I mean, you can have the most amazing gameplay, level design, and scoring system, but if it's just going to be another "spaceship blasting off and striking the evil (Bydo) empire" or "seeing a fever dream a la Parodius", why should I even consider playing it when Touhou offers me a better experience?By "better experience" I mean moments like:>Shrine Maiden vs. Vampire>Resurrection Butterfly>Facing off against Kaguya when Voyage 1970 comes up>Grazing thousands of miniature SUNS>Clownpiece the 'American' (actually Greek) Fairy>The fight against Keiki Haniyasushin>Getting lost in the Asama Purifying Mountain only to find yourself in the Moon and facing Watasuki no Toyohime>Nina WatariAnd it's not just Reimu or Marisa experiencing those moments. You as a player do too.
>>12391674Yeah, pretty muchCuz then it would actually be interesting tinkering and trying to come up with cool builds
Retarded bait thread, do not engage.
>>12391458What's the point of any genre? What's the point of games?
Dodging the bullets is fun
>>12391458To be clear, a "shoot 'em up" isn't when yet another tranny goes postal at a school.But you might try identifying as a person who likes playing games that have a similar play style to what you like instead of an autogynephilia attention whore.
Wasn't this just a shitty Rainbow Six clone?
>>12392335is it really a clone if they're both Tom Clancy novels? Not played it but I know the book is all about "bad ass Israel" and definitely doesn't hold up toady
>>12392335I heard the console ports were pretty bad but PC version was decent
Why is the Japanese version of Sonic 3D Blast so rare even though the Saturn was successful in Japan? It makes literally no sense.
>>12391776Sonic 1 and 2 are very easy to find in Japan, much more than most other games.
>>12391787If you put the cutoff at the beginning of 1997 it was a success. The Americans killed it with that not our future quote.
>>12391726It coincided with the release of Sonic Adventure International, the Western update of Sonic Adventure imported to Japan, so it was understood as a novelty. Rumor has it it was mainly a consolation prize for Satoshi Okano losing the redesign contest to Yuji Uekawa. Every Japanese rerelease of 3D Blast since has been the Mega Drive version, which is the origin of a handful of music tracks remixed in Sonic Adventure.Also I noticed this while browsing the wiki, holy crap this is ancient lol, I thought the internet would figure out by now if it was removed entirely or just deleted.
>>12391753I literally don't understand how, Japan has a mostly dominated arcade culture and Sonic made a few debuts in japanese arcades like Segasonic the Hedgehog, how did he fail when being effectively in the culture?
>>12392313>mega drive has original sonic game but failed in japan >sega saturn doesn’t fail in japan but doesn’t have an original sonic game>dreamcast has original sonic game but failed in japan That’s it. Sonic’s continued popularity is 100% due to him being the mascot of SEGA during their console manufacturer era. And since the consoles with Sonic games failed in Japan they never really cared about Sonic. Don’t go out there thinking Sonic games are any more special than contemporary platformers that weren’t console mascots.
What a great, underrated game. Just pure simple good controls, cool graphics, good hitboxes etc. Learned about it watching Game Sack
>>12388148The main character doesn't even have an axe.
>>12389880oh fuck it's golden axe all over again
>>12389880Wrong, the axe is the most powerful weapon in the game.
>>12389880Yes he does.
Is there a translation for this game? Anyone played it? I had it in my backlog because someone recommended it on /v/ 2 or 3 years ago but now that i want to play it idk how
>>12390628>Ningyo no RakuinIs this the mermaid lovecraftian SRPG? I swore it got a translation. It's apparently not very good though.
>>12390936>Is this the mermaid lovecraftian SRPG?Yeah>I swore it got a translation.Couldn't find any so i thought I'd ask here>It's apparently not very good though.It looks interesting enough and in an age where every game is a copy of a copy of a copy i think giving an old game like this a chance is a good move, worse case scenario I'll just drop it after 3~6 hours if it's really that bad
>>12390628Spend thousands of hours learning a dying language to play a PS1 game. Or use AI to understand only the menus and nothing else about the story or characters. Or just wait for a translation patch even longer.Here, I'll save you the effort of slogging through hours of a decades old, unpolished RPG - just appreciate the cover art and find a different game.
>>12390628>Is there a translation for this game?https://retrogametalk.com/threads/announcement-a-new-fan-translation-of-ningyo-no-rakuin-is-in-the-works.20259/
>>12390876Diddy Kong Racing, Zelda... Mother?
This picture on the cover is the dashboard of a McLaren F1.That car is not in this game.I find this unfair.
>>12390094kek rattled
>>12390006It's a sign you should be playing NFS 2 or NFS4 on PS1 instead, anon!
>>12390493Yeah but those games don't try to represent real driving?
>>12390094Chill out retard.
>>12392264NFS2? No way, but it's still fun to play. NFS4? Not as much as GT or GT2, but still a decent simcade I think, just leaning more to the arcade side of things than GT/GT2.
>Sonic 1 & 2 Android ports are getting delisted>hear all over social media that Sega has made them free with no ads in advance of the delisting>download them>they have adsProps to the Sega intern who came up with this disinfo campaign; they just scored their company a whole load of ad revenue from FOMO.
>>12391706Works on my machine
>>12392070Proof?
>>12391706Yup, SEGA will do anything to keep making money off decades old games, if you have the roms just play Sonic 1 & 2 Forever which are the definitive ways to play the game, if you want to play S3&K or Sonic CD then "Miracle Edition" and Sonic 3: AIR are your best shots.
Is there anyone here nostalgic for early 2000s shareware?Hopmon by Saito Games
For me it's Japanese freeware
Pacmania 3 - Alawar
>>12392332*Smacks lips*
>>12391747All over this and the Dr. Lunatic games. Got exposed to them as a kid in one of those win98 200+ game discs. This DOS shmup Drone was in the same pack and I've always loved how crunchy it sounds.https://youtu.be/a7NLd6fT724?t=109
Fairyland (2000) - Alawar
Unplayable trashIf the gamecube was your first nintendo console growing up, cool, I liked gamecube a lot, I still doIf this was your first Mario gameI'm sorry, it's not goodI'm mid 30s, and I am not the only one of my friend group to feel the same way, cant even do the bare minimum to get to end game scenarioYoutube
>>12384261I replayed this game in 2023 and I stopped after a few hours, it's really fucking terrible. Their bar for quality during Gamecube era was very short.
>>12384261Never played it, but I love it because everybody seems to seethe at it.
Your English is fucking terrible. What shithole country are you from and why can't you discuss games with your own countrymen instead? Please, fuck off.
>>12384261Weird, I played it.
>>12390559I can only think of one game from their mainline series that was better: Smash bros. It doesn’t even replace the original imo but it is a more complete and fun experience w the singleplayer and sheer amount of unlockables and challenges. Every other game seems to be a downgrade from tennis to golf to party to Zelda to Mario to on and on.
>>12391647I think it's just basically a good guy warrior
>>12391659Obviously, since U9 was a failure and Spoony was successful
>>12392191Ultima and Spoony literally followed the same path.>Start strong and get better>Put out a magnum opus>Crash and burn
It's an insane how many classic PC game series EA killed.
>>12392198People often compare Majuular ultimatum reviews to Spoony and how better it is. Its obvious that Majuular have better media to display and more sources, as well giving some info on how Origins were doing at the time of game’s release etc, but its undeniable that Spoony had so much more passion, you can tell he genuinely loved that series (till a certain point). Been rewatching his Ultima restrospective lately, he truly has this 2000s nerd aura, its nostalgic, trully miss this period.
In North America, Street Fighter III: New Generation was simply called "THREE" and it took a while for people to realize it was a Street Fighter game
>>12392026You probably play 3rd strike
>>12391481>>12391489Kek
Alex is and was a great character
Should Three have had more fights against unplayable Mayor characters?
>>12391476growing up i just didnt care for street fighter 3 what i ended up playing was the xmen vs capcom series instead that and the alphas were good it was only after playing sf4 for 360 i was told about how good 3 was so i gave it a go and wasnt disappointed but i knew something was off about it so went back to tekken afterwards. now i play capcom vs snk2 for steam and im having alot of fun in it. tekken 8 and street fighter 6 just doesn't win me over in any way, ppl take those fighting games too serious and it kills the fun so quick
I am considering turning my Wii U into a Mario Party machine. If we were going to hang out together and play, which one would you insist we play out of all of them?
>>123905542 > 3 > 5/6/7 > 1/4 > Superstars > Jamboree > DS >>> > Island Tour > Super > Advance > 8/9/10 > The Top 100
>>12390952Well ain't gonna be no Switch, GBA or DS on a Wii U. Even though you can play DS games, it wouldn't matter for multiplayer.
3 is the best but 2 has some soul elements 3 missed on
>>12391029The outfits.
for me, its Sonic Shuffle
i just beat this game and wish i had played it much earlier. damn what a game, i know it was marketed for "frat boys" but to me it plays like it was designed for blokes coming home late from the pub.in the 90s and early 2000s in bongistan, if you came home late from the pub you would have almost certainly watched whatever alternative comedy-influenced TV show was on at that hour. so CBFD feels like the videogame-equivalent.>collectathons are heavily reduced - instead a drunk scarecrow tells you about "context sensitive" pads where the player can produce a quest-vital object>alternatively Conker will just happen to have a quest-vital object on his person anyway>a bad-looking king is set up as the final villain but his motivation is that his sidetable is missing a leg and his chief scientist says he needs a red squirrel to prop it up but then you don't see him for hours and then this king dies before you can fight him anyway>more subversion from the way HP and lives work - that chief scientist threw out his levitating chocolate invention all over the place and that's how you recover HP. the grim reaper hates his job and explains squirrels benefit from some similar provision as cats and their nine lives. he later gives you a shotgun>level variety is so strong it feels like they considered several options and then said "all of them">actually quite well written dialogue (also more alternative comedy) despite the teenager-tier swearing at times, something they can't have taken lightly due to how much space the voicelines took upi played the "uncensored" version which clearly has some custom dubbing inserted but it didn't bother me.
>>12392253yeah it was definitely impressive and kind of horrifying to be honest. I also thought I remember there being little jew bears or something you had to kill. it was very dark but wild as hell and fun
>>12386274>I don't know why this game is getting so much hate lately,Some edgy influencer decided to shit on the game for views and the usual human spambots immedietely came here to parrote out what their idol told them they should opine.It's always the same story.
>>12392297>123922974channers need to move beyond the influencer slop its not compatible. save it for pReddit
I never finished Conkers Bad Fur Day, might've got halfway through. Me and a friend used to rent it and spent all of our time playing multiplayer.
>>12392329it has some difficulty spikes.and then some areas where chocolate respawns constantly, so you can't really lose.
So, they made 3 games, all in a relatively short time, all extremely financially successful and beloved by millions of people. How did they arrive at the conclusion that they should NEVER FUCKING EVER make another game like them?
... whatever
>>12390351>Sludge Lagoonoverrated, terrible Hillslop memeslation, better "RPG but cars" games exist such as the entire fucking Tokyo Xtreme Racer series and early Gran Turismo.
>>12388205Right, 9fags aren't contrarian they are just freaks and weirdos living in their own reality. The contrarians are the 8 fans.
they made final fantasy x after which is the 2nd greatest RPG of all time, after final fantasy 7. FF8 tried some new things, was interesting but never lived up to the mastery and hype of FF7. FF9 was a slow meandering shit show and is a bad game. Only FFX lived up the Squaresoft quality. Keep in mind at the time of FF8, Square also made Parasite Eve which is also one of the best 3d RPGs of all time. If you're wondering why they dont still make great games, they almost went bankrupt from trying to make an AI waifu from their stupid cartoon movie named final fantasy that had nothing to do with final fantasy. and they spent all this time trying to generate a CGI woman in 2001 and promoting her, she was on the cover of maxim mag. so they almost went bankrupt and the far shitteir company ENIX who was still making boring slow 2d RPGs (dragon warrior 7) in 2001 when Squaresoft was making legendary 3d games that pushed the boundaries of the console and still look amazing today in 2026 (final fantasy x) merged with them. everything as SQUARE ENIX has sucked, because enix is a shitty company that makes boring stupid games (the majority of the dragon quest series) and their shit style has been pervasive into all of the formerly great Square style. not to mention they're just now firing all the troons like who told them to include the "stand up for groomer pride" shit in the terrible, shameful FF7 remake, so for over a decade they had women and troons preaching about what should be in their games
>>12390964hopefully on a computer or some other system with a 4x speed up toggle for all the loading. YOU WILL NEED IT
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>>12392073>Is this Breakdown?yep
>>12392073It is an awesome exclusive but why the console warring? Ps2 was a great system too w plenty of awesome games. I prefer the Xbox but the war is over.
>>12392174>I prefer the Xbox but the war is over.some people like those ww2 japanese soldiers that didn't know the war ender until like the 70s... or maybe some anons have console wars PTSD?
How long did it take you to finish? I took about 20 hours, and I see that HowLongToBeat says 11 hours!! I'm usually slightly faster than estimated, but this time it took me almost double!!!
>>12392292No idea but I do remember dying… a lot.
