one of the best snes rpg hands down has got to be romancing saga 3. it was made in the wake of ff6 and its epicness is in the vein of it too. get the translation patch and give it a go if you haven’t.
Gonna have to try it out.
In all this talk about retro games I miss the simpler days in gaming. I wish someone could release a new 16 bit console with new games developed for it so we can relive the golden age of games again…this gen can stick with next gen ill happily go back to the archaic days:)
Dude, I downloaded Chrono Trigger from the PSN a while ago… Even though it’s technically the PSX version (with all the anime cutscenes and extras and all that shit), I still consider it a SNES game at heart, and boy, those WERE much simpler times, far away from those emotionally confused, spandex-wearing RPG heroes of today.
Watching the “arranged” endings of CT which give way to the events of Chrono Cross still kinda makes me uncomfortable, though…
It’s not so much the game that’s hard as much as it’s Stage 4 Boss. I refuse to FAQ/YouTube it so it’s difficult. I meant kicking my ass as in me giving up after a few tries in favor of FFXIV beta.
Took me 30 tries…in fairness it was more a issue of me mind fucking myself by over thinking it but oddly enough I had no real issues in CV3 ha.
That crying was fucking annoying.
I’m curious to see people’s thoughts on old school difficulty, lets start by category.
Hardest RPG?
Hardest Platformer?
Hardest Boss In Any Game?
On oldschool difficulty. I still remember the days when saving was widely considered cheating by the gaming community. Although the thought of doing Super Meat Boy in one sitting makes me cry, so maybe it’s a good thing that’s gone…
I don’t play RPG’s.
Hardest Platformer: Any of the 3 Ninja Gaidens, Roller Games (NES), and of course Super Meat Boy, IWBTG, etc.
Hardest Boss: Dracula X. One mistake and you die and you do pitiful damage to Dracula and his pattern is pretty random. Longest final battle with Dracula by far and I was using Save States.
It’s all about those damn pitfalls. Whoever designed that final battle must have felt pretty damn jaded that day because I can’t think of another Castlevania game where you had to be aware of your SURROUNDINGS as well as the boss itself. Fuck that guy, gimme 3 forms of Dracula any day.
Hardest platform is still Battletoads to me. Not even save states can lessen the pain this game will inflict on you.
Hardest boss…uhhh…does Mike Tyson in Punch Out still count?
So i bought a new game called Star Soldier for the NES, never played it before but its a fun shooting game…my high score is 896,000 in level 13. I like playing old games that i never played back in the days.
Old school difficult routinely raped you up the ass with no lube and never apologized…instead they would spit on you while calling you scum and laughed at your fears.
I sometimes laugh at this new generation bragging about achievements and modern difficulty when most of them would cry and quit gaming if they had to sit through the shit we had to.
Oh man, there was a level when you were on some kind of hoverbike hopping and ducking fences? I think that would possibly count as one of the first rhythm games, since it was purely muscle memory and attrition haha.
Most respawns EVER.
sup homies, i need to ask what gens are retro and whar arent
I don’t know if I’d call Batttletoads a platformer. I guess it’s a platformer but it mixes in so many elements. The hardest sections are those memorization ones especially when you’re getting chased by that disco ball.
Good call on Tyson.
Yeah, most complaints nowadays revolve around games being difficult in ultra hard difficulty levels. I’m always like "Bitch PLEASE, back then we only had ONE difficulty level, and that was ‘Fuck you self-inflicting pain childhoods destroyed cussing galore’ "
I’m gonna bite and say PSONE/Saturn/N64 generation and earlier.
Although my retro craving has taken me to much more recent games latey, my 360 is virtually a Dreamcast at the moment…
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I’d get in on this just for Stealth Bastard Deluxe personally. The other games didn’t interest me except for Organ Trail. Stealth Bastard is a great Platform/Stealth/Puzzle game that feels a little like Meatboy. Good shit.
Organ Trail was all right. Not bad it’s just that once you figure out the basics the game boils down to grinding. You’re basically just micro-managing and repeatedly Salvaging, taking Jobs, and selling shit.
That reminds me of the secret levels in DKC2…in particular that fucking annoying flying one with wind blowing at you.
Dude, I love that game. I’ve mentioned it on SRK as the only vertical shooter I ever cared about. There have been a lot of entries in the series iirc.