/vr/ - Retro Games

1995-2000 will forever remain a mystery and an unbeatable state in the history of mankind

it's okay

Way too much Nintendo shit in both of these.

A lot of great choices get pushed down the chart by more popular games, but if you got rid of shit games and replaced them with whatever cult classics did not get in, it would make for a nice essentials chart like the one /mu/ has

>>8508348
I check these lists for Xenogears and if I find it I'm satisfied.

there is no way to make a chart that won't trigger somebody

that one seems ok

It's actually pretty good. A lot better than the lists you see floating around the net.

What's the point of a 90s games list on a board where the average age is ~15?

heres the not retro decade as well

>>8508439
It’s almost like retro Nintendo games were good…

Honestly these seem pretty unbiased. The fact that you have a good mix of genres and platforms taking the top spot, even Age of Empires 2 (which deserves it, it's just that RTS games get zero love these days), shows that there was actually a good mix of people voting on these. If it was all Nintendo stuff or all PS1 stuff these would be worthless.

>>8508424
fucking hell, you're not wrong. you can think of the games individually, but when you see them laid out like that and compared to other years it really makes it clear.

>>8508612
interesting. a lot of more variety of styles and genres, but a hell of a lot of 7/10s being listed as the best games of the year. compare that with 95-00.

>>8508781
To be fair, it's too early for the 2010s quality sifting. A lot of those games' inclusions probably have something to do with hype, zoomers playing it for the first time, or perhaps a lack of famous acclaimed games that year. The winner for each year is great and probably will be considered a classic in the future (except the two tendies, which were overblown by hype imo) but I don't think many people will care about Far Cry or Fallout 4 in the future. I'd like to see what that same poll would look like if done in 2029, after the dust has settled.

>>8508845
I'm reliably informed by my cousin that Fallout 4 is complete dogshit.

>I'd like to see what that same poll would look like if done in 2029
it won't have Tribes: Ascend on it, I'll tell you that. and I say that as someone who spent a couple of months of the beta dunking on retards in an attempt to relive my Tribes 2 days.

>>8508348
>>8508427
>>8508612
these are hilarious. you can literally track how young the userbase of /v/ actually is by watching how these all go from "classic games literally everyone knows about" (except any sports, racing, fighting, or shump games because YouTubers don't talk about them) to "totally my real opinion guys not just joining in on the hive mind of epic classic games like New Vegas and God Hand" and then finally games they were actually old enough to play themselves and then it's mostly a bunch of weebshit and contrarianism.

>>8508868
All Bethesda Fallouts are ok at best, the only people who like them are casuals, remorseful buyers and Italian gypsies.
I'm surprised they even qualified given how little /v/ talks about them, then again Bioshock Infinite has been the laughing stock of the board since release and it managed to qualify too. Same applies to Among Us, GTAV, Far Cry, TLOU, AssCreed...
Best guess is that the poll wasn't gatekept or managed well enough, letting all the zoomers and newfags vote.

>>8508915
I'll have to take it on faith that there were better games released in the 2010s. The way it looks, I didn't miss much when I stopped playing new stuff in 2006.

>>8508427
>Mother 3
>best in 2006

Nintendo has some irrational hold on people

>>8508348
Surprisingly good, and even somewhat well rounded, picks.

>>8508424
I'd argue 1990 to 2000, there were some truly incredible strides in the first five years of the decade.

>>8508427
Lot of good ones here as well, but a lot of whatevers, too.

>>8508439
They used to make some great games.

>>8508603
>>8508604
I assume that there's still older people from around those times posting on /v/, but fact is that some zoomers (though not most) will check out older games, and there's captivating qualities in many of these which you don't see much of in 2022.

>>8508612
Eh. For every great game I see, there's a bunch of games which actually aren't that remarkable.
>Skyrim
>Pokémon Black/White
>Batman : Arkham City
>L.A Noire
>Saint's Row The Third
>Far Cry : Blood Dragon
>Grand Theft Auto 5
>Bioshock Infinite
>Alien Isolation
>Undertale
>Fallout 4
>Wolfenstein : The Old Blood
>Mortal Kombat X
>Doom 4
>Devil Daggers
A lot of these games range from Pretty Good (but not excellent), to Downright Mediocre.
/v/ has much better taste in games from the 1990s, 2000s, judging by these rankings.

Maybe it’s a louder minority than I thought, but I’m somewhat surprised at the lack of Umineko, Touhou and Yume Nikki. They’re regularly referenced on /v/ at least and their characters got far in the popularity polls

>>8508424
It's not really a mystery, the causes are clear. But it is unbeatable and a miracle period in history for several reasons.

Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 were both deemed 13th best of their year.

>>8508935
*Earthbound

>>8509156
Think it just has to do with the fact that the games you mentioned not being mainstream. Most of the games in these images have big companies behind them and tons of marketing and media presence, so way more people have played them and thus can vote for them. That and these voting things tend to bring in lots of tourists

>>8509837
Oxymorons always make me laugh.

>>8509837
Secondaries are so prevalent nowadays that you could replace EarthBound with any other B-List game and it would still apply

>>8508348
>>8508427
>>8508612
holy based

>>8508348
that's not bad except for wario woods being too high in 1994

>>8508427
damn, what a great decade

>>8508427
>ff12 2006
>mass effect 2007
What the actual fuck!? this can't be right
I remember playing ff12 on release and playing me1 on release, they felt further away from each other, fucking how!?
why do I remember it or feels like it was 2 years apart between them, how could so much shit happen in such a short time frame, holy shit

>>8513497
Two years is quite a lot of time.

>>8509156
checked the polls for these years, seems like Yume Nikki was 10 votes away from making the top 20 while Umineko and Touhou weren't listed on the polls

>>8508657
If that's the case then why do only Americans ever talk about old Nintendo consoles? Did you really not have a ZX Spectrum or Amiga or even a Mega Drive back in the day?

>>8513456
I can go up to 2002-2003, but by 2004 you're really losing me, minus Burnout.

>>8513539
"Americans" don't only talk about Nintendo consoles. Youtubers do because the culture surrounding video games, especially old video games, online is dominated by fat nerds who do not in any way reflect the opinion of society at large. The Genesis outsold the SNES its entire lifetime in America, and if it wasn't for Street Fighter 2 originally being a SNES exclusive it wouldn't have even been as close as it was.
You can see the same bias when it comes to genres like RPGs, especially JRPGs. If you just browsed forums you'd think everyone was knocking down doors to buy them, and the huge JRPG library was one of the main reasons the SNES was universally beloved. In actuality, they all sold like shit until FF7 and FF8, never had mainstream popularity outside of the Final Fantasy series, and were barely played or talked about by the average consumer

>>8513539
Ironic that you'd say that and immediately mention the Spectrum.

>>8513539
>If that's the case then why do only Americans ever talk about old Nintendo consoles?
Don't know what gave you that impression, Nintendo was pretty popular in certain parts of Europe (and also South America and Asia). I'm in Scandinavia, and the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Game Boys and Playstation were popular consoles in the 90s, the Mega Drive was around but not as much. Never ever saw the Saturn here.
If you look at Eastern Europe, also, as well as Brazil, Famiclones with bootleg multicarts were dominant there.

>Did you really not have a ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum failed to penetrate the North American market due to competition from Commodore, Apple, and Atari, to name just some. The Spectrum just couldn't get its foot in the door, the domestic options were simply better.

>or Amiga
Amiga was a Commodore line, and it was reasonably popular in North America for a time, but they eventually fucked up by making the CD32 while being outcompeted by Microsoft and Apple. They were left in the dust in the home computer evolution of the 1990s, as Commodore went bankrupt, and Macs and PCs could brag with sweet games like Doom.

>Mega Drive
They had lots, it was branded the Sega Genesis in North America. It was very successful there too, in fact they were the biggest in the console game right after Nintendo, and they had lots of good games to compete with. The Genesis/Mega Drive was far more popular in the USA than it was back home in Japan, where it was practically ignored.
There was also the TurboGrafx-16, which was pretty cool, actually, but it couldn't compete with the SNES or Genesis.

>/v/ rates games made before they were born which they've never played
Absolutely ebin