/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10877470
>just consider suicide
Unironically this. I'm occasionally able to recapture the feeling of genuine, child-like exhuberance for my favorite video games through heavy application and combination of controlled substances and meditation, but sadly through all of the self-reflection, I've become too aware of the death of my youthful innocence. Not just the fact that it's happened, but the individual circumstances, both sudden and cumulative. Sure, losing your innocence is just a part of growing up to the point that most people are aware of it, but let me tell you, "being aware of it" and "purposefully backtracking your psychological development to the point that you can see when and where you diverged from blissful ignorance--by choice or by necessity--as clearly as looking at a map from a botched roadtrip" is a level of clarity I don't wish to curse anyone with.

Sure, it helped me play FF9 about a year ago with such unbridled enthusiasm that I literally felt like a kid again for the first time in decades, but the trade-off is that I've felt like killing myself pretty much every day since.

>>9876183
I mostly play stuff I've missed out on; I wasn't into JRPGs when I was a kid and missed some real classics, so there's a lot to pick from.

Most recently, I played FFIX for the first time, and it was such a surreal experience because I actually kinda wanted to play this game back when it released, but I didn't have a Playstation and couldn't justify getting one for a single game, so it just kind of fell by the wayside and was forgotten. Somehow, in the intervening 23 years, I managed to not have a single thing spoiled about it; not the plot, not the music, not anything. The only real memories I had were an EGM article that touted the game's lighthearted nature, had a screenshot of Zidane bumping into Garnet's butt on a ladder, and joked that the estimated playtime was 11 years.

It was a truly magical experience that made me feel like a kid again; it was like finding a wormhole back to the year 2000. I took my time with it and stayed away from any strategy guides or online discussion while I was playing, and in the end my final time was around 120 hours, and every goddamn second of it was magical.

>>9876378
>I see a lot of people saying they play through certain games annually. I cannot relate to this.
Yeah, I can't even watch my favorite movies annually; I get so bored with them. I replay my favorite games sometimes, but I have to wait 5-10 years, at LEAST.

>>9868653
No prob! Glad you enjoyed them. This was actually my first playthrough and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Such a relentlessly charming game.