/vr/ - Retro Games

No, women don't really care about retro gaymes.

>degredation

fuck off

Maybe as a modern thing, I guess? Though, I think money was a bigger driving force, both in the realm of investors and YouTubers.

it properly represents literally any hobby
women/normalfags will ruin absolutely anything

No. The only real con of more widespread interest in retrogaming is the increase of prices. None of this shit really applies because retro gaming is a bit too nebulous to have the type of community corruption this image describes. It'd be like getting upset because Chad started reading books to impress a girl who also reads.

>>4131518
To add to this, I do believe this applies to modern gaming since the market will appeal to the normalfag/secondary market more and more and will affect the types of games that come out. Retro games are static and there is no centralized community.

>>4131518
I guess the closest analogy would be old videogame cons, but I don't have enough experience with those to say one way or the other if they've changed or not.

>>4131530
secondary demographic*
i.e the browns, greens and dudebros in this pic.

>>4131517
>>4131505
no and it's fucking retarded. why the fuck would you care whether 10 people or 10 billion people play a retro game? the game doesn't change you fucking elitist hipster.

the image in the op only applies to evolving hobbies, where new editions/additions still appear and there is new stuff to be dumbed down.
chad thundercock and sl00tie mcsl00tsl00t playing something doesn't mean you can't enjoy it in your own way. unless your 14 and you like 'muh sekrit club'

>>4131542
you're*

>>4131542
Not being a secret club certainly degraded 4chan after 2006.

>>4131556
Why are you still here? You could just to infinity chan and start your own secret club. You won't be missed.

>>4131574

And this comment right here absolutely validates what the comic was alluding to, swapping 'chan culture' for video games of course.

Thanks for proving >>4131517 right.

I wouldn't really call myself a retro gamer. Really I'm just a regular gamer that prefers the familiarity of older games.

Like those old people who still pay with checks even though there's a better way to do it now

Anyone else

>>4131590
>comment
I spy with my little eye a newfag pretending to be an oldfag.

Ive been playing oldies without listening to hipsters or society and they cant touch my vidya habits I dont think your comic is true in my case, I have no friends and I dont want any and stopped following new releases after 2004 anything past that is shit I rarely touch Im baffled theres still videogames in 2017 and people care for these new titles, thats insane, they all have shit taste. You cant casualize retro vidya because it doesnt leave my room.

>>4131517
I too am reviled by m'ladies and chadbros.

>>4131556
well that's because 4chan evolves, the demographics changes, the culture changes and the main point is interaction with people so of course popularity will have it's effect.
that doesn't debunk anything I've sai, in fact it supports it

>>4131505
No, it doesn't. Nothing's stopping you from locking yourself in your room and playing AES games and shitposting about it on /vr/ with other autists. You never have to encounter a single hipster or normalfag.

Technically you could make the same argument about modern games too - you don't HAVE to keep up with all the e-celeb garbage, play with normies, etc - but since the normie culture around modern gaming affects what kind of games get made, the tone of the biggest game conventions, etc, people have more of a reason to be upset.

>>4131620
>>4131530
>>4131542
These

Only if you replace the women with fat, greedy jews, and the normalfags with autistic manchildren and their 95+ gold graded mantlepieces

>>4131505
That's /tg/. Online gaming and "social" games are for hipsters, faggots and normies anyway.

>>4131596

>I'vebeenhereallsummer.jpg

>>4131653
>projecting

>>4131556
4chan stopped being a "sekrit klub" and practically became a brand in 2005. There were a few other imageboards that had some traffic back then too.

>>4131556
>this website stopped being cool literally 11 years ago
>also i am still here complaining about it for some reason

>>4131721
Literally?
The only other imageboard that got it right was one that filled another niche and didn't copypaste all of 4chan's boards at the start like every other imageboard. The format, execution and, for better or for worse, the traffic of the site is what keeps me coming back.

That pic is bullshit in this case. Retro games weren't a fucking guild started by two loser ass neckbeards on an MMO with nothing better to do, they were mass produced by corporations for purchase. There was no fucking "community". If anything, the only downside to the community growing is price increases. Thanks to the community growing, we've guaranteed that these games won't be forgotten and lost in time thanks to how popular emulation development has gotten, not to mention ROMhacking communities and such.

>>4131735
this.

>>4131735
Why would someone care about old games being or not being forgotten they're fucking toys.

>>4131750
The same people who see beating a game as some accomplishment in life.

I don't care about what others think, I still play my old consoles and games and enjoy them the same way I did as a kid.
In a way, I'm kind of grateful that the internet wasn't a mainstream thing when I was a kid, I got to experience vidya in a sort of "pure" state, not many external influences outside of magazines, and talking to other kids or friends about video games, but that was awesome. I didn't get to actually interact with other people online (and saw stuff like console warriors) until later on, years 2000 or 2001.

>>4131750
It's only natural that people desire to preserve things that they see meaning in. Why do you think libraries and museums are made? Media is media, and no matter what form they take media should be protected and archived for those who want to use it. Just because games are akin to toys does not exclude them from this.

>>4131505
It would if it stopped at the 5th panel.

>>4131513
Not true, there are a few of us in /vr/.

>>4131886
and you're a namefag which is the attention whoring the OP pic is talking about. absolutely disgusting.

>>4131886
>"I'm a girl, tee-hee!"
I bet you're not even a trap. By the way, you being interested doesn't say anything about women or any kind of people like /vr/-related games. Ah, what the hell am I even trying to say to you, you're just gonna ignore it because you're too stupid to understand what I and >>4131896 try to tell you and keep namefagging on an anonymous cow milking farm.

>>4131620
>the tone of the biggest game conventions

Some of this is because the game companies are targeting publishers and investors with their keynotes. Normie consumers are more influential on the games themselves.

>>4131513
Some of us do. Retro gaming is just too niche for op's chart to apply

>>4131886
$10 says you're a confused male

>>4131886
LACES OUT

>>4131505
I never really bought the whole "e-celebs make kids go out and buy up all the [x]" until I saw it with my own eyes in person. Holy fuck was /vr/ right, they'll just go out and buy anything their favorite youtuber tells them to

>>4131872
>It's only natural that people desire to preserve things that they see meaning in.
How? I see meaning in them because I grew up in those times, with them around, and they are linked to an specific period of history I happened to be a part of. Different people can see different things, but my meaning is linked to me and only me. Therefore other people playing them is irrelevant.

After I'm dead, they can destroy all the copies of my favourite game for what I care.

>>4131912

i c wut u did thar

>>4131505
>thinking ancient troll bait was ever not bait

It must suck being an angry permavirgin

>>4131970
This guy has the right attitude.

Retro gaming is less reliant on the community, this is more representative of /tg/ communities but the easy solution is to be both a hardcore nerd and a dudebro from the beginning. It may have been necessary to have come of age in the 90s for this to be possible

>>4131886
I would be shocked if you're not a tranny.

If you are an actual woman though, and not a tranny, then that's cool.

>>4131896
>>4131903
>Being this assmad that you can put a name to comments you either agree or disagree with
And somehow she's the fag.

>>4131997
Speaking as someone who came of age in the early 80's, I'd disagree. I love both /tg/ and /vr/, those are two of my favorite boards. Granted, the pic doesn't really cover /vr/ in the way OP is thinking. I can't tell you how many times someone has come up to me and parroted whatever they heard some YouTuber saying about it. For example, someone once told me that Ecco the Dolphin was a boring and uninspired game and that the soundtrack sucks. After talking with them a bit about it, I found out that the 17 year old in question had never actually played it and they had only watched some YouTubers.
/tg/ stuff on the other hand, this is completely correct. Can't tell you how many times I've had someone bring someone else to a game and I've told them they are never allowed to bring that person back and that they can't invite people into my house randomly.

>>4131997
>It may have been necessary to have come of age in the 90s for this to be possible

Or 80's. This attitude that games are for "nerds" and "dudebros" are an outside invading force is relatively new and probably mostly based on TV tropes.

In the 70's, 80's and 90's it wasn't unusual in any way for someone to be into both video games and sports.

Tabletop games less so, but even then it wasn't unheard of and girls, while uncommon certainly weren't unheard of and I never saw a group or campaign implode because of them. I'm pretty sure the comic in OP's post was always meant to be satirical though.

>>4132007
>being this new

fuck off, the whole point of 4chan is 'anonymous' you fucking newfag.
also a bit ironic that you're saying that while OP posted that pic. you're literally the fucking faggot that joins, then laughs about the way it is and tries to change it.
fuck off from this site.

>>4132015
>For example, someone once told me that Ecco the Dolphin was a boring and uninspired game and that the soundtrack sucks.

To be fair, Ecco is one of my favorite games of all time and I've been recommending it for years and years. I know many people I otherwise respect and like who formed that opinion on their own.

I don't think this describes retro gaming per se, but it does kind of apply to the history of video gaming in general. The Dude Bros are definitely personified by the PlayStation userbase once the PS1 became popular. These are the same people who started screaming CASUALLLSSSSS when the Wii came around and I just laugh and laughed over the irony.

>>4132021
Been here since '06.
Also, I was pretty sure that the point of 4chan was to have fun, but that's okay, Anon. You can keep the gate as much as you like, the Mongol horde is already here.
But hey, at least you have your anonymity.
It's not like every IP that touches this site is monitored.

>>4132025
Ecco is one of my favorite games as well, and I can see that it's definitely not for everyone, but it's far from uninspired.

>>4132053
The dudebros are fine. They don't care about gaming, but they don't harm anyone either. The people from the comic that are ruining the hobby are hipsters, SJWs, and feminists.

>>4132053
Funny because I laugh at the people who think it started with Playstation.

>>4132067
>hipsters, SJWs, and feminists

/vr's favorite boogeymen.

>>4132068
True, the Genesis had its share of dudebro sports gamers, but to me the PS1 marked where video gaming stopped being a niche hobby for 'nerds' and morphed into a more mainstream industry.

>>4132071
Come to North Carolina and say that. Plenty of hipsters here who want to collect all those things but never play them. They also talk about how amazing those games are, yet when you try to talk in depth about any game and what you liked/disliked, typically they freeze up.

>>4132071
Whenever I mention SJWs on this board I mainly get responses like yours telling me that I'm a retard, so I don't know if I would call it "/vr/'s favorite boogeyman".

Anyway if you believe that they're a boogeyman at this point, then you either don't follow modern gaming at all or you at least tacitly support what they're doing and therefore don't see them as a problem.

video games

>>4132078
>but to me the PS1 marked where video gaming stopped being a niche hobby for 'nerds'

That's probably because you were still young. Video games were never really a niche game for nerds. The guy who taught me about emulators in the 90's is a sports writer now. Many of my friends from back then were into both kinds of games.

The notion that video games were ever a niche nerd was mostly made up by TV in the first place.

>>4132061
>here since '06
>doesn't know tripfags have always been frowned upon
>still tries to shit on people shitting on tripfags
yeah sure newfag.

>>4131556
It's always been shit. Only difference now is that it's been shit for longer than it used to be.

>>4132007
Put your trip back on, Sevenleaf. We know it's just you.

>>4132000
she's a muslim tranny

>>4131970
That's entirely fine, actually. I know I just said preservation is important, but we don't all have to do that. As long as at least one person is doing it, that's all that matters. The rest of us can enjoy things in the moment while we have them.

I should give a frame of reference here. I'm relatively younger than some posters on this board, only 24. I did not have the Atari 2600, or the NES, or anything like that. But I can go back to those games now and see them for myself, enjoy them just like others did back then. I'm very grateful that I can do that, and that's why I see value in preservation.

Games are things that bring people joy, and we live in a world where even old games can still do that, even with newer ones on the market. That makes me happy, and I'd be sad to see these disappear forever.

>>4132117
>>4132148
It's not like they haven't been shat on forever, but it's kinda nice to be able to verify who it was who made such and such post and either credit them or flame them for it.
But hey, to each their own.
>Still being this assmad

>>4132185
Besides, some of my favorite posts have come from trip-fags. BOOF was one of my favorites on /k/.

>>4132190
it's so obvious you have not been here since 06 it's becoming cringy you even tried to claim it in the first place.

>>4132185
>it's kinda nice to be able to verify who it was who made such and such post and either credit them or flame them for it.
go to reddit then.

>>4132071
>all those hipsters destroying and making complete shit with game hardware.
>boogeymen

>>4132196
back*