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Well /vr/, how do you stack up?
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f zero x /gx is probably the hardest
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>>12477271
I got 20 (1CCs) on your chart, but many more outside your chart.

1CC is ok but nomiss is the gold standard and high score chasing is for expert kings.
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>autofire is fine
if you're going to be an elitist prick, at least do it right. Go full asshole, don't half-asshole.
Also, these are all very popular games, where's the obscure shit? Have you looked these up in IGN?
2.32/10 needs more work
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>>12477271
Dmc1 isn't that hard
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>>12477360
2/3rds of these aren't too bad. Most you can just beat them in 2-3 days with practice.
It's just a weak bait lmao
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>>12477341
Indeed. It's a list of popular mostly easily beatable "hard" arcade style games of a very narrow kind. Even then Gradius 1 isn't nearly as hard as Gaiares for example but even then shmups of that kind and most of the arcade games are mostly memorization based. A 1cc run of any retro King of Fighters is harder than most. No roguelikes of course as well because they can't just be memorized, I.V.A.N. is famously difficult to the point of near impossibility for just one example. Pic related with the difficulty settings cranked blows that whole list out of the water.
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>>12477271
Castlevania x68k "mogs" NES Castlevania as the young'uns say
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>>12477408
out of all that list - it's all mechanical games. No puzzles.
Like you said - If you learn one type well, the others related are much easier to beat. No wildcards to throw off-balance.
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>>12477271
The Lion King, hard? Every six year old girl alive in the 90s beat that game.
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>>12477417
Literally all those games are puzzle games, every problem is a mechanical puzzle.
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>>12477462
Regardless if they're puzzles or not, it doesn't matter. There's very little variety here.
Once you beat one type, all others become easier and you can quickly steamroll through that list.

And finishing that list accomplishes nothing. These are all popular titles and barely scratches the surface of what is retrogaming.

Better luck next time in trying to get into a pointless semantics debate
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>>12477271
I haven't played most of these, but I've beat the ones that I have:
>Super Ghouls and Ghosts (fuck the backtracking)
>Mario Lost Levels
>Gunstar Heroes
>God of War 1 & 2 (shouldn't be on this list)
>R Type 1
>DMC and DMC3 (shouldn't be on this list)
>Donkey Kong Land
>Comix Zone

Anyway, I think if you beat Super Ghouls and Ghosts, you are not to be fucked with. Forget about the other games on this list.
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>>12477271
>MMZ
>Hard
You just know that some 4'9 self fellatioing MMZ spic made this list.
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>>12477271
>hard
>gunstar heroes
is this b8? i love the game but it's nowhere as hard as the Contra games.
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>>12477418
How old are you?

The "Can't Wait to be King" level alone filtered so many kids who rented the game from Blackbuster back in the day.
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>>12477341
Most arcade games are designed for autofire and many Japanese cabinets have autofire built in
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>>12477360
Maybe try reading? It's for DMD with S-ranks.

>>12477484
The fuck are you talking about retard? Most action games have very little carryover, even within the same genre and series, you still have to learn the different mechanics and systems, route the stages, and execute them properly.

What an absolutely asinine comment from a complete retard poser with zero clears of note.
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>>12477649
>>Super Ghouls and Ghosts (fuck the backtracking)
Not a 1CC
>>Mario Lost Levels
Not a 1CC
>>Gunstar Heroes
Not an Expert 1CC
>>God of War 1 & 2 (shouldn't be on this list)
Not on max difficulty
>>R Type 1
Not a 1CC
>>DMC and DMC3 (shouldn't be on this list)
Not S-ranks on DMD
>>Donkey Kong Land
Not a 1CC
>>Comix Zone
Not a 1CC

Try reading dumbfuck retard, you have 0.
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>>12477689
Mega Man Zero, specifically the boss rush and final boss are extremely difficult, especially if you don't grind the stupid Elf shit, far harder than any other Mega Man game. Mega Man Zero makes vast majority of NES games look like a cakewalk
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>>12477698
You fucking stupid and illiterate? A 1CC of Gunstar Heroes on Expert is significantly more difficult than even a no-miss of Contra (which is actually one of the easier games on the chart and has massively inflated difficulty)
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>>12477863
>b-but the cabinets had cheats built-in and a button to skip to the credits!
Not by any stretch of imagination did you beat the game.
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>>12477271
half the atari 2600 library is harder than everything on that list combined
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>>12477312
GX physics has an incredibly strong downforce, making it almost impossible to fly off the track. Try AX instead, which features the "uncensored" rated M physics.
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>>12477873
You've beat zero games on this last champ
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>>12477864
>Most action games have very little carryover, even within the same genre and series
What an interesting way to say you're a little slow...
>>12477863
Fine by me, i don't care. I'm just here to accelerate the inevitable elitists' self-implosion.
I don't want them to enjoy videogames. I want them to suffocate with ever-increasing demands and send them on the cusp of a mental breakdown...

Oh hey, sunset riders is a pretty comfy game
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I got a Sunset Riders and Metal Slug 1CC, was pretty easy not sure what the hype is about.
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>>12477703
Most games filtered little kids back then because little kids suck at video games.
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>>12477892
>call someone with clears slow for saying there is little carryover
>meanwhile you have zero clears yourself and are talking out your ass
Hmm... almost like if there was a bunch of carryover, getting a bunch of clears would be easy, right

This is why there is no rebuttal to "post clears" You faggots are ALL posers lying out your ass and putting on an obvious act.
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>>12477271
Comix Zone is easy as fuck though? Most people finish that in 20 minutes.
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>>12477895
Sunset Riders shitclear is a joke. 2all no-miss is really difficult.

Metal Slug 1 clear is difficult, harder than vast majority of arcade games.
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>>12477462
>being this disingenuous on purpose
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nobody cares about your retarded wunseesee shit if your routing and scoring are trash you faggots.
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>>12477952
Yeah, it's a badly made bait by someone who just lumped a bunch of shit together they heard was hard. It's also clearly been put together specifically for this board so it's one of our regular trolls.

>>12477876
>I'm just here to accelerate the inevitable elitists' self-implosion.
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>>12477970
>t. poser retard with zero impressive scores
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>>12477950
You're trying too hard. And trying to draw attention after a fumble like this won't rescue your "efforts" if you can call it that.
>>12477952
It's alright. The manual has a sweet comic snippet
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Post 1cc run with handcam otherwise you have no 1cc shitter
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>>12477271
Gunstar Heroes isn't a hard game, it's very forgiving to beginners. The difficulty is overall well balanced.

>>12477698
That's what I'm thinking.

Where are Sin and Punishment:Star Successor and Wipeout HD Fury?
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>>12478006
OP who made the chart hasn't touched the vast majority of the games on that list which is why it's so inconsistent. He doesn't doesn't even know enough about hard games to know which ones are hard.
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>>12477271
>donkey kong '94
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>>12478006
>Where are Sin and Punishment:Star Successor and Wipeout HD Fury?
Those aren't even retro you fucking retard

>>12478014
I've beat well over half of those to the criteria listed retard, try again poser. Many of those I don't actually think are hard (like Contra, Darius Gaiden, RayForce, DMC, Cadash, Silver Surfer), but most people consider them hard
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lmao I haven't finished any of them according to /vr/ autism
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>>12478050
Lol everyone sees through you

The false assumption you make is that people who actually do like hard games are elitists who only do it for cool points. Either way your list is hilariously trash.

Enjoy your fishing
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>>12478050
Wipeout HD is 18 years old.
Sin and Punishment Star Successor is 16 years.
God of War II is on the list, and that's 19 years old.

You can't even read your own list, you fucking retard.

You are a clown, anons at >>12478053 and >>12478014 see right through you.
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>>12478056
Wii and PS3 aren't considered retro here on /vr/ retard
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>>12478053
>The false assumption you make is that people who actually do like hard games are elitists who only do it for cool points
No one made or even insinuated that. Notice how only the shitters with no clears are upset by the list?
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>>12478052
>what'ya mean you haven't beaten aspirin protector on the highest difficulty, no continues and on a ball mouse with full acceleration??? Get out of there you filthy casual scum poser
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>>12477271
>JAK 2
>GOW 1 and 2
>Donkey kong GB
>Mega man
>DMC and DMC3
>Gunstar heroes
These aren't even remotely hard, wtf?
I've beat them all and they maybe have one difficulty spike each, but the rest of the game is smooth sailing and dont deserve to be on the same list as silver surfer or ghosts n goblins
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>>12478063
Read the fucking bottom of the chart moron.
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>>12478062
>not using literal cheats
>not playing on baby difficulties
>not just credit feeding the whole way through
Woah man... those are such crazy and obtuse requirements there!!!
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>>12477868
lol
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You didn't beat the game if you didn't use rewind 5 times to hear everything in reverse like our far-far-far ancestors used to do with turntables.
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>>12478063
Of those you listed here, only DMC3 (Non-Special Edition NTSC) and GOW1 are somewhat difficult.

In general, OP's list is hot trash. Inconsistant as hell, how the fuck can he have Gunstar Heroes and Harp Corps in the same fucking list.

And he calls himself a >real gamer.
Fucking omegalul.
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>>12478068
>>not using literal cheats
? the shart clearly allows autofire
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>>12478075
Yet again showing how absolutely fucking retarded you are.

The DMC3 versions have NO BEARING on this list as this is for max difficulty, DMD, which is identical between all versions

>how the fuck can he have Gunstar Heroes and Harp Corps in the same fucking list
Expound please, this should be good. You can always tell someone is a shitter when they pick the complete wrong games as not belonging there
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>>12477271
>nothing but console trash
Step aside motherfucker, and let a real hard game come through
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That got boring really fast
Hope you enjoyed your minnows.
kthxbye
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>post pointing out that it was a Twitter jeet repost got deleted
/vr/ is doomed
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>12478061
>I'm just here to accelerate the inevitable elitists' self-implosion.
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>>12478145
Link where this was posted on Twitter
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>>12478145
>>12478239
What's Twitter? I couldn't find any social media with that name.
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>>12478132
Arcades = console now?
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>>12478239
Reverse image search and the very first result is the third world jeet that raids 4chan and then reposts screencaps of it. This is literally how he makes his daily wage.
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>>12478313
Nigga, all that guy's post are screenshots from 4chan, he has zero original posts. He did not fucking make this list or image.
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>>12477271
>no bayou billy
shit list desu
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>>12478328
Dude the original post is from his Twitter, which is why the text is poorly formatted jeet speak, and why he's made this thread 3 times so far on /v/ saying "937485859 people voted on this poll!" It's all just grim jeet behavior.
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>>12478337
Holy fuck you are retarded.

HE SAVED THE IMAGE FROM A 4CHAN THREAD MORON
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>>12478345
The image is over 2 years old dude and doesn't show up in the archive outside of this period, and is just a random grab bag of games like it was generated by a chatbot. Every single one of these threads feels like the internet equivalent of telemarketing, I am sick of this stupid shit.
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>>12478362
Absolute fucking retard, there was a /v/ thread with that exact image posted over two weeks before it was reposted on Twitter
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>>12478313
Yup. He's literally only here to datamine fir shekels. This is the most obvious bait ever made. He doesn't even know hard games from easy ones, just what grok told him.
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>>12478145
are the mods here with us?
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What the fuck is Jak II doing on this list? I like the game, I'm just wondering why people think it's one of the hardest of all time. Doesn't seem right.
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>>12478407
It's literally made by someone going off google what it thinks the hardest games that fit the /vr/ board rules would be, so like all AI generated 'information' it's laughably seen as a bunch of slop to anyone who knows anything on the subject. That he posted it here unironically and has tried defending it and acting haughty is the funniest part.
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>Ninja Gaiden Black
Well never had the Black version but I beat the standard version up to hard
>Ikaruga
Managed a 3CC as my best run
>Contra Hard Corps
Managed 1CC every ending
>Alien Soldier
Managed 1CC on Superhard
>God Of War
Was this considered super hard? I beat it as well
>F-Zero GX
Beat all cups on Master, story mode on normal
>Final Fight
I beat the GBA version which is baby mode compared to arcade but oh well
>Devil May Cry
Beat normal and hard, never bothered with Dante Must Die shenanigans
>Comix Zone
I got the bad ending once and never bothered again

Guess I'm a poseur
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>>12477867
You cheated by using autofire, though.
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mariax still shitposting i see
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>>12477870
>1CC of Gunstar Heroes on Exper
was there an arcade version of Gunstar Heroes or is this AI bot posting again?
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>>12478379
so it's a /v/ meme. go back.
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>>12478491
>(1cc for games with continues like Contra)
Read you fucking retard, READ
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>>12477271
Probably the only one I've cleared under those conditions is DoDonPachi. Console games don't have "insert coin" and usually have limited continues so I never even thought about 1CCing any. If I did it would have been because the game didn't have continues.
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>>12477271
>no one mentioning why Call of Duty is in there
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>>12478650
Is the original cowadoody easy or hard? I doubt many people here bothered with it.
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xbox ninja gaiden difficulty is really overstated. yeah its the type of game that is never going to let you win eventually thru rng if you just keep doing the most retarded shit possible but you can also pause any time and uses potions for free. anyone with basic pattern recognition regarding movesets can beat this game. the same cannot be said about the nes games. even though they are such simple games they are much, much harder.
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>>12478687
It's pretty hard if you do not save scum
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The only ones I've beaten are DMC, God of War, and God of War II, all on normal difficulty. Am I a real gamer, /vr/os?
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>>12477271
If I'm being honest I find the "I've 1cc'd every difficult arcade game known to mankind get on my level" posters to be highly suspect. To me it just sounds like the "I have three black belts / top of my class in the navy Seals" meme but applied to retro vidya.

Not saying it's not possible for any individual game but I doubt it's that common or widespread. It's like if half the posters on /fit all said they had IFBB pro cards of a bunch of people in the NFL general all claimed to have been drafted. I've played most of these games and beaten (i.e. finished without cheat codes or save states) a lot of these games and most are cheesy as fuck *with* continues. If you can honestly 1CC Gunsmoke then God help you because you're approaching levels of autism that shouldn't be possible. I'm pretty sure the guy who made OP's image is full of shit and I'm not attempting to live up to some impossible standard imposed by some random dude who offers no proof of his alleged accomplishments. I will try to die as few times as possible but I will also hit "continue" and not feel bad about it.

And as for God of War, I've beaten both on the hardest difficulty level and it's not that bad but my main grievance is they didn't really balance the game around the absurd damage scaling on max difficulty so for the most part it's a matter of avoiding damage and maxing DPS in certain situations but you get these occasional bottlenecks where there's some over the top component that just fucks you. Theseus can OHK you with his stupid icicle spam and make you replay the incredibly boring first part of the fight over and over again, the translator escort mission is a nightmare because he dies so fucking fast and the Ares fight at the end of 1 can produce what feel like almost random deaths. Nothing impossible but the frustrating parts are very frustrating.
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>>12478804
God of War is just some jank western slop, classic case of just increasing numbers with zero consideration of how it would impact the game.
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>>12478804
Do you think this guy smugly typed all this out like he was dumping valuable information on the third worlder who made the thread
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>>12478762
Maybe it's from years of music training, but a lot of old hard games like Ghosts n Goblins and especially auto scrollers like Gradius feel a lot more like learning a conplex piano piece than playing a game.
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>>12478804
You SHOULD be suspicious of them as almost all of them are posers. Mariax is the real deal though, he got over 50 difficult no-miss clears, and he has the replays, handcams, and expertise to back it up. In a sea of fake experts, he is a real in-the-flesh western superplayer.
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>>12478804
Not like their runs will ever be considered legit without actual proof. Streaming with a $20 handcam is so easy and widespread nowadays.
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Mariax here, I just 2-ALL no miss no bombed Dodonpachi but can't kill Sans in Undertale, any tips?
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>>12478884
Dude I have no idea who the fuck these people are, they sure have shit haven't made any replays I found useful. Where do these retarded dicksuckers come from?
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>>12478804
>I find these posters to be highly suspect
Well, because they are filthy liars.
It's easy engagement because a lot of people are insecure about where they stand as a "gamer". And whether they qualify for being a "true" one.

My answer to that is: does it even matter?
These are all deliberations that are utterly unnecessary and accomplish nothing. Being judged as non-gamer or true gamer does nothing.
Just wastes people time and generates a lot of bad feelings all-round.

>OHK
Higher difficulties can make the game interesting (it usually does), but if it goes too much the other way, it forces the player to strain the game's mechanics and adopt a very narrow and exploity (maybe borderline cheating) strategy.
Or worse, just keep perpetually pulling a lever until good RNG. Fun tines.

It's funny creative/roleplaying gamers are never in question, because often they play easygoing games / lower difficulty in exchange for greater narrative immersion.
Because you know... they're not worried in picking very specific things to fit in the meta.
They want narrative coherency or freedom to dismantle, test and reassemble pieces.

Unless you're proficient in that game, It's very hard to do these things or relax when you're constantly fighting against narrow and precise demands.
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>>12479028
Sans is pretty hard, I recommend NMNB Zatsuza for a smoother transition.
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>>12478432
This guy seems normal and based
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Super C? Cadash? Donkey Kong Land? Did you just put random shit up there? None of those are difficult. You also got the 'totally hard retro maymay' games Silver Surfer and Holy Diver. The ignorant people's hard games yet of course the hardest game of all is missing from the list, NES Ikari Warriors.
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>>12479062
Post your 1CCs of all those games
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>>12479074
NTA but
You're the worst poster here.
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>>12479074
I've beaten about half. The other half are not either not retro like God of War I just don't give a shit about, or are some variation of Raiden shooter that I just haven't played yet. But God of War and uh... Call of Duty I promise you aren't 'the hardest games ever'. I can just tell the list is ignorant from the sole fact it doesn't have Ikari Warriors on it. That it's outsourced from meme content creators that think Silver Surfer is the hardest 8 bit game ever made because they heard it from someone else.
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>>12479096
>I've beaten about half.
Yeaaaaaahhh... sure you have champ lmao
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>>12479101
Again NTA
But you're the worst.
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>>12479110
This guy gets it.
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>>12479035
>My answer to that is: does it even matter?

It seems to matter a lot to them which is the part I find sad. It's the same as achievement culture where the people are playing the games because they want to brag and hope it makes them feel superior..
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>>12479174
It's inevitable in the arcade scene when there's leaderboards everywhere and your scores are constantly being compared against.
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>>12479174
Achievements is a bad idea from start, even the name is already ideologically loaded.
Naturally it'll lead to very fierce and unnecessary competition and alienation for those who can't reach the bar.
Among other things. Including widespread cheating or severely cutting corners to reach the goal of being at the top.
>>12479184
Thank god i've never been there, arcades were mostly hotswapping ps2/ps3 games in my school days.

I dunno, i like cozy stuff and experimentation. If that disqualifies me from being a gamer, sure, whatever.
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>>12477703
Just don't let the ostrich hit a nest when you double jump and aim for the end of the rhino's tail instead of the center of his ass. Congratulations, you just beat the game. The volcano is the only other level even remotely challenging and even it isn't very hard. The rest of the game is pants pissingly easy.
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~20. Mostly shmup 1CCs and the easy bait games that are on the list (like DMC, Maximo, Contra),
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>>12479270
Yes it's a very narrow slice of specific kinds of hard games, ignoring all others with the supposition that if you're not autistic enough to want to 1CC a bunch of shmups and belt scrollers for attention you're a gaming poser. I feel bad for his parents.
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>>12479035
It's not just that it doesn't matter, it's contrary to the way that most of these games were designed to be played.

Coin-op games and the games inspired by them are built around credit feeding. They *want* you to die, they intend for you to die, and they intend for you to continue They make the game manageable via continues. Getting gud and not having to shell out continual amounts in quarters is a way of ecomomizing and getting more playtime for your dollar but this idea that even 1 continue is a failure is weird, self-imposed criteria.

I can only speak for myself and my friends but we were the quintessential 80's arcade kids and our goal was simply to see the end of the game however we could. You had to be good at the game because you didn't have infinite money to throw at it but if you spent a few bucks to reach the final boss that was not only fine, that was the point. If the game was good enough and balanced enough the players threw more money at it to play more of it and the owners made money, and the people who made the cabinets made money because the owners bought the cabinets. All as intended. 1CC is a idealized goal but not pragmatic or realistic in most cases
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>>12479356
I've been avoiding talking about material reasons because invariably this is going to derail really fast, but i'll try my best.

Yes, arcades were a business and had an upfront costs.
To raise engagement they introduced systems to pit players against each other and made them as difficult as they could be, so the demand for coins remained constant or increased.

If you do these sort of things, everything takes a backseat and it all becomes about holding the golden chalice or be crowned king of the arcade and carve your initials in those machines.

The catch is - this has a cost, not just financially, but also emotional.
Pitting people against each other to see whoever gets the highest grade isn't a nice way to be cordial.
Competitions are zero-sum games and even if the winner is humble enough to praise the loser's efforts, the loser is still a loser. And will be seen as a loser.

Also, anyone who went to school will quickly agree that revealing everyone's grade and stamping it on public grounds isn't a good idea.

I'm being very Laschian here and purposely avoiding any fashionable ideologically charged words.
Of course, i don't expect the point-grade crowd to understand this, but these aren't the people i want to talk to. They can go their merry ways with their own internal logic.

Pic unrel.
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>>12479506
Did you make this shit thread just because you were constipated with this awful low IQ text wall
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>>12479526
Nope, i'm not here to convince anyone or win arguments, just externalize my thoughts and read different opinions.
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>>12479554
You have some pretty disgusting thoughts and the statement that you believe competition is zero sum leads me to believe you're a fairly disgusting human being. You should be ashamed of typing that out. Please don't ever post on this board ever again.
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>>12479559
I'm sure highly competitive spaces are known for their welcoming and affectionate community.
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>>12479580
Why would that matter? Thesis clashing with antithesis creates synthesis. This is ultimately beneficial for both the winner and loser. What's one measly quarter when you get to push the limits of what you can do each time and grow? You have classic rpg tard syndrome, you feel entitled to be the main character. You've never played an actual game and don't understand how games work. It's just ugly man. Really ugly. Nothing good is gunna come from you being here. You need to take a break and go play some actual games.
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>>12479580
Some are. The ones whose main goal is the push the limits of the game usually have the most welcoming and talented players. The overly competitive ones too focused on getting a WR and looking to undermine other players get laughed at.

>>12479585
I don't think arcadeniggers and their 3 active players can afford to be a pretentious faggot in 2026 of all times.
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>>12479559
you sound like someone who savestates through shmups
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>>12479595
Like i said, humility often happens in these spaces and not all is black and white.
...But that's a very comfortable position to be in when you're holding the golden cup.

Most competitions are not truly zero-sum, true. What i am trying to highlight is: there's a clear set of incentives that without a good social fabric cushioning it, will spiral out of control and produce these kinds of anti-social behaviors.

Obviously it's not cartoonish, it happens from time-to-time, bursts here and there. But these have a compounding effect and can lead to some nasty social arrangements.

Again, obviously competition isn't bad per se, we all should be somewhat competitive and strive to be our best version of ourselves (or at least try to).
I am just highlighting the origins (probably doing a poor job here, sorry) of not-so-wholesome behaviors you might encounter in these spaces.

...And obviously there's a social penalty for being a raging narcissistic smug bastard... But people can get away with slamming their egos on the table from time-to-time.

>>12479585
>You need to take a break and go play some actual games.
That we can agree on, i warned myself this whole exposition would've derail and it did. Sorry about that.
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>>12479665
>But that's a very comfortable position to be in when you're holding the golden cup.
You've never "held the golden cup" in anything, you have no idea what that feels like. You never stop feeling like you're shit and that's a good thing.
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>>12479667
I'm actually being quite nice and you're spewing your own internal vitriol towards me. Which says a lot more about you lmao.
I'm quite happy, thanks. Best of luck anon.
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>>12477271
Only a shitter poser would think shit like Super C, Ghouls n Ghosts or Silver Surfer are comparable to Daioujou
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>>12479674
>I'm actually being quite nice
No you're being kind, not nice. Being a fake retard like some wine sipping californian socialist isn't nice or beneficial to anyone.
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>>12477271
>beat for console means non-default difficulty and self-imposed rules
I guess only 9 then
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>>12479680
Maybe 10 actually, pretty sure I've beat Mega Man 1 without continues
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>>12479684
nope you cleared 9. using special weapons is cheating
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>>12479693
Fuck me then, I'm a poser.
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>N-no one could possibly beat a 30 minute long arcade game without cheating!
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>>12479676
>wine sipping californian socialist
This is what happens when you run out of thoughts
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>beat this game if you want to be a real gamer!
>theres no way you beat this game thats suspicious
>prove you beat this game if you want to be a real gamer!
>videos can easily be faked you can never prove you are a real gamer!
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>>12480698
Games are an entertainment medium. Caring either way about any of that automatically makes you a loser.
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>>12480683
Considering most of these games will kill you within seconds if you're less than perfect, yeah.

30 minutes is a long time to survive in a scenario where you are constantly being bombarded with projectiles that will kill you in one hit, or are forced to make constant pixel-perfect jumps over instant death pits, or are lured into ambushes where you're attacked from multiple directions simultaneously by enemies with janky hitboxes and cheap tactics.

These games are designed to kill you at regular intervals, anon. It can be avoided at times but avoiding it start to finish for the entire game is unusual
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>>12480698
Anon, the people saying you have to 1cc everything to have real gamer cred and the people saying no one actually does that are 2 different groups taking oppositional stances. It might be autism, but it's not hypocrisy
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>>12480683
>good job memorizing all those patterns HOWEVER
>adjusts dip switches
>everythig fucked!
>everything is faster!
>back to 90 seconds of gameplay per quarter!
>nothing personal kid!

Autism is a superpower in the 1cc/speedrun community, but the old man who turns $5 bills into 20 quarters will fuck you over
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This thread is just embarrassing to read
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>>12480780
If it's any consolation, your embarrassment reading it is nothing like the embarrassment of OP for having made it.
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>>12480780
Some anons actually tried to have a serious discussion, but he just kept shitting on it like the retard he is.
This was a very obvious shitty bait thread and we all fell for it. Fuck.
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>>12477271
Only beat Contra and Super C.
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>>12481138
>Some anons actually tried to have a serious discussion
Those anons should be culled from the board for thinking the retarded posts they made in this thread is "serious discussion" and bumping a retarded troll thread like this



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