/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8325904

Here's a sweet strawberry-flavored redpill to swallow: Gaming has never been in a better place, and oldfags who pretend the it's not are just high on copium or shifting eyes away from their own rampant consoomerism.

Personally, i never play mobile games and hardly fuck around with whatever recent AAA titles the industry decides to shit out, but the massive conveniences and ease of access modern gaming provides are undeniable. Hop into Fightcade, play MVC2 or SSF2T online with a press of a button? Don't mind if i do, and the playerbase is alive and bustling, at least for now.

Want to play an old obscure game you didn't get the chance to? Hop into the internet, with moderate luck you will find some sort of forum thread or, if the situation is dire, discord server to set yourself up for some games. And let's face it- would it not have been much nicer to do multiplayer back when Kohan or insert-name-here was released way back when? No it wouldn't. Multiplayer used to be a massive pain in the ass on the vast majority of titles, either by server issues, unbalanced matchmaking or no public lobbies or match searching whatsoever, taking your lonely ass straight back to single player boulevard.
I take one look at /vm, see people are still playing Worms Armageddon and smile from the bottom of my soul, because for the life of me i could not find people to play with way back then.
The FGC in particular gets a gold star. Any modern fighting game has an accessible ranked mode and netcode far and above anything that used to exist. Bored of playing online? hop into Youtube or Twitch, watch an entire coverage of the latest tournament. Some people like to harp on about how EVO moment 37 was the peak of gaming while blissfully ignoring the fact it was filmed on a potato camera and little footage of the very same event, shit quality notwithstanding, survived today.