/vr/ - Retro Games

I was 16 when I got the PS2 but I lack nostalgia for the 6th gen as well (not counting DC which is 5.5 for me). There's something soulless about that gen.

I think it's hard to have feelings for Sony consoles in general, because they're so bland and nondescript. Decent consoles, but there's no personality to them. No sense of fun. I feel the same way about the Playsation that I feel about Windows 95. Yeah, it got the job done, but it doesn't have the cool factor of an Amiga or something.

>>8643708
I have more nostalgia for the PS1, probably because of the huge amount of creativity that went into the games, and the fact that low-res 2D art was still a thing then.

I think it has to do with the most popular games on the system.
I personally had a lot of fun playing stuff like Devil May Cry, Gradius V, Raidou, Okami, God Hand... but in general terms, when I think of PS2, I just think of the generic image it gathered with games like GTA III

The systems I have nostalgia for are the Genesis, PSX, and Dreamcast because I was more or less born into a house with them and the games feel oldschool/arcade. PS2 and Xbox are the first consoles I remember getting but I don't have nostalgia for them. Xbox especially felt like the start of the modern gaming era: Console FPS with online play, sports, and open world games. Just my two cents.
t. 1996

I had more games for the PS2 than any other console I owned but looking back to it, the PS1 had a lot more engaging titles. The PS2 is still king of its generation for having the best games though. Pretty sure I'd like it even more if emulation was on part with that of previous gens (force progressive scan, overclocking to fix slowdowns, etc).

>>8643679
>I was 19 when this came out in the US, and there's no SOUL in this console. I think that's the cutoff point for having any SOUL for a system.
>Do you have a SOUL cutoff point?

>>8643730
Nostalgia has a specific definition, but soul is subjective.

>>8643746
Soul is pretty objective. Anything SEGA made, anything Konami made, anything Capcom made, and anything Nintendo made in the /vr/ era.
Some Sony Devs like naughty dog had soul.
Anything Microsoft is completely soulless no exceptions.

Fuck off to your wife and kids, oldie.

>>8643716
Yes, the essence of the PS2 in my mind is old sports games and copies of Guitar Hero sitting in charity shops.

>>8643751
I think the brash American stupidity of Xbox's branding is kind of soulful in it's own way.
>DUDE IT'S A GIANT FUCKING X. THAT'S X-STREME!
>DUDE LOOK AT THAT GREEN. IT'S LIKE THE MATRIX, MAN!

Born 1994, the last console I'd say I have nostalgia for would be the Wii, mostly because I got it for Christmas in 2007 and that ended up being more or less the last 'childhood' Christmas I'd have
But I don't really have nostalgia for the games, just that Christmas.
I didn't have a GameCube until that year so I hardly consider it a nostalgic console

>>8643804
The xbox logo was designed to "look radioactive" to make a jab at the japanese.

>>8643679
>I have no nostalgia for something I was exposed to as an adult rather than as a child.
Holy shit, get MIT on the phone, they need to study this phenomenon.

>>8643708
I have plenty of nostalgia for the PSX.

>>8643679
Not really no, I just like good games on original hardware, fuck nostalgia

>>8643818
The X is a subtle joke. The console is called "Xbox", a portmanteau of DirectX Box.

>>8643826
Don't reply to that low tier bait.

>>8643829
t. Born 2006

>>8643832
It's not "bait" just because I don't agree with you. Nintendo and Sega consoles had personality. Sony consoles are just electronics to me. May as well be VCRs or printers.

I sold a bunch of my childhood games and pretty much stopped playing vidya around that age, because I thought that would somehow make me more mature / cool. Didn't exactly turn out as expected though.

Now I just regret selling my games and missing out on stuff.

PS2 is a great console, but I mostly remember just using it for GTA because at the time it was just so fucking amazing and I couldn't stop playing it.

>>8643679
I was very young when I played on my PS2 but I never stopped playing on it, so nostalgia could never really form.
So I don't have nostalgia for vidya.

7th gen is when the industry got westernized, corporatized and homogenized. It's the natural cutoff point for nostalgia.

>>8643679
I have barely any nostalgia for that generation of games. Only ones I can think are mostly GameCube games.

>>8643679
I'm almost 24 and I think my nostalgia cutoff point is about 13 or 14.

>>8643679
I wouldn't call it "nostalgia", but i have appreciation for most systems ive owned. Like ps3 and 360 i have a fondness for a bunch of their early releases like Bullet Witch and Deadly Premonition, the kind of stuff that barely felt next gen at the time.

>>8643708
Windows 95 pc gaming had a shit ton of personality with the multimedia boom.

>>8643832
>anyone who's not a nostalgiafag is a zoomer

7th gen, AKA when videogames died.

>>8643708
>bland and nondescript
Literally nintendo and sega during the 5th and 6th gen outside of their sacred franchises.
I mean... what sega had to offer besides sonic and arcade ports?
Nintendo: zelda, mario and pokemon?
People were tired of this shit. Reason why they failed hard.

>>8643679
Are you actually filtered by newer games or are you just trying to be quite the retro gamer? DC is OK because it's really retro, right?

>>8644042
Early PS3 (2006~2007) still has a previous gen feel.

>>8643952
I miss back when we had gens. Videogames were infinitely more fun back then, and you’d actually be invested in upcoming releases

>>8643957
Yeah, you can reason it away like that, and it was a good platform for games, but I still think of Windows 95, and pretty much just think of word documents.

>>8643952
There is something about early 7th gen that's kind of nice. Although there's a sour taste to it all. That whole generation feels like a broken promise. All the hype of "next gen", and then a lot of disappointing AAA games, and motion controls that don't work, and DLC beginning to permeate everything.

>>8643679
>Do you have a nostalgia cutoff point?
2001. Games started getting really shitty, easy, and underwhelming once the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube took off. The Dreamcast was the only good sixth generation console and the rest can go fuck themselves. The only post-2001 nostalgia I have is for playing Okami on my PS2 because it was so good it transcended the shittiness of the sixth gen.

>>8643801
you could choose to see every platform ever like that
what's the super nintendo? hundreds of copies of madden or nba jam with torn up or sun bleached labels?

The console itself I won't find myself going back and saying "ahhh this console is so good" but it's a few games here and there, I find with these I can't really justify having them set up only to play a game or two
With the PS1, N64, and even Saturn there's plenty I still want to play or go back to. But when it comes to PS2 I'd rather just emulate, and anything after 7th gen I just don't even bother with

>>8643679
I didn't knew there was supposed to be a cut off for things to be nostalgic about, I mean, I have nostalgia for xbox one and ps4, despite being very recent and me not using them as much, specially ps4, but I still have fond memories attached to those consoles just like i would with a ps2, or anything really. I never had a dreamcast but I played with my friend with it, and I have nostalgia for that too. Cut off thing doesn't seem like something you can really controlled, more like you refuse to admit it to yourself.

>>8643679
i have nostalgia for games i played a year ago
persona 3 has already entered the rose-tinted phase in my memory and finished it in february 2021

>>8643679
I was 21 when I got a ps2 in 2004 and I dont have any nostalgia at all for the ps2. None of the 6th gen consoles does anything for me however I do feel some nostalgia for the PSP for some reason

>>8644159
I don't think I've ever seen a SNES sports game in real life. Those PS2 cases are all pervading. They're everywhere.

>>8644127
Okami is very easy

>>8644198
This. I dearly miss playing Saint's Row 2 on PS3 and even the good times I had on my first playthrough of Ghost Recon Wildlands with my friends.

>>8643679
Yes, but it is a lower ceiling instead.
I don’t care for early 80’s & downwards gaming. I’d say 85 is my cutting point

I have nostalgia for PS2
Luv me some Sly Cooper, replay 2 every year or so

>>8643804
>THE CONSOLE IS JUST SO FUCKING BIG, IT MUST BE THE BEST ONE

I honestly feel like 6th gen was a retread of 5th gen

>>8643818
lmao that explains why it didnt sell well there

>>8644478
The Xbox is high camp solidified into a big plastic box.

>>8643679
The PS2 and GameCube are the youngest consoles I have legitimate nostalgia for. I was around six years old when my dad bought a PS2. It was our first DVD player. I would sneak out of my room after bedtime and watch him play Max Payne and GTA 3 from the staircase above the den. Kingdom Hearts was the first Squaresoft game I ever played and planted the seed of JRPG obsession in my brain. I loved Jak and Daxter. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 are still two of my favorite games. And of course, Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari are also some of my absolute favorites. I think I like the first PlayStation more overall, but the PS2 will always be a sort of comfort food video game console for me.
I still use that PS2 on occasion, albeit with a FMCB memory card and an HDD, and seeing all of those towers on the boot screen representing every game I ever played on the console puts a smile on my face.

>>8643679
The Wii/360/PS3 were the last consoles that I have any nostalgia for, given that they were around when I was in middle/high school. However, while I definitely have a lot of nostalgia for them, they're probably my least favorite generation overall, if that makes sense. The seventh generation is when I really started looking to retro games, because I just wasn't very satisfied with what was coming out. On the other hand, I did have fun playing CoD and Halo with my friends on XBox Live, but it was more because I liked chilling with them than out of any love for the games themselves. Pretty much everything I really enjoyed that generation, I played on PC.

The Gamecube and PS2 are the last consoles that I both have nostalgia for and still think are cool.

>>8643679
Don't know, don't care. I just play the games.

>>8645482
Please put your Pringles can-sized dick in my outstretched hands, sir

>>8645482
I never understood people who are proud of not thinking.

>>8645497
(cont)
But I'm so proud of not understanding that I brag about it

>>8645515
twisting yourself into a pretzel there but ok

>>8643679
> Do you have a nostalgia cutoff point?
Amiga and PS1. everything else after that failed to impress me as i rapidly aged.

>>8643679
I have no nostalgia for any consoles. I grew up with the Gamecube but I don't look at one and go "ahhh... good times". I sold my Xbox 360 which I played in my teenage years because I have no use for it other than if I wanted to play like what, MGS HD collection?

I have a lot of nostalgia for the individual GAMES on those consoles, but I don't see how anyone can have nostalgia for the box playing those games

>inb4 "lol zoom zoom"

>>8645593
What time is it in your timezone

>>8643679
I'm 37 and I don't like anything older than NES.

>>8645528
>you nailed it
I know

>>8643679
My nostalgia cutoff is Halo Reach because that was the last time I played couch multiplayer with the boys.

Not sure if it's nostalgia but 3DS taps into something and I was 21 at time of release.

>>8643679
PS3, I've got one and there are good games but that feeling was lost.

>>8643679
I still have nostalgia from playing on the ps4 with friends in my mid 20s. Is nostalgia supposed to have an age limit?

>>8643679
Dreamcast and GBA are the only consoles of the 6th generation I have nostalgia for. PS1 is the only Sony console I have nostalgia for with PS2 being the last Sony console I bought and mostly for the third party games.

>>8643720
The sad part is that some of the best Sega games of the era (including arcades ones) were Xbox exclusives and never got a re-release to other consoles (except Outrun 2)

>>8643716
PS2 era GTA games were and still are so much fun to play though. The AI creates interesting random events to occur while doing missions that keep the game fresh even on replays. Can back this by the fact that I just beat Vice City Stories last week. I guess your post was more about GTA III, which I dont think is as good, but still just a fun game to play.

>>8646541
Yup, exactly the same. PS3 was alright. The magic was definitely gone with that console though.

>>8643708
>the cool factor of an Amiga
The cool factor of music and demos made by northern euros
The rage factor of seeing this potential pissed away in shitty games made by island monkey euros

>>8643679
Ps4. 360 was still nostolgic because first time with online, my family had dialup for so long so getting online was mind blowing

>walmart connection
I was that guy

>>8646832
The PS3 is the last nostalgic console for me (And the last console I bought) but its not for PS3 games. There were good ones, but they were so few and far between compared to earlier generations, same with now.

The reason it stayed nostalgic for me was the QoL changes, like HDD memory cards, media storage on the console itself, online play that was actually populated, etc. The PS3 was the best PS1/2. All it needed was a Resi Outbreak port.

>>8643679
>Do you have a nostalgia cutoff point?
Consoles: gen 5
PC: XP

>>8643679
I hate the Wii

I have a lot of childhood and early adulthood nostalgia from the 4th and 5th gen consoles, but I also have a lot of nostalgia for the 6th gen. I was in undergrad from 2004 to 2008 and those consoles were very much current for at least the first half. In August before starting university, I bought a Gamecube second-hand for $100 with controllers and a half dozen games. We had a lot of fun with that in residence, but I also have a lot of fond memories of the PS2.

I think part of my fondness for the 6th gen stems from the fact that it was the last time in my life when I was genuinely completely happy, and part of the nostalgia is really a nostalgia for a time before the stresses of my adult life afterwards.

>>8643904
My nostalgia cutoff point is probably the 7th gen as well. I remember these came out while I was in university, and we all thought the graphics were pretty good, but aside from that I had no strong feelings. While I was doing my master's, one of my roommates had a PS3. I remember being really underwhelmed by it, and by COD: World at War in particular (Nazi Zombies is pretty fun though)

>>8643957
Windows 95 had so little personality compared to Macintosh System 7. The Mac has such a clean, purposeful design that's aged gracefully, whereas Win95 just feels clunky now.

And as software it was fucking trash. On paper, it should have run circles around the Classic Mac OS, but in practice I found that my parents' Windows 95 PC crashed just as often as their Power Macintosh 6100. The Mac OS could at least blame its shitty memory management system, but Windows 95's instability was just 100% sloppy programming. Also, when you plugged shit into a Macintosh, it just worked. When you plugged shit into a Win95 PC, it was a 50/50 chance if you could get it working the first time. So you had a soulless OS that was also not particularly stable.

>>8643679
Same age, I definitely have nostalgia for playing Ico on PS2. Probably the last ever life affirming gaming experience I had on a new console.

It's not important but I have very comfy feelings associated with the PS2. I loved the green and blue LEDs, the startup screen... It made noises that sounded like the ocean which complemented FFX well. I would play the Armored Core games until 4AM, I think that's latest I'd ever stayed up playing games.

>>8643679
I don't have any nostalgia after the 6th Gen ended. Everything after the DC/PS2/GC/XBX hasn't been as memorable for me, with the exception of the Nintendo DS. I loved that handheld.

The Dreamcast is probably the console I have the single most nostalgia for, mostly due to being Sega's last hurrah in hardware. Plus, just being a really cool system, particularly in the context of when it came out.

Despite owning far more PS2 games than any other system, the PS2 has always been my least favorite console of the generation. The PS2 was never as reliable/durable as the GC, and the Xbox almost always had the best multiplats (plus better online).