as a console gamer, when did you realize you missed out on the vast history of video games?
I got a 486 PC in 1994. I still preferred to play on consoles, most platformers and side-scrollers on PC were abysmal compared to what the japanese were doing on consoles.PC was good for Doom and sims.
I owned a speccy, a Commodore 64, a ti-994A, Atari 800XL, and an Amiga.I was there, I witessed the glory
>>11518704>lust provoking image>irrelevant time-wasting questionalso lol @ trying to sneak an iMac and Newton among 8-bit computers
piracy was the factor for me, when all games are free why would you buy a nintendie?
>>11518729>nintendieBasedddddddddd
>>11518710>most platformers and side-scrollers on PC were abysmal compared to what the japanese were doing on consolesthis is true, but also ironically why I who grew up on computers can't really get into console gaming; it feels like every other console game is a Mario-like.
>>11518710>most platformers and side-scrollers on PC were abysmalyes, but not on the likes of Atari and Commodore machines
>>11518864Eh. Still abysmal when compared to the japanese stuff.PC also had a few decent sidescrollers, but still miles away from the good stuff japan was doing on NES, SNES, Mega Drive etc
>>11518867here's Armalyte on the Commodore 64, an 8-bit machine.https://youtu.be/pXfq5PDt2aE?feature=sharedshow me something on the NES that is anywhere near this quality
>>11518891It was more fun to make your own shmups than playing them.
>>11518891>No music>Garbage designI guess some of these sprites animations are cool? Plenty of better shmups developed by actual competent shmup developers on NES
consoles were only good for platformers, thats it. every other genre was mogged by computers
>>11518935What PC beat 'em up are better than games like Ninja Warriors or Streets of Rage?What PC shmups are better than games like Thunder Force IV or Space Mega Force?What PC fighting games are better than games like MMPR Fighting Edition or Gundam W Endless Duel?What PC puzzle game is better than games like Puyo Puyo or Tetris Attack?Also within "platformer" there's so many variants. PC actually got a decent amount of the so-called "cinematic platformers" like PoP, but consoles also got them too.
It has always been my firm belief that if you didn't have both a computer and consoles growing up, you don't know SHIT about video games (and you probably ended up a retarded console warrior).Between easy access to shareware, thousands of demos, piracy, and eventually emulation starting from the late 90s, computer gaming opened the gates
>>11518946>PC PC PC PCyou know nothing
>>11518956Microcomputer, IBM compatible, Windows PC, whatever, name some games developed for 'puters on those genres that match the games I mentioned.
>>11518959its like you only listened to one band and think you know music. no need to get mad
>>11518961I mentioned a lot of different games from different developers for 2 different consoles. I also mentioned PC games having good cinematic platformers.I grew up PC+multi console idort, I'm >>11518710
>>11518710RTS, Management games, wargaming and RPGs is another set of genres. I get the 2nd might be controversial to someone who grew up only on console RPGs, but they are entirely different genres at the time for sure. They also tend to have better single screen platformers on micros, but that's because that genre got dumped for the scrollies so it gets pretty easy to surpass. Also more interesting on the experimental end of things and that's not just a western thing. Diskmags and compilation discs were cool too. Loads of neat little games that very few people will ever actually play. Oh, and editors, creation kits and modding.
>>11518992Yeah PC for sure has its strength. I personally always preferred action games and japanese just did more polished stuff than the west in terms of action, outside of FPSs.
>>11518704I'm the opposite, and I am appreciating some of what I missed on SNES, Megadrive, PSX and N64 now.There is something a lot more polished about the games designed for static hardware, but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for PC Games, which undoubtedly were the games that pushed the boundaries of what games could do all through the 90s.
>>11518949>It has always been my firm belief that if you didn't have both a computer and consoles growing up, you don't know SHIT about video gamesYou forgot going to arcades. Otherwise you could end up like >>11518946 thinking that consoles are better because their shitty ports of arcade games are slightly less bad than the micros
>>11519068None of the games mentioned there are arcade ports, auster.
>>11519093And one of them (Puyo Puyo) is actually a microcomputer game, not a console game.The fact remains that in the genres you listed, arcades were king and everyone else was playing catch-up.
>>11519098You won't convince anyone that Spectrum had better games than japanese-developed console games, auster. Remember that.
>>11519105Auster was obsessed with his PAL Mega Drive.What does he have to do with a Speccy?
>>11519105I never said anything about the Spectrum, only that your apparent ignorance of arcade games makes you rate consoles higher than they deserve
>>11519114It was a facade, he conveniently switched to being a Sega fan whenever it was convenient for him in his anti-snes crusade, but remember, first and foremost he is anti-japan (his first ever /vr/ meltdowns were in PC generals, bitching that people talked about japanese PCs instead of speccy).This is another of his tactics, "uhhh WELL!! Consoles are bad anyway because arcades are better!" When most people just enjoy both arcade and consoles. He grew up playing U.S. Gold ports of japanese arcade games on his 'puters. And he claims they're only "slightly" worse than console ports, lmao.
>>11519127>It was a facade, he conveniently switched to being a Sega fan whenever it was convenient for him in his anti-snes crusadeWhat is this retarded schizo babble?auster become a thing in the first place because he kept shitting up Castlevania threads with his retarded obsession of the PAL version of Bloodlines.He has nothing to do with micros or anti-Japan stuff.
>>11519137Yeah his nickname was coined in one of the Castlevania threads (which is also how he made himself his fame of being an obnoxious computer fanboy, claiming Amigavania was better than the NES game), but it was precisely in one of those Castlevania threads that someone pointed out he was already doing this kind of shitposting on the /pc/ generals, causing some to ger deleted due to his usual meltdowns and samefag spamming. It all ties together because he was, in fact, a western computer fanboy (specifically Spectrum and Amiga), as shown in the CV threads and then many other threads.
>>11519148Nope.The only auster ever did with computers was going on about the X68k port of Castlevania.
>>11519165So you claim the only time auster ever talked about computers was the X68000? Hmmm let's seehttps://warosu.org/vr/thread/6488572#p6488719Yeah, didn't think so.The guy is a weirdo who is completely obsessed with the Super Nintendo, the fact that people don't care about old british computer games, and Tomoko avatarfagging. And it's close to a decade since he started doing it.
>>11519190>a random ass post that has nothing to do with austerOkay?
>>11519202Nobody else uses these shitty tomoko avatars.Alsohttps://warosu.org/vr/thread/5676868#p5681713Here's him again, going off against a japanese computer defending the Amiga.You can choose to believe these are all different individuals with the same shitty autism, taste, buzzword usage and tomoko pics, but...
PC gaming wasn’t really worth playing till the early 90s for me. Much of the C64, speccy, etc was bad ports of arcade games. That’s true for consoles as well but consoles had some good original games and that was rare for early pcs
>>11519208>Nobody else uses these shitty tomoko avatars.Tons of fags are obsessed with that shitty animu.Also doesn't that go against the anti-Japan thing he's supposed to have?
>>11519218>Tons of fags are obsessed with that shitty animu.Are they? I feel people barely know about Tomoko anymore. Also all these avatars he posts are one made by himself, other people don't use them..search for them on the archive, they're always attached to the same kind of posts with the same kind of keywords (snezz, nintendildo, yanks, etc).>Also doesn't that go against the anti-Japan thing he's supposed to have?I'm not sure how autistic minds really work, but that's just how it is. He hates Japanese systems and wishes western microcomputer were more popular, and at the same time uses tomoko avatars, who knows.https://warosu.org/vr/thread/3699227#p3699229
>>11519231If I look for same images I get the poster obsessing about Japanese games and platforms.
>>11519241>obsessing about Japanese games and platforms.Obsessing about Nintendo*You forgot about this already?https://warosu.org/vr/thread/6488572#p6488719
>>11519264Nintendo isn't the only Japanese console.The poster mentions PS1 and MD as things he seems to like.I get the anti-SNES thing but I don't get the anti-Japan thing.
>>11519265>The poster mentions PS1 and MD as things he seems to like.Because it suits his anti-nintendo agenda. He wants to make people use Akogingu (one of the Goemons on PS1) as ammo against the N64 ones, but nobody else besides him does. He does hate Nintendo the most (and I'd actually like to know the actual origin of his SNES trauma, it's been going for too long for it to be a simple funny shitpost, the guy clearly has a personal relationship with that console, it seems to be his personal enemy), but you can see him showing his true colors when it comes to defending his western microcomputers, which seems to be his actual childhood nostalgia, he goes nuclear against all of Japan when it comes to that.I already showed you posts of him using his Tomoko avatars and sperging about the micros.
>>11519272So what makes that suit his agenda but when he talks about Amiga to shit on SNES it's because he loves Amiga and not because it suits his agenda?
>>11519272So is this guy like Alf and Half life?
>>11519274Because there's no rivalry when it comes to Nintendo and Amiga. Hell, there's barely any Amiga fans, so why would he try to use Amiga fans to shit on Nintendo when there isn't any? Also, again, there's many of his posts on the archive of him attacking anyone who doesn't like Spectrum or Amiga, independently if they are Nintendo fans or not.
>>11519279Dunno who that is as I don't read HL threads, but yeah people like him are common on anonymous boards. See /v/'s quentin, acfag, etc. All the boards have their own "-kun" resident shitposters. Sometimes, they are hilarious enough other people copy them to get replies and have a laugh. But Australia-kun, our own shitposter, is so boring that nobody even cares to copy him, it's always just him still trying to force his memes (remember sega system? ugh)
>>11519281>Because there's no rivalry when it comes to Nintendo and Amiga. Hell, there's barely any Amiga fans,All that speaks for him using Amiga for his agenda not against it.>Also, again, there's many of his posts on the archive of him attacking anyone who doesn't like Spectrum or Amiga, independently if they are Nintendo fans or not.Can't find any with that image.Also wouldn't an Australian obsess more about Tandy? Speccy was less popular in Australia than Bongland.
>>11519294>sega system that was so dumb. Was that the guy who pushed mayors too?
>>11519301>All that speaks for him using Amiga for his agenda not against it.I think he actually loves Amiga and Speccy but yeah who knows, maybe he just doesn't like any video game at all and just seethes about Nintendo. If there's ONE thing we know about this guy is that he really hates Nintendo lol.>>11519301>Can't find any with that image.He doesn't use Tomoko all the time, but you can still tell it's him by other buzzwords, such as "snezz". Here's a classic auster collage, see the posts with the Speccy, he cries that people like sega and nintendo, but not spectrum.Also again, he was called out on the castlevania threads, where he was first doing his shticks, and people were saying he was already shitting up PC generals, complaining about japanese PCs.You can connect the dots. The post praising Amiga's Paula sound while shitting on the "snezz" AND using the Tomoko pic, that's him. Then another post of someome complaining about weebs and the "shart" x680000 and how Amiga's Paula sound is better.. no Nintendo here, just him going against japanese computers, as he was said to be doing before the Castlevania threads.>Also wouldn't an Australian obsess more about Tandy?His nickname doesn't really mean he's australian. He earned the nickname because he kept going about Sega being pronounced "sea-guh" as in the australian commercials, but I personally think he was just shitposting, I think he's a brit, but yeah who knows, only mods might be able to know by checking his IP (if he doesn't use VPN)
>>11519315Forgot pic
>>11519315Well, if snezz and anti-Nintendo means it's auster then you get posts like these that really love the (Japanese) X68k:https://warosu.org/vr/thread/9692027#p9694837
>>11518704>when did you realize you missed out on the vast history of video games?I also didnt experience the vast history of the world where I would have been relegated to toil in the fields for thousands of years but I do not miss it.
>>11519327>Really loveThese "official tier list" by him were always made up, the only objective was placing the Nintendo games last, the rest of the entries' orders are irrelevant. He use to place "The New Generation" first sometimes, some other times Rondo, etc.Again, I'm not even sure he likes ANY platform, the only clear thing is that he hates Nintendo, has been seen shitting on Sega and the "Shart" x68k though, and never shitting on Amiga or Spectrum.So I come to the conclusion he might actually like these, might be his childhood nostalgia, but maybe not even.>>11519304Probably?https://warosu.org/vr/thread/11423694He seems to be behind a lot of these unfunny failed memes like scotformer, floigan, etc.
>>11519340When did he shit on Sega?
>>11519340What the hell is floigan? Sounds like Prof Frink
>>11519345The "shiturn" shitposting spam with the Bernie pics, remember that? Yeah guess who it was
>>11519352ah, so not MD?I'd be very surprised seeing auster shitting on the MD.
>>11519358Pretty sure he's insulted MD games, for example the Treasure games. He hates Treasure because they worked for Nintendo, but he also then retroactively hate their pre-nintendo days.He targets SNES and Saturn the most, but he doesn't seem particularly fond of any system outside of Speccy and Amiga, from what I can see. He only acts as a Sega fans only when it serves his anti-nintendo skit.
>>11519367>Pretty sure he's insulted MD games, for example the Treasure games.Liking a platform doesn't mean liking every single game on it.NES fans love to shit on the really crappy NES games.
>>11519372Yeah I dunno, as I said he doesn't even seem to enjoy video games. If you ask me he just hates Nintendo and that's it. And the Saturn. But if I'd have to guess, he does like the Speccy at least, if only for childhood nostalgia.
around 2012 when my first PS3 died, I already had a computer but after backward compability became less and less of a point and reliablity of the 7th gen made me a susceptible to the future of consoles, it also made me realize it was far more logical to just have a computer since you'd have 1 nice place for an infinite amount of games, movies, music, internet browsing, and a lot less worrying, it also helps that (if) a port to PC is missing something, has something not working as should, or something that could be improved further than the console version could, mods can do that. PC is like water, modular and can be changed to suit ones needs whereas consoles are like stone, unchanging
Sometimes I wonder what causes schizos to act like pic relatedThey seem to think they are some kind of master manipulator working in the shadows?What causes this level of delusion?
