt
Post them green vidya characters.
the cutest tales wife.
Yumetaro
>>12833038nothing wrong with that
>>12833035
How was it like to go from single screen action games being the norm to scrolling action back in the 80s?
>>12842035>"WIZARDS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this realm before. There could be RIVAL WIZARDS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bearded chin. "I HATE WIZARDS" he thought. The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea reverberated his mind's ear, making it pulsate even as the 9 copper pieces tobacco circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of spellcasters after dark. "With a teleportation scroll, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.
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>>12842562
>>12841948I genuinely do not remember. Felt like they were more or less there the whole time.
>>12842035>Why does that wizard look so fucking peeved?When was the last time you pondered your orb? That's what I thought.
You will do precisely nothing in this thread but post Soothing and/or Low Energy VGM.If you post anything too high energy, I'll strike your penis with a wrench.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0GEF5xZI8I
>>12825581Fantastic track, my favorite in the thread
>>12825581Wait god damn it's only ~60 seconds long repeated 30 times, I can't deal with this.
Behold, gentlemenhttps://youtu.be/uHS0HCWu--k
>>12842319HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
>>12825581Never heard of this. Looked up a longplay.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22V9nKNUcJEWhat a charming fucking game. Might emulate.
One thing must be said though.American Sonic looked closer to the in-game Sonic sprite than japanese Sonic.It's like, original Oshima Sonic was the first, then transported to pixelart, then the american redesign was based on the pixel Sonic.
What's up with all these Sonic threads lately, do we really need ten of them
>>12842550>but recognizing that "American sonic" was the Sonic of your childhood.I grew up familiar with both, Japanese and Western designs of Sonic. So no, you're wrong, as always, namefaggot.
>>12840476>6 yearsTry mid 10s
>>12840476>>12842572Is it just a strange case of autism or there's something else behind his story?
>>12842553If it ain't sonic, it's zelda. if it ain't zelda, it's final fantasy. If it ain't final fantasy, it's megaman. If it ain't megaman, it's your mom
How much do you remember your old games?I just 100%'d OoT again and I remembered where everything was except for the 2nd Heart Piece you get from the frogs in the river. I played the Song of Storms for the 1st one but forgot to do the pretty hard butterfly game with them afterwards until right before Ganon's Castle.Basically it was like I played the game to its fullest on auto-pilot, it was relaxing and fun.Any games you played so much you know them like the back of your hand?
>>12840838>OotBasically everything, thanks to randomizers. I suggest you try playing one.
>>12841685Not OP, but watching ZFG play OoT/MM randos makes me inclined to try one, but it just seems really tedious if you don't know glitches to move around and navigate quickly.
>>12841005Different memory abilities, different attention spans, different irl situations around when they last played the game, different amount of other games played in the interim, etc. Some games I remember like the back of my hand, some games I go back to after a decade+ and feel like I'm playing them for the first time, outside of occasional "oh yeah, I kinda remember this part."
A lot of them. Fall of the foot clan was one of my favorite games for original gameboy and I didn't play it for 20 years, and I still remembered where the secrets were and I absolutely steamrollled through the game.
>>12841764It's really not that bad. It's fun to figure that stuff out, finally getting to a room full of pots, etc etc.
