/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4512754
Well, you could argue that a jrpg will never be a click and point game. But retro is not a genre of videogame, otherwise Final Fantasy and Doom would have more in common than FF-Bravely Default or Crysis-Doom which is ridiculous.

Classic music made in the year 1920 has more common with classic music done today than with jazz, they are different styles. Classic is not a tag a book or music gets after X years or because has a different touch, is simply a different genre.

However we talk about retro games as games that were old. We lack of a frame of reference because videogame is a recent phenomenon, but as time passes it will become clear. We can't have an objective opinion because not enough time has passed and because the 2D -> 3D jump was so big you can clearly see the difference, but every few years people will claim X generation was special in its own way.

How will you claim the opposite? Cinematics? Challenge? Graphics? Popularity? Videogames has always being a mediocre product for children, there are no redeeming qualities in old videogames like the need of a higher culture, values or new ideas being taught, etc. Is just you killings things and living adventures, doesn't matter if the game was done in 1990 or 2010. And clearly there are quality distinctions between latest John Green book and latest Thomas Pynchon book, and is not the release year.

The childhood boogeyman is the way some people cope with disagreement. Give it 10 years more and they will claim the same things about PS2.

I really don't give a fuck whether the board is 'retro', 'special', 'muh childhood' or the fuck you want to name it. I want to discuss videogames old enough to be in the radar of many. I can discuss CT, FF6 and Mario64 anywhere, but many other games have no longer space for discussions. If you want to feel special about the 90's, go on. Just fucking give me a board to talk about old games, reeeeeeeeee.