/vr/ - Retro Games

Why Amiga fandom/fanbase is the most obnoxious, loudmouthed, narcissistic bunch of oldfags within all the gaming/hardware fandoms out there? I'm was seeing this back in the 90s and I still see it to this day, people that spent a lot of money on a sub-par IBM PC rip-off try to not only convince, but force the rest that only AMIGA is worth anything. You gotta do some research on their John Carmack hate and their 25+ years (and counting) efforts to port DOOM on Amiga, holy shit you're in for an absolute autist treat. Is it because Amiga was directed mainly at poor European market? You'd be surprised at how many people use these old junks for document formatting or video editing today. Hell, I remember visiting a local radio/press station in 2005 and all that those fuckers had were 12+ year old Amigas. Of course the media output was ridiculously outdated but every time you tried to talk to them about PCs or new design strategies/programs they literally started to act out so actively aggressive like if they had a real emotional connection to their machine. Amiga fandom across Europe is also the only one that actively sabotages its own fandom and is radically insular about any "newcomers" (if you weren't born in the early 70s you weren't "at the time to experience Amiga" and emulators doesn't count). Why's that so?

Great as it was for creative work like graphics, music composition, etc, in the gaming department it always seemed to be lacking. Although it did have some bona fide classics, it was also deluged with games that had very limited, shallow gameplay or terrible controls disguised by nice graphics. The C64 also suffered from this to an extent, particularly in its later years, but not as severely as the Amiga did.

If you were to compare the Amiga to 16-bit consoles like the Mega Drive, the ratio of shit to good games was way higher.

Thoughts?

If only you hadn't been seduced by the meme hardware peddled by IBM and Nintendo...

Sadly, you chose pink and aqua graphics, bleeper sound, and mushy analogue joysticks instead.

I have an Amiga and crippling depression.
What games will cure it?