Tetris - Retro or modern?

[Vladimir]

Modern, all the way. Just as many people said, i love hard drop and ghosts. Those 2 things make the gameplay much better without sacrificing difficulty and the natural challenge of Tetris. But i really like a lot more the music of the old Tetris games, so i choose Mix.

 

[Haloman800]

Modern is best in multiplayer. Retro is not fun in mutliplayer because it's much slower and less about skill rather than luck.

Retro is funnest in solo. Modern is not because it is too easy with hold piece, infinite rotation, etc. These don't affect Modern in multiplayer because if you sit there and spin the piece for longer than 1 second, you will lose.

So I picked mix of both.


edit: btw, Tetris is my favorite game of all time. 2nd is Halo (hence the name)

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Your friends are stupid. Tetris is Tetris no matter how you look at it. You might as well be saying Super Mario 64 and beyond isn't Super Mario at all.

The inclusion of hard drop and ghosting made the game more exciting and faster making for intense matches. However, I don't like the modes other than marathon.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Your friends are stupid. Tetris is Tetris no matter how you look at it. You might as well be saying Super Mario 64 and beyond isn't Super Mario at all.

The inclusion of hard drop and ghosting made the game more exciting and faster making for intense matches. However, I don't like the modes other than marathon.

It's more like only 1 or 2 friends that's stupid. Regardless, I posted this because I wanted to see a wider variety of opinion, not to see a bunch of people insulting my friends.

Oh no no no, anybody who says something isn't something because it isn't like it's predecessor is an idiot. Also, who cares if we insult your friends, we're people on the internet, should we matter? lol

 

[YayMii]

Your friends are stupid. Tetris is Tetris no matter how you look at it. You might as well be saying Super Mario 64 and beyond isn't Super Mario at all.

The inclusion of hard drop and ghosting made the game more exciting and faster making for intense matches. However, I don't like the modes other than marathon.

It's more like only 1 or 2 friends that's stupid. Regardless, I posted this because I wanted to see a wider variety of opinion, not to see a bunch of people insulting my friends.

Retro is funnest in solo. Modern is not because it is too easy with hold piece, infinite rotation, etc. These don't affect Modern in multiplayer because if you sit there and spin the piece for longer than 1 second, you will lose.

You know, infinite rotation's only a thing in Tetris Worlds and Tetris DS. The ARIKA Tetris games, as well as the more recent Tetris games, handle rotation much differently (as in, they allow rotation after landing in order to allow trick placement such as T-spins, but has a short timer to prevent infinite spinning).

 

[YayMii]

Your friends are stupid. Tetris is Tetris no matter how you look at it. You might as well be saying Super Mario 64 and beyond isn't Super Mario at all.

The inclusion of hard drop and ghosting made the game more exciting and faster making for intense matches. However, I don't like the modes other than marathon.

It's more like only 1 or 2 friends that's stupid. Regardless, I posted this because I wanted to see a wider variety of opinion, not to see a bunch of people insulting my friends.

Oh no no no, anybody who says something isn't something because it isn't like it's predecessor is an idiot. Also, who cares if we insult your friends, we're people on the internet, should we matter? lol

You sum up exactly what I was thinking about his opinion.
And I know, it shouldn't matter that random people online are insulting my friends, I'm just saying that it wasn't the intent of my post.

 

[Haloman800]

Your friends are stupid. Tetris is Tetris no matter how you look at it. You might as well be saying Super Mario 64 and beyond isn't Super Mario at all.

The inclusion of hard drop and ghosting made the game more exciting and faster making for intense matches. However, I don't like the modes other than marathon.

It's more like only 1 or 2 friends that's stupid. Regardless, I posted this because I wanted to see a wider variety of opinion, not to see a bunch of people insulting my friends.

Retro is funnest in solo. Modern is not because it is too easy with hold piece, infinite rotation, etc. These don't affect Modern in multiplayer because if you sit there and spin the piece for longer than 1 second, you will lose.

You know, infinite rotation's only a thing in Tetris Worlds and Tetris DS. The ARIKA Tetris games, as well as the more recent Tetris games, handle rotation much differently (as in, they allow rotation after landing in order to allow trick placement such as T-spins, but has a short timer to prevent infinite spinning).

Every official Tetris game since Tetris Worlds has infinite rotation.

 

[YayMii]

You know, infinite rotation's only a thing in Tetris Worlds and Tetris DS. The ARIKA Tetris games, as well as the more recent Tetris games, handle rotation much differently (as in, they allow rotation after landing in order to allow trick placement such as T-spins, but has a short timer to prevent infinite spinning).

Every official Tetris game since Tetris Worlds has infinite rotation.

http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity

This controversial feature allows a single tetromino to be easily kept "alive" forever. To reduce the negative effects of this, newer Tetris games tend to have modes that reward play speed, such as points per minute or garbage per minute. Also, while the number of times the player can move or rotate a piece is usually unlimited, limits can be instated in certain situations such as versus play in Tetris DS, or arcade situations like TGM3, where infinite prolonging of play is undesirable. In situations where such limits are in effect, the tetromino automatically locks down after the player resets the lock delay through movement or rotation, for a set number of times or seconds.

As I've said earlier, the newer games have limits such as a timer. Also, the ARIKA games are official.

 

[PolloDiablo]

the gameboy one and tengen tetris

 

[JN_big3]

Tetris Modern (Tetris Battle on FB). The thing that I hate here is the powerups. But I like the maps

I don't like the background music of Classic tetris because I get annoyed when I play

 

[Skelletonike]

I love any tetris as long as it has this theme song.

 

[FAST6191]

That would be Korobeiniki which all games following the Tetris guidelines since 2005 should include.

http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Tetris_Guideline

Later versions are also strongly invited to feature a version of Katjusha or Kalinka (a song some mistake for Korobeiniki and seen in several versions of tetris over the years- the main difference is this gets faster and drops where the other remains the same tempo) as well.

Re "I hate homebrew'd Tetris and other types. "
Although I guess you did not quite mean that (I took it to mean you did not care so much for the various alt versions out there) I should say homebrew versions are where I typically find the best/most faithful/most configurable implementations these days.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

I love any tetris as long as it has this theme song.

 

[DJPlace]

tetris with items FAIL i mean i wish you can have a online mutiplayer random without items. but sadly you can't... and the new tetris for 3ds really really turned me off from playing it for a while.

 

[mysticwaterfall]

For the longest time I would only do the original (preferably GB, but sometimes NES) as nothing else felt right to me. But now my favorite is Tetris Party Deluxe. I love holding and the original music , what can I say.

We need a good phone tetris. The EA one is hard to control past a point and it just doesn't seem right on the emulators. But maybe that's more of an issue with touch controls in general.

 

[Deleted-236924]

I love any tetris as long as it has this theme song. <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlx5bWb3t8c

Lol embedding disabled by request.

 

[Janthran]

I don't think ghosting is good. Other than that, I like Tetris Party DS or whatever it is

 

[Haloman800]

You know, infinite rotation's only a thing in Tetris Worlds and Tetris DS. The ARIKA Tetris games, as well as the more recent Tetris games, handle rotation much differently (as in, they allow rotation after landing in order to allow trick placement such as T-spins, but has a short timer to prevent infinite spinning).

Every official Tetris game since Tetris Worlds has infinite rotation.

http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity

This controversial feature allows a single tetromino to be easily kept "alive" forever. To reduce the negative effects of this, newer Tetris games tend to have modes that reward play speed, such as points per minute or garbage per minute. Also, while the number of times the player can move or rotate a piece is usually unlimited, limits can be instated in certain situations such as versus play in Tetris DS, or arcade situations like TGM3, where infinite prolonging of play is undesirable. In situations where such limits are in effect, the tetromino automatically locks down after the player resets the lock delay through movement or rotation, for a set number of times or seconds.

As I've said earlier, the newer games have limits such as a timer. Also, the ARIKA games are official.

I think Tetris DS had a timer where if you rotated continuously while the piece was on the floor it would lock down after 8 seconds. If you can't place a piece after 8 seconds you're doomed anyway. For 8 seconds or infinity, if you can continuously rotate the piece for a long period of time without penalty, it takes away from the core of the game massively.

Tetris DS is the only one I've played that had such a timer anyhow. I don't live in Japan, so Arika ports don't affect me.

 

[YayMii]

I think Tetris DS had a timer where if you rotated continuously while the piece was on the floor it would lock down after 8 seconds. If you can't place a piece after 8 seconds you're doomed anyway. For 8 seconds or infinity, if you can continuously rotate the piece for a long period of time without penalty, it takes away from the core of the game massively.

Tetris DS is the only one I've played that had such a timer anyhow. I don't live in Japan, so Arika ports don't affect me.

Tetris DS only has a timer on VS play though. In singleplayer mode, you can spin until your thumbs get tired of spinning, just like Tetris Worlds.
Every official Tetris Company game after that (Splash, Party, Friends, and Axis) had a fairly short timer (something like 5 spins or 2 seconds).

Also, there's a number of Tetris clones that faithfully recreate the Arika games. A lot of people consider the Arika games to be the best games for speedrunning Tetris, so it might be worth giving a try.

 

[koimayeul]

Best i played was Tetris Ds. Classic to me was the first gameboy game though. So i vote a mix.