/vr/ - Retro Games

fun

>>7439107
they are __________________________fun______________

>>7439107
Depends on the game, sometimes its nostalgia, but sometimes its just because retro games feel like they were created with a different state of mind, and as a result are often a lot more just about being "fun"

>>7439107
>for me it's all about game play.
This. Game, as in something you play.

I like fast-paced arcade style gameplay, and retro games seem to be the best at that. Seems like the only arcade style games coming out nowadays are tranny shmups like touhou.

>>7439107
They're just fun. Simple as.

>>7439107
>>7439148


You both pretty much summed it up for me. I'm an adult now, and a 20 minute intro cutscene telling me pushing up is to go forward just seems insulting really. I like the feeling of putting in a cartridge, hitting start and just going straight into the game. Arcade style gameplay, I just want to kick ass from the get go, don't need to be bogged down by some young adult tier story or pointless tutorial.

>>7439107
No modern political cancer.

>>7439107
As a PC gamer, the games were more complex and didn't hold your hand. Also soul I guess .

>>7439221
old games didn't even have old political cancer. they were just games and free of any politics and that's something i can enjoy. i just want a game and that's it.

>>7439416
Politics can work in a video game, regardless of what generation the system is of.

>>7439221
>>7439416
man I miss when videogames were apolitical...
this is specially funny because for some fucking reason threads in this board keep derailing into racewars and libtard vs cuckservative shit

I want to escape reality, and modern games only heighten it.

>>7439107
My pc now can't handle modern games and I also decided that I want to finish some game libraries

>>7439221
not true, back then the outrage was about violence, satanic messages and nudity. Lots of games where censored thanks to conservitards

>>7439450
>pic
Those games are all Sci-Fi, a genre which is known for at least partially making allegories and references to real-world stuff more often than not. Though there are exceptions like the Bungie-Era Halo games, and Megaman.

>>7439221
Politics were involved from day one, when Space Invaders and Pacman made US nationalists seethe, part of 80's anti-japanese hysteria.

Also Mortal Kombat and Night Trap discussed in the US Senate, censorship in PAL territories, 90's conservative histeria about evil porn-addicting "chinese games/cartoons", Pajitnov almost being sent to a gulag...

>>7439465
Conservitards- ruining retro gaming since the 90s

>>7439520
but nothing political made it into the games

politics cried about video games but video games didn't force politics onto you

>>7439450
>Halo is political
What is this retardation?

>>7439779
le spartan program
le mantle
le 9/11 allegory

>>7439107
It all depends OP, I find several experiences in retro games I enjoy. Platformers have always been my thing and the 90s was all about them. That being said I think there are several modern examples that are just as good if not better than some retro games.

Then there are other genres like survival horror that I always hated retro because of clunky controls and poor CGI that I think have only improved thanks to modern technically. I personally can't see how anyone can personally look at games like Outlast and Alien Isolation and say that the original Silent Hill and Resident Evil on playstation were better.

Fun and Nostalgia. Every time I load up a PSX, N64, or even an SNES game, i feel like a teenager again. Back when I had no responsibilities, no problems, and great health and I didn't have to worry about anything other than school the next day.

There's just something fun about revisiting old games from my childhood. Every time I beat a modern game, I go back and play a retro game for a little bit.

>>7439450
None of those games are strictly pushing an agenda, especially not halo combat evolved you fucking idiot lol (although check out what it's like now!). They are inspired by real world politics and events. You project yourself onto these games, today the games project themselves onto YOU. Deus Ex was excellent at this and it's the reason it will never be forgotten. Metal Gear Solid is a sci-fi military drama, it is not telling me to cut my penis off and let niggers absorb my nation.

>>7440295
>minorities and minuscule shit details in my game??? literal white genocide!!
poltards are unironically mentally ill

>>7439927
Silent hill and resident were and still are better but also unfair to compare them because outlast and alien isolation arent the same genre of games since in silent hill and resident evil you can kill every enemy while in the others you cant kill a single one,so not the same genre of horror at all.

>>7439107
I enjoy videogames which are fun, some of those are new, some of those are old, and some of those are really old.

What an odd question.

>>7440569
I don't understand why you think you can't compare survival horror games to other survival horror games. I mean yeah you can kill every enemy but that's not the point of the game, in RE they limit the amount of ammo you can get and the amount your allowed to save but the goal of the survival horror aspect of the game is to feel a sense of helplessness because of the scarcity of supplies. I mean playing on a mode where you have the enough ammo to kill everything essentially removes the survival aspect and makes it more of an action horror game.

But I digress, the point I was trying to get across was modern technology in the form of better controls and better visuals allows a player to immerse themselves better in the genre thus leading to a better overall experience for the genre and this will only further improve with future technology.

>>7439107
>is it the nostalgia and it brings you back to your childhood where you didn't have to worry about things?
It's definitely not nostalgia most of the time. I tend to get an urge to play Mega Man during the middle of a snowy winter, because I have memories of doing that when I was a kid. But usually when I opt for a retro game it's for different reasons.

A bigger factor that's related to nostalgia, but is definitely not nostalgia, is just familiarity. I'm getting older (42) and although I occasionally like to tackle a new game, I have plenty of challenges in my daily life so during gaming time I'm often content to just relax and play something I already know.

>>7440338
>strawman as always, cannot so much as respond to a simple post without misrepresentation
You scumbags are so pathetic. You are the lunatics literally denying reality and trying to get everyone else to join your delusions by subverting popular media.
>b-but I'm not political u are!
Faggot hypocrite. You wouldn't be losing your mind so badly over mere criticism of a game if you were actually above it all.

>>7439107
I don’t. I emulate them

>>7440338
It is impossible for a man to become a woman.

>>7439465
>>7439520
Yeah, but that's politics attacking video games, not the other way around, like >>7439770 said.
Space Invaders and Doom weren't *actually* propaganda, it was a false positive.
That said, I play /vr/ games because that's when games were actually games instead of DLC/microtransaction laden always-online piles of graphically pretty shit. It's not impossible to find apolitical modern games, but it's harder, and most of them are pale imitations of something better from the past.

>>7440774
The original resident evil as well as 2,not sure about 3,have enough ammo to kill everything and in silent hill its easy to kill most enemy with melee weapon and take care of the rest with the plenty ammo you have.
Dont care about REmake.

i don't specifically choose games based on era. there's good old games and good new games.

>>7439107
because modern games offer zero gameplay satisfaction

This isn't a "why I play retro games" so much as it was a realization that a lot of modern gaming is bullshit. I was playing Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus and I couldn't see even see the enemies because of all the bullshit lighting, camera shaking, and filters applied. There were a thousand little items that I had to manually pick up. I couldn't even tell why I was taking damage and who was shooting me because the damage feedback was so poor. I just kind of realized that the actual gameplay was the lowest priority for the devs. It just kind of pissed me off that Resident Evil (1996) has full functioning mirrors and most new AAA games don't. If they do, it's a single mirror that is treated as some big accomplishment that the devs should be patted on the back for.

I could complain about this kind of stuff forever, but it just seems like modern gaming isn't about good gameplay and in a lot of ways regressed graphically. They don't consider replayablity at all when they inundate you with cutscenes and slow walking segments. It just fucking sucks.

Not all modern games are bad (and not all retro games are good), but I can clearly see that the priorities have shifted and that modern AAA gaming no longer is about using new technology to create new gameplay opportunities. It's a soulless endeavor designed not for fun, but to chase Hollywood and photorealism.

>>7440774
>modern technology in the form of better controls and better visuals
No and no

>>7439107

I like to see what it was like for our forefathers (I started around n64/ps1 era as a tiny kid in late 90s), there's that weird sense of time travel which is fascinating even if you aren't old enough to remember the time/place.

Something about the 16 bit era is just endlessly charming. It feels like the quintessential image of "video games" for some reason. Very pure. The SNES library in particular is comfy as fuck.

I wouldn't call it nostalgia per se, but there's definitely a sense of simpler times/no worries when you play some old forgotten game from the early 90s.

Also it's fun to find "new" old games via roms (especially english patched japan-only stuff), as my collection gets more and more obscure stuff added over the years. Once you've downloaded all the zeldas and marios and sonics etc, there's so many weird niche games out there I still discover to this day.

>Sidenote (more of a bonus thing), old roms are tiny file size so you can have hundreds on your phone without noticing a difference in your internal storage. Or on PC of course. For every 1 Steam game on my hard drive, I could have literally thousands of roms from the 90s. So why not just keep adding to the collection?

>>7441708
>mentions time travel
>used chrono pic

Didn't even realize I did that. Spooky

>>7439107
I like how simple they are, I'm a fucking retard with a low IQ and newer open world games are confusing for me. I'll play some newer games once in awhile, but retro games are my main way of passing the time.

>>7439107
I like a good story-game now and then.

>>7439221
>(muh white people glory days) no political cancer
>is only anon in thread that mentions anything political

The irony.

I wish 4chan didn't turn into this skinhead trump shit the last few years. Every thread has to have someone going out of their way to use right wing rhetoric. Maybe it's my fault for going on a site full of 'muricans lol. Shit like this makes me regret being white.

>>7441737
>Shit like this makes me regret being white.
sounds like something a jew would say

>>7439107
I like specific retro games because of the full package they offer, the nostalgia, the gameplay, the art, everything. It's not just one thing like gameplay but that's a big part.

>>7441737

>>7441690
Sure anon, that's why so many survival horror developers don't update the graphics or controls in modern survival horror games because that's the main appeal of the genre. Next you'll tell me it's because modern visual lack soul or some shit right?

>>7441737
this user is DEFINITELY 100% white.

>>7439107
Because they're free and have small file sizes desu.
>>7440295
MGS had a whole thing about the dangers of nuclear proliferation. That is an explicit political statement.

>>7442639
Sure, but that's a very broad statement and a bit hard to disagree with.

>>7440338
Why are people being subjected to black power propaganda in a game about shooting aliens? During a startup screen.... for a game about SHOOTING ALIENS IN FUCKING SPACE 500 FUCKING YEARS IN THE FUTURE?

This is literally subversion 101. It’s not subjective, it is objectively subversion. It’s completely out of left field and used to condition midwits like you. Then you come on my board and shit it up with your faggot “opinions”. I wretch at your commoner’s brain.

You willfully wear blinders, and as such you will live your life as livestock you disgusting putrid tranny.

Modern video games are not video games, and you are not a real woman.

>>7442726

>>7439125
fpbp
Gud games are gud games, doesn't matter when they were released.

i think you people on this board forget there's such a thing as opinions

Unless your game is specifically political (Like some shitty grand strategy game like HOI or something) then you should just leave politics out of your game.
Jokes and references are fine, but don't push an actual agenda, people play games as an escape from the political, brutal reality so they can just have fun and not be reminded of political shit regardless of the message

Because modern games are shit.

AVGN back in 2006ish, i was in 8th grade, going into freshman year of high school when I watched avgn on YouTube, his videos got me super interested in old video games, my first game system was a ps1, and I’m dead serious, I had NEVER heard of a Super Nintendo or ANYTHING before a ps1 until I watched his videos, information like that just wasn’t as accessible or wanted knowledge. And unless you knew a brother or a friend who had an older game system, how were you supposed to know about the past? Avgn made me super autistic about video games and I started collecting them for a couple years, until I was about 16/17ish, I started selling off my collection because I was going out more with my friends, getting girls, driving, ect. It wasn’t until last year when I got my own place for the first time that I decided to pick up my old love for old video games again. And it’s super fun.

because im poorfag and my pc wont even run fallout 4. so im either playing emulators on my psp, or modding fallout 3 to look like fallout 4 to cope

>>7442636
>>7441762

>derrrrrr anon has a different opinion and isn't a fascist, so there's no way he could be white. MUST BE JEW TRICKERY
>>7440839
Why are you /pol/ skinheads so butthurt and touchy all the time lmao. Go play Kirby and relax

>>7439107
I just think they're neat

Playing games these days it's easy to get burned, but retro shit I feel is better value for money

>>7439148
this

I was born in '96, so I like to go back and see what all I missed. Also, I generally prefer getting into things that are in the past, since they can be analyzed and understood in retrospect. I'm an autistic shut-in hipster with no friends is basically what I'm saying.

>>7442726
>This is literally subversion 101. It’s not subjective, it is objectively subversion.
Its called pandering you absolute mongoloid, they're not trying to "condition your mind for our bbc overlords" or whatever schizo shit you made up, they're literally just trying to get more people to buy their product. If they were pandering to your crowd, you'd be pouring down your gaping mouth screaming "OMG SO BASED!!!"

I play Zelda 2 most often because it has the perfect precise blend of nostalgic fantasy adventure and steep but fair difficulty curve. The gameplay is tight, but not too tight; you can cheese it sometimes, but you can also play it straight. The change in environs and various hidden locales throughout the game still scratch that exploration itch and it's easy to make progress at first but still demanding enough that you have to get serious if you want to see it through.

I really think Zelda 2 comes close to being a "perfect game", inasmuch as that phrase means anything to begin with.

>>7439107
I just play games man, some of them happen to be retro.

>>7443842
It’s not pandering, stop telling yourself lies, it’s how they control you. Over the last decade major dev studios have been completely reorganized by their umbrella companies specifically to indoctrinate the pigbrained masses such as yourself. This is irrefutable and literally was part of an agenda. Everyone here thinks you are faggot and it’s because you keep typing out lies with a mouth full of cum. Spit it out in your mom’s toilet and apologize to her for cutting your penis off, dumb troon.

>>7439107
I'm a fucked 3rd world person. Is easy and cheap to play old games. But new ones? Good luck trying. Besides, old games aren't as generic as today's

>>7443294
What do barely-sentient animals even get out of posting here?

cooler and cuter
easier to get into
simpler to understand
only barrier to entry is money (not an issue past your 20s)
it makes me feel alive

>>7439107
they are not retro games, they are games.

>>7445056
why does that say toothless retard but he has two teeth?

>>7439107
Im not going to argue with you.
Im just going to say here, what game has the love and passion put into with interesting mechanics in a post 2010 world? Factorio, dwarf fort? There are more but they just aren't being made my man.

I play a lot of games, but I think retro games are cool because you can track how things developed, like watching how zelda 1 was a spin on tower of druaga which was a spin on pac-man. Or the games that are really simplified and clean compared to their modern counterparts, like street fighter 2 or doom.

Modern gaming has succumbed to woke entryism. No matter what they do, however, they cannot take our past from us.

>>7439107
I literally don’t care when or where a game was made, if I like it, I like it.

>>7439107
No modern politics, tranny shit or sjw bullshit.

>>7442621
Yes. Look at any top 10 list of horror games. A significant amount of them will be old, and many will have had graphics that weren't cutting edge at release.
What horror games actually have high-end graphics? Outlast? Dark Pictures?

I don't give a shit when a game was made, if it's fun I'll play it. I finished Doom Eternal recently, and that was fun (although not as good as old Doom games) and now I've moved onto Stranger's Wrath, which is fucking incredible.