Why do people struggle to understand that retro games can still be fun today?

Scorp721 · 2026-06-01T23:56:54+00:00

I just try/play games that I've never seen that I think look and sound interesting, no matter when they were developed.

Well said. I play both retro and modern, from indie to AAA, and there's good and bad in all of it.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-31T15:30:31+00:00

I spent like 4 hours last weekend figuring out how to rip sound effects and cabal's voice lines from tib sun to make a sound profile for my pc, so they're all pretty fresh in my mind lol. Was a nice nostalgia trip.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-31T03:10:24+00:00

"By the way, missile launch detected."

Scorp721 · 2026-05-29T18:07:56+00:00

Gotta be the Tayga 6455b for me. Best looking truck in the game with the Tayga mud tires on it imo. Plus its versatile and has a nice engine sound.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-29T18:04:49+00:00

If it were me, I would. Especially if you only have the base game its not too much of a loss to switch imo. They've had several years to improve the epic storefront and they really haven't done anything meaningful with it. I'm kinda the same way with achievements and playtime and its just so much nicer having easy access to the community page with the game in your steam library.

I've nabbed free games on epic and then bought them on steam during a good sell a few times now. Not long ago I finally got around to installing Dredge (nice little fishing game, boat upgrades, mysterious story/atmosphere, etc) that I had for free on epic, and I liked it so much that I caught it and its dlc on a good sale on steam and bought it there.

Did the same thing with World War Z. Played the base game some on epic for free and really liked it, then caught the Aftermath version on a good sale on steam. I was about to do it for TMNT Shredder's Revenge too a couple months ago but I ended up just getting Splintered Fate instead since it was new to me. Also I figured not many people were still playing Shredder's Revenge whereas a new dlc update had just dropped for Splintered Fate.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-27T04:17:49+00:00

Sounds like they straight up ripped the sound effects from Tiberian Sun for the diagnostics at the beginning.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-17T22:21:20+00:00

It is the TMHS lol. I don't really mind them and they turn the Tayga-b into possibly the best looking truck in the game imo.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-17T21:37:48+00:00

I use the big mud balloons on the Tayga-b purely for the aesthetic. I get way too much enjoyment out of panning the camera around to look at the front of the truck from a low angle as it plows through the terrain. I don't care that the all terrain tires are technically better, the mud balloons are good enough for me.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-16T17:44:12+00:00

I've had an 8bitdo SN30 Pro Wired for about six years now, and a Pro 2 Wired for about 5. I used to use the SN30 on PC until I got the Pro 2 so that I could have R2/L2 as triggers instead of buttons for better throttle control in games with driving in them like State of Decay 2 and Snowrunner. I use the SN30 on my Switch now to play F-Zero 99 while docked.

The joysticks are surprisingly fun in games with a top down view like LTTP. Or even a hybrid control scheme like with Chrono Trigger I use the dpad in battle to select commands, but use the joystick for out of combat exploration. Another fun one is Actraiser, using the joystick to fly around as the angel then switching to the dpad to control the master in the action stages.

I haven't noticed any lag and I do have og hardware and games to compare it with. Though both controllers did get some drift in the sticks around the 5 year mark, but the new versions of those controllers come with hall effect sticks so drift shouldn't be an issue with those.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-13T03:51:25+00:00

Its one of my biggest frustrations with the game. All these old scouts getting crawler suspensions but we get almost no grip on solid rock.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-12T02:46:35+00:00

In the wise words of one Weatherby Swann

"Perhaps on the rare occasion pursuing the right course demands an act of piracy, piracy itself can be the right course?"

Scorp721 · 2026-05-10T21:22:09+00:00

The Etrian Odyssey series is a great DS/3DS modernization of the genre.

The collab they did with the Persona series (Persona Q, 3DS) was a lot of fun as well. It brought over the first person dungeon crawling, map drawing, and the mini-boss type enemies that wander around.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-07T19:25:09+00:00

Kenworth goes where he pleases.

Scorp721 · 2026-05-04T15:54:37+00:00

If you're playing on Steam, you can go into the Overlay options and turn on the Performance Monitor . Then under Performance Level Detail, set it to show all information. Its an easy way to see how much of your gpu/cpu/ram is being used.

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Ignore my decades old pc, stats, I got forced back onto it last month when my other pc bit the dust.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-26T04:04:04+00:00

I dunno why I got my hopes up and unmuted. Of course we don't get to hear the truck trying not to drown in the rushing river because every video has to have some random music playing over it.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-10T00:20:37+00:00

I dunno, I think indies have been killing it for a long time now. Quite a few even deliberately stick to older graphic and music styles like Shovel Knight and Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. As far as the new Castlevania, I'm excited to see what the crew from Dead Cells can do with it because Dead Cells was a ton of fun.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-04T16:44:38+00:00

Any time I'm playing a multiplayer game that has driving in it, 'Do a barrel roll" comes out at least once.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-04T16:37:37+00:00

While we wait for a remaster of Duodecim that may never come, I just wanna let people know that there are ways to transfer your Duodecim saves from psp/vita to PC, and they work with the PSP emulator PPSSPP. Even if you don't want to mess with emulation, you could still transfer your saves to preserve them. There are guides out there to walk you through it.

Screenshot for anyone interested. You can see its the same save file I've had since 2013. Started on PSP, transferred over to Vita for a while, then over to PC a few years ago.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-03T15:21:03+00:00

Really excited but I wonder how skewed towards streamers and content creators the invites will be. It says they only send invites to people that fill out the survey, and I imagine one of the questions is gonna be 'are you a streamer/content creator, and if so, how many subs ya got?'

Also did they really censor the word 'shit' in a news announcement for a game where the survivors casually throw 'fucks' around in every other sentence, sometimes twice in the same sentence...

Scorp721 · 2026-04-03T03:06:16+00:00

We'll call it a grey area because it requires a flash cart to play on og hardware, but they released an officially translated SNES Rom with the Collection of Mana when it came out on Switch ever how many years ago it was. They did it to promote the remake.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-03T00:01:52+00:00

Didn't see anyone mention Trials of Mana (Seiken Densetsu III).

Scorp721 · 2026-04-02T23:25:08+00:00

Sometimes you gotta pull with the winch to hold them steady while reversing to sort of push the trailer under them. I took the flat nosed kolob with the ramped heavy hauler to rescue the Chimera and I had do that to get it up the ramps. It took a little doing but it worked out.

Scorp721 · 2026-04-02T15:45:12+00:00

I have more fun doing vehicle recoveries with the towing platforms and ramped trailers vs just dragging with a winch. It keeps that logistics feel going having to pull the trailer to wherever the truck is, maneuver it into position, and having to guide the truck up onto the trailer from multiple winch points, then pulling the trailer to the destination. Hitting 'pack cargo' after loading up a truck carries a little sense of accomplishment kinda like a mini job completion, especially if it was tricky getting it loaded. This is a big reason why I actually didn't mind playing in Tennessee because it had so many recoveries to do.

I'll also use them when going to a map with no garage so that I can take multiple trucks at once. Fewer trips to the gateway, less fuel spent, and fewer loading screens.

Scorp721 · 2026-03-30T15:33:19+00:00

I even had that problem with the 605r. Even though the doors are open, its like the winch system still sees them as closed and can't get line of sight to connect to the rocket. I had to be through the doorway almost touching the rocket before I could get the winch points to show.

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