Thread 11907174

>>11907174 (OP)
Man I miss when PC and Console games were really different, now they are all the same

>>11907174 (OP)
What are some good ones? The Sims 1 actually makes it 3D, it's good. Is Diablo good on PS1? How about C&C?

>>11907194
Serious Sam on Xbox, which merges the First and Second Encounter into one game.

>>11907182
It happened with the original Xbox. All the PC games got moved to the Xbox, and became PC/Console hybrids that don't really have the strengths of either. Genres that didn't transfer over cleanly, like RTS, got killed entirely after a bunch of failed attempts.

>>11907174 (OP)
Dune 2, Pirates Gold, Starflight, King's Bounty. Genesis had a really good selection of PC ports.

doom and diablo were better on ps1. sim city was better on snes.

>>11907174 (OP)
XCom was surprisingly good on PSX

>>11907232
That cover of Wolf 3D is single handedly the worst one of the bunch. I just chalk it up to it being a generic cover for a random canceled game that they reused because it would be more fitting for some shit like commandos or ikari warriors than Wolf.

>>11907194
C&C was pretty good. The fact that it is slow paced and not exactly micro intensive helps ran to a crawl in big skirmish games though. Pic was solid as well. At least i have no negative memories of the ps version.

>>11907210
>le Xbox killed the rts genre

deranged and obsessed

>>11907359
>also i can't type anymore and forgot pic trice jesus
for skirmish i mean red alert, i don't remember if the original C&C had a skirmish mode.

>>11907342

post proper pc games not jap trash

>posting superior PAL boxart
is it better with a mouse or with a pad? I heard flight games are better on pad

>>11907174 (OP)
I honestly like Bustin' Out more than any of the PC ones.

>>11907405
I miss that era because they knew they couldn't do PC faithful sims on console so they gave them quirky plots and they were like spinoffs. Nowadays sims on console is just the pc game on console afaik and what self respecting person plays basically the same game but with a controller

>>11907258
>XCom was surprisingly good on PSX
It's on PS? Nice, maybe it's time to give it a try

>superior PAL boxart
No such thing.

>>11907194
diablo is really good yea. even has co-op

>>11907182
mid-late 90s was pure magical

>>11907510
The GOAT!

>>11907182
I don't. I love not having to buy modern consoles because PCs made them redundant.

>always eager to play this game on the weekends at my cousin's house.
>Sunday is over, time to go home, the harsh reality is that I'll have to wait another 6 days to play again.
>found this game randomly on the shelf of a game store, with the playstation 2 label...I couldn't believe it.
I was the happiest kid alive for several months

>>11908009
>Virtual Asshole Syndrome
kek

I beat both campaigns in the Playstation Command and Conquer over the sweltering hot summer of 1997. Never could hack the bonus missions though.

>>11907240
>doom
>better on ps1
...
>cut arch-vile
>unfaithful levels
>cut textures
It's a fine port but not as good as DOS originals

Microsoft Best of Entertainment for Game Boy

>>11907174 (OP)
My favorite Might & Magic without Heroes in the name

>>11908123
the OST is so much better that alone makes it superior for me. fits the game 100x better than the boomer metal.

>>11907194
I started with Command and Conquer on the PSX, but after playing the PC version some years later I can't help but find it completely inferior. It's far more clunky and less feature complete than the PC versions, it was serviceable for a single player runthrough when you didn't have a PC but not useful in a world where you could just play the PC version.

I even got a friend over to play via link cable on Red Alert, and while it was enjoyable it still wasn't as great as playing a big match on the PC.

>>11907510
I still have a cartridge of this, I got it from eBay way after the fact on the idea that me and my friends loved Starcraft and might want to play it together in the same room outside of a LAN. It's pretty clunky though.

>>11908106
It's funny, I ran through both campaigns too but I skipped several of the expansion missions. I did all of GDI's Covert Operations but NOD's ones were too hard, and in Red Alert Retaliation I skipped around and played each mission for a few minutes before losing or moving on.

I played the absolute shit out of the ant missions though, I loved the idea of needing to build a base and turtle against waves of enemies.

>>11907258
Isn't the AI slow as shit?
And how the fuck do you play it with a dpad without wanting to kill yourself?

>>11907174 (OP)
Big fan of console strategy.

Despite having played Civ 4, Civ 2 is what got me into the series. I was away so this was my only 4x option on PSP for a while keeping me sane.

Its too bad that later title became more bloaty for me and the real sequel to civ 2, civ rev, was a ds/ios/xbox exclusive.

>>11908627
Civ2 on the playstation was surprisingly feature complete. I found the UI for Civ2 on the PC sort of clunky back then, so the PSX one wasn't a big turnoff despite it taking more navigation to get to things. I never played Civ Rev though, how was it?

>>11908623
>dpad

>>11908632
>how was it?
I will be honest, I never played it as religiously as Civ 2 but from what I saw it was the Civ 2.5 that I always wanted since

>finally more victory conditions instead of your kill other empires or send ship
>Deity is actually hard instead of REX strategy in 2
>Some graphical variation between Civs and their units
>cultural borders
>can stack units and make "Armies" by stacking 3 of the same units to get a *3 strength bonus,
>kept the FUNdamentalism civic

To add to all that, it was one of last civs where Sid was personally involved and actually said in one of the interviews he always wanted to build this kind of a game.

>>11908641
So you have to buy an extra peripheral and then move your PS1 and tv to a desk to properly use it, and in the end you still end up with worse control since you can't use keyboard shortcuts.

>>11908663
This is why I'm a PC fag, I feel like if your game has menus or requires a mouse to play properly, then you should just play it on PC, simple as.

>>11907905
isn't that just skullmonkeys?

>>11908667
I used to think that k&m were always better, but nowadays I prefer a controller whenever it's an option. I don't play competitively or anything, and controller gets the job done conveniently and comfortably.

Also I think controller dislike partly stems from those old shitty ports with a slow interfaces for two button NES controllers

>>11908971
Japan only port of the Neverhood. It has a translation patch. A whole bunch of PC games received Japan only ports for the PSX.

Ones that come to mind
>Maniac Mansion, ELITE, and M.U.L.E. on NES
>Sid Meier's Pirates Gold, Starflight, Syndicate, Theme Park, LHX Attack Chopper, James Pond II- Code Name Robocod (which is kind of a given considering how much this POS has been ported to TONS of different platforms at this point), Worms, Cannon Fodder, and The Immortal on Genesis/Mega-Drive
>Sim City on SNES

I used to rent the SNES Wing Commander games all the time.

>>11908998
>jap psx pc ports
Someone will call it a sin, but this is how I've played a few pc games.

>>11907225
>Pirates Gold
damn I didnt even know pirates got a console port

It's amazing this was even possible

>>11908341
Only 1/3 of Doom music is metal, even less so in Doom II case. Most are moody tracks that add to the atmosphere, like E2M2 or MAP05

>>11910713
this and thief deadly shadows really made me feel the ‘next gen’

>>11907194
>Is Diablo good on PS1?
Arguably the best version of it, oddly enough

>>11907265
So many weak opinions on /vr/ today.

>>11907209
This one is legit good. I was expecting just the exact same game as on PC with some cut content and framedrops but there's plenty of changes that make it pretty arcadey and feel at home on a console, like the scoring with multipliers for killing several enemies with one shot, or the lives system. My favorite FPS to play while lying on bed.

>>11907382
Based. Is the sequel any good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSUX3qGcWS4

>>11910174
This one had a weird exclusive dub, was surprised when I heard the PC release (the British sailors actually sounded British in the PC version, they just sounded American in this one).

>>11911117
I loved the first to death but dropped the sequel not even half way through, it had none of the charm of the original, no compelling face for the gpolice like Orten or factions like krakov or nanosoft (the earth's military reinforcement who show up at the end of the first game are actually the bad guys). No interesting stakes and you have missions where you pilot a mecha which is not interesting... Utterly forgettable. Maybe I dropped it too early but what I played was not good.

>>11907194
diablo co-op was addictive and fun as hell

>>11907510
I completely forgot this was a thing

>>11910959
but dude is carrying a fucking M16... in a game about WWII

>>11911483
It's a game that has mecha-Hitler in it.

>>11911581
>kid dressed like Rambo with an M16
>Mecha-Hitler
One of these is on the cover, the other is in the game.
Can you figure out which is which?

>>11907225
probably was easy to do on 68k

>>11907382
I only played on PC with a flight stick
shit is cash but hard as fuck

bump

bump

The Doom and Final Doom soundtracks on PSX are awesome. Same as with UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep (at least there's mods that fix that for OXCE). The Command and Conquer games are serviceable also thanks to the soundtrack. Some of the Might and Magic and Wizardry games have the best versions on consoles.

>>11907174 (OP)
While I still prefer them on PC, where I initially played them, they are pretty decent ports.

>>11910745
>thief deadly shadows
this shit runs at 10 fps on xbox lol

>>11908998
Phantasmagoria and Darkseed 1-2 had Saturn ports in Japan.

>>11908152
This together with Pinball Dreams on Amiga 500 were DOPE. Still play them on macbook air via emulator.

>>11907174 (OP)
>civ2
>on PS
gross

Getting C&C Red Alert on a Playstation demo disc is what got me into the RTS genre. I used to spend all afternoon just doing skirmishes, building massive impenetrable bases before amassing a huge armies to run over the other 3 CPU players.

>>11907510
ROCK AND ROLL!

>>11914756
That's the better game on Smartphone (duckstation).

>>11907258
I've never actually played XCom, but it's a turn-based tactics game so I can definitely see it. It's not like an RTS where you need the speed and precision of a mouse.

>>11907174 (OP)
Until winXP, console ports were a must and a great deal.
Dealing with win98 PCs and all sorts of incompatibility issues and crashes was a pain in the ass.
The simple plug and play was a monumental cost-benefit solution on the 90s consoles.