/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10941034]

Wow this game sucks
Did old men really enjoy this game back then?

[Anonymous No.10941036]

>>10941034
yes
we also enjoyed having sex with your mom

[Anonymous No.10941039]

We started with 2 at home, and from what I've heard over the years, you're better off doing the same.

[Anonymous No.10941071]

its hard to get cpu speed right so the view doesn't fly across the map when you try to mouse pan

[Anonymous No.10941074]

>>10941034
I love this game so much, I played it for hours upon hours. I would get school assigments to read books and in the middle of the book I would start daydreaming about the game, about the things I had read in the manual and completely forget about the book and would need to re-read 10-20 pages again. I would get home from school and just turn on my PC and start playing until night and then do all my homework in a rush.
Speaking of the manual, it sparked my imagination so much, thanks to the amazing art and all the lore and the way the units and buildings were depicted.
Having the CD version and seeing the opening scene animated over just being still images was mind blowing.
Playing it over dial-up was an insanely cool experience too, even though I had like 1 other friend I could play with, I wish I had more people to try more battles.

[Anonymous No.10941086]

>>10941034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ikW7pVa_I

[Anonymous No.10941112]

ah, back when it was just your standard high fantasy rather than a bunch of failed novelists sniffing their own farts

[Anonymous No.10941140]

>>10941034
The very first game I ever pirated, played it all night into the next morning, absolutely loved it, and the first game I played in the franchise was 3. I might be the worst of the 3 games, but its still a great game that looks real nice

[Anonymous No.10941223]

Blatant bait. Only a retard would make such post with "old men".

[Anonymous No.10941234]

>play the shareware version on one of those game demo collection discs I borrowed from a friend
>see it at store a couple weeks later for $15
>beg my mom to buy it
>play it
>it's also the shareware version
bastards tricked me by putting it in what looked like a legitimate full version retail box

[Anonymous No.10941269]

Road building. Unit selection. Movement speed.

[Anonymous No.10941287]

>>10941223
Your game sucks old man

[Anonymous No.10941409]

>>10941034
I mean if you mean old men now, sort of. If you mean old men then - probably a lot less.
It's not great, but it was a product of it's time when there wasn't much like it.
I would play with a friend over modem. Eventually we also played a bit of C&C but didn't last too long.

[Anonymous No.10941515]

>>10941034
It was a modest success, then Warcraft2 came out the next year, was a major improvement over the original, and really put Blizzard on the map. The first game was kind of forgotten and never really had a huge following like WC2 and Diablo to begin with. It's nothing special imo. My go to RTS in '95 was Command and Conquer.

[Anonymous No.10941547]

>>10941034
It's ok, but there's no real reason to go back after playing WC2

[Anonymous No.10941563]

every blizzard sequel loses a little soul and WC2 is no exception

[Anonymous No.10941568]

I'd honestly rather play WC1 than 2. It has a cool gritty vibe with grungy visuals and music and the dungeon maps that aren't in 2.

[Anonymous No.10941572]

What kind of things do you think the ogres did to him while he was their prisoner?

[Anonymous No.10941580]

I was the same age as gen A is now when this l came out and yeah, it was extremely fun to play. This and command and conquer were a revelation back then, can’t properly express how amazing those were when they came out, they were a completely new style of game. Of course it’s going to seem like an outdated relic now, it is. This is a bait thread probably created by an old fag anyway so here (You) go.

[Anonymous No.10941587]

>>10941580
Starcraft instantly made every RTS made before it obsolete.

[Anonymous No.10941589]

>>10941580
>Of course it’s going to seem like an outdated relic now, it is.
It was an outdated relic literally within a year of its release thanks to WC2 coming out.

[Anonymous No.10941612]

>>10941587
I never liked Starcraft. The aesthetic design was trash.

[Anonymous No.10941654]

>>10941039
This, 2 was a blast by yourself but better with friends. I never did the whole wow thing, kinda fell off with warcraft 3

[Anonymous No.10941678]

>>10941612
This. It was very polished, especially for the time, but the design itself was bleh.

[Anonymous No.10941709]

>>10941572
there's a reason lothar never talked about what happened in those caves

[Anonymous No.10941713]

>>10941587
I don’t know about obsolete but it definitely raised the bar. I always liked C&C more even if StarCraft was technically the better game.

[Anonymous No.10941714]

>>10941034
it was amazing at the time

you will never experience the thrill, zoombug

[Anonymous No.10941720]

>>10941234

I feel like a person could have been able to argue them into giving a refund in that situation. But of course if you're at an age where you're begging your mom for $15 then you probably don't have the social powers yet to do any such thing. (I certainly wouldn't have.)

[Anonymous No.10941726]

>>10941612
To make my point.
At a glance - everything in this image is instantly understandable. Things are very distinct Nothing really blends into shit - what's present is clear and concise.

[Anonymous No.10941730]

>>10941726
Now - you get starcraft and there's like 7 grey fucking block triangles buildings that basically look like the same thing with different dick tower arrangements on them with various largely indistinct units running around at all times that look equally bland.
Starcraft is visually a fucking mess. Whether the balance is good or not isn't really a case I'm making - I don't care about the game because graphics ARE important in an RTS where being able to recognize shit is vital and they did a piss poor job on that end. Are the graphical specs terrible for the game - no. It's purely design choices that effect game-play negatively.

[Anonymous No.10941735]

>>10941730
Let's even check C&C... you got some nuke plants which are obvious to everyone. You've got some hazard door buildings that are distinct.. A clear ramp shit for planes and shit. Some dome shit, some satellite shit, some crane shit. And a thorn thing to shoot people.
All of this is instantly clear.

[Anonymous No.10941740]

>>10941720
not him but I got burned a few times as a kid before realizing what shareware was

you come from consoles where that shit doesn't exist, you understand what the demo disc that comes with your pc gamer subscription is but you kind of just figure if you pay money for a game at a store you must be getting the full thing

[Anonymous No.10941743]

>>10941612
>>10941726
>>10941730
>>10941735
Well I for one am glad you finally got this out of your chest son

[Anonymous No.10941757]

>>10941743
Thanks.. It's been building up for a while - don't know what would've happened if I held it in..

[Anonymous No.10941818]

>>10941034

frfr!

[Anonymous No.10941934]

>>10941234
Blizzard kept pulling this shit as late as Diablo 1. Fucking scummy if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.10942012]

>>10941726
kek the WC1 units are far less distinct than Starcraft's, come on

[Anonymous No.10942230]

>>10941287
ok, retard

[Anonymous No.10942236]

>>10941612
>The aesthetic design was trash.
>not liking space cowboys and peak soul 3D renders
low IQ, end your life

[Anonymous No.10942238]

>>10941730
There is nothing remotely difficult to read in this image. You're also using a widescreen pic of a 4:3 and intentionally picked the most grey environment you could find. C&C fags are the worst man.

[Anonymous No.10942292]

>>10941112
It was just your standard warhammer fantasy ripoff because they couldn't get the rights from gee dubya.

[Anonymous No.10942415]

>>10941730
>wow look at this game that i admit i don't care about, i don't know what anything does because i've never played the fucking thing!
nigger i look at >>10941735 and i don't know what any of the buildings there do because i've never played a C&C game.

>You've got some hazard door buildings that are distinct
the fucking christ does this even mean? no one who has not played the game is going to be able to tell you what the distinct function of that building is just by looking at it.

did someone at blizzard fuck your mother? because given how petty your complaints are, it certainly seems like that.

[Anonymous No.10942567]

1 and 2 are one of the most boring, braindead RTS games. Warcraft didn't get good until 3.

[Anonymous No.10942602]

>>10941036
#metoo
>i was the one watching.
>>10941039
you're too young, cuck son. tell mom i said hi.

>>10941074
humans too OP. Daemon was crap compared to the Water Elemental.
Meteor spell had longer range than the Poison mist. same for Archers VS Spearthrowers.

[Anonymous No.10942618]

>>10941735
>Windows ver
i never got the Win95 version to work on Win98. so i played the DOS version which was buggy as fug and looked more like Warcraft 1 graphix.

Starcraft 1 worked with just about any PC with a Pentium 2 CPU. that was impressive as fug.

if you want hard to understand graphix, play console versions of KKND? or any of the Total-A games?

[Anonymous No.10942646]

>>10941740
>I got burned a few times as a kid before realizing what shareware was

well if your game stores were run by scum and no one threatens to sue them. that's what you get. here, shareware games were clearly stated on the small disk box or the plastic packaging. they were all much cheaper than full priced games but i never see anyone buying them except me and my bro.

there was also that 1 DOOM shareware disk that someone cost 5 AUS bucks more that other shareware, so i guess lots of people bought that one, or the seller just thought it would be popular because cutting edge 3D!!!

[Anonymous No.10942660]

>>10941086
>Video unavailable
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner

Invidious, use it.

[Anonymous No.10942724]

>>10941036
I usually don’t laugh at yo momma jokes, but this one was great.

[Anonymous No.10942730]

>>10941730
Aspect Ratio

[Anonymous No.10942846]

>>10941730
The only thing that looks bad in this image is how clearly they fucked up their build order

[Anonymous No.10942850]

>>10942567
What? 2 has problems but it's not boring and braindead.

[Anonymous No.10942880]

>>10941034
Pure bait thread, but no sage bc we don’t get rts threads too often here in between all the “le Mario 64 was terrible” troll threads, etc.
>>10941515
The following was never really huge, but it was passionate. This game was gd awesome to play and a gift for those of us stuck on Macs in the 90s. Agree with >>10941568 too, the dungeon maps are great and we didn’t get that back until WC3.
>>10941730
Agree StarCraft buildings etc can sometimes seem jumbled and too alike, but your image in >>10941726 doesn’t seem much better, those orc huts all start to look indistinct if you get enough of them lumped together.
>>10942567
There’s a difference between boring/braindead and formulaic. I’d argue WC1 and 2 are formulaic but not braindead. They can get boring if you’re just running similar missions for marathon sessions, but keep in mind all these games were made during an era where kids still went outside and took breaks from gaming.