/vr/ - Retro Games

Real talk, how did Sony went from the soulful PS1's intro, to the generic and boring intros of PS2, PS3 and PS4?
Will they go back to having a good one with PS5?

>>6814263
PS2's boot up is fantastic.

>>6814268
>OP is a PS2 fanboy
Color me surprised.
Also no, PS2's intro is just a boring generic thing that could be some chink android device bootup. PS1's startup is soulful as fuck.
Also
>fantastic
What a queer way of expressing yourself lmao

Seems fine to me, at least it had an intro and wasn't just a simple push a button boot up like with all the consoles afterwards

>>6814273
No idea why nincels are so volatile lately. PS2's boot sequence is so good. The sharp clang, the warm welcome when the logo flashes, and the cool detail of having the white pillars extend as your memory card fills.

Behold: The greatest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iI6Irj9nI8

>>6814281
>nincels
I don't really like the GC either, I was just commenting on how obvious of a trope it is that the one guy making anti-GC threads would be pro-PS2 fanboy.
>PS2's boot sequence is so good
It's so generic and boring, though.
>sharp clang
Up your ass maybe
>warm welcome
I can tell you don't have much human interaction IRL, so you think a console's startup is a "warm welcome" to you.
>cool detail of having the white pillars extend
Yeah, I can see how you would like "white pillars" extend onto your face

>>6814273
Did you know that feeling threatened by any interaction towards you is a symptom of schizophrenia?

>>6814253

>YOOOOOOooooooooooo!

>>6814273
Based

>>6814290
>It's so generic and boring, though.
How?

>>6814291
Didn't feel theatened, just pointed out how Sony never got a good startup again after PS1.
OP's nostalgia for the generic PS2 intro doesn't count

>>6814263
What makes PS1's intro special is the tune, really. And you can have that tune on PS4 by installing PSone Anniversary theme.

>>6814307
PS1 really is the best. Big soft spot for both Saturn boot ups however. Xbox was OK, Gamecube's felt like a kiddy toy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrmtU8MY44

>>6814297
It has nothing memorable in it. It's dull and mute.
Do yourself a favor and compare it to the PS1's iconic startup.

>>6814352
>It has nothing memorable in it. It's dull and mute.
How?

>>6814354
Do yourself a favor and compare it to the PS1's iconic startup.
There's cellphone startups with more soul than PS2's.

>>6814363
I did, they're very different in presentation, PS2's is more striking while PS1's heavy bassy synth pulls you in. Both are great.

>>6814263
>Gamecube thread
>b-but the PS2...

>>6814378
They make it really obvious, don't they?

>>6814378
>Gamecube thread
It's a console startup thread.

This has to be a troll thread. The gamecube startup is really satisfying and the best 6th gen console startup by a long way.

>>6814386
wasn't even the best nintendo start up that gen.

>>6814371
Strikingly generic, yeah
>Both are great
No, PS1 is great, PS2 is forgettable at best.
Also
>heavy bass synth
This isn't Skrillex, /mu/tard

>>6814392
>Strikingly generic, yeah
How?

>>6814386
>6th gen gets added to /vr/
>act all surprised when there's 6th gen console wars

>>6814398
Deal with it, PS2's intro will never get the same love that startups like PS1, Saturn or DC get. It's just a generic black screen with some blocks and some random muted sounds

>>6814412
>It's just a generic black screen
How?

>>6814412
>It's just a generic black screen
I always get the red one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_x7fy9zRao

>>6814405
I actually think 6th gen console war is pretty tame right now.
I guess people are still to busy focusing on the rule change to start actually doing 6th gen console war proper.
I give it a week or two before the real 6th gen console war shitposting starts.

The dreamcast is orgasmic.

>>6814253
xbox's the best one

>>6814537
DC>Xbox>GC>>>>>>PSdood

psx > gamecube > gba > xbox = ps2 > dreamcast

>>6814591
this guy gets it

The PS1 has the best sound design but the visuals are incredibly boring, it's basically two static images.
The PS2 is fine but overshadowed by the others.
The Xbox Original boot is dated but in a charming 00s way.
The Gamecube boot is iconic but if you're very inpatient it overstays its welcome.
The dreamcast boot is fine but the devkit one was better. Ideally it would have the devkit 3d swirl and the newer version sound synced to it.
For some reason young me was salty that the Gameboy Advance logo was rainbow with a blue background in all the promo material but a solid color when booting the actual device. I got over it quickly though.

>>6814253
I disagree. The PS2 has the worst boot up sequence of all time. Dreamcast, Xbox, Gamecube, Saturn, and PS1 all had good boot up sequences.

>>6814253


I've seen worse

>>6814352
turn your hearing aid up gramps

>>6814253
I USED TO RUUUUUULE THE WOOOOOORLD

I loved the GC startup. The music that played in the settings menu scared the shit out of me though.

>>6814253
it's fun, what are you talking about

>>6814263
PS2 is great, early PS3 was fine and PS4 barely have a intro.

>>6815296
the menu music is eerie as fuck, what they were even thinking

SOUL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTfhaysRVDw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhnrYmRvU_0

>>6815523
Sega really milked the retrofuture design in everything throughout the late nineties.

>>6814336
I hated the DC startup because all the whirring inside the console made me think the system was about to catch fire

>>6814263
Every cuckstation is a soulless husk. Garbage systems.

>>6814253
>he didn’t hold z on 4 controllers

>>6814253
This is why you guys wanted 6th gen? To bring your retarded console wars over from /v/?

The orchestra string sounds of the PS3 startup is way more soulful than the drone-y digital sounds of the PS2's. The PS1 had a digital sound intro but at least it had actual good sound design.

>>6815793
>acting surprised about it

>>6814284
this, although is imprecise to say Mark III, since that model had a completely different boot up

>>6814263
The PS1 has the worst sequence of all. PS2 is best

>>6815782
honk honk

>>6815840
Can we actually call the PS2 a bootup sequence? it's just some polygons and some vague sound effects

>>6817258
Isn't that what the gamecube is too?

>>6814253
Worst console of the generation

>>6817328
I never ever used a Gamecube in my life, so I wouldn't know.

>>6817356
it's in the op

>>6814253
They had to balance the boot-up energy of the universe after they made the greatest boot-up sequence of any console: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m52rMtRCm7c

>>6814405
This reminded me of that dead dude they had posed in a chair.

>>6814253
Pic unrelated

>>6814253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaVBjbPrXs

>>6814253
It's the best one

>all these faggots shitting on the PS2 startup

>>6818515
t. Triggered Sonyfag

Stop being faggot cumtrarians.
Here's the definitive grading of 6th gen consoles graded by user interfaces:
>Dreamcast:
Startup: A-
Main menu: B+
Menu ambience: N/A
Menu sounds: A
Memory card icons: C
Stuff to do: B
>PS2:
Startup: A+
Main menu: A+
Menu ambience: A+
Menu sounds: A+
Memory card icons: A+
Stuff to do: B+
>Gamecube:
Startup: C (though if you interrupt it by holding A on boot the result is B+)
Main menu: A-
Menu ambience: B+
Menu sounds: A
Memory card icons: B
Stuff to do: C
>Xbox:
Startup: B+
Main menu: A-
Menu ambience: B
Menu sounds: A
Memory card icons (HDD icons): B-
Stuff to do: A+

And let's rank the 5th gen user interfaces just for funsies:
>Saturn
Startup: A (North America); A- (everywhere else)
Main menu: A
Menu ambience: N/A
Menu sounds: A
Memory card icons: N/A
Stuff to do: B+
>PS1
Startup: A
Main menu: A
Menu ambience: N/A
Menu sounds: N/A
Memory card icons: C+
Stuff to do: B
>N64
N/A

>>6814263
>>6814273
>>6814363
>>6814392
>>6814412
>>6814304
>PS2 intro
>generic or unloved in any conceivable sense of the word

>>6818662
>>Xbox:
>Menu ambience: B
>he doesn't know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5TafRklne8

>>6818703
My bad, I forgot the +
It's B+

>>6814253
>Not tapping A during the startup sequence so you spin the cube around without going into the main menu