>>87 At the moment I play Blood and a few pseudo retro games namely Lunacid, Turbo Overkill and Wrath; Aeon of Ruin I think i dont need to introduce Blood. Lunacid is a throwback game to old From Software titles before they made Demon Souls, from what I've seen so far they nail the design of the world, comparable to Dark Souls if you ask me. Turbo Overkill and Wrath are inspired by Quake, Wrath is from 3D Realms and you can feel it, and TO is from Apogee and takes the ridiculous 80s action cyberpunk trope to the extreme.

>>88 >Blood Ah nice, recently went through that and enjoyed it a lot more than I did when I tried to play it 2 years ago. Build engine games never seem to sit right with me for some reason so it was a real disappointment to play something as fast paced and skilful as Blood and just dislike it. Giving it a second try on it's intended difficulty and crouching everywhere really made it a fun experience even if it took me around 3-4 hours to see that. Tried to play Duke Nukem 3D for the 4th time or so in my life and going from Blood to Duke feels like a downgrade. Thinking of maybe trying it on a harder difficulty or something.

Consider this cute half-orc. Joking aside, has anyone played Headon? Its a really good throwback shooter, running on gz doom.

>>89 my problem with duke and shadow warrior is that even after so many years i still get lost in some maps which never happens to me with blood but that may come from the fact that i played it a lot more. I may catch some flak for the following but if you ask me you can brute force most encoutners in duke and shadow while blood expects from you to learn the ropes but when it clicks its just such a blast. I also prefer the stlye of blood over duke and shadow, love me some evil dead; 80's action and hong kong cinema is great too dont get me wrong.

>>94 Great game but most level flow kinda weird, also the latent sexuality undermines the seriousness the story tries to convey. You can definitely feel that the dude who made this game made his money with futaporn with the characters from said game.

>>96 >does the sight of cleavage make you insane?! the only thing you are right about is the pacing of the level most of them are a slog especially if youre a secret hunter

>>87 Played Nejishiki (1988) by Will published by Zeit for the PC-98, emulated on Neko Project II th + Textractor + jDeppL for machine translation. An adventure game where Yoshiharu Tsuge's various stories and themes connect in dreamlike fashion to form a surreal biography of his inner mind. As a game, it is rough. Progress is slow and obtuse. You find yourself exhausting meaningless small talk options again and again because one of them may suddenly be the key for progress. There's usually something to clue you in on what you have to do if you take the time to think about it, sometimes relating to the manga story a character originally appeared in. And when you realize on your own, it's very satisfying. But it won't be smooth sailing, and that's clearly intentional. It will make you feel the agony that the boy in the original Nejishiki story goes through. Even worse if you need translation like me. That aside, there really is meaning and poetry to think about behind a lot of what you have to do and go through, which is appealing. As an artsy adventure into Tsuge's mind, it is incredibly interesting. The setting built by his characters arises naturally, captures their charm and sense of humor, and slowly pulls you into a world permeated by the melancholic tone of their stories. Actually being there in the final days of old rural Japanese life, experiencing its decadence while the economy is ironically getting better, mourning the death of this old way of life because, however miserable and often stupid it was, in the end there was something indescribably valuable in it (at the very least, a metaphorical hometown for our main character) being lost too... It is quite powerful and dare I say beautiful. It makes you feel the ambivalent yet poignant nostalgia and the growing alienation that drive Tsuge inward into the world of dreams and delusions that takes over his life. And this dreamlike spiral labyrinth that he wanders in search of himself is frighteningly compelling. All in all, this game was a crazy experience and a meaningful addition to the works of Tsuge. I couldn't get sound to work but it didn't bother me at all. Oh and there are a few playthroughs on youtube you can look up by the japanese title, ねじ式.

Playing Star Ocean 2 : Second Story again. The pixel art and music are great. The fighting style is more like modern jrpgs are today instead of turn based like previous games.

I recently played Resident Evil 1&2 for the first time, absolutely awesome games, didn't expect them to be this much fun. Looking forward to play 3 and Dino Crisis in the future. Also replayed Turok1&2 which are also great. Not sure what to play next, I think it's either Armored Core (PS1) or Galaxy Fräulein Yuna (PCE).

The PS1 game Baroque finally got an English translation a few days ago! I'm really looking forward to trying it out. It seems like a very interesting game.

Currently playing through Grandia 1. I haven't really played many JRPGS before so I was worried about getting bored but I am having a lot of fun. Justin and his friends are really adorable and I like the main plot of searching for a lost civilization. I'm also playing Metal Slader Glory on the NES. It's a fairly okay text adventure so far, the mystery surrounding the slader is fairly interesting. The artwork is very nice too. I wish the SNES remake got translated because the art in that game is gorgeous.

The only retro game I'm going through right now is The Secret of Monkey Island. I tried to not use a guide through that game but found myself stuck as the troll wanted something that I just did not have. I searched EVERYWHERE and had no idea what to do. I then checked the universal hint system website and was incredibly pissed that the herring was the answer and the way to get it was to WALK ON THE DOCK which I just decided to not do because the game has a weird perspective so when I walked to the end of the dock I thought that's all you could do and never thought to walk south of my characters position to interrupt the bird. Even the idea of a "red herring" made me think it was a joke the devs put it to make me think it was important or something. Anyhow, I did that and I'm currently fighting pirates to learn all the insults and rebuttals to say to people. >>138 2 weeks late but very nice. RE1 and 2 are great games. The original RE2 is my favourite and I remember playing through both stories it in one sitting since the remake was coming out the next day and I wanted to play the original beforehand so I could compare to two. I loved both but found RE2 to be absolutely fantastic. RE3 is good as well, I sadly never finished Dino Crisis. Hope you update us on the other two games you played, anon. >>148 Ah, Baroque. I remember a lot of people talking about it in my circles but never really gave it a shot. Will have to look into it sometime in my life. >>153 Grandia is really fucking good. I went through it back in 2017 or so and had a blast. I also had some hearty chuckles at things like the "v slash" for sounding like idiots who say "slash v slash" when referring to /v/, and of course the Red and Blue pills you can take during the game to recover MP. Also best theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mPCmwJV5M. Love characters like those three. If you want more games that have that fun adventure feel give Lunar Silver Star and Skies of Arcadia a shot. Skies of Arcadia is my favourite game of all time due to the adventure aspect of that game and I adore Lunar for the same reason.

>>154 >Hope you update us on the other two games you played, anon. I actually didn't feel like playing anything recently. I picked up learning Japanese again however, after taking a break for a while. Might play something in Japanese soon, just need to find something I'm interested in and is manageable with my jap skills.

>>155 >I actually didn't feel like playing anything recently. For the first time in around 5-6 years I've also felt like this too. I used to complete around 50-70 games each year but right now as of July I've only finished 14 and a lot of those have been long JRPG's that have taken up so much of my time. Even now I'm playing through Tales of Symphonia as well and I've only just started on Disc 2 after 33 hours so I'm far from over and it's getting to me after all these RPGs this year. I want to finish it to move onto other games but playing it has been a hassle despite it being quite good. Good luck with the Japanese anyhow, anon. I should really attempt to learn it some day for the dozens of games I'd want to play.

I finished Digimon World for the first time today. Very frustrating at first but it then became a lot of fun as I progressed and learned how stuff works. There is still tons of stuff I haven't seen or done, even though I had put many hours into it. Awesome game.