What have you been doing instead?

[Anonymous No.2722478]

It's no secret - you used to post on /vr/ a lot more than you have been lately. Why did you turn away? How can we save it?

[Anonymous No.2722479]

>>2722478
>How can we save it?
ban anyone who posts on /v/

[Anonymous No.2722480]

Why did you turn away?

Same exact threads every day all day.
Get reposted as soon as bump limit is hit months later.

>How can we save it?
PS2 general

[Anonymous No.2722489]

>>2722479
Seriously? That's pretty much exactly the opposite of what needs to be done. The board is too slow as it is. Soon it might as well be a conventional forum of which there are already plenty.

It seems like when there's even more than a slight sprinkling of chan culture in a post, it gets hit with the GBT/V/ response.

Are you few other serious retro gaming faggots such faggots that you're actually offended by being called faggots on 4chan?

>>2722480
I honestly would welcome it.

[Anonymous No.2722490]

[Anonymous No.2722493]

>>2722478
>Why did you turn away?
I didn't
>How can we save it?
By not having shitty metathreads ;-)

[Anonymous No.2722498]

>>2722478
>How can we save it?
By permabanning people like
>>2722480
>>2722489
>>2722493

[Anonymous No.2722503]

>>2722498
Bonjour reddito!

[Anonymous No.2722508]

>>2722498
Also this guy
>>2722503

[Anonymous No.2722512]

>>2722498
>permaban
>4chan
Find the newfig.

[Anonymous No.2722513]

>>2722498
>Permaban

top kekeroonies.

>change router mac address
>run ccleaner
>total time taken to go back to shitposting: 20 seconds

[Anonymous No.2722514]

>>2722498
These guys too
>>2722512
>>2722513

[Anonymous No.2722517]

>>2722513
I don't even have to do all that, my ip rests itself every day at 4am

[Anonymous No.2722520]

>>2722489
Yes, clearly what we need is a fast-paced board of trolling (I only played this game for 2 minutes and it was artificial difficulty trash, everyone who disagrees with this is a nostalgia faggot), reverse-trolling (company A objectively shits all over company B), banter (did RPG character C get cucked by RPG character D?), and everything else of that ilk, y'know, for funzies. Anyone who disagrees and wants the opposite is a redditor tumblrina SJW that needs to fuck off back to neogaf.

[Anonymous No.2722521]

>>2722517
Bonjour /g/

[Anonymous No.2722526]

>>2722521
Yeah I'm an expert programmer because I know how to turn my modem off and on again. Get the fuck out of here.

[Anonymous No.2722530]

People kept calling me gay over a prank I pulled on somebody in high school.

[Anonymous No.2722532]

>>2722526
Oh, so you lied, it's not actually an automatic process.
Literally reddit then. You're not worthy of /g/

[Anonymous No.2722534]

Remove 1995 and later gaming because it has more in common with modern gaming than real retro gaming.

[Anonymous No.2722535]

>>2722490
These are the worst fucking threads.
Its retards asking you to tell them what they are supposed to think about the game.

[Anonymous No.2722537]

/vr/ should have been reserved for virtual reality discussion when it hits big.

[Anonymous No.2722539]

>>2722478
Too much misplaced elitism, the Castlevania shitpost threads, people being way too nitpicky with well-established classics, shmup threads being dickwaving contests and too much of the same threads.

>How can we save it ?
Talking about lesser-known games and consoles, retro game trivia, less trolling, and not being an insufferable asshole in general.

[Anonymous No.2722540]

Since this is the hot new meta thread, I'll just leave this reply to a deleted thread in the hopes that anon sees.

>>2721826
>Launch Box
Thanks for the inadvertent recommendation. I have a dozen friends coming over for the week and having this set up makes crowding around a corner emulation station 20 times simpler and more fun.

[Anonymous No.2722543]

>>2722535
Agreed. Used to see 50 of those threads a day a few years back when I mained /v/

[Anonymous No.2722545]

The inevitable fate of all forums and imageboards, as their communities grow bigger their overall quality begins to shrink. /vr/ is no exception. The board needs and ethnic purge of /v/ermin and other outsiders but no one has the power nor the motivation to take this task.

[Anonymous No.2722547]

>>2722545
This community is actually shrinking because it's boring as fuck tbh fam. Threads getting slower and slower. Only peaks on weekends of course.

[Anonymous No.2722548]

>>2722537
VR will never be big. It's a goddamn stupid gimmick you'll all be laughing nervously about in a year or two because you will be ashamed that you ever thought it was cool.

[Anonymous No.2722549]

>>2722532
No, dude, it's an automatic process but I can also turn it on and off again if I want to change ips whenever I please.

[Anonymous No.2722553]

>>2722548
I've tried it. It's amazing.
It will be huge, once you don't need a fucking 1000$ gaymun RIG + 500 dollar headset to play the best games

[Anonymous No.2722569]

>>2722479
You're the fucking problem with this board and that's why nobody wants to visit /vr/. Too many entitled nostalgiafags who literally just circlejerk about OoT and Earthbound. This board has become fucking boring.

[Anonymous No.2722574]

Make /vr/ for consoles up until 1985 make a new board for nes to ps2 era a new board for pc gaming and a make /v/ into /vm/ for modern games (nothing older than 06)

[Anonymous No.2722578]

>>2722548
Are you talking about /vr/ or about retro gaming? Because /vr/ WAS big for quite a while - one of the jewels in 4chan's crown and us gold OGs with our deep knowledge of not just the games but the CULTURE or retro gaming were the ones pulling it together.

The beauty of /vr/ was getting to pass that real legit culture from the 80s and 90s on to young people picking up the retro gaming trend and sincerely wanting to broaden and deepen their appreciation of it.

There are even more of those kind of people here than there ever were but alongwith them (and sometimes 2 sides of same Anon) are trolls who seem to REALLY upset a lot of the more knowledgeable posters.

I think that's the real heart of what's to blame for the oldfags becoming less and less willing to maintain the overall quality, to derail shit-threads INTO quality threads and take proper advantage of the attention grabbing quality they possess.

Personally, I started posting a lot less during the over-zealous janitoring period where all kinds of threads were getting deleted, including 95% quality threads.

I actually thrive in this less-moderated Nagasaki Hiroshima owned environment but I see SO many other posters that I know could enrich the board just hollering gbt/v/.

[Anonymous No.2722584]

Neo/vr/ is beyond saving.

[Anonymous No.2722592]

>>2722578
Virtual Reality mothacucka

[Anonymous No.2722593]

>>2722478
Bring back the games archaeology/"obscure games" threads. I swear there's other interesting lost games out there to find other than Garage and Chu Teng. These threads gave /vr/ a purpose.

Also, I'd like to able to talk about pre-NES games without being shouted downed that they're "unplayable."

[Anonymous No.2722601]

>>2722592
So literally shitposting I guess. Okay whatever that's fine my points still stand.

[Anonymous No.2722603]

>>2722478

/vr/ is going to be a slower board due to its very nature of discussing a concrete number of products (anything from 1999 and earlier). If you want new content, you're going to have to encourage participation.

I think the Doom and RollerCoaster Tycoon generals have the right idea. If it's a PC game, encourage and support the modding communities. If it can obtained or emulated, encourage speedrunning or tournaments through netplay. Have in-depth discussions about game mechanics, hardware, or obscure games.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[Anonymous No.2722607]

>>2722601
I'm shitposting because you can't read context?
okay.

You wrote that big ass reply, because you couldn't read to 1 sentence replies. kek

[Anonymous No.2722608]

>>2722603
>>>/vg/

[Anonymous No.2722612]

>>2722539
>Talking about lesser-known games and consoles, retro game trivia
>>2722593
>Bring back the games archaeology/"obscure games" threads.

Good stuff.

[Anonymous No.2722613]

>>2722603
>modding communities, speedrunning or tournaments through netplay. Have in-depth discussions about game mechanics, hardware, or obscure games.

More good stuff

[Anonymous No.2722614]

>>2722603
>/vr/ is going to be a slower board due to its very nature of discussing a concrete number of products (anything from 1999 and earlier). If you want new content, you're going to have to encourage participation.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[Anonymous No.2722625]

/vr/ needs better, more vigilant moderation. Without that we've become vulnerable to opportunistic derailment. I'm not sure how to respond to spoonfeeding dilemmas (first instinct is to get the hard-to-find stuff into the open), but sticky-ing "what's the name of this game" threads would serve many requests from passers-by.

>>2722593
Dunno why these fell out of fashion, but I talk up these kinds of games in /jpc/. Motivation for me is usually there being some interesting story behind lesser-known games (like Azrael's Tear), not just that so-and-so game is obscure.

[Anonymous No.2722632]

It doesn't bother me that the board is slow, but it seriously bothers me that you only want to talk about the same shit every month, every week, every day. If you have been here for a month, you've seen everything. All the Super Metroid is great, the Earthbound is beautiful/overhyped, the Doom mega-, the what am I getting into, should I buy this, what are the best youtuber and best handheld emulation threads. It's all there is to this board.

Which saddens me. We don't have to bother with new releases, why don't have to wait for new games. We could be discovering the undiscovered and overlooked games. Find Japanese exclusives that are actually playable without knowing Japanese or even translate them. But instead it's Mario and actually console wars. You are still fighting console wars. It's hilarious.

[Anonymous No.2722651]

Pretty much what everyone else is saying:

>Every day the same threads

It doesn't help that the board is slow, and your average 4chan poster is too stupid to use the catalog function, which causes multiple of the same threads all the time.

Occasionally theres a good thread about a game that has genuine discussion, but it mostly devolves into shitposting:

>X popular game is over rated
>Y less popular game is under rated

>What am I in for?

>I just downloaded all the NES games, what should I play?

>Meta threads/Rules threads and "go back to /v/" as a response

The worst. The absolute worst. I honestly wouldn't mind the board nearly as much if all of these were a bannable offense.

I don't even give as much of a shit of discussion of a long running series, like Metal Gear, Resident Evil, or Megaman or whaever goes into Non-retro territory because that is just logical progression of the discussion and you're mostly discussing the series.

But the second you even mention non-retro its
>>>>/v/
>Go back to /v/
>non-retro
>mods mods mods

-That- is what derails discussion and threads.

Go ahead and report posts that are non-retro. The mod -will- delete them. I know from experience. He's just unreliable, since obviously he dosnt get paid.

People seem to think /vr/ has some higher quality of posters, but honestly, its always going to be the same retards.

[Anonymous No.2722664]

>>2722632
Did you ever see the CRT thread anon?
Do you know how to mod an SNES mini?
anyway, I think that in the future maybe 20 years games will be grounds for a curriculum of some sort. I mean whats the difference to some Japanese guy making a game about adventure being revolutionary and some English guy making the Aesop's Fables being revolutionary?

[Anonymous No.2722672]

>>2722664
forgot to add I see obscure game threads all damn day.
there is usually the same faggots posting the same shit. ( le metroid) (le earthbound) (le obscure PS1 PS2 PC games) that shit does get old but if you dig a little bit theres some good posting going on albeit a bit slower....

[Anonymous No.2722683]

>>2722578
it is true that very often threads get deleted for no reason, like the first thread about that guy selling a collection of all n64 games for 40000 bucks.
Why was that deleted in first place?

And on the other side, sometimes GBA threads survive for a very long time (not that I complain).
But everything seems very random.

[Anonymous No.2722698]

>how do I keep trolls, shitposters and stupid memes off of this board which is hosted on 4chan

[Anonymous No.2722754]

>>2722478
1.
I think we are going to have to face the issue that people more and more want to discuss PS2, GameCube and GBA. I am a believer that we should have another video games board, segregated by generations. My solution (though flawed) would be something along the lines of this:

Board 1 - Old /vr/: Essentially /vr/ as it is, with PS1, N64 and Dreamcast ousted. (Roughly gaming pre-1995)

Board 2 - New /vr/: PS1, Dreamcast, N64, AND PS2, Gamecube, GBA XBOX (Roughly gaming pre-2005, post-1995)

Board 3 - /v/: modern gaming

2. I think "hazy" discussion topic should be fair game to discuss on either side of the border in this scenario, meaning: PS1/N64/Dreamcast discussion is encouraged for new /vr/ but is accepted on old /vr/ as well.


Again, this suggestion clearly has flaws, but I would like to point out that there is a big shift in culture with the gaming generations particularly in the shift from 2D to 3D and from first gen 3D to the following generations of 3D (ie PS2 is more similar to PS3 than PS1 is to PS2).

[Anonymous No.2722769]

>>2722754
/v/ doesnt need to be changed.

/vr/ just needs to be split or add new rules for ps2/xbox/gamecube

[Anonymous No.2722781]

>>2722754
The problem of this board is definitely not the range of consoles, but that we don't even use the full range.

I have the feeling most people on this board are old, have a job, maybe even a family and don't have the time to play new games. But then again, most discussions turn into shit rather quickly and I was hoping adults with job and family wouldn't do that anymore.

[Anonymous No.2722790]

>>2722769
That's what I was suggesting though, just included /v/ to try and express what "eras" of gaming could be discussed where.

I think a /vr/ split is unavoidable without sacrificing a lot great content/discussion present on the board today. Many PS2, GameCube, Xbox and GBA threads would likely gain more popularity over threads currently present on this board today, pushing them off the deep end of the catalog.

I would warmly welcome a slow-moving /vr/ if it meant splitting the current board to accommodate a slightly more modern /vr/

[Anonymous No.2722792]

>>2722769
Who decides to change the rules or create a new board?

[Anonymous No.2722796]

>>2722781
>hoping adults with job and family wouldn't do that anymore.

Do you really think an asshole stop being one after he has a kid ?
It's just like masturbation, do you really believe in the myth that people stop masturbating after getting a woman/man ?

[Anonymous No.2722803]

>>2722781
>that we don't even use the full range.

I'm not certain that that's true. I see a lot of threads spanning PS1, PC, and all the Sega and Nintendo consoles even in the catalog right now. Arguably one of our most popular threads, the CRT General, even reaches beyond the typical scope of this board.

[Anonymous No.2722808]

>>2722792
Hiroshima Nagasaki

[Anonymous No.2722809]

>>2722769
>>2722790
Things might get older, but they won't just suddenly turn retro. The Renaissance won't just turn into Middle Ages. Both are defined areas in history.

I would love to a place where I can discuss GBA games, but that's not /vr/. /vr/ needs no change. The user need to step up their game.

[Anonymous No.2722830]

>>2722478
>Why did you turn away?
Endless shitposting
>How can we save it?
Ban these anons on the spot.They are other boards for shitposting

[Anonymous No.2722839]

>>2722478
Most of the threads just don't appeal to me right now. It's nothing /vr/ did, my mind is just wrapped up in how in love with my wife's sister I am.

Don't get me wrong, if I was into:
>Doom
>CRT TVs
>RCT
or had any
>Repairs or Mods

I'd post a lot more, but it's just a constant console war that I can't deal with right now.

[Anonymous No.2722853]

>>2722754
>I would like to point out that there is a big shift in culture with the gaming generations particularly in the shift from 2D to 3D and from first gen 3D to the following generations of 3D (ie PS2 is more similar to PS3 than PS1 is to PS2).

While I see what you're saying, splitting off a mid-range /vr/ might just leave two incredibly slow moving "retro" video game boards

[Anonymous No.2722862]

Damn, you got me. Life sped up for me and by time it slowed down it took my money. I'm glad to have some respite, but now I can't buy games like I used to. I bought a gamepad though so I'm going for emulation and looking for good PS1 games.

Also a friend got a Dreamcast so I'm here for that too. Will probably contribute as much as I can with discussion and shit. I was here from the first night and I loved coming here.

[Anonymous No.2722878]

>>2722809
Dude, /vr/ has been slow as fuck for as long as I've been here. I didn't see as much discussion for it that early on, but I'm probably not saying anything new here. Retro is not a time period as far as I know. Things fall out of fashion, age, they become retro.

I think as the board grows older, it should start to incorporate newer games. Of course there is no way to moderate it so only games from 2001 are discussed or anything like that.

I'm just saying, even from day one I felt like if it didn't incorporate newer games and consoles as time went on, /vr/ would stagnate like fuck.

[Anonymous No.2722883]

I found a job.

[Anonymous No.2722891]

>>2722781
This.

[Anonymous No.2722909]

I still check here regularly, but it feels like there are more and more teenagers here trying to prove themselves. I don't get the same "fun" vibe that I used to.

[Anonymous No.2722912]

I mostly stopped, unless things change shit is going to get worse.

[Anonymous No.2722950]

>>2722912
It'll definitely get worse if you don't mostly start again

>>2722909
Where did the fun come from? Comraderie? Nostalgia?

>>2722862
>>2722839
You guys both need to greentext story that shit right now - and try to throw in some Atari references so it's all nice and legal.

>>2722803
He means depth not breadth

[Anonymous No.2722963]

>>2722809
>The user need to step up their game.
More like the mods.

[Anonymous No.2723048]

>>2722480
Basically the same reason /v/ is shit, hordes of shitposting memefaggots and people making the exact same thread every goddamn day.

I mean, if your going to make an Earthbound thread at least start it off with a question or point of discussion, not just "hurr Earthbound thread".

>>2722651
People who join threads just to say "game is shit" should be banned. Not saying everyone has to like everything and criticism shouldn't be welcome but people who enter, say, a Chrono Cross thread just to write a list of every way Cross eats dick are just begging for a derail.

Also IMO we need to expand our range of retro a bit. There is a ton of talking to be had about the glory that was the Dreamcast. The thing came out nearly 17 years ago for fucks sake.

[Anonymous No.2723050]

>>2723048
Dreamcast has been allowed for over a year now. You're being part of the problem.

[Anonymous No.2723051]

>>2723050
Well shit, I had no idea. I figured they were still a shutdown on sight case for mods.

>You're being part of the problem.

How?

[Anonymous No.2723062]

>>2722878
Then no one will talk about pre 6 gen games, it'll be primarily all gen 6 topics. The point is then defeated because no true /vr/ games get discussed when that gen gets brought in. The boards nature is to be slow due to mainly people lurking, it's fine how it is and if your ADD can't handle a slow board then go someplace else.

[Anonymous No.2723094]

>>2722754
The definition of a modern game is subjective. Once I was laughed at on another board because I wanted to talk about PSP, and many considered it a dead system, which's games does not matter anyomre. As far as I know, the PSP went out of business "officially" 2-3 years ago. For some, even that's way back in the past.

The definition of a retro game is a little bit more objective. You can seperate them by dates or by generations.

I see two options: make one /v/ board again with 30-40 pages, so there shall be room for everyone, or let /vr/ have anything which is not current. So even PSP, DS, Wii, PS2, XBox360 and so on, and leave the really modern and actual stuff for /v/ to discuss.

[Anonymous No.2723130]

>>2722950
>Be me
>18
>Meet a girl, she's cool
>Meet her sister, she's way cooler, but been with the same guy for, like, 10 years
>Eventually me and girl get married
>After 6 years it's very clear I should have just waited for the sister
>She likes to play old NES/SNES games (even if they are the casual ones)
>She doesn't mind watching someone play games all day
>Her kids like to game
>Pirated Sims 1 just to see us together

Not super exciting, just hard to think about anything else

[Anonymous No.2723138]

>>2723051
>How

because you don't read the rules as evidenced by

>Well shit, I had no idea.

[Anonymous No.2723148]

Actually I'm posting less on 4chan because I'm playing more vidya

[Anonymous No.2723180]

>>2723130
Just be the cool uncle until your wife dies. Like How I Met Your Mother.

[Anonymous No.2723183]

>>2723148
What are you playing?

[Anonymous No.2723198]

>>2723094
>or let /vr/ have anything which is not current. So even PSP, DS, Wii, PS2, XBox360 and so on, and leave the really modern and actual stuff for /v/ to discuss.
That's so fucking retarded. God, this board is full of idiots and casuals.

[Anonymous No.2723238]

>how do we increase discussion?
>by getting rid of everyone!

That doesn't even make sense. We should be going out of our way to welcome more people to the board, not trying to push everyone away.

[Anonymous No.2723279]

Emulator fags shitting up proper discussions of games. I've seen it far too often.

>good discussion going
>"why don't you just emulate? JEZUS"
>thread breaks down into name calling and shitposting

[Anonymous No.2723312]

>>2723180
Hasten the process if you're bold and impatient and above all, smart.

[Anonymous No.2723332]

>>2722574
Congratulations, you now have four boards that hate each other and two of them are pretty much dead or reduced to chat. What a great time everyone will have.

[Anonymous No.2723337]

>>2722608
So, basically, you want /vr to be just /v about retro vidya. Glad we figured that out. Spoiler: not going to work OR end well.

[Anonymous No.2723357]

>>2722754
>I am a believer that we should have another video games board, segregated by generations.
One year later
>I am a believer that we should have another video games board, segregated by systems.
Two years later
>I am a believer that we should have another hundred of video games boards, segregated by systems and genres.
Two and a half years later
>Well, i finally have a board i've always wanted - /gen[Generation number]sys[System name]gnr[Genre name]vg[Vidya name]e1m1. What a great discussion it's going to be!
>G-guys?..
>Echoes in the distance
>A single tumbleweed rolling around

[Anonymous No.2723368]

>>2723279
I've seen the opposite happen far too often as well. Hardware fags shitting up emulation generals.

[Anonymous No.2723371]

>Why did you turn away?
Because it was getting close to release of MGSV:TPP and I had to avoid using any internet sites that weren't work related/email for the past two months until I could have the money for it (I just moved and had no real disposable income) and could finish it.
I finished it two nights ago.
It wasn't worth it.

[Anonymous No.2723450]

>>2722683
Huh, that was my thread and I never went back to check on it because I got busy.

maybe they thought it was advertising? Not like I'd bother to collect that many N64 games, I went the flash cart route.

[Anonymous No.2723458]

>>2722478
>Why did you turn away?
Gauntlet threads die out too quickly these days.

[Anonymous No.2723526]

>why did you turn away

People are too salty. The same arguments keep coming up because every time price comes up emulators and collectors butt heads. The janitor deletes threads he dislikes. There is almost no tolerance for tangently related topics. People on this board want there to be even less discussion than there already is. The library of retro games is so huge niche titles garner no discussion, and popular titles have been discussed to death.

[Anonymous No.2723550]

Because I like emulation. I like the fact that I can play an old game and listen to music or podcasts at the same time. I don't want a rat infested, fire hazard of a house with dusty junk filled shelves. But everyone here seems to get butthurt over it.