/vr/ - Retro Games

Honestly I've had some success discussing relatively obscure 3rd and 4th gen games since the rule change. Is there any particular game you felt got unfairly ignored?

there's no going back. it's time to accept that games like mario and metroid are old hat, and games like halo, halo 2, and halo PC were better all along

>he complains the board is nothing but 6th gen games where there's been like 20 ZX Spectrum threads the past three days

Remember the shitstorm that happened the first few days after the rule change? It wasn't caused by the 6th gen kiddies that you like to complain about.
Going back to the old rules won't fix anything because the old userbase was bad to begin with.

>>6908043
The speccy posters are /v/ migrants who discovered something new and amusing and are meming it to death. Instead of adding to the 300 post speccy thread they all make their own threads because they're attention starved children.
You're proving OP's point. It all started with the rule change

>>6908016
>how do we save /vr/
Ban the stupid fucking brits and their Speccy threads.
Honestly though, I'm kind of glad the constant 4th-5th gen posting is dying out a little. Maybe some older or non-console games will actually get a chance to be discussed.

>>6908048
wait since when do 14 year olds on /v/ even know what a Spectrum is?

>>6908016
should have thought about this in the past boom boom now you have to pay the price of zoomers running the board

>>6908016
>how do we save /vr/
add 360 and ps3 theire retro too me and i want to talk about them hear

Seethe genners would rather have a board be shit than have it be good and not include their childhoods. Think about that for a moment.

>>6908054
They just found out about it, that's why they're so excited to make a thread every 10 minutes. >oi me speccy was a /vr/ meme, yes, but it was confined to one thread and we were discrete about it. Now they walk in, see something new mixed with /int/ tier flagposting "banter" and voila, we have a recipe for catalog flooding.

>>6908054
This is an actual good question, anyone knows anything about that?

>>6908016
>boomer still whinging like a weak baby
it gets better and better every week. you've been told everything you need to do to cultivate the board you want, but instead you spam the board with bait and refuse to bump the threads you actually want to survive. You reap what you sew and you'll be tossed out with the chaff fairly soon.

>>6908054
They read a thread made by the same oi me speccy memelord we all got feed up with years ago.

no it happened because that Famicom pulse logo thread got derailed by a (probably innocent) joke post about the Spectrum

>>6908016
there's really not much we can do. 6th gen is fucking massive and now the board moves too fast to have discussions for older games.
unless you're in a general, you have to bump threads constantly now or they die because the constant /v/ tier threads push them out.

>>6908064
>but instead you spam the board with bait
Yeah every single bad thread is made by a falseflagging boomer, sure.

>>6908016
You held this tantrum yesterday and where moved to QA where you where justifiably ignored. Stop trying to control everything just because you have no control of your life.

>>6908079
I'm surprised how agreeable and pliable you're being, glad you're on the side of truth now anon.

I'm all for 6th gen but it brings in a newer crowd that didn't grow up with lurker culture. They all make new threads for every single thought instead of a post in an existing thread. It's why boards like /v/ and /tv/ move so fast, people make new threads to seek attention and validation for their wonderful thoughts.

Now /vr/ is becoming too fast to have thoughtful discussions like before. It's not even a topic thing, it's a generational thing. Lurking is dead.

Just fucking make a 2000s board and delete those other useless video game boards already.
/thread
/board
/life

>>6908051
I always found Doom or N64 threads boring and sometimes wished there were more retro computer threads, but not like this. My wish was a monkey's paw.

>>6908083
I wasn't the OP of the last thread.
>Stop trying to control everything just because you have no control of your life.
That was a really good projection anon, have it in 4k?

>>6908092
We asked for that on the feedback thread that was sticked. Mods ignored every single post in there

look at all those DISCUSSION
and yes, those threads will be dead in a couple of hours

>>6908097
anon, everyone who uses this board knows who you are, picking your posts out of a lineup is downright brainless and easy. If you were smarter about what you do, people wouldn't have caught on, but here we are.

>>6908101
>one angry boomer spams the meta thread
>mods ignore one person throwing a tantrum to make the board the best it's ever been
Mods = GODS

>>6908106
Oh, I was replying to the schizo. Nevermind. Reminder guys, this anon actively suggest that every single anti 6th gen post can be traced to the same guy and everyone else is happy with this.

>>6908109
>one boomer
And still for some reason the board are still at each others throat. Also, takr your meds /v/ schizo

>this thread
>usercount
look at him frantically trying to defend the situation.

>>6908097
>I wasn't the OP of the last thread.
If you say and do the same thing, there really is no effective difference.

And frankly, I can't imagine any other reason why you'd want to control how a side 4chan board about old games discusses the topic, other than some severe personal insecurities.

>>6908114
>>6908117
it'll NEVER EVER go back to the way it was anon :^)

>>6908062
same thing happened with "mayor", I guess. just reaffirms that it's not the posts, but the posters. and it'll continue to be like this.

>>6908128
honestly good, I don't know about you but I think this board should BURN for changing the rules. I can't fathom who thought it'd be a good idea to contradict my vision of the board's ongoing prosperity.

>>6908119
>
And frankly, I can't imagine any other reason why you'd want to control how a side 4chan board about old games discusses the topic, other than some severe personal insecurities.
Reminder that this whole thing happened because of FIVE years of constant pro 6th gen begging.

>>6908128
Yup. Just a bunch of kids with low attention spans, discovering everything unique about this place and running it into the ground until we're as soulless as /v/.

>>6908127
>it'll NEVER EVER
Nothing lasts forever, fren. Boomers said the exact same thing when questioned if the PS2 was coming to /vr/

>>6908143
but the board should expand as time goes on

>>6908139
No. It happened because we're entering the next generation. And it will happen again with the generation after when the PS3, 360, Wii, and DS are retro.
Because that's how retro works

>>6908148
n-no... zoomer... it doesn't, you don't even know what you're saying, you're such an ignorant diaper baby... what you're doing is killing /vr/ and pretending that you're just thinning the herd. I can't abide by this, if this board continues on this warpath i'll have no choice but to burn it down with more speccy posts

>>6908147
That's the point, the way I see it, the expansion may causa a diaspora, if you will, in the future

>>6908016
Threads aren't being made fast enough to automatically shove off slow threads you idiot. Only completely inactive threads will get bumped off the board, one guy can keep a thread bumped for the two week limit without effort. Some threads go for more than 12 hours without a single post and they get zombie bumped back to the top. Autists like you are the reason the board went to shit. Spamming HURRRRRR NOT RETRO and mass reporting nonstop for YEARS letting everyone know exactly how to piss you off when the time comes. Now you get to live in the future YOU CREATED. THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT. You made your bed now lay in it.

>>6908153
>boomers are the ones making the speccy threads
Delusional

>>6908168
l-listen z-zoomer... i was on this board when you were still in your dads balls! you can't take this away from me and i'll fight for it tooth and nail!

>>6908148
The DS should be allowed desu. It's the new GBA

>>6908170
It doesn't really matter who's making them. It's being done to cause disruption. An attempt to garner attention and assert an idea of control

>>6908175
We should allow all portables desu. Modern mobile gaming is gacha shit on the a smartphone

>>6908180
well even if it doesn't matter who's making them, it's clear who's making them. It's our resident autistic boomer who fought the rule change every step of the way.

>>6908175
it literally is
same architecture, same limitations
the only difference is that it has 2 screens
3ds also same

>>6908175
It will be. Give it time.
As with all things, it will come in time.

And maybe sooner than later. The GBA was only around for 3 years after all

>>6908183
Unironically agreed. Handheld consoles are very much an old idea and something only people like us care about. There's a reason why handhelds are dead now. They're a relic.

>>6908153
>>6908174
Take your meds. Seriously.

>>6908184
I expect whomever they are to continue the tantrum until something else gets them upset, then they'll put all their energy into that. It's just a matter of letting them burn out.

>>6908198
what?

>>6908193
>There's a reason why handhelds are dead now.
Oh yeah. The Switch is just...so unpopular and junk

>>6908186
>it literally is
>same architecture, same limitations
>the only difference is that it has waggle
might as well argue for the wii at this point because it has gamecube specs
like dreamcast, ds is a trojan horse for allowing next gen

>>6908184
It's probably not one person or even a coordinated group. One person makes a couple threads and then people start doing it ironically.

>>6908207
The Switch is a console dressed up as a handheld. I've never seen one in public.

>>6908203
Sorry, autists don't burn out easily.

>>6908212
The Wii should be allowed too.

>>6908213
it's ust the one person, he's not very clever about what he does and is too impatient to wait for anything to pan out before he blows his nut prematurely by spamming too many threads at once.

>>6908214
>I've never seen one in public.
Really? I saw them all the time before the pandemic

>>6908217
But they do eventually. Giving them attention just makes it worse in any case.

>>6908221
In either instance, I'm referring to dedicated handhelds. Something in the vein of the Game Boy. 3DS and Vita will be the last ones. Tablets and phones have surpassed anything handhelds could have dreamed of. Even the Switch if you think about it is just a tablet.

>>6908228
A fair perspective

>>6908054
Well, considering the internet, chock full of unlimited information exists...

>>6908220
There's a whole discord server full of people who hated the rule change. Again, take your meds.

>>6908226
Anon, go to Warosu and write "GBA is just a portable SNES". You're in for a treat.

>>6908253
>discord server

I'm hoping that it passes over. The key factor will be when less new anons appear, such that there aren't enough people to keep the tired threads burning.

>>6908253
>here's a whole discord server full of people who hated the rule change.
post screencaps

>>6908256
its true some guy kept spamming his discord link in every thread

>>6908264
was it you?

Stop gatekeeping the word "retro".

>>6908269
someone must keep the gate, otherwise the zoomers will overrun the retro garden

>>6908257
It will. It's still new and exciting for people, but they'll get bored eventually and we'll revert back to empty console war and recommendation requests threads, but with a bonus few consoles in the mix

>>6908269
This. Everything should be allowed on /vr/, from 1st gen to current gen.

>>6908267
>using discord
only fags do that

>>6908269
No! It was invented in the 70's to specifically refer to my childhood in the 90's and nothing else!

>>6908270
Well that's kind of an inevitability no matter what

>>6908273
>avoiding the question
why?

>>6908261
Don't need to, look for the link in the archives. And yes they even allow 6th and 7th gen because again it's not about the gens themselves, it's the trash that they tend to attract and having the proper space to discuss the stuff you're interested in.

>>6908280
>being this dumb

>>6908294
>dude just trust me, it's in the archives
shouldn't you produce that link then?

>>6908297
>More avoidance

Are mods even going to speak something to settle the case?

>>6908313
>are mods going to humor my continued begging
I think they're tired of you man haha

There's nothing wrong with the new /vr/. Inferiour japanese video games got removed in favour of the superiour British microcomputers.
As you were.

>>6908313
Last very identical thread about this was swept to /qa/, so no. They don't care about the whining

>>6908313
>just hide the threads you don't like lmao
that was literally it

>>6908313
keep doing it for 5 years like these zoomers did

>>6908327
i only did it for 2 months and they added gen 6, probably because I'm a bit smarter than the boomer spammer tho.

>>6908315
>>6908321
>>6908324
>>6908327
Wtf? I'm not even whining about anything.

>>6908226
>he doesn't know about Alf

>>6908327
I'm sure it happening at the same time we're getting a new generation of consoles has nothing to do with it.

Like how when they added the Dreamcast when the previous generation was announced

/vr/ can't be saved. I think the rule change has ruined it forever

>>6908339
why do you spend 8+ hours of every day here then?

>>6908253
>Anon, go to Warosu and write "GBA is just a portable SNES".
That's reddit.com/u/gigadweeb who spammed that until he got called out.

>>6908339
/vr/ wasn't that good to begin with.
Slow as shit and minor variations on the same 3 threads every fucking time:
-What do you recommend for [CONSOLE]?
-[CONSOLE] was way better than [CONSOLE]!
-Why can't we discuss [CONSOLE]?

>>6908342
was it you?

>>6908349
this. /vr/ is the best it's ever been and is cresting upon a golden age.

>>6908271
its already been a month. its going to stay like this or get worse when more people from /v/ find out they can spam here too.

>>6908313
>Are mods even going to speak something to settle the case?
considering they ignored the ENTIRE THREAD when they first announced they were changing the rules, no. /vr/ is perma fucked.
no more slow threads, only generals about the same shit people discuss 24/7 because nothing else can survive due to the new board speed. gotta make room for the new mario whatever thread.

>>6908350
>was it you?
No, I'm not /u/gigadweeb. And I identify as a gender, I'm not nonbinary.

>>6908357
>i'm gonna try and burn the board down because i'm upset about the ps2
just say what youre really thinking lol

>>6908364
I only come to /vr/ to check goemon translation news and even that thread is having trouble with the new board speed.
don't assume all the old users are still browsing /vr/. its a dumpster if you like retro games now.

>>6908357
The 6th gen threads have already calmed down. Right now we have Spectrum spam, which the new rules have nothing to do with.

>>6908374
id think all of the old users who weren't pathetic users would've probably left, right? it's gotta be the real bottom of the barrel who stuck around, you'd figure.

>>6908245
I'm inclined to believe this too.

>>6908374
Anon, how many of the 150 current threads up are 6th gen?

>>6908379
>which the new rules have nothing to do with.
It's not fucking 6th gen, it's the people it attracts. The oi me speccy thing used to be confined in a single thread, then we have one of those and now it's everywhere. So yeah, it has everything to do with the new rules.

>>6908391
>so afraid of zoomers he starts shitposting to pre-emptively ruin the board

>>6908391
Anon, they could have done that any time before the rules changed.

>>6908403
you don't get it, the zoomers, the zoomers and the mods are after me! they're trying to stop me from talking about pinball! ahhhhhhh

>>6908391
Memes like that are nothing new.

>>6908403
Why would they even gravitate to a place like /vr/ before? See >>6908048

>>6908413
that's just one of life's mysteries anon, can you even trust yourself?

>>6908413
Same reason they "kept spamming for 6th gen for the past 5 years"

>>6908415
I can. Can you, schizo?

>>6908048
>The speccy posters are /v/ migrants who discovered something new
Not really i've been browsing /vr/ for years old enough to have owned a speccy and now I just shitpost speccy threads with a Brit/pol/ flavour just to spite the new board changes

bit of a giggile innit

simple as

Maybe just don't take a 4chan side board so seriously and look for other places to talk about old systems too. It's a big internet

>>6908418
>can you trust me
why would I trust some anonymous retard who spams a dead board lmao
>>6908416
it was only spammed for 2 months before the mods caved

>>6908424
How new are you?

>>6908103
I made that Sinclair C5 thread and i'll do it again.

>>6908423
This. The sooner you accept /vr/ is not going to be back, the better.

>>6908424
>it was only spammed for 2 months before the mods caved
Oh is that the story now.

Well it's fair enough they did. It is a "retro" board after all. Not a "pre-00's" board. And it would be weird to just cut it off after the first 3D generation. Aside from having more definition and early online play, there's not much separating games across those generations. But "retro" having a ~15 year/3 generation gap? That's sensible enough.

>>6908391>
>It's not fucking 6th gen, it's the people it attracts.
this guy gets it. the quality of posts overall have plummeted since the rule change. you even have people attacking other users for opinions now and spamming memes like boomer/zoomer.
I know you guys wanted to discuss some obscure ps2 games but it just isn't happening. we're /v/2 now. no more slow threads allowed.

>>6908432
well that's how long I spammed it :^)

>>6908423
Do you know any good forums besides GameFAQs, Digit Press, and Atari Age?

>>6908440
aren't you a little old for video games anon?

>>6908435
>you even have people attacking other users for opinions now and spamming memes like boomer/zoomer.
Whoa, this was unheard of on /vr/ before

>>6908435
>this guy gets it
You're either the same person, or equally paranoid that a vague group has been waiting for an opportunity to ruin your safe space specifically to spite you

>>6908016
Easy: Stop acting like a bitch.

>>6908440
>GameFAQs
it was never good

>>6908440
Nope, but I also don't really look too much. I got this board, I got my friends, I got my social medias. I'm set

>>6908452
>discord trannies

i'd prefer discuss 6th gen, but what hiro did is a son of bitch move, make 3 doa boards but the one people ask for year not.
fuck you hiro

>>6908452
>these 7 messages prove I have a lot of supporters
of course it doesn't anon, what were you thinking?

>>6908435
>the quality of posts overall have plummeted since the rule change
It's the same, just faster. If you think that makes us /v/2, well. Yeah. We where always just /v/ but slower.

>>6908445
please stop attacking me and have a normal discussion
its all I ask

>>6908457
honestly anon, you have it all mixed up, there's no reason to get so upset. The mods were on the verge of listening to the board's "feedback" but at the last moment, they noticed that all of those posts for /v2k/ were from the same person, literally no other person asked for it. Bizarre right? Anyways the mods assumed that the singular nature of the post meant that the board was in opposition of that solution, and acted accordingly.

>>6908457
should have bought a 4chan pass you filthy gaijin

>>6908449
Gamefaqs is fine. I've learned about some cool games there, which is all I need from a gaming forum

>>6908435
>the quality of posts overall have plummeted since the rule change
Literally just because of extremely asshurt boomers who shit their adult diapers at the sight of a Playstation 2 box art.

>>6908461
okay, but if i have a normal discussion with you, you have to leave the board immediately afterwards. It's only fair, you aren't a rational mind to begin with.

>>6908465
so I guess you don't need to post here anymore then right?

>>6908467
Not true, and reapeating it 20 times wouldn't make it any more real.

>>6908452
>Not retro
>15 year old shit
Does this person not know what Retro means, or did they imagine their own definition, and get upset when reality turned out not to meet that?
>It was good before the site was sold!
The Dreamcast addendum was added when Moot was still in charge.

>>6908472
Mad you got called out. Go make some more Speccy threads.

>>6908472
>Not true
o im laffin, anon we all know who you are

>>6908467
the next sentence calls out exactly what you're doing.
>you even have people attacking other users for opinions now and spamming memes like boomer/zoomer.

>>6908471
This place sometimes talks about good games too. Not sure what your point is.

Someone please spoonfeed me a great archived thread of the endless rage right when the rule change happened. I showed back up a week after and it and the salt had kind of died a bit by then. I could use a laugh, thanks bros

>>6908482
What of it? That shit was happening long before the addition. Half the board was console war garbage at any given moment

>>6908482
I've been called a -oomer of some form on this board for years before the rule change. The fact of the matter is the low quality posts are made by the same cocksuckers who complain about low quality threads. They cry out in pain as they make the 30th speccy thread.

>>6908443
It's a thousand times worse now. Old /vr/ was a mix of different ages and there was younger posters who were still interested in things before their time and discussing them halfway intelligently. The rule change and resulting upset made all the shitposters come out of the woodwork, feeling like on this board it's their time to shine since the catalog is like 50% troll posts at any given time.

>>6908092
This. To this day I still don't know why we got like 4 random spin off boards that nobody asked for.
(People asked for mobile shit off /vg/, which the mobile board didn't address)

>>6908485
Oh I wish I could have been here too just to gloat and watch the hypernatremia

>Noooo stop making thread to discuss the current situation, only us can do it!
>>/vr/thread/S2892012

>>6908485
the sticky announcing the coming change where almost everyone was disaggreeing with it
>>/vr/thread/S6770545

>>6908463
ah yes, the 100+ ps2, xbox, gc, gba ... threads right now are only one person posting.

>>6908493
And there where rainbows! And sparkling fountains of the finest champagne!

>>6908403
they could, but they didn't

>>6908506
>the sticky that one person spammed because he couldn’t face the imminent reality

>>6908506
>almost everyone
Is that what you're seeing?

>>6908518
Oh yeah, look at all of those Pepe and Wojak replies, surely they all were old regulars? I love the old /vr/ gang!

>>6908518
He’s shell shocked anon, he isn’t thinking clearly

>>6908514
So you could just as easily say it's spiteful old /vr/ users who don't want to see 6th gen threads too. Or just someone randomly trolling because reactions funny

>>6908508
Since it's new/vr/ I'll just call you zoomer. Yep, it's not like you can watch things degrade here in real time or anything.

>>6908520
>literally moving the goalposts
It’s almost as if you have something (things?) to hide :^)

>>6908520
What the world must be like through your eyes. Terrifying

>>6908526
>it's not like you can watch things degrade here in real time or anything.
Once again all because of the old losers with dementia losing their shit.

>>6908526
>esl retard post
What did he mean by this?

>>6908526
Nah it's the schizo, he doesn't really give a shit about the board or other people at all. As long as he gets his childhood validated here, he's happy.

>>6908536
>As long as he gets his childhood validated here

>>6908536
But that already happened so why would “the schizo” be the one spamming the board? It only makes sense that a certain very autistic boomer would be the spammer.

>>6908048
>It all started with the rule change

No it didn't. It started At least two years ago when /v/ users started noticing the board. It was pretty quiet and respectful at first, but eventually crossposters from /v/ started bring in people obsessed with speedruns, ecelebs, A presses, and whatever retro meme bullshit was being spammed at the time. Don't forget so quickly that the Sega System had been spammed on here so frequently that it caused a visible dip in the board's already sinking quality.

>>6908540
Because the schizo is out to ruin my board! He wants to take my only sanctuary from me, how can you take his side??

>>6908557
Shut up idiot! It’s the zoomers! The zoomers the zoomers the zoomers! You’re WRONG

>>6908016

>>6908048
You sound like the very "tourists" you're describing.

>>6908539
Anon, I know that you have to play your schizo character and everything, but really I've seen you accuse other people disagreeing with you of being the same person all the time. So I don't really know how old do you think I am, but from what I actually learnt about you, you know, the times you were actualy talking to me, we're probably pretty close in age. But it's painfuly obvious by tantrums like >>6908559 and >>6908569 and pretending that we've reached a golden age that you're just here for easy replies and getting your childhood validated. And that's fine, you can enjoy your GBA threads now and be happy. Your evil boomer isn't going to chase you anymore.

Now can we adress the problem of the older and more obscure stuff?

At least the msg1 spammer has left us

>>6908603
>autist thought this was a good post
Amuses me every time :^)

>>6908603
It looked like your post was meant for someone else so I ignored it halfway through. Hope you don't mind

I think the real problem is that retro games for all their charm just aren't good at all

>>6908016
get a life

>angry boomers intentionally shit up the board in protest to 6th gen
>the same boomers: "look how bad /vr/ is now!"

>>6908114
It's the megaman loli/pedo obsessed schizo, just ignore it. The funny thing is he shut up after getting exposed as a 21 year old Australian redditor when the rule change happened. He's a sad little man, but he's fun to poke until he throws a tantrum. It's like having a dog on a leash where you can always control it and order it to come back to you.

>>6908692
>le falseflag maymay
Have a tidepod, little faget.

The "mods" don't care about the quality of /vr/ or any board on this website. They want to bring in as many anarchistic, sociopathic, intellectually regressive subhuman troglodytes as possible so that they can make money off of them through ad revenue and because they're under direct orders from hiroyuki to do so. Furthermore, if you use the report function against those aforementioned "people" and their shitty, rule breaking threads and posts and encourage others to do the same in order to help improve a board, you get rangebanned from reporting and posting.
The only possible way to salvage 4chan is by a changing of the guard, and since they refuse to step down willingly, they must be removed forcefully.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, therefore each and every single mod needs to be doxxed, hunted down, and murdered.
swaglord is an ideal starting point since his identity is already public knowledge and because the mod team is primarily consisted of moot's real life friends, who swaglord undoubtedly knows as well since he's also friends with moot. Which means that with enough torture, he can tell us where the rest of them can be found.

>>6908734
I agree that mods obviously don't give a shit and that ad revenue primes over everything else but if you're being serious here, you're either some teen edgelord or a mental case. Have a (You).

I just noticed I have 26 threads hidden right now.

The only way to get good /vr/ back is to revert to old rules with 2000 cutoff.
Won't happen because mods are retarded and don't listen to users.

>>6908701
Don't try to pretend this wasn't made by an upset boomer >>6904568

>>6908734
Sad thing is you might be right

>>6908765
That's not gonna get rid of all those Spectrum b8 threads.

>>6908767
I made the tf2 thread what's wrong with it?

>>6908692
>people warn rule change will ruin board
>rule change happens
>board ruined
>blame the people who said this would happen
Retard

>>6908570
hiding threads doesn't stop others from being bumped off

>>6908774
you're a falseflagging boomer posting fortnite dances to shit up the board

>>6908016
/vr/ hasn't been good since like the first 2 weeks of /vr/

>>6908785
We have up to 150 threads at a time. Unless your topic's particularly boring or just doesn't have a lot to talk about, you're fine

>>6908767
That's literally one obvious troll thread out of the entire catalog. It doesn't mean that only one person is behind the unending flood of low quality threads happening right now.

>>6908784
Considering that the people complaining the board would be ruined are the ones ruining it, yes you should blame them.

>>>6908091
No one has ever had a thoughtful discussion about anything here.

>>6908789
I'm a tf2 fan who started a thread about tf2. You're weird.

>>6908784
>"""Ruin""" the board themselves
>Claim it's because the rule changed

>>6908794
>>6908798
This is a retarded conspiracy theory. I think 6th gen shit is being posted because people want to talk about 6th gen shit.

>>6908803
Do you actually 100% unironically believe that the spam is from... zoomers? Really? Why would they even care?

>>6908803
Oh I was talking about the Spectrum spam. As far as generations are concerned, I think there's actually a good balance right now. Spectrum aside

>>6908791
retro games are inherently both of them because of how old they are. you're just saying to make this place /v/ 2.0

>>6908806
The spam is from zoomers yes. They enjoy shitposting (see /v/) and the rule change allowed them to do their shitposting on /vr/ too.
It's a pretty simple and obvious explanation. I think the people envisioning thousands of false flag threads are in a lot of denial.

>>6908798
>themselves

more like the tranny hipsters who saw something nice and felt the need to inject themselves into it, ruining everything and contributing nothing

>>6908812
This place was always /v/ 2.0.
Just slower.

>>6908818
Oh no you found out our conspiracy to bother you or something

>>6908816
>and the rule change allowed them to do their shitposting on /vr/ too.
Why would the rule change enable that? This board already had several notorious shitposting autists. Now you're seeing what happens when said actual autists experience change.

>>6908349
I'll take that over
>what did they mean by this
>games for this feel
>.
>soijak.jpg
Nu /vr/ is trash. I can't even talk about a terminator game anymore because you fags have never heard of them, let alone played them.
Im sure I'm not the only one experiencing this. The merger screwed this board

>>6908810
The only retro threads which survive at the moment are console generals or threads about very mainstream games.
Anything obscure gets killed off quickly by the 6th gen/shitpost flood.
/vr/ used to be a place where retro games could be discussed. It's just not any more. It's /v/2

>>6908828
That's because it wasn't worth talking about Anon

>>6908824
The rule change allows 6th gen posting, so the board is no longer solely dedicated to retro games.

>>6908828
>Anything obscure gets killed off quickly by the 6th gen/shitpost flood.
And the people doing the flooding are the autistic boomers seething about 6th gen being allowed.

>>6908834
They are retro anon. They fall in the ~15+ year range

>>6908832
Why do you needed to come to /vr/ then? Just make PS2 threads on /v/ and if they don't get replies, that's because your thread wasn't worth talking about.

>>6908828
>It's bad because my threads no one wanted to talk about are not being up anymore!

>>6908842
Because the PS2 is retro now.
Because that's how time works.

>>6908832
>>6908843
by the same reason why couldn't you just put your stuff on /v/?

>>6908843
Yes. That's it. Glad we can agree on this.

>>6908835
Delusional.

>there's a team fortress 2 thread
Board is dead

Seriously though, this board isn't even that fast, even with the increased traffic.
If you can't keep a thread up, that's on you.

The current spectrum spam is more of a threat to your obscure topic than the generation 6 discussions have been all month

>>6908851
>Delusional.
It's blatant dude. Nobody is falling for the /v/ boogieman.

>>6908854
no

>>6908850
I could post it there, I could post it here.
That's what these boards are for

>>6908854
The gen 6 merger is what brought all the trash in

>>6908859
I can practically see you crossing your arms with your cheeks puffed out in a belligerent sulk

>>6908846
And why do we need a retro board in the first? What's preventing us from just talking about every single gen on /v/? If your thread doesn't get replies, that's because wasn't interesting, right?

>>6908810
the speccy thing is only because its funny to shit on british people

>>6908862
There was an obvious uptick in activity early on but the problem is now that it has started to die down we're still left with the resident spergs who will falseflag day and night because of the rule change.

>>6908862
And if you got rid of it you think the spectrum threads would go away?
They still fall under the old rule set. Even if it is from them, and not just people spamming out of spite or common trolls, you cannot come back from this

>>6908051
Hahaha, no.

>>6908869
Why, to discuss ild games of course. Like the PS2 and earlier

You can't save any website or forum where the moderation team actually works against you. Figure it out.

>>6908872
6th gen is allowed now, and so people who want to talk about 6th gen are posting about 6th gen.
That's it, that's the problem. Not your fucking retarded theory:
>6th gen is allowed
>People who don't want 6th gen post about 6th gen to demonstrate how bad 6th gen threads are

>>6908525
Except it wasn't going on before the rule change.

>>6908886
Are you actually so naive with autism you can't see blatant falseflagging?

>>6908423
Why are you happy that because of a bad rule change the board didn't want, another bit of 4chan went from a decent place to actually discuss things to a shitposting hellhole? Why are you making 4chan worse and thinking it's alright?

>>6908463
I asked for it, and so did several other people.

there's literally zero discussion going on in this board. check the post numbers on the catalog. it's all circlejerking generals or bait threads that stays up, and neither can be called discussion.

>>6908529
Why are you trying to lie when we can see the thread and the majority of people rightfully point out that it's a bad idea. You don't even want to talk about video games, you're just here to shitpost.

>>6908889
Which means it could be spiteful old /vr/ users protesting the change.

And again, even if it is new users, how will reverting the changes fix it?

>>6908873
I know. That's why the merger was a stupid idea in the first place

>>6908794
Except it's not. It's the same shitposters you see on /v/, doing the exact same thing they do there here.

>>6908891
>It's all falseflagging
You're in denial

>>6908898
I actually want you to count the number of posts for and against it and come back to me

>>6908806
Yes, because newfags see 4chan as for upsetting people and shitposting and so they'll spam things because they think that it'll annoy people and get (you)s.

>>6908903
So what do you plan to do about it?

>>6908828
This is correct, but you must understand that this board, like so many others, is now for shitposting. Actually having a slow board where you can have discussion? That's not what 4chan is about anymore.

>>6908909
Anon, that's been happening since the site was made

>>6908856
It's clearly not blatant as you can just compare the boards before and after the rule change.

>>6908879
You can perfectly see the logic of creating /vr/, giving older games a place to be discussed on. We used to be able to do that here, and now it's getting harder to do so. And it'll get even worse if they keep adding more and more gens because they're already x years old. That's why the just make a thread and if doesn't get replies it just wasn't worth it logic is so retarded.

>>6908910
ask the people who were for the change to kys themselves before they ruin another thing with their stupidity

>>6908904
It's the same shitposters who've been here for years having a sperg out.
>>6908905
It was incredibly obvious this was going to happen from before the rule change even happened. You are incredibly naive if you couldn't predict this outcome.

>>6908910
Who knows. Maybe talk about /vr/ games with SF and robot elements on /m/ or something.

>>6908872
I don't see any signs of that. I just see a bunch of people who came onto the board and think this is all another shitposting arena.

>>6908906
Interestingly all the early posts were supportive and then later on the thread was 90% against.
A more curious man than myself might conclude that the early posts were a failed attempt at mod samefagging trying to steer positive consensus.

>>6908917
>giving older games a place to be discussed on
That hasn't changed at all

>>6908920
Except it's not. And fuck off with that. Your autistic ass keeps trying to spread the idea that there's only one person shitposting and that it's some oldfag who's upset when there's been hundreds of thousands of posts at this point since the rule change, all of which could be taken from /v/.

>>6908926
>just make the same kind of threads you used to and if it they get to page 10 in a couple of hours now, it's your fault

>>6908917
/vr/ set it's precedence for change when they added dreamcast 6 months in.
This board was always going scale with the time, and the people bitching right now are just struggling to cope with that fact

>>6908926
except you literally can't discuss anything
not even PS2 games

>>6908932
Yes.
Because now people aren't desperate enough to participate in your boring thread. They have options

>>6908901
Except that's not likely at all because people annoyed at the change will likely just stop coming to /vr/, driven out by the shitposting while the same style of shitposting can be seen across all the boards that have high post numbers. And changing the rules back will do several things, not least remove an avenue they see of shitposting by spamming 6th gen stuff because people like you give them the idea that it makes 'boomers seeth'.

You could also do a little moderation until it calms down. Banning or wordfiltering 'boomer' and 'zoomer' for instance would instantly improve the board.

>>6908936
There are several PS2 threads up right now. You're free to discuss in them if you want

>>6908915
And? /tg/ used to be amazing and now it's shit, you think that means I'm happy when another board gets wrecked by an arbitrary mod decision which no one but unironic shitposters wanted?

>>6908924
>I don't see any signs of that
Then you are naive. Keep in mind this board had several spergs who would fly into action at the first opportunity to say "NOT RETRO" even when it was rule breaking and not much of a reason to do so. Do you really think those kinds of people are just gonna let it go when the rules actually change?
>>6908929
It's more than one but definitely the kind of autists who posted here before 6th gen was allowed.

>>6908926
Except it has, clearly.

>>6908925
Do you often form conspiracies when things don't seem your way?

>>6908938
Like shitposting and spamming threads to pwn the boomers, amitire?

>>6908943
Those are shitposts.

>>6908950
Not saying that's what happened at all.
But it definitely would be consistent with how they've behaved for sure :)

>>6908949
Check the catalog. Old games galore. You want to discuss old games go ahead and discuss old games. No one's stopping you

>>6908943
I tried. I posted several times in those threads, but they never end up with a discussion instead of just it going down page 10. If you noticed the majority of them have under 10 posts.

>>6908948
No, because the shitposting is exactly as it is on other boards. Anyway, it's quite clear you're one of those shitposters, probably giggling everytime you see that (you). This is one of the biggest issues with stupid mod decisions like this. It empowers autists like you who will spam the threads constantly just to annoy others. And it's blatantly you because I've been seeing you post, blaming the whole mess and massive rush of posts and active IPs (what, the single guy upset at 6th gen being here is using hundreds of new IPs? Yeah right).

But hey, as long as you know you're celebrating the destruction of one of the last good boards on 4chan and that you're no better than the wojakspammers, that's fine.

>>6908957
Except for the threadspammers and shitposters and more.

>>6908961
Frankly if it gets rid of you whiners faster, the better

>>6908910
Not much I can do. I can safely say every board on here since I've started browsing years ago has deteriorated (except /tv/ cause it was mostly memes anyway)
I'll probably come here and contribute a thread ocassionaly which will get one (like the one I started today) or two replies And then sink like a rock because another bait thread was started thanks to the /v/ influx and no one that's left here cares about pc games from the 90s except Doom

>>6908943
No, because they're not actually aimed at discussion, and they'll be pushed off the board in a few hours by shitposters.

>>6908965
Yeah, people who have been on this board since the start who like talking about the subject matter are awful. We need more shitposters posting tired memes and giggling about annoying the 'boomers'.

>>6908961
I'm not even one of those shitposters, I'm just being realistic about this situation. You have vindictive and highly autistic posters who have been angry at the mere thought of this exact rule change for years, and then you have the idea that it is a bunch of users from /v/ who decided to shit up this place for little to no reason.

>>6908968
Then leave I guess.
There's no way it's going to change back to how you remember it

>>6908973
Sure

I would like to see some of these good old discussions that were part of this fabled old board.
I popped in during the summer gigaleak and most of the threads seemed to be about console wars and rhetorical questions

>Yeah fucking boomers what a bunch of whin... oh
>>/vr/thread/S3619604
>>/vr/thread/S3179436
>>/vr/thread/S2381068
>>/vr/thread/S2392556
>>/vr/thread/S2356929
>>/vr/thread/S2356940
>>/vr/thread/S2340170
>>/vr/thread/S2318031

>>6909001
Do you still not realize this change is happening because we're entering a new console generation?

>>6908993
Literally the day before the rule change /vr/ was a healthy, functioning board where you could discuss retro games.

>>6908016
At this point I genuinely think this board just has a dedicated group of assmad shitposters who will do anything to ruin discussion.

>>6909015
Do you have literally a single example?

>>6909025
What was your first clue?

>>6909028
Ignoring the fact that you’re being a sarcastic faggot, I was willing to assume that there was more than one person who genuinely wanted to discuss Xbox/PS2/GCN outside of /v/ (even if they acted like dipshits when they posted about it here) but apparently not since we got an avalanche of forced memes and relentless shitposting.

>>6908217
Bruh...

>>6909026
>>/vr/thread/S4581296
>>/vr/thread/S5704463
Literally just go to warosu and write "game" or "system"

>>6909026
Here are all the threads that were posted on /vr/ the day before the rule change:
>>/vr/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=2020-08-26&search_dateto=2020-08-27&search_op=op&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

It's pretty sad to look at. The quality is so much better than the current catalog. Click on any of those threads to see good discussion within too.

Why wasn't this thread deleted yet? You whiners need to go back to /qa/.

>>6909026
Hello newfag.

>>6909091
And you shitposting faggots should move back to /v/.

Just stop. None of you are mad enough to leave, or you would have already. If anyone wanted a /vr/ with 5th gen and earlier only or whatever, they could have made it on 4+4chan.moe. No one has. Given how few people post there, if everyone here that actually wanted to talk about pre-6th gen games moved to there, it would easily be the most alive board on that site. No one has done so. Actions speak louder than words, and the action so far has been to whine and cry about what the mods did. Fuck off already. I never wanted 6th gen here and still don't, but I'm tired of seeing the whining. Either make the board you WANT and invite us there, or make another thread on /qa/.

>gets told
>G-GO BACK TO /qa/!
kek poor kid

Here it is. Every single thread posted the day before the rule change. I've taken a "warts and all" approach so we see the good threads, bad threads, and shitposting. It's all here.
I think, looking at this, it's impossible to claim /vr/ hasn't been ruined. When people talk about /vr/ being better beforehand, this is what they're talking about. The quality of threads here is far, far better than today.

>>6909128
/vr/ was good for the first few months only. It came to absolute shit witht he advent of the generals. The recent changes are a nail in the coffin, nothing more.

>>6909109
But it is made. If anyone were to post the domain it would be deleted, however.

>>6909148
Like what, Doom, Arino, and Rollercoaster Tycoon? That is about all I remember.

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