/vr/ - Retro Games

None of them because I'm not a fucking loser living vicariously through pixels on a screen....

>>5071612

You are on 4chan.

>>5071612
Yes you are, don't lie to yourself.

>>5071612
>posts on the eternal console wars of generations past forum
>not a loser
Pick one

>>5071606
I can honestly not think of a single game that touched me or changed the way I see life.

None and i love games unless this applies to shitposting here

>>5071606
Dad simulator

I know a couple who would say Xenogears did that.

Mother series

None. I've only gotten that effect from books and movies. But I've spent most of my life playing FPS games, so what can I expect.

>>5071754
This
Itoi's works touched me in a way that no woman could ever do

klonoa

>>5071606
Probably Final Fantasy VII. Make me suspicious of authority and more open to meeting new people.

the donkey kong country series

Thief
MGS
Star Control 2
Eastern Mind

>>5071606
The games uncle Jack made me play in his bedroom

probably earthbound/ mother 3 both amazing games with great humor and setting.

>>5071606
Played Age of Empires at 7 and it taught me the basic progression of historical epochs early on.
Also that the enemy can convert your e=mc2 troopers and fuck your shit up

>>5071606
Shadow Hearts. Before I've played it, I was mainly only seeing J-RPG genre as very "anime-ish", infantile, and too colorful for it's own right, childish (even if serious subject matters were present in games themselves, for example things happening in Suikoden, Chrono Trigger, Star Ocean, or Megami Tensei).
Shadow Hearts absolutely blown my brains the flying fucks out. I've never ever before it played such an ADULT, MATURE title in this genre. Like, the FIRST town in the game is a VILLAGE OF CANNIBALS and BOY OH BOY they don't pull ANY punches there, only ramping up constantly from there on and right until very end. And MAAAN, Shadow Hearts is as no-nonsense and as no-joking as it could possibly get at that point in this genre, if excluding Parasite Eve from the equation. Shadow Hearts does NOT joke, Shadow Hearts does NOT fuck around, Shadow Hearts is a gritty and dirty as J-RPG can ever get.

And then Shadow Hearts II happened. HOOORY SHEEEET. Yes, they've added a lot of ACTUAL HUMOR to it, they've added animu-shenanigans to it too, but despite this the GRIT and DIRT was turned up to the fucking 9001 right from the get-go and never gone down through the entirety of it, they've basically massively improved on each and every aspect that made first Shadow Hearts an absolute MUST-PLAY of an INSTANT CLASSIC. If Shadow Hearts was solid 9/10, Shadow Hearts II gone 11/10 and didn't even sweat any while doing it.

First two Shadow Hearts games heavily influenced my overall vision on the entire RPG genre as a whole and my opinion of J-RPG portion of it in particular.

I mean I guess that playing simulation games helped me improving my resource management skills but I can't see how a toy could change you in any meaninful way.

>>5071913
>>5071913
DKC was my childhood, damn. How did it touch you though?

>>5071959
In the same way a book, movie, song could.

Final Fantasy Tactics. Not only was the game awesome, its story made me realize that manipulating people to get what you want always makes you lose in the end.

>>5071964
Not even remotely comparable. At the very best, games are low art and not particularly deep. And there's nothing wrong with that.

>>5071973
They're comparable in the way that they take you out of reality into a fictional world. But I kinda feel they can go deeper. But maybe that's me trying to justify time I spent making them.

>>5071606
Nothing /vr/ related. Shadows of chernobyl changed how I see the world. Dark Souls changed how I see games.

I have not enjoyed a single video game since then, even titles that I enjoyed the fuck out of. I am trying to play some PSX games from my 20s again, and It just is not the same as it was, and after the 2 aforementioned titles games seem shallow. It may be me, but I made my slightly younger brother play the same games, and it ruined him the same way. Avoid them 2 games. I don't know what happened to me, but they are the cause.

IF I didn't have kids, there would be no video games in my life. They love the n64, so I do enjoy my time with them, but the games are just something to do in the evenings. I still have all the systems I have ever owned going back to the atarii 2600, and it has been years since games "worked" for me.

>>5071949
You must be over 18 to post on 4chan.

>>5072357
Someone who doesn't like video games posting on a 4chan video games board. Go figure.

>>5071606
There's not a single game I can pinpoint as a life changing moment. That's a very romantic, theatrical concept and it doesn't really work that way in real life. Are there video games that are a piece of the collective experience in life that have ultimately shaped my worldview? Probably many.

>>5072760
Nice non-argument, kid.

>>5071606
>touched you
Cave explorer. My uncle used to play it with me.

>>5072779
>Someone who doesn't like video games posting on a 4chan video games board. Go figure.
I am a has been with a pile of system and controllers. I enjoy the hardware side of fixing and repairing/modding. My kids enjoy the gaming side. Retro requires repair, and when things act up I come here. You don't have to enjoy games to enjoy the hardware side. I like fixing old things, and these are old things that are still used in my house, just not so much by me.

>>5071606
Ff 7 ff 9 ff 10

>>5071606
Not /vr/ but yume nikki really touched me.

Games can teach us things, or help us think differently, but ive never encountered one that changed the way i see life.

>>5072896
Why did he stop?

MGS1 and 2, Silent Hill 2. Bonus points for games like Inside and Stanley's Parable, for putting me on a specific train of thought.

Shower With Your Dad Simulator

>>5075519
The peak of gaming

>>5071606

>>5071962
newfound respect for niggers

I can honestly say Monkey Island did

>>5071606

Ristar

>>5071817
turning you into a furry doesn't count

>>5071606

>>5079097
Same, but not retro

Victoria 2. This game taught me that any non-whites are unfit to serve in a white military, or to even life in a white country.