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Do you ever get sad when playing an old game?

I'll sometimes get to a certain point and look at I dunno, a fucking table and chair in the background and think "man the guy who made that is either dead or old as fuck, even if he's alive it was so long ago he probably doesn't even wonder anymore if his work is being appreciated right now. 25 fucking years ago he was showing up to work, full of hope for the future, working on this part of the game hoping someone would notice all the effort he put in. Now it's decades later, there's maybe 10 people in the world playing this game at any one time, all those memories that only live on in his mind".

>> No.6051194

>>6051183
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Dinner tables with chairs off in the corner of the screen. I watched glass lamps glitter in the dark near the edge of a room. All those moments will be lost in time, background objects in an old video game. Time to die.

>> No.6051198

With this constant social network bullshit I have dumbass mood swings all the time, specially when I'm playing something nostalgic. But mostly, I'd say NO, because my taste in the games I play now is very drastically different from when I was a child. So I don't have much to nostalgia about.

>> No.6051213

>>6051183
Yes, but not just with vidya, go to literally any museum in the world and take a look at whatever painting that isn't uber famous and the same applies, except they're all dead. Depressing to think that most will only ever be remembered by the security guards working there, as a nuisance

>> No.6051225

>>6051213
Books with that old books smell and look give me the same feeling. Especially when they were clearly read and reread a dozen times and now they're just gathering dust on the floor, forgotten.

>> No.6051228

>>6051225
Yea, I used to buy old books that people didn't want anymore at book fairs just so they wouldn't be forgotten. Actually managed to find my favourite book ever amongst them.

>> No.6051345

You can literally get this way about anything. Video games should be among the least emo because there are lots of copies of them and they are timeless. Old buildings falling down, old cars rusting apart etc are all more tragic.

>> No.6051358

>>6051183
>either dead or old as fuck
I think you need to think about your definition of old as fuck. Maybe true for Atari games, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who worked on PlayStation games who are only in their 40s now.

>> No.6051362

>>6051358
40 is old as fuck

>> No.6051364

>>6051183
No. I never had an "emo phase". Didn't know it was still a thing kids did.

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6051434

>>6051364
>boring stoic "never be genuine ever" ultramodern internet irony culture
I expect better from this board. /v/ really is invading /vr/.

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6051537

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYPfsy6q9bc

>play the game in August 2016
>figure she has a twitter or something
>investigate
>died three months earlier

The opening singing has no meaning, she sings something very similar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_5MCce3i5M

This version however is nicer overall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3nxxNYsxw4

>> No.6051554

>>6051362
based.
boomers aren't ready for the zoomer revolution

>> No.6051608

>>6051434
>whiny little bitch incel feels shitposts
This is exactly what I expect from /vr9k/
It's time to go back faggot

>> No.6051767

No cause I'm old and look at that old shit as current shit while a game from 2008 for example will always be new probably even in the next 50 years

>> No.6051771

>>6051608
what's the point of you?

>> No.6051885

>>6051554
someone who is 40 isn't a boomer

>> No.6051892

>>6051183
Sure, but mainly because I remember my childhood and various things associated with it.

>> No.6052514

>>6051767
Stuff from my childhood doesn't feel current, even Xbox 360 games seem old in my mind.

>> No.6052525

>>6051183
I get very teary when listening to things like "Time Only Knows", RSE's ending theme, and "Late Goodbye", because retrospectively, they were the credits for an era---an era of video games that's permanently over, with no real sequel on the horizon.
Didn't know that was it, and don't want it to be gone.