/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4822373
This seems to be most of /vr/, considering the average poster's tastes and the push for 6th gen

Any game made after 2008 is trash anyway.

>>4822385
I disagree

I play both, but I just enjoy retro games more and don't buy very much current gen shit.

Alienates the fuck out of me from my friends, while they all have hour long conversations about the overwatches and monster hunters and gods of war.

Must be nice being able to play together online whenever you want. Who does dumb ol' couch gaming anymore?

>>4822380
yup, right here

I can afford it but i don't see the point. Why should I buy some $300 console if i'm only gonna play one or two games on it?

>>4822385
yes

does the fact that I don't like contextual movement and quick time events make me an edgy contrarian? this, along with the fact that graphics aren't advancing anymore (they actually get worse because of the lack of proper art directions), has made me completely abandon current gen AAA titles.

>tfw buying dumb collectorfag garbage costs more than just getting a PS4 or something
>and then you end up playing Nethack or something anyway

If I had money, I'd join Redump.org's effort to get all the PC games done.

Otherwise, I'm not buying into this dumb industry, anymore. You got 20k+ toys to play with, but ya just gotta buy into the next corporate scheme at the drop of a hat and wonder why Copyright laws continue to get worse.

Modern vidya is getting pozzed up by proggy’s aids-dick to the point where buying their transtrender products is the same as paying someone to slap you.

>>4822542
To this day I still think of prog rock when I read or hear "proggy". Too bad the word is being tainted.
Here, have some NES Zelda dungeon music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgWtlls6Cno

Most of the pc games I have in my Steam library are probably pre-2005. Mostly because my computer is shit and would probably explode if I tried to run a current gen game on it.

I have a PS4 and still use it, but I think the most recent game I bought for it was DS3. I used to get really excited for the release of videogames, and want to try them as soon as possible, but games are expensive as shit now, and I'd rather wait for a few months and see what kind of reception they get before picking up a used copy of something, rather than spend top price for potential disappointment.

>>4822549
>I still think of prog rock when I read or hear "proggy"
same

>>4822385
>le "ALL modern games are trash" maymay

>>4822385
>am I fitting in with /vr/ yet?

>>4822659
If you love modern games so much, maybe you should keep your ass on /v/.

>>4822672
I just love games, m8. I don't keep myself in a delusional bubble which believes there hasn't been a single good one made after a certain point in time.

>>4822373
SMS is current gen in your 3rd world shithole huefag

>>4822695
You're absolutely right. There have been a few good games that have come out in the last decade--but if you're expecting us to believe that this onslaught of "games" (walking simulators and interactive movies, etc) from the last 8 years are good, maybe it's you who's deluded.

>>4822730
Not him, but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbqLLB3dMFQ

>>4822730
>Okay there have been SOME good games
>But still none of them are good!

>>4822695
Wholeheartedly this.

>>4822542
Back to >>>/pol/, tardo.

>>4822745
>"But still non of them are good!"
>Implying EVERY game that came out in the last decade were walking sims, interactive movies, etc)

Jesus fucking Christ.

Nah, I'd rather kill myself than play cultural marxism propaganda known as "modern games".

>inb4 butthurt degenerate tells me to go to /pol/

>>4822752
>>4822734

>>4822758
>>4822734
looks like a smash tv clone with a graphics upgrade, it amazes me how these people manage to sell the same games over and over again

>>4822759
>clone
Made by the same guy and it's actually of the finest quality

>>4822385
>>4822659
Hes not wrong ive only bought 2 games this gen (bb and ds3) its really shitty. Still finding old games that are more fun to play

Shit thread, I'm gonna hijack it to talk about GoG.

They've gone downhill from what I remember of them. Used to be you could buy some pre-packaged game and it would run on anything from XP forward. Now half the retro games I get from there don't run properly on any OS, require third party fixes if it runs, or suffer from graphical, audio, or control glitches. They are hiding behind the 30-day money back promise, but honestly how many people are going to have time to test all the games they buy in a sale just to make sure the games actually function? If you go looking through their forums, you'll find MANY games that don't work right and GoG ignore complaints about.

So if you were planning on spending money on their summer sale, just pirate instead. You'll be getting the same product AND the same level of customer support.

>>4822760
>same game mechanics from 25 years ago, no innovation whatsoever
>slap some different art over it
>this passes for "finest quality"
please stop shilling your crap here, keep that in /v/ where it belongs

>>4822773
This isn't an issue of retro but of the fact that pc is a joke tier shit platform.

>>4822773
I wonder if whatever the equivalent of GoG is in twenty years will just run Windows 98 in a VM to play these old games.

Not to sound like a GoG shill, but trying to patch every game in your catalogue with every successive OS that comes out sounds like a pretty tall order. Shipping something that runs through DOSBox is easy, you just figure out whatever config for DOSBox works the best for the game, and let DOSBox worry about working right with every version of Windows.

If there's old libraries or OS hooks or whatever that had equivalents in Windows 7 but not in Windows 10, I imagine GoG can only do so much at some point, beyond having everything in a pre-built VM, which complicates things since they would need permission to redistribute Windows 98 or whatever.

I'm not saying they shouldn't do what they can so people aren't paying for games they aren't play. At the very least games with large numbers of compatibility reports should have a warning on the webpage, troubleshooting guides, etc. But it does sound like a difficult problem from the technical side, rather than just sheer laziness.

>>4822810
Forgot to add -- it seems like it's mostly post-DOS, late 90s to early 2000s games that people seem to have a lot of compatibility issues with, which makes me think of the theory about deprecated libraries or whatever.

>>4822752
>spout distilled retardation in the form of /pol/shit
>btw i'm not from /pol/ so don't say anything mean to me!!!!

>>4822373
There's plenty of new games that are light, cheap, free, and "free", many of which are far more challenging than anything allowed on this board.

Are y'all cucked by morality?

>>4822818
>new games...which are far more challenging than anything allowed on this board.

Kek, I love it when devs today call their games hard or challenging as a mask to hide the fact that they're actually broken and unfinished.

No brah! It's not a bug, it's a feature!

>>4822845
t. brainlet ~~who~~ that can't into dynamic experiences

I'm not a retro gamer. I'm just waiting for the new games I bought to be finished so I can play them.

>>4822849
Face it, the hardest game you normies have ever played is Flappy Bird, and that came out (and left) years ago.

>>4822817

Have you taken your daily dose of nigger dick yet?

>>4822859
>i'm not from /pol/! i'm not from /pol/ and i don't belong there either!
>NIGGERS NIGGERS NIGGERS!!!!

>>4822860

>everything i hate is /pol/

>>4822865
Welcome to 4chan.

>>4822865
>/pol/shit doesn't belong on /pol/! it's not a containment board, and i'm not leaking! it's freedom of speech! it's LE 4CHANZ!!!!

>>4822773
GoG is amazing stfu.
>all you need is an .exe
So i can just download it straight from the internet. Install and play.
Not tinkering with cracks and shit with steam copies.


Dog bless Gog!

>>4822385
Risk of Rain is my favorite game.

>be me
>buy a brand new gaming pc last year, over $1000
>end up playing nothing but doom 2 and daggerfall

>>4822659

>>4822638
Computer barely even improve anymore anyway. If you've a decent graphics card from 5-7 years ago you might be surprised.

>>4822373
I actually have a brand new pc with I7 8700k processor and a 1080ti which i've used exclusively for emulating snes so far.

>>4822773
I don't buy GOG games anymore because some games don't receive patches as quickly as steam does. Some games stay outdated for years and I have all the old games I want from it anyways.

i only have an acceptable PC for sims (euro truck, fishing planet and soon maybe jurassic world). For fun gameplay, retro and indies are enough.

I could afford one or two, I just don't want to because I'm a cheap fuck.
I do have a decent PC and I play new games on it, but I pirate them all. Only thing I miss out on is online play, which I don't care about at all.

>>4822373
>tfw i spent 500 pounds on a graphics card but have been sucked back into dreamcast and gamecube games

i even bought a 2nd 4k tv to use the framemeister ni the living room so i dont have to switch from the pc to other consoles

>>4822752
Ey, go to pol and stay there.

>>4822865
>everything i hate is reddit

>>4822752
It's kind of odd that the average /vr/tard is willing to sift through the mountains of Atari 2600 trash, low-tier ZX-Spectrum shit & whatever other ancient comp that barely produced colors that didn't look like colorful vomit diarrhea laced with period stains, but the idea of going to MobyGames or wherever to look through the catalog of 20k+ old, broken gamez is just totes more so much more logical & funzorz than searching through the 20k+ modern shit pile of gamez.

>b-but, muh Walking Simulators
You mean SwordQuest: Waterworld & ET?
Oh wait...

>>4822373
Price is part of the reason for me but I also prefer retro games over modern games in many cases. Why should I pay 60 bucks for a new Pokemon game when the old ones, which I've already bought and own, look nicer and probably even have more content and a better battle system?

Why should I pay money for a game like Ni No Kuni: Revenant Kingdom when it's apparently just a series of fetch quests? I already own tons of amazing JRPGs that don't force me to kill 10 groups of 10 enemies just to advance the plot.

I mean, I get that people might enjoy new games. Times change, and the 'smartphone generation' prefers things to be easy and packaged in short bursts. And I do like some modern games - the 3DS is my favorite handheld console. But from what I've seen I don't see the need to spend money on a Switch or PS4.

>>4823362
>you will never be a booty blasted numale /v/irgin
Why LIVE?!

>the biggest burden is knowing none other of your lineage will have love for any of the retro games you love

>>4823375
Hell yeah. I've gone through 3 different versions of OG Hydlide cuz I'm good like that.

Here's some trippy Jap freeware. Play it before the e-celebs get to it so we can be cool hipsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9mQPI73aV8
http://www.geocities.jp/akatuki_twilight/soft/soft.html

>>4822549
I think of the Progs from the new Star Treks.

>>4822373
You can download ppsspp and the games for free. Most of those games are only 10 - 15 years old. You can also buy PS3 or 4 pretty cheap from a 2nd hand store, games are only $10

>>4823420
every Playstation game can be pirated as of now.

>>4822373
I play both, but /v/ is a shithole so I browse /vr/ instead.

>>4822925
Oh, you aren't alone anon...

>be me
>work mostly to buy and build parts for computer
>spend pretty much every bit of play money on computer parts
>have a computer that is around $10,000 (I have quite a few parts that are more than $1000)
>exclusively play Quake 1 levels. Not ones found on the internet, the old shovelware packs from 1996.
>run Quake 1 on 1.06 with DOSBox with no source ports
>get to experience the lag of unoptimized shovelware levels
>be me
>hate most old games due to clunky mechanics
>hate Doom and Heretic because obsession with getting 100% completion and experienced too many bad PWADs from 1994
>hate Hexen due to button hunts and respawning enemies
>hate the NES and SNES, don't like platformers as it is frustrating tedium
>I enjoy immersion in my games
>Hate Daggerfall because of how buggy and maze-like it gets, hate Arena a little less as it is far less of a problem
>probably would like modern games
>don't touch them as I wish to see the natural progression of games over the years
>instead spend life on games I mostly hate
>my happy place is running around in a boxy Quake map with one texture and imagining I have other people who joined my LAN connection
>don't care about graphics, I just want a game that is highly emotional
>I find Quake 1 the most emotional game of all time

Stop lashing out at anime, just because someone pointed out the objective fact that your degenerate music is garbage.

Anime has nothing to do with it! Leave anime alone!

>>4822385
Why 2008?

>>4822385
fixed
>2005

>>4822373
I'm by your side OP. I don't complain too much since there are a lot of great and underappreciated retro games, but for time to time I wish I could play that modern videogame .

The worse of all is that there are almost no good debates around old videogames: There are no secrets anymore, all the information you could possibly need is inside a FAQ, no one shares excitement for replaying the games. If you stick enough time around here, you will figure out that threads revolve around suggestions and nostalgia (let alone collecting), which I don't since I never played those games when I was a child.

Now contrast it to threads about new games: everything is new, you can share your impressions on the game, you might actually discover something new that has not been reported in a wiki yet, and new games have a small chance to actually innovate.

I play retro games because new games are often too difficult for me.

There's always a big learning curve with all the buttons and then there are the game mechanics.

I had an easier time getting true ending in super ghouls and ghosts than finishing bioshock at normal difficulty.

Anyone else having this problem?

>>4824004
Sounds like you prefer arcade style, pick up and play challenging games rather than games that are harder to get into at first but are in fact a cakewalk

>>4822385
Dustforce and Rivals of Aether are two of my favorite games though.

>>4824002
>The worse of all is that there are almost no good debates around old videogames: There are no secrets anymore, all the information you could possibly need is inside a FAQ, no one shares excitement for replaying the games.
Discovering old games is like dating a girl that everybody fucked before you. Being a retrofag is suffering, anon.

>>4824002
>Now contrast it to threads about new games: everything is new, you can share your impressions on the game, you might actually discover something new that has not been reported in a wiki yet, and new games have a small chance to actually innovate.

Do you want a TCRF General, then? I mean, I added the regional differences on there for Mega Man II GB like 2 years ago before I got immediately sick of how cancerous wikis are. All I did was just fire up all the versions next to each other in an emu and played through them all simultaneously, stopping at every new screen.

I didn't find this, but the hidden message in this one is a masterpiece:
https://tcrf.net/Hisou_Kihei_X_Serd

There's a glitch in Blaster Master that's not listed anywhere currently. If you exit the tank and jump to your death on top of the tank, after you bounce, you have a 1 frame window to land next to the tank, enter it and be fully healed.

Is there a vid somewhere that showcases that you can kill the first encounter of Elec Man in Mega Man NES by entering the room facing him, not moving and firing timed, Buster-only shots in which you can kill him without taking damage or moving?

>>4824446
The old girl has been fucked and discarded, desperate for the D, but modern gaming is like being a cuck to a chick who is currently being fucked and talked about by everyone.

>>4822373
I know this feeling. All of my friends tell me about the fun they have on Xbox One, and I wish I could join them, but the Xbox One X even when it was discounted to $410 is still way too expensive for me. Graphics cards and RAM prices are so out of hand that it is just better for me to build a "time machine" computer when it's the only affordable option. I am happy with the games I kept from back then, I still enjoy them a lot, but it is embarrassing to mention I play all the old games around co-workers. I was glad the government gave a rebate back in 2008 for purchasing a digital television converter box, as that's how I get my broadcast TV on my CRT screen, but it's not like any friends would want to visit to watch the NBA finals on a SDTV. I however, do get to visit my friends, but don't even have a modern enough phone to send stuff to their TVs to watch or games to play. The Switch is pretty cool, but it costs so much, and the damn Wii-U never dropped in price despite "failing" which is frustrating since I waited for a price drop that never came. I am starting to see "Windows 7 in 2018" and "is Windows 7 still relevant" overloading my feed for YouTube and sadly, Windows 7 is my daily drive on my old PC, yet I am starting to see websites not support the old browsers available to me. Again, I still loe the games, but it just sucks being left behind because my earnings does not allow me to keep up.

>>4822373
The reason I got into /vr/ was because when I was a kid, I chose between shitty PS1 shovelware or Super Mario Bros. 3.

>>4824004
Yep, Ninja Gaiden and Silver Surfer are a walk in the park for me, but I can't play a game with a 40-button controller.

The newest game I regularly play is TF2. an 11 year old game.

>>4822385

nah theres just so many games coming out that filtering through shit is harder

>>4823616
dude that's just weird and not like most of us are but... i dunno, weird.

You're like the /vr/ individual of /vr/.

>>4822373
This is why I've enjoyed having a PC for so many years. Buy the hardware, pirate everything else. The fact that retro is accessable through it is just a bonus.

>>4822410
i feel this too anon.

I play modern and old video games and I pity those that don't.

>>4822373
don't worry, poorfag. there are hardly any games worth paying full price for. the last game i paid full price for and enjoyed and was glad i spent the money was dark souls 3, and that game is hard as balls...just like fuckin' old games.

>>4825036
I made the mistake of buying a ps3 just for dark souls and demon souls. sure they are great games but I have like 12 games for my ps3.Just on my snes/nes I have about 60. and most old games are better than the recent ones. Its just not worth buying new games.

>>4823125
I find it sad, I've bought nearly 200 games from them since I was happy to see some company putting effort into making old games work properly on newer OS's and hardware. Now I really don't want to splurge on a bunch of titles since I need to test everything before the 30 day limit is up. It seems GoG cares more about marketing Witcher and indie games than making old games work properly anymore.

Oh well, at least PC emulators are getting better. Starting to get to the point where we can emulate XP capable machines. Soon all we'll need is original install media files for flawless retro PC gaming.

>afford
>ever buying vidya

are you retarded? also current gen is shit always has been

>>4822373
>tfw I would buy a PS4 if it could play ps1 or ps2 but Sony hates its fans
>only have a Switch since I saw one used for less than retail
>xbone has little to no games that interest me other than Rare Replay and the backwards compatibility is specialized for each game, so most devs don't feel like porting their old games
Also retro and 6th-7th gen games are getting cheap, much cheaper than keeping up with the handful of decent modern releases.

>>4824526
I bought an original model Xbox one for ~$230 taxes and all about 2 years ago. If you really want to play with your friends you can probably get an older model for $200 or less now.

>>4824526
if you want a cheap HDTV you should look for an old DLP TV on fagbook marketplace. I found a 720p Sony DLP TV for $20. The viewing angle on them is shit but the image quality is better than most cheap LCDs

>>4825867
>DLP TV
all the bad of rear projection without any of the good. sage advice

>>4822875

>>4826787
>you can only can only have it as long as there isn't a creepy furry/cropped porn pic

these people are bent on nothing short of total destruction of our way of life and traditions

I play retro vidya because it's usually dirt cheap, not because I hate modern vidya.
tfw kids these days are saying that OoT is shit because Arin Hanson said so

>>4822773
Yeah some of the games I downloaded a year ago work, but the last few games are just totally broken. I even got a refund on one (in GOG credit, of course), downloaded two cheaper games, and neither of them work.

The fact that they mostly ignore complaints if they are out of options is another slap in the face, so I'm done with them.

I thought that too many years ago and then I got myself a ps2. I had fun with it, yeah, but it was when I realized these games where you get to be cameraman aren't for me. As far as consoles go I don't really care but I did enjoy playing a wide array of online pc games but as you get older spending your time with random kids and teens isn't worth.

>>4822773
IMO, if you can't be bothered to troubleshoot games yourself, stick to consoles. Games WILL break over time, you can't "just fix it for modern computers" because soon modern computers will be old computers.

It's not like it's hard to do.
pcgamingwiki.com/

>>4822752
Just play Japanese games. They are free of sjw bs. The only western games I own this gen are Dirt Rally, Minecraft, Sonic Mania, and Rocket League. The rest of my library is Japanese games. And guess what, no cultural marxistism.

>>4822373
Eh, not too hung up about it.

>>4822772
>>4822385

Your own poor tastes don't line up with the record breaking sales of new games. Even adjusting for more people gaming, the attachment rate of games per console is up.

>>4822431
All you have to do is look at Beyond Two Souls (2013) and Detroit(2018) to see that isn't true.

Or any game from 3 years ago compared to this year.

>>4822385
t. grandpa

>>4822385
Fallout: New Vegas.

ring a fucking ding ding you what in the godamn.

>>4827169
Anon you have a quarter behind your ear.

>>4822385

Although I think you're probably just trying to trigger vr I'm sure lots of people think this way. Sonic Mania is genuinely my favorite Sonic game so you're already wrong.

>>4827217
it's just a lazy way to collect recommendations.

>>4822373
huh? that makes no friggin sense at all, since old games are more expensive that recent ones.

>>4822373
eh, I used to know that feel, but when I examined my tastes and discovered the ends of what I find aesthetically pleasing in vidya, it really boils down to the fact that classic games indeed do have a certain character to them that modern devs cannot recapture on account of technology and the proliferation of plot or ((())) considerations over raw use of limited hardware.

classic games play like vodka. they are the distilled essence of what a particular piece of hardware is capable of.

modern games play like soda. they aren't even alcohol. they're subsidized corn syrup mixed with fuzzy water.

>>4822385
2008 is a weird way to say 2000.

>>4822385
The "doujin" & Jap freeware sphere is the only way to experience good vidya post-2008.

>>4827381
imagine being this deluded

>>4827286
>nobody keeps old games

>>4822373
I've stopped caring about modern video games when they basically started fucking you in the ass when you try to own something physically, force you to preorder to get all the games' (limited) content and sell expansions for $20 for 1 hour of gameplay

>>4822373
Hi brethren. Spent nothing on this set up because I'm poor. It's now a emulation/lowspec pc. Been playing shit like Neverwinter Nights 2 and currently playing Shadow Hearts.

>>4827764
Come on dude, how can you call this poor?

>>4827771
Only thing worth money are the headphones.

>tfw your attention span is too low to play anything but retro games

If I can't load and play it instantly it's too much effort

>>4827751
I gave up on modern gaming when Nintendo started doing limited production runs on everything they release, so I either have to stay awake to ungodly hours in the night for a shot at a pre-order in the 30 second window available to me before they all sell out, or pay triple MSRP to a scalper.

It's less the cost, but the fact that I'm simply unable to keep up with all the videogames. Hell, I've been living as a NEET for the past two years, and I still don't dedicate that much time for vidya. It's an enjoyable hobby, but just one of my hobbies, and my reading/watching list is just as endless as my playing list. I feel like some people spare every spare minute on vidya and have seemingly done everything. I can't really do shit like that anymore, more than 2-3 hours a day just makes me bored.
The newest console I own is NDS, and I've barely scratched the surface of its library in the last 2 yeaes, so I don't see myself ever "catching up" with current gen releases.

It's not so bad. You have an entire collection to go through, people have already done the legwork to expose which are the best, and obviously, it's all freely accessible.
It's a gift, not a curse.
It will last you through your tough times, last long enough for you to break into something else, be it modern vidya or a new hobby altogether.

I didn't mind playing Atari-SNES while everyone else had playstations and shit. I had a ton of good options regardless. Now the options are even more for people.

>>4822373
> can't afford
just pirate them. all new games get a hack and release not long after they're released on steam. i can't tell you where to find them here but that's always an option, that way you'll never miss out a new release ever again. just don't listen to morals preaching, hypocritical clueless faggots here that cry about piracy yet are happy to have huge rom collections for their favourite console or handheld ;)

>>4827013
> record breaking sales
not many games out there that can claim that. besides, since when does 'best selling' mean it's a fucking good game?
i'll tell ya when: since fucking never.

>>4827938
oops.. -best selling +record breaking

>>4822817
t. butthurt degenerate

>>4826756
It was $20 though

>>4827938
>yet are happy to have a huge rom collections
You do realize there's a difference with pirating games that aren't being sold anymore and games that only got released in the past few months, right?
>;)
Oh so you were just shitposting. Nevermind.

>>4827286
Emulators dude.

>>4822410
>Who does dumb ol' couch gaming anymore?

When Sonic Mania came out I got back in touch with my brother and we did a Sonic & Tails run together, just like old times. Shame you barely see games like that anymore.

>>4827954
>responding to a post from 3 fucking days ago
You guys are about as sharp as a bag of wet mice, huh?

Only thing modern I play is switch. All it needs is more games but I enjoyed the demo for Mario tennis aces and there’s some games to look toward to. I wish we could talk about ps2 here.

>>4828442
>I wish we could talk about ps2 here.

>>4826810
But OOT is shit, not because of that fag, but because it is a boring mess with shitty combat and exploration.

>>4822385
>after 2008
Funny way to spell "2002"

>>4822659
>>4822671
>haha you're just tryharding if you don't eat shit, haha, I'm definitely not addicted to steady diet of s.o.y.

>>4822385
*blocks your path*

>>4830595
>a game that's considered good because is heavily inspired in retro games

>>4830723
If it ain't broke don't fix it.

>>4830727
Unless it's to clean the conductive coating off your controllers rubber bits amirite?

>>4830595
Was this really wrapped in gold?

>>4822373
There's very little you can't pirate now, even though you may have to wait a month or three because of Denuvo. Anything you have to pay for these days has very little appeal for anyone who genuinely enjoys retro games. Online games are fucking trash.

>>4822373
you arent missing out on much

>>4824526
>multiple everdrives in pic
>too poor for an xbox or a half decent phone
go bullshit somewhere else.

>>4827938
> You do realize there's a difference with pirating games that aren't being sold anymore and games that only got released in the past few months
it's still piracy, faggot. prove me wrong.

>>4831356
Yes, both are piracy but that's not the point. In one case, the copyright infringement could actually harm both developers and publishers for new games. However with most /vr/ related games (especially those that didn't get re-released on digital services or compilations) the vast majority of people who worked on those games back then already got their compensation and none of them will individually sue you if you download some ROMs or ISOs. If anything, some developers even stated they don't care if you got them legally or not (like what Romero wrote about Doom and Wolfenstein 3D). Sure, from a technical point of view the copyright on it is still active but unless you're an attorney for a publisher that is still in the game like Nintendo and if you risk a C&D because you hosted a rom/iso domain, chances are very, very unlikely you'll get sued for them.

There's more to law than the written law itself, you know.

>>4826787
>you can have some pretty good discussion there
Has this guy ever been on any boards he listed? Good discussion on this entire site is rare.

recommend some ps1 or ps2 games that I possibly haven't played, thanks /vr/

>>4832024
Only PS1 since PS2 is off-limits
-Mega Man X4
-Gradius Gaiden
-R-Type Delta
-Sa·Ga Frontier
-G-Darius
-ZANAC X ZANAC
-Wipeout series

>>4831356
yeah it's technically piracy. who gives a shit? are you a lawyer or something?

>>4822373
dumb frog poster

Even if i had the money
I would rather play a game than playing a movie pretending to be a game

>>4832046
I mean, compare the setpieces of something like Contra Hard Corps and the Uncharted games.
The first is still extreme and ridiculous, but you're actually in control there
Fucking storyfaggotry

I know that feel, but I'm not too sad about it because I can enjoy the classics most modern gamers would miss. Also
>tfw no gf to coop System Shock 2 with and bond even stronger as we play

I recently got a gaming monitor for my newer gen consoles and been enjoying them more as a result. I mainly play fighters, rhythm games and shmups so it helps alot.

>>4832053
My fellow arcade lover (even if rhythm games aren't my thing at all)

>>4825184
I did the same but don't consider it a mistake. I've put as many hours into Dark Souls as any of my favorite retro games.

Meanwhile I'd consider it a mistake to have bought 60 games for my NES and SNES back in the day when I only actually played a small handful of them for any substantial length of time. Most of the time I just rented games.

just get a pc and pirate you fucking idiots lmao

>>4827013
That just means the tastes of the droves of normies who play games nowadays are bad.

>>4832213
Was just playing Gunbird 2. RIP stuff like this
And no, no new crappy indie shooter ever comes close to stuff like that

>>4822385
Not necessarily, but it's true in the overwhelming majority of cases.

So many cool games due out for Xbox they showed off. I will try to make the effort to visit my friends to play them, but I am just sad that I cannot just take the time to truly invest into them. I could only stay over and take over their TV/game system only for so long.


>>4825858
I just watched that Microsoft conference and saw a lot of games I am interested in. I fear, that the big fat Xbox would no longer suffice, especially even at its current selling price of just over $200USD, which is a lot of money. I have been hoping there was some "fell off a truck" price of Xbox One X on my local craigslist, but they all go for $500+. I know it is a large up-front investment for a bargain with game pass down the line, but scratching together 500 burger bux is very difficult. Admittedly I also kinda want the X because it has a flat top with no intake/exhaust fan to cover up when I stack something above it. I guess it is not only playing with friends, but all those games too.


>>4825867
I don't have facebook. I was considering my local pawn shop for a HDTV. I have been hearing good things about those Chinese TCL TVs lately but $280 for the cheapest model on amazon will take a bit to earn. Though that is an amazing find at $20, I lack the vehicle and muscle to transport the cheap TVs available in my area. At this point perhaps a good TV is not high on my priorities.


>>4831335
I have mentioned that those everdrives I have are Chinese knockoffs which are a fraction of the price of the real thing, but come with issues related to Chinese bootleg manufacture. My phone is an old phone which had way too much use its power button is starting to get difficult to use. It emulates SNES and Genesis okay, but it really struggles to browse the internet. I have been looking on aliexpress for replacement parts to fix it but I have to find the tiny star shaped screw bit to open it up first. Things are not cheap here.

>>4822373

Sort of to begin with. I always had a shared current gen console until my older brother moved out and took the console with him. I could afford to get my own, but I decided to buy retro instead to save some money.

I expected it to be a temporary novelty, but I haven't turned back and although I save a lot of money on games (I use flashcarts), I actually spend more on retro hardware (PVM, arcade sticks, mods, video switchers, etc). than I'd spend on modern gaming

>>4831498
>actually harm shady devs
Who gives a shit? Oh woe is the Toy Maker who might actually have to get a Real Job™ with the actually productive industries.

>food producer goes under
>not a single tear from anon
>shuts up about it almost instantly
>"oh well"
>EA shuts down some retarded dev division
>can't shut up about it for years

Ya know, maybe if peeps gave more legal protections and praise for shelf stockers doing something that's actually useful for humanity's survival we'd have less widespread bullshit, but when they lose their jobs on behalf of corporate's shit, it's but a fart in the wind compared to this dumb industry that should just die already.

>>4832501
>food analogy
That can't be a good sign ...
>real job with the actually productive industries
How can you call the video game industry not productive? It's one of the most succesful in the world. What do you even define as productive and why should others care about that?
>gave more legal protection
What legal protection and to whom? There's already a ton of regulations for both consumers, governments and companies for media in general. For what reason do you need even more of that? Because you're a little bitch who cries about the "Toy Makers" who have to get "Real Jobs"?
>useful for humanity's survival
Like what? There's already tons of other industries like that nowadays.
>we'd have less widespread bullshit
What exactly are you talking about? What is bullshit to you in this context? Your incoherent drivel on an imageboard for older videogames about how something is different from what you personally want it to be?
>this dumb industry that should just die already
So because you don't like how something is you just want it to die and bring misery to millions of people? You are incredibly selfish and ignorant.

People like you don't have to remind me it's summer, you know.

>>4822373
I bought a decent gaming PC a couple of years ago to play all of the modern games I've missed out on. I still ended up playing 90% older games and VNs.

>>4832528
>bring misery to millions of people
That's what video games keep doing. It has in no way brought cheer and joy to these cancerous boards.

>>4823616
>my happy place is running around in a boxy Quake map with one texture and imagining I have other people who joined my LAN connection

>>4823346
>everything i hate is gaia

>>4832541
you say that as if imageboards are nothing but bitter shitposting and have been since poole made this site in '03

>>4822385
Based

>>4822810
I feel this is it

>>4822373
and thats's a good thing. Same as you only I have a ps4 so I can test modern games. Tested fallout 4, trash. Tested Doom 4, meh. Tested yakuza 6, HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED!

>>4822385

>>4822752
>cultural marxist propaganda
>i'm not from /pol/

I work minimum wage and could afford it if I wanted.

>>4822778
>same game mechanics from 25 years ago, no innovation whatsoever
Saving humans builds a chain bonus that is kept between waves.
There are hidden waves that must be accessed to save all humans and kill all secret enemies.
Secret humans must be found and beacons must be destroyed for the best bonus.
You have an evasive dash that can be upgraded and even used as an attack.
You have secondary weapons including a sword that can cancel enemy shots.

Very different from Robotron, Smash TV, or Total Carnage. No one is going to force you to enjoy newer games, but don't talk about shit you don't understand.

>>4822373
I have a 8700K and a 1080 Ti and I only want to play on my old Sony PII 350Mhz machine. New games are fucking garbage.

>>4822380
S a m e

>>4822857
I bet you never even touched Brood Wars multiplayer, Mr. Hardcore.