/vr/ - Retro Games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WoDnu8SBsQ

Literally just started it and already hate the controls.

I was thinking of getting that Sega Ages version on the Switch, since it has an automap. I don't have the time to be making my own maps.
Speaking of Sega i've been playing Space Harrier trying to 1cc it off and on. I seem to get my deaths back-to-back after I fuck up just once.

>>8745938
>I was thinking of getting that Sega Ages version on the Switch, since it has an automap.

I played it this way for first time and really enjoyed it. It also has a mode that reduces grinding.

>>8745938
I’m playing the SMS version, I’m just using Gamefaqs maps.

Baldur's gate EE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMy7qfKONnc

Lagrange Point
I think I'm around 80% of the way through
Pic isn't my save file (which is around level 42) but rather the previous player's save
The manual suggests aiming for level 50 but this guy apparently wasn't satisfied with that

Held this off for far too long, reminds me of Alundra in many ways.

action fighter on amiga
too fast in the driving sections but otherwise a decent conversion

Had so much fun beating it with Max, Blaze is next.

oot

>>8745936
>h8 tank controls
>simple as
then why tf are you playing old PS games?

https://youtu.be/a9PjfnFr1f4
finished with the cd collection yesterday

>>8746273
PROTIP: blazes jump + down + attack (that knee lookin thing) is great for getting into grabs. just DONT do it on bosses and those guys that uppercut you

>>8746093
had no idea this shit was ALL double battles
actually makes me wanna try it desu

>>8746283
That game does not use tank controls

>>8746298
oh yea thats that weird vagrant story thing isnt it?
idlk its been a while

>>8746273
fuck it
you inspired me
gonna finally beat SoR3 US with blaze on normal

>>8746291
Hey that's what I was doing with Max, his down-elbow is the same, and yes, you cannot do this shit with any boss save for maybe Barbon, they anti air or grab you first lmao, still great for grabbing mooks.

The enemy grabs feel a little bullshit, particularly Jet's, it's fucking disgusting lmao. Not that big a deal though.

>>8746310
I will play 3 eventually, I have really liked 2 and the 1st, wanna see what's so controversial about it. I'm already bummed Max doesn't make a comeback, big guys are always the most fun characters in these kinda games.

>>8746283
I wish it were tank control.

>>8746389
>bullshit
>Jet's,
well youre in luck
imo blaze is the absolute easiest to counter jets with
her jump kick hbox is YUGE, and her neutral A that backflip thang has shittons of i-frames so you can usually chip him when goes for that swoop, which can then be easily combod into
he still has that absolute bullshit priority grab tho, but even then that neutral A can stop him if youre quick

>3
theres a lot wrong with 3
but i fucking love it.
basically "SoA fears the rental market", which in this case results in absolutely everything having too many health bars.
but if youve played 2 A LOT, and got gud at it, its probably the most difficult beat em up ever, so that might even be a plus

the things they did right, imo, drown that all out. or at least make it playable
>the extra command input moves for each character
>the hidden characters
>the vastly sped up gameplay
>running
>branching paths/multiple ends
>air control/steering
>special moves for weapons depending on character blaze with sword and dash attack is OP. you can combo it into grabs and it wont even lower weapon durability
and lastly, possibly the most contentious aspect of all
>the OST
most humans HATE it
but if youre into weirdo music, its possibly the most ambitious, and definitely the most contemporaneous of any vidya OST. most OSTs in vidya were at best 5+yrs behind. SoR3 came out while that scene was still strong.
idk how motohiro bein a jap even knew of that whole detroit scene, but he seriously fucking NAILED it
all of it just combines into the most frantic beat em up, possibly the most frantic game period, ive ever played

if the hyper difficulty is too thick for your blood, theres no shame in just playing BK3 JP ver. its the same game, but with the homo leather daddy miniboss, and less healthbars

>>8746208
I wish I could beat this. I got filtered but it's good.

>>8747827
I like all the exploration; you really gotta look around the world
The battle system's not complex but the "everything costs MP" thing and super moves costing HP makes it a little different from your average Dragon Quest clone at least
The Mega Drive-sounding music chip is pretty cool

Just finished up Crusader No Remorse today on No Remorse difficulty. While in the end I didn't fully adapt to the controls, I still wrecked havoc on standard human enemies. The bipedal robots with rockets on the other hand were insane. Sometimes you'd walk into some nasty ambushes as well. Glad I paid attention to the credits because it gave a code to the developers room.

>>8747975
Which version did you play? I had that game for the Sega Saturn and it was great, there were no problems with the controls. Years later I downloaded the DOS version and the controls were a nightmare, I had to turn it off. It's just about the only isometric game that I would recommend the console version over the PC version.

>>8747993
I played it on the PS1, but it offered both absolute and relative control schemes. I stuck with relative which was tank controls because in a lot of situations it worked well for precise dodging behind cover and evading some attacks. On the other hand trying to quickly panic roll out of a trap and suddenly I found myself fumbling with the controls. I'm unsure if it was my pad or if it common for PS1 pads, but sometimes it would read my input twice so when I'm trying to select an item in a hurry (like trying to switch to a grenade launcher or an energy cell pack) it would just skip straight over it when I pressed the button once. Maybe I should have tried absolute and see how well it went with the side step and roll buttons.

>>8746273
>>8746226
>>8745926
Switch play mode
>>8745936
>novel
Do u read? Fooker!

>>8746226
Woah... For me it is the reverse. I just started playing Alundra and it reminds me of Terranigma hehe.

>>8745926
Ultima VII Exult port.
Way better than playing it on DOSbox.

Just started this last night. The controls took me a second to get used to but I've had a lot of fun so far. Made it to the eighth mission with Rikimaru. The soundtrack is great.
https://youtu.be/MgSQcY89SSc

>>8745926
How do I stop auto-firing.

>>8745926
finally got off my ass and figured out how to play SNES DQ3 with English translation. Turned out to be easy, even though I'm a compter illiterate tard. I've played NES version tons of times, but this is like a brand new game. Kino, Sovl, Comfy, etc.

Trying my hand with Might and Magic III again. I love reading through the manual and how well it tells the story of the game and gives information of all the classes.

Wondering if I'm making a mistake keeping the default party but I like these guys so far.

On PS1, for maximum frustration.

>>8745936
>already hate the controls.
How, they're literally the most simple controls of any Playstation game, it's not even tank controls.

>>8746410
Tank controls are a meme, Shinji Mikami doesn't even care about them.

No idea why it took me so long to give it a shot. This game is actually comfy bros!

>>8748586
best DQ

>>8746410
Tank controls were invented so you could aim more accurately before analog controls
>You don't have to aim manually in Parasite Eve, it's an RPG

>>8745926
I tried playing this game a few times but I always just get my shit kicked in by the random encounters. Is the whole game as brutal as the start or does it get easier later on?

I picked this back up recently. I'm towards the end and will he glad to knock it out.

>>8747847
And done
It was a pretty good adventure with some spiffy music

>>8752096

>>8745926
Doing a perfect stats run, all rages. Way more entertaining than I thought it would be, keeping your characters at the minimum level is no joke. I’ll have to do a true llg at some point after this. Hardest parts so far:
>first ultros fight without leveling banon
>getting the rages in the narshe battle with minimum xp gains
>dodging the rats in the opera house
>number 128
Number 128 was by far the hardest part of this run so far and I’m assuming the game will only get easier from here. I think on later versions you have enough mp to summon phantom in that fight, but on the snes version it’s a crapshoot, especially if you want to steal tempest. Had to do a ton of savescumming here. Now it’s back to the veldt for more grinding

>>8752085
What game is this?

>>8752186
Dragon Quest 3 on gameboy color.

The PC98 version but plan on playing the Windows version once some time has passed

>>8746485
>her jump kick hbox is YUGE, and her neutral A that backflip thang has shittons of i-frames
I actually have an even easier time with Max's Neutral A, his hammer punch thing, it fucking wrecks Jet's Superman dive so bad it's not even funny. Since this post I managed to beat it with Blaze, not difficult at all, her grabs are very good. Yesterday I did it again with Max for shits and giggles and made it to Mr X on a single continue, was a lot of fun, he is definitely my favorite.

The problem I'm having right now is Skate. Holy shit, I'm having such a hard time adjusting to this little cunt's pitiful range. Even with speed to compensate, I find myself misjudging, and when trying to punish enemy whiffs, getting punished myself. Regular enemies are mostly okay because his grabs are great, but every boss starting with that cunt Zanza, and their recolors, stomps me. Other stuff like the palm strike of those chinese fucks and using the pipes is also proving hard, I can't even cheese Rocky Bear out of half a bar with the sword, I can't get a hit in, Skate just sucks with weapons. This morning I made it to Shiva and ran out of continues. I just tried again, lost three lives to Abadede and gave up.

Any pointers on dealing with bosses using the little shit?

>>8752102
now I'm gonna play Radia Senki

>>8753091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKNueOpwqRk

>>8753091
>characters have a RAP stat

>>8752186
Ff6. My bad, I originally meant to post with this pic

Finally started Princess Maker 2 (DOS version for PC-98 computers). Probably I'll play some more raising sims in this platform afterwards.

>tfw she tells you she wants a good armor at age 11

>>8754706
your kid is either going places or monster food

>>8745936
Beat this the other day, playing the second now
Up to second disc and the only thing I don’t like is that I can tell it’s way too short

>>8753339

>>8754868
Well I've spent 30min looking for a key at the zoo, pressing X at every fucking corner in every little area. Gave up and decided to look up a guide, turns out you have to stand pixel perfect in front of a random drawer which I tried searching and mashed X at every direction for like 5 minutes before.
Instantly quit and trashed this diarrhea of a game.

>>8753339

Playing the best licensed game ever made.

I'm currently cycling through CAVE's catalogue:
DonPachi
DoDonPachi
Dangun Feveron
Daioujou
Ketsui
These are my favs so far and I suck at all of them lol

>>8755725
Kinda based honestly.

Earthbound with the ReBound hack. B-button dash and not having to deal with a menu to do simple things like examine or talk to npcs is such a nice thing.

>>8756927
>ReBound hack
why aren't going full retard with MaternalBound??

>>8757595
didn't feel like it
also there's all kinds of different hacks based on it, hard to filter which one to try

also last time I checked none of them had the New Controls patch merged in, which is what I wanted to try out

>>8745926
I played the Last Guardian before this one, and I'm surprised how much it took from Ico, in that it's literally the same game but now your NPC buddy helps you do the puzzles, which is the only thing gameplaywise that the first suffers a bit from.

>>8758002
Maternalbound Redux has the new controls... but it does some annoying relocalization shit like changing Threed to Threek and Runaway Five to Runaway Brothers

>>8759007
Rebound does the same, I actually didn't mind those changes. The band were supposed to be a Blues Brothers riff anyway.

I'll look up Redux, but I'm going to finish ReBound first.

>>8759007
Rebound does the same, I actually didn't mind those changes. The band were supposed to be a Blues Brothers riff anyway.

>look up Redux changelog
>Y button is run
welp, that killed my interest
seriously, how could fuck up the simplest thing

The Guardian Legend
Your character has some impressively meaty thighs despite having such a small sprite

>>8750725
just do a little grinding around some safe spots where you can recover you HP. when things get hard you just do a little leveling up.
originally i've played this on the console, but on the emulator I did the XP farming with increased speed.

>>8750725
It gets easier almost immediately. The very beginning is pretty rough.

>>8761183
My favorite nes game

These are sooo much better than I was led to believe

translated Sailor Moon RPG on SNES
cool, but grindy af

>>8762063

I simply want to beat this piece of shit. I got to the final day twice but had not enough kids to survive. Jason's patterns are really annoying and you can't seem to find him before he kills shit.

>>8753091
I finished

>>8762090
I respect that.

I've been on a roll during the past two or so days. I got through Reloaded, Crash Bandicoot, and FINALLY beat One. It has been years since I last played One and I remember the platforming being annoying as fuck. Thankfully I was able to get through some of the notorious platforming levels with a lot less difficulty that I had years ago. Stage five is a nightmare.

>>8745936
>Hate the controls
The game is training is literally meant to train you for Vagrant Story

>>8749447
I HAVE to finish this game

>normal person
>*plays a game*
>average /vr/ nufriend
>*goes on the internet and posts screenshots of games they watched some guy on youtube play*

Been playing WCW vs nWo World Tour. Currently unlocking all the hidden characters. Only have Macho Man left.

>>8763224
now I play Monster Maker