/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2063948
I like fapping to scat doujins of my favorite video game characters

>>2063948

I watched longplays with the Retsupurae commentaries of very old games sometimes, instead of playing them. Clock Tower: Ghost Head, and the three DOS Alone in the Dark games.

I also watched a streamer play Clock Tower (PS1).

I never beat ECCO the Dolphin properly. I completed Welcome to the Machine and then used the final boss password so I wouldn't have to replay it every time I died to the final boss.

>>2063954
Retsupurae stopped being funny with Slowbeef drank the Soc-Jus Kool-Aid.

>>2063965
>>>/pol/

>>2063954
I actually watched them play the rest of TRAG instead of playing it on my own. I played it before they did the videos, but the game fell off hard and got hella boring, so I stopped playing. Then they RP'd it and the rest is history.

Galerians, on the other hand, I haven't watched at all because I intend to go back to that game. I actually found it fun.

>>2063965

It's not even funny. I find them annoying at times. They'll riff on things that aren't actually bad at all. Like the mask the guy wears in Clock Tower 2. But it makes watching these, at times very slow kinda boring games more watchable. I'm mostly curious what these old games were like but don't want to actually play them. It's more for gaming history.

Like I saw Clock Tower 2 in the store for years but never bought it. So now I know what the hell it actually was.

>>2063976
Try watching SB's Touhou videos without cringing how often he has to reassure himself he's totally not a weeb.

>>2063948
I was never in an arcade because they don't exist were I live (and they never really had existed).

I feel like I'm not worthy posting here. I get filled with deep sadness and shame when I think about it.

>>2063976

Them riffing on the mask, since it's clearly a red oni mask. They didn't seem to even notice that. They also do no or very little research on the games.

>>2063991
I feel almost the same. I only remember playing on arcade machines two times in my life, once in Disneyland Paris and once in a Dutch amusement park.

>>2064017
Sounds like you're German, too.
Why does Germany hate video games so much? Is the "No fun allowed" stereotype really true?

I dislike the Mario Bros series and all the side scrolling platforms like that.
I used a guide to beat the old Monkey Island games.
After a straight and satisfying long game in Daggerfall I used that cheat to become overpowered and basically kill everyone with a single punch, ruining my previous save states.

>>2064023
Yeah, from the north west.
I thought it was seen as too similar to gambling so they wouldn't want kids to get in touch with that.
At least I have a pinball machine in my favourite local bar. If only they hadn't replaced the lord of the rings one with an Elvis one..

Other than liking the older visuals, I think the remakes of the lunar games are better in every way to the originals.

I am stupidly bad at platformers
I can rarely finish the first level

I stole, like, thirty NES cartridges from the local drugstore rental booth over the summer of 1991.

I still have them, too.

i quicksave. a lot.
didn't had this commodity back then and now i make full use of it

>>2064176

Tell us more.

>>2064189
>i quicksave. a lot.

Get out of that habit. You are just relying on that rather than learning the levels. I played Doom while abusing quicksave, and I was barely thinking. The next time I played through it, I only saved once at the start of the level and it was much more fun.

I never played the first Fallout.
I haven't finshed my Unreal map.
I haven't backed up mods to Heroes V I've made.
I never played D2 with anything beside Sorc / Necro.

>>2064210
You can't blame them, this is the ADD generation that complains when a game doesn't use an autosave feature. They're pretty much unable to focus on anything for more than a few minutes.

>>2064210
>Get out of that habit. You are just relying on that rather than learning the levels
I know. And i feel sad about it.
But when i don't quicksave and i have to start the whole game over because i died in the last world, i get angry. I don't have as much free time i had when i was a kid to redo the game over and over and over again till i learn it.

I'll get like 90% of the way through a game and then never bother to finish it.

I get sidetracked from games easily. I even get sidetracked from my sidetracked games by other games

>>2063948
I sometimes buy games on the pure hype even if I know I probably won't like it.

I enjoy the occasional lets play or twitch stream.

I think the Sega Dreamcast is a garbage console mainly due to bad experiences as a kid.

I generally think Sega is worse then Nintendo because the 2 kids who had Genesis' in my school were massive faggots. While everyone with a SNES was pretty cool.

I don't think I've gave enough of a shit to finish Megaman 1-7 and usually give up at the Wily stages.

I think AVGN and guys like him were the worst thing to happen to the hobby. Now we have a generation of kids who never played this games growing up and buying NES games because its a lelfunnymeme. Twitch is also a big offender of this.

I wanted to get into making Let's Plays and Streaming on Twitch but I feel like its too late now and its not worth my time or effort to push to get popular so I can make less then I will if I just finish my degree and start making software.

But I still kinda wanna live the dream of video games for a living.

>>2064219
>ecause i died in the last world, i get angry.

Then just save at the beginning of the level or when you want to stop.

I rarely actually play games, I just like to collect the systems and watch demos. That's why I have mostly computers and not consoles.

>>2064237
>I sometimes buy games on the pure hype even if I know I probably won't like it.
Not exactly usual. Better you tried it and didn't like it than complain about it and have never played it before
>I enjoy the occasional lets play or twitch stream.
That's not a confession
>I think the Sega Dreamcast is a garbage console mainly due to bad experiences as a kid.
Bad experiences are a justification though, you can't help that.
>I generally think Sega is worse then Nintendo because the 2 kids who had Genesis' in my school were massive faggots. While everyone with a SNES was pretty cool.
I'm a Sega fanatic and I can admit that most are annoying as hell, especially on places like the Sega Saturn forum.
>I don't think I've gave enough of a shit to finish Megaman 1-7 and usually give up at the Wily stages.
Not much of a confession.
>I think AVGN and guys like him were the worst thing to happen to the hobby. Now we have a generation of kids who never played this games growing up and buying NES games because its a lelfunnymeme. Twitch is also a big offender of this.
Also not much of a confession. I've enjoyed AVGN stuff before but I remember him getting called stale even back in 2007
>I wanted to get into making Let's Plays and Streaming on Twitch but I feel like its too late now and its not worth my time or effort to push to get popular so I can make less then I will if I just finish my degree and start making software.
Good, don't waste your life. Most of those people are going to end up washed up eventually.
>But I still kinda wanna live the dream of video games for a living.
Not much of a confession

>>2064237
Are you me? I totally agree with the whole let's play thing. I feel it degrades gaming as whole.

>>2063948
I'm 19.

I'm awful at games.

>>2064237

>Youtube and streamer scum are the worst things to happen to gaming
>oh and I want to join them

Super Mario Land is my favorite Mario game.

>>2063948
I abuse savestates to get sure I always get the best randon drops and random leveling at RPGs.

I've only beaten Castlevania's 1-4 with save states.

>>2064262
I'm jelly at that

>>2064214
>I never played the first Fallout.
Fallout 1 is more accessible than Fallout 2 IMO. That temple of ant-punching bullshit was the worst possible way to start the second game. 1 gives you a gun and sends you to the overworld map pretty much immediately.

>>2064315
>ant-punching
Agility 10, run past everything. And yes, starting with 10 in stats is suboptimal for endgame, but you're overpowered in the endgame anyway.

I love Zelda II and everyday I'm sad there aren't more games like it.

I've never played a Final Fantasy game and I do not plan to do in the future.

>>2064336

>Confession for a widely shared view

The Zelda Ii hate only started around the release of Ocarina of Time or Link to the Past. Newer Zelda fans would go back and hate Zelda II since it's hard and so different.

>>2064347
Whenever I bring up Zelda II people always go "muh black sheep" and call it a misstep. It was incredibly ahead of it's time and I'm still impressed by it.

I never played A Link to the Past, Super Metroid or Chrono Trigger, despite being a fan of said series or genre for over 20 years.

I'm saving them for the right time, but sometimes I wonder if that right time will ever come. I really shouldn't die without playing these.

>>2064362
LTTP and Super Metroid are some of the finest games (perhaps the finest) in their respective genres, so that's understandable.

If you've played a lot of RPGs though, then Chrono Trigger won't do much for you. It's an introductory RPG through and through.

>>2064364

>If you've played a lot of RPGs though, then Chrono Trigger won't do much for you. It's an introductory RPG through and through.

As long as it has charm and is fun to play, I'm good. I enjoy simple RPGs like Dragon Quest, Lunar or Mother. I'll probably love CT.

Never played a single Zelda game.

>>2064367
Ah, then you'll enjoy it a lot. I also recommend Panzer Dragoon Saga if you like the more accessible and charming RPGs.

I've never played a SNES and have no experience with it's library, other than the GBA ports of A Link to the Past and Yoshi's Island.

Despite never having tried the SNES I still confidently claim the Megadrive is the better console.

>>2064369

Yeah, that's also another one I ought to play, since I love the Panzer Dragon games and own a Sega Saturn, but my excuse for that is that the game itself is too expensive and my Saturn can't read copies.

>>2064372
>Despite never having tried the SNES I still confidently claim the Megadrive is the better console.

That's not a sin, that's just being a shit eating fanboy.
Anyway, you're missing out.

>>2064379
>being a shit eating fanboy.
That's not a sin? I felt it should be.

>>2064375
Well, when you do play, expect to absolutely love it. It's pretty goddamn emotional too.

I don't think I've ever beat an rpg, I've played tons and own quite a few. I usually say fuck it on or near the last boss.

>>2064347
I have never understood this. Gameplay wise the 3d zeldas have way more in common with 2 than with 1.

i sometimes use walkthroughs for RPGs when I'm completely lost
I think the N64 is not that great even growing with it I prefer PS1 or Saturn.
Sonic 2 is ok at best.
Virtua Fighter 3 looks ugly as hell today and ok game in the franchise.
DC was much better than all the 6th gen consoles combined.
SF2 vanilla on SNES music sounds like farts and shitty PC MIDI.
i played Rise of the Robots and Shaq Fu on Snes and its not that bad.

>>2064347
>The Zelda Ii hate only started around the release of Ocarina of Time or Link to the Past.

If you think so

>>2064336
Although there isn't a real Zelda 2 sequel there are lots of games like it. I started compiling a list of these games and if you want it let me know.

I enjoy modern games, too, and sometimes mention non-retro hardware and games by name.

According to /vr/ these are sins

>>2064216
This seems like a silly post to make because PC games have been allowing you to save wherever for a long time.

>>2064440
Not sins, just posts by people trying way too hard to fit in.

>>2064368
IMHO you're not missing much.

>>2064458
>IMHO
must stand for "in my haughty opinion"

I've enjoyed playing games in almost every generation.
I think it's stupid for someone to immediately dismiss all new games (and vice versa for the cod-loving /v/ kid that will see this post)

I can't beat dungeon 9 The Legend of Zelda.

I can't get beyond the first stage of Ghosts n' Goblins.

I claim Betrayal at Krondor is one of the greatest RPGs of all time but I have never finished it.

I suck at video games.

I feel extreme guilt over the amount of money my parents spent on my Nes and Snes those years ago, when they really shouldn't have.

>>2063948
I've never beaten an adventure game without using a solution.

>>2064231
My brother does this.
I've watched him play final fantasy games up to the final dungeon or even the last boss and just stop playing. Baffles me.

>>2064462
These aren't sins, these are confessions.

>>2064519
Don't get so caught up in semantics.

Game Grumps is the reason I got into retro gaming. I'm sure I'm not alone here.

>>2064519
>"Confession" is the act of "telling one your sins"
>OP's picture features a confessional

>>2064476
This. I said this to someone the other day actually. There's no way Christmas was even remotely affordable for them when buying shit like that for three sons. My parents are good people man. I'm an ass.

>>2064524
>>2064521
He's talking about what he CAN'T do as oppossed to what he did that he shouldn't have done, I thought that was the point of the thread.

>>2064479
The only one adventure which can be completed without guide IMO is Bad Mojo Redux. No cryptic shit, many advices, no items (you can olny move your character). Its good game.

>>2064529
Many /vr/tards would consider the inability to do these things as "sins." What he did but shouldn't have done would be a "failure to git gud."

>>2064529
>>2064519
stop being pedantic

>>2064516
This only happened to me with one game ever, and that game was Legend of Zelda: ALttP.

I don't know what it is but I just can't bring myself to give a fuck about this game, and I absolutely loved Link's Awakening, which I played before it.

I didn't own LttP as a kid but my friend did. I never asked to borrow it from him.

I've tried to play through LttP like three times in my life. Once when I was 18 during uni. Dropped it early. My friend played through it though and I'd watch sometimes.

Next I was like 23 or something doing my masters degree. Again I dropped it.

Then I was like fucking 25 and bothered to go all the way to dungeon 7. I dropped it.

I will never play through ALttP. I don't know why I don't care for it. I think one of the main things is I don't like the aesthetic look of the game and nor do I like its repetitive soundtrack. I'm just not drawn into its world at all.

I repeat that I loved Link's Awakening (one of my all time favourites), loved OoT but I don't care for ALttP. I don't care for Majora's Mask either. Tried to play through that two or three times as well but could not be fucked.

I'm going to take this further by saying I don't understand fags that keep playing rehashed Zelda games. How can you play more than four of them at the very most? Played one 2D Zelda you've played 'em all, played one 3D Zelda you've played 'em all. Zelda 2 is the only one that's actually different. Apart from that they're all the same shite.

>>2064315

Don't remind me of this.
Every time I want to replay Fallout 2 I end up uninstalling it after seeing Temple of Trials.

>>2063948
I don't like the Dreamcast. It has an ugly, uncomfortable controller and deserved to fail.

I also think that Shen-Mue is overrated and when I played it, it made me feel uncomfortable and restless.

I also feel myself immensely when I score cheap wins in ST.

>>2064552
I tried two or three times to play Fallout 2 and couldn't get into it. I thought it was because of the turn based combat, but it was actually just because the first dungeon was boring as shit. I played Fallout 1 a little while later and was engrossed almost immediately.

>>2064008
Come on man. Look at your own picture. That mask is damn goofy and in a game that's pretending to happen in the US it's completely out of place and not scary or suspensful or ANYTHING that pushes forward the CT theme.
Plus Slowbeef had to know what it was since he only pretends to not like japanese things because he's primarily a goon. He helped translated a japanese game, for fucks sake.

>>2064572
Yeah, it's best not to take their videos serious. THEY don't even take them seriously, having gone on to say this during actual videos.

It's jokes, bruvs. Lighten up and have a giggle with the rest of us.

>>2064347
Didn't like Zelda 1, absolutely hated Zelda 2. Only gave 1 a second look because LttP helped me appreciate it more.
But 2 I will never stop hating for its awful leveling mechanics and its broken sidescroll action (too hard or too easy)

I've only beaten Zelda 2 and Metroid using a guide, and I only beat Zelda 2 with cheats.
I've only played 15 minutes of zelda 1 before deciding I didn't really like it, on top of all the modern complaints people have about it. I just preferred Zelda 2's overworld combined with side-scrolling action. kinda the same reason why I hate lttp.

>>2063948
One night My father and I walked into blockbuster. I looked for Pokemon Red. I saw it and had an orgasm. That was until I saw the "Sorry I'm not available now." sticker. So i went around the store with the pokemon red box and Super Mario land 2 box and swapped the stickers. Nobody saw me luckily. But I did get the game for a week and played the hell out of it. Sadly enough I feel sorry for the child that went in the store after me looking for Super Mario Land 2 and to find a sticker on it saying "Sorry I'm not available now"

>>2063948
Borrowed Ocarina of Time for 2 weeks didn't get to finish it. Got over protective and poured coke on the chip so nobody else could play such an amazing game. 2 weeks later mother gets a phone call from video ezy(blockbuster for Australia) They asked if ocarina of Time was working. She looks towards me and I nod no as if i didn't play it. They reply with oh okay thank you mam well give you a free copy of the game for the consideration and also for having it for 2 weeks and "Not being able to play it"

>>2064703
What about the kid that reserved Red?

>>2064427
Please do tell me, I'd love to check some of them out.

>>2064402
>Virtua Fighter 3 looks ugly as hell today and ok game in the franchise.

True, though it was a spectacle to behold in the arcade. I'd been playing VF2 for ages, then went to a different arcade where they had this giant monitor for VF3 and it completely blew me away. Such a great moment.

>>2064516
I just hate that final stretch when you have to acquire everything. I think the shitty end part of Grandia III did that to me, just made me too cynical to actually finish an RPG.

I've never finished Megaman 5 despite actually owning the game for over 20 years. I've finished MM1-4 and 6 several times, but still have yet to actually play past the last darkman on 5.

I keep calling Quake 1 my favorite game of all time despite not actually playing it very much anymore, and not even having that many hours in it in comparison to other stuff.

I've been slowly pushing a pro-GBA policy on this board, despite knowing it could lead to a slippery slope and destroy everything we hold dear.

When I was 11 I sold a Sega Genesis I gotten from my grandpa a few years back. I had:
>Sonic 1, 2, 3, Knux, Spinball
>Vectorman 1 and 2
>Earthworm Jim
>Cool Spot
>Bulls vs. Lakers NBA Playoffs
>Sword of Vermillion
>Biohazard Battle
>Ecco 1
>Comix Zone

I fucked up bad. And it all went for $40 at a stupid garage sale.

>>2063948
I've never played a single metroid game. ( which would be considered an ultimate sin for people here )

In Mega Man 1, I always use the trick with Elec Mans power to beat the Yellow Devil easily.

In Mega Man 3 sometimes I purposely glitch the electric thingys that move back and forth in Spark Mans stage off the screen. I do it on the revisiting with the mm2 bosses too.

That's about it, I think. I really don't like cheesing or using guides. It takes away the feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment.

>>2064735
Now that's a confession.

>>2064346
That's okay. I have to imagine there are a lot of us who derive no enjoyment from JRPGs but politely refrain from hating on them.

>Menus: the Game!

>>2064746
God I fucking love menus.

I'm in my fucking forties and I'm still way into this shit, posting on a board mostly with 16-20 year olds.

>I had saved up allowance money to buy an NES at launch(ish)

>>2064757
I'm 26, Id like to think the majority of the posters here are 25+.

>>2063948
The only Thief game I've beaten was Deadly Shadows.

>>2064757

Fellow oldfag....

I saved for two months to get a NES. My mom would give me 1$ for every hour of violin practice I did.

Confession: I have no time or attention span for vidya these days, but I still play Tibia at work every day.

I've never beaten Conker's Bad Fur Day or either of the Banjo games.

>>2064757
I'm 26. I doubt there's hardly anyone here that young.
My confession is I preach about how I love playing older games and how they are superior to todays crap, however my PC cost me about £2.5k overall. Why would I need GTX 980s in SLI when I can play my Wing Commander 3 on my 3DO? FMV Mark Hamill is waaay more satisfying than COD in 4K at 120 fps. Maybe this is more of a confession relating to an addiction to buying things =S

I allowed my parents to THROW IN THE FUCKIGN GARBAGE NOT EVEN SOLD MOTHERFUCKERS my N64, now i just want to see em die in excruciating tortures.

The only /vr/ console I own is N64, there's no room in my entertainment center for any more (GC and Xbox are there, plus all my DVDs and VHS tapes). I emulate the rest, and only recently bothered to buy a controller just for that.

I think ZNESW works absolutely fine.

I almost never play Sega games, none of the IP even appeal to me.

Bellsprout is my favorite Pokemon, I think it's adorable.

People who exclusively play retro games and think anything past 1996 is shit are edgefags who need to realize that there are still good games if you do even a tiny bit of searching.

I still can't beat SMB without save states

>>2064757
I really wish I was older. I'm 23 but I played a lot of stuff from around the 85s because my brother still loved all that stuff. And we were kinda poor until the mid 90s.

I still feel too young to post here. I'd do everything to grow up in the 80s.

>>2063948
I've never beaten Ocarina of Time.

>>2064802

I'm 18 but grew up in a household that was basically trapped in the late 80's/early 90's since I was the youngest son by over 10 years.

>inb4 N64 kiddo

The only N64 games I like are Perfect Dark and OoT, otherwise most of my /vr/ memories are SNES and NES (by way of NESTICLE).

>>2064782
i'm also 26. Most people I know who still play and love older games are between ages of 25 to 40.
All the rest are FPS addicts that refuse to play anything else.

- ive never beaten FF 7
- i often buy games solely because of panty shots or jiggly boobs.

>>2064757
>>2064764
27 here.
>you're more retro than games made in 2000

>>2064805
You're not missing anything.

>>2064814
What does everyone not like about it? I was thinking of buying the remake and actually playing it on 3DS.

>>2064757
>>2064764
>that feel when the NES is going to be 30 next year.

>>2064819
assuming they're serious & not trolling, only a few people hate it. you will find the vast majority of gamers love it

>>2064819

2D zeldafags butthurt that Ocarina of Time became the default Zelda style. Play it for the sake of history if nothing else, but do the original N64 version or emulated.

>>2064819
It's aged poorly and is just very dull now.

I never played Final Fantasy 7/8/9, Silent Hill 1 or 2, any Metal Gear Solid, (although I emulated the MSX Metal Gear).

>>2064826
With the exception of FF8, they're all must plays. I only played Metal Gear Solid this year but I really enjoyed it, so don't be afraid to give it a go.

>>2064823
Yeah I guess it would be better to do it justice and play it on the 64.

My fondest memories of Metal Gear Solid are from playing the PC version, with a keyboard.

>>2063948
I've only finished a small portion of the games I own, but I can never bring myself to finish or sell such games. Some games that I claim to be huge fans of are included in this list. The worst is that I own games I haven't even played. I've been working on this problem for about a year now, and have successfully trimmed about 10-20 unwanted games from my collection so far (with more planned), but it's still a downer to have games that I say I like but don't really bother to play.

I've never made it past a Wily Machine in any Mega Man game.

The only classicvania I've beaten are the first one and Rondo (the PSP remake version though).

>>2064023
Germans need their no fun allowed policy to focus on making luxury autos.

I admit to having never been to Europe, so I don't know the travel conditions very well, but you could reasonably make a weekend trip out to England or somewhere and go play in arcades, yeah?

>>2064831
>I've never made it past a Wily Machine in any Mega Man game.

i am judging you so hard right now

>>2064516
I've done this in Pikmin and in every Metroid game.

Something about the final battle in those games just weighs down upon me. I think it's the amount of shit you have to gather up, like the health/ammo grinding in Metroid or the yellow pikmin farming in Pikmin.

>>2064847
I've only played 1, 2, and 9 to that point, and I basically hit a wall every time. The energy required to rematch the robot masters really saps my strength for that final battle.

>>2064846
Air Travel in Europe wasn't cheap until the 2000s, I wasn't going to take a ferry to go play video games.

>>2064853
Are trying to be a badass and only use the buster? The game is laughable when you exploit each bosses weakness.

>>2064857
Hard to say, it's actually been a while since I played one. Knowing how masochistic I can be when it comes to games, the answer was probably yes for most of it.

Every time I play a retro game I get sad and ponder all the time I lost and am actively losing, and that makes me play less and less. It stopped being fun when I noticed all the grey hair looking in the mirror.

>>2063948
I loaded up a Wii with NES games and got bored and/or frustrated with nearly all of them in just a few minutes. And I grew up with an NES.

>>2064268
You forgot the best part:
>not using the correct "than" for comparison

>>2063991
>>2064017
i never got in an arcade until i was like 17 years old because there werent any in my town ... and same than you i only went like two times


also got introduced to NeoGeo mostly by my bro's PC in NeoRageX

>>2064262
same here.

i STILL cannot afford a NeoGeo

>>2064907
get a NeoGeo CD (CDZ for faster loading times)
some of the original MVS cartridges are expensive as fuck, but their CD counterparts are relatively cheap

>>2064882
Are you doing something you like more instead? If not, who gives a damn if the average person thinks your hobby is childish?

>>2064918
cant just consume media all your life, you gotta use your talents to be productive in some way. otherwise, your life will feel like a waste.

>>2064882
>It stopped being fun when I noticed all the grey hair looking in the mirror.
I dyed my hair because I got terribly depressed every time I saw those white strands. I almost forgot until I saw your post.
I can't cope with the feeling of becoming older and older. I just can't.

>>2063948
I haven't beat over 75% of my collection.
I spend more time hunting for games then playing games.
The last time I seriously sat down and gamed (greater than 30 minutes) was in January 2012

>>2064918
I don't care what the average person thinks about me. I do care what I think about myself and my life and where I'm going with it.

>>2064931
Things that make you enjoy your hobbies less:
- parents asking when you'll find a nice girl and settle down
- getting wedding invitations from your friends
- the inevitable grey hair

>>2064925
Unless you spend your life doing things that make you happy. Modeling your life around what
others think is "productive" when you don't share the same opinion, is infact unproductive.

>>2064931
As long as you are enjoying yourself and having fun, its not wasted time. Stop feeling guilty, anon. Different minds enjoy different things.

>>2064268
>>2064887
Yeah I was going to, I made some tutorials for some games (although they werent retro) and got like 500 subs pretty fast, but then I realized most of them were fucking casuals, 12 year olds, or filthy brs.

I also met a guy in my classes in college whos fresh out of high school and didn't know the answer to a midterm question and wrote "Kappa" in its place.

It was a complex math question.

These are the kind of people you pander to with lets plays and streaming, and I want no part of it.

But I still stream occasionally for friends when I get a chance to play some games because we're all in different cities now

>>2064951
Nah I'm not that anon. I don't think I waste my time. I'm glad that most of my free time went into playing vidya.

I'm just afraid of getting older. Things like CD rot make me depressed.

>>2064940
yeah be a renegade, stay in your mom's place for all your life playing videogames, great plan for a living.

>>2064964
Puhlees, I work and have my own place, I'm just saying there's no way I'd ever guilt myself into being ashamed about playing video games.

>>2064972
that's not even the issue, son. you're burning strawmen here.

I save-state before every boss in Megaman games. I prefer X over the original, and, basically any snes game over nes games. Snes and Genesis were the only consoles I gave a chance at the time, and I smashed my gameboy color...

>>2064975
So what is the issue?

>>2064982
people not knowing how to cope with the passage of time, and old pastimes losing their luster because of that.

not everything is as simple as you want it to be.

>>2064937
I'm not saying to keep playing video games if it's making you unhappy, but all three items on that list are disparities between what is expected of you and what you do. Getting married and settling down are things you do because you want to do them, not because you're supposed to. Hell, video games can bring people closer together. And getting old is unavoidable; I'd rather be an old guy who has fun than an old guy who has a respectable reputation. If/when you do settle down, you can be a cool dad/grandpa who plays games with the kids.

But what do I know? I'm a 25 year-old NEET who hasn't dated since high school, and I'd be lying if I said I'm proud of that. I just like to think a person should never outgrow fun.

>>2065013
25 year old NEETS shouldn't be able to have opinions on anything imo. If you're sitting around in your parents basement or on welfare or shit you have no right to have an opinion on anything you fucking freeloader.

I can't not play super mario bros. 2 as peach

I never finish most of the games that I buy and/or play.

I am only concerned with hardware when it comes to Sega and SNK and that's mostly because I've had my Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast since I was a kid. Even then, I've sold a lot of my Saturn and Dreamcast games over the years and instead invested in a lot of blank CDs.

For almost everything else, I have a flash drive that contains gigs of emulators and ROMs I just stick in either my iMac, MacBook Pro, or the Mac Mini G4 I have hooked up to my TV.

I love video games, but I just really don't have enough time to play them between college, work, and social stuff to justify throwing down money on it. So I find lots of ways to be a cheapskate so that I can still enjoy them when I'm free.

And the worst part about it is...I don't even care.

>>2065013
I don't think I will engage with you any further. It's a bit of a stupid argument, but you're still too young to get it.

Being a rad free radical stops being fun after a while, and "having fun" stops being fun too then. Games and hobbies are not nearly enough to fill your life with meaning, and they certainly won't help you get your years back.

Remember this conversation a couple of years down the line.

I hate having collections of physical media, everything I play I either emulate or play backups of off of flash carts or hard drives. To me the only pro of having an actual copy of a game is being able to loan it out to a friend.

>>2065047
>not using the best character
please be trolling

>>2065071
I hate not having the hover jump

save states i guess...

>>2065063
>s I just stick in either my iMac, MacBook Pro, or the Mac Mini G4 I have hooked up to my TV.

Could you suck Steve Job' zombie dick any more?

Why did you have to declare it as a macbook, why not just say your fucking laptop.

Fucking kids these days

I don't really find post NES era Nintendo games to be all that special in general, with the exception of Super Metroid which is a masterpiece.
Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, Star Fox, etc... I just can't get into them, neither then or now. Always up for anything Wario though.

>>2065036
>>2065064
That's fine. Just thought it might be nice to hear a stranger tell you you're not a waste of breath because you have hobbies. I still don't think you are. Hope you guys find peace of mind.

I really disliked OOT

>>2063991
Damn bro I'm so sorry.

>>2064176
That's pretty impressive. How did you do it? Just stuff a bunch into a winter coat or something?

>>2065101
Unless he lived in antartica, stuffing games in a coat may be kind of a dodgy way to steal games.

>>2065105

>>2064231
I'm the exact same way. I've never actually beaten Sonic 2. I've played it a shit-ton of times, collected all 7 chaos emeralds, but then I die a couple times on the final boss and just like "eh, fuck it"

>>2064362
GET OFF YOUR ASS RIGHT NOW AND PLAY THEM!!!

>>2065115
you do realize he said that he performed the thefts over the summer, right?

I guess he could live in a place that's cold as balls year round, but still.

>>2065105
Not necessarily. Or down maybe in baggy pants.You'd be surprised what shoplifters get away with.

I have a friend who stole a dozen assorted GBA games from Game Crazy back in the day. There was a corner of Hollywood Video which had a hole in the grating where they stacked movies and sliding in his hand he was able to grab a bunch of games. He didn't have anything to stash them in so he just shoved them down his pants. Must have looked stupid, but he walked out and no one stopped him.

Sigma Star Saga came out of it so it was a good haul.

>>2065121
Overlooked that detail.

I've never legitimately beat SMB3.
I always try but I get mad at near the pyramid level or the water world and quit.

>>2065036
Nah, we as a society will reach a point where robots will do 95% of the jobs, and we can't have all the population be engineers.

I would hate to be a NEET, personally but it's honestly not that bad.

>>2065082

>Arguing with someone on the internet
>Being that much of a dick to anyone in general
>Having that much of a problem with someone's personal preference of something
>Don't tase me bro

Kids these days...

>I can't play the GBA fire emblems without using savestates in some fashion.

>>2064725
that's the way I see it, its was mind blowing then but ugly as hell. i have the DC version and I was turned off until i found the 1st person perspective VF1 and 2 still blow me away especially 2 and graphically. I'm still wow'd at 2 seeing how quick they revamped what was already a innovation.

I've only ever played through one Final Fantasy game fully.

It wasn't VII.

>>2065147
>point where robots will do 95% of the jobs, and we can't have all the population be engineers.
If robots are literally doing 95% of the production... then yes. Literally everyone will be either engineers or entertainers.

We are so fucking far off from advanced enough AI from that though its not even funny. Being a neet is just worthless

>>2065198
What is with all the GBA talk on /vr/? Shit ain't retro.

For me, I used cheats and save states for Battletoads and still couldn't beat it.

>>2064731
>I've been slowly pushing a pro-GBA policy on this board, despite knowing it could lead to a slippery slope and destroy everything we hold dear.

Jokes on you. /vr/ isn't a sacred place anymore.

People are constantly talking about GBA, PS2, hell, even modern games are getting mentioned all the time.

Not that I really give a shit or anything.

>>2064757
wow grandpa go back to Atari. just kidding I'm young. 19 going into 20 in a month. basically born with the 5th gen. I'm feeling like I'm taking to people in their mid 20s to late 30s here. got any stories for an youngling?

>>2065247
Which is why we should have made /vr/ pre-Playstation and fought to keep it that way instead of setting some weird 1999 date that leads to the whole DC uncertainty which undoubtedly leads to WELL IF DC IS RETRO THEN EVERYTHING ELSE AROUND THERE IS TOO and suddenly everything is "retro" because kids have short memories.

/vr/ is a clusterfuck and we now need a /truevr/.

>>2063948
I design my games to be fun not to inspire autists to argue about how deep and meaningful they are.

>>2064262
I'm 18.

>>2064523
Faggot poser.

>>2065694
Gay poster

I can't stand turn-based RPGs. I love the stories, but the gameplay is just so BORING. I genuinely don't see how anyone can enjoy it, since it's 95% waiting and watching. It's a damn shame. Only JRPG I ever beat was Chrono Trigger.

>>2064532
You surely didn't play Flashback, did you?

>>2065708
>I have no idea how people can like stuff I don't like
not a sin or confession, just a shitty world view

>>2065732
op plz stop critiquing our sins. or rather, do you have something you wish to confess to us?

>>2065732
"I don't understand other people" is not a world view, youngin'.

More of a story really, I'm 18, crazy religious parents raised me thinking vidya was the devil but left me a computer running windows 98 when I was 12, using the magic of torrents I downloaded halo ce at night 15 mb at a time, played all my vidya like that for year till I turned 13 where I got an N64 from my uncle for Christmas complete with oot, goldeneye, starfox, Mario art, Mario 64, and one other game i.didn't care about, I also got a DE but the games were too expensive and I didn't get allowance, once I played oot to well and back again we went to gamestop to get some GBA games since they were cheaper, saw a cheap cart with zelda on the legs and begged for it. That game was the GBA port of zelda 2, to this a year or so later I got a family pocket at a flea market and a copy of links awakening DX, and thanks to those games and that fucking gameboy, despite playing a shitton of dota 2, TF2, and league or legends, nes to ps1 era games are my favorite and i.still play zelda 2 for fun. (just took a break from it now to.grab a snack and browse here actully)

>>2065732
>>2065754
Forgive the spelling, phone.

>>2065754
That isn't a sin at all. That has nothing to do with sins.

>>2065754
>crazy religious parents raised me thinking vidya was the devil

Damn man...

>>2065769

>Raised in a secular household, except mom who was only kinda religious
>Move to a new town
>Enrolled in a Catholic private school far too late to be coerced into a religion
>"Video games/Harry Potter/etc. are the devil!"
>lol

>>2065754
>windows 98 running halo ce
fucking bullshit

>>2065789
You're aware that most people don't rush out to buy the newest version of Windows when it is released, right?

But otherwise, there's some serious fedora tipping going on here. I'm getting euphoric.

>>2065285
I think setting specific, set in stone cut-off dates and that sort of thing really just winds up creating loop-holes and other business. Instead, we simply need to allow/disallow certain games around the cut-off limit.

For instance, Halo came out in 2000 I believe, but it's obviously not retro. Deus Ex came out around the same time, but you could consider it retro. Then, there's the issue of ROM hacks, which are sometimes so complex as to be thought of as another game in their own right, and they're certainly made past the cut-off date. And what about mods made for PC games before 2000? Should things like Natural Selection for Half-Life, DOOM's endless .wads, and other related things be allowed? Emulation, is that retro?

Retro doesn't even have a concrete definition of what it is, since the definition changes per person. All we can do is attempt to best promote the discussion of old games that simply are not popular enough to get posts on /v/ by chipping off a small chunk of the video game board in hopes of allowing discussion before a quick 404 (Since the average thread with 404 on /v/ in 15 minutes.).

That's the heart of the issue at hand. /v/ was simply too large and too fast with too broad of topic to be able to be supported in its current format.

>>2065785
I remember our old youth minister really hated video games beyond mario like that. Strangely enough, our local priest didn't care at all, though he did think they were a giant waste of time akin to watching too much TV (Which isn't exactly incorrect).

The local baptists though, man those guys were zealots about their hate for video games. I remember convincing a guy to play D&D with us in high school and his parents flipped shit when they found out what was up.

>>2065792
Honestly, what's keeping /vr/ good for me, is that we can't really talk about current events, so the board moves slowly enough to allow NES/SNES threads to exist. My favourite /vr/ thread of all time, an Umihara Kawase thread, last over a month, for instance.

More important defining what games are retro, is just preserving an environment where retro games can be discussed.

As a side note, Halo 1 was released in 2001.

I actually liked Superman 64 when I was younger.

>>2064262
I'm too young.

>>2063965
Yeah, it's honestly kinda sad

>>2063948
The only snes RPG's I've ever played for are FF4 and Mystic Quest

I'm starting not really care less and less what /vr/ thinks and I'm starting to have more fun playing games.
I beat Shadowman last night.

>>2066016
*starting to care less and less what /vr/ thinks

>>2066016
>>2066017
This makes me sad. Not that you aren't "doing what we tell you" but the fact that you've started to react to /vr/ like most people react to /v/.
But that was to be expected, as an off shot board matures there's bound to be more spill-over from other boards and more bullshit.

I saw panzer dragoon saga at a yard sale for 20 dollars 4 years ago, but didn't pick it up because I didn't have a Saturn and didn't know anything about the game. It still haunts me

>>2066029
It's weird because I've been here since day 1, even though I started from /m/ and /tg/. It seems like it's progressively gotten more and more elitist instead of that just being mostly limited to some tripfags we liked to laugh at. This felt felt different from other boards.

>>2066043
Do you part and ignor shit posts. If we interact like adults, and continue civil discussions about children's
toys with respect for others views and opinions, the dickheads will get bored and leave.
promise

>>2064757
>I'm in my fucking forties and I'm still way into this shit, posting on a board mostly with 16-20 year olds.

/vr/ probably averages 25 or so. I'm 30 years old myself.

I watch Game Grumps

>>2066070
I have a dumb husband who makes me watch Game Grumps with him. Also, I married a man who hates the PS1.

>>2064802
I'm 23 as well, but was raised by my grandparents who had 80s era stuff laying around.
I grew up with a 2600, nes, SNES and poorly made DOS games. so 23 certainly isn't too young for /vr/.

>>2063948

I only got into retro gaming because I'm a poorfag who can't afford a good graphics card, I can't stand console controls for fps games and classic games have minimal if any DRM.

I think the Japanese are an entirely incompetent species of human beings in regards to programming, level/game design and story production.

I believe john carmack was more influential on gaming than gunpei yokoi...or anyone other than maybe Gary gygax.

>>2063948
>Leave this thread up
>Delete thread for old reviews of retro games

What

>>2066117
That fucker did it again, didn't he?


>inb4b&

>>2064757
29 years old here

If you're happy with it, don't worry about it, fella

>>2064526
Nah.. I don't think we're asses.. we've just got folks who love us.

Be good to your parents if you've still got 'em.

>>2064808
Once rubed out on a paused, mid-air freeze-frame of Chun-Li.

Also never beat FFvii, though I've destroyed the six previous multiple times each. I think that aesthetic gap is where my vidya growth stunted.

>>2063991
First time I played on an arcade was this year on a convention because arcades didnt exist in my city

>>2066242

Manchester?

>>2066030
I saw a copy of Shining Force 3 for about £15 in a shop 10 years ago. Not quite as bad, but I still cringe thinking about it occasionally.

I don't even play video games that much.
The oldest console I have is an N64, and a Gameboy that needs repairs.
I mostly watch for Gameboy threads,
I would actually get some games if I had money, and I'd love to get one of those 50 Classic Arcade Game cabinets, even if I'd mostly play Galaxian.

But I believe my greatest sin is that it took me 3 years to beat the first level of LoZ: Link's Awakening. After that I just rolled through it, but Tail Cave stumped me, never having played a Zelda game before.
All I had to do was push a block one space to the right.

>>2066261
Oh no, not at all Sweden, Linköping

>>2066073
Now THAT'S a sin.

>>2064931
Hey at least you still HAVE HAIR.

I've owned a PS1 since launch and to this very day the only game I've played on it is Crash. My brothers played FF7, Spyro, all those other games but it's just sitting next to my N64 looking so depressingly underused.

Also I didn't even know Sega MADE consoles until I saw a Dreamcast, literally no one I knew owned a Master System, Genesis, Saturn, or any of the handhelds.

>>2066073
>man who hates the PS1
Why does he hate it?

I bought CK 2 dlcs

I LOVE point and click adventure games, but I can't remember a single game I've played were I didn't consult to a walktrough

i never watched the fmv or cutscenes but went through to playing the game, later could not advance cause i had no idea what i was doing so i looked for a strategy guide and thus beat the game having no clue what it was about.

I've never beaten a Mario game.

Not even Party or Kart.

I don't understand the wars between versions of games here.

You play what you want, except for major fuckups Lunar Legend it shouldn't really matter as long as you love what you play and are having fun.

>>2066472
It's hyper-nostalgia among fans of big franchises, it comes with the territory. If I had to pick one thing I dislike about /vr/ it's that.

>>2063948
YOUR gaming sin, OP, is not having used this picture instead.

I buy cartridges at garage sales for like $1 each and flip them on eBay for market price

>>2066432
Same here. Before I had internet at home I'd download the walkthroughs from the PC's at school and put them on a floppy to take home. It set me down the wrong path and now there's no single-player game I won't use a walkthrough for.

I thought zelda was dog shit in the 90s, and lo and behold it got even worse with the jump to 3D.

>>2066504
Achievements only makes this worse. Back in the day I'd only consult a walktrough when I was genuinely stuck or knew beforehand the game had a bug that would hinder your progress if you missed something. Nowadays I stick to them more closely in order to not having to play the game a second or third time in order to show of my e-penis.
It's a nasty habit I'm trying to quit....

>>2066504
It was way easier to not spoil the game before the internet, usually gaming mags would have a walk-through but only a few month after game release.

Today if I play a point&click I'll allow myself one hour or so of being stuck before searching for a hint

I've never played a Zelda game.
I've never played a Metal Gear Solid game.
I've never played a Megaman game.
I didn't have an N64 growing up.
I can't beat the last Expert Park on RCT2.

I own 8-9 consoles.
I regularly play maybe 5-6 games on each of them.

>i never played X essential game
>i think X popular game is shit
>Zelda 2 Zelda 2 Zelda 2
>i use save states/quicksaves
>i got into retro game through X modern thing

Didn't read a single post in here, how close am i?

>>2066521
Why do you care about achievements anyway? All of my trophies/badges/points/whatever are split across multiple platforms so it isn't particularly high for any of them but it's never bothered me since it's just a measure of how much time you're willing to waste being a completionist.

>>2066652
Eh, I only care about them on steam and they scratch some weird psychological itch. It's not like anybody else cares, and when they are done right they are fun.

>>2066651
Spot on.

>>2066651
I laughed hard because of accuracy.

Throw in "I don't like X company" and you have all the required posts for an unpopular opinion thread as well.

>>2066506
>tfw blinded as a kid that Zelda is the best series ever until TP and SS
>Literally cannot play them anymore because of it
Except Links Awakening or Zelda 2, they're all garbage games.

Despite the fact that Lightspeed is one of my most beloved games I never beat the Cerberus cluster.

>>2066064
That's generally what I've been trying to do for the past six months. I'll keep doing it, and there doesn't like anywhere else to go that isn't the same thing. I just needed to vent.
>>2066425
Because of the d-pad and because he grew up with only the N64 that gen. PS2 is fine with him for some reason. It's not a big deal just a kinda "Umm.... what? Alright, I'll just play Twisted Metal 2 by myself then" kinda thing.

i use save states for the sole purpose of learning the intricacies of boss battles

>>2065801
Another big thing about current events being cut off is that /pol/-shit is kept at a minimum.

I'm fine with the gens the way they are for the board right now, but I wouldn't be complaining if it did get explained PS2/GV/Xbox/GBA/N-Gage .I think that'd make for a significant portion of the board, but really I just expect it would be like having a couple more generals activity wise.And considering how long threads for things like Japanese PCs can last, I doubt discussion of more obscure retro stuff would go away.

>>2063948
I always glitch out Soda Popinski.

>>2063948
I enjoyed some American titles. But I know better now.

>>2063948
I could never play Wolf3D or the old Rise of the Triad for more than twenty minutes or so because it gets excruciatingly dull. Fine with games like Doom and onwards though.

I can count the times I've played an arcade cabinet on one hand. There were just never any around, even in laundromats or casinos. Then I move back to my old hometown and suddenly there's MKII, Ms. Pac-Man and Metal Slug... all in laundromats where it'd be weird to go there just to play the game.

>>2065036
The only genres I enjoy are eroge and shmups

>>2066484
>first play SotN
>get to the confessional
I'm not Catholic anymore, but when I was a kid I thought that was a nice touch.

>>2066501
For your penance, you must list a game for best offer and take the FIRST offer given.

Go, my son and gouge no more

>all these save state users

/vg/ has an emulation general up. You should all head there.

When I was in the sixth grade, my mom took me to Best Buy and let me pick out any game I wanted.

They had the Lunar 2: Eternal Blue collector's edition there. I spent a good ten minutes looking over the box, amazed at the size of it and all the bonus stuff that was included.

I ended up getting Ape Escape.

I've played every Final Fantasy game from 1 to 9 but i've never actually finished any of them. I lost interest in rpg very soon, but i like the setting and the gameplay.

>>2068270
Not much of a confession, kind of a standard really.

>>2066469
Beating 150cc Rainbow Road in Mario Kart isn't easy.

I go to work
come home, play doom , and ignore my girlfriend

I say I'm working on creating a video game, but my source code got erased when I was trying to set up a repository, and I just don't have the heart to start again.

Pic related, is/was the title screen.

I don't like Super Metroid.

I like the first Metroid, but not Super Metroid. I can't explain why, I'm aware of all the technical improvements and such, but I played through like the first half of Super Metroid, and it just annoyed me the whole way through for whatever reason.

>>2066469
Its funny because you can unlock everything in mario party by literally using AI's then taking control of one at the end of the game and collecting all the coins.

Its braindead easy

I haven't beaten a Shmup.

I've tried with probably 20 different games, playing some of them for probably hours trying to make some progress in them, but I've never done it.

The one time I asked the Shmup general about it asking what an easy Shmup game to ease me into the genre was, my only answer was a smartass telling me to play Space Invaders, so I haven't asked again.

The only genres I enjoy are eroge and shmups. Everything else never holds my attention.

>>2064262
I'll be 19 in about two months. I did grow up around retro consoles though, we didn't really have enough money to buy anything else.

>tfw I tried to play my SNES today for the first time in years and I couldn't get it to display a picture on my TV

I really dislike Zelda. Every single one.

Micro Machines is probably my favourite Megadrive game.

A lot of the time I'll forget to use the eject button on the SNES and just pull the game out.

I don't play my SNES carts on an SNES, I play them on a FC Twin. The power cord for my SNES is extremely iffy after all these years and sometimes it just won't work.

>>2068825
>A lot of the time I'll forget to use the eject button on the SNES and just pull the game out.

I'm not sure if there's hope for you.

>>2068825
W-what eject button on the SNES?

>gaming
>gamer

I acquired a copy of Mischief Makers, played around 5 minutes, then put it back on my shelf where it's collected dust since.

I prefer the US SNES design and colors to the SuFami design and colors.

I don't like Final Fantasy 7.

I enjoyed Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross equally.

I prefer Tooie over Kazooie.

>>2068837
The fuck is wrong with you niggas.

People like you are the reason I was only allowed to change the games growing up.

>>2066030
Be consoled my friend. At least someone out there got a good deal that day.

>>2065101
>>2064210

It was pretty much like you figure. I went there every couple of days (it was a 2-day rental, midnight-to-midnight, for 99 cents/NES cartridge or 1.59/SNES cartridge), and eventually I just started stealing the ones I liked. Ghoul School was the first, because I really liked beating it in one go (in fact, I should probably try for a speedrun of that game at some point). Then came Bucky O'Hare, Faxanadu, Excitebike, and it got to a point where every time I went there I would rent one game, and steal another.

I was able to literally just slide the cartridge right into my front pants pocket, and the old lady working that corner of the drugstore either didn't notice or gave no fucks.

I used to ability to move bodies in Oblivion in a NSFW kind of way.
I am ashamed.
Jerking off to it was even weirder, but fifteen years old, amirite?

I enjoy all the newer sonic the hedgehog games.
tfw I enjoyed sonic boom on both the wii u and 3ds...

>>2064476
I feel this all the time

>>2069201
>15 years old when oblivion came out

>>2068832
>>2068849
>not knowing the eject "button" is just a plastic lever that pushed the cartridge out in a fashion no different from just pulling it out

Never played any Zeldas past LttP until this year with TP.

It sucks.

I don't think I'm missing out either.

I've never played a Zelda game

>>2063948

>I like Final Fantasy VIII
>I honestly feel that Nintendo is better than Sega in every way and that the ONLY draw to sega consoles (except DC) was as an alternative to Nintendo for "that kid" to feel special because he's not like everyone else.
>I fucking LOOOOVE classic survival horror games. Literally everything about them. And I have beaten most of them as well.
>I have only beaten about 10% of the games I've ever played, but it's OK because most of them sucked anyway.
>all of the games I HAVE beaten are games that I end up coming back to frequently and beating again and again like an OCD patient
>If a game isn't good within an hour, I quit playing it. period. None of this "it's only good 40+ hours in!" faggot shit, thanks.
>I use save states when I play emulators, then turn around and badmouth other people who do. Not because I frown upon the practice, but because I get annoyed when morons claim "X game is literally UNPLAYABLE/UNBEATABLE without save states!!!" and related retardedness.
>I have and will play games because of a hot female character. Games that are not worth the money, time or attention.
>I have jerked off to hot females in videogames, as well as not-so-hot females. And in non-porn games to boot.
>I don't actually consider any of these things sins, but base that status on how other people would view the opinions and practices.

>>2066634
>I didn't have an N64 growing up.
This is a sin? I only ever had a PS1.

Speaking of...
I think the N64 is grossly underrated. There are great games, but after you get those great games out of the way the library is absolutely shit and tiny.

The first time I had a chance at having sex, I suggested we play Silent Hill.

He ran for his life.

>>2067929

It was a very cool little setpiece.

I constantly low ball people on their collections and horde all their rare games and put them in my collection. Lol

>>2069365
There are three points there I don't consider a gaming sin.

>>2065868
I thought I was just really bad at the game and that was why I could never get anywhere in it. It wasn't until the internet showed me how little I was missing did I stop caring.

My sin is probably never finishing the first Metroid or Castlevania. I really liked Super Metroid though.

>>2063991
Wow dude, that's sad.

My south american family was (and still is) poor as fuck but I managed to play some arcades back in the day (losing quicly and miserably, as a kid).

My last arcade experience was at 14, playing Mortal Kombat Ultimate. Some skater boy challenged me while I was playing, and it was a fucking Robot Smoke vs Robot Smoke match, and I fucking won. Shit was cash

Maybe your experience is better than mine. Not having played on arcades as a child is less sad than seeing all the arcade machines on your city being replaced with fucking slot machines. That's fucking sad.

With my older brother we're attempting to build am arcade cabinet to play some MAME stuff on an old PC (I can't wait to get my ass kicked on Killer Instinct, just like old times).

Maybe you should do the same, /vr/o. It will be fun, and you will maybe find redemption.

Even after completing every other F-Zero game on the hardest difficulties, I could never beat Master mode on the original. Hold me.

>>2063991
>tfw have a pretty big arcade only 5 minutes away
soory to hear about that though

>>2069665
You can't beat F-zero snes on master with the Golden Fox unless you have every single machine coming on you hit you in the back. Try the Fire stingray or Wild Goose, assuming you weren't using them

>>2069673
Was trying with the Wild Goose. Problem is the turning. I can't figure out if you're supposed to hit L/R while braking, just brake, let go of the accelerator, or whatever.

>>2069676
Tap the accelerator while turning

>me at swapmeet
>see sega master system for 10 dollars
>american me had no idea what it was
>look it up upon getting home

I destroyed my gameboy by throwing it into a bathtub. I was 2 at the time but I'm still annoyed at myself

>>2069773
>had a game boy before being old enough to hold a coherent conversation

wat

>>2069232
>all the newer sonic the hedgehog games.
>tfw I enjoyed sonic boom on both the wii u and 3ds...

Absolutely disgusting. You are beyond saving.

>>2069778
I'm not him but I learned to read and write when I was 2. So I think speaking is also quite plausible for another 2 year old.
>Fun Fact:
I also had a Gameboy when I was 2.

>>2069232
What does this have to do with retro video games

>>2063991
>>2064017
I know that feel too well. The only arcade machine I ever got to play was this run down old Mortal Kombat II machine in this shitty hotel my family went to for a week. Half the buttons didn't even work, but I wish I had got to play it more but I didn't have any money and neither did my family because poorfags.
I'm not even big into classic MK.

>>2064210
>Get out of that habit
I try and try but the moment I get hit in, say, a Castlevania game I get the sweats and the shakes until my health meter is full again.

>>2064262
Same, but I feel like time's passing me by and I'll never have the childhood that all these people say they had and shit. I feel like I missed out.
At least I have my vidya now.

I never finished final fantasy VII, I downloaded a save fine and put it on my memory card so I could battle safer-sephiroth

>>2064757
28 year old dinosaur here. wish I could leave.

>>2066065
lol, no it doesn't. I've asked in threads before and the average age seems to be about 20. Most posters here are definitely younger than 25, don't kid yourself.

I never played any Final Fantasy games, or Chrono Trigger, or any games like them really.
I've never played any N64 games.
I've never used a lightgun except for the NES one for Duckhunt.
I've never palyed in an arcade.
I've never read Nintendo Power.
I've never used any controllers from the 16/32-bit era, having only gotten to play that generation through emulators.
I've never played Zelda 2.
I use savestates frequently whenever there's any sort of challenge because my autism can't stand the idea of myself wasting time on a challenge in something that doesn't further the gain of real world money when I have an alternative, but I love vidya.
I hate Sonic entirely despite only having played a Gamecube title and watching a let's play of 2.
I never beat Super Mario Brothers.
I never bothered beating Super Mario 3 and I hated what I did play.
I like that wobbly effect PS1 games have.
I only played Link to the Past and Super Mario World through the Gameboy Advance ports.
My favorite Zelda is 1.
I looked up maps for my first play through of Zelda 1 and used savestates to get more money from the moneymaking game (one of the few vidya I emulated I could stop myself from savestating through ALL of it)

That's about all I can think of.

>>2069856
>but I love vidya
Sure doesn't sound like it.

I extort the vanish/doom method on bosses in FF6

>>2069894
I wouldn't play it if I didn't want to, but I still get that biological autism tickle.

>>2066030

I went to a Zellers around 2000 and saw a whole row of Suikoden II games for sale. Like at least 25 of them. Didn't buy them. Man, I could have bought them and then sold them for profit over the years.

>>2066073
>>2066070

>Game dumps

>>2066239
>>2064808

>never beat FFVII

Go find a save from where you last left off (gamefaqs has a bunch) then play from there.

>>2066117
>>Leave this thread up

How is this game not on topic?

>>2066446
>and thus beat the game having no clue what it was about.

Backstory: Pharmaceutical company Umbrella has a lab in the mountains. Their virus gets out, which causes mutations and zombies. Police go to investigate. It then takes over the town in a separate outbreak.

Jill, the police officer who previously investigated the mansion has to get out of the zombie city. Umbrella has sent a mutated soldier, named Nemesis to kill her and the rest of the police who know about their misdeeds. She meets mercenaries from Umbrella, one named Carlos. They escape. The story isn't too complex.

>>2070027
Guess what? They're here to stay and nothing will change no matter how many times you post that image. in fact it just makes me want to post about them more to piss you off :^)

>>2064757
people who are around that age here (like me) were raised around retro consoles either because we didn't have much money or lived in Latin America, where the new consoles either never arrived, were way to expensive or only sold 10 games.

I use the rewind function in RetroArch. It's honestly soul crushing, but I'm addicted. Mainly because I can't unbind the command for some reason.

>>2065242
VI?

>>2069834
I think you need an actual NES for detox purposes. And do not get a game genie.

>>2069856
>My favorite Zelda is 1.
How is this bad?

>>2063948
When I was recently graduated from college and unemployed I used to play a lot of Fallout 2.

Since this game is playable with mouse only (except when fixing prices on barter mode) It was very easy for me to keep my hand in my pants (becase i'm a man) and keep playing like nobody's business.

Until I started getting horny, quit the game, and browse porn.

It happened so frequently I can't play Fallout 2 without getting horny for no good reason.

I have never beaten a game to the very end

>>2064237
>I generally think Sega is worse then Nintendo because the 2 kids who had Genesis' in my school were massive faggots. While everyone with a SNES was pretty cool.

so you're a hipster

>>2070491
Isn't that the opposite of hipster? Wouldn't I be like "Everyone who had a Nintendo was a faggot, me and one other kid had a Genesis and we were the cool kids"

I just got a genesis and I'm trying to change my opinion on it, but I still think over all the SNES is a better console

>>2070364
2 reasons it's there: 1. to lead into the following "sin" 2. because most people shit on it and say ALttP or OoT or MM are better.

>>2070373
How is that even possible?

I haven't finished any 2D Zelda game in my whole life

actually, i bought Link's Awakening DX 3 years ago, but never finished it, it is just collecting dust now, while have beaten OoT and MM over a dozen times each...

im 14 and im here mainly because of le funny avgn xD.

>>2069856
Video games aren't for you.

>>2069365
You write like a real annoying son of a bitch.

>>2069856
>I like that wobbly effect PS1 games have.
same

>>2065754
friend bought iPad 2 and iPod with his own money. His mom takes them away from him on weekends, spring break, summer ect. Not allowed to own a console. He's 16.

>>2068837
I didn't know for a good 6 years. You're not alone

>I haven't played a single final fantasy in my life, nor do I plan to
>there's not a single sonic game that I found to be really all that fun
>goldeneye aged like milk for me
>can't think of a single genesis game that I care for that isn't on another platform
>Doom 1 & 2 is the oldest (and the only) retro game that I've played inside and out for more than 5 years in a row, even then I'm still not all that good at it
>the original super mario bros were too hard for me so I've never beat it let alone get past the 3rd world by myself
>megaman is the one retro side scrolling platform I really liked and I suck at it
>phantom hourglass is the only zelda game I've ever beat

goal: play through hl1 and hl2
what happened:
skipped hl1
started using cheats around ravenhold in hl2 because it seemed too hard, first ammo, then health, then godmode, and finally i just ended up flying around levels

>>2070817
How so?

I never play a game without reading the walkthrough first. I don't have time to figure stuff out like I used to, and I want to experience all of the game, not just the part I would have time to figure out myself.

>>2070890
cont.
did the same thing in deus ex 1, except i finished hl2 but not deus ex

I hate Mario.

>>2070890
>>2070906
I'm not mad at you. Just disappointed. Then again,

>Until a few years ago, almost every game that allowed me to savescum, I beat it savescumming (including Deux Ex)

>>2066117
Complaining about moderation is against the rules.

>>2070902
I don't think I would be physically capable of doing that

>>2070860
He isn't allowed to listen to music on weekends?
His mom shouldn't expect to hear from him after he moves out, soon.

>>2070941
Let me rephrase. I don't read the whole walkthrough and then play the game, I just read the section for each level and then play the level.

>>2063991
Well, at least there was not one near you, so you have an excuse for never being in one.
But for me... for one year I walked by one and I thought "one day" I would visit it. It fucking closed when I decided to go check it out.
I feel like a huge faggot when I think about it. I even wonder if it's my fault it closed.
I guess that's what you call life...

I've been known to resell on occasion... here are some of my sins.

>Lowball the absolute shit out of people
This has gotten me a lot of games, mainly a shitload of decent SNES games, NES games, and their consoles/controllers for about 30 bucks because some guy just wanted it gone, I've also got a lot of collectors collections for cheap because they were pressured to move the whole thing because they were moving/got married or whatever for pennies on the dollar.

>I try to sell on both craigslist and eBay
>I never give partial refunds on eBay. You can mail me my shit back if you don't like it for refund of item cost only, enjoy wasting my time and losing 2 way shipping

>if someone on craigslist lowballs me I agree to meet them at X location, use my second cellphone (I have one for my main, one for craigslist/app dev which is my real job) and give them a run around for about an hour before they get pissed and leave (usually I'm waiting nearby as I try to arrange sales en masse)

>I've printed reproduction labels for a lot of games and scuffed them up slightly to look realistically worn and sold them for a lot of profit.

>I've made reproduction carts for games like Hagane, and Little Samson and sold them for about 45-60% market value for a fast sale. Guys almost never check because they think they've hit the mother lode.

>I have an entire room of my house filled with Retro games and a huge amount of duplicates and I've been slowly harvesting the shitty sports games into reproductions of legit uncommon and more rare games but I do it slow as not to create suspicion

>tldr; I'm a collectors worst nightmare

>>2071039
Me and my wife think you have the look of the devil in your eye.

>>2071039
>>tldr; I'm a collectors worst nightmare
and a shitty human being in general

>>2064272
Is that purely nostalgia?

>>2064362
The last one's on my todo list, but the first two are rock solid. Somehow I never played them, despite owning a SNES.

It's nice to try out 'classics' years after their heyday and find that they really are excellent games.

>>2071059
>>2071062
I'm not all bad.
I've sold a lot of expensive shit to resellers who get fucked over when they find out its not a legit copy.

I have a couple of repeat customers who know the shits reproduction but they're cool and they usually are the kind of people who border collector-scum and retro player. They like to have the carts but don't want the retro prices and don't want flash carts.

I've made Hagane, Firemen, Wildguns, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, EVO, Megaman 7, Megaman X3, and some other more expensive games like Dragon View and Sunset riders for him. I only charge about ~30 if you supply donor carts and pick up at my place and are buying in bulk.

Hes an anomaly though. Most people are shitty customers, doesn't help I live in a very high Asian population area where they're all jews.

>>2071039
Jesus, man. Really? My rage built with every sentence.

>>2071039
I'm okay with lowballing but goddamn the rest is fucking dirty. Think of the poorfags that save up only to find it's shitty reproduction stuff, and want their money back and lose out on the shipping.

I just can't play Jagged Alliance. Everything else like that, yeah, I've played and finished. Can't get into it for some reason.

I never bought any games for my NES-style GBA and ended up selling it to buy a DS Lite.

...

None of that is retro. Maybe selling Link to the Past for $5.

>>2071071
nah man, you're a piece of shit

>>2071039
Lowballing is ok, some people just don't care enough and pay for it

But the rest is fucking shitty man, good thing you're not an actual business huh? That saves you from the responsibility

Which is why ebay and shit is harmful

>>2071106
Only times I sell shit on eBay I only do "obvious" reproductions, shit that was never released stateside.

I will occasionally throw a really good reproduction game in with a slew of crap to move product though in auctions.

>>2071039
>I lowball people
>Someone lowballs me, I give them the run around

So do as I say, not as I do?

>>2071039
>I never give partial refunds on eBay. You can mail me my shit back if you don't like it for refund of item cost only, enjoy wasting my time and losing 2 way shipping

Except since a few months ago, ebay makes the seller refund 100% paid and pay for the cost of returning. Eat shit.

>>2063948
With every passing day this board becomes more like /v/

God have mercy on our souls

>this entire thread
This is why I don't collect, you people are fucking scum

>>2063948
I can't use sticks, even if my life depended on it, I suck with sticks and consequently I was crippled at most arcade games back in the days.

That's also why most of my FG friends pick on me since we were kids...

I emulate AND buy real carts/hardware. I emulate what I can't find or afford ATM.

>>2072350
Yeah, that's totally it.
Not because you're on welfare and live in your parent's basement, that ain't got nothing to do with it.

>>2072467
Literally not a confession, it's a standard.

Forgive me, Father.

>I use walkthroughs most of the time because I'm very autistic and I want to play the game right.
>I use savestates like a filthy bitchy.
>I never beaten a Zelda game. I was close with LttP and OoT but I lost the save files.

I've never played a Zelda game in 23 years.

>>2072472
more like being retarded

>>2072618
I recommend using /v/, it would suit you better.

>>2072518
>>I use walkthroughs most of the time because I'm very autistic and I want to play the game right.
>>I use savestates like a filthy bitchy.
>>I never beaten a Zelda game. I was close with LttP and OoT but I lost the save files.

None of these are real confessions either.

>>2072523
This is an actual confession

>>2071039
>>2071067
you have forgotten the face of your father

>>2072646
What do you mean those aren't real confessions?

>>2072335
see
>>2066043
>>2066064

>>2072689
>those aren't real confessions?
For it to be a confession it would have to be an actual sin.

At best, those are minor sins.

>>2067772
Nintendo fans are the worst, missing it on games because of brand loyalty wtf

>>2066070
I don't get it they suck at playing games and have terrible opinions and aren't funny. Where's the appeal?

>>2072707
A sin according to who's standard though? People in here are often responding to shit thrown at them a couple times that's probably just one or anon or a few anons, but seems like it's a board culture thing because they encountered it multiple times and yelling SAME FAG all the time makes you look silly.

>>2067929
>I'm not Catholic anymore
You know the saying once a Catholic, always a Catholic.

>>2072778
Not really, more like brand loyalty to whatever he has at the moment. He thinks the Wii and Wii U are the spawn of Satan because THE CASUALS. Before he had a N64, he had a Genesis and hated Nintendo. After the Gamecube he become a pure 360 dudebro. Now he wants to join me as part of the mustard race because he sees the current console wars as "fucked either way." Though, I just did last gen out of being a poorfag.

> He thinks the Wii and Wii U are the spawn of Satan because THE CASUALS. Before he had a N64, he had a Genesis and hated Nintendo. After the Gamecube he become a pure 360 dudebro. Now he wants to join me as part of the mustard race because he sees the current console wars as "fucked either way."

Does he play videogames because is something he actually enjoys or...

> more like brand loyalty to whatever he has at the moment

Just like most gamers...

>>2072821
Sounds like your going out with a 12 year old

>>2072663
I don't know what that means, and no, I haven't read the books.

>>2072896
I just means that you should be ashamed and think your values over.

I've never beaten a Breath of Fire game. I have played and loved them all several times but always get distracted. I got to the final dungeons in both bof 3 & 4 and about halfway in bof1 &2. I will finish them someday but I always get sidetracked.

>>2066073
>>2072821
Why would you marry someone that retarded
what do you possibly see in him

>>2063965
I always found it funny that they always commented on the microphone and video quality of the people they made fun of but their stuff is horrendous quality till this day as well.

>>2072807
He's essentially implying that his standard for what constitutes a "real sin" is much higher than that of everyone else here. Edgy.

>>2072989
I'm not ashamed that I haven't play Chrono Trigger. I do have it on my PSP, though, so it might get rectified soon.

>>2072845
>>2073004
Because he's reliable, a great cook, puts up with my bullshit, is open to all sorts of crazy shit in bed, easy to live to with, lets me sleep with other people, has a steady job, is cool with my model kit obsession, and was there for me during a phase of my life when I was as suicidal. He's an idiot, but one I'd rather not live without. Shit taste for stuff like videogames and anime is something I can put up with and even then he's not too picky when it comes to co-op stuff.


Okay, time for my actual sins.

I'm not too big on the Super Nintendo; I prefer my PC Engine Duo and Genesis.There's games on it I love, like Famicom Detective Club Part 2 and Teraanigma, but I just haven't gotten around to playing a lot of its library yet.

I highly prefer Metroid 2 to Super Metroid. I don't know why.

I actually like Kouldelka and don't understand why it's so hated around here.

I don't use save states (mostly out of just forgetting they are there and because mapping them to a controller is awkward), but I don't feel a need to get angry at someone for using them since it doesn't affect me. This seems to be wrong.

Super Mario Land is my favorite Mario title.

I adore Ocarina of Time, beaten it nine times, but it isn't even my favorite N64 title.

I have a hard time really getting into any 3D Final Fantasy title.

I never liked zombies, and thus Resident Evil has never been of much interested to me despite loving many other survival horror games. However, I respect that it codified a subgenre.

I don't think four face buttons are objectively better than six and don't think that more shoulder buttons makes a controller automatically better. As long as the controller is responsible, durable, comfortable in your hands, stuff like that doesn't matter. The games on a console are made to work well for the control lay out of that console.

I don't think Parasite Eve 2 is better than the first one; they're two drastically different types of games.

>>2074625
>I'm a slut and hes a cuck
I see how it is now.

>>2074640
>The Slut and The Cuck
Would make for a great sit-com.

I criticizes games without playing them

I've never played Ocarina of Time, I had the N64, but converted to Pokemon and missed most of the Zelda Console games until Windwaker.
I bought OoT 3D, I feel somewhat more complete.

>>2064937
>dat things that make you enjoy your hobbies less
Man, I wish I could be AVGN tier, and make a living from doing this kind of shit. Then it would be a completely guiltless activity... and more fun than the menial shit I'm doing at this point in my life

PS2 was my first console

>>2074695
>AVGN
Nah, maybe JonTron or Pewdiepie, the nerd put all his fucking chips on his shitty movie and fell flat on his face. He's making wedding videos and has a part time job working some customer service job.

>>2074625
>he's reliable
>has a steady job
>was there for me during a phase of my life when I was as suicidal
>puts up with my bullshit
>lets me sleep with other people

Jesus fuck. I don't know which is worse, degenerate attention-whore sluts or the vagina-desperate betas that willingly let themselves be cuckolded by them.

>>2074732
Pewdiepie must have a tiny penis to act the way he does

>>2074625
this is obviously bait. there are no women on the internet.

>>2074640
I dunno, maybe he likes it?

>>2074732
James needs a Kiko like the PA guys have; someone who's duty it is to make money.

>>2074625
>He's a retard and a cuck

Holy shit, that's perfect. I'm also guessing you're a piece of human garbage, just call it a hunch.

>>2074764

He's just Swedish.

If you've ever been there, 25% of the men are manly men devouring trout whole, camping on the ice, and strongman tossing kegs of beer.

The rest of the male population is this pathetic cuckolded limp wristed extreme hyper progressive feminist half men that act more dainty than my grandmother, but with ADD. While their wives treat them like husbands treat their wives in Saudi Arabia.

While the first group of men live a life of face palming...

>>2074625
Good trolling.

Christ your dad needs to slap you

>>2074625
Get off my board, Ashley Davis.

>>2074625
>is there for you
>lets you sleep around, which you do willingly anyway
Welp.

>>2063948
i never finished smw

>>2075638
THAT'S NOT A REAL CONFESSION!!1

>>2064262
Turning 19 this Sunday, I've always wanted to play older games ever since 2008 but didn't start emulating (only way to play retro down here) until January of 2013, despite knowing about emulation back in the day. Until then I had some CDs with SNES and GBA emulators and roms that didn't accept any rom I downloaded
Also, never played them with a controller until I discovered one in my house last month.
And I tend to see cool oldfags as some kind of big brothers, both here and other boards

I savestate all the time when playing platformers/action, even if it's babbymode games like Mario Land 2 or games where I know all the levels by heart and could ace them easily if I could be arsed. It's just become somewhat of a twitch reflex by now and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. You play singleplayer video games to relax and have fun, not to compete with someone. If that jump is giving you toothache and sucking away your fun, savestate it away. /vr/ isn't watching over your shoulder.

I have not had a gaming console until Game Boy Advance. I've caught up with most of the classics since then, but I still feel like the inferior race around here.

I use to sell games back to gamestop as soon as I finished with them. I am now 27 and trying to regain what I foolishly threw away.

>>2064176
The clerks were too blinded by SNES hype to care

>>2063948
I fapped to Dr.Robotnick as a kid

>>2077031
>I've caught up with most of the classics since then, but I still feel like the inferior race around here.

You mean you're just enjoying video games?

What kind of a sick fuck are you, anon?

Never finished Might & Magic III back in the day, for various reasons.
A few years ago, downloaded a copy. It has saved games. I load one of them just to see...
I saw things better left unseen.
I heard things better left unheard.
I knew things better left unknown.
Wow, talk about a major spoiler! Now I'm not even sure I care to play the game anymore, having seen basically what the endgame looks like...

I never finished Final Fantasy VI. Quit after the floating continent. I plan to finish it some day though

>>2080743
Are you me
You stopped at the same time too.
Never finished FFVII either, stopped right after that village with Aeris
And never tried any FF after it (except for the Tactics esries)