/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6820560
Yes.

Goodbye obscure games but I guess that was always a problem with 4chan where only popular games saw discussion.

>>6820560
They should have done it two years ago.

Looking at the current state of the board? No

>>6820569
When did they ever stop posting about obscure games? They post about obscure games on /v/ and /vg/ to this day

>>6820569
The Brightis thread would have died after 3 or 4 posts if it was made today.

>>6820560
They should have made a separate board, like everyone asked. It's not incorrect to say ps2 is retro, but it is insincere to lump that generation in with the previous generations, it was what most people consider a pivot point for the entire industry, and is also so popular that its inclusion here completely kills discussion for the older systems.

>>6820574
We used to be able to have madou monogatari or puyo puyo generals that lasted weeks but I doubt that's possible now.

>>6820560
it was good for some laughs

>>6820560
Not really, no.

>>6820602
The Super Mario Sunshine posting makes zoomies seethe, so that's at least entertaining.

>>6820560
No.
Assblasted mod not making a /v2k/ just because some oldfag was mean to him.

>>6820590
This
I enjoy sixth gen consoles. However I would prefer that they have their own board.

So is this board legit dead now? I mean, its always been slow-ish, but holy shit..

Yeah it was, except for the fools that post shit like Bioshock and Portal - which were designed for the 360 and PS3 but are somehow retro in their minds because they run on Windows XP. I call trolling

>>6820560
Nope.

>cry because /v/ has terminal cancer
>demand a safe space to discuss muh childhood
>force another board to welcome you, even though you have nothing in common with the usual posters
>said board becomes /v/
>you were the cancer all along

>>6820601

>puyo puyo generals that lasted weeks

Lol, no great loss. I thought you meant actual things. Just start a puyo puyo subreddit or some shit.

>>6820632
>homebrew console games count
>but not PC
the rules were retarded from the start. No one can say the old rules were obtuse when you have fucktarded shit like this now.

>>6820638
Fuck off /hg/ shitposter.

>>6820669
>/hg/
wat

>>6820638
that's pretty much how it is. A lot of them are even regretting the change now. But it was bound to happen because mods are all underage b&. Moot and snacks were teens when they made this place. Jannies are literal children.

>>6820681
Mods are unironic alt-right gay furries. We're fucked.

>>6820640
I agree with you, we had a good 7 year run. All things come to an end. Let the past die and be glad that it happened.

It was a terrible decision, /vr/ is now both non-retro and super fast. Threads used to last weeks.
Great job ruining /vr/ mods. You must be really fucking prouds.

>>6820683
>>6820690
mods literally bend the knee to autistics frogs. They really are gay

>>6820601
>puyo puyo generals
I mean that was against the rules anyway

>>6820698
I'm pretty sure the guy(s) posting these threads knew from the mods the rules would change soon and decided to shitpost before it was too late.

>>6820560
>was making sixth gen certified /retro/ a good idea?
It was bound to happen at some point but as other people said I would have preferred a separate /v2k/ board.
Especially since we just had 4 new vidya boards made in like 2 weeks

>>6820690
>I want to talk about GBA! Not these boring SNES games!
>Onpy GBA threads posted are a bunch of SNES ports
Why fight this hard for the change if you were going to talk about SNES games in the end?

No they killed /vr/

>>6820721
How dense can you be, these were stealth non-retro threads.

>>6820674
Nevermind.

>>6820569
Why is this a
bad thing? Obscure games are obscure for a reason.
>>6820561
/thread

Needs work. I'd prefer no Gen 6, but a revision of the rules might be a better middleground if they really won't create /v2k/
>push pc back to 2005 maybe 2006.
>let Gen 6 run its software through its lifetime. Who cares if it had late lifetime sports/shovelware. If people wanna meme with pes13, fuck it. At least it's not Halo 3 and Bioshock.

It's the loopholes that really ruin the board atm, plus all the shit posting on both sides of the Gen 6 ruling .

>>6820737
I can only talk about OoT and DKC3 so many times, I want to discover new things. But /vr/ was never good for discovering new games anyway, japanese channels are more appropriate for that.

>>6820729
You are a complete halfwit

>>6820560
Bad idea.
Would've worked fine if the jannies had just increased the cut-off date to either 2001 or (if you wanna stretch it that far) 2006. That way Deus Ex could've still gotten in without purists screeching "NOT RETRO" (ironically, I believe those purists are to blame for the new rule change).
Instead Jannies put the rule up to 2007.
Even then, I still believe /v2k/ is better.
It's become impossible to talk about ANY games without the thread dying quickly.
I will say one thing. /vr/ was bound to die though. This just hastened it's death. Autists were forming retarded safespaces and were spamming threads, turning it into /v/ 2.0. This change may have killed off those autists, but it brought in new ones or encouraged some that were already breaking rules.

>>6820569
It's impossible to talk about ANY obscure games on here now. I tried talking about Chameleon, Vietcong, Kabus 22, I-Ninja, Ultimate Spider-Man etc. It Archives within seconds with no replies despite those being obscure 2000s vidya. Can't talk about retro obscure, can't talk about 2000s obscure. This board is doomed.

>>6820721
Ports of retro games are allowed and that autist used that breach in the rules to discuss GBA as a whole.
That's just the usual bait and switch tactic used mostly by /pol/tards and pedos everywhere on this site. The OP of your thread complies to the rules but you make sure that the discussion deviates from it and eventually derails.

>>6820560
no

>>6820753
Yeah, I know he did. But I did notice that even after the rule change there was a flood of posts like "hey guise, Super Mario Advance 1 thread", "Super Mario Advance 2 thread", and so on. It's just weird because I notice a lot of zoomers conplain about SNES gamea being old and outdated, while fauning over ports of them.

>>6820752
Agree wit all of this.
Can't even discuss Tropico 1 on this board because it came out in 2001 - I seriously didn't expect the jannies to be that particular about removing threads.

4chan in general is so heavily moderated now however that it's worse than facebook for handing out bans.

>>6820638
I grew up with gen 6, but I'm fine with or without only discussing earlier gens. I got into older games cuz of the Animal Crossing NES games and then later because of the Wii Virtual Console, and I've since admired them.

Honestly, I think if they were gonna make this change they should've had the cutoff be when the Xbox 360 came out, because that was the start of 7th gen. If that thing I read about them making the cutoff gen 8 just because of Portal is true, that actually pisses me off because I'd prefer an unbiased decision.

>>6820769
Sorry, meant to say the cutoff as 2008.

>>6820560
Why did the Gamecube thread just get deleted? Seems like troll threads stick around forever but if you talk bad about Gaycube or GBA it gets deleted instantly.
Anyways, since I couldn't leave my post in that thread I'll just say it here.
>inferior ports and manbaby garbage
>dreamcast 2.0

Why are meta threads so popular on every board now?

>>6820780
When board has bad moderation/poor quality, this happens. So every board has it now.

>>6820780
Ever since the mods decided to destroy /vr/.

>>6820780
That's what happens when your site is owned by a conman who only cares about the shekels he gets from ads and ran by a bunch of lazy faggots too busy ERPing and shoving dildos in their ass to properly moderate the place.

>>6820561
This.

>>6820745
Agree desu

>>6820601
There was nothing good about stagnant Puyo threads hanging around for weeks on end. I love the game but other than how to build chains there's very little to talk about and no reason they need to go on that long.