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What got you into retro gaming?

For me it was modern games lack of soul, and challenge.

>> No.5643895

I don't remember. But I do know what's getting me out of it.

>> No.5643897

>>5643886
For me I found out about retro games on a random subreddit, I actually didn't even know there were consoles that came out way before the current ones but they seem cool

>> No.5643902

I don't actually play video games, I'm just here to cause chaos

>> No.5643906

A hacked PSP.

>> No.5643914

>>5643886
Idk really. I got to the age where I could afford a lot of the old games I read about when I was a kid and just started playing games for old systems I would like. Just happens to be a combination of disposable income and a hefty dose of nostalgia for the old stuff.

>> No.5643936

>>5643886
You should try Monster Hunter solo.

>> No.5643959

>>5643906
Hacked Vita did it for me. Still play it daily.

>> No.5643962

>>5643936
MH is one of the rare modern series that is actually good and challenging with enough soul.
Although it would be better if the monsters had LESS HP and less evasion tactics. There's no reason fights should drag on for more than 15minutes with normal gear.

>> No.5643967

>>5643886
i grew up on snes/genesis/n64 when the 5th gen consoles were new because my parents knew babysitters that had them. i got back into retro gaming around 2006 with various retro compilations on PS2 and the Wii virtual console.

>> No.5643978

I'm not really into retro games in particular. I think there are lots of really good modern games, especially if you don't limit yourself to the high budget "AAA" bullshit, which I think is what a lot of people here are thinking of when they say modern games suck. I just come here because /vr/ isn't a total shithole like /v/.

>> No.5644019

>>5643886
>getting into retro games
How young are you? I'm 24 and I had an NES and genesis growing up.

>> No.5644023

>>5644019
I mean getting "back" into retro games and playing them as a main genre over moderns. I'm 10 years older than you.

>> No.5644036

The fact that I grew up when "retro gaming" was just "gaming", you underage faggot.

>> No.5644048

>>5643886
>What got you into retro gaming?
Good games were made before current year.

>> No.5644051

Let's ask a better question, who here still plays modern games? And what was the most recent game you played and actually enjoyed?

>> No.5644052

>>5644023
>getting "back" into retro games and playing them as a main genre over moderns.
Then never. Every generation has a handful of games that I'm interested in.
I stick to older games because they're cheap. (Which includes 6th and 7th gen now.)

>> No.5644057

I knew there were a lot of classics I never actually played, and my current consoles could play retro stuff at a time when I didn't have the space to buy any new consoles.

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>>5644051
Ibara came out in 2005, so I guess that's modern by /vr/ standards.

>> No.5644160

>>5643886
I grew up playing this shit, and never stopped.

Yeah, modern games being nothing but shallow, gay trash helped, but I've been playing all this shit since it was new.

>> No.5644167

>>5643962
Your post is fucking hilarious. You sound like every other shitter baby out there. Boo hooo nothing has challenge. Then boo hoo that monster doesn't die in five minutes and I might run out of potions!!! Just another loser.

>> No.5644182

>>5644167
>sound like baby
baby players don't want a challenge

>boo hoo nothing has challenge
Modern games becoming casualized and easy is true though.

>boo hoo monster doesn't die in five minutes
I said 15 minutes would be fine for average gear.
30-40minutes is what you get with average gear as it stands. Even without using any potions and landing all your hits. That's very dull.
It's only when your gear totally overpowers a monster that the game gets fast and you see 10minute or 5minute speed kills.

>> No.5644183

I was pretty much always into 'retro' games.

Even as a kid, getting a new console never meant losing interest in my old one. I still played on my 8 and 16 bit consoles when I got a Playstation, because always I understood that even if the games were more simplistic, they weren't necessarily worse.

Alex Kidd didn't stop being fun when Sonic showed up. Sonic didn't stop being fun when Crash Bandicoot showed up.

Doom didn't stop being fun when Quake showed up. Quake didn't stop being fun when Battlefield showed up.

I don't understand people who can look at a game and dismiss purely because it's old.

People don't do that with any other form of media.

>> No.5644251

>>5644051
I played and very much enjoyed Sonic Forces relatively recently.

>> No.5644253

Retro games / consoles were cheaper than new ones

>> No.5644449

Why is J-Dogg t-posing?

>> No.5644452

being broke lmao

>> No.5644460

I'm mildly autistic and stick to the games I'm familiar with.

>> No.5644461
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>>5643886
I was always into these games.
I take care of what I have so I can continue to enjoy it.

I just stopped caring about the latest and greatest. If I had to pin down the point where modern gaming started to loose me, strangely enough, it was when the Cromehounds server shut down. I was always frustrated with game companies two-facedly holding on to their properties forever and yet ignoring them. I hated how invasive DRM had become. I was tired of paying $60-$80 a physical copy only to have half the game locked behind a paywall.

But most of all, I'm tired of the cost.
I can have many times the gaming for a fraction of the cost going retro. Emulation, cheap copies, chink-shit, a vibrant community releasing new gubbins and even new titles for consoles I still love.

>> No.5644469

>>5643886
I'm cheap as hell. Unwilling to buy new hardware, unwilling to buy a modern PC, unwilling to pay for games. That's the essence of it.

>> No.5644515
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People generally don't believe me, but I simply get more fun out of games made in the '90s and early '00s compared to any other era, and especially most modern games. I don't hate modern games, I just love older games more. I love old game mechanics, the graphics, the stories, the music, etc.
Good games are still being made and I'm not the kind of boomer bashing them, but generally I'll prefer games from other eras.

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>>5643886
>>5643897

>> No.5644543

>>5643886
I never "got" into "retro gaming" because it was still relatively new when I started playing them almost 30 years ago. How good or bad post generation 5 games are doesn't impact my preference for playing older console and handheld games and I still prefer to play them with original hardware even if emulation has become pretty good for some platforms. PC games on the other hand is something I don't even bother to play on /vr/ era computers anymore because I don't like to keep tweaking hardware just to play some video games.

Some newer games -both indie and stuff on say the 3DS- are still quite enjoyable to me even if they borrow a lot if not almost everything from the classics but that's not really a bad thing to me. I don't like MP-centered online games but I didn't like them back then either so that has nothing to do with the era they're made in.

>> No.5644546

>>5644182
>30-40minutes is what you get with average gear as it stands
>average gear
>30-40 minutes

let me guess, this is your first time playing Monster Hunter?

>> No.5644572

>>5643886
Probably Doom, also Legend of Grimrock got me into retro dungeon crawlers.

>> No.5644606 [DELETED] 

>>5643886
>Modern games lack of challenge
So you didn't play Devil May Cry 1/3/4/5, Bayonetta 1/2, God of War 1/2/3/P, Etrian Odyssey 1/2/3/4/5/N, Darkest Dungeon, Dark Souls 1/2/3, Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, Curse of the Moon, Shadow Tactics, Monster Hunter, Shin Megami Tensei, Hotline Miami, Rimworld, Crusader Kings 2, or Stranger of Sword City?

>Soul
So you didn't play Ori and the Blind Forest, The Legend of Heroes, Undertale, Terraria, Portal 2, This War of Mine, Sunless Sea, SteamWorld, Valkyria Chronicles, Danganronpa, Hyper Light Drifter, Invisible Inc., Mark of the Ninja, Jamestown, Scribblenauts, Little Nightmares, VVVVVV, Hallow Knight, Braid, or Void Bastards?

>> No.5644609

>>5644182
>30-40minutes is what you get with average gear as it stands
You're doing it wrong, locational damage and status ailments are a major, major part of Monster Hunter. You cannot ignore any mechanic like you can with most action RPGs

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>>5644606
No, why do you ask

>> No.5644616
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>>5644614
Well I just gave you a list of top notch games I've played and thoroughly loved (Except DMC4, backtracking the entire game world as Dante and switching back to Nero was bullshit) so get busy

>> No.5644619

>>5643886
I'm 30 and my first console was Master System so that pretty much did it.

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>>5644606
All those "challenging" games lack soul.
All those soulful games lack challenge.
Hence the need to only play retro games, the complete package.

>> No.5644676

>>5644616
I love you anon

>> No.5644679

>>5644641
I want you to explain, in words, what "soul" even means to you.

>> No.5644703

>>5644679
Soul can't be put into words, you either have it or you don't. You either see it or you don't.
Nothing personal kid, but modern games all lack soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQKY0iHc3M

>> No.5644708

>>5644703
>Nothing personal kid, but modern games all lack soul.
Or they have soul but lack difficulty/challenge*
Meant to say.

>> No.5644710

>>5644641
You obviously haven't played any of the games. What, Darkest Dungeon 'acks "soul"? Son, you're dumb.

>> No.5644723

>>5644710
And Hollow Knight lacks "challenge". I bet he didn't play any of the listed games.

>> No.5644734

>peddling modern shite on /vr/
back to /v/

>>5644710
none of those games are challenging, ignoring the "soul" requirement, they're all easy shite

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>>5643886
>For me it was modern games lack of soul, and challenge.

For me it was the fact that those systems were current tech as I grew up. I got back into retro because I was sick of muh cutscenes and feeling like every game was a reskin of a floating unity camera simulator.

There are good modern and I play them, but most feel very similar and simply like you are pointing a floaty camera from point A to point B. They lack soul and as a result it felt like you were simply trying to move things around on a screen without involving your brain at all.

Good retro has a charming (be it cute or dark) atmosphere, fun gameplay, engaging gameplay. These things are SOUL to me. It's much easier to say "SOUL" than type out a paragraph like I just did.

>> No.5644761

>>5644460

this

>> No.5644772

>>5644734
You've not played any of them, though.

>> No.5644776

>>5643886
>lack of soul, and challenge.
Yikes. Games other than cowadooty and Bethesdashit also exist you know

>> No.5644785

>>5643886
Poverty lmao (but is true)

>> No.5644791

>>5643886

never advanced to modern games

>> No.5645091

>>5643886
Nothing. I like video games old and new.

>> No.5645098

>>5643886
Modern games are way too complicated for me.

They ask for an internet connnection, credit card info, personal game account, patches, installation and so on.

I just want to press the start button and play the damn game.

>> No.5645126

>>5645098
Stop playing MMORPGs then?

>> No.5645243

>>5643936
what monster hunter is the best?
please dont say the new one because I dont want to spend money

>> No.5645251
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>>5643886
I was born into it.

>> No.5645416

>>5643886
Grew up with Nesticle and the ROM boom.

>> No.5645418

This thread explains all the seething at real hardware. Its filled with fags who play old games because they are poor or think time stopped in 1999, rather than people who enjoy classic games for what they are.

>> No.5645421

just never stopped playing the games i played as a kid, and as i got older i was able to play the games i never got the chance to as a kid.

>> No.5645428

They weren't retro when I first played them, never stopped playing them. I still keep up with new releases, but I find that there are less and less games that I enjoy being released.

>> No.5645443

>>5645091
This is the best answer. The distinction between "retro" and "non-retro" is totally arbitrary, and you will be missing out on interesting games if you artificially limit what you are playing. To like "retro" games is to like games. There are so many interesting experiences to be found that only playing newer releases tells me that the person really only has a pretty causal appreciation for the medium.

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>>5645243
I haven't really played MH World though I've heard decent things from MH buddies. But I have played every other version except the Wii one for between 500 - 2000 hours each, it's possibly my favorite series ever. So that said I think there's two options.

The original is still fantastic in many ways if you're into playing PS2 stuff. It has a unique control scheme that they ditched in future releases but it works fantastically with how the game is designed. It's also the version where raw skill is the most important compared to your armor and weapons and everything is a little less extreme. So if you know what you're doing it's still viable to fight late game monsters naked with joke weapons. That said, it has some real balance issues and stupid shit. Like end game armors needing rathalos plates which you can only carve from a tail and has a 1% drop rate.

Otherwise, one of the 3DS games either 4 Ultimate or Generations. Generations is slightly better and has more people online but they're both well worth playing. I was skeptical and angry when Capcom moved the series to 3/DS but it ended up working very well. MH is farily complex and having the touch screen to organize things really helps. They have masses and masses of content and some ofbthe DLC (free) especially is very challenging.

>> No.5645571

I'm 35 and just really like them. I grew up in that era. I also like some modern games though.

>> No.5646992 [DELETED] 

>>5644606
>>Modern games lack of challenge
>So you didn't play Devil May Cry 1/3/4/5, Bayonetta 1/2, God of War 1/2/3/P, Etrian Odyssey 1/2/3/4/5/N, Darkest Dungeon, Dark Souls 1/2/3, Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, Curse of the Moon, Shadow Tactics, Monster Hunter, Shin Megami Tensei, Hotline Miami, Rimworld, Crusader Kings 2, or Stranger of Sword City?
>
>>Soul
>So you didn't play Ori and the Blind Forest, The Legend of Heroes, Undertale, Terraria, Portal 2, This War of Mine, Sunless Sea, SteamWorld, Valkyria Chronicles, Danganronpa, Hyper Light Drifter, Invisible Inc., Mark of the Ninja, Jamestown, Scribblenauts, Little Nightmares, VVVVVV, Hallow Knight, Braid, or Void Bastards?

The mentally ill janny deleted my post so I'm putting it back because he needs to learn that I broke no rules.

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>>5643886
when i discovered that i could play old games from ps1 and arcades that i couldnt when i was a young lad i almost shat my pants.Internet was a fucking miracle
all these media from my youth that i thought i would never see again

>> No.5647020

>>5646992
having taste this shit should be a bannable offense.

>> No.5647026
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>>5643886
The fact that there are proportionally more truly good games over 40+ years than across the last 5 years. Thinking that old games were better on average is pure ignorance, though.

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>>5647026
>Thinking that old games were better on average is pure ignorance, though.
this implies modern gaming is equal to, or better, than retro gaming.
now THAT is pure ignorance.

>> No.5647232

>>5647031
No it's not, they are equal.

>> No.5647246

I played them when I was younger and never stopped. It's just my preference.

>free games
>shit ton of them
>a e s t h e t i c
>piece of history which each game/console
>more soul on average
>challenge
>simplicity

>> No.5647257

>>5647031
>this implies modern gaming is equal to, or better, than retro gaming.
Modern trash is infinitely better than retro trash in every respect. If you had any amount of actual experience with games beyond Earthbound and Super Mario World, you'd know.

>> No.5647262

>>5647257

In modern terms, have we even seen an equivalent of, say, Action 52? Or Superman 64?

>> No.5647264

>>5647232
It's not even fair to say they're equal. Some random Assassin's Creed is still way more competently designed than some random Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel. Dumb as fuck modern EA racing games are incomparably better (for what it's worth) than trashy 3rd and 4rth gen Outrun clones. Etc.

>> No.5647265

>>5647232
>gaming will always be equal
based comrade *raises black power fist*

>>5647257
>modern trash vs retro trash
we're talking about the average games or good stuff though, not the trash

>> No.5647272

>>5647031
When you only play games from "top ten" lists, it may seem that 80s and 90s were some golden age. But when you start going through, e.g., entire PCE library, you quickly learn how wrong that is.
Never assume that cream of the crop that is normally talked about is the default quality. Retro games were on average atrocious, often unplayable. Only the major milestone games are on par, e.g. LoZ1 and Dark Souls, Castlevania 1 and DMC1.

>> No.5647278

>>5647265
Average retro games are almost unplayable compared to average modern games. I call them all "trash", because in entertainment "average" equals to trash. Average apples are very good, but average movies need not exist.

>> No.5647283

>>5647278

Well, I wouldn't say they don't need to exist. Low tier makes high tier higher. You wouldn't appreciate A+ content as much if it was swimming in A+ content. Those C and D tier films/albums/games make the A+ look like A+++.

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>>5647283
If all art was of the highest quality, we wouldn't have qualifiers. Top quality would jsut be average, and we'd just say that art is so fucking amazing, period. In other words, removing the current average would only change the meaning of "average".
But saying that shitty art somehow amplifies the enjoyment of good art by some contrasting effect is baseless. If anything, shitty art teaches one to be suspicious of all art. When you see people asking if some book or game or movie series is good instead of just trying it the fuck out, that's because they've been burnt too many times. If all books were amazing, people would just devour any that come their way. Bad art is a detriment to enjoyment.

>> No.5647305

>>5647265
>based comrade *raises black power fist*

I didn't say they always will. It's entirely possible games could go to shit. They just haven't yet, at all.

>> No.5647306

I couldn't afford modern consoles and PCs, so I just stuck to old shit.

>> No.5647309

>>5647305
>It's entirely possible games could go to shit.
No it isn't, not anymore. It's a worldwide thing with hundreds of millions of people involved. Even if all major publishers somehow go out of business, new ones will just take their place.

>> No.5647323

>>5647309
You're probably right, but things that once seemed stable have a way of falling apart. These days though, with both huge companies and enthusiastic amateurs having the ability to construct almost any game they can imagine and put it out there for people to play, I think we're finally in a real golden age. I just hope it lasts.

>> No.5647338

My dad

>> No.5647340

>>5647278
>>5647293
so you prefer modern gaming ?

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>>5643886
I'm trying to remember what got me hooked on videogames in the first place. Not unlike your photo, I pray to the altars of my first addictions for some kind of sign that such simple fulfillment is still possible in this one and only life.

Also, the infinite backlog makes it easier to continue kicking that particular can down the street a little further each day.

>> No.5647365

I played those games when they weren't "retro" and kept playing them when emulators appeared in the late 90's.

>> No.5647384

If you "got into" retro gaming, you're the cancer that is killing everything good.

As you grow up, you just keep playing the games you enjoyed in the past and other old games of your era and before, which you haven't played before. It's natural, you don't get into it, unless you're a zoomer, but I'm yet to see a zoomer get into retro games, especially for the reason of enjoying old games and not being an attwhore.

>hurr durr le autism

>> No.5647403

>>5647340
No, I prefer good games to bad ones, and, as I said, there are many more good games across the last 40 years than across the last 5 simply because there are maaaaany more games in the former span in general.

>> No.5647408

>>5647384
Why bother putting effort into caring why someone else likes what they like?

>> No.5647410

>>5647384
>As you grow up, you just keep playing the games you enjoyed in the past
Now that's the real cancer--nostalgia shit. Most games I liked as a kid back in the early 90s I despise now. All my favourite games are from the 80s or early 90s, but almost all of them I played for the very first time in my late 20s.

>> No.5647413

I grew up playing the games that are now considered "retro" and never really progressed from playing those games.

>> No.5647420

>>5647384
>>5647403
It's objective that games past 2000 went downhill and there's very little merit in any of them.

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>>5647413
That's kinda sad, man.

>> No.5647424

>>5647421
Not really, man. I just prefer the classics of the 80s and 90s and early 2000s.

>> No.5647428

>>5647420
Only someone who really hasn't played any real number of retro games would say something as ignorant. You've clearly never, ever stepped out of the "best of" retro game lists in your fucking life. Discard your opinion, play an entire library of the Master System or the PCE or the Sharp, and come back later with some real fucking perspective, boy.

>> No.5647430

>>5647424
That means you haven't really played anything by Clover, Platinum, Wayforward, From etc. etc. etc. That's seriously fucking unfortunate. Major directors like Shinji fucking Mikami (or Shu Takumi, or Hideki Kamiya, or Goichi Suda) were in their absolute freaking prime during the 6th and 7th generations.

>> No.5647434

>>5647430
Nope, I hadn't even heard of those companies to be honest with you. I exclusively play shmups and mostly concentrate on games by CAVE.

>> No.5647436

Nostalgia.
I wanted to replay the games I loved when I was younger and while I was there I decided to try out other games that came out back then and I never knew.

>> No.5647438

>>5647428
The fact that retro gaming is better than modern doesn't mean EVERY retro game is a 10/10 lmao, what kind of dumb counter argument are you making?

>> No.5647441

>>5647436
BASED AND RED PILLED

>> No.5647442

>>5647434
I also play a lot of Cave shmups. That doens't prevent me from playing some of the best games ever released.

>> No.5647446

>>5647438
I'm making this argument: >>5647272
>When you only play games from "top ten" lists, it may seem that 80s and 90s were some golden age. But when you start going through, e.g., entire PCE library, you quickly learn how wrong that is.
Never assume that cream of the crop that is normally talked about is the default quality. Retro games were on average atrocious, often unplayable. Only the major milestone games are on par, e.g. LoZ1 and Dark Souls, Castlevania 1 and DMC1.
Best retro games and best modern games are equal (names mentioned above). Average retro games are much worse than average modern games. The only way to not know this is to have never played any games beyond the extremeley famous and universally praised ones.

>> No.5647463

>>5647446
retro never had the cancer of mobile gaming and gachagaming so that's already super wrong

>the best are all equal
again retarded
best retro is actually good
best modern is mediocre

>> No.5647468

>>5647463
Are you joking? The entirety of 2nd gen home console games were the worst and most obviously harmful cancer in the history of video games. It took the whole industry with it for a while.

>> No.5647472

>>5647463
Hipster to the max

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>>5647463
>the 1983 industry-wide crash
>mascot platformer scourge
>fmv games
>barely-interactive jrpgs during fifth gen
Lol you don't know SHIT about the history of video games do you.

>> No.5647478

>>5647463
>retro never had the cancer of mobile gaming and gachagaming
It had the cancer of unfairly designed coin-ops which scammed the kids incomparably more than any modern p2w or gacha kusoge ever did.

>> No.5647482

>>5643886
I never left, but ironically the GBA and DS brought me to the SNES.

I found myself always playing ports like Kirby Super Star or FFV a whole lot more instead of new games. So instead of picking up a 3DS, I just got an SNES and started playing the games I missed as a Genesis kid.

>> No.5647489

>>5647463
>gachagaming
That started in retro with barcode scanners

>> No.5647504

>>5647489
Don't bother, he only played a few hours of Earthbound and Super Metroid, which understandably impressed him more than Modern Warfare ever did, and doesn't know anything about anything yet, hence the weird delusions.

>> No.5647510

>>5643886
Because I was a kid when the games came out and I wanted to play them again.

>> No.5647513

Like almost everybody else, nostalgia.
My mom was into arcade games and Genesis. My uncle built a MAME cabinet for her when I was twelve, and because it was kept in the basement rec. room, my friends and I ended up binging through a lot of arcade games growing up.

>> No.5647541

>>5643902
Most truthful post ever.

>> No.5647606

>>5643886
I like to play video games when the internet is out, something too many modern games refuse to allow because "muh piracy muh drm" and also "muh using mmo because we can't make the ai challenging enough"

>> No.5647682
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I was born in 2001 (hurr zoomer) and I just started playing recommendations I'd find online via emulators and stuff since I was like 10 or 11. I never really saw them as retro games nor was I drawn to them because of that aspect. I just saw some cool looking games that I wanted to play.
I never got the whole "oh I'm a retro gamer" thing. I just try to play good games, and don't really consider their age when picking out what to play. I only really come here because /v/ is shit most of the time and you genuinely can't have a decent discussion unless it's some nostalgiabait or discussing some other cult hit.

>> No.5647708

>>5647682
Flee

>> No.5647715

>>5643962
>chink grind
>good
good one

>> No.5647763

>>5643886
Got really into final fantasy after playing 7 and 8. I heard about this thing called emulation while reading about the older games online and starting playing FF1. Once I had a few emulators I started grabbing all kinds of random games just to try stuff out.

>>5643936
2 players no palicoes is the best way to play. Full multiplayer strength monsters while minimizing how much the monsters attention get split.

>> No.5647775

>>5643886
Shitty PC.

>> No.5647778

Nostalgia.

>> No.5647920

>>5647763
I do have one main friend I do like playing with and 4 on one can be fun for farming sometimes. I ended up in a room with 3 other GS users yesterday and we basically stun locked a Rajang to death and then did the dual Grimclaw 10 mission in 6 minutes, it was pretty funny.

Over all though I prefer solo the most, you really have to learn the monster because it's always gunning for you and both mission time and resources become more of an issue. And I'm totally with you on Palicos, I can't stand them.

>> No.5648018

>>5647262
Big Rigs and Ride to Hell: Retribution are comparable to those.

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>>5643886
It was the gaming I grew up with. I don't really distinguish between modern or retro I just play what I like. Nothing modern, or AAA interests me so lately I just play older shit I missed out on. I was a poorfag but a lucky one so I grew up with Master System, PS1, N64 and OG Xbox.

>> No.5648163

>>5647232
if you're talking about console gaming/AAA then modern gaming has gone down the shitter in the last 15 years. Plenty of games still being made that don't cater to that though.

>> No.5648180

>>5643886
I unpacked my old Sega Genesis system and decided that I really liked older games.

>> No.5648197

>>5643886
>What got you into retro gaming?
>For me it was modern games lack of soul, and challenge.
I was alive then, never sold anything.

>> No.5649801

>>5643886
Nothing. I have a hard time getting into a lot of new games, especially retro. I prefer authentic old games.

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>>5647474
>mascot platformer scourge
>fmv games
>barely-interactive jrpgs during fifth gen
Every game got worse and worse after retro (1999). FMVs and "cinematic exeperiences" went full retard with modern gaming.

>>5647478
>hard game bad
This is why zoomer gamers are not much different than game journos, both expect to be spoonfed and have an easy time.

>>5647504
>liking retro more than modern gaming is a weird delusion
You're lost, back to waifu threads on /vg/ or gushing over polygon counts on /v/

>> No.5649928

>>5643886
I just played games I hadn't played. There were consoles I hadn't experienced so I played those as soon as I had the means to, which at the time was using emulators to play SNES games. I don't think there's anything wrong with preferring one era over another but I think declaring all games past a certain point to be shit across the board is jerking yourself off because it makes you feel special for not liking thing.

>> No.5650067

>>5643886
I picked up a Tips & Tricks megabook back in 2001. It covered nearly every popular system back then, including the Genesis, so I spent a lot of time replaying Sonic with debug mode on and started collecting old games to see what other cheats I could use.

>> No.5650103

>>5644160
This, desu.

Every now and then a decent modern game gets pumped out (Sekiro comes to mind), but for every 1 decent modern game there are about 50 good retro ones. The current political and economic climate surrounding vidya has taken precedence over imaginative ideas.

>> No.5650112

>>5644023
I never stopped. My consoles stayed hooked up and emulators handled the rest.

>> No.5651328

I grew up with it even though I was late to the party. Playing the SNES as my first console in the early 2000's. It's hard to classify retro as it's own section to me because of this. It's all just video games to me.

>> No.5651330

>>5643886
Virtual console games are cheaper than new games

>> No.5651368

>>5651330
Roms are free tho
>Actually spending money

>> No.5651381

>>5644023
Never stopped, I was using my ps2 to play ps1 games more than ps2 games. It happened very naturally, no thought went into it. PS2 and later systems gave me nothing much to play outside of a few rare exceptions.

>> No.5651416

They weren't retro when I got into them. I stopped playing new games around the Xbox 369/PS3/Wii era. Though I was pretty into Wii U.

>> No.5651425

>>5643886
I'm a poorfag right now, doing university and hoping for a better future with more cash to burn for PCs, consoles and games.
All things considered, I'm not really closed minded, I play a lot of retro games, but I still enjoy modern games when I ocasionally play them, I have a big list of things that I want to play in the future, I just don't have a powerful PC or console right now.

>> No.5651428

>>5651425
This right here.

>> No.5651434

>>5644036
This

>> No.5651448

>>5643886
DLC. I got sick of paying for content which previously was unlocked through hard gaming graft. I also hate the idea of only being able to play my games if I have an Internet connection. Oh, and the games not actually being mine, even though I might have paid a king's ransom for them. Gaming today is a fucking joke.

>> No.5651562

>>5643886
poverty

>> No.5651648

>>5643886
My dad got me a console three generations behind and I was hooked.

>> No.5653181

>>5647682
Same here, I don't get why people try to force so many labels on vidya, a good game is a good game, doesn't matter if it was made in the 80s or yesterday

>> No.5653232

I grew up playing it when it was new

>> No.5654691

>>5653232
Same here. I love new games as well, but I also never stopped loving the old ones either. Now my problem is too much to play and not nearly enough time.

>> No.5654706

>>5643886
I mostly grew up playing the NES, Genesis, and SNES. Later on, I discovered emulation, and got to play a bunch of the games I liked as a kid, and some more I'd never heard of. I never had a high-end computer or the latest machines (apart from the GameCube), so I'd gravitate more towards what I could play on what I had or what I could emulate.

Even to this day, I don't own a current gen system, although that's more because I can't justify the cost vs other shit. I don't play games nearly enough to bother, and 90% of the time I'll just be playing Crazy Taxi or something else that you can have a quick go at and be done with.

>>5644183
>People don't do that with any other form of media.
People do this all the time with TV. It's rarer for movies, but people still do it. It's semi-rare for music, up to a point.
Most other mediums don't have it quite as bad as videogaming, but it's there.

>> No.5654710

>>5643886
I'm 26, my family was poor so was I was still playing my moms old NES until I got a playstation in 1999

>> No.5654719

>>5644051
I still play PS4 RPGS & stealth games.

>> No.5654747

>>5644051
I just finished SMT4 and it was pretty solid. Etrian Odyssey has ruined me on most RPGs.