ITT: things you used to love about older games
> the game whole game is on the disc/cartridge when you buy it
> it looks just as good as it did in the previews
Having fun
Manuals.
>>341540681
>reading them on the drive home
>>341539379
>ITT: things you used to love about older games
tons of cheats
detailed sprites, especially hand drawn ones
>>341539379
developers having more freedom.
>>341540939
Yup.
Good times.
Messages that would remind you to take breaks every once in a while
>>341540681
The smell of a well-preserved manual.
>>341540681
This right here
fucking bullshit that these dont exist anymore
i miss innovation.
it felt like i never knew what kinda shit they would think up next as a kid, but now i can literally count on a bunch games coming out every year, with little to no changes from the last one
>>341539379
sexy characters that only looney right wing politicians had a problem with
Ooh, I know.
When companies weren't afraid to make smaller, low budget games instead of only releasing two or three big-budget, AAA titles a year.
>>341539379
Shit that should be in the base game not being locked behind a DLC paywall and games being sold complete.
>>341540983
I hate this shit, I was so excited for GTA 4 but I was so disappointed they took out everything. Even the tank and army wasn't in it anymore. I heard GTA 5 was supposed to be a return to the fun but it was a disappointment also.
This is what happens when games become too popular
>mfw finding a super secret room or item before reading a friends strategy guide
>>341541354
Shovel Knight came with a fantastic manual. Full color and illustrated, just like the old days.
Unlockable clothes, weapons, stuff like that. Now there is almost no unlockables, just DLC.
>>341539379
Why are there tiny wings in her head?
You cant fly with those
>>341541768
So did Senran Kagura 2, oddly enough.
>>341541743
>that secret green goblin hideout in spiderman for ps1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8urUMcBSKM
>>341541409
Now it's the left wing that has a problem with it. Funny how things can flip like that.
When's Darkstalkers 4?
>no save option to save whenever you felt like it
>having to either git gud and figure shit out, or buy a strategy guide
>new IPs were a regular thing and not so concerned about investors and money, but rather making a fun game
>Easter eggs that weren't just "heheh remember this other game we also made?"
>expansions were the only dlc, and not just slight improvements or gimmicks
>full game came on the disc
>>341541409
You know things have gone to shit when it is the left wing that has problems with this kind of shit now.
When each games were trying to be their own thing instead of copying the latest trend.
>>341541409
imagine if they tried to pitch cammy as a character in the last 5 years?
fuck this gay earth.
>>341541885
They're amorphous magic bats. They can turn into pretty much anything.
>no option to save whenever you felt like it
>having to either git gud and figure shit out, or buy a strategy guide
>new IPs were a regular thing and not so concerned about investors and money, but rather making a fun game
>Easter eggs that weren't just "heheh remember this other game we also made?"
>expansions were the only dlc, and not just slight improvements or gimmicks
>full game came on the disc
>>341542016
Why wasn't he a villain?
>>341542028
>now a bunch of loud nobodies on the Internet have a problem with it
Don't strawman anon, it's like saying all right wings are fascists
>>341539379
I miss how they used to do the cover art for games, now everything looks like something from a videogame instead of a comic
>>341542064
>>new IPs were a regular thing and not so concerned about investors and money, but rather making a fun game
It sucks, because we know 40years of shitty games are ahead of us, like how music was great in the 70s when artists did what they liked, but as soon as the suits took over we only got shitty plastic artist after shitty plastic artist
>>341539379
being able to play it without feeling like I'm wasting even more time by not striving for achievements. I could just put on Tony Hawk 2, go to Mexico level, and try to grind around the big outer ring, or see how many times in a row I could do the loop off the half pipe.
I miss the times before DLC. Remember how everyone laughed at the Oblivion horse armor? If that came out today as a new thing a lot of people would buy it without thinking.
>>341542281
>game was so fucking full it came on 4 discs
i used to love those 4 disc cases for ps1, they looked so nice in my shelf
>>341541385
Take off the rose tinted glasses, mate. It's been the same since the 70s. Pong clones, Asteroid clones, Space Invaders clones, Zelda clones, side-scroller clones, 3d platformer clones, third-person shooter clones, first-person shooter clones, open world clones. Innovation is no less present. You've just grown jaded to the presence of shit whereas you used to be able to ignore it.
>>341541654
this, normie pandering and mainstream exposure literally ruined video games.
>>341542281
It just seems like games are smaller and smaller every year, I'm playing banjo tooie for the first time and even the first world is huge compared to what I'd expect from a game today
>>341542378
>Why wasn't he a villain?
neversoft couldnt use greengoblin because sony had the rights to use the characters everywhere except in the comic
>>341541409
those were good times, everyone just laughed at those muppets back then
>>341542281
>Games not needing 16 minutes to install before starting
>Everything not needing some form of online connection to function.
>Devs designing fun and interesting protagonists instead pandering to a small group
Arcades
>split-screen multiplayer
>unlockables that cost skill instead of money
>>341542589
im well aware theyve been rehashing the same shit all along.
but they didnt have pong 1-8 coming out every fall for nearly a decade like they do now with COD/AssCreed/battlefield/Sports Games. they dont even have to come up with new gimmicks, they just push the turds right out and people snap it up
Drawn covers
>>341542469
>being able to play it without feeling like I'm wasting even more time by not striving for achievements. I could just put on Tony Hawk 2, go to Mexico level, and try to grind around the big outer ring, or see how many times in a row I could do the loop off the half pipe.
That's more related to the less time we got now to play games, when we were kids we didnt give a fuck about wasting our time, but now we value more our free time
>>341542052
Sorry, you didn't buy resurrection.
>>341543018
i miss dope promo art and ads as much as i miss old covers
>>341542064
>no save option to save whenever you felt like it
So you didn't have a PC?
>buy different skins and upgrades
>cost money earned in game instead of microtransactions
It blows my mind people just let microtransactions in single player games happen
shitty PS2-era cartoon cash-in games that were actually passable
>>341543117
>make super bad port of inferior version of game instead of porting chronicles with netplay
>why did everyone hate the bad version?
>oh well I guess nobody wants darkstalkers 4 despite everyone wanting to throw money at us
>let's get knuckledragger thugs more good ol' SF instead!
I miss devs thinking up their own cool monster designs
Now everything is a zombie
>>341543135
>andore lying in a pool of his own blood
hardcore
I miss when not everything had a gorillion dollar budget and people still cared about them
Companies taking risks.
>>341542469
why is tycho a loony mess now?
>>341539379
Games that rewarded me with gameplay instead of little achievements or upgrades.
Theres always that game that's fun for a few moments, but then you just realise the game is just drip feeding you.
>>341543263
you like krabby patties, dont you squidward.
>>341542589
Innovation nowadays is how much of a spin you can put on a block and then attack game mechanic.
>>341543314
or a dragon
>>341542968
go to Japan, they're still a huge thing there
>>341543314
>>341543839
That is pansexual
>go to play new racing game
>cant play with friends unless its online
who the hell wants to have fun in person, amirite?
>>341543663
And you lose interest the minute you unlock that last bit. FO4 and FC3 for example
>>341539379
>games where primary functions (jumping, attacking) were mapped to the face buttons and the shoulder buttons were reserved for secondary functions (camera movement, adjusting the HUD, switching items)
>pressing Triangle to Cancel
>handheld games having that "Download play" thing so your friend could play with you even if they don't have the game
Maybe you can help me.
Is there a game where you start with a car, preferably a shit one, and you race to earn money to upgrade it, and eventually buy a new car then upgrade that one, and so on?
If I could emulate it that'd be cool. I like the look of the N64 racers
>>341540987
Now that jiggle is just unnecessary.
I ain't complainin though.
>>341544382
Are you unemployed anon? Adults that work and have families can't get together and have fun!
>>341542945
You get all that on PC anon, just saying.
>>341542016
holy shit that game.
>>341541885
its a go-to element for capcom. dante has it, bass and zero have it, a bunch of the monster hunter armors have it, i think even some resident evil monsters have it
>>341544382
GET WITH THE TIMES GRANDPAI've always preferred playing with someone IRL with me than online for some reason.
>>341543673
Am I remembering wrong or was that game not just passable but actually good?
>>341544406
Fucking dark souls, I will never get over using R1 and R2 to attack.
>>341540983
Why did cheats become obsolete?
>>341544645
You can't play denuvu games offline, anon, not until you get your token :^)
I miss the smell of a new NES game, where you'd open the wrap, and the scent of the plastic from the sleeve mixed with the scent of the manual paper would hit you at once. You'd slide the cart out and everything'd come out, there was even a foam block that held the items in place for transit.
Then you'd read the manual on the way home in the car.
>>341545176
microtransactions
>>341545176
When publishers realized they could charge for unlocks.
>>341544406
>handheld games having that "Download play" thing so your friend could play with you even if they don't have the game
This was the best
>>341544382
Fucking this. The amount of games I wanna play with my roommates but can't without buying another console and online subscription makes my blood boil.
>>341545056
i remember it being really fun and i didnt even smoke weed at the time, so it must have been good. i laughed when my friend brought it over but he knew what he was talking about
>>341545176
Achievements are serious business, there's a reason they are turned off in GTA.
>>341545312
>that hat
one piece reference?
>>341545176
When consoles could reliably connect to the internet, and game publishers could have a reliable selling point with DLC to over 56k users.
>>341539379
no fucking DLC, and if there was any they were expansion packs added on AFTER THE BASE GAME WAS ALREADY FINISHED
AAA devs taking risks and having creative control
being able to say "gamer" or be called "gamer" without feeling like i'm saying "nigger"
>>341543673
>>341545056
Is this fucking game good or not, i see it everywhere but no one ever talks about it
>>341545272
I play disconnected from the internet most of the time and never had trouble with any game using Denuvo.
>>341545312
>those sunglasses
Duke Nukem reference?
>>341545312
>tfw you will never buy another game and huff that fumes like jenkem
>>341541885
>>341544950
Congrats, anon. You just realized that nips are shit at designing characters.
>>341545312
i miss the plastic seal on top of new psone games. i would open the case without removing it and only take it off once i beat the game - physical reminder i wasnt fucking done yet and had work to do.
it all feels so long ago...
>>341545668
But it's fine on Captain America, right?
>>341539379
When buying the game meant you got the whole thing including unlockable bonuses, without having to buy dlc.
>>341545668
they didnt invent that, you know.
>>341545312
Sea salt ice cream is real?
>>341539379
when they were fun.
>>341545510
I think it's something we all played as kids, loved, but haven't played recently.
I know that personally a lot of games like that turned out to be complete trash when I tried to replay them, but my memories of this one make it seem like it might actually have been pretty good.
I remember it having a lot of variety in the levels, cool enemy types, and kinda interesting bosses.
Anyways I'll emulate it and post a thread on it some time tommorrow or the next day.unless I forget
>>341540939
>>341541193
>>341545312
How did you read the manual while driving?
>>341545905
>>341545972
>fake wings as decoration
>real actual bat's wings sprouting from your head
I hope you're not serious, anon.
>>341540987
>Only 15 colors, 16 is "transparency" counts
Lmao
>>341543004
Unlockables were the best. If you want to dress your slutty cowgirl and her young friend you needed to master the combat system by proving you can do up to 75 frame perfect hits in a row.
Nowadays you dont' even have the option, it's fork over $3 a costume or be stuck with the default.
>>341546045
very carefully. duh.
>>341546045
are you retarded?
>>341546045
>>341542409
you should be paying attention friendo all pictures that "body shame" are banned in ads in london now. tumblr has longsince broken into realife
>>341546045
>>341542490
CoughMGSVcough
>>341546045
We're not girls, we can do two things at once.
>>341543297
It was a legal, more or less arcade perfect release of the two games. Hardly super bad or inferior.
>>341544950
Amaterasu, too.
>>341543297
Chronicle is terrible.
>>341540983
Are their any devs that still do this?
unlockables
>>341546642
This can't be real but I know deep down it is
>>341539379
>AA games still existed
>You didn't need fucking Steam for everything
>>341543314
>That sci-fi VR shooter they just showed at E3
>Takes place on Mars or some similar-looking alien planet
>There's a giant spider
>>341546059
They are the equivalent of tailfins on an airplane
Used for stability
>>341544616
need for speed underground 1 and 2
i miss getting that game ive been dying for as a gift. buying shit the day it comes out is not as satisfying as being receiving it from someone else
>>341545312
Debug mode
>>341541409
>>341542028
Loonies will be looney
>>341540681
I was very happy when I saw that Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator not only had a manual, it was a pretty beefy one, at that.
Strategy guides.
The day my FF9 guide kept telling me to go online for the answers was the day I realized that this guide would be the last one I ever bought.
When a game came out, 99.90% of the time, it was finished. They included everything they could so they could impress people who bought it and maybe make a loyal customer. There might be a release afterwards that would fix bugs, but the original game was just done and bug tested and you didn't have to go online for micro updates every time.
Also, games are so fucking big now. I don't know how they fit dozens of hours of play on even SNES games, but my 14 gig PC games now can last maybe 10.
>rpgs didn't bother trying to build up half-baked stories and just went straight to the adventure
>game manuals actually had backstory and lore you could read
>>341547364
>Go to PlayOnline to learn more!
god, why did you have to remind me.
>>341547364
Play online was cancer
>>341547423
At least now they auto-update
Darkest times were when you had to search some slow-ass sites with patches that you manually installed and had different orders and you had to do it all over again if reinstalling
>>341546938
Lego games let you unlock cheats over the course of the game. You buy them with money earned in game. Or you can enter codes in a menu/shop place and get them immediately.
>Game claims to have unique and creative races, they are just elves and dwarves or humans with a different skin color
I miss getting video games because the cover/pictures/trailers look cool or I like the thing they're based on, then enjoying the game.
Now I do research, see how everyone else likes the game, watch gameplay videos, finally buy it, and end up disappointed.
Why can't I enjoy things the way I used to?
>didn't need an account or any third party programs to play online
>>341547364
Strategy guides are still common in Japan
>>341547364
i used to LOVE reading monthly game magazines - pic related, game informer, EGM
speculating and dreaming month to month (as opposed to hour by hour like on 4chan) was cool
>>341539379
>City levels/Night time city levels
But for reals why did games, especially Japanese ones stopped using urban environment as the game's setting? And I mean I want the game to take place in a city through out. I am getting sick of that naturey shit.
Hell the last game I remember taking place entirely in a city was The World Ends With You.
>>341547874
What is this Battlechasers bullshit?
>>341547423
Because graphics
>>341547803
Japan is pretty modest with tech. They still use pay phones and actually like to hang around magazine racks in convenient stores. Just look at their yahoo page. It doesn't surprise me that they still read strat guides.
>>341547803
and in the US. go into any gamestop and tell me what they have plastered all over the front of the registers.
>first game is amazing
>sequels are shit
Whats her name /v/?
>manuals to read on the toilet and that provided plenty of background story for the games
>vidya magazines who once in a while would have full strategy guide and detailed walkthroughs in their special editions
>unlockable cheat codes
>putting the game in your console and playing immediately instead of waiting for the download and install of a 5gig day 1 patch
>couch gaming and split screen multiplayer
>beating a game to 100% completion and there's actually a hidden 101% completion
>>341548197
I love how in Japan they still use CDs, and sometimes even floppies.
>>341539379
Ports were actually 100% different instead of the same game
>>341548263
F.E.A.R.
>>341548127
It's a relic of the days when magazines actually had unique art rather than just using the same official art you saw everywhere else.
>>341548496
>Generic 90's weeb
>Unique
>Play San Andreas
>Mission Misappropriation
>Have to get a dossier from some guy
>Can snipe him before he spots me
>Can chase him on foot, then in a helicopter, then in a car until he reaches his destination, then kill him there
>Can kill him at any point during the chase
>Can get as far away from him as I want
>Can use my stored tank/helicopter/WW2 fighter plane to get him
>Can get in front of him and attack once he approaches
>Play more recent GTA
>Mission where you have to kill someone
>He only spawns after a cutscene when you get close to his location, after which he drives away
>Invincible until he reaches his destination
>Chase is just in a car/on foot
>If you get too close, he speeds up so you can't catch up
>If you get to far away, you fail the mission
>Forced to use one specific car
>Games have to have be open world or too big for it's own good because linearity=bad
I can't even have fun with platformers because they do this shit as well. It's like the only games that don't do this are Hack n Slash games
>>341547364
>>341547803
I keep my old guides in the toilet room to read. I'd even get them for games I didn't own just because. I've never played Majora's Mask but I read the guide so many times.
I'd still get them if they were cheap, but instead they cost so much more because nobody buys them. A god damn Pokemon guide which is 75% the list of Pokemon, level up learn sets, compatible TMs and breed moves, is $25 here.
>>341548697
You should be able to tell from the context that I meant "unique" as in "unique to that publication."
>>341548697
what he means is that they had in an house artist do the covers as opposed to using an image from a company that pays to be on the cover. some look pretty shitty in retrospect, but still.
>>341540681
Not just the manuals, but the hand-drawn artwork they often contained. Especially in a lot of older games when the graphics were still somewhat primitive (particularly on 8-bit consoles) and they have to improvise on how the characters look. Nowadays they just use CGI for everything.
>>341548416
>sometimes even floppies
I was gonna post that pic of the Windows 10 install floppies, but I can't seem to find it. There's like 3000 of the fucking things.
I miss "indie" games that weren't shit. I mean, Katamari Damacy was made by a team of 10, Killer7 by 8 and Ikaruga was made by 7.
Now you've got games like Assassin's Creed's being developped by over 1000 fuckers and none of them can come up with any good idea.
>>341547874
Fuck pre-Nintendo power before Furture started publishing them was great, PSN mags giving out demo discs. Even though getting my info online is faster and more convinent something about getting mags with posters, sticker was real satisfying I still have some of my Nintendo Power posters.
>>341546141
Not just that, but you'll need to do several frame perfect swings in a row, while maintaining your berserk gauge to ensure that your last hit in the combo syncs up with the final amount of your berserk gauge to go into super berserk mode.
>>341541285
Nintendo still does this.
>>341548871
i played gta4 recently and was surprised that i could do missions in other ways from how they tell me. the one where you have to take a pic of the guy in the ball courts and then shoot him, for example - climbed to a roof 2 blocks away and sniped him; no chase, no stars, end of mission. gta5 was real cookie cutter type shit, though
>>341548263
Ape Escape
>>341549308
Yeah, 4 has a couple moments like that, but most missions are straightforward enough that you can't mix it up too much. 5 was definitely worse in that regard, though. There were so many arbitrary restrictions.
>>341549168
That was back when "indie" just meant "game made by a small dev team" instead of "pretentious artsy game". "Indie" was just an adjective instead of a genre.
>>341548871
GTA isn't the game for it, but I like when a game is so on rails that they compensate for the little things that you might do. In the mission where you're sniping with Trevor out in the Airfield, if you get the lights because you know what to do from the last time, there's a line acknowledging you did that.
>>341549861
Yeah, things like that are pretty neat. Arkham Asylum has Joker yell at you if you skip a certain fight because you know where to go already. "Reading the last page first, that's cheating!"
>>341549217
i remember my brother got a ps1 demo disc from pizza hut with mgs1 on it and man was that thing dope as fuck even tho we were like 5 and couldnt beat the first fucking mission lol wasnt until i was 14 that i discovered what mgs was actually
>>341549168
Oh yeah, small teams where they made games they wanted to play. It was still a gamble and they had to be accessible to an audience I guess, but comparing Fallout 1 to Fallout 3 shows how little Bethesda knew about the franchise. It took the first layer, how it looks, and made that the whole game. I guess they didn't like having different builds and consequences and reason to play the game over again.
>>341547364
>PlayOnline
>FFIX guide
>If you want to find this item, go onto the PlayOnline site
More like its telling you to go fuck yourself instead of being any help to you. WTF was Square thinking?
Budget games that were $20
>>341541291
I still have the manual from kirbys avalanche on nes, its LITERALLY new, and I mean absolutely like it was made yesterday, has any commercial value?
>>341548078
The whole urban thing in gaming was a reflection of 90s and 00s pop culture. That's why you don't see it now. Same thing with sunny tropical islands like in old Sonic games.
I miss Videogame magazines.
VG Journalism actually used to be journalism. not overglorified blogging.
It used to involve actually going to an publication's office and writing a review for a game or an event you went to, or that new preview sony sent your magazine
now literally any social reject can so "videogame journalism" from the safety of their own home, never having to leave and actually be part of society.
I get that it's always been a lot of bullshit, but it feels like there used to be actual enjoyment behind videogame journalists they were gamers too, and as such they reviewed games as gamers would.
>tfw whenever I go to the local pharmacy, I instinctively go to the magazine rack even though I know there wont be any videogame magazines there, and then i get sad
anyone else know this feel?
>>341545176
internet spoiled everything
>>341546263
I'm curious too. I can't imagine getting through a roundabout while reading a booklet.
>>341539379
I miss it when you can turn on a game and didnt have a fucking menu to navigate to start playing.
Or just plugging in a controller instead of needing everyone to sign in to an account or create one.
Or an achievement or trophy telling me why i should continue to play a game.
>>341550291
>>341550407
kinda how playboy is literally sjw bullshit
>turned 18
>buy one
>no dirty jokes no nudes
>first article is why stronk women choose to skate
>spoiler its not cause it sexy
what happened to good journalism period?
>>341550306
i mean snes
>>341542945
>>Everything not needing some form of online connection to function.
This.
This is how they make sure we never actually own the game.
I can play any Gen 1-6 game to it's fullest because I paid the fucking price and got the fucking data container to put in my data reader and play.
Now servers go down and you don't get to play "old" games you paid for anymore.
>>341547172
>he didn't have good boy points
>>341550696
It got festered by drop outs who couldn't make it in movies and settled for the next thing that would take em.
>>341550635
it would be 36 dollars in today's money
>>341547172
I'm a poorfag so I still get this feeling
>>341550696
internet happened.
seriously. thats it, Internet has ruined society.
>>341550595
dont know about xbone but on ps3 and 4 you can turn off trophy notifications (and all others) and set it to run whatever disc is inside from start up. not the same, but close - i miss blowing out cartridges 4 times before they finally work
>>341540987
Mai's butt looks so soft.
>>341544645
>buyor piratePC game
>either spend 25 minutes installing off the disc or 3 hours waiting for it to download
>buy console game
>plug it in
>play
>>341544638
I'm a dentist and I see my surgeon and accountant high-school friends every weekend. The only idiots who can never go out is the one that studied graphid design and the one who's had two divorces.
>>341550595
But, I like not having to get up to switch games. Especially juggling CDs
>>341551029
>i miss blowing out cartridges 4 times before they finally work
That actually des more harm than good to your cartridges. Just clean them with q-tips and alcohol.
>>341551010
They knew inflation existed.
>>341550407
>>341550696
>>341551376
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>>341551029
>i miss blowing out cartridges 4 times before they finally work
no you fucking dont
>>341545510
It's praised whenever it's usually brought up. I'm even shocked all the posts in here so far are unsure, it's held in high regard.
>>341551512
>racist
you mean sexist
>>341551636
IMMA CHARGIN MY LAZER
>>341550023
Which fight? I can't recall that at all.
As a console fag I wish Asylum and City were bc, they butchered the nd rerelease.
>>341551663
no, i do. its fun.
what i dont miss is the fucking game freezing on the last level of something because the system moved a little when i yank the short ass cord out of reflexive excitement
>>341542461
>as soon as the suits took over
Don't you mean
>as soon as development costs to be on the cutting edge got so high that taking risks could scupper a company
>>341551512
>>341549308
Wish I knew about that because I die a good bit of the time when I played that mission.
>>341551950
The part where Joker says there's a bomb with some guards strapped to it. You go up a few floors and drop a chandelier through the glass floor so you can get to the bomb, which I think turns out to be fake. The line comes if you grapple up as soon as you enter the room, without fighting the guys first.
>>341548308
I read Fallout 3 manual quite a bit it has some funny shit in it. Fallout 4 has no manual at all fuck I miss manuals.
>>341546025
Seasalt icecream in Kingdom Hearts because the Disneyland that the KH's creator went to had it, and he loved it.
>>341552217
I always fight, say what you will about Baman combat it's very rhythmic imo.
>>341539379
Magazines, I had my first video games mag in 1991, I still have it :)
>>341552647
>rhythmic
you could call it that
>>341541409
This
I really miss when sexy characters were the norm and barely anyone complained about it and actually got their way.
>>341552873
Not actually fucking playing just jamming on counter. Here's something for (you).
>>341540983
>tfw no more Big Head mode in video games anymore.
>>341551997
Graphicsfags literally killed gaming. Tech never should have progressed since the 6th gen; then maybe we'd actually still have quality AA games being made.
Those bootleg cartridges that had 10000 games on 1.
>>341553253
Graphic fags always existed stupid kid.
>>341553249
mfw unlocking DK mode in perfect Dark.
>>341553191
It's just as effective as using all your abilities though.
Arkham combat is inherently flawed.
>>341542016
was that supposed to be a secret? because that was just blatantly staring you in the face.
>>341553372
You couldn't be a graphics fag in the NES days. There weren't any.
>>341553191
>defending a game where just jamming on counter is an effective strategy
>with an image from one of the great action masterpieces of our time
>>341552873
more than likely just baiting for replies but for anyone who doesn't know those are literally random street thugs too pussy to even join any gangs, or follow any villains. also, it'll take a million years to win doing this because counters do no damage.
>>341539379
I remember dreaming with playing mario64 because I had a psx, insane graphics and "open world", then Gex Enter the Gecko was released and I was happy :)
>>341553620
You are fucking retarded. There were always people goings nuts over the graphics of video games. You don't know this because you're underage and think old games look like shit because you weren't around at the time they were released and due to your contrarian nature you think they are better.
>tfw you're not a kid anymore
I want to be a kid again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03-iQmba44k
>>341539379
Why did Felicia look somewhat decent in the cartoon yet Morrigan looked like shit?
>>341553862
>I remember dreaming
I remember dreaming too
>>341553627
Atleast we share the same opinion on films, agree to disagree.
>>341554008
I mean graphics literally didn't exist, kid. They were sprites. Learn your terminology before I kick your ass.
>>341547364
Fuck that useless piece of shit strategy guide. It wasn't the last one I ever bought, but it put me off for many years. The Nippin Ichi games brought me back, particularly the double jump guides
>>341553627
At least it isn't revengance where you could do the exact same thing but also attack while you did it.
>>341539379
Being a pirate back in 1991 buying copies of games in floppy disks, with photocopies of the ingame anti piracy checks, I was just a child and remember pocking the game in some book with pictures....damn.
I remember that they had to be at most CGA compatible, since I had HERCULES compatible with CGA, nice memories ;)
>>341554179
>>341553595
>>341553627
>spamming counter is an effective strategy
yeah against unarmed thugs sure but you're not gonna have any fun doing that.
i've always believed the point of the combat is to completely style on groups of thugs as Batman the master hand-to-hand combat expert with an answer to every problem and then some.
>>341544382
Play fighting games online
>get bodied within seconds, get progressively angrier until i stop playing
Play fighting games local
>have fun just button mashing with friends who are also scrubs.
Local >>>> Online. Always.
>>341554151
>>341547364
>mfw Prima strategy guides
>>341553372
Graphicsfags have always existed, but after a certain point, lusting after prettier, shinier graphics ended up destroying other important parts of gaming.
>>341554179
Yeah, but pushing a sprite-based system to its graphical limits took far less resources than the modern attempts at photorealism that eat budget (and thus make each game more of a financial risk), and usually resulted in interesting stylistic decisions.
>>341554179
I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're fucking with me.
I jerked off to andariel's tits in the diablo 2 manual
>>341549145
>>341554325
Depends on what difficulty you were playing - the parry timing windows on harder difficulties made that impossible. The fact that it was directional instead of a single button mash made fighting groups more interesting than one-button parry games.
And no matter what difficulty you were on, mashing light attack/parry on Sundowner would get you absolutely killed. If you'd been using it as a crutch the whole game, you were screwed.
Revengeance also had a much higher skill ceiling. Sure, you could parry mash to victory, but you could dodge and do interesting combos, whereas Bamham-style combat is always attack>parry>attack>parry>gadget>parry... Nobody posts Batman combo videos, because you can't do anything interesting enough to be worth recording.
>>341554165
Most of my dislike of the Batman combat comes from the fly-between-enemies combos, because I don't feel like I have any control over what's going on, as opposed to a cancel-based combo system, where a given input will always get me the same attack.
And the relentless swarm of somewhat shittier imitators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AV9W2ZdmjU
>>341553595
It's a lot slower than actually playing, it only works on unarmed enemies, and if you're doing the challenges, you're not going to get any points that way. I think you might also get less XP if you're less flashy, but I'm honestly not sure.
The combat is really simple, sure, but that webm isn't indicative of most fights in the game.
>>341554617
my english is poor, can you tell me whats my error?
>>341540603
I feel you, poster # 2
>>341546045
>>341547423
>99.90%
Were they always finished most of the time though?
I recently played some old games of mine and it only just struck me they were half finished.
I swear Tak 3 was supposed to be much longer. It had solid gameplay and shit, but it ended so abruptly. Hell the ultimate weapon that could be unlocked had no use because at that point there were only 2 short levels left.
Even in Tak 2, the later half felt uninspired and dull, compared to the first half
>>341555563
I like the games settings more than the combat but yeah it is pretty simplistic but that isn't always a bad thing though.
What's your opinion on Witcher combat, I hate that shit so much because everyone says you have to meditate and yadda yadda it's still just duck,roll, and then occasionally hit. It actually kills my enjoyment when it's damage sponge enemies like that.
>>341558575
Take and Juju series? Those games are fun as fuck imo. I remember renting Tak 1 at Blockbuster.
>I almost miss Blockbuster...
>>341549426
You lyin, I know you lying.
Why you lying?
3 was fucking amazing
>>341555563
>oh i dropped my webcam, better spam space while i look for it
Destiny is pretty obnoxious most of the time but that was golden.
And that game won so many awards that year too.
>>341553620
WOAH NICE GRAPHICS
