25 years of progressively worse sequels
>>12264984Civ3 is everything you like about Civ2 but 10x better>>12264972Civ4 is an abomination>>12265089>>12265092Hexagonal tiles are the only thing Civ3 would have benefitted from. Literally everything else is playskool-tier failure
>>12265575The evolving costumes were one aspect I wish they had kept in later games.
>>12265575>Civ3 is everything you like about Civ2 but 10x betterThe biggest change in Civ 3 that drains the fun out of the game is the lack of zone of control. Keeping foreign units off your lawn is way more tedious than in 2. The changes to research are questionable too.
>>12265575>Civ4 is an abominationExplain
>>12265574it cheats in every civ games
what’s your ‘if you haven’t played it, you haven’t lived’ game. a game you think everyone needs to play once
>>12264785>i never played shining force but i must reply negatively
I only ever played the Game Gear Shining Force and I loved it. Nintendo was clearly inspired by Sega when they made Golden Sun. Shining Force? no! golden Sun!
>>12264797>the simplicity of the first gameits literally the same shit, but 2 has a myriad of QoL fixes. for "playing sf1 to the end" and not getting bored at the chokepoints and slog forrest maps, theres nothing really like that in sf2 (except for the 2 desert battles. wow.). more likely you couldnt figure out how to get past taros and gave up, or you just happened to be a in a weird mood in life at the time. if you like sf1 that much, theres nothing in sf2 to make you THAT disinterested.
>>12265739>Nintendo>made Golden SunBait of the day.If it's not bait, then you're really close to figure out something about the game developers, anon.
>>12263096This game is boring as fuck. First game was better.
You now remember Chip's challenge.
>>12265878You can't outrun him forever. You WILL crash eventually. Death is still inevitable.
>>12264076Thanks for reminding me I still haven't finished CCLP3
I keep getting targeted adds for that homebrew cart of Chips Challenge for the GBA. I never forget.
>>12264076for me its rodents revenge
>>12264091I didn't. Never had a computer with it, but I loved playing it on friends' computers. The music was comfy
I will never not be mad at developers who were still releasing simplistic puzzle games for console generation 5 and up
Puzzle games died when they started pandering to autists who can see into the future 30 turns in advance to prepare the ultimate gigacombo to conquer them all
>>12263243It's very lazy yes, but the game at its core is good enough to transcend that.
>>12264203Unironically skill issue
>>12263115AWWW POOR BABY
>>12263240Terse.>>12263115They keep selling 'em because we keep buying 'em.
Post games that you didn't like but wanted to.
Resident Evil is so fucking cool. I love the characters, the story, the atmosphere, even the clunkiness.I just hate getting fucking lost and having to keep running back and forth to get one item I need then put it back. I beat RE1 and have been meaning to play RE2 'any day now' for quite a long time now.
>>12259607Retard
I wanted to like The legend of Zelda and Metroid but I always end up getting lost.
>>12259517I like the building aspect but waiting for cash flow recovery gets boring after few hours.
>>12259517Rhapsody has so much in theory going for it, but is held back by being perhaps the worst fucking rpg I’ve ever playedI heard the sequels did a bit better but idk
>widely worshipped as one of the greatest games of all time>only 200k person-hours to make>would be 50-100k person-hours with modern tools>still no indie attempts to make a game like this, 23 years laterWhat gives?
>>12266016>unironically>proceeds to write a bunch of schizo nonsense about why the success of other games don't count as success.
>>12266064>avowed, outer worlds & the frontier>successesfunny joke anon
>>12266050if that's all you heard then maybe shit like the star wars sequels, amazon LOTR or other subversive slop might be more your speed.
>>12266154Trying too hard, tourist.
>>12266154Only confirming that you're a plebe
This whole series is alot of fun
Always had a gut feeling this game ran on highly modified Super Ghouls n' Ghosts code.
>>12265468>"Capcom-Dysney platform where you start with 3 hearts and upgrade it to 10 through the playthrough" series.I never made that connection until now. Didn't even knew Bonkers was Capcom, for some reason I always thought it was western developed. Gonna have to try it now.What others are there?
>>12265854It just might be >>12265852I think all the snes to gba ports are downgrades but it sure was convenient. I remember thinking how cool it was that I had super Mario world on the go. Even tho it's a downgrade.
>>12266058super mario bros 3 is better on gba than snes
>>12266157I could see how that could be possible it has some upgrades. The mario world csrt has some too. Like telling you all the levels you collected the 5 Yoshi coins from and you can switch between mario and Luigi. Will play after work to see if I notice . Also you cah save in it too and it saves your lives and power ups
>DUDUDU DUDUDU DU>DUDUDU DUDUDU DU>DU DU DU>DUDUDU DUDUDU DU>DU, DU, DU, DU>DUDUDU DUDUDU DU>DU, DU, DU, DU>DU, DU DU DU DU>DU, DU DU DU DU, DU DU!
It feels like I’m living every day being chased by something
rotten fish and cheeserotten fish and cheese (pew-ey!)
>>12262325It's the best game on the NES.
>>12265723Hard agree.
>>12262605What? You can't see into the future? How else would you know to have a almost full Drill and a Energy Tank because you can't avoid the attacks? What was devs smoking to design this
What does /vr/ think about the EXA Arcade?https://exa.ac/en/games-list/?v=0f177369a3b7>Was completely out of the loop with the whole exa arcadia thing>Wait what Air Gallet "EXA Label", Fixeight "EXA Label" among many othersStill its kind of cool that they, I assume improved a game that didn't exactly do wonders in the arcades like AirGallet. On the other hand it feels like this frankensteins monster abomination they brought in the original artist ok but, who even worked on the gameplay?Hell the game isn't even presented properly since EX Arcadia doesn't do 240p.
never heard of it, looks like it's mostly shmups and fighters, the main appeal of arcade games to me is experiences you can't easily have at home like lightgun games and sit-down racers so seems pretty pointless
Entitled much
>>12258641I like it but I don't think its library justify buying one. There's like 3 games I'm interested and that's about it
>>12259935>my picrel shows 2 different prices at the same time (i had either 2 tabs open in the same browser or different browsers at the same time) wtf?It's only a few dollars difference, probably the price updates the Yen to Dollar conversion in real time based on the exchange rate.
>>12258907>pirates upset they can't pirateThere are already dumps somewhere on the archive. Emulation is only a matter of time.
Why didn't we ever get a sequel?
>>12256161Because it fucking sucks and probably didn't sell well.
>>12263076Probably the best track in the game, I still occasionally vibe to it
>>12256161https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5UCwp5lqQHere's your sequel bro
>>12263140don't blame your mother for you missing out on bitcoin. retro grifting shit is chump change.
>>12263542Those are both great soundtraks but th body of high quality work Uematsu has produced over several decades dwarfs any other jrpg composer except for maybe Sugiyama, who tends to phone it in at times. (And to be honest, most DQ tracks get boring when looped in games)Uematsu also does metal/operatic covers of his compositions which are excellent.The only vidya composer on his level, in my onion, is Paul Romero because despite having less credits to his name, his compositions elevate HOMM3 to a timeless masterpiece.
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>>12264268thanks good to know, n64, dreamcast is not so important, i have a psp my mother plays for 8/16 bit up to psx, i got her a n3ds years ago i modded which also covers those. if the switch can run psx better than the n3ds then it will cover plenty of games as for gta, vice city is her favourite which is already on switch anyway, but would be good if lcs/vcs also run well.
>>12265059>if the switch can run psx better than the n3ds then it will cover plenty of games Well, anon, the New 3DS is a potato. An amazingly good potato for *native* playback of games, as it has hardware for 3 consoles in one: GBA, DS and 3DS. But a potato for emulating anything modern. Glops meme comparison:New 3DS: ~4.8 GFLOPSSwitch (Docked): ~393–512 GFLOPS.
>>12260413was my gba sp 101 and gameboy player until I got the anbernic 34xxsp. It's a perfect gba sp replacement for me and since it's like having a flashcart with save states (I had one but it stopped working like a week after i bought it, fuck everdrives) I just prefer to use it instead.
What are the top 10 GBA games? I want to gift a handheld with a few GBA games on it to a friend in need. Please advise, thanks frens
>>12266218Do you know your friend at all? If so you should know what genres he likes, google and go from there.
What was namco thinking by killing Xenosaga and ending the career of Soraya Saga which ended up in Monolith being sold to Nintendo and being sent to the Zelda dungeon? It’s one of the greatest video game blunders.
>>12261754>The first game has an amazing soundtrackIt's just too bad there's very little of it. It went for a more ambient approach, which made the game feel a little empty and boring at times.
>>12259173Xenosaga takes too long to get interesting. The first 2/3 of the game is a slog and the last 1/3 is excellent.
>>12265491>The last 1/3 is excellentI must have dropped it just before that part, because I was extremely bored. I liked the battle system in the game though.
>>12265506The game becomes great just as it ends
>>12262585>watch it on tubiNow I wished to see Shamanic Princess, Jungle de Ikou and Birdy the Mighty get N64 titles
Mini Medic edition Previous thread >>12223276
>>12264206I love how each 'fortress game has its own visual style, it's clear a lot of love went to making this stuff
What's the most active old 'fortress game other than TFC or FF?
>>12265116>FF>Active
>>12265590FF is quite active, don't get me wrong, you cannot get pubs every single day, but there is a group of people that gather to play pubs each weekend, and the game is really fun, it's going to be updated with TF2's SDK eventually>>12265116Fortress One is active only through pugs with the QWTF.live (DISCORD), also Unreal Fortress for 1999 and 2004 UT games have neat bot support
Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels is finally getting released
>>12262635I didn't know there was a PC version and now I am deeply interested. The dithering is a nice bonus! Holy abandonware here I come
>>12253775Frank Cifaldi recently made the game's source code available, in hopes that the ROMhacking community can make it rebuildable.https://bsky.app/profile/frankcifaldi.bsky.social
>>12262635KEK. Let me guess, you need more?
>>12262635Nigga. You have provided me the best Christmas week I could have wanted. Thank you.I've gotten everything working perfectly including gamepad. Anyone need help just ask.
>>12265968>>12265973>>12266023Welp. Game crashed at level 3 so beware. Although possibly it was just my Magpie upscaling that crashed it but yeah
Discuss anything involving Wii homebrew for playing retro games.Right now I'm using the Retroarch Hexaeco build for games and it's been working very well so far with everything I've tried (Neo Geo was the only core that I tried that had crashes and it was with the big games like KoF2002).
>>12265027They still get updated nowadays, disingenuous faggot.
>>12265104I'm using the Retroarch Hexaeco fork and the GameBoy games ran fine using the mGBA core (even beat a game on it recently), the stand alone mGBA emulator ran those games fine too (I used RA instead because of the limited display options mGBA has).As for Mame I tried some games I had and it ran them rather fine, CPS-3 games and large Neo-Geo games were the ones that had speed issues.Can't say for NES and SNES cores on RA but the stand alone emulators (fceux and snes9x) seemed to work fine.
>>12265915Gambatte would be a better choice if using RetroArch, since it's faster and better at GameBoy emulation than mGBA. There's also gpSP as an alternative if you need a more performant GBA emulator. VBA GX really should be updated to use the newest build as basis instead of some old ome from 2014.
>>12265027Theyre actually pretty decent now. Ps1 is good, I beat silent hill on my wii.
>>12266082With or without dithering turned on?
