there's something so comfy about old unashamedly generic JRPGs
>>11508546wonderboy iii dragon trapplay it on pc engine. its a choppy game on master system
>>11508137The original protectors of the land were turned to stone.The priestess betrays you as part of a gambit to seal away the evil dragon/get you to kill him.
>>11512852Not an explanation.
>>11512708>to the point they made the license for Ys twice as expensive when Hudson wanted to port the first two games on the PC Engine CD.too bad hudson botched ys III, both the x68k and genesis versions are betterbut good thing hudson got to develop Ys IVno joke, one of the best 16-bit games ever
>>11507210>has more parallels to the legend of Ys than Falcom's Ys seriesVery comfy vibes, it has the type of map design that I love in a game. If I didn't have to repeat the box puzzles every time I run through then I'd have enjoyed it even more
>still the best Reptile look
>>11510475>hit peak with this design >every other one in subsequent games looks worse by leaning into the mummy interpretation of the character
>>11506767By far the best post all thread.
>>11510475bare arms > pajama
>>11505153I love how massive Kitana’s ass was in dis game.
>>11512286this is some generic shit, son
>almost 60 hours in>just got the old manso when does this game actually start getting good? am I in for another 50 hours of "save this random boring village that has nothing to do with anything, then go do it again for another puzzle piece"? why do japs think this is good game design? why do I keep giving this series a shot? is there ANY title in this series with an interesting story, good characterization and good pacing? so far Ive played half of VII, VIII, IX, XI, I, II, and III and none of them are even close to FFIV-X level. I and III were the only ones I modestly enjoyed, the rest were chores that I barely tolerated. why do I have nothing better to do? when will I finally "get it"? why are jrpgs my favorite genre but this supposed holy grail never clicks? I have so many questions.
>>11495596Honestly, VII is the worst in the series for me. It's excruciatingly long and it's too much of the same area for hours on end. I played the 3DS version and basically forced myself to finish it and it was never a fun experience. You hit the nail on the head about the flow of the game, it's exactly "go here do x, go back to x in the future then find puzzle piece" for 100 hours. Surprisingly this DQ game is probably the one in the series to try something new with the story as the church are the bad guys iirc, shocker I know but for DQ that was actually something interesting and I don't think it was done before.>so far Ive played half of VII, VIII, IX, XI, I, II, and III and none of them are even close to FFIV-X levelHow have you not played V if you're looking for Final Fantasy tier storylines? Besides, DQ is more about the feeling of adventure over anything else (and that's why it's kino) but V is probably the most story heavy one.Anyhow, VII sucks but it has the best girl in the series.
>>11508580Literally any time you hear about someone bitching about Koichi Sugiyama, it's a tranny. They used to make it painfully obvious by constantly kvetching about his """"war crime denial"""" but they were instructed to reign it in.
>>11513034maribel is a cunt. imagine choosing her over picrel, I could never.
>>11513034>the church are the bad guys iircCongratulations, you don't. There's a brief and blatantly obvious fakeout when you revive the Almighty, only for him to turn out to be Orgodemir in disguise, making good on the revenge he promised you in scenario right beforehand. The church never actually goes full evil, pretty much everyone is uncomfortable with it when it starts pivoting, and then you revive the real Almighty who challenges you to a friendly sparring match as a post-game reward. DQ7 is arguably the most pro-religion game in the series next to 9.
>>11513476Hell one of your party members is a kindly old crusader who fought alongside the Almighty and immediately sees things have gone wrong the moment the fake starts calling to eliminate the heretics.
Is it fair to day that even though Sonic has Japanese roots, basically everything people know and love Sonic for is a purely American creation that Japan had nothing to do with?
>>11512140More like Sonic says "It stinks!"
>>11512154Sonic is dog-whistling with the okay sign
>>11511510>And it took until Frontiers for them to go "Playing every character in a single stage like the Genesis games is actually fun." Just baffling how it took them decades to relearn basic foundational concepts.in this case it's less of sega or sonic team relearning basic foundational concepts and more of the old addage of "how can we miss you if you never go away?". by the time they went back to basics with the boost era of games most people were kinda sick of sonic's friends because of how they were shoved into everything and felt the franchise was better off without them. most of the apologists you see for sonic's friends during that time (and even now when people's views on said friends have softened) were people who either consumed non-game media like the comics & cartoons or grew up with those characters and didn't want to see them go away.
Sonic is a japanese game made by a japanese team for japanese company.How is this even remotely debatable?
>>11508472This image is strangely magical and depressing at the same time
I've had enough of you goofy ass niggas
How is it? It is a decent way to experience this game for the first time?
>>11507482>Aiming is painful.What are you even on about the aiming in the port is a auto-aim combined with a stat check.
>>11507702The original game has controller support, oddly enough it only installs the driver for it if you have a controller plugged in during installation. The default controller inputs need work though so definitely customize them
>>11511628Nobody is seething at the idea that a PS2 version of Deus Ex exists. This is a completely mis-direction of what people are actually discussing - that the PS2 version is obsolete and worse.
>>11507340You could, but why?It's not like you can't run the PC version at 60fps.
>>11512523The PS2 version plays a lot better than the very bad and dated PC original.
Latest sub:>Game Center CX #360 - Contra III The Alien Wars [LocationScouts]https://nyaa.si/view/1914151Game Center CX #346 - Magical Taruruto [LocationScouts]https://nyaa.si/view/1916907>Season 28: Episode 16 (#392) "Tokimeki" (Either a Tokimeki Memorial game or something else that makes your heart flutter) premieres on Thursday, January 23rd.https://otn.fujitv.co.jp/gamecenter/index.htmlhttps://pastebin.com/u/GCCXGeneral
The under-rated SNES games thread has some nice ideas for GCCX episodes. They have never done an X-Men game. In actuality, pretty much every major IP got a good SNES game it seems. Famicom and PlayStation tended to be more janky and questionable.
>>11513345Zenki
>>11513349Hagane
>>11513352
Marchen Maze subs when?
I've watched T2: Judgement Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines for the 1st time recently. I still like the 1st film better for being more horror themed, but I had a fun time with the sequels. I'd say the video games for the 1st film were mostly good, especially the SEGA/Virgin ones. I'm getting into the video games based on the sequels now and so far it's been worse, for T2 I've played the Master System/Game Gear version and the Game Boy version, both were fine, but nothing more than that... the NES one is just like the Master System/Game Gear, but it looks and sounds better, which is nice, but it's more of a pain to get by too... I'm torn on trying to beat it, moving onto the SNES/Genesis title, or going for Terminator 3 on GBA, which looks like a cool isometric shooter.Anyways, discuss video games based on this great franchise.
>>11487452It's buggy at the wrong clock speed. You need to mimic first gen Pentium CPUs to get a stable performance. There are other bugs that don't appear in older hardware. This game desperately needs to be remastered>>11487854>combat is assHow is it ass? Terminators properly take a shit ton of damage before going down, just like in the movies.
Unfortunately like many games based on popular movies back in the day they are just an ip sold to some random people to quickly push out anything with the name to cash in on its popularity, and rarely done well.It is the exception to the rule when a movie or other hit ip was turned into a game and it was not garbage. They are pure popularity cash grabs rushed through to be finished before popularity of the film died down.
>>11509531Fair, though for the Terminator IP specifically, I wouldn't say they're all cash grabs that turned out to be garbage, there are some garbage ones, some mediocre ones, a few good ones... it's a lot better than most IPs when it comes to licensed video games really.
>>11508484That's very clever, I'm glad they went with this route. I just wish we could've gotten this officilly back in the day, I can tolerate the Mindscape one... but man, that one's rough around the edges.
>>11504138>two chicks at the same time, man
Is it worth buying a Summercart64 if I have one of those cheap ED64plus clones still working? besides Animal Forest for obvious reasons the only games that I couldn't play on my flashcart were No Mercy and Puyo Puyo Sun.Also, are the ones being sold at aliexpress legit?
>>11513275DreamDrive64 doesn't look like it's been worked on in years, and the N64cart is just a fork of PicoCart (but at least he's got a ROM manager on there I suppose).
>>11510125My reset button was faulty so I couldn't handle having to hold reset in order to preserve saves. Also, my cheap Super 64 cart wouldn't save at all for some games. Only problem is the firmware for the Summercart64 doesn't have controller pak (memory card) management yet.
Any good places to buy one for 50 online?
>>11511670>but the AliExpress sellers don't technically follow the licenseThe fuck are you talking about? Shut the hell up, there's nothing wrong with the aliexpress carts, the components are coming from the same factory that digikey/mouser/jlcpcb are using you know nothing about the license or pcb fab.
>>11513386Ok, here's the guy who created the board saying the same thing.
what the fuck were they thinking
>>11508793As if the Game Cube controller wasn't shitty enough already, you're telling me it was going to be even worse?
>>11493521They were thinking "let's piss off gamers with a confusing 3 handed controller".
>>11512619
>>11493521>what the fuck were they thinking
>>11509224why'd you cram your controller full of shit, can't be good for it
How do I get good? Also Bloody Roar thread.
You play until you get better.
I randomly remembered this game today and started thinking about how much this game series seriously impacted my childhood and life and how nobody even knows it existed today. Do you guys have any similar games in your life?
> how nobody even knows it existed todayWouldn't be that categorical. Myth was quite a breakthrough back in its day, and I'm pretty sure, thanks to the fans the game is playable on modern OSs. Warhammer: Dark Omen, Myth and Total War (the first two) were the games that nearly quenched my childhood thirst for playing toy soldiers but in a much more complex way.
>>11511998I’ve played it quite a bit in recent years. I have a toaster laptop from 2014 that I mainly use to play retro games, and Myth II + mods is permanently on there.
>>11511998It's funny you posted this, because I was just listening to the Myth 2 soundtrack. I could never get past the first couple of levels as a kid, so I'd usually just watch my dad play.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IQY_js0DkM
>>11511998I had Soulblighter as a kid and only played a little of it. It was too different from Starcraft and AoE to appeal to me. I think I'd like it a lot if I played it now.
Casualties...
Is N64 back?This cart sounds way better than ED64 which is what the sperg boomers recommend around here
>>11512217By obtaining it from a source which doesn't have the rights to distribute it.
dumbass question because i dont know shit about these cartsif i buy this from one of the first party resellers, it comes empty and i would need to load all the roms myself right? are N64 roms easy to find or do you have to dig around a bit
>>11512654Every complete rom set from NES through N64 is available on archive.org
>>11513137All locales?
>>11513252I think so, but it's been a long time since I've looked. Just go there and search around.
What are some games that have a single-player version of their multiplayer mode, where there is a series of pre-defined matches with/against bots that you can ultimately "beat"? Unreal Tournament has this. Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect have a mode for this. Perfect Dark has a mode for this too, but it's kind of hidden in the menus and lacks bells and whistles.
battlefront 2 too
>>11508813Not sure if /vr/, but Mobile Forces 'campaign', if you can even call it that, consists of fighting with bots against bots.
>>11508906All Quake games with mods. Before Q3 there were fairly competent bots for Q1 and Q2 that used waypoint nodes to navigate maps, find items etc.
>>11509085>Deleted Scenes10/10 level design ruined by terrible AI that just stands in place.
>>11512309It always bugged me how this was the only example of a shooter/strategy hybrid. A similar format would have worked great for battlefield.
So... It's Q1 2025.I paid in full back in October last year.Did we all just get bamboozled by Analogue?
>>11512791I recommend cyanide
>>11512657>White-knighting Ateshitdo this hardPurchase an ad, chinaman
>>11511435Potentiometers have a greater precision than a perforated gear. You even see this if you pull raw input from a dualshock and n64 controller. The n64 analog has half the precision of the original dualshock.
>>11511428>paraLLEl stops workingLiterally never happened to mePlus if you hate RetroArch, you can always use Simple64 which also uses paraLLEl
>>11513086Yet original dualshock feels stiff as shit, while a fresh N64 stick is almost like a mouse.
