/vr/ - Retro Games

For me, when PS360 came out, it introduced what's still going on today. The modernity. 6th was the start with PS2, but it was fullblown by 7th.

Though I completely checked out with 8th gen and haven't looked back (or forward, as it were).

It's weird how that chart gets some designations right, then others not.

>>10489473
i gave up on console gaming around 2003-4 after finishing san andreas on ps2. was strictly PC after that until around 2020 when i got a cheap ps3 and ps4 at a thrift store and now i'm addicted to looking for shit i dont have

>>10489473
I love retro games but honestly I never lost interest in modern consoles either. In a weird way I've actually found modern consoles to be a good source for retro gaming. Just this year I got the castlevania and Contra collections for less than $10 each off psn because even though I had some of the original consoles and cartridges it was much cheaper to buy the retro collection than seek out the missing pieces. If I'd bought the original versions of contra III, aria of sorrow and simon's quest it would have cost a pretty penny and I got them all for less than one cart would cost online.

I also got Bad Dudes, Final Fight, Metal Slug, Darkstalkers, Strider, Splatterhouse, Another World..my PS4 probably has as extensive a collection on it as any of my actual retro consoles. Even if retro is your thing it doesn't mean the current-ish gen has nothing to offer. Although I do usually stay one generation behind just for affordability

7th gen. It's when PC gaming got a lot more competitive against consoles rather than just being a nicher alternative to them, plus this was around the time where PC ports and multiports in general became a lot more common. I was considering picking up an Xbox 360 but i quickly realized that nearly every game worth playing in that system got ported to PC.

>>10489475
>>10489476
>>10489507
This exactly. Right around 2005-2007.

>>10489473
I'm not interested in consoles. I'm interested in games and get whatever I want in accordance with my budget and ability to pirate. Sometimes that means buying a console sometimes it means not buying it.

Anyone who says otherwise is just looking for a pointless war.

>>10489528
We get it, you're better than everyone.

>>10489475
fpbp
same for me

>>10489473
I still keep up with consoles, but the only reason I have left to do so is my insistence on buying physical games.
Other than buying a Nintendo machine for Nintendo games, there is no other logical reason to buy a modern console.

>>10489473
When games on the PS3 began requiring day one patches, I started looking at alternatives. My PC at the time was the shittiest Pentium 4 you can have in 2006 so my choices of games were the old stuff. PC gaming was much cheaper for me by 2010 straight out of high school so it made it easy for me to drop newer consoles for good. I still tried keeping up with the PS3 for the sake of keeping in touch with friends after high school but many of them stopped playing video games, moved onto the PS4 when it came out or switched to PC gaming as well. As for PC, I'm always several hardware generations behind since I play one set of games that run fine on the hardware I'm using at the time. I still play those same set of games today anyway so I've stagnated on an i7-4090k with an RX 580. Cyberpunk 2077 almost pushed me towards buying a brand new PC but I can still play it at over 60FPS at mid settings with 720p.

>>10489475
Same. Not that I think there’s anything inherently wrong with the “modernity,” as you put it. But there was basically no chance that I was going to get my hands on a PS3 at that time. Wasn’t until around ~2010 that I finally got one, and that was only because it came bundled with a TV.

I actually went through a period of losing interest in console games almost entirely from ~2008 to 2011. Dark Souls reawakened my love for vidya after I started to think I’d never play a truly engrossing game ever again.

>>10489565
>Not that I think there’s anything inherently wrong with the “modernity,"
There's definitely things wrong with it.

>>10489568
Right, I guess what I meant was that I didn’t see anything wrong with it *back then.* I didn’t reject it because I could see the writing on the wall; I rejected it because nobody was going to buy me a PS3 lol.

I still had a subscription to EGM, though, and enjoyed reading about all of the new games that I wasn’t ever going to play.

>>10489501
you can download all of those retro games for free

>>10489473
ps2 era
while waiting for crash wrath of cortex to load

>>10489571
Based, EGM was awesome. Really unique coverage and style, to me.

Crazy to think they're still around, although I think they ceased print publication in 2019, which is a shame.

>>10489473
after PS3, when they became PCs so i was doing PC gaming instead. Then i became a daily grass toucher and mostly stopped gaming, otherwise i'd have a Switch.

Video games are full of irl bullshit now, so i might as well do irl since i'm hot here.

i do still enjoy *some* console games when visiting friends. With current consoles working like netflix, and them living in the city with fiber internet, there's always something i'll like, and there's usually something good already installed because transfems have the best taste in video games

Early 360/PS3 still had a lot of gameplay and graphical characteristics of the previous gen, with many big titles feeling like turbo-charged PS2 games on steroids. The Wii was basically just a GameCube with motion controls and 1st party Nintendo and 3rd party titles still felt like they had the creative spark of the GC days. I have great nostalgia for those days and I think it's silly that people write off the entire gen. Where they lost me, and many others, was after the insane success of Uncharted 2 and Sony's subsequent race to model every big game in that same style and the Last of Us. Xbox leaned hard into the Kinect and seemed hell bent on capturing the Wii audience for some reason, even though they were king and no one cared for waggle and Mii party games any more.

Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U is where I totally dropped off. The games just weren't made for people like me anymore. Most good PS4 games are on the PC save for Vanillaware titles and the odd last dying breath of Japan Studio like Gravity Rush, Last Guardian or Bloodborne.

Some favourites of the Wii/PS3/360 gen:
>No More Heroes
>Nier
>Dragon's Crown
>Catherine
>Bayonetta
>Dead Rising 1
>Ridge Racer 7
>Folklore
>The Wonderful 101
>Demon's Souls
>Dark Souls
>Metal Gear Rising
>Deadly Premonition
>Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

>>10489652
Uncharted 2 was 2009. Not that big of a difference from what everyone else is saying here. Just a couple years later.

>>10489473
Before Gamecube.

>>10489473
late 7th gen, everyone and his mom moved to social media, streaming, pc gaming, youtube, etc...

>>10489473
>When did you start losing interest in new consoles?
When length started to become a priority for both consumers and developers, so now every title is full of filled and padding just for the sake of it... so around 7th and 8th generations to me...

I'll admit the PS5's design is sleek though, and the customization options are really a huge plus.

>>10489473
Hardcore Nintendie here, usually get the main Nintendo consoles around the time they release.
Recently got a PS5 after liking a PS2 I got a year ago, making me a bonafide Sony fan as well, though I'll probably wait a bit for a PS6.
I still only have an Xbox One X, which was a hand-me-down from my brother. No plans on upgrading to a Series X, or looking for a new Xbox when it releases.

>>10489473
You sick fuck

>people complaining about modern games as if every game is a PS4/5 title
Switch is basically an HD PS2 with the same kind of library and about the same amount of JP only wacky titles

>>10489473
8th gen. PS4/Xbone were PCs in a box.
At least 360/Wii/Triple had exclusive games and all were doing something a little different. First half of 7th gen wasn’t bad at all, but was certainly the beginning of the end.
Wii was basically an overclocked GameCube so it was an extension of 6th gen in a way.

>>10489473
Last home console I bought was a PS2. No point after that, handhelds and PC were all I needed.

>>10489473
Ps3/xbox 360 era. I lost interest in new consoles and switched back to pc for good

>>10489473
the wii u was so bad it made me rethink everything about nintendo and basically turned me against them. I like the PS4 but no interest in anything past that.

>>10489548
This is true. If there is no uniqueness to the platform then there is really no reason to buy it. I don't have a Nintendo Switch but much like the Wii and WiiU there are several games that can't be ported without the controls being ported. Microsoft should have kept developing the Kenect and Sony the EyeToy. Even if they reduced the material cost and didn't grow the features too much it would be enough to argue that they have something "special". However, today MS and Sony have nothing special, just a proprietary shaved down PC.

>>10490208
Playstation did continue to develop the eyetoy. All playstation consoles since have had a camera with several game features built around them.

>>10490157
Same except I don't mind the Wii U itself, it was fun for a few years, it's the fact that they abandoned it after like 2 years of active support, that's bullshit. Fuck em. People keep citing the 4 year life span as if it wasn't abandoned long before, they were making the Switch lineup instead of supporting the console

>>10490208
>Microsoft should have kept developing the Kenect and Sony the EyeToy
Sony did keep developing their motion control accessories. First to PSMove, then to PSVR and PSVR2

>>10490223
To me it was the Wii U experience, Nintendo's lack of a response to its failure and the fans all agreeing with Nintendo that made me double take things.

>>10489475
This. I bought a PS3 and it was so bad i never bought another console.

>>10489473
ps3 was my last console and I barely used it.

6th gen

>>10489473
>when did you lose interest?
College. Too busy with too many new things going on to keep up with most of gaming. Still played with friends, but mostly games that were either widely popular (ie halo), gay memes (rock band), or older stuff. PC gaming became much more accessible for long-distance multiplayer.

>>10490296
This is a really great point. That debacle just radiated total indifference to players. If Nintendo don’t care, why should I?

>>10489473
N64 disappointed me pretty bad and i was put off by the dvd player/game console thing that Sony was doing so by 01 or 02 i was done with consoles.

>>10489473
8th gen
>Microsoft's disaster with Xbox One
>Nintendo punishing me for buying 3DS and Wii U at launch
>Sony's infighting, censorship policy and abandoning the Vita
I lost hope in the big 3

>>10489473
Gave up on modern PC gaming when everything became a locked down service or DRM bound, online authentication bullshit. But then again, by that point all of the worthwhile PC exclusive genres like RTS were already dieing out, so while sad to see my favorite childhood platform rot away, it never felt like i was missing that much by that point.

I won't touch anything Microsoft starting with the Bone. Not buying hardware i need to fucking register online before i can even use it. Likewise, i may be done with Sony too now if they keep going with this "register your disc drive online" bullshit. Nintendo is pretty much the only source left I will have for a traditional games machine, with no subscription, online activation cancer required, just plop a game in and play design. Hoping their toy company roots maintains that, but if not, well guess im just done keeping up with modern gaming.

I started losing interest when the N64 came out. I finished when whatever came after the Xbox 360 came out. Right now I'm catching up on the DS library using a DS I bought when that was new and then left in a plastic bin for fifteen years. (The battery still worked pretty well!)

I never lost interest in new games but once the world of available games became so large as to be effectively infinite (thanks to freeware and indie games on PCs and the ever-growing power of emulation + piracy) I stopped needing to stay on the cutting edge of big budget games made for fast hardware in order to continue finding new (to me) games to play. Today I could easily spend a few years learning about the Genesis, for example, and never at any point play a game that wasn't new to me, since I never had a Genesis as a kid. Or I could get some free or cheap indie roguelike for PC and burrow into that for a year. Or I could get into some recently minted classic (I did this a few years ago with Dark Souls, and loved it). I rarely need new hardware for any of that.

A big exception is weirdo Nintendo stuff that has its own special I/O gimmicks, or stuff like Steel Battalion or Boktai that uses unique hardware (not that I care greatly about those two games - they're just examples). I feel that I have to eventually buy a 3DS just to explore that crazy 3D gimmick - even if it's shallow and bad, I HAVE to try it and find out how and why it's bad. And it might be awesome. Either way, it's too interesting not to try. Another big exception would be multiplayer communities, since those die out eventually - but I'm only interested in those insofar as AI can't accurately simulate a human opponent/ally, since humans bring a lot of problems into games that I'd rather do without, such as big delays when you're waiting for them to take their turns, big frustration when they ragequit or whatever, and the mental load of having to filter out their idiotic chatter.

after the dreamcast. gaming continues to get watered down by the hollywood obsession, sandbox, and content trumps all design. i tapped out when the old computer studios died like looking glass, origin and sir tech. for sega the arcade philosophy leaving was felt immediately. i still do not play anything past about 2001.

By the time the wii was released, I had zero interest

>>10489473
360
Terrible platform. Terrible longevity. Terrible launch.
I loved my Xbox. I never bothered having a 360 until I got a used Slim for very cheap.
The PS4 was better in fact my launch system still works just fine, but the cross between PC and Console was just too blurred. There's nothing unique about Sony and Microsoft's platforms.

>>10489473
Nearly every mascot platformer series that wasn't Mario or Sonic died with the 6th gen. It was around that time, Americans completely took over the market and everything had to be an FPS or at least have guns. I was also appalled at how people started playing first-person games with controllers like it was completely natural, in my mind any game with first person view had no place on consoles and I still hold that view to this day.

>>10489473
around the PS3. Nothing against consoles honestly or making a statement about quality, I was just at that age when I had to buy my own stuff so as a young man I just chose to invest in PCs while emulating the rest. I'm simply just slow on playing catch up.

>>10489473
I start losing interest when they stopped being plug-and-play. If I wanted a computer, I'd buy a fucking computer.

I bought a pre-slim PS4 and it was an awful machine (loud, hot, restrictive video and audio output and finicky settings, the fucking wi-fi and controller interfered with each other, and I've had HDMI blackouts that were never an issue with a PS3 in the same setup), and then 2 years later every third party Japanese company that wasn't Sega started porting practically everything to PC so all I really got out of the whole generation was Bloodborne which turned me off of From games, some Gran Turismo games I barely played, Sakura Wars, Border Break, the new Virtual On that I almost didn't touch, 13 Sentinels, Odin Sphere remaster, Gundam Versus (bad), better versions of the odd game with a crap ass port, and a fighting game beta machine. Like don't get me wrong I got enough out of it in the end because things like waiting for the EGS versions of Kingdom Hearts also would have been awful but the writing was on the wall before Sony started going nuts halfway through the generation and I nearly stopped buying games for it for the last few years knowing the PC version would come out by the time I got around to them.

>>10490983
You bought a used system from the ghetto and it was filled with cockroach goo.

>>10490942
they all had autoaim

>>10490998
No. The PS4 trying to downsize back towards 5th/6th gen console sizes instead of being a George Foreman grille/Dell mini tower like the PS3 and 360 inevitably meant the first generation PS4s had to run fans super hard and the hot air coming out of the back is really concentrated.

>>10490908
Sega leaving was the beginning of the great decline.

>>10489473
After GTA IV

>>10489473
when nintendo announced the switch and then proceeded to fuck over wii u owners

>>10491002
That's the worst part of it. Imagine forcing people to play a game with a controller so unsuited for it that you have to give them cheats to even make it playable. We live in a gaming dystopia.

>>10491036
>and then proceeded to fuck over wii u owners
How exactly? By releasing the same games on the Switch for their full price again while they were often available for $10-20 on Wii U? Switch owners were fucked over if anything.

The WiiU was the first main Nintendo console I never picked up. I knew from day one it was going to be a disaster. Plus there was no "must have" game which I considered a huge red flag. Got a Switch though and I'm happy with it.
I'm over PS and Xbox stuff really but I'll probably get the next Nintendo console.

>>10490887
The 3DS is still a solid console even if you take out the 3D aspect. I have a 2DSXL and I don't even think about the missing 3D feature when playing it.

>>10491289
>Plus there was no "must have" game which I considered a huge red flag.
IMO that was Super Mario Maker. But yes, the absence of a new 3D Mario game likely buried any chances Wii U had at success. They really should have delayed Galaxy 2 and made it a Wii U launch title.

Gave up after PS3/Wii, bought a ps4 just for bloodborne, but now am fully PC. Exploring handheld games too with retroarch on my tv and I thought a modded vita too which has been fun for ps1 titles I never played as a kid.

>>10491314
It is kinda hilarious that the Sim and Tycoon games have so much longevity. And Doom wad hacking tools did the same thing. But none of the console makers thought it was worthwhile to make a decent make sandbox game. I guess people liked SMM. It was a big meh to me, all the retro PC sandbox games have more dimension and character. The new PC sandbox games blow the door of SMM.