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Your thoughts on Kojima?
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>>12760791
>holding the gun properly instead of doing the reddit finger
holy based kojimbo
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>>12761027
HERE'S YOUR REDDIT FINGER.
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THE SEETHE
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Fraud Hackman
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>>12760791
Doesn't always execute things the best but man I don't think anybody has a genuine love for making games more than Kojima. He just combines his autistic obsession with games with his autistic obsession with movies and makes something that isn't for everyone, but for the ones who do enjoy it, his game are really magical.

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>kill off the most notable character in your franchise
>causes irrevocable writing damage from here out

Why would Ed Boon do this?
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>>12756369
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>>12760609
....no don't
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>>12760523
>the blue faces Marvel guy
what the fuck are you talking about
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>>12761858
Kang is a Marvel comics villain with a blue face. He's another one of those ThanosDarkseidMongulApocalypse etc block headed guys who's a universal threat or something
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>>12760609
Hubba hubba

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(YOU) have 3 more weeks to download everything you want at gog-games before it goes 404. What games will you download? For now, this is my list:
>Settlers 2
>SimCity 2k 3k 4
>Diablo
>Majesty
>Stronghold
>Ys Chronicles
>Populous 3
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>>12754986
Based
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>>12755004
If companies force me to go digital only, im certainly not paying for it.
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>>12754258
how's torrminator, the site that is mentioning?
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>>12757151
Wait do crypto miners even exist anymore?
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>>12756946
Huh I didn't know about that one. Apparently I have it in my library too even though I'm sure i never bought it.

Why did Kingdom Hearts scatter across numerous consoles?

>Kingdom Hearts 1: PS2
>Chain of Memories: GBA
>Kingdom Hearts 2: PS2
>Birth By Sleep: PSP
>358/2 Days: NDS
>Re:Coded: NDS
>Dream Drop Distance: 3DS
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You already made this thread recently. Also more than half of those are non-retro.

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I've been working through Pool of Radiance, and also playing Iridis Alpha.

8-bit home computers are peak gaming. Just limited enough to force developers to be skilled at working with certain constraints.
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>>12761346
>raped IBM
>raped MSX
>raped Apple
>raped Netscape
>raped Sega
>raped Rareware
What the fuck was Bill's problem?
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>>12762010
Yet he inadvertently made the best gaming machine of the era. Based
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>>12762235
Speccy might be OK at best but the best, really? Let's not get carried away. Everybody knows the C64 was the best gaming machine of the era.
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>>12762226
>What the fuck was Bill's problem?
Ask Epstein or the WEF. But my guess is "being deeply evil".
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>>12761752
>spectrumcomputing
based i am checking this out

Can't make this work, it opens but when I click play it starts lagging
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Have you tried it with dgvoodoo?
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>>12758439
try NGlide and check their fanboy forums.... or GOG forums
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>>12758807
I will try this tomorrow
>>12758852
And then this
Thanks
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half the old games from the win95/98 era I want to play run fine with some tweaking but the mouse is unbearably laggy and unfixable
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>>12761163
you can increase mouse sensitivity in most games' config files somewhere. or change your OS' mouse settings.

for win95, if there's a DOS version, the DOS version is usually less buggy and should work in DOSBox(the one original ones, not "Staging" bloat). you can also increase mouse sensitivity in DOSBox.

4chan what is the best retro console out there that holds up today?
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>>12745630
If backwards compatibility counts:
Console: PS2
Handheld: GBA

If backwards compatibility doesn't count:
Console: PS1
Handheld: Game Boy
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>>12757679
Nah, it was the best generation IMO, 2d beats 3d, and the 4th gen was the peak of 2d, 8bit games were too clunky, the 6th gen was also the polished version of the fifth gen, no hate against the 3rd gen or 5th gen, it's a matter of hardware limitation
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>>12753346
>movie games
Retard. PS2 has more experimental gameplay-focused exclusives than whatever games have made you asshurt.
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>>12745753
>PC because it has to rely on consoles to have games worth mentioning
I see.
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Fuck it, I'm going with Amiga CD32.

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>play alpha 2, no cammy no karin no r.mika
>play alpha 3, deal with vism being an option

there is no street fighter game that doesn't have a downside
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I never understood why Guy is a ninjer, but they refused him weapons. I know he's "heroic ninjer" cliche but uh so are the fuckin ninja turtloids
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>>12757986
baseder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5VHf3jmiio>>12755128
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>>12756261
Because..I don't actually know.
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>>12757991
What got deleted
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>>12756261
He's just a guy

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Favorite Pokemon thread. Post favorites
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>>12758895
I prefer Bidoof. I always glanced over the first route rodents until I gave the muffin beaver a chance. Unaware is such a nice ability imo.
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>>12758895
The phonetics of "zogzagoon" and "zangoose" being extremely similar but totally unrelated always triggered my tism for years. As well as Linoone and Zangoose being semi counterparts in being based on coveragent evolutionary similar animals presented with long claws and grumpy faces but being totally unrelated. It took me a while to be able to accept things like that in Pokemon because even Gen1 mostly tried to keep everything fictionally gimmicky, but by Gen2 they do shit like give us Heracross who has nothing to do with Pinsire despite giving Scyther an evolution who looks less like Scyther than Heracross does Pinser, and there's also a Ladybug who oddly looks like he came from the same early design pool as Scizor
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Please rate my blind playthrough Leaf Green roster:
Venusaur
Nidoking
Ferrow
Pikachu
Butter free
Seadra
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>>12760586
You will win very easily/10. Tbh you would save time just using Venus Whore Ferrow and Needle King, and Seadra for surf and two hm slavs
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>>12743390
Up

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Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12575252
Sonic the Hedgehog in The Fourth Dimension (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12611906
Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12631525

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4chuzNMrIds
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Will our heroes get the answers they need?

Find out tomorrow!
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I miss the days when Sonic canon was a wild ewst where the writer hired could just do whatever they felt like.

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Why does this have such a serious cult around it? Is it just mental illness?
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>>12760473
>What Super Metroid does well is well known.
This is what makes the entire thread an obvious and dishonest grift copying a format of critique from other games. Even if someone personally doesn't care for SM, the game's unique merits are very clear and explainable, and there isn't any other game of this type that has your abilities all physically synergize and work with the overall structure of the game in the same way. There's no 'mystery' as to why it's loved, the fanbase is clearly able to point to why it's a classic with little ambiguity.

>>12759083
>>12760439
Check out SotN if you want, it's not a huge investment, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if you react to it how out basically expect to. It pretty much feels like a game designed like it was conceived by a 'that kid' who wanted to put whatever random cool idea he thought up into it, and did exactly that and shoved it in however without bothering to think that much about creating a cohesive game experience. SM in contrast is just so obviously the product of professional design requiring discipline that an armchair director wouldn't be capable of.
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>>12760473
Thank you. God.
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>>12761601
>It pretty much feels like a game designed like it was conceived by a 'that kid' who wanted to put whatever random cool idea he thought up into it, and did exactly that and shoved it in however without bothering to think that much about creating a cohesive game experience.
I think that's very much because SoTN followed on a canceled Castlevania title and in large part was built from its leftovers (and many of Rondo's leftovers). Also that they realized they could do even more with CD format than they could with Rondo, and they went kinda nuts and in experimental directions.

It's a good and fun game, but you can tell that it's messily put together. The second castle for instance feels like an idea that they came up with and started work on fairly late in development, hence why it wasn't workshopped and refined more to a better experience.
It's awesome that they threw something like that in at all, and that it was even kinda hidden, but moving around the upside down castle is often kind of annoying, it feels like some spaces really weren't made with it properly in mind (which I suppose works in its own way).

The GBA and DS Igavanias are (largely) much more tightened and refined takes on the SoTN formula, they dialed in the focus and showed better restraint.

>SM in contrast is just so obviously the product of professional design requiring discipline that an armchair director wouldn't be capable of.
True. That said, I have probably replayed SM about as much as I have SoTN.
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Perfect for autists
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>>12762231
How would you compare the GBA ones to Super Metroid?

>>12762850
Funny considering autism didn't exist until Gen z, yet that's where the haterbase is

Zoomers just want to ape millennial nostalgia but get salty about shit from before 97 or so because they weren't born and can't pretend they remember it like they do other shit that came out when they were 1-5

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Zoomers found out about Plok.
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>>12762803
wym? Games like Castlevania also have those.
What other typical british game have world map in between levels? I can think of more Japanese ones.
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>>12762810
it's more in the sense that it's a super nintendo platformer so is following in Mario World's footprints (which was already inspired a lot by mario 3), so when you see a world map you assume you can select a different level or go back
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>>12762787
>aura farming battles in florida
I just google searched this exactly and didn't see any Plok shirts
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>>12762787
WTF is this shit?
https://youtu.be/x9xFszULBnQ?si=U7_sM1iBCA6KXlQN
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>>12763110
Link to the Plok?

You know what I mean. Games that don't feel like. Like you would think by looking at them they're just some made-up joke, but no, somehow they're real.
Like this N64 collectathon based on Blues Brothers 2000.
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>>12743101
tie-in for a movie released in 1997 and the third last game released for the system and it's surprisingly a fucking banger
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>>12763024
Also Lost World on GameGear, which i think was last game for it.
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>>12750353
Honestly looks alright.
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>>12763005
I always found it funny how those three games were the only ones to do that and i dont think any consoles ever used that idea again of a cross gen disc.
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>>12756287
>>12763049
It is much worse then the footage makes it look. The controls are practically nonfunctional. Even the MSX version is at least playable, unlike this trainwreck. Don't believe me?: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Contra_1988

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It really sucks to realize like 20 hours into trying to 1cc a game that you don't like it enough to keep going. I'm starting to get really tired of this game's entire concept of difficulty being "the boss gets in your face and shoots unreactable bullets at you from 10 pixels away." It's also annoying to have to constantly collect powerups to be at max power when the top half of the screen is instant death and they never come down to you. Especially considering how slow almost every single ship moves.

What are you playing lately, anon?
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>>12762994
I really wish this game STARTED on the 2nd loop, its when it starts to feel like a proper psikyo first loop in their later games, all the initial random stages have really unique gimmicks that start to stand out, but even then most of stage 4 through 7 are just sitting around doing nothing just like the first loop, but with really short parts to instantly rob you of your run if you don't execute them perfectly. A lot of old games are just a ton of sitting around like that. But regardless, I find while its important to have a desire to clear things, you have to balance that with what you're realistically willing to do, otherwise desire turns into a curse. There's like a balance where you're pushing yourself but not too much to the point where its torture.
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>>12760371
>AI's fine, if I like and image I don't care if it's AI.
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>>12763051
Why even respond to it, what shmup are you even playing
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>>12758367
You are truly a patriotic cold blooded american male.
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>>12758367
You're not really playing the games if you have infinite credits. You are just touring the game's graphics and sound, not engaging with the actual gameplay.

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These 3 games are from 2002
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>>12758803
Kingdom Hearts is made exclusively for 13 year olds but that's a strength not a weakness, you can either put yourself in that mindset or you can't.
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>>12759937
Morrowind has more quality gamplay though
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>>12758817
>>12758892
It's clearly orange
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>>12758892
>>12762987
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>>12758761
>These 3 games are from 2002
with 8x upscale, anti-aliasing, possible texture mods, and modern hardware

fuck off


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