Recently purchased a Retroid Pocket 3+ and have the chance to play all the games I didn’t grow up with. Which ones are a must?

  • Errant@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger are the first two I think of personally. Just historically great games with legacies that are still felt today.

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      1 year ago

      Are there still wars being fought over which version of Chrono Trigger is best to play? I’ve always heard mixed opinions about the steam release but that one seems easiest to setup and play.

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        1 year ago

        Are there still wars being fought over which version of Chrono Trigger is best to play?

        Those kinda died out as Square kept patching the PC port (last one I heard of was last year!) to get it to an acceptable state.

        Personally, I always try to go for the closest possible version to the original as much as I can. While the PC port is probably the most feature-rich and has extra content, if emulators are in the equation then I go that route.

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    1 year ago

    It’s important to spend time on the classics of course, but don’t underestimate just dumping 100s of ROMs in a folder and playing around with random games. I ended up finding some non-mainstream games that I enjoyed that way.

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    1 year ago

    I would say at least one Final Fantasy (probably 6) is a must. A Link to the Past is up there. Illusion of Gaia is great. One of the first 3 Sonics definitely.

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    I’m still waiting for a Retroid community on the fediverse. I’d do it myself, but I don’t want to be responsible for it.

    Half Life (PS2) played really well on my RP3+, now I’m on Link to the Past (SNES).

    Here is a guide on how to set up more modern, dual-analog style controls specifically for Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007 for N64 on your RP3+. I posted it from a Lemmy account before I settled into KBin.

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      1 year ago

      Just out of curiosity, why’d you go with emulating the PS2 over the PC version? I’ve also played around in that version and I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s the best way to experience it.

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        Half-Life is a unique case where there’s not really a best way to play tbh. There’s the pre-Steam version with 90s-era features like view roll, there’s the modern Steam version that loses those and introduces the exploding crowbar corpse bug but has more modern stuff like proper widescreen and support for the HD models from the PS2 version, the PS2 version has all of the HD models as well but also includes bonuses like animated health dispensers and Decay, Half-Life: Source has a way better flashlight, ragdoll physics, and Garry’s Mod content support, but also ruins the anti-tiling texture system, makes the tentacle boss do no damage, and softlocks at the Gonarch, Black Mesa isn’t perfectly faithful and makes a good many changes but is a fantastic recreation nonetheless and improves on Xen by far, Sven Co-Op officially includes the Half-Life campaign for free so one can play it with friends if they choose, and there are multiple VR versions depending on if you’re playing on Quest or Steam.

        It’s all very subjective, I’d say the only definitive thing we can say is that Half-Life Source is the worst.

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    I’d say, beside the classics that everyone already listed,

    • Legend of Mana (SNES)
    • EarthBound (SNES) and the fan translated Mother 3 (GBA)
    • Mega Man X (SNES)
    • Phantasy Star IV (Mega Drive / Genesis)
    • Tales of Phantasia (PSX, not the GBA version)

    But there’s so many to choose from, it’s enough for more than a life time :D