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Nintendo is still making run, jump, eat this flower, collect the coins games and they’re still excellent.
And they play absolutely fantastic on the PC. Their own hardware - not so much.
Nintendo simps downvoting this comment as if a PC release for Nintendo games wouldn't just completely slam any Nintendo console release.
It's honestly amazing how much better it plays. Zelda TOTK drops to 5-10 fps every time you used the special powers. Meanwhile even legacy systems can hold at 30 or 60 if you mod.
My children aren't allowed to use my PC without me present. They're allowed to play on the switch any old time.
The "Video Games Now" part basically describes Castlevania II.
What a horrible night to have a curse.
And Max Payne. That shit was dark.
He's gonna take you back to the past
There was sex and violence in 1980s games too!
"In 2087, generations after the devastation of a global nuclear war in 1998, a remnant force of the United States Army called the Desert Rangers operates in the Southwestern United States, acting as peacekeepers to protect fellow survivors and their descendants. A team of Desert Rangers is assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in nearby areas. Throughout the game, the rangers explore the remaining enclaves of human civilization, including a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas."
"Splatterhouse is an arcade-style sidescrolling beat 'em up with platform elements[2] in which the player controls Rick, a parapsychology college major who is trapped inside West Mansion. After his resurrection by the Terror Mask, Rick makes his way through the mansion, fighting off hordes of creatures in a vain attempt to save his girlfriend Jennifer from a grisly fate."
"The games follow Larry Laffer, a balding, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing man in his 40s. The stories generally revolve around his attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to seduce attractive young women."
1982: You are General Custer and trying to rape an American Indian woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge
The last game I played gave me the option to remove the vocal chords of tens of thousands of people because they annoyed someone I'd just met. That was not a "bad guy" choice.
Made me laugh quite a lot.
Rogue Trader?
Missile Command is one of the darkest games out there.
Bethesda games: you are a prisoner about yo be executed
Souls-likes: you wake up in a jail cell
"Ah! Dead body!"
You weren't about to be executed in Morrowind. You were a prisoner, but you get released almost immediately. Of course Bethesda promptly forgot how to create a good game as soon as they released Morrowind.
I personally don't mind games being like they are now so long as the story and gameplay together make the game enjoyable. It's why I, for the most part, avoid online games.
Also, I don't know about the antihero part, but the downtrodden hero trying to survive in a dystopian world immediately made me think of Brok The Investigator.
you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...
Is my alarm clock the game?
Did you win today?
I....certainly played.
Play it out. Mario is a game where a plumber from New York visits a land of mushroom people who's princess is kidnapped by a dragon turtle, and he must eat mushrooms to get stronger and eat flowers to spit fireballs. In the most recent iteration, there are piranha plants that jump out of giant pipes, walk around, and do a whole song and dance number for you.
Clearly, there were a lot of drugs involved in its development.
You have crashed your spaceship in a drunken stupor. You should do genocide about it until you can build a new one.
Honestly, Mario Wonder was one of my favorite games lately.
Disco Elysium vibes
This is one of the reasons why I'm mostly a retro gamer.
Retro games rock. I've been playimg a lot of retro and retro-themed indie games lately.
SNES was my favorite console because it was technically primitive enough the devs had to design around it's limitations, but advanced enough that the gameplay itself could still be complex.
Hundreds of SNES games still look good and play well. With PSX/N64 generation onwards, the drive to make things look "better" resulted in visuals aging horribly.
Link to the Past still looks and plays great. Ocarina of Time (while a great game) looks like crap.
The SNES is an amazing console, I actually had a dream last night about discovering a long lost secret level in super mario world. In the dream it turned out that the level in the final area that has a secret ending creating a path directly to bowser (bipassing the castle level) actually had a second secret ending leading to an entierly new short path ending in a ghost house.
Totally agreed. SNES hit that sweet spot of being the pinnacle of 2D consoles right before the awkward years of early 3D.
I'm also old. I grew up with an Atari 2600 and then an NES, plus an Apple II at my parents' house and a C-64 at my grandparents' house. When I want to play a game for comforting fun, those are the games I most often turn to because they take me back to a simpler time in my life while being generally simpler themselves. And sure, there were some games for those systems that were complex and dark, like some Infocom games and Wasteland, which I thoroughly enjoyed and even enjoyed the modern sequels to... but honestly, I'd rather play Snake Byte on an Apple II emulator most of the time.
Unless you want a phone game, there are so few games out there now that you can just pick up and play for five minutes and then do something else. Most of them are indie edge cases (which admittedly can be good games sometimes) or quickly made web games that pretty much suck. Everything has a complex storyline. They're not games to me as much as interactive movies sometimes. And that's fine when I have a couple of hours to devote my time to it, but not all that fine when I want a slight distraction while watching a YouTube video on the other monitor.
I swear, they'd give Tetris cut scenes if it existed today.
Out of curiosity, what's you're favorite Atari 2600 game?
I have the console in my retro collection, but I haven't hooked it up in ages.
Ooh. That is a really good question.
I'm going to give a weird answer. Boxing. I'm not even a fan of real boxing. Something about it just tickles me.
I loved that one as a kid!
I also really liked some game (whose name I can't remember) where you're both cowboys and trying to shoot each other through a moving barrier in the middle.
Oh man, I know the game you're talking about, but I just can't think of it.
Dusk: You woke up hanging on meat hooks. Kill
Amid Evil: Evil has conquered the realms. Kill.
Cultic: You woke up in a pile of dead bodies while investigating a missing persons case. Kill.
Ion Fury: An asshole mad scientist made you spill your drink. Kill.
Turbo Overkill: Stop an AI bent of godhood. Kill.
System Shock: Also stop an AI bent of godhood. Kill.
Marathon: The AI bent of godhood is using you, but you both don't like the alien slavers invading your spaceship. Kill.
Prodeus: IDK. Red Demons vs Blue Demons vs You. Kill
Also video games now: You're a robot and all you know is blood is fuel and hell is full, therefore you need to kill everything you see that can bleed
Mark my words, Ashen-one. You shall remain among the accursed
You just described the original Jak trilogy.
The shadow president needs you to kill the presidential candidate so he doesn't impose a 1% income tax on the rich.
Being back arbitrary points. Well, I guess they have S-class rankings.
Games in my youth vs. Games at an adult
What can I say, I like realism in my games.