/vr/ - Retro Games

ITT: Why RetroArch is GREAT on Wii, iOS & Xbox but HORRIBLE on Android and PC

I finally figured it out. OCD devs like RA's meticulously optimize their software so on a standardized, uniform platform with identical specs across all users it runs as more perfectly than a sane human being could configure it to.

Now the flip side of the coin is when they optimize it for their high-end Androids or PCs, it runs like dogshit on lower spec machines (or SDTVs) which their brains refuse to accept people might want to use and worse still causes them to sperg out and go full-on nuclear defense mode should Anon DARE to point it out.

"Didn't age well" is an idiomatic phrase and you have to be a massive pedant to take issue with it.

However, that having been said I also think that people who use that phrase to describe what was a massive smash hit game like Tomb Raider are at best retro-casuals and at worst spoon-fed and soft.

Fuck everyone basically.

>no love for SMS

>>1230478
>Lamenting that "proto-games" are not still being made
>Smugly dismissing Indie games completely as if you could have possibly played them all already
If you're claiming that there are no independent developers who are currently creating games with entirely novel approaches then I suspect you are only appreciating the groundbreaking games of the past through the lens of hindsight. Helping to evolve the scene is all about appreciating what is new and innovative but that's way off topic.

>>1230476
My first RPG was the NES version of Ultima 3 and I got frustrated with it but then later I discovered it actually has major problems that make it much harder than it should be so I'd like to tackle a proper version. but also get the best aesthetics possible.

I find it fascinating this board isn't 6 months old but I feel like I've been here for years

never really fit in anywhere else