Is it worth playing?
>>11354290If you play rpgs mostly for the combat, then no. If you play rpgs for the story, music, characters and lore, then yes.
>Doing a dungeon that's basically a big ass tower crawl>You're in the mechs to>Reach the very top, only one jump to go and I'm done>Literally as I jump toward the platform, I get into a fight and fall to the bottom of the areaTo this day I still know if that was a forced encounter or if I just got unlucky.
>>11357107in the last large area, every moving platform has a scripted fight . . . that loads 3 seconds later.
>>11357054What compels a developer to waste interesting stories, music, characters and lore on goddamn JRPG gameplay?
>>11357240it's the least offensive and most unobtrusive gameplay. simply, easy filler. anything more complicated or involved than that would detract from the plot, character, etc. it's a much more accessible choice than having all that gated behind some shitty bullet hell or demon souls gameplay.
Who was the Atari of Japan?
>>11354594What the fuck does that mean?
>>11355579The anecdote is entirely plausible. I can recall countless times an arcade ran out of coins. Even seen it happen at grocery stores and other shops. And I can recall at least as times when an expat hack embellished a story or just plain made shit up. Fake news is nothing new.
>>11354624only in its very early founding, everything except for marketing was made by japs
>>11355702>Fake news>>/pol/
>>11357036Yeah. No one would ever lie about video games.
>plug Sonic 3 into Sonic & Knuckles>just play as Sonic anywayWhat's your most scandalous /vr/ memory?
When MK3 for the SNES came out I was without access to a TV. So I taped the audio res/white jacks to some headphones and played it blind. I played the arcade a game a lot so I could do combos and made it pretty far.
>>11356991What's the problem? Don't you want to finish the game as Sonic at least once?>>11357016Not all heroes wear capes
>game rated 18>not a single fuck was given by anyone
>>11357190>3&KYou didn't beat the game
Masturbated to The Oregon Trail. If you've seen somebody say that on this board before it was probably me
is it worth playing the awkward middle children in a long running series?seems to me a lot of games released in the 2000s that were the "latest and greatest" at the time have aged incredibly poorly
>>11356124Civ 3 does not have 3d graphics. It has pre-rendered sprites like most PC games of the time.
>>11355415The last good Civ game.
>>11356582Civ 5 has a lot of merits, but it's so different from the previous entries in the series that it would have arguably been more fitting if they changed the name and made it the first entry in a new series.Alpha Centauri has more in common with Civ 1-4 than Civ 5 (or 6) does, even taking the science fiction theme into account.
>>11356582Nothing. It's just the usual salty bitches because V is considered the best in the series instead of their preferred entry.
What kinda stupid?Many time the earlier ones are totally shit compared to their fixes they added later.
Did you manage to get one?
>>11334650>furfaggot is literally retardedSad, many such cases!
>>11323319I want a Filipino rip off version with all the NES games preloaded into them. Then I'll get a Genesis version modded. Then a SNES and PSX mini. I'll be the coolest on my block.
>>11336674>I don't know why Nintendo…. release a 'classic' console but with a Virtual Console 'philosophy'; a little cute looking piece of plastic and silicon that resembles the real thing but with ethernet/wifi with some games included and the possibility to buy new games and play online.Because Nintendo found out that they can charge people a monthly subscription fee to rent a handful of their retro games instead.Same reason we’ll never get a N64 mini, they want to charge for the Switch Online premium accounts.
>tfw no Saturn mini>tfw no N64 mini
>>11323319Was working at Target when the SNES ones came out. Every single time we got them, we only got 4 at a time. And usually one guy bought all 4. Some guy bought all 4 just a few days before Christmas that year too, he was in almost every way the smug elitist Comic Book guy stereotype too.
So my metal recycler mate has offered to keep CRTs for me, but I don't have the room to keep them all. What are the best brands for TVs and monitors. Obviously anything with component, S-Video or scart will automatically be kept.
People always forget RCA. People think of the brand now as an economy brand logo thrown on chinese LCD walmart house brand LCDs, but they were excellent in the CRT era. The 2000 era ones are especially excellent. Component input, S-video, nearly 800 vertical lines in their non-HD models, and they had among the lowest lag HD CRTs for 480p. Also some of the darkest blacks on a consumer tv.JVC's popular D series used RCA tubes, as did many of 90s and 2000s arcade monitors.
>>11355392RCA CRT at 480p using component input on the left, side by side with a viewsonic monitor with VGA cable on the right. No measurable lag. D27f750T
>>11355392Random image stolen from internet. My 32" RCA is too big so its in storage at my parents house, and I use smaller 17" and 20" PVM at home. But that RCA was my absolute favourite for Wii and PS2.
>>11355209Eizo for me
>>11355209Those Chinese ones after 2000 with the silver bezel are better than big names from the 90's I've found. The comb filter for composite is so much better. A lot of those brands have Toshiba tubes but from the label you would think its a piece of shit. The 2 Samsungs I've got have turned out to be pretty shitty though with one having a yellow tint.
It was perfect
>>11356196
>>11354676>No shit the NES left a bigger legacy when it completely revived home consoles.That part specifically is exaggerated, people never stopped wanting console games, Nintendo just came out with way better ones when Atari had been highly stagnant and had now economically fucked themselves.Otherwise, your observations are correct, that the NES had so preciously little competition from other consoles in most of the west is a big factor.
>>11354730All-Stars is mostly fine.>>11354748Forced meme, I've seen you blathering about imaginary input lag recently and it's plain bullshit.As for resolution, this difference is so fucking tiny that it's hilarious, I'll remind you that we're in the realm of 240p here
Auster's neverending quest of changing reality to make the SNES unpopular is a funny saga to observe.
>>11357197If by funny you mean tragic. What do you think his parents think of him?
What are some retro videos that have to do with disease and plagues?
>>11354123Neverwinter Nights, you literally save the city from plague(d) at first. Then you uncover a conspiracy around it.
>>11356001Does Blam! Machinehead count?
>>11356491No idea, never played it.
>>11354123Pretty sure smash gives you aids.
>>11354123https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
Holy shit, after all these years still so satisfying to play
>>11344825Alien Breed 3D is lightyears more advanced that Zero Tolerance.
>>11354884I would expect it to be, it's on an actual home computer. Zero Tolerance's impressiveness comes from how much it does with relatively meager means. Again, this is a 2MB cartridge on a 16-bit console.
>>11351720You can just download it.
>>11354086>he doesn't do flying kicks to reflect the bulletsngmi
>>11355446Link me cuz that shit is hard to find.>inb4 he links me to the regular rom
How do you respond to this? It's like taking Guile in SF2.
Just pick the cheat character too
If you pick him, I'm picking him too.
>>11353054>>11353686>>11353694>>11353801Tier-whoring is not cheating. The actual cheat character is ST Akuma.
>>11356971Monkey in TS2 is actually one of the worst characters because he has less health than others and can't see over obstacles or use gun turrets properly. Monkey in TSFP though is arguably the best in the game because he has max HP and max speed due to a glitch.
>>11357112Guile can beat Akuma with juggling and the flash kick. Guile can technically beat any other SF2 character.
>>11356918The whole console was just an excuse to release this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfjcBZoE_e4
>>11357145But Daytona USA was already released in arcades before the Saturn
>>11357158It was bitchin', best release game.
>>11356918To reduce the bill of materials while maintaining full compatibility. It was sort of expected that they can reduce the production cost in hopes it is not as much of a loss leader. It was a new marketing opportunity with Sega Saturn Shiro (White), with a spokesperson "Segata Sanshiro".
What the hell was he thinking?
is the Steam version of Shenmue 1 good or am i better off emulating the Dreamcast version?
>emulating the Dreamcast versiononly if you want to play with the atrocious english dubemulate the Passaport and What is Shenmue? disc, tho
>>11355491After some patches the devs put out in the months following release, the Steam version is excellent. One cool feature is that you can switch between English and Japanese dialogue on the fly. You'll have to install a mod if you want the whole game to be in widescreen, though.
>>11355491I looked for this shit all night at Blockbuster Christmas 2000 when I got my ps2. Summoner looked the closest to it, so I got that instead.
>>11355561Go fuck off to /v/ and tell every thread that you emulate you broke ass zoomer fag
>>11356924>only if you want to play with the atrocious english dubWhat kind of fucking dumb weeb would choose a the boring japanese voice acting? Are you that much of a fucking virgin anime professional that you pick a language you cant understand over the hilarious english voice acting that the game is practically famous for? Kill yourself
The town part was way too long. Once you get to the Lodge it becomes pure surrealist kino and the game truly starts being fun. Either the Lodge part should have been longer or the town part should have been shorter.
>>11356578You admitted you got raped
>>11356545because /vr/ won't shut up about it in adventure game threads
>>11356601You are gay
>>11356181I prefer the town.
>>11356183Dark Seed 2 never reaches fucked up comedy levels anywhere as high as Harvester, so not really a good rec.
i need a N64 game that's hard to play unless you're using the original controller, i need to test the viability of my new Saitek P990 (picrel) for N64 games
>>11356556Ucchannanchan no Honō no Challenger: Denryū Iraira BōAlso known as "Electric Fire Irritating Stick Maze"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdbBNUmY5Ds
>>11356556I bought this same controller for pc for a few bucks, didn't notice that there is no pause button
>>11356946i mean the black and white buttons act as select and start by default
>>11357097Just checked it again, I have the 880 model, it just says numbers in the buttons. And all are gray
Try doing the "so long, gay bowser" in SM64
>press and hold circle to use the camera>R1 or cross to take a photo>left thumbstick to move the camera around>right thumbstick to move the player aroundis it just me or is this game shit? any game that requires you to intertwine your thumbs does not deserve to exist
>getting filtered by controls>Unable to play anything that's not gaylo controlsKekTry the 2nd one. It has an option for swapping sticks, OP
What's wrong with it?
>>11355092>cross
>>11355092Do you only have two fingers per hand?
>>11355092What are you talking about, you don't hold circle to use the camera, its one button press to ready it
