No.10510
Diablo
No.10530
>>10509Damn, is that Fabio? I remember years ago someone said I looked like an autistic version of him.
No.10531
>>10530It is. That game came out when he was peaking.
No.10550
>>10508There are too many to list. Some of my fondest memories of early childhood are of getting Super Nintendo games from the rental place. These are a few of them. Claymates wasn't really that good, but I still liked it back then. I also remember renting Clay Fighter II, and I ended up coming across the original game in Wal-Mart and getting it thinking it was the same one I played. I think I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't the same game. The games I rented didn't really even have to be all that good, although obviously some were better than others. I don't even like the Clay Fighter games anymore other than for their personal nostalgic value. At that age renting games like those was something I really looked forward to. Having every old game out there available to immediately play for free just doesn't feel the same.
When it comes to the SNES, Super Mario World was the first one I played. The whole world exploration element felt magical to me at that age. And because it was a time before I even knew what the Internet was, games felt more mysterious. Being such a little kid, it felt like Super Mario World was full of secrets it was reluctant to give up. I remember that I used to like beating Bowser to watch the ending sequence and look at all the enemies. I would wonder where Torpedo Teds were. I don't think I ever unlocked Soda Lake until I hit puberty. I was probably a teenager or young adult.
No.10646
>>10508>>10550I didn't grow up with any of the 16 bit consoles, but there's something really appealing about games from that era. They tend to hit that right balance of depth and simplicity more frequently.
No.10647
There sure were a lot of cavemen games in the 16-bit era.
No.10648
I unironically liked OG Final Fantasy 7 and was disappointed by what the (((localization))) team did with the 7R entries. A quick google will show you a GameFAGs thread where the OP is shat on by almost the entire board for saying that half the time the English subtitles don't actually match the Japanese audio - not just differing in nuance but totally saying different things - but from my own experience playing Remake and Rebirth he wasn't even exaggerating. The game's shills would outright lie to defend their piece of shit trannylation.
If we're talking 16-bit games only then beat-em-ups and shoot-em-ups like Dinosaurs for Hire were kino.
No.10651
>>10648I unironically think the "OG" FFVII was an extremely cancerous development in RPGs with its intense cinematic focus, and an unfortunate downgrade in the FF series by being a piss easy joke with only two challenging mainline bosses in the whole game. You're not going to convince me that FFVII was good now just because Squeenix is cashing in on its corpse.
No.10652
>>10647might be due to the popularity of lum
No.10657
>>10646I generally feel that way, but the NES is probably my favorite console of all. Part of it might be because it was the first console I ever played and feels comforting to me, but I also just like the games and the aesthetic. I kind of wish I'd been born early enough to rent NES games, but instead I was born at a weird time where I started playing video games with them and then was introduced to NES emulation a few years later.
For me the triumvirate of game consoles is the NES, SNES, and the Sega Genesis. I don't know if I can pick a favorite between the latter two.
>>10647That trend actually goes back to before the 16-bit consoles really hit their stride, at least in North America. I was thinking maybe Bonk's Adventure being released in Japan might have had something to do with it, but Adventures of Dino Riki and Caveman Games both predate that.
No.10659
>>10657Right, the caveman mania was probably most focused on the PC Engine.
No.10660
>>10651I didn't say it was a good game. I only said I played it on release way back in 1997-1998 and still have fond memories of it, only to have them thoroughly ruined by the redditized reboots.
>only two of the mainline bosses were challengingNot even that. Ruby Weapon, which was an optional boss, was the only difficult boss in the game and it was only because it had a retarded gimmick of being able to remove party members on a whim.
No.10669
>>10660>>10651FFVII is a great game. Maybe the best FF, maybe not. But it has a feeling and aesthetic unique among all media. It's also really fun to break, which is the mark of a top tier RPG.
No.10670
>>10669>It's also really fun to break, which is the mark of a top tier RPG.We must have played a different game. Last time I beat FF7 at the lowest possible level (that's where my "only two challenging mainline bosses" claim comes from btw), I didn't feel the railroading much less than a standard play. The main skill is simply to abuse the shit out of the Enemy Skill materia. There are loads of RPGs that are a lot more interesting and fun to exploit mechanically.
No.10680
>>10670<Last time I beat FF7 at the lowest possible level (that's where my "only two challenging mainline bosses" claim comes from btw), I didn't feel the railroading much less than a standard play.>plays a 30-40 hour game multiple times, and even does challenge runs, despite claiming to dislike it<The main skill is simply to abuse the shit out of the Enemy Skill materia.Which is a whole catalog of abilities unto itself. That's like saying "all you have to do is use magic."
No.11697
>>10508Sonic's 8-Bit titles.
I grew up with the 16-Bit ones most people prefer and are more familiar with, but eventually I got a PS2 and wanted to replay the Sonic titles I grew up with, which lead me to the best compilations ever made, Sonic Mega Collection Plus and Sonic Gems Collection, which all had a ton of 8-Bit titles… Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic Chaos and Sonic Triple Trouble are just as good as the 16-Bit classics to me. I'd also love to mention Sonic Pocket Adventure, love how it has a classic/modern hybrid aesthetic to it too.
No.11708
>>11697Weren't the 16-bit sonic games remasters of the 8-bit ones?
No.11710
>>11708Nope the 8-bit sonics were downgrades for master system owners.
No.11770
>>11708They're completely different, I definitely recommend checking them out if you like the 16-Bit ones. More Sonic is always fun!
No.11792
>>10647Cavemen as a concept was quite popular around the 70 and 90s.
No.11804
>>10508Spider-Man (2000) by Neversoft might just be my favorite video game of all time, I love the IP, the character of Peter Parker, and the 90's TV show this title was lightly based on… they nailed the character in 3D and this might've been the 1st time where any video game made you truly feel like him, even if some 2D titles before this were also quite good. I think my main issue was 100% completion, because of the Quick-Change suit, you had to get 10.000 points in one of the training modes and it took me literal years to do it, I did once and I'll never even bother trying it again, it was torture. I'm happy to say that this version of the character saw more than a single title, there was the PS1 exclusive sequel, the GBC port, the original sequel to the GBC port, and then a GBA title that functions as a 3rd installment for both the PS1 and GBC duologies, and all of these titles are excellent still.
Spider-Man is just so cool.
No.11809
>>11804>the 90's TV show this title was lightly based onThe screenshot you posted does look a lot like the appearance of the city from 2D shots of the show.
I watched Spider-Man all the time when it was on Fox Kids back in the day and went through the show again recently as background viewing. I think it still holds up.
No.11811
>>11782>I remembered finding it strange that Mario punched in that game.I have no idea why they even bothered adding it too, it's basically useless - you interact with bowser's tail or king bob-omb's backside, you jump on goombas, and I GUESS you hit eyerok's eyes but… just replace that with something else, honestly. Throw green shells or something. I guess they just didn't want to do physics, so I guess that makes sense, but I really can't remember any other time you really need to punch things. Why bother adding it?
No.11816
>>11811There was a precedent for Mario punching in Super Mario RPG. The punch attack in SM64 was nuanced; whilst it was used primarily for grabbing, you could also do cool stuff with it like punch-sliding up to Goombas.
No.11825
>>11809I think it's concept art from the 90's TV show. It definitely holds up in my eyes too, one of the better adaptations of the character.
No.11826
>>11804Aerosmith made a killer theme song.
No.11834
>>11816Still seems weird to me, if I were designing it I wouldn't have included it. Obviously not a bad inclusion just a weird one imo.
No.11836
>>11826Wasn't it just Joe Perry?
No.13032
>>11826The only person I ever knew who liked Aerosmith was an AIDS-looking spic girl who went to school with me for a year or two.
No.13033
>>13032I like Aerosmith, but I wouldn't rank them among my favourites.
No.13034
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>>13032>>13033They're really lame nowadays, but they had some good songs way back when.
No.13043
>>13021EAFC25 and eFootball are abominations even compared to their 2017 counterparts, canadians should be banned forever at making football games and the japanese should play old FIFAs and make a proper player movement engine from the 7th gen, the 8-directional is a great system from the SNES era but EA in their creative swansong years created the 360 degree system for FIFA 10 through 13 that made anything buttery smooth regardless of graphics.
And it's a funny thing, japs usually disregard the graphics for the gameplay yet PES/eFootball is a massive whore regarding GRAFIX and animations rather than focusing on league systems and core gameplay, their customization system from the PS2 days is what keeps them afloat in the modding world and mostly because EA made modding newer games a massive pain.
Football Manager is/was the tits but sadly has no gameplay so it's a moot point.
No.13050
>>13043Indeed. I feel even more upset at eFootball because while EA are absolute hacks now, Konami felt like they were going somewhere with titles like eFootball PES 2021: Season Update, even if the name itself sounded ridiculous, I was hopeful, expectations were realistic of course, but still quite optimistic, that the follow up would be special, eFootball 2022 wasn't.
I think the worst part is how eFootball's still around, if it had failed they would've gone back to PES, so why haven't they? Probably because it's making them money, people let eFootball succeed, so we get what we deserve, supply and demand.
No.13054
>>13043>>13050>Niggerballerslmao, last good PES was in 2001
Last good FIFA was 2003
No.13060
>>13059I think he means they were better because there were less niggers.
No.13061
>>13060Soccer was still unwatchably infested with negroes back in 2003 anon
No.13132
>>13060A game's quality is inversely proportional to how many niggers are in it. Even a single nigger is a black mark.
No.13138
>>13137At the end of the day it's just grown men chasing a ball around a field, if I'm gonna watch sportsball, I'd rather watch fellow Whites play than black males.
No.13140
>>13137Maybe they just want to watch a sportsball game without having to be subjected to kikes' pet feral animals.
No.13143
>watching celebrities play games instead of literally playing them yourself
Never been able to comprehend the sportsfag appeal. Even worse is sports video games. You literally could build any kind of abstract, fantastical world and set of rules you want in a video game, and somehow you chose the one thing you can already get off your lazy ass and do in the real world without a viewing screwing and controller?
No.13144
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>>13143<watching celebrities play games instead of literally playing them yourselfsome of the greatest youtube kino across the ages is gamers playing kusoge
No.13145
>>13143>Even worse is sports video games. You literally could build any kind of abstract, fantastical world and set of rules you want in a video game, and somehow you chose the one thing you can already get off your lazy ass and do in the real world without a viewing screwing and controller?Not everyone who likes sports is athletic.
No.13147
>>13143>viewing screwingWhoops, viewing screen*
Hope that wasn't a Freudian slip.
No.13152
>>13143>Even worse is sports video games.>You literally could build any kind of abstract, fantastical world and set of rules you want in a video game, and somehow you chose the one thing you can already get off your lazy ass and do in the real world without a viewing screwing and controller?This argument is used exclusively by people who aren't into sports in the first place, so of course they miss the mark. Let's say I love soccer, I want to play instead of just watching… I have to set up a match with people who need to be available at the same time, it'll take time and money, and God knows when we'll be able to do it again, or I can just play by myself which is dull. On a video game, not only do I get around this issue, but I can enjoy an abstract and fantastical fantasy just as you've mentioned, I support a team that will never win anything, in a video game I can take them to actual glories, I can fulfill my dream of being a professional player getting payed by clubs and winning awards, play for the national team, etc… there's lots of room for fantasy.
>>13145This is true aswell.
No.13161
>>13158Play sports, you might lose some weight :)
No.13173
There's an old PC game that I fondly remember playing, only to recently try it again and find that I glamorized it. In one of the most unoriginal maps in the game, I imagined how this super original and cool thing, even over the years I imagined the weapons and aesthetics as cooler, but no, it's crap.
Has this happened to you too?
No.13177
>>13173Recenly, it was actually the other way around.
Getting even more into Dawn of War, a game I always loved, I figured out even more mechanics and tidbits back then and it made it even more enjoyable to play.
Didn't play it for like 12 years, but I did play other RTS games and got a better eye for detail in general so that helped somewhat.
Deus Ex is probably the biggest example, the amosphere and writing are there, the gameplay is just unfinished and it's super evident if you don't rush the objective which is how the devs expected you to play the game instead of exploring the whole map.
No.13185
>>13177Which Dawn of War? I like Dark Crusade.
No.13186
>>13185All of them, Dar Crusade limiting some units kind of pissed me off honestly, especially in campaign.
No.13269
>>13190they are both coons you retard.
No.13310
>>13309CR7 is white
Neymar is half nigger
No.13311
>>13309>>13310Both are bad and black. Messi is the best in the universe
No.13329
>>10508I grew up with the SEGA Disney titles and loved them, they were mostly great afterall… but man, now that I'm finally getting into the Nintendo titles by Capcom, I can see what I missed out on. I've finished DuckTales and DuckTales 2 recently, both NES and Game Boy versions, and they're sublime, I wish there was more, anyways QuackShot, Lucky Dime Caper or even Deep Duck Trouble are still ahead for me, but these titles were great and I wish I played them then, glad I finally did.
SEGA and Capcom at their peaks… man, us Disney fans were eating good in the 90's, huh? I miss those days.
No.13340
>>13339Yugioh has some great titles, I particularly liked, World Championship 2008 and Tag Force Special.
There is a spiritual successor to Shandalar called MTG Forge, I haven't played it though. It's apparently pretty fleshed out.
The pokemon games are pretty neat too, I played the first one and I imagine 2 is more of the same.
I steer clear of any tcg video games anymore other than Hearthstone for the reasons you described. Hearthstone actually made a lot of solo adventure content and it was great, but they gave up on it and haven't released any more in three years or so. The game balance also sucks now so I wouldn't recommend HS to any new players.
No.13376
>>13323Absolute kino Ramonsong edit.
No.13502
>>13499Ludo, absolute ludo
I remember being a kid and feeling bad for the MIG pilots.
FOUR ON THE FLOOR No.13503
>>13344mtg forge got buggier & buggier
tried opening issue on their github & they just get stale/closed
No.13511
>>13507play rise of the reds even though the development has been going on for so many years it became retrofuturism.
No.13544
>>13507i've been patching shockwave with more content/balance/gameplay with new elements possible with the source code like horded infantry moving faster & sharing exp from kills, artillery/long range units gaining more range with height difference
https://www.nexusmods.com/cncgenerals/mods/1094 No.13545
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>>13542I still do anon, I still do…
No.13550
>>13549AA in ZH has so much range it can fire off fog of war/shroud
GLA rely too much on tunnels, this offsets it & gives a chance for airpad opener
GLA Air is super expendable & under performs in pretty much everything
No.13555
>>13542I remember the Black & White games but never played them. I can one-up you.
>>13544Sounds like it could be worth a try. I've seen this before but didn't remember the name. All I could recall is that the "SchlongWave" thing made me chuckle.
>>13549Didn't the GLA already have an air force in ShockWave? I know they have the wimpy balloons, but I don't recall if they had any other units.
No.13557
>>13542I only know about that game because back when pokemon black and white came out it clogged up the sarch results
No.13578
>>13555Deathstrike (GLA salvage general) is the only one that has any actual air units. Mi-8s and some type of prop plane that has phosphorus bombs.
>>13558You can actually nullify this thing completely by shooting the ground with another weapon that leaves contamination as soon as it explodes (either a toxin tractor or nuke cannon) but you have to be fast. In mods that give you better AA units with more damage the faster you get those the safer you will be
No.13620
>>13616Thought I was the only person in the world who ever played this game.
No.13658
>>13649We picked up sharewares on floppies they gave away at the store. Dad was cheap and never bought the full versions. I got into undernet and did that for a while because it was free.
No.13659
>>13658This is the morally and ethically correct choice. Piracy is always a moral good. Never give the "people" known as game developers a fucking DIME.
No.13660
>>13649Got it off AOL Kids myself.
No.13670
>>13658We lived out in the boonies so no computer stores nearby except the place my dad worked as some data entry clerk, who only had a BBS so he could communicate with his boss and coworkers, but also let us kids get sharewares and occasionally bought us full versions to (for example) Gladiator, Commander Keen, and Walls of Bratock. My brother figured out how to pirate all the episodes of Doom and Doom 2, but other than that it was sharewares all day every day when my dad wasn't working.
No.13741
>>13736I have a similar picture of my toys and vidya as well.