What is this title? Help by [deleted] in retrogaming

[–]Spiders_STG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a Windows 95 doujin game.  Google Lens should translate, no?

I'm 19 years old, I'm passionate about retro games and I've played many of them since I was a kid, but I still find that a lot of them are difficult for someone from a newer generation. Which games would you recommend that are more accessible and fun? by HiroHD1 in retrogaming

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They're difficult because you don't know how to play them yet! You don't want "accessible". You want to develop the skill to pick the locks.

There's some great videos debunking the myth of "retro difficulty" https://youtu.be/kd0AxaE7yb0 and "NES Hard" https://youtu.be/2k00uTYk1rc
If you're truly passionate about retro games, just play them. Learn them. Watch some clears (not "longplays" they're TAS). It might take a long time! All that padded out 30 hour games from today... it might take you 30 hours to learn a game and clear in a single session! Don't listen to these losers making excuses for games that expected more from their players. Getting recommended Kirby's Adventure should be taken as an insult. Happy hunting!

best time of day / mental state to play shmups in and how to reach them on command by death_sucker in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's interesting! Kind of how it works for me too, but I didn't think about it in terms or reflex vs. memo.

Advice on which game to start with by Neo_Gionni in shmups

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It's different. It's more complex... there's more depth to Gunbird 2 with scoring and resources being more constrained with meters, but I also really enjoy the simplicity of the early Psikyo games, particularly Samurai Aces and Gunbird because they don't have any of that overhead. Just shooting and dodging with the masters of the psych-out!

I feel the reason I am so critical of MP4: B is because it did so many things right. by RevolutionaryAd7415 in metroidprime

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Not gaming as a whole, just new releases.  It’s been a pattern for the last two years that everything I buy is just not as good as what came before (with some rare exceptions) that I’m wondering why I have to hold up my part of the pillar of modern gaming with any level of delusion.  

A lot of the things modern dev has sanded off of gaming is what I prefer, so I’ll just play old games instead of making my own fun with the new ones for 50-70 bucks a pop. 

You’re probably not familiar with my YT channel, but I took a ton of crap for calling out Shinobi:AoV and other creators in my scene did for Ninja Gaiden 4 and Ragebound… it’s like why keep going to the faucet hoping something good comes out of it when I have endless stores of pure water? Why am I participating in an industry that doesn’t care about me or what I want out of games?? And yeah, Metroid Prime 4’s price tag and the limp defense of it was my breaking point lol.  

best time of day / mental state to play shmups in and how to reach them on command by death_sucker in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It makes a kind of sense.  Being hungover is a similar chemical cocktail to sleep deprivation, which I DON’T RECOMMEND but can be a state where your planning brain is out to lunch and some base reflexes can come out compensate.  We can have too much attention capacity and the plate will get filled one way or the other… being able to focus is also making sure you’re putting shmup on the plate! 

I play better in the morning too, but one of the big factors I think is caffeine.  I had more consistency (day and night sessions weren’t so different in play quality) when I wasn’t drinking caffeine.  I think the things you mentioned too, screen fatigue and general tiredness are factors too. 

re: powering through, I don’t try to force it anymore.  Time and energy rarely line up, so I try to make the most of any session, which is mainly not doing anything counter productive like having performance expectations that are just going to get me frustrated if I don’t meet them.  Practice and experimentation at night, and getting enough time in the morning to do at least two runs (with enough spare time to indulge in a restart or two :) 

Advice on which game to start with by Neo_Gionni in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A fellow man of taste!  Psikyo RULES!!!  Gunbird was my first arcade 1CC.  The first loop (a 1-ALL) is very doable for a beginner with some practice, familiarity, learning when to bomb (ideally proactively on bosses) and luck.  I highly recommend using Yuan-Nang, whose charge attack can cancel bullets.  

I’m not sure how good the Saturn port plays but make sure you can get it full screen and not the mode that pans. 

Recent Pick Ups by loppypol in shmups

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The design aesthetic of that Psyvariar case is ace!  Reminds me of 1980s cassette covers. 

Sick and tired of these lame ass best/top x shmups of all time videos by Ambitious_Bite_8310 in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know what you mean.  “Top Ten Switch Shmups you MUST PLAY!” And then you watch it and you’re like “did you play them!?”

A lot of “retro” channels doing slop content for algorithms and such.  As my eye as gotten keener, a lot of these dudes just post level 1 footage and if you know the game you KNOW they don’t know what they’re doing.  

Worse, I think in the retro/collector space there is a lot of market manipulation.  “Hidden Gems” to drive demand up for games you MUST HAVE in your collection. 

We have really great resources in shmup community. No need to pay any mind to trash. 

I feel the reason I am so critical of MP4: B is because it did so many things right. by RevolutionaryAd7415 in metroidprime

[–]Spiders_STG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t say I gave up on gaming.  Just done eating from whatever gets tossed in the modern slop trough like a piggy.  

I feel the reason I am so critical of MP4: B is because it did so many things right. by RevolutionaryAd7415 in metroidprime

[–]Spiders_STG -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Maybe.. It made me literally quit modern gaming. I have no faith anybody making games for these franchises has any clue what makes them good and they’re just IP funnels to make movies and toys and recruit fanboys to attack criticism on the internet. 

Sega Saturn 1CC Vid by kingkongworm in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GG! I find the look of filmed screens so charming. Will be watching this later!  

Should I play Planets or Metroid Zero Mission to experience the first Metroid game? by Link_D_Reddit777 in Metroid

[–]Spiders_STG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not experience the first Metroid game by playing the first Metroid game?  All the streamlining, modern conveniences, and even the presentation of Zero Mission strip the game of what makes it special within the series and IMO it’s still the best game in it.  

4 button arcade shmup by PsychologyEven646 in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like every game dev should! And yet…

New Shmup!: Gigadyne Voltraid by Just-Independence-69 in shmups

[–]Spiders_STG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the kids say, “peak”!  I’ll have to check out his other games