/vr/ - Retro Games

not retro

>>8865315
It's pretty weird to look back on games that I enjoyed as a kid and consider how old they are. I remember seeing the commercials on TV and receiving them for Christmas or buying them with birthday money when they were bran new. It really doesn't feel like it was all that long ago but yet it is. I'm an adult with kids of my own now and it feels weird to consider that Pokemon RSE, Mega Man Battle Network, Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland / Amazing Mirror, Sonic Advance, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga etc were released ages ago. I'm starting to get that feeling for DS games now too.

Especially when it comes to Mega Man. When I was a kid there were a ton of games, we had an anime on TV, there was toys, a manga, etc and basically ever boy knew who Mega Man was. Now I'm pretty sure kids have never even heard of Mega Man, let alone know who Mega Man EXE is. I really wish Capcom would breathe more life into the franchise and give us another anime at the same time.

We are the boomers now

>>8865353
i fucking loved that anime, even a decade ago i was talking about how they should reboot it and make it grittier and more mature and such, one thing i don't like when i go back to old stuff i liked as a kid is just how kiddie a lot of it really is, lol
i'm always pleasantly surprised when there's easter eggs for a more mature audience laden in my old shows

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.

>>8865371
Uhh sweetie halo guy passed the torch to le epic and brave stronk multicultural woman on his tv show

>>8865380
not retro videogame

>>8865380
Get woke go broke. That show will flop hard. At least it's not canon, just some alternative universe.

>>8865380
only good thing to come from that show is the girl butt .webm

>>8865362
Don't say that. We're still relevant. They still market the same characters we grew up with. Our media was advertised to us at young ages. Old PC games were advertised at people who could operate fucking dos and amigas and shit. They were already in their 20's most likely. We're still young, Anon. We're still, as the kids still say, cool.

>>8865353
It feels weirder because the technological and entertainment leap wasn't nearly as distinct as it was from the 80s. Something like the megaman.exe anime wouldn't look out of place being aired today unlike say something like G1 Transformers. Halo isn't that impressive of a leap to today that it was from 2600. A lot of entertainment is fairly similar in ways to how it was in the 2000s, so it doesn't really feel like that much of a different era we left behind.

>>8865315
nah, they're just as old as they feel to me. a LOT of time has passed, technology leaped miles forward. in 2001, I don't think I even had a cellphone (maybe a super shitty DAMPS one). my flat had no internet either. DVDs were only starting to become cheap, and so on. the gaming industry changed a lot too, plenty genres and series died. music changed, movies changed, everything changed. all these things are truly something that feels like a bygone era now.
it's easy to forget these things because people mostly remember and talk about stuff that aged well. maybe you'd think some games aged well, then you remember all those scaled down GBA ports of games like Tony Hawk or Street Fighter, and that was considered cool back then. now these were really product of their time. you want to feel like 2001—watch something that didn't age that well, like Scary Movie or American Pie. I didn't watch them, i'm assuming they didn't age well and prefer to think that way

>>8865362
omg hot daddy type please date me

>>8865404
>Something like the megaman.exe anime wouldn't look out of place being aired today unlike say something like G1 Transformers
I mostly agree with you, even on this particular point, but art styles have changed a lot in kids anime over the years. I'm not sure if this show would look out of place, but it would definitely stand in contrast to some of the other stuff that gets aired today. But not as much as Transformers would.

>>8865418
Scary Movie holds up to me but I haven't watched movies past ~2006

Its a weird feeling to see a remake for a beloved classic, when I played the beloved classic when it was brand new.

I get that feeling every time I launch an old game that used to e great. I look up multiplayer servers and get nothing. Dead. Sometimes the servers are still up but have 0 players. I join one of them and start fucking around. Maybe some other soul will see me there and join too.

>>8865353
>Especially when it comes to Mega Man. When I was a kid there were a ton of games, we had an anime on TV, there was toys, a manga, etc and basically ever boy knew who Mega Man was. Now I'm pretty sure kids have never even heard of Mega Man, let alone know who Mega Man EXE is. I really wish Capcom would breathe more life into the franchise and give us another anime at the same time.

That hit me right in the feels. I remember watching the anime on TV, and hanging out on forums like EXEHQ. Feels like a whole other reality now.

>>8865381
and it's platform is allowed on /vr/?

>>8866020
only according to the nu-/vr/ rules
pic related is an anomaly from the non-retarded timeline

>>8865393
>don't say that
if you are 30 or over, 25 and unders will see you as an old person. remember?
zoomers are faggots with the easiest women on earth anyways, so fuck em.

>>8865418
>watch something that didn't age that well, like Scary Movie or American Pie
american pie would only age poorly in the sense you're no longer a teenager and "dude SEX lmao" isn't funny as it was. if you still have the mind of a 15 year old, however (surprisingly many 30-45 year olds i know), you'll still love it.

>>8866061
you will never be happy

>>8866086
neither will you
pic related

>>8866089
I feel pretty content. Also not gonna read all that.

>>8866114
This
>Read this novel that proves I'm not an absolute retard.

And yet they'll still never be retro, zoomtroons.

>>8865343
Fpbp

>>8866114
>>8866165
you dont need to read any of it, its just a compilation of GBA autist posts showing he was probably a literal zoomer retard

>>8865315
True, to imagine it's retro now.

>>8865393
That's right, anon. We're still hip. We can still hang out with the cool kidz (with a Z!)

>>8866329
Of course and I do, I'm a 30+ boomer but I often have sexual relation with 19-20 year old women. Nothing weird in that.

>>8865393
I grew up with operating DOS and Amigas, I'm a 80's baby, I think I was literally Halo's target audience being late teens in 2001.

Not really. Games as a medium have changed far less in the last 20 years than they did in the two decades prior to that. Compare an Xbox to an Atari 5200 and then an Xbox to today's consoles. The current generation of consoles are doing mostly the same things that the Xbox did except with a greater polygon count. On the other hand, the leap between the Atari 5200 and the Xbox is almost unfathomable.

In the realm of video games tho the jump from 1980 to 2000 is way more of a leap than the jump from 2000 to 2020

Halo sucks
- Halo player

>>8865382
snoyjeetdrone

>this must be what some of you felt like in 2002 thinking back to the 80s

Not really.

Games made in the 80's look and felt absolutely archaic by 2000. Hell, they looked absolutely archaic by 1995.

Games from the 2000s almost look like and feel they could be indie games made today. Hell, they they usually look better than today's indie/low budget eastern eurojank games.

The diminishing returns of throwing more processing power at video games means that games just don't age as quickly as they used to. That, and the constant updates.

Look at Minecraft. That game is now older than half of the kids who are playing it, and it'll probably have kids playing it for many years, if not decades to come.

I honestly won't be surprised if kids are still playing minecraft in 2040.

>>8865315
I am playing Thief: Deadly Shadows... still looks great!

>>8865343
>still coping from the rule changes
6th gen is retro

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>>8866865
who cares if ""the jump was smaller"" that shit is subjective, the whole topic is subjective in nature

>>8866338
There's a perception that Halo is babby's first FPS, but I had played all the good PC FPS games and I still enjoyed Halo a lot. For me it was the split-screen co-op, the soundtrack, and the weed I was smoking daily at the time. The sequels never managed to match the quality of that first campaign, all of Bungie efforts seemed to go into the online mode, Microsoft needed their flagship Xbox Live series.

>>8866982
I'm the anon you're replying to and I fully agree. I was in the same boat.

34 here.
I remember getting my PS2 and playing Gungriffon Blaze and my father and I were absolutely blown away by how photo realistic graphics were becoming.

>>8866914
It's really not, contrarian youngfaggot
Cope seethe and dilate

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>>8865315
I prefer it actually. When it comes to movies, tv, and video games I live in the past. Give me some Resident Evil, Sims, Doom 64, Crash Bandicoot, God of War, Halo, and pizza rolls and I'm set.

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>>8868621
>pizza rolls
man I made some dope ass little hot dog rolls with garlic butter and shit

can still play my old games
but now have money and freedom
life is good

>>8868653
Right there with you buddy. I just need money but making a career change so it'll all work out!

twenty years is a hell of a drug

>>8865315
>this must be what some of you felt like in 2002 thinking back to the 80s
Kinda, not really though. They haven't aged the same way. You play Halo in 2022 and although the graphics are more ""primitive"" compared to today's stuff, it still looks really good. And you're still running around a fully 3D world with high-quality orchestrated music and sound effects while enraging in complex gunfights involving sometimes dozens of enemies. Yeah you naturally look back on the past as a "simpler" time because you were younger, but objectively it's still leaps and bounds more advanced than anything from the early days of videogaming.

>>8865315
When Halo 2 Anniversary came out I was blown tf away. Every moment of playing it, I was like "This is exactly how I saw the game as a child" man og Halo 2 is so good, that shit defined my childhood. I remember going to my friends house and playing the campaign with him more than once, ffw to today and it's been 5 or so years since I've last seen him. Be grateful for the friends and things you have now guys.

>>8868976
that state of being in your early-mid 20s where you can just relax and enjoy the present. I woke up one day and there was a hole in my heart, that feeling was gone and the clock was ticking.

>>8868683
Would probably be more fair to show the nicest looking arcade game of 1987 vs Crysis. Even still, the progress made from '87 to '07 vs '02 to '22 is no comparison. Diminshing returns were hit sometime around 2007.

>>8869013
Can't enjoy things anymore, only feel guilt. That's when you've become an adult.

>>8868976
>Be grateful for the friends and things you have now guys.
haha, yeah
no one gets ahold of me to shoot the shit or hang out anymore
no clue where everyone went well after highschool all those years ago, lol
so i agree, keep in touch!

>>8866871
based, i really liked that game and it got me looking at the older games
i tried the reboot, and it's pretty good, it is,

>>8868659
>I just need money
amen brother

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>>8867135
Aiming for ultra realism was the death of video game graphics. These are some shit graphics because they offer nothing beyond their technical aspects, which become outdated in a matter of months.

>>8868626
RTCW at least had an art direction.

>>8869013
>>8869064
Fuck dude, I'm nearing 30 and I feel this hard. It's all a tradeoff. I can put time into myself and relaxation or I can help the others in my life.

>>8865315
I was a senior in high school when the Xbox and GameCube launched in fall 2001.

>>8865315
I just ran the numbers and you would be correct. Looking back to 02 now is like looking back at 82 then. Great post OP, keep it up brother.

>>8865315
>this must be what some of you felt like in 2002 thinking back to the 80s
Absolutely not. Technological progress was much faster back then. When the PS1 was out you felt that SNES games were old. >>8866670 >>8869050
It was a different time, much for hope for the future and less nostalgia for the past.

>>8870951
>When the PS1 was out you felt that SNES games were old.
that just means you're spoiled

>>8871061
I think he means the jump from 16-bit to polygonal 32-bit games. Playing Resident Evil for the first time was terrifying compared to the Genesis/SNES era.

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>>8871132
Yes, technologically speaking of course. We still played tons of SNES games as we do today, but you couldn't compare the marvel of seeing Virtua Fighter, Tomb Raider, or Gran Turismo compared to any previous average console game.

>>8868620
That AK looks delicious. Why the fuck they made a worse model in the final game is beyond me.

>>8871178
i figure the jump to 3d was far too expedited and was very much rushed too early just because. hardware could do polygonal graphics and such sure, but i'm not so sure it should have been.

>>8865353
>It's pretty weird to look back on games that I enjoyed as a kid and consider how old they are.
The really weird part to me is that when those games came out, I would look back on games like Super Mario Bros and they felt positively ancient. Now those early 2000s games are older than SMB was when they came out.

Noooo that cant be real

>>8871619
Our perception of time really doesn't make sense does it?

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>>8871619
isn't it because of the plateau in richness. deus ex is 1000x richer than smb. 2015 game is at best 5x richer than deus ex (gta v or some shit) and 2022 richest game is still gta v more or less

>>8871835
nah it's just your ratio of the past to the time you've been alive changing, 12 years when you're a kid is a lifetime.

>>8871958
This. I’ll be 40 this year and it’s wild to me that the sixth gen is 20 years old. It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long.

>>8865393
Man Abraham Simpson was right. This post is a plain example of the denial stage of grief.

>It'll happen to you!

>>8866865
this is true, I don't watch a movie from the 90s and think "wow this movie is old as fuck" unless it's culturally dated. Most video games stay far away enough from the realm of reality that they won't ever be culturally dated so the only way to date them is with graphics, and that's going to be harder and harder as time goes on, especially with a lot of games Gen 6 and onwards being able to achieve a timeless 3D artstyle (Okami, Wind Waker, Paper Mario, etc)

>>8866982
Halo 2's multiplayer wasn't made by Bungie, but Max Hoberman and his lackeys that now form Certain Affinity. Not saying you can't like the games by any means but it's not that Bungie had their priorities split; they focused entirely on the campaign.

>>8871373
there was a very unsubtle and quite frankly unwarranted push to straight up abandon 2d games sooner rather than later, at least on consoles. the nintendo handhelds of the late 90s and 2000s had to stick to 2d mostly but had a lot of high-quality games in their own right.

wish more developers would have experimented with blending 2d and 3d ala final fantasy tactics

>>8866072
I'm glad I'm not one of you pathetic 35 years old faggots.

>>8872321
I’m going to fuck your ugly sister’s asshole and you’re going to jerk off to Fortnite butts.

>>8872321
>years old

Even worse, you’re an ESL.

>>8872321
I can tell that you will be.

>>8865315
Not really. At least with the 20 year gap between the 80s and the 2000s, there were massive strides and leaps in terms of not just video game technology. Playing Halo today is like playing a slightly more advanced version of Halo from 2002. Kinda hard to make the argument 2002's Halo is a slightly more advanced version of an Atari game.

>>8866982
>all of Bungie efforts seemed to go into the online mode
It was the exact opposite, but It had a funny way of working out that the dev team assigned to normal MP always made something good, on time, and under budget. So when the rest of the companies pie in the sky ideas crashed and burned, MP was there to pick up the slack, despite getting practically no resources. The MP team was just talented, competent, and diligent.

>>8865315
Even though I was born in the 80s, the 80s have always felt the same amount of "forever" ago. They feel as dated and specific of an era now as they did in the early 2000s for me. Maybe it's because I had no adult/sentient years back then. The 2000s, in contrast, just seem like now but with shittier computers and less fruits and other ills of everyone using the internet.

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>>8870951
it was true, after psx got released, European magazines treated 16bits consoles and 2D games as if they were things from an ancient past.

in mid/late 90s every game needed to have:
FMV cutscenes and 3D visuals
it was the 90s