Recently made a close friend with similar tastes in my uni dnd group and I remembered I have retroarch. Anyone knows fun 2 player retro games we can try? Fantasy and rpg games especially. Thank you!
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Dragon’s Crown is a fantasy side scrolling beat 'em up style game that came out in ~2010s, if you consider consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360 retro.
It is similar to the old Capcom Dungeons and Dragons arcade game, which itself was similar to Golden Axe.
Wanted to like it couldn’t get past the boobage
How has no one recommended Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara? Classic Capcom beat 'em ups with a ridiculous level of D&D added on top.
Cast a spell at the Beholder? Bad idea, unless it’s looking the other way. Dwarves find extra treasure, there are tons of secrets and hidden items, the cleric can turn undead, it’s a ton of fun. Available via emulation or as a 2-pack on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/229480/Dungeons_Dragons_Chronicles_of_Mystara/
Exactly what I came here to recommend. Both came preloaded on my r36s and are a fucking blast!
With the tag of multiplayer retro fantasy, the first game that came to mind was gauntlet legends. Playing it co-op was a mind-blowing experience for my younger self.
I was about to ask how it compares to the OG Gauntlet 4 person coop arcade… Because that was peak if it were not for the quarter drain.
Then I processed that (“younger self” + Gauntlet Legends) = I’m an old man. I’ll go page my nurse to wipe my but now. Go on about your business kids.
Gauntlet Legends on the Dreamcast is a very faithful console port of the arcade version, albeit with characters added from Dark Legacy.
Well, it’s fantasy (jrpg) and a real classic co-op - secret of mana for snes:
https://www.co-optimus.com/Editorial/1002/co-op-classics-secret-of-mana.html
https://www.nintendojo.com/features/columns/retro-scope/retro-scope-secret-of-manaI saw this one mentioned online, but how far into the story does second character option become available if I may ask?
Shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes or so depending on how fast you are.
Always interesting to me how Japanese games tend to require story progression to unlock coop. Luigi’s Mansion on Switch needed over an hour of gameplay to unlock coop.
How retro do you wanna go?
Divinity Original Sin, and the sequel, are older and both excellent
Can we stop calling 12-year-old games “retro”?
The funny thing is how the word for the newly produced items imitating older styles has come to mean “older” when speaking of games.
If we look at the description for retro it’s original meaning is something new imitating an older style:
Compare to the word vintage that means old:
I see the word retro used for “old” spread outside of gaming nowadays too, I wonder what we will use to describe a new production imitating an older style in the future. :)
I wonder what we will use to describe a new production imitating an older style in the future. :)
I think “throwback” is the term I see used most often these days that fits that definition
