Hello, /vr/,every year - at approximately the same time around spring - my brain gets flooded with random moments of satori-like nostalgia. It is like taking a glimpse into my own childhood again. Thats the call for me to get the cables and the old CRT running to play my favourite (now partially over two decades old) classics on the GameCube.So, why do we like "retro" games? Are we really interested in the video games themselves, or is it not more about bringing back old times, escaping from modern society with its ever faster, exuberant turbo societies? Isn't it about taking us back to a time when the clock seemed to stand still, the world wasn't yet completely networked and when we were still allowed to be little humans?This hobby is not about video games, anon. This is about remembering a decade that still harbored a remnant of decelerated civility, a remnant of normality. Today, everything is going down the drain, fast internet and social media have washed our heads and are actively destroying (pop) culture. Nothing is left of the artistry of old 16-bit pixels, of the euphoric exploration of early 3D worlds on the N64 and GameCube, where 1 gigabyte (or even less) sized games like OoT, Rayman 3, Sonic Adventure, Phantasy Star Online, Super Mario 64 or Doshin the Giant felt like the biggest worlds you could ever explore.
Today, everything is the same, everything is clocked, everything has to look great and look absolutely insane graphically, even though most of the games coming out today aren't even finished, affordable products. The games industry is impressively demonstrating that it is no longer capable of satisfying adult customers and is displaying an unparalleled level of profiteering. Not that games were expensive even back then. But in the vast majority of cases they were ready when they came onto the market, especially AAA titles. Of course, there are exceptions like Super Mario Sunshine or TES4. But normally big games companies weren't as brazen as they are today.We're here because we simply can't believe that it's now 25 years since 2000 - and that a time has passed that, due to the lack of permanent, everyday Internet, was just barely able to retain a bit of normality for us as young children.
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>>11688231I play plenty of old games that are new to me and enjoy them. It's about the video games.
The world has gone downhill since 2000s. There is little playfulness anywhere, just paint-by-numbers AAA slop being released in a half-finished state. No-one is taking any real risk nowadays so creativity suffers immensely. Why can't someone re-release Phantasy Star Online with some new bells and whistles? Why must the world be so corporate and gay
>>11688235Nah I'm here because I like old video games.
>>11688332> Why can't someone re-release Phantasy Star Online with some new bells and whistles?Because the new MMO meta is Korean Grindcore slop or a virtual lootbox storefront with the exact same mechanics as a cellphone game
>>11688231i miss when games were self-contained, relatively small experiences you could easily wrap your head around and learn the ins and outs of, the strategies, the typos, the glitches and exploits, the unused content, that they could be mastered, and that they could be finished, put down, and you could move on to something else
>>11688334You might try reading his post>>11688231>>11688235The indie scene and smaller developers like IntriCreates, WayForward, Yacht Club, and (maybe) Playtonic still kind of fit the bill for normality. There's also some nice remakes like the N. Sane Trilogy, Re-Ignited Trilogy, and THPS 1+2 (and now 3+4). But you are correct that the major developers have become kind of bland, especially in the west. That's part of why it's important to cherish /vr/ games and see the world as it was back then. It's also very educational, there were a ton of great games back then that many have never played
>>11688231>summer is coming,It's summer all year round on nu-/vr/. You're proof of that.>This is about remembering a decadeOh you silly silly summer child.
>>11688332>2000s>when "nerd culture" went mainstreamAdult normies invading the hobby has irreversibly ruined it. We need to meme video games being for losers again if we want to have any chance of reversing things.
>>11688475>You might try reading his postI did>This hobby is not about video games, anon>We're here because we simply can't believe that it's now 25 years since 2000Nah, I'm here because I like old video games.
>>11688231>summerit's autumm and it's fucking cold you piece of shit
>>11688231>Summer is comingWe just got another foot of snow up here god dammit.This summer I will load up PSO on my Dreamcast DreamPi setup.
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Imagine OP writing this, and thinking he came up with something incredibly insightful and something a single person here would be interested in much less agree with.
>>11688231I like the games themselves and they remind me of a simpler time. It's not much more complicated than that.I don't think anything could make me as happy as riding my bike to the video store on a hot summer day and finding the game I've wanted to play for weeks finally available for rent. Or coming home from school to find a crisp new Nintendo Power in the mailbox.
>>11688231Sure it's the memories, but it's more than that to me.The anti-consumer practices of modern producers, Nintendo certainly included, though not limited to them, have driven me to seek my comforts in older games. Games I missed the chance to play when I was young.I just want a time before it all, before not actually owning your games, before the microtransactions, before online gaming turned into slop, back when couch co-op was encouraged and not forgone, before buyable skins, before everything was some gambling scam, before DEI, and quite frankly the whole tiring conflict around it just mirroring US politics.The world was simpler back then, but so was gaming. I'm a grown ass man who lives alone in his own apartment and I just want to feel like a kid again. The world tires me.
>>11688231you sound like you're 19 years old and just smoked weed for the first time
I've been playing ps2 and gamecube exclusively for the last year. Slowly finishing games that are on my back log. I got myself an amazing 32" Panasonic crt and use component cables. It's been so nice to be disconnected from steam, not having to see ads and deals and prices and shit constantly shoved in my face. I was in my teens when ps2 was released and didn't get to play much outside of the big games like GTA and MGS. I've got like 200 games I want to finish. It's been a very comfy experience so far
