/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6653359
YOURE ENJOYING IT WRONG

Lol don't make fun of zoomers, op

>>6653359
You forgot to mention your Raspberry Pi and to dunk on collectors.

I have the based department on the line right now.

>>6653365
Unironically how me and every boomer played retro games on emulators a couple decades ago on ZSNES or Genecyst or NESticle. It's only now, in our 30s, that we actually act pretentious and snobby about the right way to play games. And I genuinely do think playing with save states and shit is crap, but I know that's a cross-generational fuckup.

>>6653359
Why yes, I do save state every few minutes. How could you have known such a thing?

>>6653415
Now THIS is what projection looks like.

>>6653359
You're only ruining the experience for yourself. With savestates there's no tension or excitement, the experience feels empty when there is nothing on the line, I don't feel anything at all since there is no weight to any mistake I may make, you may as well play with cheats at this point. Deciding on a whim one day to play without savestates saved me from getting apathetic about the hobby.

>>6653441
An insistence on playing with save states actually harmed my enjoyment of the Fire Emblem games. You get so obsessed with doing everything perfectly and it becomes little more than trial and error. No critical thinking anymore. Everything the game was designed to do, test your strategic ability, provide tension because it will punish you for your mistakes, give you the thrill of just barely winning or the dismay of losing your favorite character, etc., all gone.

>>6653359
Just say they you're poor and they don't sell any nintendo games in your cunt

>>6653429
I remember seeing an RE letsplay of some guy in I believe his mid 20s (at the time) circa 2009 and he abused save states

>>6653359
Don't forget to play on an old-as-shit computer and use the recording feature to slow everything down so you can get the timing pixel perfect.

>>6653415
How strange, a boomer defending zoomers. Surely this can't be a falseflag.

>>6653359
That sound way too tedious to be fun. Save state abuse is a sad affliction.

>>6654551
>false flag
Literally what? This board has maybe 15 regular users.

>>6654570
15 or 15000, it doesn't matter, zooms gotta save zcumm

>>6654580
you’re a mess anon

>>6654584
Imagine being a zoomer and defending yourself in the retro games board.

>>6654596
I’m 28 anon.

>>6654596
this obsession with everyone on this board being underage has gotta be some kinda pedo kink thing for this guy right

>>6654603
What's the point in saying your age? It's not like you'll post your legit ID for everyone to confirm. If you get called a zoomer for using save states, just deal with it and laugh it off. No need to seek for validation from anonymous users, zoom zoom.
>>6654613
To be fair a lot of younger guys do use 4chan, which is weird considering 4chan is a very web 1.0 style website, no like button, no share button, it's very anti-zoomer, yet zoomers love being here (yet they complain about boomers all the same). Weird.

>Why yes, I do play retro games with Retroarch in my smarthpone with touch controls, stretched to fill the screen, using HD filters, savestating every 5 seconds and watching my favorite e-celeb doing a playthrough at the same time, how could you tell?

>>6653359
>Using guides, as the devs wanted
>Countering artificial difficulty with saves states so you don't need to replay the easy parts

You know how to have fun OP. Keep on!

>>6654627
>what's the point in saying your age
because you're having a sperg attack and needed to understand how ridiculous you're acting.

>>6654627
>4chan is a very web 1.0 style website
stop larping nigga

>>6654834
Bitches leave

>>6654805
But the point is, you can say "yeah guys I'm 80" and actually be 12.
>>6654834
larping about what? tiktok is your place, nigga.

>>6653441
Dying and running through a level over and over again diminishes my enjoyment of the successful attempt when I finally get through it.

>>6654551
I am in my 30s and there is no fucking way zoomers know about bloodlust software. I'm just being honest about how boomers abused save states before we got older and became interested in authentic experiences on CRTs, no save states, on vintage controllers.

>>6654565
I suffer from this illness. I never had a console, so i got used to saving a lot on emulators. Even on PC games i do the same. I got a little better recently by playing on emulators without Save States and on a PS3 my brother bought.

>>6653441
i do partially agree with you, but my time is limited and nothing sucks the fun out of a game for me more than having to constantly redo levels because of a crit hit (looking at you, fire emblem). Save states just make things more bearable, but it's a trade off

>>6653359
I save state like mad in Fire Emblem because fuck RNG level ups

>Success in games ==> Success in life!
>A winning mindset in games will make you a more well balanced person with delayed gratification preference in life!
>You think you're enjoying the game, but imma lay on ya the straight talk express, zoomer… you aren’t

Is this trolling or are people actually taking this shit seriously

>>6654886
Seriously look up web 2.0, it largely means user generated content which 4chan definitely falls on.

>>6656497 samefaq
Also it’s worth noting that if you pull up all the gamefaqs for [classic game], you’ll notice the oldest were posted in the 90s and early 00s, before the zoomers were even created. And a lot of gamers abused the crap outta Nintendo Power, full-color game guides, etc. Playing without assistance is just a meme.

>>6653359
I don't want to tell anyone how to use a toy, but that sounds like a great way to suck all the fun out.

>>6653415
>>6653740
I'll use save states still, depending on the game. But looking up guides before playing has no appeal.

>>6656510
Yeah but there is no "user" in 4chan. Unless you count tripfags which are often shunned down unless it's for very specific purposes.
To be fair, anon didn't say it was a web 1.0 website, but a web 1.0 style website, which I think it is. 4chan is very old school and simple compared to actual social media sites that have feedback and intricate user-specific algorithms. 4chan is basically still like how old BBSs used to be in terms of navigations and usefulness. You just share information. There's no notifications tied to any account.

>>6653415
I did savestates when I first found out about emulation, to beat Ninja Gaiden on NES, a game that I had played as a kid and just accepted I would never beat. I just blazed through the game taking no damage, saving and loading every 10 seconds or so.
It's just not the same thing, an empty experience like watching someone else play it on youtube, you don't get any thrill and it feels like work.
So I decided not to do it again like that. I even managed to buy a real copy and beat it on real hardware. I was at the top of the world, man. That's what it's supposed to feel like.

On the other hand fuck PC shooters like Half Life and Medal of Honor Allied Assault where your enemies are bulletsponge hitscanners, I still savescum the fuck out of those to this day.

>>6653359
This is actually a fun way to play some games. Anybody calling you a zoomer didn't have Nintendo Power or a GameGuide growing up. The most fun I had was playing Lufia 2 with a full map and list of items and an early version of Internet Explorer used to print out a copy of the GameFaqs guide to help me. It was one of those things where I would glance at the guide "go to the next town, make sure to buy the new spells and talk to XXXX to unlock the next cave". I didn't have as much fun going around talking to every single person, I liked to get a good idea of where to go and what to expect.

Savestates are fine as long as you only do them at certain spots and not every five steps. I used them in the ancient cave and did not have a fun time. It's convenient to save your spot when you need to go for dinner though.

>>6656519
Everyone also bought a game genie back then.

>>6654551
I'm a boomer and I did this in my teens. I don't do it now because I've realized playing games without a challenge is absolutely no fun.