>AI is killing gamingYou don't need to upgradeYou don't need new games
Zoomer here, I recently got a PSP (I used to have one as a kid) and I've been having a good time with it. Planning on getting a dualshock 3 along wiht some PS3 games that caught my interest soon. Would go with a PS2 but a CRT monitor + controller is out of my budget. The hobby has no future and this is what I enjoy most.Old, indeed, good.
>>729748586dios mios la creatura
>>729748586Who keeps making this shit up? All the zoomzooms and Gen Alpha I know just play Roblox and stick with their phones. If they do own a PC or console, they just play the latest twitchstreamer shit or fuck around in popular games like GTA V, Minecraft, etc. The younger generations are stagnant in their taste because the gaming industry is that shit
>>729748586>psp>retrofuck, I'm old
>>729749042I wish PSP caught on more in the west. Then Vita basically had so many things working against it AND smartphone gaming became a thing.
>>729750228>their escapefrom what? these fuckers don't realize you can just disable notifications on everything and you're no longer interrupted. just don't do social media. you'll quickly realize it's all irrelevant shit and you're missing out on precisely nothing.
>>729748586Gen Z does not play retro consoles or games, they just post photos with them and pretend it was their childhood
>>729749042I hope you didn't buy a PSP Street, like the dumbass in OP.
>>729749348Fun fact: Everyone in that picture is a millennial :)
Can you stop posting this faggot already?
>>729749042what a faggot
>>729750228>thanks to gen zyou mean millennial parents who weren't dumb enough to sell their old consoles for vbucks
>>729750590The 2010s culture was special kind of ass, nobody likes it.
>>729749348God bless America
>>729749348>>729749042Typical zoom nigger
>people calling you unc just want what you had
Don't people just play on chinkhelds now?
>>729748586Do they actually have a growing appetite for retro tech, or do they just want to make instagram and tiktok posts showing others that they do?
>>729752723No one uses those or the sneed deck unironically. The former is for retards and the later for gaslit cultists
>inb4 defensive faggots go "I'm le zoomer and I grew up with shit that lost support when I turned 7, please validate me!"
>>729752915I just finished getting the chaos emeralds, and got to this very well designed section of the game.
>>729750336It's not so much about social media but more about the state of the world. We always jerk off to 90's optimism and how 9/11 killed it, but even until 2020, things weren't as gloomy as they were now. So they get to live in a world that is long gone for few moments thanks to retro gaming
>>729749348>these are the retards that call you brown and unc online
>>729749042Or you could have just built yourself a PC and grab all of that shit at the same time
The only retro console I own is a Sega Saturn (because at the time emulation wasn't as good as it is now and there were select titles I really wanted to play). Unless you wanna count the PS3 and DS as retro. t. Zoomer
>>729748586Why is Gen Z obsessed with retro games?
I just finished fapping to random porn and thought the face looked weird so I checked the comments and found out it's AI generated. You can't trust anything these days.
>>729753908No one gives a shit if you are zoomer, you all act like nigros. Its a badge of shame you dysgenic ugly fuck
It feels like bankrupt game stores are promoting this as a way to clear out their unwanted stock.
>>729750712I have safe retro fatigue
>>729754151You sure showed him who acts like a chimp :)
>>729754246>4chan in 2026> I AM LE ZOOMNIGRO >I LE OWN LE PSP>CRINGE BRUH CUH UNC>CRINGE>NO U CANT LE SAY LE ANYTHING ABOUT IT Whoah very cool.
>>729754189What the fuck does that even mean
>>729753436What emulator are you using? Can your chinkheld run blastem? Because depending on a sound driver used in game, some genesis emulators fuck up the sound so bad it makes my ears bleed.
Playing retro games hits very differently when the only thing stopping you is time.
>>729754349Normalfag retro games
Remember when millennials started playing NES games because of the Angry Video Game Nerd? Much like books and music, many go back to try things before their time.
Any zoomgroid that spends money on retro games after 2015 are only doing it because they are desperate for validation over getting bullied by people older than them. This is why so many of them on /v/ sign their posts so they can get their good boy points from Millennials and Xers.
>>729748586modern games are shit
>>729754658is fucking portal runner a normalfag retro game?
>>729754750Yeah
>>729749042>PS2 but a CRT monitor + controllerYou don’t need a fucking meme PVM to play Ps2 games lol. Check Facebook for anything that has component inputs
>My favorite retro game is Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U
>>729754418Genesis Plus GX is what I'm using. I haven't noticed anything too strange, maybe a minor oddity with the music in Marble Garden.>>729754801NTA but people know that CRTs are desirable now, especially those with component inputs. Any decent deals that do show up will get grabbed by scalpers or collectors.
>>729754315I am certain everyone saying "unc" aren't even zoomers and do it simply because it annoys others >>729754801You don't even need a CRT at all in the age of upscaling/texture replacement
>>729749348Another generation of White stock, and they'll be fine.
>>729748586retro games are just better than modern slop
>>729752796I own like a ton of old systems and games that I play and I dont post shit about them on shitstagram.
While that one guy is still throwing is little hissy fit just thought I thought remind everyone that millennials, by there own definition, never managed to make anything of value :)
>>729755023Then just get a plasma which has all the inputs you need and a screen quality thats close to OLED. Otherwise, you can just get an HDMI adapter or a cheap scaler, whatever floats your boat. You don't NEED a CRT to play retro games. You only NEED a screen.
Technology and culture just aren't progressing fast enough, all of these games came out 15 years ago and if you go 15 years before that you're at the end of the SNES and launch of the N64
>>729755023Idk I sometimes check my local Fb marketplace and I see CRTs on there all the time
>>729755023Sonic games usually sound fine. I use vectorman's 2 opening stage to test the sound emulation, this track has very shrill loud beeps on crappy emulators. The other games that sounds like shit with improper emulation are Separation Anxiety and Battle Mania 2. You won't be missing much by not playing former, but battlemania is one of the better games on mega drive and has a really good OST too.
>>729755759Well go get it then, spend $20, flip it to some gullible retard if you want.
>>729748586I don't blame AI, but I do blame DLSS, a now sub 30 realframe focus, and devs that can't be bothered to optimize their games at all.>but DLSS is AI!Sure but we can be more precise
>>729748586perhaps because the lack of games is real. If you don't like gachas or modding, your year will be empty, lol
Why do I keep seeing this thread?
>>729756351Because we need to go back
>>729754315>t.
>>729748586Understandable.Modern gaming and media fucking sucks. I'm thinking of buying another DS Lite to play some of those DQ games I never finished.
>>729749348what does the bottom middle have
Zoomers are realizing that the world they've grown up in is completely fake and gay. They long for authenticity. You can easily get a zoomer gf right now.
It's not about playing old games, it's all about being a fucking poser and an attentionwhore.You could just fucking emulate all these old games on a toaster of a PC.>B-but the gaming experience!!It's almost the fucking same holy fuck and if you really wanted to play old games because you're bored of the new stuff you just fucking emulate.But you won't because you just want to post a pic of your retro setup for reddit points.Fucking get the fuck out of here.
>>729756351Because it gets guaranteed (You)s. And you contributed.
>>729756960Mine just walked up to me and made up some lie about being lost in Downtown Vancouver. Glad she did, really like her.
>>729751095Millennials weren't birthing Genz that was largely Gen X. Millennials are making Alfies
>>729757076But how does that make (You) feel?
>>729748586>y-you dont need-AI was supposed to make everything cheaper and faster according to AIfaggots, and when its shown to do the opposite and shit up the entire fucking internet, they make excuse how we dont "need" XYZ. We dont NEED AI gen slop, we dont NEED to spend trillions on a tech that confidently fucking lies to you. Fuck you.
>>729748586>still have my VCR>still have my CRT >still have all my old VHS tapes>still have all my DVDs>still have all my old consoles>could easily pick up a DVD player for like 30 bucksTechnology peaked in 2010 anyways.
>>729757354well, i'm a millenial and have a gen alpha kidbut a friend of mine became dad young (20ish)
>>729754186Ding ding ding!!
>>729757653>2010>3 years of Iphone shittery2006 was as far as we needed to go
>>729754658What would Abnormalfag retro games be?
>>729757354We're the Juno generation, so we have plenty of people that became parents in their teens. Also, older millennials are quite old already.
>>729749348One of these guys is actually 100% purebreed Aryan with a 2% margin of error.
>>729757653Wait I forgot the Fat PS3 can just play DVDs, so I saved myself 30 dollars
I have a confession. I'm 33, and when I was a kid, growing up with all of that kino vidya, I was too fucking shit/stupid to beat most of them. Legend of Dragoon, Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Final Fantasy X, none of the games I loved and had I could beatthen I just got addicted to PSO
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>>729755626Correct. You have noticed what most have not.
>>729757802Well God of War 3 came out in 2010 so that's my cutoff year.
>>729749348And the top left is a millionaire with a hot white gf so keep seething timmy
>>729758105The water temple was a great filter
>>729755626we reached 60000 triangles and are entering diminishing returns. So we should be focusing on performance but CEOs and investors want AI
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>>729758105I did beat Mario 64 and Final Fantasy X. But I had more dropped games than finished for sure.
>>729748586Zoomers are 27 years old. The psp wasn't a retro console, it's what they grew up with,
>>729748586Perhaps they find new shit too expensive or just organically can detect it's not worth even a mention. This is perfectly fine for me, imagine games just stopped being made for 10 years, all devs went on a vacation. There's so many games on different systems that nobody needs anything new for a long time.
>>729758118Osamu Sato is the DEFINITION of safe retro literally everyone that pretend to like him are e-celebs and zoomers trying to find the next "weirdcore" aesthetic.
>>729758792PSP and DS are retro because that era of handhelds was just a different paradigm compared to the modern era of the 'eck and 'itch. While the PS3 is still not retro despite similar age because PS3 to PS4 to PS5 is all in the same sort of family tree of modern 3D HD vidya.
>>729749965You're probably thinking of absolute tail-end 2008 Gen Zers. People like the one in the OP or zooms are now mid-late 20s would be the biggest prime example of going back to PSP and the like. I'd also put a huge blame on basedlennials buying $80 Nintendo games and getting excited for the $100 Virtual Boy cardboard for the current state of things.>>729750043The 3DS is also getting caught up in the "retro" pursuit
>>729759046No that's millennials.
>>729758278I wouldn't trade being white for all the money and women in the world. I could be homeless and starving, and see a millionaire nigger mutt, and I would still be glad I wasn't born like him.Browns are that disgusting.
>>729748586I remember wanting a PSP back in elementary school. I would honestly get a PS Vita if I didn't already have a PC
>>729759404>Newer isn’t always better—sometimes, nostalgia wins big. As X user Pirat_Nation discovered,What an article.
>>729759443Unless one of you, zoomers, gets narcissistic I really can't tell the difference between the "generations". Even that picture, if you just posted it without context most people wouldn't even be able to pinpoint who it is trying to depict.
>>729760353>Pirat_Nationeverywhere I go, I see his face
>posts tons of good shit with a few divise meme choices in a collage>slap a wojak template edit on itThis is modern discourse in a nutshell. At least Fatlus came frrom the soul.
if PC retro multiplayer services were brought back to life like Gamespy arcade or Zone, people would leave to play retro multiplayer forever.
>>729755626Everything that happened between like 1990-2015 had us convinced that technological advancement is a constant, stable thing. It never was. That was just perhaps the period of the fastest technological advancement in human history. We have nearly reached a hard limit of what we can achieve now when it comes to computers without basically inventing some radical new form of computing.
>>729762145>We have nearly reached a hard limit of what we can achieve now when it comes to computers without basically inventing some radical new form of computing.Someone told me that in college... in 2005.
>>729762679And he was wrong then. But if he told you now then he would be right.
>>729748586Why do they not just install emulators on their phones and PCs? It's fucking free
>>729763457Even a zoomzoom knows that gaming on a phone is soulless.
>>729763457Emulating on PSP is more soulful
>>729748586AI will kill games when you can have it play them for you
