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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 205497, member: 77791"] When someone says "retro" I directly remember the days I wasted so much time and money but gained so much fun and friendship in arcades so my answer: Missile Command. I have a love-hate relationship with this game. It's relatively easy for a long time but suddenly on a certain level it starts to make you act faster and perfectly so if you start losing cities on that particular level just make your peace, calm down and accept your defeat lol. For a video game that has no dialogue, no people, no story, just you and the sense of protection and the enemy you have to protect your people from the game really teaches you a lot. The value of sacrifice and the fact that you can't save everyone and you can't always win but I tried anyway. This is rather something not many video game can make you feel despite having days worth of conversations, tons of people and movie-length nonsense cutscenes in every 10 minutes of walking simulator "gameplay" fueled by the new generation sense of "I'm an artist, so love my artistic video game" BS. Playing Missile Command and imagining all the people you couldn't save who could have a great future ahead of them if you didn't fail them like a kid who aspired to be an astronaut, newly met couple who were eager to start their new life and old couple who wanted to enjoy the rest of their life with their grandkids and whatever people could be living in these cities but because I failed all their memories and hopes being lost in the explosions that erased cities from existence like their lives never mattered makes the game too immersive to me instead of nonsense forced character dramas in new video games that digital people dying without even blood pool despite they are shot down and whatever and they just die after some cheesy cringe lines and badly animated dying animation lol. I'm sorry but I laugh a lot when after such character drama scene models of these characters falls in ragdoll ayy lmao. And do you know the worst part of Missile Command? After all the cities you have to protect are destroyed into rubbles the game doesn't end. I call this a digital walk of shame: "play the damn game with shame and if you keep playing the game you are a very dishonorable person". But no this is not the worst part of the game. If certain conditions are met, the game gives you more responsibility to protect new cities despite you failed hard and caused millions of people to die before. I never saw this as a 2nd chance or some BS, this is not a gift. This is a pure curse. You know you'll fail again. That's the point of the game, people just die. No happy ending in Missile Command. You can only hope people in the cities could spend more time with their loved ones by delaying their inevitable death. It must be how being a medical doctor feels like when you are not so corrupted by focusing only on the money you earn and the social flex you feel lol. I'm not that serious but it was another layer of fun in retro games that you could imagine what's the story behind them lol. [/QUOTE]

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