Does it even count as a "difficult game" if it suddenly spikes at the last stretch, after being really fair and well-designed for the 90% of it?Because that's the frustrating thing about Ninja Gaiden, the first 5 stages aren't even hard, you can practice and breeze through them the first time you play it. But then stage 6 hits pure bullshit, with the boss checkpoint being a final cruel joke by the developers. It almost ruins the whole experience of an otherwise awesome game. If you fixed the worst parts of it, like the infamous 6-2 hallway, I'd call it nearly perfect.
Games that are only difficult for one stage/boss are the worst. It's boring if you're looking for a challenge and it's a brick wall if you're not.
>>4452146You are right, those two fixes would essentially transform the game. It grinds my gears that I still can't beat the thing without placing a single savestate in 6-3.
I'm going to watch how to beat this boss on you tube and then kill him because jfc
>>4452193Practicing how to beat him with savestates, then starting the game over and doing a clean run, is how the cool kids do it.
Remember that PEDOPHILE FAGGOT who got salty and upset over a hack that fixes the massive fault with the boss checkpoint and convinced the FAGGOT KEKOLD romhacker to pull it?
Pic related is now 20 years old. How does it hold up today?Where does it stand among all time great games, or at least all time great FPS?
>>4451448You prefer a console FPS without a N64 controller so that it's less precise?
>>4449805True... It's like the difference between Tim Burton's Batman's, and Christopher Nolan's Batman's.
>>4449292I saw Dr. No last night and loved it.
>>4451073I never get n64 emulators working right. Fucking mess they are.
>>4451885Console FPS all have autoaim anyway, you don't need to be "precise".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QynhZdfS7C4Anyone know about this? This video was recommended to me on YouTube. I think it's fascinating. It's about a lost Nintendo Arcade Game called "Sky Skipper" from 1981. It's like documentary length. It's got Billy Mitchell and Walter Day from Twin Galaxies in it. The video has less than 20,000 views, and I'd never watched this guys channel or heard about this game before. I think you'll really enjoy it.
>>4451809watching now this is pretty dang interesting. Also BILLY FUCKING MITCHELL
>>4451810>>4451814Peace looks significantly more attractive with her 80s look
>>4451798There needs to be more porn of redhead Toadstool.
>>4451816Before they made that cabinet with the board they found there was ONE WORKING ARCADE CABINET ON EARTH!
Really amazing stuff. I wish there were more people out there this passionate about preservation.I prefer the guy's site (skyskipperproject.com) to the video. You can really appreciate his excitement to have located what may very well have been the only existing cab right there in NoA's headquarters and to be invited to go document it and making a trip of it really must have been awesome.
I've got a barely used V-Saturn and CRT with a stack of Saturn games to play. Which should I play first? Did I pair my beer well with it? Also, Saturn game recommendations for $30 or less.
>>4451565with how much you post on 4chan its amazing you dont already know fluent japanese
>>4451519Drink Bourbon instead. Be a man.
>>4451679someone posting on 4chan a lot shouldn't be an indicator of proficiency in any skill, especially since the primary language is Englishi have no idea what you're trying to say considering Babbage is pretty retarded and wastes his own time all day. that's what tripfags do, they don't even care that people hate them either, they still do it
dude beer lmao
Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em
Also is it even a video game?
>>4452112God damn it's nice to hear sound design like that in a modern game. I tried out Guardians of the Galaxy for the first time today, and while it seemed like a solid enough game, the sound package was horrible. Quiet, unmemorable sound effects, awful multi-line conversations that go on for way too long and have nothing to do with what's actually happening, and generic orchestral film-score drivel during the modes.I was at two locations tonight and played an excellent Williams' Sorcerer at the first one, and the difference between it and GotG was night and day.
>>4452126On a similar note, one thing I notice in the LCD games that aren't TNA is that the graphic design is questionable. The visuals look like something put together for a high school project in powerpoint. It doesn't really matter to me, but it makes me wish pinball was more popular so that manufacturers could afford to put a little bit more money into the LCD animations. Maybe they're still figuring that stuff out, I don't know. JJP PotC LCD animations look modestly good, but the rest not as much. Is it just me?
>>4441909No it's allowed to be -discussed- here, because /tg/ is more about group play and /toy/ is more about collecting.
>>44461673D Pinball Space Cadet is a classic. You're just being a contrarian.
>>4452130The potential for the new screen displays is enormous, but no one has utilized it yet. Just imagine all the different animations/fonts/visual effects you could use to display and announce different features. About GoG again, I don't know if it's code that will be updated later, but there are times when a message is displayed and it's literally just plain white text on a black background. When the DMD is much more appealing then your new technology, there's a problem.That being said, while it's still not anything mind-blowing, Star Wars is the best use of the screen yet. The idea of the display being your cockpit with information displayed on the fold-out targeting computers is great, and the movie clips and scenes are integrated very well, particular the "hyperspeed" scenes. It also might be the best Stern, imo. Either that or AC/DC, Metallica or Star Trek.
ITT we post our favorite cool and comfy /vr/ menus and user interfaces
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>>4448858Chaos Engine / Soldier of Fortune by the Bitmap Brothers; there's stuff from the sequel in the OP pic as well I think
Has this been dumped yet?
>>4450138Those are pretty good anon, I'm not OP but thanks for the link!
>>4448710I dunno man, maybe people aren't willing to give any kind of chiptune music a chance if it's not done in Famitracker.I still prefer Rushjet1 and Kulor Research Labs though.
>observing that modern "8 bit" "artists " fail to capture the spirit of 8 bit music is trolling and worthy of deletionI don't get it. I'm just commenting that i like 8 bit music but think all these dumb fad kids trying to ""recreate"" it are obnoxious
>>4451610exactly. Btw 8bit remix trend in 2010's youtube was quite neat back then
>>4451610A lot the artists that contributed to the 8bit music power are OG artists from that era. You even have tappy (the guy who original composed the metal gear theme) pitching in there.You're just being a nostalgia fag and because it's new it can't be good.
Is there any way to fix the audio on this thing. It's really harsh/sharp & I'm just about done with it. Everything else is perfect, which is a shame.
>people literally defending software emulationAre poorfags really THIS mad over someone buying a shiny NES?To OP: >>4450052 shows that it has some analog output. Just use a converter with some headphones.
>>4451940>they can be exact replicas>if programmed to do soYou're shilling FPGAs because your RPI can't run bsnes at fullspeed?
>>4451986Would this make the point any less valid?Software emulation is more shit then doing it with FPGAs.
>>4452108>FPGAs = shit>emulators = shit>real hardware = not shitCool, thanks.
>>4452120>no valid arguments>just shitpostingCool, thanks.
Puyo thread.
Found the Areyard (however do you romanize that, anyway?) Special spell for Schezo :DIt costs 113 MP... my current max is 151. It will be interesting to try out what it does.
>>4451705did 645 damage on Owlbear (my normal hits do ~150). Hahaha.
>>4440721SHQUISHY
>>4443824Lurk two years before posting. You also must be eighteen years or older in order to browse or post.
>>4447464Ah-rull
Why no one ever talk about this series?From a technical standpoint it's still beautiful.Great story and gameplay.Literally the Wing commander of console.
>>4449923My dad bought Red Sun back when it was new, I don’t know how far he made it but I never got past the stage where you have to protect a bunch of merchant ships.Let’s turn this into a general PS1 space game thread, has anyone played pic related? It’s a Namco game but localized only in Europe I think. I played a demo of it and it seemed pretty fascinating.
>>4449923>Why no one ever talk about this series?Because english language board is this
>>4449923I've played all three, Red Sun I actually bought from a toys r us in a rainy night on the way home from school. Red Sun is av fantastic game, not the strongest story, but the gameplay is perfect. Love the arena, took forever to beat the last few with max score.Try it with cheat codes, some of those late game weapons were outstanding
What genre would you consider a game like Flashback to be?
>>4448616http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=989633
lode runner-like
>>4450993Cool thread, and i thought neogaf was a lefty board.
wplatformer.
>>4449947Typewriter, rotary candlestick phone, crapintosh.Hipster alert.
Is this what killed the authenticity and/or exclusiveness of retro gaming?
>>4450679It is. There is not a single thing emulation isn't better at.
>>4449908fuck off with that meme, there isn't any difference in input lag between a pi and an emulator running on a pc. A pi is literally a linux pc it doesnt magically start lagging because its little. Just because you're too stupid to figure out how to use one of the emulators that isnt a test build doesn't mean the thing is laggy.
>>4450687>easier to get into>less expensive>pisses off vrI don't emulate as a rule, but it is great
>>4450880this x100. People just need to get over the fact that they are terrible at games. I brought the pi over to someones house and we played streets of rage 1 ( a game my friend grew up with as a kid) and he didn't bitch about input lag. That's how i know emulator lag/pi lag is a meme. I'm not saying it's nonexistent. I'm saying it's not a big deal or at all as terrible as original hardware kiddies make it out to be.
>>4448934Are you baiting or just high?
>you can emulate retro games with perfect accuracy>still can't emulate the way they looked or movedWhen will we get out of this dark age of "modern" displays?
>>4451736This is false.
>>4451741Prove it then, faggot.
>>4451875Look at speed running and FGC forums pre 2012, it just hasn't been a widely discussed issue because it's not honestly a huge deal for most non-competitive games.
>>4451739It's funny that people shit on ZSNES now, but it was the first emulator that could play a lot of games properly, like Super Mario RPG and Megaman X2.
>>4448983>almost 1999+19>even top of the line LCD screen unable to downscale picture without loosing picture quality>no LCD screen working with sub 640×480 resolutionWTF is wrong with the industry?
are the old gta games worth a play?
>>4451919Is this a serious question?
>>4451919Yes but play them on PC.
>>4451939this. for gta2, avoid the psx port at all costs. lots of content were cut for it, and the game is set during daytime because psx couldn't handle the lighting effects. it's an inferior experience.
I only played one called gta London
>>4451919Is it really on Dreamcast? Is the port good enough?
One of my favourite things about Diddy Kong Racing was the exploration, like finding hidden keys without the pressure of being against a time limit. At times it felt like Mario 64 on wheels.I've never seen this done since and I want it to make a come back. Diddy Kong Racing 2 when?
>>4446924>we'd roleplay that we had our homes and stuff thereI would like to hear those stories, if you don't mind to share it here
>>4446932I did exactly the same. That track is magical
>>4449550oh yea that was fun to collect too, but its nothing to the length of ddr. still pretty fun though
The most impressive feature to me as a kid was the cheat code for two players in the main story mode. It made the game a lot more fun to do with my bro.
>>4449584It's like a time capsule of how corny and stupid the 90s could get.
