What's wrong with not disposing of your old childhood stuff?
>>731012756We call that hoarding.
>>731012756I still play some PC games released before 2000. What's the problem?
>>731012756this angers them because they want to force their modern propaganda-games on them
>>731012756You are allowed to keep your old moviesYou are allowed to keep your old booksYou are allowed to keep your old albumsYou are allowed to keep your old board gamesYou are NOT allowed to keep your old video games!!!
How exactly do you collect this sort of data?
>>731012929No you don't
Where did anyone say it was bad?
>>731013127Break into 100 random* homes and check
Big companies expect you to just throw your old shit out because they're delusional
>>731012756You see you are supposed to throw away your old product so you can buy new product! Consoom you stupid plebian give us your fucking money.
>>731012756My parents threw out my nes and super nes when they stopped working, I wonder if it would have been easy to repair them.
>>731013315just emulate, nigga
>>731012756I heard someone read a book written in the 1960s the other day. No gamer would ever do something so crazy
>>731013134why not? do you have autism?
>>731013104because the core idea sustaining the video game industry has always been linear improvement the idea that graphics, gameplay, writing etc only ever improves in vidya, which we know full well is obviously not true, but they have to keep the facade going otherwise it all falls apart by choosing to play retro games over modern offerings, you're signalling that you know the emperor has no clothes
>>731013346Imagine going oh I don't have that console anymore, I guess I can't play it! LOL, Nintendo has absolute mind-cucked the lot of you.
>>731013023>>731013104>>731013226>>731013296who said it's a bad thing? you don't have to get angry at the first thing you read.
>>731013134Yes I do, and I literally posted one of them.
The greatest game ever made is Deus Ex so yes anything after is going to be not as good or outright bad.
>>731013519if they didn't think it was a bad thing then the article wouldn't even exist, nor would the study
Fake numbers 100%. Even when I do play retro games I emulate or use what I bought on Wii before store close.I have a Retrotink 5x but that is used for PS2 (also console not released before 2000). I think as far as SNES and stuff goes the emulation is actually upscale rs?You really think 14% of people are buying old CRTs and messing around with converters/upscalers?
>>731013104>listening to the same song over and over again: good>rewatching movies and series for the 5th time: good>replaying a game you already played in the past: WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM???
>>731013629>>listening to the same song over and over again: good>>rewatching movies and series for the 5th time: goodNo one says that, normalfags want you to have the newest thing
>>731013678>implying they don't listen to top 40 channels which literally play the same 40 songs over and over>or classic rock/80s stations which do the same thing except the songs are at least 35 years old
>>731013787whaaat anon you don't know the newest Taylor Swift song? what are you, an unc?
>>731013629I've posted this before but my roommate in college was completely unable to understand why I would "choose to re-experience the same content without an incentive" when I replayed Metal Gear Rising without the intention to Platinum it.Shits fun nigga idk what's hard to get?
>>731012756>>731012915Paid for by corporations who want us to get rid of our old cool stuff so we will buy their new shit stuff. It won't work, you living corporate toilets!
>>731013678>No one says thatDads do and they are correct to do it.
>>731013846Well normal people can afford to just buy a new game instead of having to replay the same one endlessly
>>731013898>normal people can afford to just buy a new gameDid you not notice the decline in console sales last Black Friday?
>>731013846Normalfags are natural slaves and cannot comprehend enjoying things.
>>731013938nta but who would notice that? Do people sit around looking up sales statistics for holidays?
>>731013519Well the stigma is always like that. It always goes into "THIS IS BAD!! I HATE IT AND (YOU) SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR ENJOYING IT!!!"
>>731013840What the fuck is a Taylor Swift? Some new Lady Gaga?
>>731013938>consoleLMAO
>>731014109Yes, normal people play on consoles, I thought you already knew this every time you got mad at a dev for focusing on consoles to make more money.
>>731014185>Yes, normal people play on consolesLMAO
Women find subscription services sexy.Women understand that games have a shelf life and get the ick for physical media.Don't you want to be with women /tv/?
>>731014065Trying too hard.
>>731013871Raspberry Pi exists for a reason :)
>>731012756>>731013226>>731013296>>731013104>>731013603>>731013629Nothing is wrong with it. Why the fuck does nu/v/ think every single article is somehow pushing an anti-vidya agenda? You don't even need to do any real critical thinking, just basic thinking and looking at the source. Greentexting for you AIslopbrained retards:>article is written by a retro gaming websiteThis is actually all you need to know. But let's look at the article itself, too:>"study" was just a Consumer Reports survey>"An impressive 14 percent of North Americans are still gaming on platforms released before the year 2000."The article is pro-retro vidya, not against it. But wait, what about the survey? Well, the Consumer Reports link in the fucking article is actually talking about the survey results in a positive way, also mentioning that there are people who still listen to audio cassettes, watch VHS movies, use film cameras, etc. and how retro tech is making a comeback.The only person implying that "they" are saying it's bad to keep your old consoles is OP.
>>731013603>a group of people doing a study and having a data about thing something means the said people think it's a bad thingamerican education, everyone>>731014047/v/ is not a reflection of the real world
>>731012756I regret selling my sega saturn but that's about it. It had so many titles for it that are probably lost media by now, but anything for gaystation and N64 is widely emulated.
>>731013603Please kill yourself you retarded normgroid.
>>731012756The people that treat the population as a consumerist endpoint only have one nightmare and that's people using something for longer than a few years at most
>>731012929this may be the most soulful UI i have ever seen
no i play modern games on modern PCs
>>731014226>Women find subscription services sexy.Elaborate
>>731012929Some of them stop working. Funny how PC also has generations much like consoles.
>>731012756You are ruining the economy! always buy the current product then wait for the next product! Stupid goy the religion of green arrow needs you to consume this is why your *betters* spend on R&D-ing plausible planned obsolescence.
>>731014226>Don't you want to be [...] womenNo
The industry is pissed off that I would rather go back and play a randomizer romhack for Link to the Past, then touch the latest slop like Concord or Cyberpunk or Expedition 33.
>>731017939What's the appeal of a randomizer run.
>>731012756What purpose does it serve to dispose of it?
>>731012756Yes
>>731016748NTA but it's probably perceived (even if unknowingly) as a sign of responsibility.>This cuck pays every month for a service, he will likely be willing to pay every month for all the stuff my child needs.Women are instinctively attracted to whatever makes their motherhood easier.
>>731012756Suspiciously high, like they included the PC among these.
>>731014047you're mentally ill. go outside and touch some grass, little guy.
>>731018026It skips all the boring parts that are usually just exposition dumps, and lets you get right into the meat and potatoes of the gameplay. Since items are all switched up, you have to find the most optimal way to beat dungeons and bypass obstacles. You no longer have the safeguards that games would give you, like a sword to fend off enemies, so oftentimes you're just kinda finagling your way past entire sections of the game by improvising. Normally I use the logic that says that the game is still beatable (IE you'll never be permanently softlocked and every item can be obtained) but you can also remove that logic and just have the game be an insane mishmash, which may require you to utilize every glitch and exploit in the book. There's a ton of ways to customize your experience, in other words.My favorite, bar none, would have to be the combination Majora's Mask/Ocarina of Time randomizer, which mixes both games. It's a hoot.
>>731012756Corpos are mad that anyone can have thousands of hours of higher quality entertainment playable on basically any device they own. Instead they want you to be forced to play their 80 dollar plus tip and subscription slop on their cloud gaming service.
>>731014109on steam it's even worse with people not even buying anything made after 2016 or playing it for that matter even if it's f2p with extremely rare exceptions
>>731018026tldr effectively turns a previously fun-for-you linear game into a glorified roguelite to get more "content"some people are into that, some consider it asinine
>>731013104It’s been a cultural revolution from the very beginning
>>731012756>picture shows SNES controller when it's obviously N64 and PS1Just like those "Gen Z is playing retro handhelds" and showing Gameboy instead of Nintendo DS
>>731012756I have a non-gamer friend who still plays almost every game released on the 8-bit and 16-bit generations (which we grew up with). I thought him how to use an emulator and downloaded a few hundred games for him some 15 years ago, and he's still playing them.The dude's a roided out guy who really likes Sonic for some reason.
>>731012915>Don't question, just consume product!No thanks, it's not hoarding if you actually use them. Hoarding by definition is keeping shit just for the sake of keeping it regardless of value or usefulness.
>>731019225Your friend is cooler than 99% of people
>>731012756That's at least more than 50 million people.
>>731019225More of a gamer than this shit board.
>>731019529I kinda miss those days, 15 years ago. We had just reestablished contact after drifting apart in high school. We ended up hanging out a lot, and after selling his apartment, he lived on my couch for a couple of years. We mostly just hiked, lifted weights, got drunk, played old games or went outside to film stupid shit and stunts as if we were teenagers again.
>>731020568Well, this is mostly a board for coomers and submissive masochists these days.
I only owned the N64 since adulthood.
>>731020703Fifteen years ago was the lowest point of my life. But twenty years ago, that was the highest. Good times.Are you still close or did adult life cause you to drift apart? I still get together weekly with the guys I grew up with- tonight I'm having five of them over for dinner actually. We're all in our 40s now, I feel really lucky to have such a tight-knit group stick together for 30+ years.
>>731019025Yeah, I've been downloading as much old internet stuff as possible off of the Internet Archive, just to preserve the way we were. Even have ancient 4chan threads from the 2000s saved up. It's interesting to see how much our language and the way we communicate has changed, everyone is seemingly a more retarded version of their past selves now.
>>731014387Funny story: Last month one of the cops in my area bought a copy of Secret of Mana for his Snes. He's had one for decades.https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02/14-percent-of-north-americans-still-play-gaming-systems-released-before-2000The article even mentions cassete tapesand VHS
>>731021556Well, remember how I said that he sold his apartment and moved in with me? He invested that money in an apartment building through a wealthy friend of his brother, and several years later, he cashed out and bought a house with his brother, where he's lived since. After that, we drifted apart again, and that was maybe 7 or 8 years ago. There wasn't a reason for it, aside from him living across town. I just didn't call him, and he didn't call me.However, a few months ago, I suddenly got a message from him on my phone, and we got back in touch, and have been hanging out occasionally. The last time he was here, he showed me some chink handheld thing he bought that emulates the same games that I got for him 15 years ago, and now he's been playing them with nephew and niece (he owns an apartment in his brother's house).I've still got every computer I've ever owned, along with my old NES and C64, so I figure I'll set one of them up in my living room, so we can emulate old games when he comes over.Also, he still lifts, and I still lift, and come spring, I think I'll drag him along for some hikes. I think he's tired of the people he's been hanging out with over the past few years, given that a lot of them are unemployed, borderline drug addicts.>I still get together weekly with the guys I grew up withHe's the only guy I've known from childhood that I still keep in touch with, but I should try contacting some of my other childhood friends. They still live here, and I know they want to hang out. I've gone through a lot of different friend groups over the years, whom I met through different hobbies and interests, and the people I hang out with these days are mostly people I met in my late 20s and early 30s, most of whom also know the childhood friend I've been talking about.
>>731012756Because it means you're not spending money on new product.>"but new product bad"That's true, but the corporations don't care about quality. They just want you to give them your money.
>>731021683>everyone is seemingly a more retarded version of their past selves now.Nah, I think it's just that the old people left and were replaced by retards. I remember complaining about 4chan changing for the worse since Chanology, but the change that's happened over the past 8 or so years, but particularly the past 5 years, is insane. Most people who post here are fucking disgusting, but I guess that's just a reflection of social media, grifting, bait culture, horny losers, propaganda and the third world getting internet access. I also blame the mods, or Hiroshimoot, for not doing anything to stop it.It's sad how 4chan has gone from influencing the internet with its own culture, to being shaped by the brain rot culture of social media. It's gone in reverse.I even hate using the term "brain rot", but it's the most accurate way to describe it.
Old video games are basically without value in many cases. Buying them or playing them doesn't feed into anything, not even the creators of those old games or consoles, you might as well be investing in trash instead of anything still living and relevant.
>>731012756how can jews make money selling you the same garbage over and over if you keep playing the first game you bought before jews took over the industry? Your money was promised to them over 3000 years ago.
>>731024586Nintendo figured it out.
>>731024628yeah the secret is to actually make a good game and give it lots of polish. wow big brain move, but a jew would never think that way which is why they cant do it. You can criticize bing bang wahoo for being baby shit, but it's good looking baby shit thats bug free and gives you exactly what you paid for.jews think they can just buy a brand, hire some trannies, then have them outsource everything to the philipines and goyim some how now owe them a million sales.
>>731012756We need to increase that number
>>731025089NTA, but Nintendo is a bit perplexing to me. I think they make good games for kids, or games that even a parent could enjoy playing with their kids, but the fact that there are adults who play modern Nintendo games on their own is fucking insane.
