/vr/ - Retro Games

nah

>>8998735
everyone always talks about sad auras in wet-dry world, and liminal spaces

BUT

i get downtrodden feelings playing any old game, games hardly anyone ever talks about or anything anymore ever, games where it dawns on you while running around in these lonesome virtual worlds with just braindead ai npcs and enemies to keep you company, that throughout the whole real world it's very possible you're the only one in the world playing that game right then.

talk about dark auras and sense of depression. alone in the game world, alone in the real world, THOUSANDS of old virtual worlds you can run through exploring, alone, perhaps the single lone individual playing that game at that time.

>>8998735
I felt that way about it even playing it as a kid back then

the dry underwater cave is the only place you can hera all intruments at once

>Anemoia
seems silly to pang it as 'nostalgia' "for a time you never experienced" because, how is is possibly nostalgia? it's an oxymoron, you're not experiencing nostalgia if you didn't have the formative experience foremost

>>8998795
wish i knew some desu but that would ruin your fun wouldn't it

>>8998836
well it's better than nothing, eh? i don't know any better words as contradictory as the definition is. it's hard to describe feelings that don't really have any traditional description, in that regard the creator of the word used creative liberty by mashing ancient greek terms to form a new word

>>8998958
isn't it just longing? you can wonder wistfully about stuff, it just seems weird to say you're experiencing nostalgia - for something you didn't experience, where's the nostalgia in that? lol

>>8998945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIcK7XT847I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2yt7DrFnU0

>>8998735
the music itself is serene.
the depression sets in when i realise i'm in my mid thirties and those days are done.
it's gotten to the point where i'll recognise a tune, but then i'll immediately find myself trying to remember where and when i had heard it before. rather bothersome that those memories should be more prominent considering, oh, i don't know, sitting in front of a tv screen for several hours on the weekends playing your favourite games should be memorable, right?

but i digress.

there's music that's typically regarded as tranquil, relaxing, what have you, but then there's things like
>[ocarina of time] zelda's lullaby
>[pocket monsters rgby] palette town
>[mother 2] because i love you
these have an unintended effect on my spirits as they're shot to shit by sadness upon hearing such things.

>>8999059
it's really cool that Ocarina of Time is *exactly* about those nostalgic undertones, Sheik gives several speeches about the feeling throughout the game, and now replaying the game feels incredibly, meta? or at the least those dialogues hit on home and are relevant now.

smoke

>>8999061
>103 seconds apart
>>8999062
>106 seconds apart

>>8999051
o yeah i've seen these
it's funky stuff for sure
i thought you were talking about like shit like worlds.com or whatever but more obscure
but yeah sometimes i do wonder, is anyone else even playing this old game at the same time as me? if they are, what are they thinking?

>>8998795
I felt that yesterday when playing blast corps

>>8999448
i swear a global chat needs to be implemented into all video games, it would be cool to chat with others undergoing the same similar experiences as i am at the same time

you only collect 116 stars so you cna keep your jolly fogless, right?

>>8999862
but the level starts with fog...

>>8998735
ya bro these old games are like so liminal and shit fr fr no cap

>>8998735
>anyone else feel an odd sense of depression with the music going on here?
no.
>i start to feel introspective and some weird sense of depression washing over me
drugs, not enough or too much
>Koji Kondo's compositions on the N64 have always been oddly striking to me and I wonder if he intended it to be this way
yeah. he put a lot of thought into the compositions of his work, from the music to the instruments.