/vr/ - Retro Games

I don't know what all he has.

>>2549451
Every NES game commercially released in North America

Fuck off back to the e-celeb containment board.

I miss his old videos.

I gotta admit, it would be neat to be so internet-famous that people across the country just send me games in hopes of me reviewing them. Sounds like about the best way possible to build up a collection.

He's one of those guys who pretends to have controversial/wrong opinions on youtube to make advertiser money but then a bunch of idiots take his facetiousness as fact because it makes them feel slightly less idiotic and they send him all their old valuable games in appreciation.

>>2549470
Huh? I'm sure some of the games he plays and criticizes are potentially decent, but he isn't saying something like Super Mario Bros is shit or that Yoshi's Island sucks. His shtick is being over-the-top and vulgar, "controversial opinions" is probably the last thing that people think of when talking about AVGN.

>>2549448
It'd be impressive if 90% of it wasn't donated by fans.

>>2549470
>taking funny little internet videos that seriously

cheer up mate

>>2549509
>funny
haha yeah I love it when he yelled about poop.

do publicly known collectors of things of this size ever worry about someone targeting them and stealing the lot?

used to have a petrol head neighbor who had an engine stolen right out of one of the cars in his garage, which is not exactly a lazy crime of opportunity

>>2549520
I guess it is possible, but there isn't high concentrated value in most games, so to get big bucks beyond maybe $1,000 for a very high end game you'd have to steal a lot of items and know where/how to properly sell them. I also doubt the average home burglar is monitoring YouTube and Internet forums to figure out collector homes to target. They're probably more likely to go after places where they think there might be jewels and cash 'n shit or just randomly target homes and hope for the best.

I guess there might be risk in having a storage locker with old games or arcade cabs getting cleared out or something.

god damn weekend /vr/ is shit

>>2549454
It´s OK when Arino does it. =^)

>>2549541
>god damn summer /vr/ is shit
Fixed

>>2549541
Uh I like it in here

>>2549520
I don't think it's a high priority for thieves because it's not like you can sell Bubble Bath Babes really fast from the back of a truck like you could with a stolen PS4. I'd be really hard pressed to find a way to sell something really niche like retro games without leaving a trail behind.

>>2549509
I'm sure he doesn't take his career seriously at all. You know, fuck providing for his children and building up equity he's just trying to have a good time.

>>2549548
ARINO IS A TV AND A COMEDIAN THAT IS ACTUALLY FUNNY
HE REPRESENTS /VR/, NO AVGHN

>>2549584
>ARINO IS A TV AND A COMEDIAN

Now I can't stop thinking about an Arino CRT always schooling me around when I mess up at games and cracking jokes.

>>2549565
You don't..... You don't seriously think Cinnemasacre is his main and only source of income do you....?

>>2549470
I've always felt his criticisms are pretty fair.

James is a casual though. He doesn't actually know shit about games outside of muh childhood NES garbage.
I think most of the historical stuff in AVGN were written by Mike. Watching James and Mike Mondays James seems pretty clueless while Mike has the answers.

He has a large collection of atrocious games that stink worse than diarrhea shit balls.

Big collection....
Shit games...

I guess that's a good thing.

>>2549614
Makes sense. When it's all said and done, James is a film buff as his core rather than a gamer.
>Dat VHS room of his hidden behind the curtain.

>>2549614

Mike is the most annoyingly autistic piece of shit on the planet. I dont know how people could sit through his videos. the cringe factor is just off the charts

What does this have to do with retro games?

I wish we had mods.

I don't understand collectors at all. Why do you go out of your way to spend large sums of money on games you either have no actual interest in playing, or will never have a reasonable amount of time to play? Do you actually sit down to play Mappy Land, or Mario Teaches Typing? There are people who even import Japanese games when they have zero knowledge of how to read Japanese.

I don't get it. Are you trying to fill some kind of void in your life? Are you obsessive compulsive?

I'm not here because I'm a collector, I'm here because I'm actually enthusiastic about retro games. Whatever I own, I actually find the time to play. I've finished most of the games in my library several times. I don't care about their monetary value. In fact, sometimes, I just use Flash carts or burned optical media.

His entire collection was donated by fans. Shouting obscenities should not garner free video games.

>>2549539
He has a nintendo world championship gold cart.

Last one I heard of sold for 100k on ebay. Thats alot of dosh.

If someone bragged to me about having one I'd jack that shit hard.

>>2549680
I can't speak for every collector but I play every game I buy all the way through at least once.

>>2549696
Maybe it's a repro?

>>2549448
His VHS colletion is pretty impressive

>>2549696
I feel like he mentioned keeping his most rare items in a safe deposit box.

>>2549680
>I don't get it. Are you trying to fill some kind of void in your life? Are you obsessive compulsive?

Pretty much. That or it's an "investment". Retro games are one of the worst things you could possibly invest in for so many reasons.

>>2549704
He's more of a film buff than a game buff, no?

>>2549470
you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

you're one of those guys who pretends to have controversial/ wrong opinions on /vr/ to be a fucking idiot.

>>2549595
Yeah. I do.

>>2549672
are you seriously this dense or are you just being obtuse

>>2549680
as someone who used to spend large amounts of money on carts (to play, not to sit on a shelf), I think a large portion of people that insist on playing on carts do so because of ignorance like I once did. when I realized that emulation has pretty much been perfected for the systems I bought games for and how easy it was to softmod a wii, I haven't bought a game since.

>>2549717
Yes. Mike is a gamer though

>>2549729
By all means, list the retro games being discussed here. It looks a lot like people talking about some Youtube e-celeb instead to me.

>>2549740
for such a big gamer, his actual knowledge of retro video games is lacking, to say the least

>>2549729
he's right though. these threads are nothing but cancerous shitholes

>>2549696
no he doesn't. that cart belongs to pat the nes punk, who let james use it in his video. pat whores the cart out and even made a pawn star appearance because of the cart.

>>2549749
It's entirely relevant to the retro gaming community.

So you saying:
>What does this have to do with retro games?

is fucking retarded

>>2549763
>discussing some random e-celeb is relevant to "the retro gaming community"

The delusion is off the charts. Go talk about your pretend surrogate friend on the dedicated e-celeb containment board. >>>/v/

>>2549770
It's amazing how much of an arrogant asshole you and 90% of people on /vr/ are.

It's completely fucking reasonable to talk about James and his collection on this board. A great deal of people on /vr/ and people who are interested in retro games follow James to at least some extent. He makes good content, has a great collection, and people here want to talk about it.

Who the fuck are you to say "No, you can't do that"? But by all means continue to project and call people "delusional" and tell them to go back to /v/ as if it's any worse than this shit hole.

>>2549770
We aren't even discussing him, we are discussing his collection of RETRO VIDEO GAMES.

>>2549779
>It's completely fucking reasonable to talk about some random guy on this board

Oh sorry, I thought this board was about retro games!

>A great deal of people on /vr/ and people who are interested in retro games follow James to at least some extent

Nobody over the age of 13 finds someone yelling about shit entertaining. And people age 13 or younger belong on /v/

>He makes good content,

FUCK ASS SHIT DIARRHOEA

>has a great collection

So do I, should I make a thread about myself?

>people here want to talk about it

I wouldn't call underage plebs "people" but that's a personal distinction I suppose

>Who the fuck are you to say "No, you can't do that"?

Someone following the board's rules?

>as if it's any worse than this shit hole.

So then you won't mind going there to talk about e-celebs? Great!

>>2549785
Are you literally retarded?

Get the fuck over yourself. God, I have never seen someone have such a ridiculous superiority complex over something so childish.

>>2549785
>Oh, I thought this board was about retro games

Which is why we are trying to discuss retro games

>Nobody over the age of 13
>Fuck ass shit
You seem VERY aware of what James's videos are like for someone who doesn't watch them.

>So should I make a thread about myself?
Go for it. Make a thread so we can discuss our personal collections

>Someone following the board's rules?
By derailing the thread? The rules state to report and move on.

>>2549779
>He makes good content, has a great collection, and people here want to talk about it.

if you're not trolling, you're possibly the biggest cuck on 4chan. if you think this place is such a shit hole, than please fuck off back to >>>/v/

>>2549929
It's almost like I can enjoy both boards because I'm not some faggot who has to look at everything with an us vs. them mentality.

>>2549959
>I can enjoy both boards

you're the one that called /vr/ a shit hole, you fucking mong

>>2549929
it's so mean when people do that >:-(

>>2549964
because it is. No one here enjoys anything. 99% of discussion are about why things suck rather than why they're good. It's so fucking depressing. In addition, the majority of the people here are super arrogant and condescending. /v/ sucks too, but at least people actually seem to enjoy video games, there instead of just bitching about everything.

>>2549973
why waste a minute of your time on an internet message board where 99% of discussion bothers you?

We really need an e-celeb category on 4chan so we can coral the shilling. Damn.

>>2549548
arino plays games and enjoys them, most of the time.
avgn makes poopy jokes and has a cuck fetish.

>>2549448
Collection of what? Doom games?

Meh! He looks like the kind of twit that would defend a shitty kiddie thing like snes doom over better versions.

>>2549448
Collection of what? Doom games?

Meh. He looks like the kind of twit that would defend a shitty kiddie thing like snes doom over actually decent versions.

>>2549448
he looks so young and full of life in that pic. what went wrong?

>>2550146
that was 10 years ago

>>2550160
he looks like he''s aged 20. I guess getting cucked will age you faster

>>2549614
AVGN episodes are mostly written by James. Mike knows fuck-all about games he didn't play as a kid. Just listen to all the stupid shit he says when talking about anything Famicom-related.

Why does /v/ hate James so much? He's the least offensive youtuber out there.

>>2550283
Fuck I thought I was at /v/ actually. This thread is just as cancerous as the ones you see over there.

>>2549785

You have such a giant stick up your ass jesus dude just damn

>>2550283
James is a pretty okay guy, but he really isn't as much of a hardcore gamer as everyone likes to think he is. The only reason he has such a big collection is because of Mike Matei, who's one of those types that cares more about buying video games than playing them, is willfully ignorant about games he never played as a kid, and knows fuck-all about games in general

>>2550283
I don't hate James. but AVGN threads and e-celeb threads are cancer. literally every AVGN thread ever created on /vr/ is one big cancerous shitfest.

https://archive.moe/vr/search/text/AVGN/type/op/

>>2549448
nice meme-celeb OP!

Id be more impressed with it if any of these people actually played their blasted games and didn't just horde them for the sake of hording them

>>2549634
>>2549717
>Film Buff
>Is forever type cast as the angry video game guy because of some stupid video he did as a joke like 10 years ago

I think he should stick to 7~ minute reviews once a month or so rather than the longer and shittier ones with guest stars.
Also his collection is better than mine will ever be, I don't have that youtube money. His pet jaguar is cool and the nintoaster rules.

His collection just needs more SNES games, it's the best console ever.

>>2549680
It sucks that the thing they like doing is so fucking expensive and the only joy they get is from having things. Yeah there's no such thing as artificial happiness, but when you collect things that are
1) out of print
2) not complete (no boxes, no manuals most of the time)
3) the biggest normalfag hobby besides watching tv

It's going to be fucking expensive to add to your collection. Yeah a shelf full of games looks cool but you paid money for something to take up space in your house that you won't even play.

now if you just play games, that's fine, collecting is a side effect and you probably would sell some of your shit because it's not about owning the most merchandise or whatever, it's about enjoying them on the level they exist for.

>>2549470
Hi asalieri, how you been doing, still hiding as a pro GG?

>>2550283
for starters, because some of them actually got drunk by the propaganda kool-aid put by chris bores in that infamous video when he is trying to rewrite history saying that james was out to get him and he rigged that 2007 Screwattack contest.......while offering no evidence, but still getting support of scumfuckers like the Archfiend and Eric Gaede.

And speaking of the later, he is also one of the main reasons, because even since 2012 he was fixated in destroying james rolfe career by making false asumptions and propaganda videos starting the whole rumor of "james is stealing money from his movie indie a go gor", all while he was being just plain unpleasent and arragant towards people who defended James back then, to the point that people actually started citing asalieri out of fear or because they started disliking james' videos, and to those people, seeing someone "having the balls" to talk shit about james, made him cool in their eyes...................

And then Eric pull his stalking shit, and it was revealed that the other guy who he demonized over the internet (Jfreedan) was an innocent and asalieri was trying to get him in legal trouble just to fuck with him..........

>>2550283

well in part he's the one responsible for this shit and another, while he may be one of the least offensive, he's also one of the most insincere

you can tell he doesn't like doing this shit any more and doesn't have the balls to quit, because that would mean getting a real job and he has no actual talents beyond poor acting and dropping obscenities

>>2550659
avgn isn't his day job you loony

>>2550660

then he's just a shameless attention whore

>>2549717
Definitely, listening to James talk about movies is leaps and bounds more entertaining than any AVGN episode, I always look forward to Monster Madness.

>>2550660
>avgn isn't his day job

[citation needed]

>>2550776
he would put out way more content if it were

>>2550660
Do you know exactly how much he makes through ads and sponsors? It is at least significant supplemental income.

>>2550814
I don't think anyone is saying it's not

>>2549792

+1

>>2550143
>Ice Cold DOOM

>>2550673
I really love James' movie reviews. He manages to put a lens on some of the monster films and puts them in a light I'd never have thought of. He breaks them down very well, while still keeping it whimsical.

Its funny, though, because his video game commentary when he isn't the AVGN (where he has more time to prepare a script) is typically very basic and sometimes outright misguided.

>>2550807

I don't think you understand how lazy youtube celebs are.

Does he have a patreon? Im scared too look because Im sure the amount of money he'd get would make me weep

>>2550847
He doesn't.

I'm certain that the vast majority of his income is Cinemassacre and related products (DVDs, shirts, etc). Also he shows up in other things now and again and probably gets paid for that as well.

James Rolfe is awesome, but AVGN is tiring

>>2550852

that well's gonna dry up

>>2550876

I actually enjoy the James and Mike play videos more than AVGN nowdays, would love to see them do videos with the Game Sack guys.

>>2550143
He's the reason people incorrectly think the SNES version of Doom is better than the 32X version.

Not to say the 32X version is great or anything, but at least it's playable. SNES Doom is complete shit.

>>2550143
>those center shelves

I'm pretty fucking jelly, honestly. Good arrangement.

>>2550889
me too i always look forwards to mondays videos

>>2550903
That music, tho...
I know they were crunched for time, but I find it difficult to believe that whoever was in charge of porting the music couldn't spend a half a day playing around with parameters to get something that didn't sound like wet farts.
I'm not the kind of person to let poor aesthetics ruin an otherwise good game, but yeesh...

I like AVGN, tough I do not understand why people send him games nor do I understand why people send CGR games, or why anyone sends any stranger on the internet free games while receiving nothing significant in return. I collect truly rare game items for myself, why would I send them to some guy on the internet?

>>2550932
Yay, Sunday night is now Monday morning. I'll have a new video to watch as I have my bedtime snack. And what do you, know, James and Mike is a PS4 game. Welp.

Hating AVGN is a great sign of being a fucking cunt. This guy literally did nothing wrong, everything annoying comes from the fan base and copycat idiots trying to get money.
He wouldn't have even become well-known if Mike hadn't convinced him to post his silly joke videos on Youtube. Somehow people completely missed the joke of an angry autistic character being mad about 20 year old games and wanted more. So he did more to please the fans. The guy doesn't even want to do AVGN anymore, movies and horror are obviously his main interests, but what can he do? The whole damn internet wants him to continue.
IMO Board James is the best thing on his channel now and he should retire the Nerd characte, he's had his run. But I'd be scared too of all the fanrage.

>>2551541
>but what can he do?

Grow a pair and go after his real calling. The problem is he thinks he can market his movie shit to the gamers when he should just be blowing the gamers off entirely.

>The whole damn internet wants him to continue.

and if the whole damn internet told him to jump off the Empire State Building would he do that too?

>>2549520
Probably insured
>>2549548
It in fact is, for the same reason Conan the Clueless Gamer is allowed. It's a TV program that frequently has industry personnel as guests and well produced. There's difference between that and some shitter in his basement badly ranting about nothing while freely cursing his heart out with zero experience in showbiz.

>>2549682
>entire collection
That's not quite true though.

>shouting obscenities should not garner free video games
Why not? If people feel they want to give him games, who are you to tell them they shouldn't?

>>2550814
He probably gets a fair bit each month, but the thing about ad revenue on YouTube is that Google will eat like 95% of it, so the only way to actually make any money on ad-revenue on YouTube is to be a super star who brings in several millions of hits with each video.
James I think at most brings in one million views with a really good video, so he probably doesn't make enough money from ad-revenue to not have a day job, at most it probably pays for some expenses.

On the flip side, look at someone like Ray William Jonson (his content is shit, I know, but bear with me here), he draws in a colossal amount of views with each video, in the tens of millions on average, so he's an example of one of the few people who can actually make a living on YouTube's ad-revenue.

>>2549448
I don't give a fuck. if he doesn't have super rare unlocalized or completely unlreleased japanese exclusives either, then his collection is trash.

I started watching his videos about 3 or 4 years ago which got me into collecting retro games. I have a decent sized collection, but the nerd's game room is fucking amazing.

>>2549595
Even if it is, it's clear that when he does videos were he's just James chilling with Mike or some shit, it's a LOT better than just AVGN.

>>2549634
That VHS "rental store" is the stuff of drams.

>>2550925
Holy shit, that's doomsday, right in the center!

>>2550847
I don't think you understand how much work he puts into his videos.

>>2549448
Shit ton more than I! I don't have his means. Even if you hate him, he is doing the VVG community a service.

Good archival is spread out, and redundant. He is a major archive. People get Jelly, IDC. OPP isn't mine, so I don't worry about it. I'm happy for people when they have things they love.

I'm in a nice place, with a few dozen games and 10 or so beat up, but working systems.

Picture: No Relation.

>>2549470
>He's one of those guys who pretends to have controversial/wrong opinions on youtube to make advertiser money

Opinions are personal, that's the point. Obviously not everyone's are going to be the same. I'm an oldfag and I've never even cared for Mario much. They're solid games, but not my cup of tea.

What I don't understand is why in this day and age when every single old game is accessible for anyone to play, why anyone would want to watch videos of someone else's opinions on them.

Sometimes it feels like people these days don't know how to just experience something and decide for themselves how much they enjoyed it. They just depend on other people to feed them the opinions they should be having. It's legitimately surreal to me.

>>2549604
His 5200 review he did had some really good critics, however fans don't get his act. Now I have to hear how bad the fittytoo is, from people who never even has seen, nor touched it.

It only takes $8 to fix a controller. It will last years.

>>2549710
People collect many things. What I am I to collect? Freaklin' Mint?

>>2552115
This always bugged me about his reviews too but then again its what makes them somewhat entertaining. Watching him struggle is a delight.

>>2552115

Yeah, what people have to understand is it's just a shtick. Sadly, idiots will always look to celebrities for opinions rather than forming their own. I wouldn't opine about the 5200 myself, having never played the console.

>>2551774
The guy from LGR makes a living from his videos. If you put out a weekly video with a few hundred thousand views at least, then it'll all add up. I'm guessing that James makes quite a bit more from DVD sales/merchandise than other similar Youtube personalities.

>>2549680
Everyone needs a hobby, what else is there to get?

>>2549785
Why can't you just go make your own thread? Why must people come into a thread to protest it's validity? Scroll on. It's not your job, you can relax, Enjoy yourself here.

I will now entertain comments of troll, as I have a valid point.

>>2552130
LGR really makes most of his money from Patreon actually, he has said as much, you can't really live off youtube money.

>>2552134
this, if you really think something is bad enough to be deleted/banned, report it, shitpost whining does nothing but make you look like an asshole.

>>2552134
Shitting on people for having different opinions from you is the heart of 4chan.

>>2552139
He makes over $3,000 a month through Patreon. Apparently YouTube advertising doesn't pay all that much.

>>2552113
So much this. In the time it takes to watch a youtube video by some guy telling you his opinions on some game, you could have just booted up an emulator and played it yourself. Why is there this need to have all your opinions spoon fed to you?

>>2552147
I am interested in what you think enough money to live off of would be if you think that youtube revenue would be enough to live off of and that $3,000 a month is a sinful amount.

>>2552145
Word that, But I expect it more from /b/

>>2552157
>people only watch things to have opinions spoonfed to them.
does entertainment not exist in your universe or something?

>>2552145
not all boards are /v/ or /b/, newfriend

>>2552159
I live off of $13k yearly. I do not live with parents or in a basement.

>>2552170
that's great and all, but youtube revenue alone would never net you that much money.

>>2552168
You say that, and yet on every board people like you bitch because it's not the hugbox you want it to be. You're the one who's new if you think b and v are the only "bad" parts of 4chan.

>>2552165
Of course entertainment exists. I'm a fan of video games. To me playing them is entertainment. I guess I just don't see the entertainment value in watching some guy awkwardly review things. Not saying you shouldn't enjoy it if that's your thing, but it makes no god damned sense to me why anyone would.

>>2552185
there is a difference between not being a dick and wanting a social justice friendly hugbox you know. Though I am not sure why I am responding since it's pretty obvious at this point that you are simply trolling.

>>2552193
but you literally said that no one should enjoy them beforehand... Also, I bet you say this and then turn around and love GCCX.

>>2552196
I didn't say people shouldn't enjoy them. I said I don't understand why people enjoy them. I implied that people should form their own opinions though, and stand behind that.

>>2552115
I haven't touched or seen a Jaguar CD but if I told you it was a piece of shit would you doubt me?

over 100 posts and not a single one that has fuck-all to do with retro video games. if anyone wants to know why AVGN (and any e-celebs) threads shouldn't be allowed, look no further than this cancerous thread

>>2552240
If all I had to go on was your word? Of coruse.

>>2552242
Your impotent rage is comical from my perspective.

Imagine if we had mods. Hell, just one mod. It's a slow moving board it wouldn't take more than one person checking once every couple of hours to remove off topic shit like this.

>>2552270
>Imagine if we had mods
Ahh, but we do! In fact the mod is hovering around right now. In the last couple of hours several off topic threads were deleted. Like the one about some retro styled indie game for example.

The problem here is that the rest of the board and the mods consider these threads acceptable for here, while you don't. So you're stuck with all this anger over threads that you don't like being allowed to exist here. You bitch and people make fun of you so you blame the mods.

But you should be blaming yourself. It's super easy to scroll past or even hide threads if they don't interest you. And it's your responsibility to do so, because no one else gives a shit what you think about these threads.

>>2549459
me too, anon

me too.

>>2552254
Yeah, but in the Atari 5200 video, AVGN talked about how despite having good graphics, the console wasn't popular in it's day, because frequently the controllers would be broken (plus that a lot of it's games already existed on the 2600, and I figure a lot of people weren't really up for buying an expensive new system just for a graphical upgrade).

Now, what do you think that conveys to people, that it's a good system? It'll certainly signal to most people that there's a serious flaw when the controllers very frequently break, and you can't deny that.

Sure, it's possible to fix/replace the controller and then enjoy the system for it's merits, but you also have to think about the perspective of the time it was released. If the system ships with a significant percentage of faulty controllers, that doesn't look good to the public, and I think the 5200 always kind of had a reputation regarding that, even disregarding AVGN.

>>2552292
>The problem here is that the rest of the board and the mods consider these threads acceptable for here

1. DON'T speak for the "rest of the board" because the overwhelming majority of /vr/ doesn't want e-celeb threads shitting up the board
2. mods delete AVGN and e-celeb threads constantly.
3. you sound like a cuck. are you a cuck?

>>2552471
>1. DON'T speak for the "rest of the board" because the overwhelming majority of /vr/ doesn't want e-celeb threads shitting up the board

lol and you think you do? Yet you're the only one raging like a child throwing a tantrum. This board is very clearly not "overwhelmingly" against these threads.

>2. mods delete AVGN and e-celeb threads constantly.
Clearly they don't considering other threads get deleted regularly and these don't.

>3. you sound like a cuck. are you a cuck?
Ohh no you've thrown the 2015 buzzword slur at me! How shockingly accurate. I don't take offense to threads so I must enjoy watching my wife having sex with other people. What incredible powers of deduction you have.

Enjoy being upset that 4chan isn't doing what you want it to. :)

>>2552487

1. yeah, you're right, I'm the only one on /vr/ that doesn't like e-celeb threads

2. but they do. all the time. you must be new here

3. I figured you were a cuck


stay cuckolded faggot.

What happened to that one guy who used to spam e-celeb threads until they died?

A lot of retro game discussion going on in here.

>>2552487
>This board is very clearly not "overwhelmingly" against these threads.
Considering 99% of e-celeb threads are people complaining about them, I'd say they are.

e-celebs are for 12 year olds, /v/ is the board where 12 year olds talk about video games and e-celebs. This shit isn't hard.

>>2552497
I didn't say I was the only one. I said you're not the majority. And to be clear I don't "like" them. I just don't mind them and am fine that people here want to talk about them. More to the point I find it utterly hilarious that it upsets you.

>2. but they do. all the time. you must be new here
Sorry, nope.

>3. I figured you were a cuck
Projecting is fun! You are still the one upset about all this. You can throw as much shit at the wall as you want. It will always be funny to me.

>>2549448
>shitty ecelebs

Please fuck off. This belongs in /v/.

The main reason these kinds of threads are shitty is because of people posting in the threads who insist that said threads are shitty. An intentionally self-fulfilling prophecy, if you will. If everyone who didn't like the threads on here about the cuckold/netorare porn known as GCCX decided to constantly shitpost in said containment threads, then those threads would be considered shit as well.

I do agree, however, that retrogame personality discussion should be confined to a single thread.

>>2550980
Because they appreciate the content that they do and would like to "pay them" in a way more personal than whatever ad-revenue they have generated for the content-creator.

>>2551826
what the fuck is your problem

>>2552139
>>2552147
On his Patreon he says that at the $4,000 monthly goal mark he will be surpassing what he makes from Youtube ad revenue. So I'm assuming he's making $3,000 or so just from ad revenue. They get $2,000 per one million views or something like that.

Kinda funny. On one of the LGR (one of the older videos) he showed video of his screen as he searched "Ebay" on the address bar, and I paused it, just out of curiosity to see if porn or something came up on the autocomplete, but the only thing I saw out of the ordinary was ebtdge.com which turns out is a site for those on wellfare to check their account balance and whatnot.

>crtl-f
>cuck
>10 results

So this is neo /v/

>>2552694
make that 11

>>2552694

cuck detected

>>2552159
3000k isn't a small amount of money, but it's not a fortune either.

Also, it really is pretty difficult to make a living of Youtube ad revenue, as stated in another post, Google snatches almost all of it so you really have to get an obscene amount of views to make a good living of it.

I don't think it's very surprising (or bad) that content creators are starting to look at Patreon as an alternative to supporting what they do (though that's not to say that there aren't a lot of e-beggars and shysters using Patreon, without actually providing any worthwhile content to anyone).

>>2552989
>3000k

>>2552989
That should read $3000, not 3000k small brainfart (because 3000k would obviously actually be an obscene amount of money).

>>2552989
$3000 a month is more than enough to live comfortably so long as you arent making payments on a 3 story house and a brand new Porsche.

Keep in mind that is Patreon money. This doesn't include YouTube money.

>>2552193
>I guess I just don't see the entertainment value in watching some guy awkwardly review things

I get that he's not for everyone (and I'll be honest in saying I don't typically find his poop jokes or other scat humor to actually be that funny most of the time, I much prefer his other comedy), but he kind of goes into some detail on famous or infamous examples, sometimes he has a theme with his videos, Indiana Jones games, Star Trek games, Star Wars games, etc, which I think draws people in to a degree, everyone knows about Indiana Jones, Star Trek, and Star Wars, and some people who play or played videogames might remember them, maybe they liked them, or they didn't like them and like seeing their feelings vindicated ("Yes, I wasn't the only one who hated that fucking game") things like that. Some people worked to save up money as kids to buy a game that turned out to be awful, and to see someone reflect those feelings can feel good I imagine.

Then he also drags up some old obscure shit that people didn't know about, and it can honestly be pretty fun to see someone put an old piece of shit in the spotlight and highlight it's flaws (particularly if it's an infamous example), while making fun of it, this isn't even exclusive to videogames, you can do this with guns and cars and attract a bit of audience that way.

Sometimes he just brings about nostalgia in people, like with the Castlevania videos.
I think that basically he's just decently funny, and brings up decently interesting things, which is enough to draw an audience. He's definitively not skilled at all videogames though, from time to time I see him play a game pretty awfully which I know isn't that hard.

>>2553020
>I think that basically he's just decently funny

PISS LOAD OF ASS!
FUCKING DIARRHEA!
IM GONNA HAM IT UP FOR THE CAMERA AND NOT SHOW ANY SHRED OF ORGANIC SPEAKING ABILITY!

>>2553001
Oh yeah, you can make a living on that, not saying you can't, but the thing is that a guy like him couldn't make that kind of money of Youtube, because again, you really need to bring in a colossal amount of views on your videos to make that kind of money on youtube ad-revenue, it pays very poorly if you only bring in for example 100 000 something views per video (and most would say that an average like that isn't bad for a niche content creator).

You're lucky if you get something like 10 dollars per 1000 views (or sometime snot even a whole dollar) and it's very inconsistent, sometimes you'll only get a handful of dollars a month, sometimes you'll get a couple hundred, Google ultimately takes most of it and really are a bunch of hungering jews that way.

I think Patreon is good that way as it allows a niche audience to adequately fund a niche content creator. Without Patreon, he couldn't make that kind of money, even with the same audience, so I don't think it's odd that someone would look at that option.

>>2553043
Which isn't even close to a quarter of his videos these days.

Bootsy is really good at video games.

>>2552143
Noted, I'll ignore, not a rat.

>>2552240
My bud the whole Jag setup when it was new. It was snazzy given the year. I am looking for the CD, but I will probably look a long time. I like Tempest 2000 on my Jag.

The 5200 is far from "Where did you learn to fly?" AVGN never showed any 5200 games. It is an enjoyable console. Many of my VG friends don't love it, but think it is far from a piece of shit.

>>2552292

>>2549584
go back to japan and die there, fucking weeb.

>>2553732
>doesn't like Arino
>likes AVGN

seriously, how big of a cuck are you?

>>2553746
Anyone who throws around the word cuck really isn't in any position to comment on someone else's tastes.

>>2552497
Back to /b/, newfriend.

>>2550807
You mean like Spoony who hasn't worked a day in his life, puts out a video a month(which is basically him ranting about some wrestling bullshit that nobody cares about) and he gets 5k a month on Patreon?

Aren't these threads against the rules? I get that these e-celebs play old video games, but that's a huge stretch.

It would be like having a Toy's R Us thread because they used to sell retro games. Or a car thread because you used to be driven to the game store.

>>2554267
Like one anon said, why not just make a thread about yourself and your own life? You have as much relevance to retro games as e-celebs do.

>>2554267
>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games.

These guys discuss retro games, so discussing guys who discuss retro games is perfectly within the board rules and this is the most appropriate place to put them and is why they don't get deleted. The way 4chan is organized, there are always going to be topics that don't interest you on the board of your choice. Just scroll past, or use the hide thread feature if it really bugs you. But getting used to that is just part of getting used to this site in general.

>>2554267
>It would be like having a Toy's R Us thread because they used to sell retro games.

Or like the GameStop topic, that in fact does exist right now? It's all good.

>>2554267
As long as GCCX is allowed, this should be allowed.

>>2554270
>These guys discuss retro games, so discussing guys who discuss retro games is perfectly within the board rules
I discuss retro games, so it's okay to make threads about myself?

Our Janitor deletes Dreamcast threads when he occasionally shows up too, he clearly has no grasp of the board's rules.

>>2554315
>I discuss retro games, so it's okay to make threads about myself?

Of course. That's what 80% of the threads here are already. People discussing their opinions on various retro games. This is just people discussing people discussing various retro games.

>>2554319
>People discussing their opinions on various retro games.
This thread is not discussing a person's opinion on retro games, it's people discussing a person who happens to play retro games. It is not /vr/ related.

>>2554341
And what he personally thinks of them. No one is saying you have to like the thread or contribute, but this is the right board for it. If that upsets you, tough shit. No one cares. If you can't handle than then 4chan isn't for you. Go find a more regulated site like Reddit or something.

>>2554352
Hmm... nah, I think I'll keep ruining these threads every time they pop up. And I'm not the only one.

>>2554357
If you think your weak ass trolling is ruining anything you're a fool. We all just laugh at how mad you get. If anything all you do is bump the threads and end up making them more popular and last longer.

:)

>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.

Funny, I'm not seeing "discuss some random Youtubers" in there at all...

>Hey I found this game on a flea market
>Me and my wife are thinking of getting a Retron
>This game used to scare me when I was 5 years old playing games to get away from my abusive father, what about you?
>GCCX
>Old tv shows about games

All of these kinds of threads that make up half of the board are allowed and people regularly post blogs about their life. Why does a thread about James flare up everyone's autism? I'm guessing fags are full of rage that people make money with vidya review content and they can't get a piece of the cake.

Nobody wants to circlejerk with you over your favorite fucking YouTube e-celebs. These threads are seriously disruptive to the boards, and the only thing you're doing is inviting people to come in here and whine and shitpost about it.

Stop posting this fucking garbage on /vr/.

>>2554370
>Hey I found this game on a flea market
Video game related
>Me and my wife are thinking of getting a Retron
Video game system related
>This game used to scare me when I was 5 years old playing games to get away from my abusive father, what about you?
Video game related
>GCCX
Not pure cancer like e-celebs. Harmless.
>Old tv shows about games
Where?

>I'm guessing fags are full of rage that people make money with vidya review content and they can't get a piece of the cake.

Being a grown man who screams about poo on the Internet is really living the life.

>>2554375
>Harmless

Right, so you get to decide which internet gaming personality is allowed to be discussed on the board and get frequent generals, and which is a bannable offense. Nice that we cleared that up.

Now give me one reason how James & Mike Mondays is cancer and GCCX isn't except one appears on television.

Fucking retarded faggot.

>>2554371
You're wrong. These are just as valid as threads about gaming magazines, GCCX or other reviewers. It's all just talking about opinions on retro games.

The ONLY problem with the threads are the people who throw hissy fits and dedicate themselves to trolling as hard as they can. All the while convinced they're "helping the board" but really just shitting things up.

These threads are perfectly valid. They don't get deleted for a reason. If you don't like them, that's fine. But it's not going to stop them from existing. And going into threads you don't like just so you can act like a dick and shit them up as much as possible is colossally immature. Not to mention a terrible waste of your limited minutes spent in this lifetime. Seriously. Grow the fuck up. The whole world isn't here to entertain and bow to your every whim.

>>2554378
>Right, so you get to decide which internet gaming personality is allowed to be discussed

Exactly. He has the mentality of a child. The sad thing is he's probably at the very least 35 and still stuck in such a state of immaturity where he can't handle anything that doesn't specifically interest him.

Honestly if clearing the board of eceleb cancer means we have to lose Arino in the process it's probably worth it.

>They don't get deleted for a reason

We have a mod who hasn't even read the sticky?

>>2549671

watch the AVGN for joker and wizard of oz.

he is quite good when hes not being himself

>>2554386
>We have a mod who hasn't even read the sticky?

No. They don't get deleted specifically because we have a mod who has read the sticky and understands it. You yourself admit that Arino is fine to discuss here. The only difference is you like him, but not the youtubers. The problem is yours, not the board or the mods.

>>2554392
>we have a mod who has read the sticky and understands it
He deletes Dreamcast threads.

>>2554393
citation please.

ABUNAI! ABUNAI! THIS GAME IS SO HARD, HAHA! xD
Arino is so funny, right guys? He totally couldn't beat that game but then his shitty assistant actors told him a secret and he made it hahaha! And everyone was laughing how bad he is at videogames, so hilarious! :P HAHAHA HE'S EATING RICEBALLS NOW HAHAHA, VIDEO GAMES!

ABUNAIII ABUNAIIII XDDDD HE TOTALLY BELONGS ON /VR/ UNLIKE THAT E-CELEB BULLSHIT

>>2554398
the Dreamcast threads he deletes

>>2554410
That's not a citation. I'm asking for examples of Dreamcast threads he's deleted. None of the DC themed threads I've started have ever been deleted, including the one I have up now. There are Dreamcast threads in the archive...

>>2554278
You mean how they sell retro games right now? That's kind of the difference.

>>2554420
Are you fucking for real? Not the guy you're responding to, but I've personally tried to start up a Dreamcast thread three separate times, adjusting it to make sure it offends no policies each time, and it gets deleted the second he smells it. No reasons given.

>>2552449
>>2553184
Already talked about that in this post, people might get an exaggerated idea regarding the 5200, but for it's time, the faulty controllers were an infamous flaw which impacted people's perception of the game, which I think he was trying to convey in the video, that many people just couldn't play on their system because the controllers broke, and thus couldn't experience the system for it's true merits and potential.

As for the Jaguar CD, if you want it, it can be found, but a LOT of the units are broken or damaged, the two biggest and most common problems are these, one is shoddy connection, it will frequently just fail to connect, another is that the clearances for the cd-drive weren't properly calculated/measured out when the unit was designed, so when you put a disk in and turn it on, the lid can clamp down on the drive too hard, and impede the motor from spinning the disk partially, or completely, and this breaks the motor on the CD unit in very short order. You need to be willing to do some "teching" with the Jaguar CD if you want to play it, as I understand it likes to break intermittently and you have to repair it if you want to keep playing.

The standard Atari Jaguar unit itself doesn't really have any bad problems with connections or mechanical function, they're typically fine. It's not strictly a 64bit system as I get though, in that they used multiple processors to add up to 64bit or something like that, and it was supposedly very difficult to get these processors to play ball with each other without the entire game crashing, hence little third party support, it was hard to get the best potential out of the system.

>>2554263
If people are interested, they're willing to pay money.

And I think it's pretty insane that he's getting 5k a month, that's actually pretty good money.
I guess maybe he manages to scrounge up some sympathy with his heart condition and bi-polar depression?

Medical Care can be pretty expensive in America (but when you do afford it, it's typically also quite good).

>>2554461
Interesting. I've never seen that, but all the DC threads I made were focused on a specific game. I made a new one that is general, so we can take discussion of it there and see what happens.

>>2554461
The fuck is up with that? I thought Dreamcast was supposed to be exempt due to the period of time it was released?

You should send an e-mail to the mod-staff and ask them to clarify this.

>>2554497
No need. It's clearly explained in the massive two sentence sticky thread that so few people seem to actually read.
>With the release of the 8th generation of consoles, the Sega Dreamcast will now be considered "retro", though the remainder of the sixth generation (Xbox, PS2, GameCube) will not.

>>2549680

For some, it fills a void in the sense anything we do does. They like having carts either because its obsessive or because of any other reason. I don't think you have to religiously play every game, but appreciate the full history of the item. What the game was stored on, who did the cover art, who programmed it, the company that did it, the market at the time of its production, and what resulted from it.

I collect old history books because I like the context. Seeing what people knew, the values of the people at the time it was made, how things were interpreted, gaps in knowledge that have since been filled and so on.

Its not about just using the object for its intended purpose. Its why museums don't let you fire the 1800s-era cannons

>>2554436
Wouldn't discussing a retailer selling retro games in the retro era be even more appropriate to here than GameStop selling them now?

>>2554508
Well clearly the Janitor/Mod wasn't aware of this and it would be pertinent that staff reminds him of this fact.

200+ posts
0 posts discussing retro video games


this thread is living proof how cancerous e-celeb threads are

>>2554510
>Its why museums don't let you fire the 1800s-era cannons
Well, no, the cannon belongs to the museum and their goal is to preserve it for historical purposes, just like everything else in their collection.

It's not unusual for collectors of antique weapons to occasionally take out old muskets to give them a few shots (though many typically step down powder charges slightly just a precaution).

However, given the rise of modern high quality replicas of various old popular antique weapons (as well as faux-historic and original designs such as pic related), many chose to leave their actual antiques in the safety of their home and shoot the replicas instead. I guess you can sort of liken this to Virtual Console or emulation to a degree.

>>2554617
>0
Well if you don't count the posts regarding the Atari 5200 and Atari Jaguar, sure.

>>2550957
well then, I guess that proves, doing a sloppy job of something feasible is far better than meticulously endeavouring at something that's just not possible.

there was a neat explanation of this by some sci-fi author on leo laporte's post-techTV show. he used a big historical example - all experience taught that planes protecting U-boats in world war 2 had the best chance of destroying them by waiting until they got real close to start firing. but that was a pretty shitty goal, by firing earlier and scaring the U-boats off, they actually got the cargo through safely.

>>2554371
Literal fuckin' ASStism right here.

Go eat a Reeses Feces cup to calm yourself down, you're being more anal than your prison bitch future after your sperg-syndrome-induced rage finally causes you to snap on the general public like the little Chris chan emulation you personify.

>>2549701
Watch the episode it's legit not a reproduction

>>2551936
Board James are good too

>>2549680
Modern consoles are shit so I just work my way back buying games to play on older consoles. Eventually that amounts to a /vr/ collection, but all of the games I do have, I have played.

>>2549973
>/v/ sucks too, but at least people actually seem to enjoy video games instead of just bitching about everything
Feel free to go back and stay there

>>2549973

>at least people actually seem to enjoy video games

I'm truly laughing, we certainly didn't visit the same /v/. When I want to have a good laugh I open some of the eternal console wars thread there and watch the shit flinging of "MY PLATFORM IS BETTER THAN YOURS LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR", it's so childish it's fun. The only times I can see anons don't sperging and shitting all over is in internet nostalgia threads.

>>2554576
>>2554461
>>2554410

Well so far over the lasst day I've seen a couple genuinely non-vr threads get deleted while the three Dreamcast threads are still going strong and not deleted.

I submit that if a mod was deleting your threads, it wasn't because they involved the Dreamcast. It was probably because it looked like trolling. Which, given how you were acting in this thread (crying bloody murder because even though it fits the boards rules you don't like it) would not surprise me at all.

>>2556663
>it fits the boards rules

>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.

>>2549453
you know you can just buy an everdrive and have every game on one cart? including romhack games.

why do people waste so much money?

>>2554370
At this point you should know what a shitposting magnet looks like. It even has the right OP for one.

https://archive.moe/v/search/text/%20%22I%20pity%20him%22/type/op/

>>2549671
Mike really calmed down though. He used to be an annoying little shit because he didn't know how to act in front of a camera. I kinda like him now, he's not forcing shitty jokes like MINEY CRAFTA anymore and it's clear he knows a lot more about video games than James does. James doesn't even know the most basic things sometimes. I also think most of the games in James' "collection" are actually Mike's, but I could be wrong.

>>2550980
I've never donated anything to anyone but I can understand why someone would. If I had two copies of some shitty game and there was a guy making videos I liked, I'd give one of those copies to him. It's just a way of showing appreciation and giving him a reason to make more content. I'd rather send games to someone than money. CGR only exists because people donate games to the show.

I would personally never donate anything rare though.

>>2549973
>/v/ enjoys video games

Daily reminder that e-celebs are a MEME and do not exist. The e-celeb label is ONLY applied to people who do YouTube videos, and nobody else. Even if those "e-celebs" produced the same content but in audio or written form, or self-hosted their videos, it's guaranteed that they wouldn't be called e-celebs anymore.

If you use memes, you can make people believe anything and behave in any way. You can condition them to spout the most insane shit imaginable.

>>2556969
Oh, and even channels with like 10 subscribers are called e-celebs as in electronic CELEBRITIES because why should words fucking mean anything anymore?

>>2556969
>have an audience and fanbase
I know that the phrase "e-celeb" is used rather friviously but a lot of these people can be classed small-time celebrities if you want to be picky, such as B-list or C-list actors.

Just because they aren't in movies or on TV doesn't mean they don't have fame.

>>2556973
Welcome to language evolving, dipshit. The term diva used to specifically refer to female opera singers. How many people labeled as divas today sing opera? "E-celeb" is just the term that's come about to describe these people, end of story.

>>2556979
>"E-celeb" is just the term that's come about to describe these people
Because you're all retards who don't know what words mean and can't perform basic logical reasoning. The only thing you can do is spout ebin memes.

>>2556981
He just described the concept of evolving language you faggot, are you always like this?

Is everything new and frightening a meme to you?

>>2556976
Geoff Keighley is far more famous than a random YouTuber, yet I have never heard anyone call him an e-celeb.

>>2556986
The only thing you retards can evolve is your meme-spouting skills.

>>2556981
You are so stupid that it's actually funny. Memes are common for them to use, but it's not why that term evolved and "e-celeb" itself isn't actually a meme, it's just a word.

My question is why do you care about any of it? So some kid has a youtube channel and other kids like to watch it and they talk the way kids these days apparently talk. Does it really impact your life that much? Aside from the odd thread like this here, I have no clue who any of these people are. But you're frothing at the mouth with anger acting like they raped your cat or something. Why bother?

>>2557014
It is a meme for exactly the reasons I already explained.

>My question is why do you care about any of it?
This has nothing to do with me but it has everything to do with retards like you having a chimpout every time you receive the correct stimulus (any mention of anyone doing anything gaming-related on YouTube).

>So some kid has a youtube channel and other kids like to watch it and they talk the way kids these days apparently talk. Does it really impact your life that much?
Holy shit, you're actually trying to turn this around as if I'm the one who now has a problem with e-celebs? Fuck off you piece of shit.

>>2549973
>/v/ sucks too, but at least people actually seem to enjoy video games, there instead of just bitching about everything.

>>2557020
>Holy shit, you're actually trying to turn this around as if I'm the one who now has a problem with e-celebs?

You're losing your shit over them and then saying you're not the one who has a problem with e-celebs?

Also, how am I "chimping out" over them? I don't even watch them. I was simply explaining to you that calling term a meme isn't technically correct.

>>2557020
Literally everything in society can be described as a meme (as in memetic) if you try hard enough and I want to force feed you gravel for thinking the only application the word has is to describe funny cat pictures or running jokes.

>>2557037
>You're losing your shit over them
Except I fucking didn't, you lying subhuman.

>>2557047
Meh. :)

>>2550143
You. You are the one with the signed boxes right?
I'm fucking jelly ;_;

This thread is pretty much proof that one of the primary reasons that threads about personalities who review/commentate/collect old games are shit is because people who insist that the threads are shit go out of their way to make the threads shit by wailing about the shittiness of the threads. Do people do this in GCCX threads? Because if a handful of people spammed said thread with bak2tv or whatever it too would become a shitty thread.

>>2557014
I agree, he is so stupid that it's actually funny. And the word "meme" for anything but "highly popular for spurious reasons" is nonsense.

>>2556640
...You just described this board.

>>2556640
>>2556963
>>2557021

All of you are unbelievably ignorant and are clearly blind to what this board actually is

>>2557047
>calling someone "subhuman"

literally pathetic. fix your life

awesome thread OP

>>2557312
Nope. I don't even like coke.

>>2549973
>No one here enjoys anything. 99% of discussion are about why things suck rather than why they're good.

That sounds more like you're describing /v/ than /vr/. If you're gonna claim this board is cynical about something it'd be the retro gaming community not the games. /v/ is the board where people will use the most insignificant thing as a reason to shit on a game for 500 posts.

>>2557436

I know exactly what kind of shitty kid /vr/ have. Protip: they're in shitty threads like e-celeb shit (like this?), console wars shit and "NOW THE DUST IS SETTLED ALL WE CAN AGREE SONIC/MARIO/CRASH/SPYRO/TOMB RAIDER WEREN'T GOOD GAMES?". Even if you try really hard to find you'll see less bad or unrelated shit here than in /v/ by a huge margin

So wheres the retro video game discussion?
So wheres the retro video game discussion??
So wheres the retro video game discussion???
So wheres the retro video game discussion?????

>>2560479
It never got a chance to happen because of the guy who put a vast amount of effort into trolling the topic complaining that it didn't belong here so that's what the entire thread revolved around.

The irony of course is that had he just ignored it, the people interested would have had their little discussion and then the thread would have fallen off the bottom of the board long ago.

But thanks to that guy coming in and throwing tantrums over it, insisting ridiculous things like there are no mods, or that they only delete Dreamcast threads in a vain attempt to proove his point, it's now a bloated and long running thread that barely ever got to discuss what it was here for in the first place.

>>2561650
>he thinks only one person on /vr/ hates e-celeb threads


stay delusional faggot

>>2549470
He doesn't.

Some games are more maligned than they should be (see: his Zelda 2 video), but for the most part, he takes actually bad games and shits on them.

>>2553732
I dunno, Arino seems to be the least weeb-friendly Japanese guy I can think of.

>>2549671
Mike's videos suck.
Watching James and Mike is definitely enjoyable, and I think they do a fuckton better than their own individual videos (at this point, I can't stand to watch most AVGN stuff)

>>2549717
Definitely. IIRC, he outright said this at some point, and he did the whole AVGN thing because he wanted to do little skits about games.

>>2561660
I didn't mean that he's the only one on here who doesn't like these threads. But it was largely one person doing all the trolling. But even if it was 10 people doing the trolling instead of one or two, the point remains. They're thread shitting for the sole purpose of thread shitting and all they're really doing is making it last longer.

If he or any of you think that trolling these topics does anything good you're deluding yourselves. These threads aren't getting deleted because they're perfectly acceptable for this board. Troll and bitch and whine all you want, but it won't change that.

James and Mike play the ps4 godzilla game made me rage so much.

>>2561702
I don't think he calls Zelda 2 a bad game. He just says it's hard. Same as his Ninja Gaiden / Castlevania vids.

>>2562039
why?

other than the "omg I can't believe I have to pay for PSN"

>>2562049
That was a big part of the rage. The game clearly says "Network battle against other players" then they act shocked when vs mode isn't local. They act like they never heard of PS+. Tons of new games come out with local play.

Other things.
"Oh, I can't go past these lines" in the tutorial mission.
"New games don't come with manuals" bitching.
"Quit telling me stuff, I just want to destroy shit" then "Why isn't this working?" and "I didn't know what was going on"
"How long did it take to install/update?" bitching.
"OMG, his tail clips through buildings" when rotating.
"Too much info on the screen!" bitching.
"OMG, I have to unlock everything!"
"I can only fight mothra and battra?" during the king of kaiju mode.

Shit like that.

>>2556685
Please give me some links to this and maybe some more information sounds great.

>>2562435
Yeah, makes sense.

I usually love their vids but that one definitely made them seem out of touch.

>>2556685
Some people prefer the authenticity and the satisfaction of collection.

Hundreds of millions of people everywhere collect things that have value solely because they are authentic or historical. Retro games are no different. I typically emulate, but for my favorite series / games I love to own a little piece of the "history" of that franchise.

Stop being so obtuse and let people do what they want. Obviously these people fucking know that emulation / flash carts exist.

>>2562627

Some people love to do drugs. Hundreds of millions of people like to do to do them and get the high, it makes them feel alive.

Stop being so obtuse and let people do what they want.

>>2557430
No, he pretty much described /v/.

>>2562620
Same.
I Especially liked the silver surfer episode with bootsie.

>>2562660
>drugs should be illegal!!!

You're still being obtuse, and if I wanted my own comeback I'd suck it out of your mom's vagina.

>>2562660

Nice analogy

>>2562435
>"New games don't come with manuals" bitching.

a sound complaint

>"How long did it take to install/update?" bitching.

updates can be quite annoying

>"OMG, his tail clips through buildings" when rotating.

i thought that this was kind of bullshit too, godzilla's tail destroying buildings is one of his trademarks, and the game seemed really cheaply made

>>2563956
> manuals
Yes but they complain about because they dont know what to do and then skip tutorials that tell them what to do.

> updates
Yes but its a played out complaint if you have played games on computer or modern console. Its also avoidable if you dont want to be online or if you use automatic updates. You still have to install, but thats 99% of pc games for the past 30 years.

> tail
I imagine having tail collision wouldve been difficult and would interfere with gameplay. To me the complaint was similar to someone complaining that their character's armor clips. Plus there seems to be a "tail smash" move. But yes, the game looked like a high res ps2 budget game in the video, but maybe it was just the compression.

>>2549584
>tfw i don't know your underground up and coming e-celeb

>>2552694
No, this is just /v/ for older anons.

>>2549470

>his videos are either historical lessons with humor or him just shitting on shovelware
>"pretends to have controversial/wrong opinions"

I don't understand.

>>2562039
>>2563956
>>2564213

James is totally out of touch with gaming so that doesn't surprise me. Obviously he's been making a movie, and his focus is and really has always been on film.

Mike is more in touch, but its really clear that they're stuck in the past. He even goes to say he hasn't used his PS4 in a long ass time, gets all mad when they have to update.

Playing a shit game, that was quite obviously going to be shit, and then complaining about modern consoles just shows how out of touch they are.

>>2551748
>If people feel they want to give him games, who are you to tell them they shouldn't?

Who are you to tell me I shouldn't warn people against making poor decisions?

>>2562506
http://www.stoneagegamer.com/flash-carts/

>>2564805
That doesn't bother me, I guess, since I'm pretty out of touch as well. Outside of Nintendo, I don't really play many new games.

>>2564805
>James is totally out of touch with gaming

I love how obvious this is when they play a new game.
And James just sits there with this extremely bored face, probably thinking about monster movies.

Also I love how much of a movie buff cliche he is with his monster movies.

Why is it that every "movie buff" is always a monster movie fan? you hardly see them talk about 60's French comedies. its always Godzilla Vs the Cockmonster from outer space.

>my ex gf's brother was just like that, studied movie making in college and had a big fascination with monster/vampire movies.

>>2566004
Obscure/foreign/old enough to appear as a refined taste while not so much of any combination of those traits as to be boring or otherwise repulsive, I'd imagine. I wouldnt be surprised if old monster movies or Godzilla movies are a film-admiring USA kid's first exposure to non-modern or foreign cinema that they can sit through without being bored, so maybe they latch onto it as their model for a film-appreciator's movie? Old Fench comedy kn the other hand might bore said youths to tears, so they dont grow up with a lifelong attachment to them. Maybe like, early monster films are the NES, while things like French comedies are the 2600?

>>2566020
Maybe like, shut up and stop filling up the internet with complete nonsense.

>>2566020
>>2566004
>>2564805
>>2563902
>>2563821
>>2562660
>>2562620
>>2562435
>>2562049
None of this is about retro games.

>>2566049
>>2566052
Go back to your GCCX containment thread and rub one out to Arino or something, then maybe you won't get so triggered? The thread is going off-topic anyway, so I may as well hide it like so many other threads.

>>2566049
>>2566052

Go away Mike, nobody likes you.

>>2566167
Hey, I like mike more than james actually. Mike seems like he is a lot more into gaming than james.
It almost seems like on most J&M mondays, mike plays most of the time and james is just there cause he's popular.

I sometimes wonder how well Mike would've done on his own on youtube.

>>2566062
>>2566167
nice anger there, chief

>>2549696
If a world championship cart was ever stolen, they'd have to send it out of the country to sell it.

>>2551697
>they're on tv so it's ok

Kinda a shit argument, especially when you have to use conan "give me money and i'll act like i can't play a game" obrien

>>2549562
Stolen shit gets sold literally daily on eBay.

You just make a listing, change your ebay profile to read

"Selling off my retro game collection, lots of deals"

You could think, how convenient that AVGN's collection got stolen, and this guy suddenly posted that, but that shit literally happens almost daily. Especially if you held onto it for a few weeks.

>>2550629
>grasping for straws this hard
I don't see why avgn fanboys can't just accept that a lot of people think his stuff got really shitty. You'd probably defend the movie if i called it bad.

>>2549680
When I was a kid I really admired people who had a lot of games. A friend of my uncles who had wall fulls of games and systems. It was like a video rental store. It was amazing.

I wanted it.
I wanted to have a gamesroom like he did.
I wanted to have arcade cabinets, and every system, and a wall full of games that I could sit down and play.

It became my dream, and you know, I actually wanted to achieve it. So I did.

So I just kept all my shit and accumulated what I could, where I could.

I played them as I got them usually, but sometimes things got backlogged. Sometimes a game would look good, and end up being dogshit 10 minutes in.

Over the years my tastes and preferences changed. JRPGs used to be my favorite, but I find them so slow and boring now (literally putting me to sleep at times).

My library is probably like 600 or 700 games now (In universal game cases for carts, most Disc based are complete in box with manual). I am going to look into purchasing an arcade cabinet. A Neo-Geo would be nice, or a Sunset Riders cab would be my preference but I would just really like a pinball machine or a cab.

I've beaten over half of them for sure, but I started tracking recently. Some are still a chore to get through (God of War for instance, I just beat Saga over the last week, was awful, and I loved it as a teenager). Some I never got around to that I was pleasantly surprised with (Vagrant Story I never got around to, Azure Dreams, Dark Cloud, Run Saber, Castle of Dragon, etc).

Gaming is still my number one hobby. Its really nice to walk up to my shelves and pick a game and just sit down and play it. Its what I dreamed about as a kid, and now its my reality.

>>2556685

Literally everytime you mention collections people here always ask "Why not emulate?" Is buying games a foreign concept? Is wanting to collect something unknown to you?

>>2549762
TBF, if I owned something like that, I would probably be trying to boast about it at every opportunity, too.

>>2567287
Some posters are probably young and were first exposed to playing old games via emulators and maybe lack the funds to buy physical carts or grew up with the "pirate everything" mentality. Some might just prefer to spend money on other things and the only value they see in games is data on the carts.

What I really don't get is why people bring up emulation and flashcarts like they are enlightening collectors and casual game buyers. I'd imagine that literally 100% of people who post on this board who buy games know about emulators and flashcarts.

>>2567287
There are a lot more people who just want to play these old games than actually collect them. But there's still a bit of an attitude that emulating isn't really playing them properly and I don't like to see people get suckered into paying premium prices for some of these games when there's really no reason to.

So if someone is just looking to get into retro games then I will always recommend emulation. If they then want to get into collecting, that's great for them. But I see collecting old games as kind of a separate hobby from just playing them.

Also, the way I look at it, the more people there are who emulate instead of buy, leaves more copies of the games available for those who actually do want to collect. So encouraging emulation is always a win-win.

>>2568405
Ahh, so you're THAT asshole that jumps into threads uninvited to give them unwanted advice on something they already know, with a heaping scoop of judgement on it? Great. Piss off then.

People who own games know that most games / systems work "close enough" in emulation. You don't add anything to conversations by spouting the 'lol emulate' shit whenever we're having a games discussion, other than to release that mental diarrhea you seem to have.

And this....
>There are a lot more people who just want to play these old games than actually collect them.
...in response to people who have physical games is just inflammatory retardation. People who has physical copies of the games they play are not 'more interested in collecting than playing', in general. Your bias is pretty damn hard if you think that's the case. For every 'collector for collector's sake', there's easily a block of people ranging from "these games don't emulate for shit (N64)" to "I've had these games since childhood".

>>2568561
Jesus christ you're being obtuse. What the hell judgment do you think I'm putting out? I'm not telling anyone who likes playing on original hardware they're wrong in any way. I still play on original hardware sometimes.

I'm saying that whatever people want to play retro games on is totally cool. But encouraging people just getting into this to play physical as opposed to emulation is backwards.

The point being that if you don't care about collecting the physical objects, there's no reason to. Which isn't to say people shouldn't if they want to for whatever reason. But that it's not necessary at all.

It also has the added benefit of putting less pressure on the retro games market for the people who indeed are interested in collecting the physical objects. The only reason anyone could have a problem with that is if they have a vested interest in keeping prices high because they resell for money. In which case, who gives a shit what they think?

And yes, I am going to post my opinions on this internet forum. If you can't handle that, I recommend seeking professional psychological counseling. There's something wrong with you.

>>2549448
Don't know who he is and personally don't give a shit. I judge retro games for myself. I don't listen to what I can only assume is a youtuber with an opinion.

>>2568575
>And yes, I am going to post my opinions on this internet forum. If you can't handle that, I recommend seeking professional psychological counseling. There's something wrong with you.

When there's topic X, and you randomly jump in with topic Y, that's noise on a signal. And if you're dead-set on being a shitposter when people are happy talking about something else, then it's not we that need "professional psychological counseling".

>>2568580
Why are you telling us white lies?

>>2568583
>When there's topic X, and you randomly jump in with topic Y

Except that's not at all what happened. Good on you for getting upset over it though. :)

>>2568583
>Literally everytime you mention collections people here always ask "Why not emulate?" Is buying games a foreign concept? Is wanting to collect something unknown to you?

I was responding to this. That's not jumping in randomly you fucking retard. I was explaining to him why that happens.

>>2568592
No, you jumped in because of a personal bias. Jealousy towards collectors no doubt.

>>2568596
Holy shit you're fucked in the head. I have no personal bias at all. I both emulate sometimes and play old physical carts sometimes. I keep a Nomad on my bedside table, but I also have a PSP loaded with roms.

I have zero jealousy at all towards collectors, a big part of the purpose of my encouraging people just getting into retro gaming to emulate is specifically to HELP people who collect by keeping prices down.

If someone wants to own Secret of Mana, that's great. But if someone doesn't care about owning it and just wants to experience the game, there's really no reason they should feel the need to buy it physically.

>>2564805
>complaining about retro gamers who don't play modern games on a retro game board

You may be in the wrong place

>>2568575
>>2568561
>>2568575
>>2568561
I've got no dog in this fight but I'd like to say everyone is unique. Times, lives and priorities all change.

I loved games as a kid. My family were the middling of the middle class. Good people both of my parents. They bought me a NES and SNES. That was it.

I got my first job at 14 with a work permit. I met a great girl at school who was also really into vidya. Sex and vidya. Life was fantastic. I owned 22 different consoles by the time I graduated HS.

College came. I brought only 2 consoles with me (N64 and PS2.) Dorm rooms aren't very big and my situation was different as I didn't know anyone. It was intimidating but I made many fast friends and two friends for life. Vidya suddenly took a back seat to drinking, partying, and last minute cram sessions. The very act of gaming shifted from being a leisure time activity and just became the thing you did before you passed out wasted after an average night of drinking. I enjoyed it but not with the same passion I previously had.

>>2568575
>>2568561
I graduated college. I then found myself with nothing but debt and stress. There was no gaming at all for a good two years while I worked for a couple of shit companies. Cubicle life that involved me fantasizing about blowing my brains out daily.

I finally found a job that I don’t necessarily enjoy day to day but actually helps others. (IT for a non-profit that does great things). I suddenly had plenty of room for advancement, a job I was dedicated to, and felt pride in doing. I had some but little time for gaming.

I was introduced to emulation and the power of the save state. I’d read about it online but didn’t grasp the freedom and power of it until a friend showed me. Suddenly I had a means to enjoy content I’d cherished without wasting days at a time on a particularly difficult level.

Years later the retro gaming market inflated to what I thought at the time were ridiculous prices. I strongly considered selling but decided to hang on because it seemed a wise investment. I was less and less interested in my hardware and had every intention of selling down the road.

At this point I’m in my mid to late 20’s and started dating this hot piece of needy and crazy pussy. I stopped gaming all together. It was a toxic relationship that didn’t end well.

Back to things I actually enjoy… I was emulating like a madman when my HS girlfriend got back in touch with me on fb after nearly a decade of each of us doing different shit. We lived close to each other and immediately bonded once more through sex and vidya.

>>2568575
>>2568561
I proposed to her after 3 years together and we are happily married with a kid on the way. Neither of us has much time to do more than emulate (praise the save state). I wouldn’t consider selling those consoles I’d previously collected in my teens because I want my kid to enjoy them. I know they will destroy much of them by just being kids. I don’t care though.

I haven’t collected since the nineties when I was a teen. 22 retro consoles and 400ish games that command a stupid price yet sit in boxes waiting. Waiting to be shared with my kid.

I just wanted to share that none of us are the same person as years go by. I lucked out and collected when it was cheap. I don’t personally have time to play my collection. I have a reason to hang onto it all now however.

>>2568740
>I've got no dog in this fight but I'd like to say everyone is unique. Times, lives and priorities all change.

That's more or less the basis of what I was getting at. We're all coming to retro games from different perspectives. Some of us are reliving childhood favorites, some are checking out things they missed. Others are new to reto gaming in general and are interested in exploring games made before they were even born. Some of us want to collect physical copies of the games and their boxes, to others that's not important at all.

I think so long as we can stay in the mindset of just talking about the games and our experiences with them and not worrying if the guy you're talking to played it on original hardware with a CRT or emulated it on a computer, we'll all be better off.

>>2549671

He was annoying when he was acting out, but it seems to be really nice guy when he is being himself.

>>2568772
I get what you're saying. Some of these guys on this board act like Vietnam vets. "You weren't there man! You don't know." They act like playing a video game as a nine year old is the same thing as the battle at Khe Sanh.

>>2556685
Nostalgia and materialism

Why does game X __ Y
Imagine if [fallacious simile]
Yeah, that's it [gross references]
Swear word

>>2568895
Newfags who didn't live through the first 5 generations of gaming have no idea how different it was with no internet and 4 or 8 bit graphice, just like kids will be about your generation in 20 years.

>>2571158
He has the right attitude though. I'm the one he's responding to and honestly I would far rather the board was populated by more relatively young but interested gamers than some of the other people closer to my age who mostly seem to complain about everything. Banging their old man sticks and yelling that modern gaming is all crap. Those people are the worst.

ass

>>2556685
Because I like to play some games that don't work on Everdrives. (Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Megaman X3, etc)

I guess I could just 'go without' them in order to satisfy some moral superiority, but I'd rather just play video games.

>>2572225
Do those really not run on an Everdrive? Weird. I just use a PSP and it handles them alright. Not as good as my PC, but good enough.

>>2572230
> Weird.
They use chips, don't they? AFAIK, Everdrive doesn't contain those chips.