/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6414847
>movie has aged
>no one has a problem with this terminology
I do.
>book has aged
>no one has a problem with this terminology
I do.
>song has aged
>no one has a problem with this terminology
I do.
>style has aged
>no one has a problem with this terminology
I do.
>retro video game has aged
>NOOOOOOOOOO GAMES DON'T AGE
Yes.

Cinephiles do make fun of zoomers who can't go back and watch white and black classic films, though.
Music lovers also make fun of NPCs who won't listen to anything that doesn't sound modern/Top 40.
The term "age" is indeed pretty stupid, "outdated" might be more fitting, semantically etymologically.
But in the end, it doesn't matter, because 99% of the times someone says a game has "aged" or is "outdated"; they're just being biased by whatever bullshit modern standards they might have, which will soon be outdated too, and in the end it just means "thing I didn't like/didn't get".

>>6414865
>But in the end, it doesn't matter, because 99% of the times someone says a game has "aged" or is "outdated"; they're just being biased by whatever bullshit modern standards they might have, which will soon be outdated too, and in the end it just means "thing I didn't like/didn't get".
So you really do fail to grasp the hyperbole of the expression. Honest question, are you autistic? It's always autistic people who have trouble with this stuff.

>>6414869
>So you really do fail to grasp the hyperbole of the expression
I never said I go "NOOOO", I just mean most of the times I don't bother reading someone's opinion on things if they say X thing has "aged badly" or similar kind of expression.
But yeah I'm aware it's hyperbole, precisely.

>>6414847
>>movie has aged
nobody says that
>>book has aged
nobody says that
>>song has aged
nobody says that
>>style has aged
nobody says that
>>retro video game has aged
every pseud game critic says that

>>6414902
>But yeah I'm aware it's hyperbole, precisely.
But evidently you fail to grasp its meaning. Saying something has aged means simply that it no longer conforms to modern standards. This is neither good nor bad per-se, although it's usually not meant positively. I fail to see how that's not a legitimate criticism.

>and in the end it just means "thing I didn't like/didn't get"
Of course it means you didn't like the thing, it being aged is not a justification it's a reason moron.

>>6414908
You don't interact with real people do you.

>>6414918
i do, and i've never heard anybody criticize an influential book or movie for being "outdated".

>>6414927
The word in question is not "outdated", it's "aged". And as pointed out above being aged is not necessarily a negative.

>>6414915
>moron
You seem way more invested in this than I am. Maybe you're the autistic one? In the end it's just semantics. Who cares, most people don't have valuable opinions, anyway.

>>6414847
It's only a handful of semi illiterate and or just plain dumb people around here like this >>6414861 who can't wrap their heads around it and try to start fights. The rest of the world understands films, books etc aging and can easily understand it in games as well. Don't get hung up on 4chan trolls, they enjoy ignorance.

>>6414865
Classic films are the ones that aged well. People who refuse to watch old things on that alone do deserve mocking.

>>6414865
This post explains it perfectly

This thread has aged poorly.

>>6414861
Extremely based post

>>6415668
Aged and outdated are different. Though something that aged badly is often outdated, aged on it's own isn't positive or negative. The key in talking about aging is how well it stood the test of time.

>>6414847
Some people are retarded and can't understand the concept of the world moving on. They live so deeply in nostalgia/bootleg nostalgia for shit they never had that they can't see the objective reality that technology and methods march on. Some age well, some age poorly. This is a fact.

>>6415683
There's a real irony in agreeing with someone not understanding the breadth of meaning some words gave by using a nearly meaningless buzzword. Congrats on failing so hard at using English.

>>6414847
I suppose everything "ages" physically, as time goes on. When people say a game hasn't aged well what they generally actually mean is the mechanics of videogames are different now than they were in that game. Movies, books, and music always use the same "mechanics", if you will (since you're so hell bent on comparing the mediums). They don't age badly, videogames have just advanced on a technical level. The only thing that "ages" is the industry itself.

>>6415685
Technology marching on is not the same thing as the aesthetic and ludics of a video game marching on. Leaving aside the fact that technology does not even have a per se linear progression in its actual application in games (see the transition from 2D to 3D in graphics), you cannot definitively say that the way people play or make the rules for a certain game is better now than it was 20 years ago UNLESS you can show how a contemporary method achieves the same end as an older one but better. I think lives in console platformers are a good example of this--they are basically unnecessary as a mechanic and it took until relatively recently stop using them for the better.

>>6415743
It's much less about mechanics, as you say books are all pretty much the same format but certain ones age differently. Mechanics and gameplay is part ot it, but hardly all.

>>6415759
This nigga must be high as fuck, that paragraph is pure fucking gobbledegook, trying to sound all smart n shit lmfao.

Except old books, films and (some) music are much better than anything we have today.

>>6415874
You mean the same way people claim that of old games as well? Lol

>>6414908
> Movie has aged

Except some movies do age poorly.

Go back and watch some late 80s/early 90s action flicks that sold well, or most 60s/70s westerns. Bad SFX, cheesy action scenes with no semblance of realism. Outside of a few classics these are unwatchable by today's standards.*

'Age' is simply slang for something that 1) was popular at the time but in retrospect was shit, and this is highlighted by advancements in the genre (e.g. Resident Evils tank controls) or 2) Has been incorporated / refined into subsequent games so there's no reason to play the original (eg SMB3 vs 1).

*And I'm really over the modern cinematography technique of hyper zooming in on actors and switching cameras every 2-5 seconds to create the illusion of action. Even WWE is doing this now on TV.

>>6415759
Wizardry has aged. No one makes RPGs like that anymore. Even games that are emulating Wizardry have more QOL features, because otherwise it would be awful.
That's an example of what we're talking about.

>>6414847
Because this board is filled with retards unable to understand that their favourite 30 year old game isn't a perfect masterpiece unable to be improved upon. I hate everyone here, you're all thick as shit.

>>6415910
80's and 90's action flicks rip though.
I thought you were gonna say 80's sex comedies because if you wanna talk about stuff that aged poorly...

But old games are superior, it's modern ones that aren't up to their standards.

>>6415949

>>6414847
>aged
Literally never happens on this board.
>aged poorly
Every fucking day.

>>6415980
Most of the discussion on the board is about the games that aged well.

>>6414847
It's a crutch word for low IQ NPCs who are unable to express their feelings about a particular game/movie/song and you'll be rightly mocked for using it in any context.

>>6416196
No, it isn't. It's a succinct way of saying that a game has been completely eclipsed by games in the genre that come after it.

For example, when I say Kung Fu for NES aged poorly, everyone with half a brain knows what I mean.

>>6416319
Sure it is, I'm sure you don't explain exactly what "aged poorly" because you don't want to, right? Yeah anon I believe you.

>>6416196
>NPCs
No, you not understanding it makes you illiterate.