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What does retro mean to You, personally?
Do you agree with /vr/'s new rules?

>> No.10717602

>>10717596
/vr/ isnt real.

>> No.10717604

>>10717596
Before anybody says anything, retro was a stupid word to settle on as it means "imitative of old styles". By that logic we should only discuss modern indie games inspired by NES-PS1 era games.

>> No.10717671

>>10717596
Wouldn’t bother me if people could just talk about games and why they like/don’t like them instead of spending a thread berating opinions

>> No.10717683

>>10717596
Personally, I think it should be a 15 year sliding threshold, starting from the last official update.

>> No.10717686

>>10717596
20 years.

>> No.10717689

Games that released back when I was a child and still had time for video games are retro.

>> No.10717693

>>10717596
the rules havent been updated in 4 years

>> No.10717708

>>10717689
Xbox 360 will never be retro

>> No.10717710

>>10717596
>new
Hasn't it been like 2 years now?

>> No.10717716

>>10717693
>>10717710
Compared to the total amount of time the old rules took place, these are still new-ish.
Or just the fact that there existed previous rules make the current ones new, unrelated to time passage.

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10717719

>COVID was 4 years ago

>> No.10717724

>>10717716
what were and are those rules?

>> No.10717726

>>10717724
Old /vr/ was only consoles released until 1999 (last ones was Dreamcast, from 1998), new rules admitted until 2003 I think (so PS2, GameCube and Xbox, and GBA)

>> No.10717760

>>10717708
Yes it will. Give it a few years. Everything will become retro eventually. That is the nature of the beast.

>> No.10717765

>>10717760
Your childhood will never be retro

>> No.10717771

>>10717596
I grew up with PS2 and GBA, so retro means older than that.

>> No.10717790

>>10717765
I grew up in the early 90s though. I was a teenager when the 360 and ps3 were the current gen. Even if I was some zoomie it wouldn't change the fact that gen 7 stuff will one day be considered retro and no amount of you seething will change that.

I won't be giving out any more (You)s. You're clearly insincere.

>> No.10717805

Retro is a style, not an age

>> No.10717807

>>10717596
this is such a cool boss, i should play this

>> No.10717987

>truth is based on personal feelings
Retarded thread.

>> No.10717995

>>10717686
That number is based on what? A bunch of GBA/PS2 faggots spamming "20 years" constantly until it became a (forced) meme?

>> No.10718006

it's been 4 years already. It should be updated to include platforms made in 2005 like xbox 360. 20 year old games are retro

>> No.10718030

I generally view video games as having three distinct periods:
vintage, retro, and modern
vintage games are the pre-video games, early pong machines, early arcade machines, and arguably some of the first consoles.
retro begins at the 2600 and covers everything from the start of the famicom/nes to the point at which sixth and seventh gen consoles started incorporating internet connections
modern gaming started around 2007 with seventh gen consoles and is defined by the use of the internet to morph games into the games-as-service model

>> No.10718037

>>10717596
>What does retro mean to You, personally?
Good games.

>> No.10718053

>new rules

>> No.10718189

>>10717596
To me personally,
The modern era of gaming began when Sega died and the dreamcast was discontinued. Thus, everything up to and including the Dreamcast is retro.
Everything else is not.

>> No.10718238

>>10718053
>old rules

>> No.10718240

>>10718189
This is basically how /vr/ was before covid

>> No.10718251

I hope the 360/PS3 never get included in retro. That generation is essentially identical to modern gaming.

>> No.10718292

>>10718251
Same. Everything earlier is fine, but I understand Dreamcastanon's feelings >>10718189

>> No.10718307

>>10717995
Cars become classic cars at 20 years.

>> No.10718309

>>10717596
most of the best retro games were made after 2010

>> No.10718316

>>10717604
g*mers can't read, otherwise they'd say vintage like the cool bear who runs the best old collectables shop in town, with almost everything priced lower than pricecharting so it moves

>> No.10718325

>>10717604
tryhard modern shit trying to be retro, is not retro
>inspired
thats the problem, it HAS to be nes-ps1, nothing else. Sonic mania isn't retro, no way in hell you could've made these sprites, that ost, these cutscenes, these colors, that lenght, etc back in the mega drive BECAUSE IT ISN'T A MEGA DRIVE GAME. "inspired" shit is 2020s meta shit forcing 90s aethstetic - when it obvious they aren't the 90s

>> No.10718328

>>10717604
Retro is latin for backward. Do you think a retrorocket is trying to imitate old styles?

>> No.10718332

>>10717596
No. Allowing sixth gen killed this board.

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>>10717596
I think Dreamcast was the last home console to feel "retro" and GBA was the last handheld, but while PS2, Game Cube, XBOX, DS and PSP aren't so bad, they feel too close in direction to what a current video game looks like, Dreamcast was to most the last console where arcade ports were seen as a selling point, so it feels like the end of an era, in this case the "retro" era, I just worked.

>> No.10718429

>>10718251
But PSP and DS aren't.

>> No.10718451

>>10718332
At the very least they could scale back to 2004.

>> No.10718479

>>10718251
Not really. FPS games aren't the dominant genre anymore.

>> No.10718487

>>10718325
>tryhard modern shit trying to be retro, is not retro
More like, it's the literal definition of retro.
Actual old things aren't "retro".
Although, one could argue, if you play old games you are a retro gamer. Only you aren't playing "retro games".