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Perfect Games Anonymous 06/25/2024 (Tue) 05:54:37 Id: 60379a No. 983419
Are there any games which you consider to be perfect vidya? Just pure distilled quality. Here are two games I consider to be near-perfect (they have their glitches and exploits like any other piece of software).
>>983419 Depends on your definition of perfect, personally I consider DMC3:SE to be the perfect game. Although that depends on what you consider the perfect game to be.
>>983419 >>983472 I'm just trying to think of a game where I played it and had near zero complaints or nitpicks about shit. I genuinely can't think of anything.
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Most of the games I would consider perfect are quite simple, like pic related. What's the most complex game you can think of that you would consider perfect?
>>983523 Fallout 3. Fallout 4. Fallout 76. It just works.
Perfect? No. But there are a few games that come about as close to perfect as any game reasonably could come. >13 sentinels >Fallout 1 >Heavensward Just those 3 that I can think of right now. I want to add new vegas but that game might just be a slight bit too buggy to be called perfect.
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Pretty easy lol. It's fine if you disagree but you're going to personally attack, harass and give out death threats to people for just holding an opinion and minding their own business you should reallly consider touching grass. You know it's because of people like you that minors have to go to therapy right?
Edited last time by Mark on 06/25/2024 (Tue) 22:26:16.
>>983535 It's like you're asking for it...
Chrono Trigger PMD Explorers of Time/Darkness Trails in the Sky FC + SC Odin Sphere Leifthraisir Fire Emblem Dragon Quest V Diablo 1
fucking hell I'm on the same VPN node as the shitposting faggot
>>983537 >>983538 haiiii anon :D
>>983535 Remember friend, assume makes an ass out of you and me. Don't start a fight when there nothing happening yet. Also EB is my fav game of all time and I love M3 as well.
>>983535 none of those games are perfect, despite the fact that this post is mostly trolling, I feel like this is a good spot to actually call these out >Omori Slog, boring, uneventful >Undertale It's actually a fairly manipulative narrative where it doesn't take into account the things the enemies are doing when you encounter them, (ie attacking you) as bad. >Mother 3 Slog, boring >Earthbound Ok this is the good one, it has no bullshit to the game, besides some dungeons that have a gimmick here and there, but this is the best game on the list >Celeste Yeaaah that game has too much controversial things on it for me to care nowadays. >>983538 >>983540 one of you two now HAS to get pregnant as for me, i'd say Ultrakill, but honestly the game is unfinished so it's obviously not perfect, and it can get shittier in the future. just hope it doesn't
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>>983535 > >It's fine if you disagree but you're going to personally attack, harass and give out death threats to people for just holding an opinion and minding their own business you should reallly consider touching grass. You know it's because of people like you that minors have to go to therapy right? Yet here you are just asking for that scenario to happen by bringing it up as if anyone gives a flying fuck about your shitty taste. Here's your (you) for managing to get my attention.
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Zero 3 and cave story are great
>>983535 The only thing I know about Omori is it has lots of shota r34.
For its genre, this game is as close to perfect as it gets.
Warcraft 3. Endless content in custom games makes this the perfect game.
>>983523 The first Rocket Knight game is indeed perfect.
>>983535 just noticed i forgot the if before "you're" sowwy

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Going to throw down the classic 2D platformers. >Super Mario All Stars (SNES) >2D Sonic Games (Sega Genesis) >Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
>>983717 I can't to this day decide if DKC or DKC2 is the better game. 2 has Dixie and I like some of the things it does better but the first game feels like a more "pure" experience to me. I like the boss fights in the first one more too the exception being the K. Rool fight in 2 is better. But that's just because the K. Rool fight in 2 is just like the original but more stuff. The refight in the Lost World in 2 is especially great.
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N64 Classics: >Super Mario 64 >Mario Kart 64 >Mario Party 2 >Mario Party 3
>>983571 Just finished Zero 3 yesterday, fun game overall, and the bosses are fun to fight. I managed to get all the secret disks and unlock the ultimate form in my first playthrough. I wished the other three guardians were an option to fight cause their armed phenomena forms in 2 were fun to fight with and would've been better if you could fight them in zero 3. Beyond my desire for a couple more boss fights I hardly have any issues with zero 3 beyond skill-related issues.
>Mario Tennis >Mario Golf >Bomberman 64
>>983535 >>983554 I don't get the whole Celeste thing. I know the dev is loony is held high by other loonies but besides that I mean. Just gameplay wise it doesn't seem all that special. Isn't it basically just IWBTG/Super Meat Boy game play but more reasonable? Why is it so popular? It doesn't seem to stand out to me.
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One or more of these will probably be controversial to some one but I'm not baiting. This is just how I feel about all of them.
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Timesplitters series has been my favorite FPS series for a long time. Above all I would recommend Timesplitters Future Perfect.
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>>983523 >What's the most complex game you can think of that you would consider perfect? Good question! I think the more complex a game becomes the harder it is to be perfect. For example I also think Tetris (specifically DX on GBC) is a perfect game but I forgot to put that in the OP and Tetris is as mechanically simple and immediately intuitive as you can get without becoming a walking simulator (which aren't real games). >>983528 >I want to add new vegas but that game might just be a slight bit too buggy to be called perfect. Yeah, although I did include a caveat in the OP about all software having bugs the sheer number of NV bugs is a bit much. Great game though. >>983669 You're making me wish for a new Excitebike anon. >>983737 >Illusion of Gaia You're speaking my language anon.
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>FPS >Inventory management >Gun autism >Gritty >Post apoc influence >Open Ended >Sandboxy >Military SciFi Horror with Supernatural entities Despite big flaws, this game was tailor made for me, it's perfect in my eyes.
>>983723 No Smash Bros? I think the original N64 Smash is the best one by a good margin.
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=pMzMO_uMx1U https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=t4zoqjw7Kpo >>983669 Hard agree, easily the best era for racing games too
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Very cliche, I know. What version? Take your pick, it's a game you can alter and remix while still have it be near flawless. I almost feel bad for Pajitnov, his first ever game and it's one of the greatest ever made. He could never live up to that. >>983745 >>983737 Illusion of Gaia has a sequel Terranigma that's beloved in Europe and Japan but virtually unknown in America, probably because it never released here.
You might not like it, but this is how peak gaming looks like
>Metal Slug 3 >東方怪綺談 >悪魔城ドラキュラ血の輪廻 >コットン(X68000版) >ドドンパチ >時のオカリナ >Chrono Trigger >DKC series, primarily 3>2>1
>>983813 >>Metal Slug 3 Too long and some patterns are straight up bullshit, X is better
>>983852 Fuck off Elon

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>>983571 <soundless webm One of my perfect titles is The World Ends With You. One of the best RPGs that feels good to play.
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>>983952 >soundless webm The original was soundless too, yours is an edit.
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>>983419 >Are there any games which you consider to be perfect vidya? >Just pure distilled quality. Dance Dance Revolution Which one? All of them. At least, all the ones that I have played. If you'll allow me to riff for a little bit, I find the concept of the "perfect game" or the "greatest game of all of time" to be a completely arbitrary concept. Especially when it seems like all the "best" games that I have played tend to lack the fun and enjoyment of less perfect games. The main example I pull from this is the Bayonetta games on the Wii U. The first game is undeniably great and probably is a contender to being something close to a "perfect" game. That being said, I would rather play Bayonetta 2. The gameplay is less refined and some of the weapons are worse, but I had a lot more fun and enjoyment playing through the game's story because the dips in quality also made peaks seem that much better. Another example is the F.E.A.R. series, where the first F.E.A.R. (And EP) are the best of the series but I had a lot more enjoyment playing F.3.A.R. because of just how brutal the gameplay was. Also there's the question that if it really is the "perfect game", where does anything go from there? Now if you'll excuse me for one second, I'm going to proceed to piss off half of the thread... >>983419 >A Link To the Past It's shit, never enjoyed playing it. Oracle of Seasons is better. >>983571 >cave story You I have no issue with. >>983717 >Super Mario All Stars (SNES) Only Mario 3 is good >2D Sonic Games (Sega Genesis) Sonic CD is the best, but then Advance 2 beats out the rest of the Genesis games. Even Chaos on the GG is better than the Genesis games. >>983804 >>983745 >For example I also think Tetris (specifically DX on GBC) is a perfect game but I forgot to put that in the OP and Tetris is as mechanically simple and immediately intuitive as you can get without becoming a walking simulator (which aren't real games). Tetris Worlds is the best version of Tetris. >>983796 >NFS Underground Someone never played the latter half of that game. >Burnout 2 Inferior to the first game and Paradise.
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>>983419 Most have been posted already, but Wing Commander: Privateer ticks all the boxes. Take the base premise of Elite and add a plot-line and add polish.
>>983732 It's got the gay stink to it. That's pretty much it. Like drinking punch out of a toilet bowl that's perfectly squeaky clean, but is nonetheless a toilet bowl.
>>983737 >Chrono Cross Gay, but the OST is excellent. >FFIX >ガイア幻想紀 >聖剣伝説 LEGEND OF MANA Respectable choices. >Wave Race 64 With or without 60 fps hacks? >>984031 Ah, the glory days when Chris Roberts understood game development.
>>984031 I never finished the main plot and still sunk hours on end into it. It was beautiful.
What's the most recent example of a Perfect Game that you can think of? While we're on the subject: what's the earliest?
>>984531 Earliest has to be Space invader.
>>984006 >Someone never played the latter half of that game. Oh but I have, many times. The only difference is that the game gets harder, your car gets faster, and you get way more customization than what you started with. The only complaint I could see by someone like you is that not all the newer cars you can trade in are faster than the earlier cars in the game when fully customized and I honestly think that's the point though. Clearly the devs wanted it to be possible to play the entire game with the a starting vehicle. >Inferior to the first game and Paradise. Its the opposite and Paradise is utterly boring
>>984662 >fully customized Meant *fully upgraded. Also, I like the s2000 the most even though it's clearly not the fastest
>>984662 >Oh but I have, many times. The only difference is that the game gets harder, your car gets faster, It's the opposite, if you run a faster car opponents get way faster it's actually beneficial to run a shitbox, try running a Miata on your next playthrough see how hard you get fucked by the AI drag race notwithstanding since 5 speed fucks you real hard regardless
>>984664 I have won the game with the RX7 which is one of the fastest cars in the game and I have no idea what you're talking about. It sounds like a skill/luck issue to me.
>>984671 Playing on hard? I've done it a few times but a handful of races near the end felt less like racing with skill and more like shunting others into walls and hoping they can't catch up.
>>984673 Wait wait wait... you had "catch up" turned on in the menus didn't you? Now, I should not have to tell you why playing a game with a shitty setting is bad or why this setting is bad
>>984678 I didn't even know you could turn the AI rubberband off, well yeah that would be way fucking easier to win if the AI is gimped
>>984678 It's not his fault racing game devs insist on the worst mechanic possible to be the standard. If racing devs made FPS the enemies would gain more health the more accurate you were.
>>984684 I don't mind some rubberbanding, but NFS has it way too strong, I still remember the fucking RX7 race at the end that had me 15 seconds in front near the end of it only to get smoked. It's weird because HP2 (either version) on the other hand has some but it's not super egregious. >If racing devs made FPS the enemies would gain more health the more accurate you were. Do not give them any ideas.
>>984684 >If racing devs made FPS the enemies would gain more health the more accurate you were. That actually DOES exist, it's called "reticle bloom". The more accurate you consecutively shoot, the greater chance the RNG kicks in and causes you to miss.
>>984690 Don't even get me started on the shit AAA FPS devs do.
>>984680 >I didn't even know you could turn the AI rubberband off, You can't. Just went through the game's options and there's no way to turn off the rubberbanding. It could he that he's miss remembering or it's a console exclusive feature.
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>>984692 Idiot.
>>984692 > or it's a console exclusive feature. Could be that the PC AI is just better as well >>984695 That's quick race not campaign
>>984698 Doesn't matter, your claim >there's no way to turn off the rubberbanding has been refuted
>>983535 >anons are so retarded they have to be explicitly told a bait post is bait
>>984690 Doesn't Cunter-Struck Glownig Orgy deliberately place your shots just off the enemy hitbox if you're too good at the game/didn't pay enough shekels for weapon skin gacha?
>>983472 >personally I consider DMC3:SE to be the perfect game This
>>984770 No, the hitboxes plus lag compensation are just aids
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>expect games that are mechanically perfect >all games that are hyperbolically perfect
>>985806 >mechanically perfect In all of gaming history there are probably 5 games like that.
>>985821 Name them.
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>>985884 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Legendary Edition The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition
>>985884 You'd have to think really long and hard to come up with a single one, let alone 5, nigger.
My nominees would be: Star Wars Battlefront Classic, Alchemy Meister, Fallout New Vegas, Okami, and Phantom Dust
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>>983696 >Randomly have the urge to play Warcraft 3 >No physical copy for years so have to settle with private servers >Surprised to see eurobattle.net is still a thing >Download game and install eunet >It's all shitty chink RPG games endlessly created by bots >Even if you want to play one you have to join a discord server to find people I JUST WANTED TO PLAY PYRAMID ESCAPE
>>983738 Good ol' Timesplitters. Loved this series ever since I was 8 years old. I'm glad TS 4 isn't happening as it would've almost certainly been pozzed garbage. I wouldn't say the TS trilogy is quite "perfect" each game has its flaws here and there but they may as well be considered perfect. It's even in the title of the third game.
I was reading this Ancient Greek treatise on literature and I came across a passage that made me think of this thread. >But supposing now that we assume the existence of a really unblemished and irreproachable writer. Is it not worth while to raise the whole question whether in poetry and prose we should prefer sublimity accompanied by some faults, or a style which never rising above moderate excellence never stumbles and never requires correction? and again, whether the first place in literature is justly to be assigned to the more numerous, or the loftier excellences? For these are questions proper to an inquiry on the Sublime, and urgently asking for settlement. >I know, then, that the largest intellects are far from being the most exact. A mind always intent on correctness is apt to be dissipated in trifles; but in great affluence of thought, as in vast material wealth, there must needs be an occasional neglect of detail. And is it not inevitably so? Is it not by risking nothing, by never aiming high, that a writer of low or middling powers keeps generally clear of faults and secure of blame? whereas the loftier walks of literature are by their very loftiness perilous? I am well aware, again, that there is a law by which in all human productions the weak points catch the eye first, by which their faults remain indelibly stamped on the memory, while their beauties quickly fade away. Yet, though I have myself noted not a few faulty passages in Homer and in other authors of the highest rank, and though I am far from being partial to their failings, nevertheless I would call them not so much wilful blunders as oversights which were allowed to pass unregarded through that contempt of little things, that “brave disorder,” which is natural to an exalted genius; and I still think that the greater excellences, though not everywhere equally sustained, ought always to be voted to the first place in literature, if for no other reason, for the mere grandeur of soul they evince. Let us take an instance: Apollonius in his Argonautica has given us a poem actually faultless; and in his pastoral poetry Theocritus is eminently happy, except when he occasionally attempts another style. And what then? Would you rather be a Homer or an Apollonius? Or take Eratosthenes and his Erigone; because that little work is without a flaw, is he therefore a greater poet than Archilochus, with all his disorderly profusion? greater than that impetuous, that god-gifted genius, which chafed against the restraints of law? or in lyric poetry would you choose to be a Bacchylides or a Pindar? in tragedy a Sophocles or (save the mark!) an Io of Chios? Yet Io and Bacchylides never stumble, their style is always neat, always pretty; while Pindar and Sophocles sometimes move onwards with a wide blaze of splendour, but often drop out of view in sudden and disastrous eclipse. Nevertheless no one in his senses would deny that a single play of Sophocles, the Oedipus, is of higher value than all the dramas of Io put together. Are perfect games really the best ones? Or are the best games ones whose achievements make their flaws seem insignificant?
>>991862 Warcraft 3 Reforged community is still good. I'd recommend the custom games: - Direct Strike - Star Wars Blood Tournament - Diplomacy (or TAF community) - Peasantry or Sovereignty - Uther Party - Miners - Zombie Games - RISK - American Colonization - Bad Things - Helms Deep - Holy War - God's Land - Aliens 2 - LOAP (Life of a Peasant) - Bugs vs Humans or Pest Invasion - Warcraft Legacies (or Azeroth Wars) - Fantasy Life - Sim Ant or Ant Colony - Werewolf Transylvania - Any Zombie games - Any TD or Hero game These are the good custom games, but most aren't played as often or rely on a Discord community to get together. Diplomacy or Diplo WW3 is fun if you like grand strategy games with real-time combat and geopolitics simulator. Peasantry or Sovereignty is also fun where peasants do farmville and lords fight each other.
I would say Muramasa: The Demon Blade.
>>991967 >I would call them not so much wilful blunders as oversights which were allowed to pass unregarded through that contempt of little things That is extremely poignant and accurately describes the criticisms and flaws in all of the games thought of as perfect. Your second hypothesis seems closer to the truth here. Perfection in art is extremely subjective, moreso than any other field, one man's trash and all that, partly because humans are wired differently and value different things. Skyrim has too much noticeable jank in a standard playthrough for some, for others the jank is a source of comedy and depth that adds to its quality. Deus Ex was technically impressive for its time and can still be deeper than a lot of shooters today, but some will get hung up on graphics/acting/some other trifling matter. Even Tetris has detractors because they don't tolerate falling block puzzles for any number of reasons. At best you can point to individual games being "perfect" within their genre but to cite any one game as "perfect" is really just stating your favorite, your tastes, and, as the quote outlines, what you're willing to overlook. Part of why hardcore gamers hate normalfags is their high tolerance to shit in a medium where they've experienced little of what's on offer beyond the popular and mainstream. If you were to objectively quantify what makes a game "perfect", we wouldn't be having little conversations like this now would we? Now that I've got the intellectual rambling out of me, I can shitpost and fap in peace >>991994 Games with hot anime women definitely rank higher for me though. Good sir, is Muramasa as a game worth my time and effort?
>>991982 you cant pirate latest reforged versions 1.31.1 is the latest & doesnt have full access to mods
>>992157 Muramasa is pure fun, calling it "effort" is an insult to it, its a pleasure to experience.
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>>983738 >>991923 What the fuck is going on with TS Rewind? I don't need perfect ports or remasters/remakes of the TS games but I at least want to play TS online with a decent amount of players.
There's something about the super metroid level design that's just wrong to me. Too much underground, sort of a slow progression once you get into the deep brinstar area. Norfair isn't too fun. Maridia is good, the wrecked ship is good, and that's it
>>984531 Also my nomination in general for this thread.
>>1024430 I remember when a thread was made for the launch, and it was absolutely ruined by some schizo proxyfagging and accusing everybody of being a samefag shill. Absolutely massive shame, the threads for the original prototype were some of my favorite on all of Prime.
>>1024435 It's a real shame I actually missed those. I only played Outer Wilds on a whim a bit after it launched and it has ever since become one of my favorite games, especially with the DLC.
>>1024455 Outer Wilds felt overrated and clunky, like a low budget art project instead of a game. Navigation controls were bad and lore insists upon itself.
Earthbound/FFVII are perfect JRPGs imo
>>1024797 He said imo, faggot.
>>1024430 Problem is you can only play it once every few years.
>>1024787 The bartender is too brown to be perfect. He's an imperfect creation. A Halfrican.
>>983419 None, even my favorites make mistakes. >(they have their glitches and exploits like any other piece of software). Glitches like crashes and softlocks and graphics corruption suck but some glitches and exploits can make games better.
>>1025147 I like the one that lets you beat ocarina of time in 2 minutes.
>>1025147 >>1025177 I think skips, clips, out of bounds, and sequence breaks should be left in games if you can't glitch into them by accident, as only people who want them do them.
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>>983526 >Any fallout after 2 >good
>>984006 >>A Link To the Past >It's shit, never enjoyed playing it. Kill yourself.
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My aport: The Wolf Among Us >>983419 Based >>983535 Kys >>983571 Based >>983726 Topkek with the mariofag lmao >>983737 >gaia Unironically, the worse game ever made in history. >mana Cool but not perfect >chrono cross Based >ff9 Based >>983952 >The World Ends With You. Based >>984106 >>Chrono Cross >Gay >>985886 Lol >>991994 Hidden gem >>1024787 Based
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>>1025805 alttp is like Gone Home if spamming the sword button replaced reading gay lore.
>>1025889 not great, not terrible
>>1025830 ONE WEAPON; ONE LEVEL
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I don't think you guys are ready for this conversation
>>1025889 Spaming? Tf, did u even passed the first 3 templates wtf?? Kys
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>>1025996 It's in context, I farted out the image in response to a funny coincidence, because of Internet Historian face in a thread. IH is the person you'd hear about Costa Concordia from, where an an actual Italian crashed a ship WHOSE NAME is now in a mario game about a ship, "Concordia" being the setting for Brothership. In this thread I reposted it once because Mario & Luigi is a better alternative to AlttP for having actual game mechanics. Thanks for retracting by plebbit gold though, this imageboard seems like a fun place, where you need pages and pages of autismal explanation so people get captivated by elevated discussions dissecting the frog and beating the horse.
>>983419 The item balance and game mechanics are great in ALttP. Your 20-item inventory, and the fact the Fighter's Sword is weak, encourages strategies beyond just spamming slash. Your arrows are twice as powerful, with long range, but limited to straight lines, with start-up lag. Bombs have medium range and can be thrown but have a bigger hit radius than arrows, and can hit multiple enemies. Your boomerang is weak, but stuns enemies long, comes out fast, and goes in numerous directions. The hammer is very strong, but with the least range, and keeps you in place longer. The ice rod immobilizes enemies and makes them throwable weapons. Bees fight for you but are weak. The Fire Rod is super powerful, but limited by magic. Throwing rocks, jars, and skulls trade time off course for Fire Rod attack power. The magic cape lets you escape battles for a limited time. The medallions have the biggest areas of effect but cost the most magic. Mario & Luigi has great game mechanics too, but you're comparing apples and oranges.
>>1026074 I replied to the wrong post, fixed. The item balance and game mechanics are great in ALttP. Your 20-item inventory, and the fact the Fighter's Sword is weak, encourages strategies beyond just spamming slash. Your arrows are twice as powerful, with long range, but limited to straight lines, with start-up lag. Bombs have medium range and can be thrown but have a bigger hit radius than arrows, and can hit multiple enemies. Your boomerang is weak, but stuns enemies long, comes out fast, and goes in numerous directions. The hammer is very strong, but with the least range, and keeps you in place longer. The ice rod immobilizes enemies and makes them throwable weapons. Bees fight for you but are weak. The Fire Rod is super powerful, but limited by magic. Throwing rocks, jars, and skulls trade time off course for Fire Rod attack power. The magic cape lets you escape battles for a limited time. The medallions have the biggest areas of effect but cost the most magic. Mario & Luigi has great game mechanics too, but you're comparing apples and oranges.
>>1026105 >fighter's sword is weak only at certain points.
>>1026109 The Fighter's Sword is always weak. The Master Sword's better, but you don't get the Master Sword until you beat Hyrule Castle part 1, the Secret Passage, the Eastern Palace, the Desert Palace, and the Tower of Hera. The mechanics of ALttP's swordplay are good too. The slash covers an arc, and can parry many attacks, even strong attacks like the spiked balls of the Ball-and-Chain Troopers. You can do spin attacks for a 360-degree attack radius, or hold your sword in front of you, which lets you defend and counter-attack oncoming enemies, but it immobilizes your direction, and does less to no damage. That's very useful against some enemies and bosses, like Moldorm in the Tower of Hera, who can't hit you off the battle platform when you do it. Poking walls in this state lets you know what is bombable, and this state has other benefits, like bringing the boomerang out faster.
>>1026114 You don't think the tempered and golden swords are strong? And the regular sword can largely carry you through until you get the master sword. The master sword is weak when you first go to the Dark World, but once you get the tempered sword (and later the golden sword) which doesn't take too long to get, its generally pretty smooth sailing from there.
>>1026117 Those are forms of the Master Sword. They're strong, but optional, and easy to miss, and people beat Ganon without them. I watch normal people play ALttP blind, who usually get neither, especially the Golden Sword, hidden well without walkthrough use. Gilding my sword was the last thing I got, on my 3rd or 4th run, back when ALttP came out, and only after I got the internet, and saw it mentioned online. Besides speed runners, sequence breakers, and ALttP veterans, people who do get them, don't get them until they're mostly done the game, so issues with them are endgame issues, and while ALttP's endgame is less balanced, you still upgrade some items through the game, like the boomerang to the magic boomerang, and the arrows to the silver arrows, and your magic meter, and the magic meter upgrade indirectly upgrades all items that consume magic. ALBW did do endgame better than ALttP, because of the Maiamais, which upgraded most of your weapons.
>>984677 Not a single person ever bought an Expansion Pak. Everyone got it from DK64
>>1024435 >I remember when a thread was made for the launch That was me >And it was absolutely ruined by some schizo proxyfagging and accusing everybody of being a samefag shill Pretty sure that was Luciano, I just didn't know it was the Brazilian faggot yet. Made the thread on /vg/ and some fun was had.
>>1026178 Luciano is so extreme he makes his own positions look retarded.
>>1026176 I didn't own DK64 and bought an Expansion Pak for MM. Maybe I'm in the minority though.
>>1026176 I didn't buy one either. Nor an n64.
>>983535 I beat these except Omori. Undertale, Mother 3, and EarthBound are similar, so if someone plays all three, and likes one, they usually like the rest. Celeste gets attacked since Matt Thorson, who became trans, turned Madeline trans too, but that's only at the end of difficult DLC, and the game mechanics are 10/10.
>>1026200 I just emulated, didn't need one.
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>>1026074 This anon >>1026107 alr owned ur ass, but here's my version: >muh sword spaming Let's assume thats true (that it isn't). Ull be basically saying that alttp has no combat, but here's what u dont get dummy: Alttp ain't a combat game. Is a puzzle + exploration game. The two major parts of the gameplay are: 1. Work arround the puzzles on the mazzes to finsh them. 2. Explore the overwold. These 2 complent each other, since progressing on the mazzes is the only way to unlock more world to explore. Exploring in alttp is fun and rewarding, cz it gives you secret items like gold master sword, heart pieces, fire wand, bigger magic meter, etc. On top of that, the ambientation and narrative are in brillant. If you pay close attention, this is actually the darkest zelda second to mm, specially with all the plot surrounding the "golden power".
>>1026250 >LttP isn't a combat game Who invited the retards? Progression is literally gated by combat. Yes, it's gated by puzzles too, but nearly every single screen of LttP has enemies on it.
>>1026250 It's not just a combat game but combat's a part of the game.
>>1026256 >>1026364 >Progression is literally gated by combat 98% of the combat can be evaded. OR decived by playing more the puzzle-exploration side of the game, (that will grand you more health). Bosses are easy mostly too.
>>1026488 >just avoid most of the game's content and it's not a combat game Are you some kind of speedrunning tranny or something? Might as well just say LttP only has 2 minutes of gameplay because you can glitch the game to skip it.
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>>1024430 Definitely a great contender. Go play it if you haven't, if you have some nostalgia for Majora's Mask fags.
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>>1026496 I don't follow recent runs but when I did, LttP's top runner was a based white man preaching his self-improvement grind of healthy diet and exercise who hated trannies and exposed their cheating in games to the point he got swatted.
>>1026496 Nobody kills all enemies when playing alttp, they literally despawn when you get to the next screen
>>1027176 Killing enemies is fun, I did that when I played it as a kid. Only times where I didn't was after I got fast-travel and was going past places I already conquered.
>>1027180 The game accommodates both choices. I go offroad to kill enemies in my games when it's fun, even when they don't drop loot, but loot makes killing enemies better.
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>>1027356 As far as aesthetics go, especially the audio design, I agree. The retro-futurism and synth was fan-fucking-tastic.
>>1027384 As far as aesthetics go, what's your favorite store on the Citadel?
Portal Does one thing, does it well
>>983419 There are a lot more than many might think. I also think some games in retrospective are deserving of being seen as perfect now that we have modern consoles with big budget games that are so broken on launch day. Many of these games are making 90's and even early 00's games look like they aged like fine wine in comparison.
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>>983419 +R is a pretty neat game even if you are total shitter at it, and even then its fun to learn. It's got my favorite character too. But it also has it's glaring flaws with it's balancing like: making a boss character known for being strong as shit and not really nerfing her in the newer "updates", as she can just rape your shit with fireballs that have fuckhuge hitboxes, that also explode, are invincible, and that she ALSO has no limit to how many she can have on screen. Other than that, i consider the game a true "anime" fighter. F.E.A.R. is also real damn great, with it only getting a "real" sequel: trepang 2. Textures look a little shit but even then the shader tech still holds up even today, but what sucks is that you obviously have to download some shit to get it running, with the upside you have to crack the game to apply a patch, meaning you can share it between friends so they can also play the game. The gameplay itself is pretty neat, with the most of the guns being equal in power and utility. A.I. is alright, with fettel's boys getting me good a few times.
>>1027525 Maybe, but after Portal 2 I never looked back.
>>1026105 How would you compare A Link Between Worlds to A Link to the Past in terms of game design?
>>983419 >Woman protagonist >Perfect game. How?
>>1030207 You wouldn't be staring at a dude for 10 hours.
>>1030207 >How? Silent protagonist with T&A for speedrunning the game.
>>1030207 >over 6 feet tall, blonde and sexy <not perfect I think you missed a turn, the fag thread is down the hall and to the left.
>>983419 Little Big Planet While it's not the best game ever made and the sequel is arguably a better game, this one is just the perfect amount of fun without having anything super annoying about it. Even the hardest levels in the game are reasonable. The only inherently bad thing about LBP is the amount of microtransactions.
>>983419 Subjectively the perfect games for myself were ones that hooked into me like an addiction which allowed for an immersive and invested experience. The handful that did this were: Arcade: Mr. Do!, Bubble Bobble, Gyruss were the most captivating and fun, but Galaga is the perfect arcade game I think. NES: Dragon Warrior/Quest 1 SNES: Chronotrigger PS1: RE1, Parasite Eve1, SaGa Frontier 1, Kings Field 2(1N.A.), PC: Diablo1, Morrowind, GTA Vice City PS2: King's Field AC, Unlimited Saga(!) PS3: Demons Souls Nothing since the above... I guess the main thing that draws me in is the sense of exploration, ambience, and having little clue of how to win or even play the game properly. There are lots of games I liked but these were the ones that were miles above the others. The PS1 era is still my favorite. >>1027356 ME1 came close but the dialogue and characters were largely turn off and this dread of rpgs being a substitute for lack of friends and not the journey and adventure itself. Having options to explore your sexuality before saving the universe was just really opening the door for something awful.


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