Overrated Games

[Anonymous No.8135759]

Starting off with Shinobi III, the most dumbed-down entry in the series. Joe Musashi was given way too powerful of a moveset that the stages and enemies weren't balanced around accordingly (Castlevania IV shares this same problem), and thus the game is just too easy as a result. X, Revenge and the arcade games are all much better Shinobis than III.

[Anonymous No.8135765]

Enemies in CV IV are most definitely based around the whip. They start coming at you in circular patterns in the later levels.

[Anonymous No.8135767]

>>8135759
Shinobi III has good graphics

[Anonymous No.8136071]

Depends on your taste in games. If you like a challenge revenge of shinobi is better than 3.

[Anonymous No.8136084]

>>8135759
yeah who cares it's still fun to play

[Anonymous No.8136117]

>>8136084
Holy based
Revenge is actual autism, 3 is actual fun

[Anonymous No.8136187]

>>8135759
>Shinobi III
>overrated
According to who? I've almost never heard this game mentioned outside of /vr/ (and I've been playing it almost yearly since 1995), and on /vr/, the average anon starts loudly dilating if this is even mentioned as a good game, ESPECIALLY in comparison to Revenge of Shinobi.

[Anonymous No.8136994]

comix zone for being a shiny turd

[Anonymous No.8137013]

Overrated is a buzzword

[Anonymous No.8137017]

This game is superb, although i have never been able to complete it. I keep trying anyways. Shinobi X is fuckin fantastic, cant beat that either. All castlevania are way too hard, i have to save state every screen to make progress.

[Anonymous No.8137045]

>>8135759
>d thus the game is just too easy as a result
post your deathless, no shuriken, hard mode clear

[Anonymous No.8137049]

>>8135759
>X
>better game
Now I know you're a baiting retard. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8137059]

>>8135759
>X, Revenge and the arcade games are all much better Shinobis than III.
>X
>better
I can believe someone can like the other Shinobi's over 3 but X? That is pushing it. I don't even hate the game but it's outside of the God tier cheese live action cutscenes it's forgettable.

[Anonymous No.8137138]

It’s unironically one of the best pure action games of all time thanks to a great ost, great visuals, level design that isn’t bullshit like revenge of shinobi, has good variety between the stages, and actually is a fair challenge. Revenge of Shinobi fails by having bad level design that forces you to make leaps of faith only to be knocked back by an enemy near the edge

[Anonymous No.8137457]

Shinobi squabbling is about as gay as Castlevania squabbling, the series had a great run back in retro times

[Anonymous No.8137468]

>>8135759
this is your brain on contrarianism

[Anonymous No.8137725]

>>8137457
>the series had a great run back in retro times
Aside from The Cyber Shinobi. Not sure what Sega was smoking when they shat that out.

[Anonymous No.8137751]

>>8135759
Revenge of Shinobi is easy as piss once you memorise the enemy locations. Then it stops being about reactions and quick thinking and more about hitting enemies off screen before they can get a shot in. Shinobi III is basically the same thing but with less bullshit things to memorise and more enjoyable platforming thanks to the new level of control you have over Joe.

[Anonymous No.8137774]

>>8137457
>Shinobi squabbling is about as gay as Castlevania squabbling,
While it can delve into some lowdown shitposting nothing here holds a candle to the continuous non-stop castlevania threads we have on /vr. If I had to rank them in order it would go:
1. Castlevania threads
2. 16 bit console wars
3. N64 has no gaems
4. Trashure
5. Mario 3 vs SMW
6. Sonic threads
7. Beat em ups
8. Resident Evil Francise/Dino crisis
9. Crts
10. Shinobi franchise

Probably missing a few that would bump Shinobi down the list more but you get the point.

[Anonymous No.8137851]

>>8137774
Most of those threads have a lot of australia kun activity, at least half of those are always started by him.
You forgot the anti saturn threads todo, also by Australia. What a fucking spammer, sperg isn't even funny

[Anonymous No.8137924]

>>8136187
90% of the threads on this shit board are arguing with nonexistent people.

[Anonymous No.8137928]

>>8135759
FF7
Mass Effect
MGS3
Tomb Raider
Halo Combat Evolved
Chrono Trigger
Half-Life 2

[Anonymous No.8138198]

>>8137774
>5. Mario 3 vs SMW
Don't forget shitting on Yoshi's Island for being a terrible follow-up to SMW.

[Anonymous No.8138269]

I know this has probably been posted a lot... but Earthbound.

I tried to play it, very seriously, three separate times. I never made it past 5 hours. I'm fine with retro JRPGs and have played through Shin Megami Tensei 1/2, Phantasy Star 1-4, all the retro Final Fantasy games, etc. But Earthbound is just... not fun.

It's too hard to be casual and relaxing (like Live-A-Live), but way too easy to pose a serious challenge (like Shin Megami Tensei or Wizardry). The plot doesn't seem to take itself seriously, and there's not enough motivation for you to move forward and care. The combat is boring and barebones. I even hate the graphics and battle music. Nothing about the game is fun to me, at all. I literally don't understand the appeal.

[Anonymous No.8138649]

>>8138269
>I literally don't understand the appeal.
Where you fucked up is actually playing the game instead of buying a copy to display behind you while you're on cam

[Anonymous No.8140628]

>>8135765
Aside from bats, which are easy as fuck to kill with your long, op multi-whip, not really.

[Anonymous No.8140796]

>>8140628
Bats are the most prominent (especially on second loop) but also jumping skeletons, dancing spectres, electroplasm, flying eyeballs, flying books, there's a lot of diagonal enemy attack patterns.

[Anonymous No.8141029]

Man if you didn't 2-ALL CV4 you just don't know

[Anonymous No.8141037]

>>8141029
Game is a big enough slog on the first loop, why the fuck would you wanna play through it two times?

[Anonymous No.8141064]

>>8141037
Don't think it's a slog, but I sometimes use a password to start on the 2nd loop.

[Anonymous No.8141089]

>>8141064
It's easily the longest Classicvania with the most filler levels, with only the last stage I'd consider anywhere close to being challenging (but then you have that letdown of a Dracula boss fight who doesn't even have a second/third form).

[Anonymous No.8141097]

>>8141089
Disagree about filler levels, but about the 2nd form: it's because the IV team was the only cv team who was in contact with akamatsu's team, so they knew about Curse of Man lore and how cookie monster wasn't really a "form" for dracula (gaibon is kind of a homage to CoM)

[Anonymous No.8141324]

>>8137924
Yeah, I think you're right. This anon >>8137774 put it well. Only thing he missed is the shitting on/spam-mocking "praise" for Nintendo and Saturn threads.

[Anonymous No.8141336]

>>8138269
You're not the only one, man. My brother used to be obsessed with it like 20 years ago, not because of reddit and sóy shit (which we had no idea even existed, way back then), but because Ness the Smash Bros character had psychic powers, and my bro was obsessed with psychic powers and the supernatural. It was reasonable fun on an emulator back then (not as much as Mario RPG, FF6, or X2), but years later when I tried it and got through it, it was mediocre as hell. Besides, Earth Bound for NES is much better.

[Anonymous No.8142107]

>>8135759
Doom

[Anonymous No.8143359]

>>8135759
III makes Revenge look like a pile of shit, and the arcade games can't even compare to III.

[Anonymous No.8143637]

>>8141037
>>8141064
2nd loop should have just been Hard Mode, but it's good

>>8143359
This is not an opinion, it is merely nonsense

[Anonymous No.8144445]

>>8143359
Imagine being this big of a plebian.

[Anonymous No.8144468]

>>8143359
Pleb

[Anonymous No.8145543]

>>8143359
Based, you baited the redditors.