Games you love for some reason that others dont
>>12681235That's fable (of a dying mind)Chicken chaser was chasing his memories all along, but he couldn't win in the end and succumbed to the jack of blades slashing his life thread away
>>12680570I love Fable, it succeeded Ocarina of Time personally. I replay it every few years.
>>12680570lots of people love fable 1. heres a real example of something only i appreciate. despite its flaws and emptiness it was a unique rpg at the time. ps1 couldn't handle big seamless 3d spaces like the n64 could, and this game took advantage of that. but no one else really tried that with this genre until gen 6 and games like kingdom hearts/dqviii came around. plus it has a fun battle system and progression system. for an imaginative 8 year old who loved rpgs, it was a great game.
>>12680570>>12681141>>12681202Nobody dislikes these games
>>12681623back in the day, people shat on fable because they didn't get to watch grass grow, or have a family, or plant trees, or whatever the fuck else molyneux promised
Physical media used to be fine but it doesn't make any sense in 2026>every single oop media triple or quadrupled in price within covid>the demand is hilariously high no matter what niche and shit sell out asap>limited gamer/black record/youtooz are all doing their bs "limited preorder only" on shitty ass product if you want a physical version>ps5 games will soon cost 200$ used in 2028Its funny because technically, people should have less money than ever (atleast 20-30% less) yet curiously everything became expansive and selling fast af. Are people just in debt or its just rich people buying everything? Shit doesn't make any sense
>>12680483>"Physical media doesn't make sense!!!">All "digital" games are stored on physical mediumsWhat did OP mean by this?
Physical media needed to die long ago. I’m sorry but it’s not the SNES era anymore where a cart could have a chip that made it run faster. Once CDs took hold, it’s just software, the physical media does nothing for me.
>>12682676Thanks for the input, Mr. Goldstein.
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If you actually explore console catalogs rather than continually gravitate to the same basic bitch shit then you'll find reasonable prices.
I don't understand the rules for her block and it just seems random whether you can hit her. Sometimes when you start the fight you can immediately use the Flying Swallow to ground her, but other times you bounce right off her and she uses this opportunity to grab you. I can't say I've found the angle or timing makes any difference and it effectively seems like RNG. And every time I get her to 10% HP her AI seemingly decides to never be vulnerable ever again. What are you meant to do?
Yeah fuck it. I abused Ninpo to ground her when her HP was low. Retarded boss blighting an otherwise perfect game
>>12680026Its my favorite action game of all time but no way I can say it is perfect. The game does seem to have an issue with the flying swallow being able to properly hit at times when a boss dodges which really should not exist. Its not just Alma 2 but even the first Alma fight has this issue. And yes her fights do have some RNG at play. With that said though I still like both fights overall as well as the game itself. Its a masterpiece. Best in the genre to this day.
>>12682462I didn't like the first Alma fight either because the closest save point was too far away. It made retrying so much of a hassle that instead of practising, I just abused my consumables to tank her hits.Same thing with the final boss: I can tell it's a really awesome boss, but the game made it a complete pain to practise because retrying involves doing that lengthy platforming escape sequence each time. So I reloaded an earlier save to buy a bunch of healing items (right before the Emperor fight), which I then used to tank Murai's hits. I would've loved to master that boss but I'm not doing all that busywork before I can practise the fight again.
>>12680026>I abused NinpoYDBTG
>>12679991yep id love to know how this fight was programmed because it definitely felt like a dice roll with that move. its been a long time since i played it but no other fight sticks out as having seemingly changing rules throughout the fight for certain moves.
For me its City of Heroes. Homecoming's patch 28.3 last year made this game extremely compelling again.
>>12682374we had a huge batch of patriotic characters show up for july 4th recently. I play on the roleplaying server - i do not enjoy the RP as much since the population has dipped but gameplay getting alot of changes and new content ( an actual raid wtf?) has got me playing more than I used to. One of my favorite memories is someone making a stripmall ninja karate instructor either with his guild or multiboxing. there were like 20 of him as ninja masterminds and he had all his pets doing karate emotes lol. One man raid
why did the santa claws guy delete his post wtf
>capeshit but unlicensedyikes
>>12682662This a retro board, zoomzoom.
>>12682664also goro is there for some reason
What are your hot takes on retro games? Mine is that Doom II SUCKS on a first playthrough.
>>12679653especially second and third episodes where advanced enemy spawns and late weapons have already been taught to the player and you have everything by level 2.
>>12669994That's not even a hot take within the Doom community. Practically only the people that played it back then and the contrarians think Doom 2's levels are any good. Fuck it I'd say you're not even missing out much if you just don't beat Doom 2's campaign and go straight to wads, now that's a real 'hot take'. Although that's what most people do already.
>>12674842>The game would be much easier as a resultWell here's the thing, it doesn't have to be because if it were to give you more rockets + cells then they'd have to add more enemies or be more antagonistic in the level design to compensate for it. Plutonia does this and it's well-regarded for it. But it's true that the SSG was made to counteract the new tankier enemies, that's fucking obvious. It's your main weapon for a reason.
>>12670092>Nights into Dreams is a good game that is unfairly hated.No, it's a crap game that is unfairly loved.
>>12682149>But it's true that the SSG was made to counteract the new tankier enemies, that's fucking obvious.The super shotgun does to the weapon roster what the new D2 enemies do for the monster roster: There’s a fatass powergap between the shotgun and plasma gun, the chaingun and rocket launcher. It’s also not like the new enemies are “weaker” specifically to the super shotgun, they’re still dying more quickly to cells and rockets.
Fucking chills man, the theme accompanying the text when you beat the game is so awesome, makes you feel like you truly won.
>>12681747That looks like Minnesota, not Japan.
>>12682405Kek
>>12682536it's called SOVL
>>12681662I cried a little and got goose pimply all over. Went to tell mom and she said>if you're truly a LIGHT WARRIOR..... THEN GET A FUCKING JOBI don't get why she can't celebrate my accomplishments. I think she might be a narcissist.
>>12682616Sounds like some DARK WARRIOR shit to me
The best metroidvania of the 6th gen.
>>12681282FPBPI really don't understand how they managed to get greenlit for sequels in the first place when the first two games were such utter shite. DMC1 in particular is probably the worst game I've ever played on the PS2 not counting shovelware.
You can only be a hardcore game if you liked DMC 1&2God gave me this message in 640x480
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>Be me>Completely new to retro games (Oldest thing I've played is probably Witcher 3 or RDR1)>Buy CRT cause its cool + want to play retro games on it (Commodore 1084 if anyone cares, same as in image)>"Oh man can't wait to see what cool shit I missed out on">Realise I have no clue what I should actually play due to being newbie>Any recommendations?
If you actually want to go for a curated, enhanced experience, start with golden era arcade gaming. Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are a must. Don't just play for 10 minutes, try to get decent scores. Play for several days and learn the games and get proficient. Feel the raw ludonics, the DNA of video games.If you want more golden era arcade stuff you can delve into Colecovision, good console with lots of great arcade ports and some exclusives as well.After you went through the golden age arcade stuff it's time for you to get into the actual golden era of gaming and go nuts with Famicom/NES. Don't just play the top 10 games like Zelda, Mario 3 or Castlevania right off the bat (heh), try to delve into early Famicom first. I recommend trying any early 90s famiclone multicart, they include many classics, many of which weren't released officially outside of Japan.I think you will be busy with Famicom for a while. And after that you have Genesis and SNES.
>>12681883Bruce Lee, short & sweet and holds up well.
>>12681924Her sneer always cracks me up.
>>12682040based casual enjoyer. it's weird how simply enjoying the games makes people so mad
>>12681883that's my favorite CRT. it takes analog RGB, you just need to make a custom cable. Same signal as SCART it just needs the weird DIN connector.
>Play scarface for 3 hours>PS2 is burning hot>It gives up and starts failing to load textures>Need to shut it down and wait for the console to cool down
>>12681408Piece-o-chit
>>12681384Has been for years
>>12681374>not my problemtheres like 2 open world games that dont run like complete dogshit on the ps2.
>>12681374Scarface has the best feeling chainsaw out of any game, retro or not.
>>12681374https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVKTR7ZaLIg
What a strange place to encounter Tony Jay
Know this, Nameless OneNOTHINGcan change the Nature of a Man
It’s literally impossible to install the GTA III Upstate Liberty mod and I can prove it.
Reminder if you didn't beat the original PS2 version you didn't beat the game. The missions were designed with the lock on aiming system and controls in mind. Free-aim completely trivializes the game and makes it piss easy.
You’re both horrible pieces of shit.
>>12681360WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
>>12681360OK, prove it then.
>>12682290Should the burden of proof really lay with him
Mortal Kombat but the developers understand how fighting games work
The Killer instinct videogames peaked in Killer instict 2 and Killer instinct gold.The third one was trash.
>>12679171Stop going to bed then
>>12682227the 3rd is easily the best. It's not even close. It's running circles around the others in gameplay, roster, and content. There's hardly even any way to argue otherwise unless you just dislike anything modern
>>12680401Good. Tell your multiple personalities to stay that way.
>>12682298Actually is the worst.
Gran Turismo (1) runs faster, looks better, and plays better than 2.It also has a better soundtrack. We all convinced ourselves back in the day that 2 was better, but it wasn't at all
Factually, I know these games are Japanese, but for some reason they have always felt like PAL-kino to me. Like something from Psygnosis.
Can you drive the ultimate german shitbox in this game?Yeah... gone real quiet now huh?
>>12682145>We all convinced ourselves back in the day that 2 was betterNot me. Anyway I like this webm of 2.
>>12682205>PAL kinooxymoron
When GT2 came out, my father went to do the weekly groceries shopping for once in his lifetime instead of my mother. Shop had a video game section. I had convinced him to buy the game but my sister was apparently appointed safeguard of the shopping but I still managed to get GT1 instead, which had a re-release 3 times cheaper than 2.I remember at school someone trying to mock me for getting 1 just when 2 comes out but another boy stepped in and said, so what, it's a great game, and the first guy shut up.Couple years later I finally got GT2 as well and I realized I had gotten the better deal all along so I still ended up playing it close to 100% completion. The PAL version of GT2 compared to the PAL version of GT1 is particularly bad, I think the 50hz conversion is worse but I'm no expert on this game's matter.Thanks for reading my blog
Publisher FAKKU Games has acquired the rights to the entire back catalog of F&C and has announced they will be rereleasing various Fairytale and Cocktail Soft games with official English translations. The announcement included the first ten games they will be rereleasing:>Shinjuku Monogatari>Ballade For Maria>Jinmon Yuugi>Count Dracula>Necronomicon>Marine Philt>Dead of The Brain>Dead of The Brain 2>Pia Carrot>Dengeki NurseThey are partnering with fan translation group WINE to use their existing translations for Dead of The Brain 1 and 2 and Dengeki Nurse.
>>12681287I would be down to buy that. I'm all for supporting modern physical pc releases as long as they are not on CDR and have no online drm bs. What site has it?
>>12681661BEEP Online Shop. BEEP is a retro gaming store in Japan. They do reprints of old games occasionally. In addition to this new Windows port, they also did a reprint of the Sharp X68000 version, though that doesn't have English language support.No one bothered to implement proper line breaking so it looks super ghetto, but apparently they did outsource a legit human translation. It's not MTL. They gave the same treatment to the game Cyberblock Metal Orange EX, so you can buy a CD of that and play it in English too.I have no idea if there's DRM. Probably not?
>>12681661Also I'll point out that PC games getting a physical CD or DVD release is not that uncommon in Japan. AAA publishers aren't doing it obviously, but you see it a lot for doujin software and games from mid-sized publishers.
might be cool how are the translations from this group?
>>12682461I highly doubt anyone here has played any of these games in both Japanese and English, so you're unlikely to get a proper answer to that question. That being said, as an EOP, I can at the very least attest to not having seen any obvious English writing issues (grammatical mistakes, awkward phrasing, etc.) in what I've played from them. (I've finished Dead of the Brain and am at what I'm guessing is around the halfway point of Dengeki Nurse.)
Take me back
>>12682131People hated Halo 2 because:>No AR>No 3sk pistol>Cut levels (Covenant Ship, Forerunner Tank, Earth Ark)>Downgrades across the board to get the game to run on OG Xbox>Dual wielding>Arbiter being playable >Cliffhanger ending>Bungie cut the 3rd acthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lL6RYrYc4U>NOOBIFIEDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyYwLCDyCUComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>126821313 is technically retro since it released before December 2007 and there's a bootleg Windows XP port.Anyway:>3 has some of the worst weapon balancing in the series (only 2's and 4's are worse)>the Brutes aren't nearly as fun to fight as the Elites, the latter of whom aren't even in the Covenant anymore by this point>the Flood are now made of paper>you fight Scarabs too many times>there's no really good vehicle sections outside of Tsavo Highway>most of the levels are complete filler storywise because Bungie had to stretch Halo 2's cut finale into a full-length game>soundtrack has very few original pieces as most of it is retakes of 1 and 2's musicIt's still a good game and I doubt the consensus will ever be that people hate Halo 3.
>>12682140>Floodgate and Cortana are some of the worst levels in the franchisewdym, Floodgate is one of Halo 3's only truly kino levels despite how weak the Flood are in 3
Halo 2 was too ambitious. It was like two generations too early for the tech it was trying to push. Even if they did manage to ship stencil shadows, the resolution/performance would have been too low. pic-related is only simulated/approximated btw, it's not even the real deal that could have been with pixel perfect shadows and dynamic lights.Xbox had a high end PC-level GPU coupled with a low-tier Pentium III 733 CPU with a crippled cache. The system has Direct X 8.1, shader model 1.1, vertex shader 1.1 and two Vertex Shader units, while the Geforce 3's only had one. The Xbox GPU was quite powerful. Halo 2's Legendary E3 Level Will Finally Be Playable After 21 Yearshttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360515088Halo 2 Developer Commentary Remasteredhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAW2F6oPYMc
>>12678063Opposite, I found 2 disappointing and 3 a return to form.
