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3340928 No.3340928[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

So the PS2, GameCube and OG Xbox will become retro around the 9th gen, right?

>> No.3340931
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3340931

Nope.

>> No.3340937

>>3340931
>Nostalgiafagging this hard

>> No.3340942

>>3340931
>Does the console's generation top selling and most influential titles have heavy arcade influence?
So the SNES and PS1 aren't retro?

>> No.3340946

>>3340942
If you're underage and don't know what an arcade is I guess.

>> No.3340949

>>3340946
>m-muh underage
Nice strawman.

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>>3340949
Ok, kid.

>> No.3340981

>>3340928
No, OP. Retro is anything having been released during and before 2000 and that's to say the first 5 generations. Anything from after the turn of the century is not retro.

However, the Dreamcast is the only exception to the rule and it's got nothing to do with internet connection like >>3340931 tried to get across (nor arcade influences or video output bullshit).
Certain systems from back in the day could connect to the internet via add-ons, anyone here remember Sega's online service for the Mega Drive/Genesis? No? Then do your research.

Furthermore, that "guide" completely ignores games of non-arcade influences like Legend of Zelda, Ultima and the entire over-the-top-view RPG genre, the entire survival horror genre and any game designed around static camera angles in an otherwise 3D environment, point n' click adventure games, text-based RPGs, Rogue-likes, the entire strategy game genre, so on and so forth, all of which still hold thousands of distinctly retro games.

Objectively the Dreamcast is not retro because it is still part of the 6th gen era. Period.

>>3340931
>inb4 I said built-in online connection
I don't care. Your quick guide is shit, it just generalizes, which is no concrete answer whatsoever.

>> No.3341000

>>3340981
This guy gets it. Retro is a period of time, not a type of game.

>> No.3341001

>>3340981
>[insert obscure modem addon]
>Ha just destroyed your argument!!!

Shit cracks me up.

>> No.3341047

>>3341001
>>[insert obscure modem addon]
>>Ha just destroyed your argument!!!
>Shit cracks me up.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer, is the moral of the story. That quick guide is entirely arbitrary and was clearly written by someone's ignorant opinions on what retro should be accepted as, as opposed to actually knowing anything relevant.

>> No.3341052

>>3341047
You kids thinking that because you googled up some obscure modem addon it matters is what cracks me up.

>> No.3341060

>>3341052
I didn't google it. I already knew about it ahead of time.

>> No.3341074

>>3341060
You must impress the kids at school with your knowledge of games that came out before you were born.

>> No.3341114

>>3341074
Would you stop with your "you're a kid" bullshit? I'm 28. I grew up in the 90s. I know I'm talking about, you dumb shit.

>> No.3341117

>>3340961
Xbox and PS2 have several arcade ports though

>> No.3341121

>>3341114
>I know I'm talking about
Clearly when you're talking about some of the most obscure shit in this hobby as if it matters.

That's exactly what these modem addons are. Enthusiasts don't care about them. You have to be a pretty hardcore collector or hoarder to give a shit about stuff like the xband.