Why do (You) play retro games?Assuming it's your "main thing" and not just something you dabble in, and yes of course "they're fun" but come on man. You know what I mean.
What got me into older media (not just games, but also books) was the sense of security. I thought that 'since the classics stood the test of time, they must be good!'. I did find a lot of older games that I enjoy. I don't like to admit it, but I would also say there is some FOMO? In order to be a 'true gamer', you have to have played every single title known to man.I don't know, this is just the first thing that came to mind. A large part of it is just because there are some really fun retro games.
>>126877701 Nostalgia2 Interest in game design and history, evolution3 About 5℅ of retro games are good
Older games just have less fat and more lean, even the JRPGs are about forty hours as opposed to sixty.
>>12687784>>12687817I agree with these two anons. On top of that, if you look back at past works (movies, books, music, video games, and so on) you'll find a much more diverse selection than if you limit yourself to what's been released recently.
My taste stayed the same, but the world changed.
>>12687770>Why do (You) play retro games?I grew up during the PS1/PS2/N64/Gamecube era but naturally kept up with games as time went on and stayed current with what was out. But a couple years ago I just got really tired of how the majority of modern games focus on chasing photorealism in graphics, every MC being a normal human dude or normal human woman, the colour palletes of games being grey or brown or desaturated or just "dirty", your movement being near identical to real life human movement. It was like all the fun got taken out of games, everything was too serious and self aware and terrified of looking goofy or cartoony in any way. So I pretty much fully switched back to only playing retro stuff because it's just full of life and colour and joy. Even if you play a horror game on the PS1, it's still so charming in its presentation and how your mind fills in the blanks that it's a joy to play.
it's less about retro games and more simply games I never had the time or mean to play before.And older games were made in a more ideal conditions for peak gameplay and design that would be very difficult to be replicated today. If anything new will be worse off anyway then there's no point in focusing on the new shit.
I realized I was enjoying new games less and less. It took longer and longer to find games that interested me, only for them to be mediocre at best. My favorite game franchises from my youth didn't keep that same feeling they had. I kind of wish they had died off with a legacy instead of becoming a shadow of its former self. So I got into collecting games I never had a chance to buy as a poor kid. That turned into an excitement playing games again, and looking out for games I never heard of. My backlog and list of games to keep an eye out for is so long now, I can be kept busy til the day I die.
I started playing NES at 3, it’s an addiction to escapism. I just want to play a single player offline game without voice acting, mictrotransactions, ads, etc so I still play 90% retro and still enjoy it enough to play most days.
>>12687770I started playing them as a child and just never really stopped. I also took care of my things when I was a kid and still have most of my old collection and all of my old hardware.>>12687798>About 5℅ of retro games are goodWhy waste your time playing retro games when you clearly don't enjoy playing them?
>>12687770I’ve always played nes to gensis and snes to 64 and psx, even when I had an Xbox, ps2, and cube w a halfway decent PC (worked during the summers of my high school years so I could afford to game). I do almost exclusively play retro now though because modern gaming flat out isn’t fun. Gameplay for modern games has become so formulaic and generic. Story for modern games is all preachy and often focusing on pushing a message that I 100 percent don’t agree with. Music quality has gone down. I still listen to retro gaming OST’s outside of the games but couldn’t tell you the last time a modern game had a soundtrack worth listening to or even memorable during gameplay. I got a switch 2 recently and all I do is play retro games on it from the final fantasies, street fighter 2, and I have a copy of Onimusha Warlords on the way. Also modern gaming relies so heavily usually on some type of online service even for entirely single player games it’s kind of distrusting. Modern gaming basically has told me: this isn’t for you bud. So with some rare exceptions I stick to ps2, Xbox, and gamecube and back because it’s just so much more fun. I plan on getting a new PC soon but I’ll just be playing old games I bought on Steam for the most part, which is mainly why I haven’t pulled the trigger on getting one even w the insane prices (I it budgeted out already).
>>12687872>I realized I was enjoying new games less and less. It took longer and longer to find games that interested me, only for them to be mediocre at best.Same. I'll buy 1 new game a year now, even if a new game interests me I'm happy to wait a few years and get it on sale for 1/10th of the price.
>>12687770They're just so convenient. If you see an SNES game that looks fun, you can download a copy, toss it in your emulator, and be playing it in under two minutes. It takes up no space and requires no installation.Don't like it? Just play another one. You can download these old ROMs by the dozen, or even whole sets if you prefer.All of this as opposed to waiting minutes or hours for some big modern game to download, going through the process of installing it, and configuring your controller...Can you make a modern game that's as fun and charming as a good retro game? Absolutely, and I'm sure many games like that come out every day.But there are almost no modern games that are as fun AND charming AND convenient to sit down and play as a retro game.
>>12687770I don't know what you mean.>>12687854More or less. I don't even hate new games intrinsically, new games interesting me has just gotten really rare for me, and instead I find old games, which are new to me, which are interesting. Or replay old ones I loved, but haven't played in a while.Some games were new when I was a kid, but I didn't just stop playing them because they became old, they were still good.7th console gen feels like the last time that AAA games were still really good, but then like the industry grew exponentially more stagnant afterwards. I had dozens of games I liked on my PS3, but only a couple on PS4 (mostly ports of older games lmao).I should dust off my old NES, emulating is fine, but playing on a big screen is kinda special, and I still haven't played all the titles I want.
>>12687870That too, there's a lot of now old games I missed in their time. I never had the NES Castlevania games as a kid, for instance, I wanna give those a go, also a number of PSX, PS2, and N64 games.>>12687876I took reasonably good care of my stuff (regret not treating the cardboard boxes with the pretty artworks better), but the rubber dome for the dpad on one of my old NES pads I think has just hardened with age. Or maybe collapsed, eitherway need to so some fixing on it.Some has been just worn from many years of heavy use, I need to replace the sticks for my N64 controllers, and the R2 button on my PS3 controller. I've had a lot of fun dusting the PS3 off, but the R2 button has now finally worn out and sticks down sometimes. Rather not buy a whole new one, NIB examples seem costly.
>>12687770I play them because I like them you stupid psychopath and there is absolutely nothing about that that needs to be justified to the likes of you.What the fuck other reason would there be? It's the stupidest ass question I can think of. Fuck off with this dumbshit
>>12687770I dont play retro games I play video games, some of which were not released yesterday.
Where I'm from, we didn't stop playing good games just because they were old.
>>12687798>About 5℅ of retro games are good>the PS1 had 5000 games, 250 good oneschecks out>the N64 had 300 games, 15 good onesalso checks out
>>12688461Those consoles aren't retro, however.
>>12688464Your mom isn't retro.
i basically just replay the same games over and over ive been playing all my life
>>12688473Lol I think that's the majority of /vr/. I'm seeing threads where OP has to pretend to be playing for the first time to get a couple more replies
>>12687770Because I can and I like them. You are just writing nonsense to seek validation, a mark of a true retard.
>>12687770Because there’s decades of 9/10 and 10/10 games I haven’t experienced yet.
>>12688553Picrel is an actual ten
Because I only play good games
>>12687770Because there are games I haven't played yet and I want to play them. It's just that simple.
>>12688557Oh yeah, first time through and I’m loving it, Praise Yevon.
>>12687770Outside of the rules of this board and shallow social convention, I don't really distinguish between retro and non-retro. A good game is a good game regardless. It just so happens that a lot of what I like happens to be older.
I play some modern games still nowadays, but for the most part, it all pisses me off. You have to deal with wireless controllers needing charged all the time, having to deal with accounts and menus and shit before you can even start a game, modern game design being very samey where even the most basic beat 'em ups and racing games need to have RPG elements, preposterous monetization practices that should frankly be illegal.I hate live service shit, I hate FOMO, I hate open worlds, I just want to turn the console on and start running, jumping, shooting, driving.
>>12687770I grew up with things from that era. I like the game design of that time period more than modern design. Of course there are some good modern games but mostly I find them boring and overly handholding or time wasting.
>>12687770Isn't that the guy who raped Junko Furuta
>>12688473>>12688548Blessed is he who can do something day after day, decade after decade, and still enjoy it.Much better than enjoying nothing at all.
>>12687798>evolutionNES platformers had more variety than your team based shooters of today.
>umm, are you playing a game released before 2008 (per board rules)? Why???????? Is this some statement against modern games or something?
I like to pretend the last 20 years never happened and retro vidya helps me maintain the larp
>>12688836That's kind of a sad reason, though I also have some understanding for it.
>>12687770i love the different art styles of true retro games, the music, and also that a lot of them are just built around the idea of sitting down and having fun for brief moments at a time. retro games weren't afraid to be silly and use original ideas.games today are all using the same engines and trying to look realistic, terrible orchestral music, microtransactions, or these massive stories/questlines no one really cares about.
>>12688858Another thing is that all those engines kind of look like shit. The whole switch from older shaders to PBR (physically based rendering) shaders makes everything look artificial in a bad way, or just plain boring and lifeless. It's kind of the king of the whole soul soulless thing.
I find comfort in old games
They are straight to the point.You just start the game and it starts right away, gameplay and game design is all, there is no political agenda and nobody is trying to "cater" to anyone other than just making fun games.This was lost.I mainly play gens 3 and 4.It really does come up to "they're fun" OP, sorry. Not something I can say on modern games
>>12688715Almost everything was a "platformer" on NES
>>12687770They're more focused with less fluff/filler than modern games if that makes sense.
>>12688553I'm currently playing FFX for the first time (43-hours in) on my PS2 and a 27" Trinitron CRT TV and it literally mogs 99% of modern games. And I haven't even finished the game yet.
>>12688946And it was fucking great.
I don’t like to make accounts or deal with online stuff
>>12687770>You know what I meanNo. No, I don't.>why old gaem gem?They are better in quality and mostly free of propaganda.
>>12687865>the majority of modern games focus on chasing photorealism in graphics, every MC being a normal human dude or normal human woman, the colour palletes of games being grey or brown or desaturated or just "dirty", your movement being near identical to real life human movement. It was like all the fun got taken out of games, everything was too serious and self aware and terrified of looking goofy or cartoony in any way.What happened is these guys stopped playing games for children.Really. These "retro vs modern" comparisons sound like GTA IV vs Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!>gosh it's so colorful, straight to the point and no politics!Yeah it is fucking Looney Tunes.
Videogames are toys you play with them
>>12688986>What happened is these guys stopped playing games for children.So because you're an adult now you only want The Last of Us and God of War? Boring, sad little man.
>>12689051No.There are modern games for children if that's your thing. Minecraft isn't brown, hyperrealistic and political.
>>12689065There's no such thing as a "kids game", they're just games.What do you even play? You won't even say, because you're a huge coward.
Even back in the 2000s when I played some great modern games (now considered retro per new board rules) like Max Payne or Age of Mythology, I already prefered playing flash games and SNES games most of the time desu
>>12689078You got so offended you can't think straight. Go cool off.Another modern kids game suggestion: Cuphead
>>12689086See? Coward.
>>12689086name the games or fuck off. pretentious pussy
>>12689089>>12689092I gave you two games already, boys.
>>12687770Modern games are all flash and no substance, excepting some indie games. Literally every 'AAA'-type game forces you to sit through cutscene after cutscene, tries to scam you with dlc and is generally just soulless and hollow. With old games you get interesting ideas created with passion that you can (often) just jump into and play for however long or little you want. Since I'm almost 40 I lived through the decline in real time and just slowly stopped playing new releases little by little, and now I almost exclusively play old games (and small indie releases)
>>12689126>Literally every 'AAA'-type game forces you to sit through cutscene after cutscene, tries to scam you with dlc and is generally just soulless and hollow.Astro Bot didn't do that. Original God of War had plenty of cutscenes and the gameplay was very repetitive and clunky.
>>12687770Because they're fun, I can emulate them easily, and there are lots of genres and styles that are either watered down or nonexistent. A lot of modern gaming is filled with bloat, pretense, and ugliness that I don't care about so I just don't play it. That and there's almost 25 years worth of great games I've never played, so I've never had any reason to want to push forward.
>>12687770The simplicity of it. You just boot up the game and it works. No DRM, updates, online requirements, microtransactions, constant notifications, etc. Older games also tend to be shorter, but generally respect your time and intelligence better. Older games were made by smaller but more passionate studios too. Everything is so corporate and soulless nowadays.
>>12687770Games are fun. There's a lot of modern releases I'm enjoying or looking forward to also. It's my top hobby inb4 list them. I've played that game before not gonna do it
Because there's a bunch I didn't play. I didn't have a ps1, I didn't get any games other than Sonic/Mario/mainstream games as a kid. I didn't realize how much I liked RPGs until Grandia 2. Going back and seeing how they had to work with what they had, rather than the plays it for you QoL stuff nowadays, it's really fun. Also, I like the ones that suck?Lufia Ruins of Lore is not great. It's not well balanced, it flows poorly, it's confusing, the monster catching system is janky, and multiple characters are legit just not worth using. But I fucking love that stupid game. It's game like that where god dammit, they tried their best.
old game>I made this to relive my childhood adventures and stories I readnew game>UHH ACHTULALLY THIS IS A FATPHOBIA TRANS ALLEGORY AND THE FINAL BOSS IS MY LYING DIETITIAN
>>12687798Same reasons, desu. >5%Though this figure is probably accurate when you take the entirety of retro vidya as a whole into consideration, I've only been disappointed by a handful of the retro games I've decided to check out over the years. Like, at least 80% of the ones I've checked out have either met or greatly exceeded my expectations, which is crazy. But the list of retro games worth checking out is definitely curated by now, so it's not that much of a surprise.
No garbage. Press start, bANGBANGBANG
>>12690840It's pretty safe to go with the top 10 best games of any system
>>12687770They're fun. That's it. Don't be weird.
>>12687770I play retro games because I like playing games. like chess, 20 questions, basketball, tetris, super mario, elden ring, etc.videogames can be multimedia spectacles. or they can just be games. often they fall somewhere in that spectrumretro videogames that were built as multimedia spectacles obviously aged poorly and are probably not worth playing because the spectacle isn't engaging anymoreretro videogames that had fun gameplay mechanics will never age. they will keep being fun forever. so I will keep playing them
>>12689259>God of War>retro
>>12687770This thread was on the front page. I don't play a lot of retro games, but I do have an emulator and the means to download ROMs. Since you people in this thread feel strongly about retro games, please recommend me your favourite retro games; I will research them and perhaps play them
>>12687770I was born in 1990 And grew up with a Mega drive and Ps1 I saw a lot of console up till PS4 I bought and then I felt like I don't know really when to place it but I started playing retro game seriously last year. I still play helldiver but thats' the only modern game I play but the rest is litterally retro, both the one I played as a kid and even one's I even never considered. I repaired my Xbox classic even and bought a lot of Demo DvDs and I'm exploring the scene and it's magical I feel like i'm scratching that Itch of games I always wanted.To make it short I don't like modern gaming but not like for sperg reasons or autistic, the main thing is that I just feel burnedout and like "everygame it's the same" or feel the same, but for sure if you put the controller/keyboard and mouse on hand with a new game maybe i'l lenjoy it but I feel like that now games are trying to do more than they did in the past, when I was a kid I felt like som egames lacked something like they could be more, now I feel like they are overdoing it. So i'm coming back to a time where usually technical innovation was going arm in arm with the plot or stories now it seems that there's an imbalance of these 2 things in gaming.I like how it's easier to get into retro games now in the "future" with a lot of communitys, youtubers and a lot of Emulators and roms, like if it wasn't for retro gaming interest I don't even think I would've touched a Dreamcast and his games or even a MSX and started learning Basic.
>>12692535Wild Guns (SNES)True Lies (SNES or Genesis, best on SNES)Tetris (NES)Final Fight (has home ports, but arcade original is best)Final Fight 2 & 3 (SNES)Shining Force (Genesis)Zero Wing (Genesis/Arcade)Puyo-Puyo / Kirby's Avalance / Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (many platforms)Pokémon Red/Blue (Game Boy)Link's Awakening (Game Boy)
>>12687798>℅why did you use ℅ instead of % and how does one even make that mistake
>>12693178Fuck, now I can't unsee it. What the fuck, anon?
>>12692535My favorite retro game is Panel de Pon (Super Famicom).It is a puzzle game where you move squares left and right to save friendships in a fairy kingdom.
>>12692535OutRun. Sega arcade game. After each chunk of game you drive through, you can go left or right, with every turn resulting in a completely different area and track layout. The arcade version is best to check out but there are a lot of home console ports. It’s challenging but exceedingly comfy.
>>12687770Because games from 1980 to 2010 were the greatest period of invention and excitement the gaming industry had ever seen, and one we may never live to see again. Not only were the games objectively better (as in, more gameplay density and player involvement per hour), but they were driven by a culture of genuine excitement and love for games and not just a soulless cynical industry chasing money.You can tell exactly where the industry started to drift away from the love of gaming and fun, and it's when arcades died. Here's the F-Zero AX racing pod. It's a single seat arcade game that took gamecube memory cards and allowed you to save your lap times as well as custom machines, and download brand new pilots and machines without having to unlock the AX cup on the original Gamecube game. It took up massive floor space, required a ton of maintenance to keep the 'ride' part of it going well, and Sega took the risk of making it entirely on themselves. They KNEW it was NEVER going to make back the money and research/development time they took to make it, but they did it anyway, you know why? Because they knew it would be fucking awesome.You think Microsoft's going to do that? You think even your vaunted Nintendo would ever even think of doing something like that? No, they wouldn't dare to dream of it. It wouldn't make them money, therefore it's dead in the water. Which is why we haven't seen a new F-Zero or any of their classic IP in decades. They are not willing to take the risk, and they don't have the talent or the desire to try and follow up a game as ambitious as GX.Back then, gaming was still a business, but by people who actually had interest in gaming. Nintendo's current board of directors are people unrelated to games. The president of Illumination, some bankers and some people who make beauty/fashion products. They might play Animal Crossing from time to time but they don't care about games. That's the modern game industry all over.
>>12693629Arcades were a gradual decline, mind, and somewhat of an inevitability of home systems growing more powerful and capable. As consoles and PCs got stronger, they could start doing what you'd previously only find in arcade settings, and being in the comfort of your own home they could also do things you cannot practically do in the arcades (long form RPGs and action games, RTS, sim games, etc). So in a way it was that they grew obsolescent.On the other hand, the baller as fuck F-Zero rig is an example of the kind of cool shit that you couldn't actually get at home, because faithfully porting a cabinet's game is one thing, but there's no realistically practical way to have that sort of rig at home. Even for people willing to pay that kind of money, how many of them will have the space for it at home? Hell, maybe you have a spacious living room or enough space in your basement, and perhaps you'd be able to fit one of those motorbike rider setups there, but then picture an even bigger rig, such as the fabled real car Outrun game, that shit is an ACTUAL car and more. You're just gonna have to put something like that in an actual garage, or maybe a small warehouse.So, only an actual arcade could provide the best and coolest arcade gimmicks. I've felt a long time that the only way to revive arcades would be to specialize on that sort of thing, offer what you simply cannot just play on a console or computer, offer an actual special experience. It'd be tough to make that profitable though, which means a boardroom of suits will never allow it.For Nintendo, they were never saints, but there used to be people there with souls, who made the games they wanted to make, and that's what people loved. With time, that has faded away, actual loving believers like Gunpei Yokoi and Satoru Iwata died, Shigeru seems less involved, and Reggie retired. Reggie feels like the last guy in a high leadership position there who actually really liked and appreciated videogames.
>>12693629>That's the modern game industry all over.I think that's also why many indies have done well, while big AAA games seem to really struggle. Not just because of corporate bloat through wastes of space and oxygen like HR and middle managers, but also because they all start feeling extremely samey.In a climate where the big and visible games are the same old painted by numbers titles that are now practically directed by market research and executives who don't play videogames (and who load it down with microtransactions and insist you need to pay $100 without even getting a physical copy), a competent indie game with an actual vision behind it will feel like a lush and life saving oasis in a smoldering desert.(By indie games, I mean the actual videogame ones, not disposable troonslop that's a euphemism for still being angry at your dad at age 37).
>>12693854>a competent indie game with an actual vision behind it will feel like a lush and life saving oasis in a smoldering desert.Saying "will" because competent indie games haven't popped up yet
>>12693835>only an actual arcade could provide the best and coolest arcade gimmicks. 8 player Daytona.That's it. What else can you say?
>>12687770I enjoy good things regardless of their age, why would I limit myself because they're old? Would you refuse to watch movies from the 1970s?The only case where it matters is games where communities matter, like multiplayer games.
>>12687770I find that the restrictions older games had to work under made for a better breeding ground for games that I enjoy. Modern games suffer from poor management, not restrictive hardware, and the distinction shows. Also this >>12687817
>>12695026>Modern games suffer from poor managementPlenty of retro games suffered from poor management too
>>12692520>retro videogames that were built as multimedia spectacles obviously aged poorly and are probably not worth playing because the spectacle isn't engaging anymore Not really. Point and click adventure games would be a good example. Syberia is still beautiful.
>>12694335There's always one like you.>>12695030>Plenty of retro games suffered from poor management tooSure, and some were incredibly poorly managed, but the scale and inertia of that was so much smaller, and involved a fraction of the money and middle management.>>12692520>retro videogames that were built as multimedia spectacles obviously aged poorly and are probably not worth playing because the spectacle isn't engaging anymoreI really don't agree.
