/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5958352]

What are some obscure hidden gems that nobody ever played

[Anonymous No.5958390]

>>5958352
FF7

[Anonymous No.5958652]

>>5958352
There is a little known game made in 86' by the now defunct 'Nintendo', called Super Mario Bros. I worked on it in 86', as an intern. Did you know the cloud sprite, and the bush sprite, are the same sprite but a different colour?

A shame the game never got to see the light of day, it was really fun to see how much they could cram in that old hardware.

[Anonymous No.5958672]

>>5958390
I see you know your stuff, but did you also know that Square (that's the guys who made FF7) also made a mecha RPG called Xenogears? I didn't until this morning!

[Anonymous No.5958767]

Tetris. It's Soviet man, I doubt it reached anywhere outside there

[Anonymous No.5959196]

>>5958352
Far Cry

[Anonymous No.5959213]

>>5958352
I loved that fucking game. I used to play that shit until 3 in the morning.

[Anonymous No.5959215]

>>5958672
You heard wrong, the Mecha RPG they made was called Front Mission 3, my cousin who had all the obscure games had it and Square wouldn't make two Mecha RPGs on the same platform.

[Anonymous No.5959216]

>>5958352
I used to love playing this game. I'd run over waves of people in the taxi cab while laughing maniacally as mclane used the windshield wipers to wipe the blood off the windows.

[Anonymous No.5959218]

>>5959216
whoops forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.5959240]

not sure if anyone on this board has ever even heard of this game

[Anonymous No.5959264]

>>5959216
I know people shat on this game but i kind of liked it.

[Anonymous No.5959289]

>>5958352
What retro console has a lot of shovelware?
I feel like that console would have lots of obscure hidden gems, like the DS.

[Anonymous No.5959307]

>>5959289
GBC and GBA have vast amounts of shovelware. Pic related is a piece of shit but there are some good games

[Anonymous No.5959513]

UGH 6th GEN DISCUSSION WOULD RUIN THIS BOARD WITH SHITPOSTING

[Anonymous No.5959530]

>>5959307
GBA shovelware still has an off chance of ending up being entertaining for 20 minutes since they're mostly arcade styled games.

Now DS and Wii shovelware are fucking unbearable.

[Anonymous No.5959641]

>>5958672
I just learned about this hidden gem recently. It's charming and fun, but honestly it's also pretty broken. No surprise this series faded quickly into obscurity.

[Anonymous No.5959646]

>>5958352
>obscure hidden
>vagrant story

no

[Anonymous No.5959754]

>>5959513
>/vr/ makes thread about retro games we never talk about
>>5940941
>/v/ gets butthurt and makes shitpost thread about calling common games "hidden gems"
>SEE, THE SHITPOSTING IS ALREADY HERE!
I entirely agree, /v/ needs to fuck off and let us discuss retro games in peace.

[Anonymous No.5959784]

>>5958672
Ah yes anon. The game that is not a game but something you wipe your ass with.

[Anonymous No.5959827]

Wasn't released in NA so not widely known and seems to be somewhat rare for Europeans as well

[Anonymous No.5959851]

excellent third person shooter

[Anonymous No.5959986]

>>5958352
Steambot chronicles

[Anonymous No.5959994]

>that nobody ever played
I wish. Vagrant Story is terrible. One of the worst "hidden gems" around but hipsters who hardly played the game love to parade it around. It's an incoherent mish mash of ideas where nothing works, a good case study in how not to design a game

[Anonymous No.5960040]

>>5959986
square knees would not fuck

[Anonymous No.5960195]

>>5959994
I think you make the good point about a lack of cohesion, and that the game stumbles into “how not to” territory (I.e. repetitious animations of speed and power buffs/debuffs on you and enemy taking maybe 3 minutes per engagement on some enemies) but as you said, with some glaringly obvious flaws, the game became as leaping point onto to true third person Action RPGs, with companies removing the “hard numbers” that dictate VS for more casualised aRPG titles that gamers such as you can enjoy more accessibly.

[Anonymous No.5960220]

>>5960195
Not just that, everything about the game is fucked to the point where I don't even think they had any idea of how it's meant to be played. There's multiple playstyles you can do but they're all retarded, you can either take the RPG aspects of the game seriously and craft weapons paying attention to enemy weaknesses and swap them out mid combat while managing risk but this whole playstyle is one of the most disgustingly tedious things you could ever do in any RPG not just because of how long encounters take and the animations but because you're forced to deal with the slow as fuck menus to swap out gear constantly on top of refreshing your risk. You can also go to the other extreme and simply play it as a rhythm game where you time ridiculously long chains while missing most hits and doing relatively small damage that adds up over time, this takes even longer per encounter and homogenizes every single fight into the same basic rhythm game like loop. And dipshits like you will defend this absolute unfocused clusterfuck because it has muh numberz and is "hardcore" despite not actually being difficult at all, just obscure. Go fuck yourself anon

[Anonymous No.5960234]

>>5959264
It's a completely okay 3D Contra. With actual Bruce Willis on the cover instead of budget Arnold.

[Anonymous No.5960243]

>>5960220
>Complains that a 3D RPG on the PS1 is slow
Redundant but understandable

>complains that fucking much
Yeaah there's another board for you zoomer gamers over at ---> /v/

[Anonymous No.5960259]

>>5960243
It's not redundant at all, decent developers designed their games with the load times in mind and had you equip all your shit before entering combat, or didn't have 3D models for everything so switching gear was quick.
>z-zoomer!
And there it is, the final cope of the retro-hipster turd

[Anonymous No.5960264]

>>5960259
>They should've used 2D sprites instead!
Great idea anon, truly

[Anonymous No.5960276]

>>5960264
Sure I got no problem with 2D, whatever makes the gameplay less of a slog

[Anonymous No.5960434]

>>5960220
>anon replies to you, even agreeing
>go fuck yourself anon
wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?

[Anonymous No.5960452]

>>5959196
> Decide to play Syphon Filter games back to back
> Syphon Filter 2 starts immediately after the end of SF1
> Immediately, like, on the flight home back from the last level of SF1
> You even find Girdeux's body in the agency morgue.
This was a top notch sequel

[Anonymous No.5960461]

>>5958352
Why is my comment deleted? i just recommend op steambot chronicles.

[Anonymous No.5960464]

>>5960452
tell me about it

Syphon FIlter 2 is an absolutely amazing game more people need to play

[Anonymous No.5960603]

>>5959307
There's a Mary Kate and Ashley game for gbc that's kinda fun. It's like a simplified lost Vikings rip-off

[Anonymous No.5960863]

Alien vs Predator game on the arcade its fucking incredible you zip around the screen with the predators

[Anonymous No.5961003]

>>5960461
BIG
>steambot chronicles
ROUND
>Playstation 2
NUMBER
>Release: JP: June 30, 2005
YEAR

[Anonymous No.5961362]

This was one of the first games I 100%ed as a kid, very highly recommended. It has mediocre reviews for some reason but it's a pretty good platformer.

[Anonymous No.5961593]

>>5959218
Are you AIMING for these people!!!

[Anonymous No.5961595]

>>5959264
I liked it. First game i remember playing with a Hollywood actor in it

[Anonymous No.5961640]

>>5960461
Uhm, anon... 15 year old games are NOT RETRO!!!

[Anonymous No.5963643]

>>5960452
>Those tank controls
I agree with you, but if it weren't for muscle memory this shit would be hard to go back to.
Modern shooters made me a bitch.

[Anonymous No.5965926]

>>5960195
>I think you make the good point about a lack of cohesion

What actually struck me about Vagrant Story was just how cohesive the whole design was. Everything that Denam can do is presented without any real abstraction outside of combat. All the mechanics the game introduces make sense both within the setting and for denam's character.

There were a lot of poor design choices and limitations, but a lack of cohesion isnt one of them imo

[Anonymous No.5966471]

>>5959827
I thought this game invented metroidvania lol, but I absolutely adore this game, this needs to be talked about!

[Anonymous No.5966918]

>>5958672
Blatantly untruth. Square only made one game and unfortunately it (Final Fantasy 7) didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel and the studio went under.
>Imma tip muh save card for the shigg-diggys at Square who bippi-mee-doo-da.

[Anonymous No.5967021]

>>5960452

So good man. It had those big cinema vibes back then.

[Anonymous No.5967071]

>>5960243
Is it not more to do with the menus? Just poor user interface design. Like the opposite of the 3-click rule. Hotkeys would be possible, even if they couldn't just be 'tacked on' when making a PS1 game (they should have designed them in).

[Anonymous No.5967338]

Probably the only turn based RPG worth playing on N64.

[Anonymous No.5967738]

>>5967338
you call that an rpg?