Thread 11960361

Post your retro pet peeves
>Character has buzz cut or shaven head
>Go to barber
>Can get afro or long hair as a haircut

Another one
>"Ackshually you're not supposed to keep fingers on both L1 and L2"
>Play game
>Lock on is on R1, cycling targets uses R2

Fixed camera angles
Tank controls
No quick saves

Every single one of these makes me drop a game no matter how good it seems

>>11961746
Also holding two buttons to enable strafe. Disgusting.

>>11960361 (OP)
>no kanji in famicom games, so words are way harder to identify, making reading comprehension significantly more difficult
>no drop shadow for white text in 8-bit games, so it takes longer to read and gather important information about the player's character
>super mario bros the lost levels being one of the few 8-bit that fixed that issue by adding a grey or black drop shadow, depening on the level's environment
>the levels in build engine games like duke nukem 3d stretching vertically whenever looking up or down, so it looked more like tripping on acid than actually looking around
>setting the nes video output to channel 2 or 3 on a crt, despite analog tv being common until c. 2008 in the us
>getting disconnected from a server in quake tf because mom just called one of her friends on the rotary landline phone stuck to the wall in the kitchen

>>11961746
>No quick saves
So you're unable to play 99% of retro console games?

>>11961746
Kill yourself

not just "retro" for me because of course people have been doing it for ages: fading the whole screen to white, ever, when the game's story/mechanics don't specifically call for it
the default color to fade to must always be black
any other dark color would also be fine - but quite often they choose white, for no reason at all
protect my eyes from stupid game developers

>name entry screen
>no option for a default name
>arbitrary rows of letters like "A-J" and "K-T"
>pressing Start doesn't automatically put the cursor on "Confirm"
>all not to be called some retarded name that doesn't fit the plot

>>11962057
Fade to white conveys a different feel/mood and feels generally more dreamlike
OoT made the compromise of fading to light gray to hurt your eyes less:
https://www.youtube.com/live/vR2O_6CA-rU?t=1104s

>MGS1
O is confirm, X is cancel.
>MGS2
O is confirm, X is cancel.
>MGS3
O is confirm, X is cancel.
>MGS4
X is confirm, O is cancel.

>>11960361 (OP)
I hate the use of backtracking as punishment for dying to a boss. In my opinion a level and a boss should be separate challenges, but related in the sense that your ability to navigate the level successfully determines how many lives you have left for the boss. Having to replay part of the stage to get back to boss is bullshit.

Although it's not limited to side scrollers, rpgs that don't put save points before boss fights can kiss my ass, too. If I have to beat my head against the wall numerous times with a particularly difficult boss so be it but don't yank away my progress up to that point. Yeah, it raises the stakes, but losing any significant amount time already invested isn't a fair trade-off.

Not exactly game related, more like publishers being fucktards.
>remake of old game comes out
>old version gets renamed in storefronts
Makes me so mad. Like when the remake of RE4 came out, Capcom renamed the original on Steam to Resident Evil 4 (2005) while the remake is just Resident Evil 4. No, FUCK YOU!
Leave the original alone and name your slopmake Resident Evil 4 (2023) or Resident Evil 4 Remake.

>>11960361 (OP)
>>11962075
>name entry screen has lowercase letters
>but every important non-nameable character is in uppercase so you're forced to follow suit

>>11962513
the worst is when you input your name properly, then after starting the game you notice every character has their name spelled in all caps, and you have to restart the fucking game

>>11960361 (OP)
>escort mission
>you walk at speed A, your run at speed C
>escort moves at speed B
>get ahead of escort
>"You're going too fast! Slow down."
>get behind escort
>"You're too slow, hurry up!"
>Can't pull escort
>Pushing escort just blocks you
>"Stop pushing me!"

>>11962049
Thankfully I'm able to play all of them because save states exist.

>>11960361 (OP)
Wow, almost as if the game is supposed to be unrealistic
What kind of retard wants to wait 11 months ingame just for a fucking customization option?

>>11960361 (OP)
>first person shooter uses the same hand models for every character in multiplayer, even worse if it's the campaign protag's hands
>unskippable cutscenes that are minutes long and aren't just clever loading screens (completely forgiveable if the cutscenes can be skipped on repeat playthroughs, but almost no games do this)
>reuse of assets that is logically retarded (see: the villa level of Perfect Dark reusing the area rugs as wall tapestries)
>having an AI companion but not letting you kill them even if killing them results in an automatic game over
>features female characters but they aren't sexually attractive

>>11960361 (OP)
>Post your retro pet peeves
no
I dont' like being negavtive
>>11962125
>O is confirm
I hated this shit
>>11962215
what do you mean

>>11960361 (OP)
>cant play Sega CD game if cartridge is in the system
I wish they had let you hold a button down on boot-up to load the CD.

>>11962215
I like the idea of dungeons and bosses being a combined challenge. I actually wouldnt mind seeing more RPGs where the dungeon can not be escaped from until you beat the boss, making you really use all the mechanics and items you have to their most use. I am more annoyed when there is a shit load of story stuff I have to go through again because a boss fight is right after it and I die on it.

>>11962662
>features female characters but they aren't sexually attractive
I can't think of any retro game where that is the case

>>11962684
In Japan they made O is confirm the norm.
For some retarded reason in the USA they made X is confirm the norm.

>>11962751
Kind of crazy how this website is just full of ESLs.

>Have magic sealing spell in RPG
>Works 90% of the time
>Boss' sprite indicates it has arcane abilities, don't want to be caught short by status inflictions
>Use magic sealing spell
>Boss only uses physical attacks
>mfw

>>11962739
tomb raider

>>11962770
What are you talking about?

>upgrading your weapon makes it worst
>you can't control your char after he jumped
>boss is only vulnerable during a short time, but it has as many hp as a regular boss
>enemies are immune to stage hazards

>Continue after losing in a fighting game
>Game has to reload everything from zero

Tekken 5 and Soul Calibur 3 are exceptions to this.

>>11962794
>upgrading your weapon makes it worst
This but in shmups when the upgrade is actually a downgrade and you have to remember which upgrades are shit and still sometimes you'll accidentally hit one and then die. Not dissimilar to accidentally switching weapons in gng.

>>11962046
>no kanji in famicom games, so words are way harder to identify, making reading comprehension significantly more difficult
In Metroid Fusion they had an option for kanji or hiragana. The kanji mode was labeled for "adults", but really I think it's most useful for people learning Japanese as a second language. Any native speaker knows enough context to recognize that when the character says "kami" they're referring to paper and not god or hair.

>>11962779
Awful bait

>>11960361 (OP)
>get to new area in an RPG
>stores sell new equipment
>expensive as fuck, don't have enough cash
>grind for money to afford new equipment
>finally get enough to kit entire party with the latest and greatest
>it's go time
>enter dungeon
>immediately find superior equipment as loot

>>11962931
i hate this too but only when you have enough money to get everything by default, the idea was for you to just buy what you can afford (or preferably keep on weaker armor that boosts offensive stats if feasible). besides separating grinding money and grinding exp is rarer than it oughta be in most rpgs, so gaining those levels is often enough even without the armor.

>>11962951
>>11962931
RPGs need someone who gets the concept of pacing for this problem. I think it's better to buy sporadic big upgrades here and there as you adventure and then loot is more balanced, or can be recycled in a way that goes towards buying the big upgrades. RPG economies in general seem like they're really hard to get right and although the modern craftingslop solution isn't perfect it is meant to bandaid this problem. Some CRPGs solved this problem with big parties with -somewhat- interchangeable weapon sets for characters so when you buy the big cock sword someone else in your party gets an upgrade with the other sword, down the line etc.

>>11963114
Why do you say this as if it's something that has the potential to happen, the whole point of this board is to discuss games that were released over 20 years ago.

>>11963114
Nevermind, you're a "-slop" poster.

>>11962931
So you sell the old equipment and still have more money you did before grinding, not to mention the experience you got in the process.

Secondly you said you "grinded for the entire party", I don't believe the dungeon offers free loot for "the entire party" and certainly not "immediately".

So not only you brought this on yourself for grinding more than what the game really wants (the game wants you to make choices); but it's not as bad as you make it sound. You're the kind of person who blames a game for having choice because of your own inability to deal with it and then when you have a glass that 75% full you decide to only look at the 25% part of it that's empty.

>>11962495
People say "remakes don't replace the originals!" when in reality, remakes do everything in their power to do just that.

@11962046
tranny name, didn't read. repost without your special boy tripcode

>>11963141
>>11963142
>Why do you say this as if it's something that has the potential to happen
I actually did say some games solved this problem, retro games at that.
>Nevermind, you're a "-slop" poster.
You're a fat retard

>>11962931
You were supposed to not consoom mindlessly, but rather probe around the new dungeon and see how it is after buying only a few upgrades for your party. At that point, you find out whether your party can either handle it and get dungeon loot upgrades, or retreat and try again with new cash/exp/intel from the dungeon, and if it seems like you're hopelessly outmatched THEN you grind.
This is an element of intuition and a school of mental skill that most players never see in RPGs. Most players are blind grinders..

>>11963148
It's what companies want, not what people want. Remakes are made to make the game marketable again. You know game industry absolutely hates the used game market and does everything to kill it.

>>11962057
Same, anon. White flashes are even worse. Japanese developers in the 90s loved them for some reason, there are JRPGs where every battle starts with a white flash or wipe. Maybe they don't get migraines in Japan.

>>11960361 (OP)
>RPG
>Your party is powerful enough to level a mountain
>You need a key to open this door!

>>11960361 (OP)
>when any regular run is over an hour long
>no passwords
>no saving
>dying too much sends you back to the start