it's been a while since we had one of these threadspost poser-core retro games, bonus points if the game in question is a legit bad game not deserving of any praise
Final Fantasy VII & XHalf-LifeThe Legend of Zeldabut... I think those are "normie-core" based on your SH2 example...EarthboundKing's Field
>>12025652>Poser Fantasy>Half-Poser>The Legend of Poser>Poserbound>Poser's Field
Whatever game of the week youtuber algorithm shit is making the rounds, is a poser game, until people move on who didn't give a shit about it before and latch onto the next shilled talking head game.
>>12025659>>Poser's FieldHey that's me. I learned about FromSoft only after Dark Souls (not even Demon Souls), and didn't look into King's Field until a couple of years ago (because of Lunacid). So yeah, I'm the definitive normie in that regard.
the goat. maybe 10% of the people who fellate this piece of shit ever played it
>>12025669>because of Lunacidanon... you should keep this to yourself...
>>12025652Earthbound and KF maybe, but how the fuck are FF7, FFX, HL and any LoZ game "poser-core"? They're extremely popular games that were in the top selling games on their platforms. They're extremely normie-tier and have mass market appeal
Planescape: Torment>updated muh journal XD>what the change the nature of a man bro *loud crying emoji*
>>12025669>didn't look into King's Field until a couple of years ago (because of Lunacid)>Troonacidyou are worse than a poser, you are ''may janny won't ban me for uttering this word'' a tranny
>>12025669>I'm the definitive normie in that regard.As long as you're not overly loud about it or shouting that you're a FromSoft fan or a hardcore Souls-like faggot or anything like that, it's all good.There's nothing wrong about rediscovering games, but it is wrong to make it part of your persona and be so damn loud about it.
>>12025675Read the whole thing you dumb fuck:>but... I think those are "normie-core" based on your SH2 example...Are you stupid or just retarded, Anon?
>ANYTHING THAT ISN'T ON MY SNEZZ IS POSERCORE!!!This shit is the same in every fucking thread
>>12025675>how the fuck are FF7, FFX, HL and any LoZ game "poser-core"?Because you can just say that you like those games and come off as a "true" gamer. They are the safest options.
>>12025675popular and succesful games can be poser-core tooVice City is a prime example, there is no way modern zoom zooms and underage faggots played VC from start to finish, many didn't even play it at all
>>12025692but anon the poser-core game in OP pic is on the SNES
>Yeah I dont like doom or duke 3d, im more of a blood guy
>>12025675hl1's 1.5mil are not that much ahead of its 1mil contemporaries, but it's the first and most favorite retro fps that any "boomer shooter" troon played as a first-party title on pc's biggest drm platform
>>12025692/thread
>WarCraft 3? StarCraft? In my opinion, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War stands out as the superior RTS.
>>12025701bonus poser points if they didn't care one bit about blood, quake, quake 2 and heretic before the nosedive remasters
Metroid PrimeBeyond Good and Evil
>i hate zelda>but i hate zelda fans even more>so im gonna pretend to like the non-zelda zelda game to trigger them>also i enjoy the thought that others think that i enjoy the only hard zelda game
>>12025689>Are you stupid or just retarded, Anon?I'm neither, but apparently you're both
>heh nothin' personnel, but I'm just too cool for FFVII
>>12025720How come? You are unable to grasp a straightforward sentence.
>>12025736>How come?Yep, you're retarded
>>12025716>Metroid Primethe Shitcube answer to Xbox's Halothat's the only reason tendies shilled this slop so hard
There's an entire poser-core console.
>>12025732>Psh, Final Fantasy? I'm too busy mastering Legend of the Dragoon QTE system.
>>12025739"No, you!"You must be a Spanish poser who got upset over Final Fantasy VII. There's no other explanation, Manuel.
>>12025749wrong image sorry
>>12025741Metroid Prime shares as much in common with Halo as Skyrim does.
XenogearsBangai-oJet Force Gemini
>>12025646any vidya RPG retro or otherwise with a "cult" fanbase (i.e. morrowind, vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, EYE, new vegas, etc.) tends to be full of posers who never even played the games and just meme/parrot whatever their favorite content creator said.at least with DnD shit like baldur's gate or one of the pathfinder vidya you know it's all faggy theater kids & autistic munchkins.
>>12025716>Metroid Prime>the best selling game in a franchise is poser-core
>>12025778>Xenogearsexcellent choice, though the OST is fantastic
MorrowindIt's a good game though
>>12025719I've played this and it's a pretty good action-adventure game. Sucks that people are so neurotic about it
>>12025769the fuck is this slop? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunstar_Heroes#Legacy>Gunstar Heroes was listed as one of the best games ever made by several publicationskek, another Saturn hidden gem masterpiece no one heard of
>>12025685>There's nothing wrong about rediscovering gamesI still feel that I somewhat fucked up by ignoring their previous games for so long for no good reason. I did the same with original Thief games, and when I finally played them, I felt even more stupid.
>>12025715i forgot how this overnight became the greatest game ever made just because of one youtube video
>>12025776Tell that to '03 tendies.
>>12025780Morrowind fags seem to actually know their shit, many of the memes they post are only comprehended if you played the game yourselfVTMB is a great game but yeah many frauds, poseurs and perpetrators jerking off to Jeanette without knowing the bitch disappears from the game after leaving the first cityEYE is a pseudo-core, but then again there is very little difference between pseudo-intellectuals and posersTroon Vegas is one of the most modded games ever (far more than Oblivion or Morrowind) people do play it indeed, Fallout 2 is the true poser-core
Brian Fargo's Wasteland
>>12025808>Fallout 2 is the true poser-coreB-but Fallout Sonora
>>12025795this except the original
>you may not know this, but Chode Veronigga is the ACKSHUAL Resident Evil 3, so it doesn't matter that it's shitty
I dunno, maybe people just like different stuff than you. And you can't play a game without bringing part of yourself and your circumstances in with you, so while we are experiencing the same 1s and 0s, we're having vastly different experiences, and all those experiences are valid and what makes any discussion or community worth being part of is respecting that?
>>12025829being a poser is about pretending to like stuff to make yourself seem more interesting or to fit in
>>12025827Freddy Kruger effect in action
>>12025646kek thats literally me.
>>12025839I don't feel like that happens outside of insecure 14 year olds.
>>12025839>No. You're really only pretending to like [popular game] from [popular franchise]
>>12025853Its very common among young 20 year olds who want to make an impression of people, and some get stuck in it.
>>12025857>never played that game you were praising a minute ago? that's okay budddy you are still a fan of the game as much as anyone else!
>>12025862people itt are listing games that have sold millions of copies
>>12025646This was literally me with morrowind for years.I knew all of the lore and the factions before I ever played the game.>>12025679Tranny janny’s gone (thanks /qa/!)>>12025732I really like 6, but I think most of the people who think it’s the GOAT are Nintendo fans who want to pretend Square never flipped teams to Sony>>12025749Sucks cause the SNES is very accessibleSource: went from NES to PSX and skipped gen 4 growing up, came back years later and love the SNES catalogue >>12025778I’ll admit I’m a poser core xenogears hater. I’ve never played the game but I always make fun of it for being an unfinished novel/slideshow simulator.
>>12025692>>12025749I stopped liking the Super Nintendo now
>>12025652>Half-LifeEveryone and their mom played that game
>>12025867Agreeable post, snesfags are their own worst enemy. Hard to forget that thread where someone asked for recommendations and it was just 60 posts of snesfags shitting on OP for daring to ask for some games on their favorite console and he should know them already. Funniest thing was when they were called out on it they said "sega and turbo fags would do the same thing" despite there being a thread with 40 replies demonstrating they don't do that and just suggest games and discuss them.>I’ve never played the game but I always make fun of it for being an unfinished novel/slideshow simulator.What you should know is it doesn't get bad on disc 2, it gets bad in the prison and never recovers. Also before that point it's never particularly good.
>>12025646System Shock, especially the first one
>i only play jrpgs with serious stories and good writing>doesnt realize the game is nothing but anime cliches with talking dog people and recruitable squirrels
>>12025867>I’ve never played the gameconsider yourself lucky, I dropped it after the tower of babel, that game not only gave me jrpg burnout but video game burnout in generaland I actually like Chrono Cross which many put in the same bag
>>12025887>doesnt realize the game is nothing but anime clicheswell yeah I don't watch anime, duh
Super Smash Bros. Melee, at least after EVO 2013
>>12025865>you like that game but you never played it? it doesn't matter bro it sold MILLIONS you don't have to play it to be a fan!
How is Darkstalkers never mentioned on these threads?Morrigan must be the most cosplayed vidya character ever, and exactly 0% of these cosplayers have played a single Darkstalkers game.Anyway I don't really get most of the posts here, especially those claiming systems like snes are poser, you guys need to get off the console wars.
>>12025796I played through all the Marathon series a few years back and I can safely say the only decent one is Durandal. 1 is such a fucking mess in the latter half and it never ends. Infinity has some great ideas but is such a chore to play.When the multiplayer reboot comes out I think you're gonna get a lot of dorks pretending they were huge fans of the originals.
>>12025907>umm I didn't mean that everyone who plays these very popular and well-known games is a poser, I specifically meant people who didn't play these games is a poser
>>12025909>Morrigan must be the most cosplayed vidya character ever,lol she's not even the most cosplayed vidya character named Morrigan
>>12025692It's school boy dick measuring. Many of these anons will never grow out of it and will always be surrounded by it.
>>12025953>school boy dick measuringspeaking from a personal experience eh? faggot
Tourist Trophy
>>12025961>he never had a penis inspection dayWeirdo
>>12025961You're right, one-upmanship is gay
Mario
>>12025994this
>>12025646Not a game, but a console: Dreamcast.
>>12025646you are a mentally ill spammer who should be permabanned, fuck off from this board already retarded faggot
>>12025646>game is so fawned online because of features red head girl some resetera idiot avatarfags as>not a single fool talks about the gameplay beyond classic Resident Evil with a 3D environment.
>>12025783>>the best selling game in a franchiseMade its money from a bundle award
>>12025783Dread is the best selling game, all Prime games struggled to break even back then and now after Prime's debut release.We only got FPS Metroid because Nintendo was too retarded to just get their geniuses to make a N64 Metroid in vein of Mario 64 and OoT.
>>12025749It's a good console, but if someone says it's their FAVORITE console I stop listening to them
>>12025894Kato was never a good director
>>12025901Melee and Brawl are the biggest poser core Smashes out there
>>12025646>post poser-core retro gamesLiterally any retro game either>with a small but dedicated fandom/cult followingor/and>obscure but aesthetically pleasingThe attosecond a remake gets announced or a popular streamer makes a video about it.It's the inevitable fate of all obscure retro games that don't look like shit and are decent enough to be playable.That said, you should try to not care too much about it.Even if the new "long time fans" ruins the game's discussion or with the remake's sales numbers convince the developers to make sequels that betray the originals, NOTHING they do can tarnish the quality of the classic games or prevent you from replaying them.Besides, new players (even if partially motivated by "status" within their discussion places) always bring the opportunity for the game gaining new fans who got genuinely hooked by it.
>>12026220Besides, if you really want to be strict about it, ALL decent or/and visually appealing games get posers when they come out.Most people who play video games are normies who play casually and who naturally like to tell their friends about whatever title they just bought and are playing. It's unavoidable, so the logical course of action is to not give a shit and just enjoy the games you like.
>>12026220>>12026245Thanks a lot asshole, my mom saw these pictures and now she says I can't get on 4chan anymore
>>12025982I just like bikes
Based on OP's image, I assume he is using "posercore" to mean "games which have a lot of fans who have never really played the game itself, or at least not beaten it." As in, they like talking about the game and how cool and deep it is, buying memorabilia, looking at fanart, etc, but their exposure to the actual game might amount to nothing more than watching longplays or reading what other people have to say about it.
>>12026383genre tourists are more insidious
>>12026173>dreadcame out two decades after prime and is also not retro.
>posercore thread>I've played every game in the threadI am the most authentic God Gamer
>>12026383>games which have a lot of fans who have never really played the game itselfsee >>12025857every nigger in this thread is talking about games that are mainstream, popular and a lot of people have played, and are even easily accessible to this day. If that's your average /vr/etard's definition of poser-core, every game that's ever existed is poser-core.
>>12026383>I assume he is using "posercore" to mean "games which have a lot of fans who have never really played the game itself, or at least not beaten it." As in, they like talking about the game and how cool and deep it is, buying memorabilia, looking at fanart, etc, but their exposure to the actual game might amount to nothing more than watching longplays or reading what other people have to say about it.That's every single popular and semi-popular game since the hobby became mainstream, especially with a lot of people mostly from the newer generations choosing to watch Let's Plays of the latest releases rather than playing them.
How does the SH2 remake stack up against the original? I'd like to play it, but I'm too cheap/spend too much on old games, so I still don't have a PS5 or even a decent modern TV.
>>12026398Did you played Brian Fargo's Wasteland? you poser son of a bitch
>>12025808>Morrowind fags seem to actually know their shitmost TESlore nerds are just circlejerking to kirkbride's fanfiction on the UESPwiki.>Troon Vegas is one of the most modded games everbuddy, it's not even the most played/best selling fallout.NVfags are just a deafeningly vocal minority that has only gotten louder due to the TV show being set out west and no new singleplayer game in like almost 10 years.>Fallout 2 is the true poser-corethis but for all the classic fallout games in general. most classicfags nowadays are just NVfags trying to earn grognard cred within their circlejerk spaces.
>>12025646Just popping in to read all the videogame scholars claiming games that sold millions and were critically acclaimed are for posers.
What a pathetic piece of shit thread, allowing 6th gen really was a mistake
>>12026734t. An elderly man living through his final days.
>>12026746Good for him. The future is grim.
>>12026556the main complaint is that they turned the gameplay into a combat slog, it loses the semi adventure game run past enemies element of the original 3 games that helped keep the pacing light. you need to kill everything and there's alot of stuff to kill.
>>12025670It's good?
I think posers are either attracted to simple but hard games like shmups and beat'em ups to appear "hardcore", or to complex and boring games like CRPGs to appear smartMe? I have no problem admiting I never 1CC'd a shmup and only play them once in a while for the music and graphics
>>12026752The future has always seemed bleak, Anon.
>>12025887>i only play jrpgs with serious stories and good writing>doesnt realize the game is nothing but anime cliches with talking dog people and recruitable squirrelsLook for a better excuse to hate the game because those things are not contradictory
>>12025749It's funny because I like it more than the mega drive but snesfags are so fucking annoying that I always end up supporting the mega drive and sega in the console war discussions
>>12026383So Touhou.
>>12026174What system am I socially obligated to choose as my favorite then?
>>12025795(You)
>>12025907I mean...I don't see how someone is a "poser" by playing popular slop. They generally have to be commercially failed titles, or titles that were only mild successes back in their day, while both still have to have some sort of appeal through excessive praise or niche oddity.Cosmology of Kyoto is the most recent example of a poser-core game.
>>12026925PSX
>>12026992>Cosmology of Kyotoliterally who-coreonly time i've seen this slop mentioned was on a thread here, you're probably the one who posted it lol
>>12026992i don't think you're fitting in anywhere as the Authentic Intelligent Gamer by bringing up shit nobody knows about. cosmology of kyoto is alot more obscure than lsd dream emulator was at the peak of its circlejerk
>>12027015it's like being surrounded by buttmetal boomers and pretending to be into power industrial, nobody cares, you're not appealing to the crowd, there's no reason to be a poser like this
>>12025749on the contrary, you're a poser if you HAVEN'T played Lufia 2
>>12026996>calling it PSXposer
>>12025859All other answers irrelevant, this is the one
>>12025646my taste morphed to match posercore. I like games with slower adventure pacing, 90s genre fiction writing, and that play around with connecting procedure and navigation instead of just streamlining all of it away in service of QoL. most of the games that fit that bill are poser tier.
>>12027069Are we having this conversation again?
>>12025859guilty as charged
>>12027157stop samefagging it's vampire savior
>>12027010It gets brought up due to the American film critic Ebert as well since he has mentioned that game.
The first three silent hill games could be considered poser core.I would also say that the original Pokemon games (mainly gen 1-3) are poser core now with kids born after 2000. Lots of kids love Pokemon but few have actually played the games. Most only collect the cards or watch nuzlocke runs.Sonic adventure 2, jet set radio future, animal crossing GC, and SOTN are also games I would consider poser core.
>>12025646Every 3D Platformer ever>>12027146Yes, it's such an obtuse was to appear intellectual about fookin vidyagames. Nobody has ever called it a PSX in real life, it is inorganic, the same way people say OLED as if it were a word when they spell out L E D.>>12027187Erm its Jet Grind Radio, sweaty
>>12027201Ok, long story short, I have been calling it the PSX since you weren't even born and I will keep calling it the PSX until the day I die.
>>12025646Age of Empires 2. I know it doesn't seem like it, but you see many people talking about the good old times when they would hear priests doing wololo sounds, except that's an AoE 1 thing, revealing they never played either. Or just in general telling you they loved the game, but if you ask anything about it, it's clear they only played it a few times at most, ages ago.>>12025790>no one heard of Gunstar Heroes1/10 bait, I replied>>12025859>>12025901>>12025909Add Garou to this too, as the new game has shown. Also add CvS2, MvC2 and, now that I think about it, the fighting game genre is really good at creating this effect. Definitely also add Melty Blood and Tsukihime (not really a game, I know) because Neco Arc has 10000% more fans than the games she's from.
>>12027230fighting games are a special olympics discipline for troons, chinks and niggers
>>12027230Fighting games tend to require more dedication and effort from the player than is usually required when it comes to other regular games all for the sake of skill, but their aesthetic appeal tends to put people into this caveat where they pretend they really like it when they don't even like playing it at all.Shmups and SRPGs are pretty demanding as well for example, but normalfags just don't care about them because they're too nerdy.
>>12027272Yeah, actually getting good at most fighting games requires a lot of time investment, but conversely they're also some of the flashiest, where even if you're not good, you can typically experience all the stages, characters, music, and design relatively quickly (pick a character, lose, choose another character, repeat), plus a lot of the plot and backstory is revealed in ancillary material, which you read without having to actually play the game. >>12027187>Pokemon Yeah, I would not be surprised if a lot of late zoomers collect the old games, but don't really play them (or at least not legitimately), because they're too slow, archaic, and broken. I get the feeling that D/P/Platinum are the oldest that most of them are willing to go.
>game is rare because it doesn't sell well (usually) because it sucks>game then becomes "good" because it's rare, e-celebs boost it, pretty soon it's 4 or 5 figuresThere should be a name for this scam.
>>12025859This and various version of Street Fighter 2.Challenge anyone to a set in Street Fighter 2 when they start praising it as the best game ever, especially if It's some /v/irgin contrarian using the OLD GOOD NEW BAD shit, they'll instantly fucking fold.That's what I love about fighting games.There's no hiding. If you are a poser about some single player videogame, I can't really call you out for it.If you're a poser about fighting games, we can run the set and see if you're as good as you say you are.
>>12027491You don't have to be a tryhard tourneyfag to enjoy a fighting game
>>12027498You don't. But I don't want to hear your opinions on fighting games if you suck at your favorite one.I'm specifically talking about people who call new fighting games casualized or some other cope, meanwhile they wouldn't even be C rank on Fightcade in 3S or SSFT2.I suck at retro fighters and I can wash most of the retards who glaze them.
>>12025796lol thisI appreciate its soul and narrative but it kind of sucks as a game. It's one of those>you just had to be theretypes.
>>12027519There's a new engine for the Marathon trilogy that fixes many bugs and allows a lot of optional enhancements. It's nice and makes it a lot more playable.
>>12027513>the retards who glaze them.GGfags tend to do this so much it's not even funny
>>12026161I don't like DC because the dinos respawn which makes killing them pointless.
>>12027513Modern fighting games are homo because they have become cancerous drip-feed games-as-a-service shit, just like fps.
The answer is always Touhou. Pretty much its entire identity as a franchise is based around a majority who like the characters, but are not even aware of what the source material is.Fate/Type-Moon stuff also falls into this category.
>>12025669Found KF through Lunacid too. Lunacid is fucking awful in retrospect. Never played a Souls
>>12025646
>>12027513>I'm specifically talking about people who call new fighting games casualized or some other cope, meanwhile they wouldn't even be C rank on Fightcade in 3S or SSFT2.That means nothing. By casualizing games they make them less fun even for casuals funny enough. For example, I only ever played GG locally with friends, mashing in my PS2 Accent Core copy. A cool thing about that game was the super fast air movement. And I liked to play Sol because he has a command grab that launches into a combo, and even a simple follow up looks and feels cool. But I also know that if I watch a tournament, I'm gonna have my mind blown by seeing things I don't even know are possible. Now you pick Strive and sure, I will still suck at it and a pro will still destroy me no matter what. But they severely slowed air dashes, and Sol can no longer combo after his command grab without spending meter which is not even top 10 among cool moves that got removed or simplified. This means I don't want to buy it even to mash around. And in terms of combos, I don't want to lose to another casual who was doing the same combos to me that I saw the day before at a tournament, that makes it less special.>>12027595That's an improvement over buying the same game over and over again like how it used to be.
>>12025982I feel Tokyo Xtreme Racer or OutRun Coast2Coast are the poser titles of racing games
>>12027669oh and Ridge Racer Type 4
>>12027201>Erm its Jet Grind Radio, sweatyNot Future. They renamed it Jet Set Radio in the US halfway into development so they could get the JSRF abbreviation. Also the in-game radio station is still Jet Set Radio in all versions of the original.
>>12027669A lot of people like to wax poetic about Outrun c2c, moreso than any other racing game. That's a big tip off for poser-friendly territories.
this fucking dude
What a boring and miserable concept for a thread.
>>12027661>That's an improvement over buying the same game over and over again like how it used to be.Hell no it isn't. Companies expect you to pay more for an unfinished release that they are constantly tweaking, yet rarely ever getting a truly satisfying result in before they inevitably drop it and move on to a sequel, while also trying to get away with doing the bare-ass minimum when it comes to features that ship with it(or ever get added) and charging for little pieces of content where they can of stuff that would have just been features or unlockables in a game that doesn't have an online connection to fall back on. I will take the old yearly SNK model or occasional Capcom revisions any day. Atleast it gave each of them their own niche of fans and let the devs try different ideas without fucking up what worked before.
>>12025646ITT: Popular game bad.>>12026220>>12026245Preach. Why give a damn if a game is "poser-core" or not? Video games are meant to be be enjoyed. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a game that's popular.
>>12025670>>12025676World changes based on beliefs. If you introduce yourself to Adahn you will eventually meet Adahn at the bar with Ignus, who you can recruit as a companion by getting the decanter of endless water.
>>12025646Burning Rangers
>>12027695t. poser uncomfortable at getting called out. let me guess, sega sadturd "enjoyer"?
>>12025652>King's Fieldyup
>>12025697but blood is wholly superior to d3d in everything from gunplay to atmosphere
>>12025646ps2 og Silent Hill 2 at 4K with aa is an incredible experience. And best of all, not censored, no DEI.
I have no mouth and I must scream It's a pretty cool game if you haven't played the hundred other 90s point and click games with a sci-fi bent.
>>12025646This thread makes no sense.Who would care about impressing g*mers?
>>12028075Actually it's still cool even if you have. I can never have too many cheesy 90s point and clicks. But it is overrated.
>>12028056I had a friend over who wanted to play on my hacked PS2. When he saw King's field 3 he was like omg we gotta play it it's like my dark souls. Cue the slowest piece of shit in all of video gaming.
>>12025707>Obscure game by obscure publisher #1:|>Obscure game by obscure publisher #2:/>Obscure WARHAMMER game by obscure publisher This is a 90s hidden gem! I miss when they made epic badass games like this! :0
>>12028056idgi, at least she's actually playing it and not just pretending to?
>>12028075my impression dabbling in adventure games for the last 20 odd years is that there wasn't a lot in the way of dark thriller type settings, at least not quality, stuff tended to be alot more whimsical and goofy then you would necessarily want. I'm not the biggest fan of IHNM overall but the source material and premise are very strong.
>>12028174you're supposed to get mad at women playing games you like
>>12027513>"I don't want to play SF6. Don't they have a mode where you just press a single button to do combos? Give me Third Strike any day of the week.">OKAY, YOU FUCKING FAKE-ASS GLAZING POSER. 1CC ARCADE MODE WITH Q, GETTING A PERFECT EVERY MATCH WITHOUT SUPERS, THEN BEAT DAIGO IN HIS PRIME. CAN'T DO IT? THEN YOU'RE JUST A FUCKING LIAR.This is why people hate the FGC.
>>12028405People hate the FGC because you'll get called out for being a poser?You don't get to complain about casuals when you are a casual. I hate modern controls, but you don't get to whine about it, you don't know what makes it toxic for SF6 (game design and character balance) and instead cry about it because you can't beat it (because you suck, Modern players are garbage so should be easy work).Get that scrubby shit out my face and continue pretending you can play Third Strike when I'd fucking wash you.
>>12028417Answer the question. Can YOU 1cc Arcade mod with Q getting perfects every match without supers and stand toe-to-toe with Daigo? If you can, you need to get in the back with the other casuals and shut your mouth. The only people allowed to play fighting games are people who can already automatically get into the Finals at EVO.Before you get mad again, this is a joke. The joke is that the FGC's absurd level of gatekeeping makes them all seem like assholes.
>>12028450It's not absurd levels of gatekeeping to say if you're representing a game so hard, you better be good at it.If you say Street Fighter 4 is trash, Third Strike is the best game ever, I better not be able to hop on Fightcade and wash you in your own game. If I can do it despite only being C Rank, you're what we call a poser, and your opinion is value-less.
>>12025853>insecure 14 year olds>>12025858>young 20 year oldsPamBeesly.jpg
>>12025646This anon >>12025652 misunderstands what posercore even means. If I had to name a few:>Silent Hill 2 & 3>Resident Evil (2002)>Earthbound & Mother 3 (seems to have cooled off due to Undertale oddly enough)>Dragon Quest V & VII
>>12028469>it's not posercore if i like it!
>>12028458That's not even what was said. The scenario is that someone says they'd prefer to play Third Strike because SF6 has one button combos and someone from the FGC challenges them over not wanting to play another game.There was no assessment over actual game quality or their own proficiency.They just didn't want to play a game with one button combos.That's it.It is genuinely absurd that you need to be a top tier player to simply say you don't like a particular mode in a game. Literally no other fandom does shit like that.
>>12025859Alpha 2 is gaining ground as the poser's choice recently.
>>12027660>>12027659Really, a lot of Treasure games could qualify
>180 repliesSo this is pretty much a shitposting board similar to /v/ at this point, huh
>>12028473FFVII would be posercore like, 20 years ago. It's not really anymore. X never really was.Same with Half-Life, that's more of a Half-Life 2 thing.And King's Field posers barely exist if at all.
>>12028484>>12025701if anything, there's a trend to performatively hate hl2 for snatching all of the "most important video game ever" awards
>>12028481allowing 6th gen was a mistake
>>12028481The average /vr/ user unfortunately grew up with gen 6 as their first consoles. People love to meme on how older generations were retarded, but in reality it's the opposite. The gen 6 zygotes here are absolute retards and will probably destroy the board as boomers, xoomers and moomers get too old and crusty to care about posting here anymore. And God help us if gen 7 ever gets introduced here.
>>12028476Go play whatever you want, I'm just calling a poser a poser.You're criticizing the new game for having a control scheme (that you don't have to, and shouldn't touch because It's inferior) while pretending you care about Third Strike, but you suck ass at both.People like you aren't worth having a conversation with.Poser-ism is ingrained in your blood. Your daddy was probably a poser too. Don't talk about fighting games.
>>12027491okay kid
>>12028537Fightcade?
>>12025796bungie was never good and nobody cared about marathon (or any of their other games) until it was revealed to be "the other game the halo guys made".>inb4 "b-but it's not the same bungie!"yes and? it's not like any studio formed by ex-bungie staff has fared any better. stubbs the zombie was wideload's only good game, concord and the fate of firewalk studios is a masterclass in failure and certain affinity, "the geniuses" behind the flop that is doom 2016's multiplayer only survives as a support studio for call of duty & the 343 halos.
>>12025828i met someone who argued that metal gear should be started from the MSX games when he clearly never played them based on all his talking points.
>>12025808>Morrowind fags seem to actually know their shit, many of the memes they post are only comprehended if you played the game yourselfLMFAO shut the fuck up retard. You literally couldn't be further from the truth.The average Morrowind fag redditor is only capable of parroting "muh epic chim man", "muh mantling" and "muh save files", when not a single one of these things is in the game. Not even one. It's all just internet fanfiction bullshit. And you would also know this had you actually fucking played Morrowind yourself.
>>12028564>nobody cared about marathon (or any of their other games)macfags didt. macfagBungie's games were the biggest games we had and that weren't MacPlay ports or shareware.
First four Tony Hawk games
>>12028534Again, this absurdity is why the FGC has the reputation that it has.
>>12028534>but you suck ass at both.A casual can hate a game for being casualized, and can prefer a game they suck at. For example, I've seen IRL once people dropping MvC:I because it had autocombos turned on by default that they didn't know you could turn off, because they concluded it was a game of whoever mashes first wins and just pressing buttons to have things happening was not fun. Meanwhile the same people playing SF4 were giggling when they managed to pull off a special move more complex than a fireball.
>>12028605Stop feeding the troll.Anyone who genuinely believed what he's claiming would demand you play on original hardware and not an online emulator.
>>12028608>Stop feeding the troll.This is a literal troll thread
>>12028605The reason why the casual hates a casualized game is because they suck at it (or because they're even bigger posers who just want to appear knowledgeable by saying OLD GOOD or are just flat out nostalgic for the time they were younger).The reason why actual fighting game players hate a casualized game is for reason they can actually articulate that don't come across as sour grapes from being trash.They are not the same.I don't want to hear the casual bitch about Modern controls because they got hit by an ultra-damage scaled inoptimal auto-combo.>>12028608>Le play on hardware where no one can prove I'm trashAnd I'm the troll?
>>12027864I love the shiturn, but BR is literally a tech demo. I liked the boss fight parts atleast.
>>12028615>I don't want to hear the casual bitch about Modern controls because they got hit by an ultra-damage scaled inoptimal auto-combo.Isn't that a valid complaint though? Being hit by a long combo that didn't take any effort to do isn't fun. I might prefer a game where my fellow noobs can only do button button special to me as I can do it to them. In which case 3rd Strike is better for the casual than SF6, due to SF6 being casualized.
>>12028458>i dont like this game and its mechanics, i prefer this other one instead >"what, you aren't a top player in teh world at your favorite game?? That means you are not allowed to have an oppion on games you don't like!"What retarded logic.
>>12028617Something Something You're Too Much of a Casual to Understand Why That's a Bad Thing.
>>12028617Prefer all you want, but don't speak on fighting games like you're some beacon of knowledge.That's my biggest problem with posers who point to 3S as being the "best" fighting game. You guys don't even play 3S, so why should anyone care about your opinion on it?>>12028624>Le new fighting games are all TRASH, the best fighting games are the ones I don't even actually play, you should totally care about my opinion on fighting gamesHit dogs are hollering up and down this thread.Posers.
>>12028579THPS1? yes. the rest? no.
>>12028060Nah blood fucking sucks, shitty weapons, shitty enemies and genuinely some of the worst level design only surpassed by Shadow Warrior.The only thing it has going for it is voice acting (all of these games have good VA) and the general aesthetics which admittedly are great and easily the biggest selling point of the game.
>>12028615>Le play on hardware where no one can prove I'm trashIf you don't have an actual arcade scene near you, you don't play fighting games. You just pretend to.
>>12028641You can't be me in your favorite fighting game.Your opinion is invalid.
>>12028469>Dragon Quest VII>Poser-corei'll assume you made a typo and you meant to say Poser Quest 8
>>12028502>if gen 7 ever gets introduced here.that would be kino/v/eddit is so shit you can't discuss 7th gen vidya outside of the most popular games like Skyrim or Dark Souls
>>12028665you'll only be able to discuss Skyrim or Dark Souls here too retard
>>12028662Nah, because most people who talk about DQ8 now are people who have played it, it's more normalfagcore.DQV is the big pick for posers because it's the "deep" one, and VII has also picked up steam as a poser game. I imagine that was partly pre-emp marketing for the remake, and now you have a lot of people acting like it's the greatest game ever in ways that obviously out them as having not played it (especially when they talk about the "story").
>>12028667Skyrim and Dark Souls threads without /pol/e-celeb/coomer faggotry would be cool
Kek fgc schizos are the same brand as shmup schizos
>>12028670>re people who have played itbut did they finish it? you see the most annoying obnoxious posers are not those who never touched the game it's those who played it for an hour or two and dropped itit's like the faggots on Steam giving a positive review consisting on one line praising the game without elaborating and half the time it's a joke or a meme, but if you look at the play time counter it's under an hour lol
>>12028674fighting & shmup are the two worst gaming genres for a reason, add visual novels and you'll form the unholy trinity of shitty vidya
>>12028673>Skyrim>would be coolwe're doomed
>>12028670> because it's the "deep" oneWhat's deep about DQV?
>>12028701Game is structured around the main character's life, from childhood to being a father.Watches his dad die, becomes a slave, loses his kids and wife, suffers a lot.
>>12028674I look forward to the near future where they're all placed in newly built asylums along with the rest of their kin.
>>12028703And how exactly does it attract posers? Like what's 'poser-core' about it?
>>12028708It's just basic Japan fetishization you'll see all the time.Japan loves DQ, so if I want to be a weeaboo faggot, I have to love DQ.DQV is the deep one with the story, so that has to be the one I say I like, that kind of thing.
>>12028701Reddit Quest 5 appeals to virgin weeb>WOWZERS you can have a wife and children in this game! it's like i am a normie simulator!!!and to story fags, in this regard it's similar to the game in the OP, everyone jerks off the story but barely talks about the shitty gampley mogged by the other suprior titles in the serles, 6 BTFO 5 it's not even funny
>>12028717>Japan loves DQ, so if I want to be a weeaboo faggot, I have to love DQ.Lmao so the entire series is for posers now??>>12028724The gameplay really is shit compared to the other games in the series, I'll give you that
>>12028726Honestly, yeah.Talk the series with a lot of self-proclaimed "fans", and it's very obvious most haven't played a single game. People just do it the most with V and VII.The biggest claim that baffles me for how often it gets used is "Every game is the exact same". Nobody who actually played all the games would say that, there's more mechanical and narrative distinction among DQ1-9 than there is across FF's "golden age" (4-10).
>>12028734>The biggest claim that baffles me for how often it gets used is "Every game is the exact same"That genuinely doesn't make sense because anyone who claims to be a fan would never say something like that
Metroid (nes)Halo ODST
>>12028734>>12028737saying 1-7 are the same can be understandablebut lumping 8-11 into the mix is how you know they are certified poseurs
>>12028745>saying 1-7 are the same can be understandable>but lumping 8-11 into the mix is how you know they are certified poseursAgain, fucking posers, (You).1-7 are not "the same", unless you believe every Final Fantasy before VII was also the same game.All seven games are completely different structurally in gameplay and in narrative.
>>12028757they are the same in being 2D games with first person Turn Based combat, open world with cities and shit, and you navigate the overworld map in the same way since DQ1
>>12028674>thread about posers>posers show uppottery.git gud kid.
>>12028673>>12028690honestly being able to discuss any RPGs without the snobbery & elitism would be pretty fucking amazing but that'll never happen because of the kind of people who are just naturally drawn to the genre.
>>12027491>>12027513>>12028417>street fightersilly anon, street fighter is the game you play to learn the basics so you can play the fighting game you ACTUALLY wanna play.the only people who latch on to street fighter at this point are the aging black weebs that populate the FGC at large.>fightcadeoh watch out! we got an online warrior up in here! somebody hope he's not on wifi!
The paid steam port of rogue Really any steam port of a Roguelike
>>12028871>Roguelikeoh you reminded me of this Latinx 2001 game every poser latched unto because it was shilled as ''souls-like''
>>12028854>oh watch out! we got an online warrior up in here!Don't say this and then not play.Unless you're just a small fish in an even smaller pond afraid to play someone who is much better than them?What's your favorite fighter? I can play Garou, either of the two retro Street Fighters that matter (3S, SSF2T), Virtua Fighter, Tekken. Unlike you I'm not a poser.I don't use wi-fi unlike you, Pablo. I live in a first world country and state.Don't run away now, Pablo.
>>12028882>I don't use wi-fi unlike you, Pablo. I live in a first world country and state.NTA but that's funny considering according to the Tekken 8 beta stats from Harada, North America is the region with the biggest amount of wi-fi users. Makes sense, because me being an actual 3rd worlder, my house has always been wired, since wi-fi devices didn't arrive as early here. Meanwhile I imagine first world countries fully bought in the high tech hype of wi-fi as soon as it was available and a lot of people discussing fighting games online always complain about having to drill holes or whatever to get their cables into their rooms.
>>12028880I'm glad this was shilled because it's actually a good game with some cool mods
>>12028880Latinx? Fucking leave
>>12028782Being bad at a game does not make you a poser. Unless you pretend to be good at it. The idea that you have to hop on fightcade to prove that you are skilled enough to be allowed to have an opinion about a game is some funny sprerg shit
>>12028956Young Americans being unaware of actual Spanish people will never not be funny
>>12028882Did a Mexican kick your butt at fighting games or something?
>>12025652Trolling
>>12028980>actual Spanish peopleyeah, the Latinx peopleand no the Spanich speakers in Las Americas are mutts they have a relation to Latinx people as much as the spanich speaking Filipino mutts, nullonly europans can be Latinx (Spanish, Protuguess, Italians, Romanians, French....)
>>12025652/vr/s obsession with Kings Field is pretty hilarious. If you came to /vr/ without ever playing a video game you'd think that KF is one of the most popular games of all time, but in reality this board is just about the only place where you can mention the game and actually have people know what you're talking about (and even then a lot of people here ask questions about it).The way some of you act like it's some highly trendy cultural phenomenon is legitimately hilarious.I mean, you listed it next to FF7 and Earthbound for fucks sake lmao.
>>12028975If you actually liked a fighting game, you'd have played it enough to be decent at it.
>>12029024>you'd have played it enough to be decent at itYou overestimate how little raw repetition can equate to skill. Sometimes it does, and it is part of the equation, but some people simply do not have the memory, reflexes, and/or "creativity" to ever actually get good at certain things, fighting games included.
>>12028975that's because fightcade anon is one of the biggest posers on this whole damn board and he tries to pick fights with anons who laugh at him as a way to prove otherwise which only leads to more anons laughing at him.i quite frankly don't know why he's trying to pick fights for a match when i'm almost certain fightcade has some sort matchmaking/server browser or at the very least some type of community discord space for players to meet up.like not even the most devout/autistic of FGC cultist is like this.
>>12029042it's used to make them seethecalling something Latinx is a PG way of calling him a tarnny without getting banned or cancelled loland the best thing is they can't do shit about it, if they try to argue it's Le bad meanie word because ''Latinx = Tranny'' it will only make them look transphobic and intolerant to other people lol
>>12029024Most people who like games like SF2 or MK3 like them for random casual bouts of couch multiplayer with friends.
>>12029046Poser goes>no uIf you weren't a poser you'd prove you aren't one, but you are.Fighting games are definitive genre that seems to attract the most amount of posers, or at the very least, is the easiest to sniff out.All you have to say is:>ft5?The lights go on and all roaches start scurrying about going:>durr you don't need to be good a at fighting game to say this one is the best, i dont play my favorite games at all, that doesn't mean im a poserRetards.Makes me wonder how many posers are on this site pretending to like other games.
>>12029056In that case they only like those games because of nostalgia, and nothing deeper.They don't know the difference between SF2 and SF3 other than that their nostalgic childhood characters aren't in it.They don't know anything about SFV, or what made it bad at launch, outside of maybe what they saw in an easily digestible youtube video, they just pretend hate on it without having touched it, while fellating nostalgic games they only liked because they touched it a couple of summer weekends as a kid.That's the definition of a poser.
>>12029073>They don't know anything about SFV, or what made it bad at launchThey know it well enough. Many pros would be satisfied with a game that had only training, local versus and online. Casuals were the ones refunding the game for having no arcade mode, no story mode, no local vs cpu and, a short while later, because of news articles telling them the game came with a harmful rootkit. They wouldn't be able to criticize the gameplay but they would be able to tell you the old games were better and have a good argument for it.
>>12028639Nice bait
>>12025646All souls games, borderlands, modern diablo, all CODs past MW2, all modern PUBG games(fortnite), all modern MOBAs, all modern sports games. Dark Souls and everything like it is the most obviously CIA made bullshit I have ever seen. Want to be good at it? Don't think. Just do exactly what the tutorial said for the entire game. See a certain color, then dodge/block, then attack 2-3 times and repeat until it dies. Borderlands is the worst fucking game I've ever played though. It was like a golden turn on a golden platter for normies. Every single "girl gamer" i know played that constantly. This bitch said, "It's kinda hard" so I just headshotted everything for an entire level and she was absolutely astounded. Like bitch, you can't just aim at their head and then shoot? Just move the fucking crosshair to their head! >uses auto aim snap to kill every single enemy>pretends she is actually playing the gameThey gave all these normies a fucking aimbot just so they would play most modern games. So now you have all these fucked up variables that shouldn't exist. People with absolutely no awareness just wandering around looking for the red outline/armor of an enemy and aim snapping them. It makes games too unpredictable and bad. I should be getting killed by "kingmurder909" not "ElevatedOyster 1153" some fucking person using a default profile name their console/pc picked for them that can't even understand the objective, nor cares to learn it. Modern gaming is infected with a fucking virus called corporate greed and a disease called political influence. If you can't see or acknowledge this you too areca fucking poser. What was the first extremely popular game the CIA was involved with?
>>12029208These are just worse pipe bombs
>>12029287not retro
>>12029056That's what most fighting games were sold as in the home. Console port fighters were not selling millions of copies because every single buyer was trying to "go pro".
>>12029073>these people who played, enjoyed and have fond memories of a game, are posers >They don't know the difference between SF2 and SF3 other than that their nostalgic childhood characters aren't in it.No wonder you're a Garoufag. Did you clap when they added the soccer tard in the new one?
>>12029084I returned it because it was a terrible value for the price they wanted you to pay for a literally unfinished game. Should have just made it free to play at that point. Fags still have not released a complete edition of the game and now likely never will.
it is actually my second favorite megaten game with persona 4 being my favorite
>>12025867i played xenogears as a kid and even as a retarded squarefag and weeb then, it was a total slog, basically unplayable today, anyone claiming xenogears is amazing today is a total poser for sure>>12025880snes and gc copers in /vr/ are the biggest posers, hate how they shit up the board
>>12029037So you're saying you can't git gud?
>>12029346best SMT game but yes many posers posting Matador memes and DMC secondaries pretending to like itbut if anything Persona 4 is more of a poser-core than Nocturne
>>12029306Oops >:(
>>12029369>persona 4 is more poser-core than NocturneI agree. the shit people say about Adachi alone (incels thinking he is right because muh women don't respect me) makes me wonder if they have even played the game, but then I realized that persona fans actually just have zero media literacy.
>>12029378you can tell P4 posers by not knowing Adachi is not the main villain of the game
>>12029336> Street Fighter is for black people!>Garou is for... nerds!!!Tell me your game so I can either body you in it, or mock you for being a troon (Smash or Arcsissy)
Uhm... Omega BoostOratorio TangramZelda 4 Swords Adventure
>>12025719Zelda II was the reason I got into Faxanadu and decided to actually endure Simon's Quest instead of taking the AVGN video as the word of God.
>>12029057>>12029073>"these people who played, enjoyed and have fond memories of a game, are posers"so are you retarded or a bot?>>12029420thank you for proving my point.
Parasite Eve for sure.
>>12025732I give up on FF7 around the rocket launchpad area but I'm always up for a FF6 grind.
>>12028990>>12028880Stop saying Latinx you fucking faggot retard.
>>12029508>t. Latinxwho do you hate your own identity? have some pride if what you are, say it with me in loud voiceI'am Latinx!!!
>>12027236This is true. But are good fun in a non sweaty environment with frens chucking hadoukens and spamming the scorpion teleport punch over and over.
>>12027659I can beat up to stage 4 on one credit. Does that make me a poseur? Just curious where the stopping point is
>>12028469Is dq5 actually a poser tier game? Because that's my favorite jarpig and I have like 60 hours on my clear file, and I never see anyone talking about the game irl or on here with any level of detail. I just wanna talk about this charming lil game with someone. I like the bit where you make friends with the mustache guy who turns out to be a dragon. You then ride him. Shits so cash. Also, I was vibing when I went back to the old areas and like half of tge npcs recognized me as king. What a grand adventure!
>>12029563As I said later, a lot of people just talk about how the game has story and is deep at a very surface level and clearly never actually played it, and the same is true of most DQ discussion- very shallow, very obviously people looking for brownie points for liking "the thing the Japs liked", DQV is just the most prominent for this behavior due to its perceived artistic value (despite is honestly being a very poorly structured JRPG with how reliant it forces the player to be on monster recruitment, and said monsters being poor choices for permanent companies since they can't level like human characters).
>>12029529I literally can't tell if you're a leftist or if you're making fun of leftists.
>>12029452Who are you quoting? Retard.>>12027236>>12029532>games Im good atFor real gamers and intellectuals>games Im too slow to get good atFor tryhards with nothing better to doThe casual's code.
>>12025652Chrono Trigger is another nolstalga bait like Earthbound.
>>12025716Metroid Prime 1-3 are all good, especially if you have the wii combo which adds wiimote motion control to all three.
>>12029572see >>12029049the beauty of the word ''Latinx'' is you can use it as a slur disguised as a normal term but no one can prove your real intentions behind using ityou know the one using it is racist but you just can't prove it....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC9G3iumj2Q
>>12029570>how reliant it forces the player to be on monster recruitmentthat was tha sloppiest sloppy slop about DQ5playing half the game with generic boring monsters was a huge turn offno wonder they never pulled this shit again in the future games, keep that shit to DQ Monsters subseries
>>12027578>>12026161That and she being unable to write down codes and shit makes it a bad game to pick up and play.
>>12029621>generic boring monstersas opposed to what, generic boring human companions like every single rpg before it? People that never play DQ constantly shit on the series for being generic but when it revolutionizes the genre with every entry you have people who say it should be more generic. I'd say theres no winning but Dragon Quest won a long time ago so it doesnt need defending. going up the reply chain im starting to think that being a DQ hater is more poser than liking the series at this point. I cant tell you the number of times ive seen people talk shit about a DQ game they obviously never played.
>>12028824Skyrim isn't an RPG, underage
>>12029019>you'd think that KF is one of the most popular games of all timei wish it was truefirst person dungeon crawlers are the pinnacle of videogames as a whole and I wish there was more of them
>>12025796What Youtube video?I always thought that the Marathon games were the best old-style shooters. The rich puzzles, deep story through the terminals, the enemy design. Saving at specific locations. Even the shooting and encounters is the best of the old style shooters I've played.
>>12025646Sonic fan excited to poop without diapers for the first time.
>>12029860How is this a poser game? I figure SOTN or Aria of Sorrow would better fit this. Only thing I can think of is this is probably one of the easier 'vanias to start with.
>>12029019People who are exactly 20 years old right now have this tendency to latch onto things from the 90s that were never actually popular and think they were way more important than they actually were. Usually, these are things that 4chan and other forums were calling hidden gems and ahead of their time 20 years ago. So then influencers, either on social networks or video sites discover those old forum posts and make content about them. Since those guys are making content about King's Field and Serial Experiments Lain, instead of something that was actually popular back then, like Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Neon Genesis Evangelion, there's a whole generation of young retro gamers who know all the hidden gems, but none of the big mainstream hits.This is why you see games like King's Field, Legend of Oasis, Crusader of Centy and Startropics ad nauseam on this board. I have mixed feelings about this, because 10-15 years ago only a few of us on 4chan had played stuff like King's Field, SMT1, and Wizardry. It's good that more people understand the history of important franchises that didn't see comprehensive release in America or were more popular in Japan. But when it's random shit like Startropics, Terranigma, etc that weren't bad but were also not actual hits, and then they've never heard of some high-profile game everyone knew back in the day like Splatterhouse, Killer Instinct, or Myst, it can be kind of annoying.Pretty sure the average anon on this board knows way more about Harvester and Phantasmagoria than they do Myst, even though way more people played Myst and King's Quest than the edgy stuff.
>>12030219Serial experiments lain was popular back then, obviously not on the same tier as NGE. Its being boosted today because of tiktok but I remember it being one of the first shows I watched after first getting into anime in the mid 2000s, it wasnt some obscure gem. I do agree Kings Field is getting the dark souls modern boost and people are treating it like it was a major game when it wasnt. I wouldnt really compare the two.
>>12030219I've played Crusader of Centy a couple of years ago and it's actually pretty good
>>12030257SeL was regarded by most of the internet and anime fandom in the US as a bad Evangelion ripoff. It doesn't really share a lot of themes with Evangelion if you've watched more than 1 existentialist anime/cartoon, but that was still what you heard all the time back then, and apparently even some of the Japanese thought that, which pissed off the creators. It was accepted and appreciated by a small number of people on 4chan and iichan's /Abe/ board who would often claim it was wholly unique and one of the greatest animations ever made. I was one of these people.Now literally every entry-level weeab zoomer knows it and will talk to you about it, I have had more conversations IRL about Lain in any of the past 3 years than I have in the past 20 combined.Similar experience with FromSoft jank. I grew up as a religious fan of Armored Core after I bought Project Phantasma in a discount bin somewhere. I played the King Field games shortly after Demon's Souls came out because even then you heard it was a spiritual successor. Then Dark Souls games came out for like 8 years with no one playing or talking about King's Field, until Zoomers decided the PS1 aesthetic was trendy after Dark Souls 3 came out and started making videos about King's Field 2 and 3.
>>12030294>It was accepted and appreciated by a small number of peoplehere is the oldest MAL snapshot I could find for Lain, 2008. Take note of the score and popularity rankings at the bottom left. I cant speak for 1998 but by the 2000s it was already a pretty well known and popular show, not some cult sensation.
>>12030307All I can say about that era is this. Back then there were guys making "LainOS" that was going to revolutionize your computer. And some other guy who was "15% done" translating the PS1 game. Both of these guys were morons who had no idea how to do what they were even attempting to do, but the community was so small and full of computer-science-misunderstanding idiots that no one serious ever took the project away from them.By the mid-late 10s, the franchise was popular enough that people who actually knew what they were doing worked on and accomplished both of these things by the early 20s. So I won't tell you it was the most obscure thing ever, it was on /a/'s recommended anime charts in like 2007, but it was a niche show that not everyone liked. Now it's treated as a poser badge of honor that you have to watch if you're a misfit, LGBT, or mentally ill. If you go to game stores in tourist areas in Japan they have the DVDs and PS1 game in locked cases on display for 20% over market price because Lain and LSD are the two obscure rare JP PS1 games that zoom zooms all know about.Pic related. SeL PS1 increased in market value by 100,000 yen in a single year because of this, at least at the most well known gaijin scamming emporium. 100,000 yen isn't really $1000 like most people (including the redditer who took this picture) seems to think it is and Japan wishes it was, but that's still a huge increase.
Spawned a whole generation of skater-wannabes.
>>12030330anyone visiting scam potato deserves what's coming to them>>12025646
