/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.363481]

ITT: Things people have said to you while you're playing retro games that pissed you off.

>Yesterday
>Playing Chrono Trigger
>Room mate walks in and says, "What are you playing? Some kind of RPG?"
>"Yeah. It's called Chrono Trigger."
>"They make games like that that you can play on your phone, except with way better graphics."
>"That's cool, but this particular game is considered by many to be one of the greatest games ever made."
>"Really? Better than Skyrim?"
>Become visibly upset
>Shoot him the evil eye
>"I'm not even going to explain to you why comparisons can't be drawn between those two games dude."
>"Okay, don't get your panties in a twist. I'll have fun with my graphically superior games that I can play on my phone, and my deeply immersive cinematic experiences in the land of Tamriel."
>MFW this motherfucker was being serious

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363493]

So have you found a new place to stay, Anon?
Also, any tips as to how you managed to dispose of his body without being caught by the popo?

[Anonymous No.363512]

>>363493
Unfortunately I have to stay here for a while. I'll have to ask my gf about logistics for the murder and body disposal, she's more clever about that kind of shit than I am. This guy is 23, by the way,

[Anonymous No.363514]

You sound like you got pointlessly mad. Just say "I'm playing <this>" and he says "why?", then you say "because I like it". Be done with it.

Conversely put your TV in your room if your roommate is annoying you. I had two friends who lived together, one guy provided the TV, the food, the games, etc. and when the other guy provided nothing and just mooched off his shit, he put it all into his room so he no longer had access to it (including any food that didn't have to be refridgerated). Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.

[Anonymous No.363516]

>>363481

You should have just laughed and said "wow, you're pretty ignorant" then forgotten about it, secure in the knowledge that he doesn't know shit about video games.
Honestly, in any hobby, people like that aren't worth even getting upset at.

[Vintanon !bdBeZdY6B6 No.363519]

>playing original SMB on the NES for shits and giggles last Christmas.
>cousins are over
>cousin comes into my room to watch me play
>10 year old cousin says "it has minecraft graphics!"

Mon visage when

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363529]

>>363512
Shameful.

>>363516
Better reaction would be to laugh hysterically at the guy, and shoo him away while you're catching your breath.

>>363519
More forgivable because kids don't know no better.
However, you should have a talk with his parents, clearly he's being raised improperly.

[Anonymous No.363536]

>>363519
>minecraft graphics

good lord

[Anonymous No.363537]

>>363519

That's kind of cute actually, as awful as it is.

[Anonymous No.363543]

>>363481
I ignore the casuals for the most part, nothing to rage over
>I'm told Diablo 2 is a shit game
>I'm told all 2D games are shit
>I'm told Story > Gameplay
>I'm told COD is the greatest FPS ever made because it doesn't have a "retarded unnecessary unrealistic recoil system" like other competitive FPS games.
>I'm told colorful games are childish
>I'm told indie games are the best kind of games
>I'm told what you were told

All of this happens regularly. I have to just keep in mind not a lot of people pay much attention to vidya.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363554]

>>363543
If you're told any of this by anyone other than total strangers, you need to re-evaluate the company you keep.

[Anonymous No.363552]

>>363529

No, that would make your roommate think you're fucking insane, unless that's what you're getting at.

[Anonymous No.363578]

I used to work at an independently owned game store, and kids came in all the time.

One day, a girl comes in. I'm guessing she was about 12 or so, and she starts talking to me about games to pass time.

Soon, she started bragging about how she played Call of Duty "like the boys in her class", and about what prestige she was.

I asked her, "Shouldn't you be playing Pokemon or something?"

Then we both kinda gave eachother disgusted glares for like ten seconds and she left the store moments later.

It was a weird feeling. I think I'm getting old.

[Anonymous No.363595]

>>363543

It really is the same in any field of interest.

>Mumford and Sons are unique and interesting musicians
>I just finished reading Dune while my mom is still reading 50 Shades of Grey, why am I smarter than everyone else :(((
>Inception is the deepest film of all time

Some people just don't know jack shit about jack shit and seem resistant to knowledge, just filter it out.

[Anonymous No.363604]

>>363578

that was pretty rude of you, bro
she was just making conversation

[Anonymous No.363613]

not before I get a snarky comment in first dammit

[Anonymous No.363617]

>>363613
was in response to
>>363595

[Anonymous No.363623]

>>363604
I was talking to a girl who was maybe 12 at best about a game I had no interest in that she shouldn't be playing any ways.

Was it really?

[Anonymous No.363624]

>>363595

Thank you, I know this thread is more about sharing stories, but people please, why are you getting so butthurt about others not appreciating the games you play?

[Anonymous No.363626]

Had a retro one, but just forgot it. Here's a recent example while I think of it.

>playing TF2
>Annoying ass teenage brother comes in to my room
>Brother : "are you playing F2T or whatever?"
>Me : "It's called TF2"
>I'm playing heavy and raping shit.
>Brother : "why don't you aim down sights?"
>Me : "you can't do that in this game."
>Brother : "That's dumb. Why do you have boxing gloves?"
>Me : "It's a special weapon that the heavy uses."
>Brother : "That's stupid a knife is so much better."
>Continue to play, skill deteriorates a bit as my rage builds.
>Brother : "Dude, your really bad. I'm gonna go play a good game like call of duty."
>Me : "This is way better than Call of duty."
>Brother : "Whatever dude, there aren't even kill streaks and you can't even aim down sight."
>tfw this is a true story

What is happening to the youth /vr/

[Anonymous No.363634]

>>363481
>hey man, do you know if they announced Skyrim 2 yet?
>this game is shit cause it's shit and it's not like the game i like.
Though my favourite was from a gamer dude in my Uni course when he saw me playing Quake 3
>Is that DOOM?

[Anonymous No.363630]

>This can't be harder than CoD
>I guess cause it's older it doesn't necessarily mean its easy

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363640]

>>363626
Neuter him.

[Anonymous No.363649]

>>363613
>mission hill will never get a sequel, or a conclusion

[Anonymous No.363645]

>>363623

Well, when you put it that way...
I suppose it will discourage her from thinking that stating she plays the latest fad games will garner her instant positive attention from any man.

[Princess Bubblegum !AnVbXjgZco No.363646]

>>363623
Yes. I know this is /vr/, but hating on Call of Duty fans just because they like Call of Duty makes you "that guy."

[Anonymous No.363653]

>>363626
I don't like TF2, but, strangely enough, none of my reasons are anywhere close to your brother's.

No, really, those are some of the dumbest reasons I've seen not to like a game.

"THIS GAME HAS DIFFERENT GAMEPLAY MECHANICS THAN ONE I LIKE IT MUST BE STUPID."

fucking hell man

[Anonymous No.363660]

>>363624
Internalizing the butthurt and then venting it to anon on 4chan seems to be a pretty common practice.

[Anonymous No.363661]

>>363626
He's right though. Team Furfag 2 is a terrible game. It's a clumsy compromise between Quake's mechanics and Call of Duty's pacing.

[Anonymous No.363663]

>>363646
I never said anything about hating Call of Duty. I just don't care about it.

>>363646 gets it.

[Anonymous No.363671]

>>363649
You just gave me so many feels ;_;

[Anonymous No.363668]

>>363653
That is actually what he said.

Makes me cry

[Anonymous No.363669]

>>363663
Meant to quote >>363645

[Anonymous No.363672]

>>363623
She was trying to impress you and show that she's just as good at video games as boys are. She was 12 for fuck's sake, she's struggling with her fledgling psyche and a sense of belonging. >>363645
Except it won't. It just made her think that he's a grumpy old asshole. Could've been nice and move the conversation onto other games and fix her warped sense of "you need to play CoD to be cool".

[Anonymous No.363683]

>>363671
>undergrads will always be the same and never get its justice

[Anonymous No.363685]

>>363661
I don't do that furshit, or mlp shit, but TF2 fills my autism hole. I don't know what it is about it, but it's like speed running sonic. I may not even want to play, but I have to at least once per month.

As it stands, my niece is 9 and really loves Sonic and Mario retro games. She's just god awful at them. I don't know what to do. She has no skill, but she's got shitloads of enthusiasm. I encourage her, but I get tired of playing SA2 for her so she can raise chao etc.

[Anonymous No.363686]

>>363634

I have a friend who is doing a "game design" course, and he tells me about how the people in his class have basically played either CoD or Minecraft, sometimes both, and decided they want to start their own game company.
They did an exercise where they went around the room asking what each person's favourite game was, and it was basically

>Minecraft
>Skyrim
>Minecraft
>Minecraft
>Pokemon! I'M SUCH A HIPSTER (everyone laughs)
>CoD
etc. ad nauseum

They say the video game development industry is oversaturated with prospective employees, but if that's the competition, I reckon anyone with half a brain could get along fine.

[Princess Bubblegum !AnVbXjgZco No.363687]

>>363669
>be thatguy
>another thatguy contragulates you
>"See? SOMEONE gets it."

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363684]

>>363661
It's the reasoning for the opinion, not the opinion itself.

[Anonymous No.363704]

>>363672
I am a grumpy old asshole. 12-year-olds shouldn't be playing Call of Duty.

>>363687
Are you dense?

[Anonymous No.363710]

>>363649
They all end up homeless after the recession.

[Anonymous No.363713]

Remembered my retro story.

>Two months ago.
>Playing Pokemon Silver
>Same teenage brother comes up to me and sees me playing (Same one from the Tf2 story)
>Brother "Dude, why are you playing Pokemon, that's a kid game."
>Me "there's nothing wrong with Pokemon, it's a great game."
>Brother "Why don't you play a newer one? It has more Pokemon and it doesn't have minecraft graphics."
>Me "It's not minecraft graphics, it's called pixel art. And I like the atmosphere of this one better."
>Brother "Wow, that's really gay."

Fuck /vr/

Fuck

[Anonymous No.363707]

>>363661

>tfw I played competitive TF2 for years before suddenly realising it was shit

all those wasted hours

[Anonymous No.363717]

>>363687

oh christ not this faggot again

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363724]

>>363686
That's just appalling.
I'm tempted to go to one of those and do nothing but talk about retro and therefore obscure, to them games.

>so, cod-player 655321, what did you think of the direction they went with the playstyle of Golgo 13 on the NES? I think they could have done much better if they went for a top-down approach.

They would be so lost.

>>363713
Just slap him whenever he talks to you.

[Anonymous No.363727]

>>363707
>competitive

[Anonymous No.363729]

>>363686
Hearing conversations of people who go out of their way just to make certain you know how big of a gamer they are at my university makes me cringe so often. It's painful. I imagine that's what people who are into movies feel like when someone says they're a huge film nerd and they've, like, seen all Tarantino movies.

[Anonymous No.363731]

>b'aww this guy likes a game I don't like better than a game I do like

[Anonymous No.363732]

>>363713

>"Wow, that's really gay."

Let's face it, there's no comeback to that.

[Anonymous No.363742]

>>363713
>"Wow, that's really gay."

[Anonymous No.363745]

>>363724
I usually do.
The little fucker is a snitch though.
God I can't wait to leave this house

[Princess Bubblegum !AnVbXjgZco No.363746]

>>363704
I'm not the only one here who thinks you're a thatguy, dude.

You autistically try to impose your worldview onto others, then look to the internet for approval, and give snarky dismissive comments to everyone who disagrees. You're pretty much the quintessential 4chan thatguy.

[Anonymous No.363747]

>>363727

I started before they started completely destroyed any fragile semblance of balance it had with "class updates", give me some credit.

[Anonymous No.363748]

These threads make me glad I'm an only child. And 30 years old.

[Anonymous No.363749]

>>363685
As long as she keeps enjoying it, she has potential. The question remains wether she will continue liking it when she hits puberty though, because that's when my sister stopped playing them.

[Anonymous No.363753]

>>363704
>I am a grumpy old asshole
Oh, that's fine then. Just saying that depending on the kid you might've pushed her toward some better gaming experiences, because she's probably just trying to fit in with her classmates. But I get that no one wants to play pedagogue to some random kid.

[Anonymous No.363758]

>>363595
I'm the guy you replied to.
Basically, I have a friend who's told me all of the above. He's my first friend I ever had, I've known him since the age of 4, and have hung with him almost daily since that day until I turned 15. I'm 22 now. He used to have good taste in videogames, but he's become the ultimate casual angry birds dudebro halo 4 lyfe call of duty trash. He also watches pewdiepie and can't type or read for shit. (Plus, he types like this unironically lololol xD)

I tolerate it because he's my friend, but a few weeks ago he was arrogant enough to say "Why are there so many stupid people out there. I mean, I don't know anyone besides me and my brother who's as smart as us. You're one of the exceptional people who are almost at our level."

I got so pissed off I told him to fuck off and then I went home. Not sure why I even spend time on that dickhead anymore, he's obviously not the one he used to be.

[Princess Bubblegum !AnVbXjgZco No.363761]

>>363717
Faggot? How am I being a faggot? I'm just trying to break a thatguy out of his shell of self-aggrandization. I don't think I'm better than him, I was in the same place once.

[Anonymous No.363769]

>>363753

>pedagogue

leave your sick fetishes out of this discussion you creep

[Anonymous No.363770]

>>363713
Have you considered murder yet?

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363762]

>>363732
Sure there is;

>Not as gay as you.
>No, YOU'RE gay.
>If this is gay, you must be the guru of gay. Show me some tricks.

>>363745
Just keep slapping him. Hard. He'll get the picture. And if he whines to someone, just nonchalantly claim you didn't do a damn thing, and that teenagers are prone to knee-jerk lying when something doesn't go their way.

[Anonymous No.363768]

>>363543
>Diablo 2 is a shit game
Haha
>all 2D games are shit
HAHAHA
>Story > Gameplay
Eh. It depends. But if the gameplay is genuinely shitty, I'd rather just read a book.
>COD is the greatest FPS ever made because it doesn't have a "retarded unnecessary unrealistic recoil system" like other competitive FPS games.
That person is an idiot.
>colorful games are childish
I... what?
>indie games are the best kind of games
That's a gross generalization, but there -are- a lot of good indie games.
>what OP was told
Was basically that the other person liked something OP didn't like, and that OP liked something the other person didn't like, and that rustled OP's jimmies.

[Anonymous No.363772]

>>363762
>If this is gay, you must be the guru of gay.

I lold

[Anonymous No.363774]

>>363724

I got a feeling that when you go there the person doing that course will be confused as shit

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363781]

>>363774
Probably. Especially if I start discussing the genius that is Rob Hubbard or Jeroen Tel. Everyone would catch fire from confusion.

[Anonymous No.363782]

>>363762
Alternative response:

>No gayer that all that buttfucking you and your faggot friends do during the weekend/weekday/[insert last time they hungout]

[Anonymous No.363776]

>>363758

Well, that kicked me right in the feels.
I've gone through this with more than a few people.
Growing apart fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.363779]

>>363768
>Eh. It depends
Never. Gameplay > story always. Otherwise you'll end up having games like Final Fantasy The Tube Edition.

[Anonymous No.363783]

>>363769
Pedagogue not pedophile, Mr. Comfort.

[Anonymous No.363794]

>>363781
>Jeroen Tel

>muh dick is so hard right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZnqNM-Gvw

[Anonymous No.363789]

>>363769
Y-you got me bro. Education is a huge fetish of mine. Hey it's not wrong when it's right, you know? The kids enjoy it when it's done properly, I swear! The don't know what's good for'em!

[Anonymous No.363792]

>>363746
Uh-huh.

>>363753
For what it's worth, we had been talking for a while about other games, for a good ten minutes. She was curious about some of the older items in the store.

That's just how the conversation ended, which came kind of out of the blue.

[Anonymous No.363796]

>>363762

Or you could say "fuck off, you aggravating little sod, before I kick you up the arse so hard you'll taste your own colon"

[Anonymous No.363803]

I love you guys and I love this board and I love my old-ass retro games, but my god the neckbeard on this thread is getting ridiculous.

It is not a damn crime to dislike Chrono Trigger just like how it's not a crime to dislike Runescape or Winning Eleven. Some people just play video games to shoot things or kick balls or wrassle wrasslers, and that's just fine.

[Anonymous No.363805]

>WHYYYYY AM I SO MUCH BETTER THAN EVERYONE?!

[Anonymous No.363817]

>>363803
It is a crime to dislike Chrono Trigger. Chrono went back in time and made this case law.

[Anonymous No.363818]

>>363809

Australian actually

[Anonymous No.363808]

>>363796
>"You want to stick your foot up my ass? Wow, bro, you really are a faggot. Have fun with your gay games."

[Anonymous No.363809]

>>363796
That'd require a person to be British.

[Anonymous No.363819]

>>363543
How do you meet so many bad people? Do you work at gamestop or something?

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363821]

>>363779
It still depends, imo. You can have good gameplay, but a godly story.
IE: Terranigma

>>363796
I prefer "You ever get punched in the face so hard you blacked out and woke up in a bad neighborhood with no clothes on?"

[Anonymous No.363823]

>>363818
You still have the Queen on your money. You're still British.

[Anonymous No.363824]

>>363818
Even worse.

[Anonymous No.363825]

>>363817
Chrono isn't real. Videogame characters can't make real life laws.

[Anonymous No.363828]

>>363808

So then you kick him up the arse so hard he tastes his own colon.
You ARE the older brother, right?
Teach the little fucker some respect.

[Anonymous No.363832]

>>363825
My uncle works for nintendo etc.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363841]

>>363825
That depends. Do you believe in the multi-verse theory?

[Anonymous No.363838]

>>363824

gab that to me mug etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.363840]

>>363821
>"Are you threatening to knock me out, strip off my clothes, and rape me? Wow, what a fucking faggot you are. Christ, no wonder you play gay pedophile games."

[Anonymous No.363846]

Honestly, I never liked Chrono Trigger. Games like Terranigma always attracted my attention more.

[Princess Bubblegum !AnVbXjgZco No.363847]

>>363792
>Uh-huh.
Case in point. :T

[Anonymous No.363850]

>>363803
I think it's been pretty civil. It would have been a lot more like ">hanging around with filthy casual normalfags" continued with that feel when no girlfriend and sagebombing which eventually turns into a console war somehow.

[Anonymous No.363854]

>>363828
He won't get respect. He'll just learn to run faster from his gay faggot brother with a foot in ass fetish.

[Anonymous No.363865]

>>363846
You have a fine opinion. I think you should just have fun.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363861]

>>363840
>Woah, shit bro, is that the kind of fantasies you have? And you have the balls to call a game gay.

[Anonymous No.363862]

They can make laws indirectly, like when they force you to shoot up your school with their gun fetishes and Satan-worshipping themes.

Worst of all, I think that one game you play has a nipple in it. A LADY'S nipple.

[Anonymous No.363864]

>>363841
Doesn't matter, because we clearly don't have any laws set by him.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363875]

>>363864
So you recall.
For all you know, that was a law, but some time traveler fucked with things. Or memories were altered.
Memory alteration is a funny thing, considering all we know and experience in our lives is purely based off of memory.

[Anonymous No.363882]

>>363776
I know. I'm going through something like that now.

[Anonymous No.363884]

>>363854

Yeah, that means he's not talking to you.

[Anonymous No.363887]

>>363861
>"I may have the balls to call a gay game gay, but at least I don't take my friends balls in my mouth. Oh, wait, no, that would mean you would actually have to have friends, you lonely gay pedophile."

[Anonymous No.363891]

Dragon Quest III caused a country to enact a law which states that said series cannot be released on weekdays

Any modern games match this?

[Anonymous No.363889]

>>363724
>>363781
I'd like to do a talk for a class like that. Tell the little fuckers about the C64 and the Amiga. Tell them about vidya in the 90's, tell them about all the hopes and dreams people who played vidya back then had and how this modern rabble has mostly threw all that out the fucking window because of "mass market appeal" and sheepishly following the latest fucking trend.
God I fucking hate video games being popular with mainstream audiences. Should've stayed a niche hobby.

[Anonymous No.363894]

>>363875
And thus, it doesn't matter. You should also notice that time travel is not dimension travel.

[Anonymous No.363898]

>>363884
No, he'll still talk. He'll just keep his distance while he calls you and your games gay.

[Anonymous No.363908]

>>363898

This hypothetical brother sure is dedicated.

[Anonymous No.363912]

>>363803
op here

It's not that the motherfucker dislikes Chrono Trigger that pissed me off. He never said that. He just trolled the fuck out of me with his "Graphically superior phone games" and "Skyrim is a much more immersive RPG than this" hogwash. He hasn't played it and decided to pan it without giving it a chance due to what it looks like. The greentext story is the short version, there was all sorts of other frustrating shit that came out of his mouth that I don't even want to revisit. It's a matter of ignorance, not taste.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363916]

>>363887
No, at this point, he would be either frustrated, angry, or crying.
Remember: This guy's younger brother is not only an idiot, but a teenager. He wouldn't be able to carry on an argument past "no youre a fag".

>>363894
They could easily be intertwined depending on what theory you believe in / are talking about. For example, we don't have the technology for it now, but maybe far in the future they have the ability to both time travel and inter-dimensional travel, but you need equipment on both ends for the dimensional travel to work properly; therefore they can only go in in the future, and then come back via time travel to mess with things in a different dimension.

>>363889
Reminder: Sucking america's dick and religious overtones are the new fad in games.

[Anonymous No.363917]

>>363891
The PS3, Star Wars The Old Republic, and Darksiders II tanked multi-billion dollar companies.

[Anonymous No.363918]

>>363889

All video gaming has to do is continue to develop until it reaches a size where niche markets can develop within it again.
It's already beginning to happen with digital retailers.

[Anonymous No.363923]

>>363908
Well, hypothetically, he does need a hobby. Being a dick just hypothetically happens to be his.

Funny enough, when my dad was a kid, he was that little brother. Not to this extreme, but he did what he could to be a dick to his older brothers. My uncles even gave him a concussion twice (with my grandmother commenting, "I thought he was being a little quiet that night when we got home."). All it did was teach him to be faster and more clever.

They're all good friends as adults, though. I think a lot of siblings are sometimes.

[Anonymous No.363924]

>playing Punch-out on Virtual Console
>stepbrother who knows shitall about vidya/computers comes in
>"THOSE MEGAPIXELS LOOK HORRIBLE"
>my face when holding in my rage and continuing playing

[Anonymous No.363929]

>>363912
>It's a matter of ignorance, not taste

This. None or at least most of the posts in these threads aren't about how we are superior to plebs or anything like that. They are more just about how we have to deal with people who won't give good games a chance merely because they are old.

[Anonymous No.363930]

This doesn't belong on /vr/. This is more of a /v/ topic.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363939]

>>363930
>topic is precisely about retro games

Nigga, what?

[Anonymous No.363932]

>>363924
>megapixels

You're trying too hard.

[Anonymous No.363935]

>>363916
>This guy's younger brother is not only an idiot, but a teenager. He wouldn't be able to carry on an argument past "no youre a fag".

One doesn't have to be smart to be clever, necessarily. And if there's one thing teens seem to be, it's clever. At least, when it suits them to be.

[Anonymous No.363942]

>>363917

a) that's not what he was saying
and b) DS2 and TOR were the last of a long line of humiliatingly poor business decisions, and the PS3 had a weak launch but finished arguably the strongest of all three current gen consoles.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363947]

>>363935
Considering his argument was this:
>>363713
I'm pretty sure I'm in the right here.

[Anonymous No.363953]

>>363939
>/ck/
>ITT: Things people said to you while you're cooking that pissed you off

That's what this is. Meta in disguise.

[Anonymous No.363958]

>>363917
That seems to be the inverse of what I was going for

[Anonymous No.363960]

>>363942
It's more of a /v/ topic. But he asked for related. Closest I can think of off the top of my head. They made the biggest splash and did the most damage to the companies (compare all monetary before and after). I'm trying not to get into specifics to avoid it turning /v/. But I believe my arguement has data to back it up.

[Anonymous No.363961]

>>363953
Except that everyone who's posted in the thread has posted about things people said ABOUT the retro games that pissed them off.

[Anonymous No.363962]

>>363932
I wish I was anon, I really do. That was his exact words to me....thus why I was so disappointed.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363963]

>>363953
The vast majority of posts in here are on-topic, and very retro-oriented.
If you don't like it, you're free to report it, but seeing as /vr/'s zealous-as-shit janitors didn't delete it 10 posts in, I think it's good.

[Anonymous No.363965]

>>363891
This is a myth, though it has been attempted several times.

[Anonymous No.363967]

>>363686
The program I'm in at school shares a lot of classes with a game development program, and my friend let me into their facebook group where they post stupid shit. Every other day I get a screencap of something so retarded it makes me weep for the future.

I can post them if you want

[Anonymous No.363972]

>>363967
Post them on /v/ and just link in this thread.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363974]

>>363967
Please do, I like enraging myself on the internet from looking at / reading things I know will incite my anger.

[Anonymous No.363976]

>>363713
to be fair

that was a pretty gay thing to say

[Anonymous No.363980]

>>363953
I think "about cooking" would be more relevant, as these stories have been closer to being "about retro"

That being said, I know nothing about cooking, so I couldn't come up with a story for that

[Anonymous No.363985]

>>363960

No, no, no, the law was enacted because so many people bought DQIII that the Japanese economy took a minor hit due to absenteeism on its launch day, along with record numbers of truants in schools.

[Anonymous No.363987]

>>363916
I guess it's what I really like about CD-Projekt. Being from Poland I can relate to most of their gaming memories: they played the same games as I did, the admired the same devs I did, which were very different from the ones popular in the US (console gaming was extremely niche in the 80's and 90's, C64, Amigas and later Win PCs reigned supreme). They're still learning, but I'm hoping they'll stick around and show the folks across the ocean how it's done.
>>363918
I'd like to see at least some of the major Kickstarter games to succeed and be good. If Wasteland 2 and Torment end up good... I'll stop bitching about the modern games industry, I really will. I'll just crawl into my little niche and play the games that appeal to me and my ilk.

[Anonymous No.363991]

>Overhear conversation on Smash Bros
>"What game is Samus from anyway?"
>"It's an 8-bit game called Samus the Bounty Hunter"
>mfw I'm a Metroid fan.

[Anonymous No.363994]

>>363803
Runescape is shit, though.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.363998]

>>363991

[Anonymous No.364009]

>>363991
my god

[Anonymous No.364002]

>>363991
Too bad Samus beats the Metroids and turns them in during the first level of Samus the Bounty Hunter.

[Anonymous No.364003]

>>363985
Millions of people said "fuck being productive, DQ III is out NOW and I don't have it!"
Truly glorious, I can just imagine the lineups blocking traffic or something

[Anonymous No.364012]

>>363967
Post'em. Do what >>363972 said if they're not strictly /vr/ related.

[Anonymous No.364015]

>Become visibly upset

why

[Anonymous No.364016]

>>363724
Golgo 13 might be too random and cruel don't you think? Or have I done myself a great disservice in not yet playing it?

[Anonymous No.364021]

>>364003
There were apparently dozens of cases of people getting mugged over DQ3 carts.

[Anonymous No.364029]

>>363991
oh god please tell me you're making this up

[Anonymous No.364035]

>>364016
There's one man who's done it for you. Not that you shouldn't play it. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.364040]

>>363972
>>363974
>>364012
This is one of the few that's video game related (the rest is stupid brony or anime shit), and not really worth making a new thread for

why do I even care about blocking my name

[Anonymous No.364054]

>>364029
It happened.

Two idiots in class thinking their tastes were obscure because they had an N64 and smash bros.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364056]

>>364016
Just play Shatterhand, it's a much better lesser-known sidescroller on the NES.
Watch Arino play it, much more entertaining.
If I really wanted to be an asshole I would mention Casino Kid or Challenger.

>>364035
>pic related

[Anonymous No.364059]

>>364021
That's pretty hardcore for a NES game
... or any game

DQ I and II must've been like crack... gotta play them some day

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364080]

>>364040
If you're the blocked out one, you're just an asshole. Those people are having a fine conversation, you're just trying too hard to be a rebel and dislike what they like.

Also, fuck you for disliking Bastion. On a personal level.

[Anonymous No.364086]

>>364015
The conversation went on for a good while, I had been drinking, and that was the last straw.

[Anonymous No.364096]

>>364040

I gotta be honest pal, you come across as the bad guy in that screencap.
They're not even saying anything particularly rage-worthy, just that they don't think rock-solid gameplay is the number one criteria for rating video games, and all you're doing is naysaying without providing an alternative opinion.
They're even trying to be understanding of your viewpoint, while you're just bitching at them.

[Anonymous No.364101]

>>364056
You want to be an asshole?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-M_a4VbuWk
There ya go. The music in that game still fucking creeps me out.

[Anonymous No.364108]

>>364059
The story isn't actually true. There was no law about the release of DQ games, even though they did make a really big impact and a lot of people skipped out on work/school for the releases.

[Anonymous No.364110]

>>364096
Agreed. Could've provided an opposing viewpoints with some examples. You came out as grump.

[Anonymous No.364120]

>>364096
>>364080
Eh, I guess you guys are right. I remember just being annoyed that the only indie games people ever talk about are XBLA type shit. I admit I'm in the wrong though.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364123]

>>364101
Hey, there needs to be at least a small chance someone might know what I'm going on about. Gotta get that sweet spot.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364134]

>>364120
IIRC not many games release on XBLA at the same time as their PC releases. They get on there as an afterthought and because Microsoft probably offered them tons of dosh.

[Anonymous No.364135]

>>364110
I later tried mentioning La-Mulana as an example of a good indie game that I like but that part wasn't capped because nobody acknowledged it

[Anonymous No.364138]

>>364040

>I like to think of it as having standards

do you own a fedora by any chance

[Anonymous No.364146]

>>364135

well no wonder, if that's how you talk to everyone
you big wet blanket

[Anonymous No.364160]

>how can you like this game, the graphics are so bad!
Can people really not comprehend why anyone would play a game for reasons other than graphics? It doesn't matter how pretty something looks if it isn't fun to play.

[Anonymous No.364170]

>>364040
>anon acts like a moron

No Anon.... You are the demons
>and anon was the demons

[Tensnake !S/BuDDdVmc No.364172]

>>364160

Try telling /v/ that.

[Anonymous No.364175]

It angers me when people say that games are good because of their graphics too. People really are ignorant enough to say, "[game] is a shitty game because the graphics are old and all you have to do is get to the other side of the board anyways.'

That
>Dated
>Linear
>Hold up
>Artificial difficulty
>[system] is inferior

bullshit that /v/ is plagued with makes my blood boil

[Anonymous No.364178]

>>364123
Yeah, I guess. I guess my fantasy would be to show them how little they know. Burn all their silly little ideas to the ground, salt the earth and rebuild using blood, sweat and tears.
>>364120
It's annoying, but reigning the rage in and being calm, reasonable and arguing your point well can do a lot. The worst they can do then is ignore you.

[Anonymous No.364179]

>>364170
>>364146
>>364138
Deleted because I'm an asshole and it's getting off topic.

[Anonymous No.364190]

>>364160
People who only got in the sixth(maybe the fifth if they had a n64) generation or later are accostumed with 3D graphics,for some reason they cannot comprehend how pixels are beautiful,and never age.

You'll see that most people who dislike pixels have PS2 as their first console

[Anonymous No.364207]

Wasn't said while I was playing a retro game, but in discussing the vidya with a co worker he told me he can't play anything pre 2008 because and I quote "The graphics look weird and do nothing for me"

[Anonymous No.364209]

>>364172

I doubt /v/ truly believes the shit they spew out. Most of it is habitual trolling. Like people who claim a game is shit solely because it doesn't run on 60FPS or isn't 1080p.

[script writer kibe No.364213]

>>363519
So........we've essentially established that your 10 year old cousin can not distinguish between "Voxels" and "2D Sprites", correct?

[Anonymous No.364250]

>>363512
tell him /vr/ & /v/ have both come together for counsel and came to the conclusion that your roommate is indeed an approved "filthy disgusting casual plebeian".

don't make him wait. he has to hear what we have think about him.

[Main !wSg8ESszbI No.364253]

>mention pokemon in school
>faggot hears the word "pokemon"
>"That is gay shit whit unicorns and mages and shit!"
what the fuck
i am only 17 and i already hate half of the world because of their stupidity

[Tensnake !S/BuDDdVmc No.364259]

>talk to supervisor at my job about games since he mentions something about his Xbox 360
>I tell him I buy lots of old school games to play them on their original systems
>he tells me he'd rather buy them on his 360
>he then proceeds to tell me he sees it as pointless to play games on older systems because they don't have an achievements system
>mfw

I normally don't get upset about people hating older games especially children since they don't know any better but that just saddened me.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364260]

>>364253
>17

Nice knowing you.

[Anonymous No.364264]

>>364172
>>364209
It's... hard going back to /v/ from /vr/. The trolling, the bile, the idiocy... /vr/ has been mostly incredibly levelheaded so far I wonder when it'll go to shit

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364271]

>>364264
Exactly 2 months from now.

[Anonymous No.364278]

>>364259
Videogames have always been about one thing,achieving something.

Puzzles me that your supervisor is dumb enough not to see challenge in older games because it doesn't tell you the goal and gives you 50points for it.

[Anonymous No.364281]

>>363543
diablo 2, not a shitty game but i always shit on it, i loved Diablo, no diablo 2, why? i dont fucking know.

[Anonymous No.364287]

>>364278
inb4 I always play for fun/etc,I'm talking about why deep down you feel good about playing videogames.

Polite sage because I forgot to include that in the main post

[Anonymous No.364286]

>>364259
>The best thing about achievements isn't beating the games, it's letting everyone know I beat them.

[Anonymous No.364294]

>>364259

[Anonymous No.364310]

Anti-rage incoming

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/12/how-atari-games-showed-me-the-power-of-childrens-imagination/

[Anonymous No.364317]

>>363686
>Pokemon! I'M SUCH A HIPSTER (everyone laughs)


8/10 I raged a little..

[Anonymous No.364357]

>>364310
>manly tears of manliness

[Anonymous No.364368]

>>363991
>"It's an 8-bit game called Samus the Bounty Hunter"

[Anonymous No.364376]

>>364259
i fucking hate achievements, is like they tell you how to enjoy the game and at the same time ruined for you because you cant get a achievement.

We used to make our own fucking achievements, in a sense, for example in starcraft, when you were playing the campaign, suddenly you realize that you may kill all the buildings of the enemy instead of just defend for 14 minutes, or end the mission without losing a single unit, or without taking damage, or in less than 10 minutes.

Now they tell you the things you can/must do, yea i like to make all the achievements but it lose the sense of exploration for me, now i just end the campaign, check the achievement list, make them all, and thats it, no mora campaign for me.

[Anonymous No.364393]

>>364376
Some of them can be good. Like trying to beat Sonic 1 under 40 minutes, or Sonic 2's beat the game in under an hour.

There's more games with self-imposed limiting/speedrun achievements. I like those. I think Orange Box had 1 bullet achievement for HL2:E1. Something the fans figured out years ago and would do for fun.

I agree that "Beat level 5" or "Collected all the tokens in area 3" or "Killed yourself online 80 times in a row" are stupid. But some can be nice.

[Anonymous No.364395]

>>363481
The only person who sounded like a jerk in that story was OP.

> friends ask OP why an older gamer is better than a newer game
> OP doesn't know
> OP comes on /vr/ to complain.

[Anonymous No.364404]

>>364250
Screencapped. I'm thinking about shopping an official /vr/ seal of approval to affix to this.

[Anonymous No.364420]

>>363604
Just havin us a conversation.

[Anonymous No.364423]

>>364395
Comparing Chrono Trigger to Skyrim is akin to comparing apples to oranges. They are two completely different things. I

[Anonymous No.364446]

People say a lot of things.

[Bodacious Bob !!Q9+lWkcj9QV No.364456]

>>364446
Shit son, thanks for the inspiring input.
I've also heard that dogs have a tendency to bark, isn't that awesome?

[Anonymous No.364475]

>>364259
Achievements are like a digitized version of hamster pellets.

You get that good feeling when the little noise happens and that shiny sign comes up. A little bit of serotonin squirts into your brain, and you feel good about yourself.

If you stop to think about how pointless and arbitrary it is, you stop getting the good feeling. It's why dumb people love achievements - they never think about it, just keep chasing that next hamster pellet.

[Anonymous No.364490]

>>364395
It's not that I didn't know, it's that I don't believe that you can even draw comparisons between Chrono Trigger and Skyrim. It was a whole other can of worms that I didn't want to get into. Talking to this guy is like trying to explain shit to a little kid. Every statement I can make is always followed by the question, "Why?"

His "lol there are games on my phone with better graphics" claptrap was pretty damn rude. I just responded with "Well okay, but this is widely considered to be among the greatest games ever made." How is that rude?

[Anonymous No.364497]

OP, I doubt that anyone who isn't as autistic as yourself would say such dumb-sounding things.

[Anonymous No.364509]

>>363758

If there's one human trait that sends me into rage

It's arrogance

[Anonymous No.364532]

>>363768
>there -are- a lot of good indie games

[Anonymous No.364538]

>>364497
Burned me good anon. I'm crushed over here.

[Anonymous No.364541]

>>364532
Cave Story,La mulana,Awesomenauts,Kerbal Space Program

polite sage for not retro

[Anonymous No.364543]

>>364475
Achievements existed in the past in the form of unlockables

[Anonymous No.364558]

>>363604
Why? I'm married with 2 kids, have a $300k home on 4 acres, and am an Army combat veteran and I love Pokemon. What's rude with him suggesting that over call of duty? Call of duty sucks.

[Anonymous No.364552]

>>364543
There's a huge difference between an actual new gameplay element being rewarded and just a fucking pop-up in the corner.

[Anonymous No.364570]

>>364395
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.364575]

>>364393
The good thing is that they may tell you things that it looked impossible, or that you wouldnt think about it, but they dont leave too much space to think.

Heart of the swarm is full of those achievements, and also XPs, you played the game? achievement and xp!, you lose the game, xps, you are AFK? achievement and xp.

[Anonymous No.364576]

My family tends to like whatever looks interesting, which includes a lot of old games. In fact, my sister straight up told me I should buy Super Mario RPG because she wanted to play it..

The only thing close to rage I've felt is being told to use a butter knife on my N64's reset button. But that's not really about PLAYING the games.

[Anonymous No.364582]

>>364558
> What's rude with him suggesting that over call of duty?
The tone. If he went "That's nice. Do you play Pokemon?" And the girl reacted with "Lol that's a kiddie game" he would be fully justified in skullfucking her to death. Otherwise, he's just mean.

[Anonymous No.364589]

>/vr/ - social interaction 101

[Anonymous No.364603]

>>364558
Well its kind of condescending to imply someone should be playing what you think they should.

She was just a child. If you didn't care for what she liked to play, just smile and nod. Part of being an adult is learning to live and let live.

If someone asks you for recommendations, great. A more tactful way to mention it would have been to say you enjoy Pokemon for whatever reasons and she might like it too if she gave it a try.

[Anonymous No.364615]

>>364582
Ah, ok. Maybe I'm just blunt. I would've said it the same way, and not meant anything mean by it. Perhaps we just read his statement in a different tone.

[Anonymous No.364627]

>>363519
>mfw I just realized that for the next 10 years, any game with visible pixels will be seen as "Minecraft graphics" by anyone born after 2000

[Anonymous No.364630]

>>363519
I kind of hate minecreaft. Mainly because it's all my little cousins play. I would honestly enjoy hanging around with them more if they actually played retro games. But they don't, they have to have the newest games and in all honesty, they suck at them...

[Anonymous No.364637]

>>364310
Fun fact: Most people's ability to deal with old-fashioned graphics is determined by the console they grew up with. For people who grew up with a Gameboy, their usual limit is 8-bit. For people who grew up with a PSX, their usual limit is 16-bit or early 3D. For people who grew up with a PS2, their lower limit is usually something around Half-Life's level of detail. I'm willing to bet that everybody here below the age of 35 grew up with a Gameboy or Gameboy color.

[Anonymous No.364653]

>>364637
I grew up with a SNES but now my NES is one of my most played consoles, so I guess you're right.

[Anonymous No.364656]

>>364603
True, I already replied to another anon, but I don't want to be rude and ignore your point. I just read his statement in a different tone, I guess. I know CoD helps to get kids thinking about the military, though. The Marine recruiter used it as a recruiting device to get my kid brother in by telling him that joining up was just like CoD. Now, my baby brother is dead because he wouldn't listen to me(a soldier with 8 years of combat experience) and thought that it was cool to join because CoD. Sorry, just venting...it still hurts quite a bit.

[Anonymous No.364664]

>>364637
This is basically true. I grew up with just a PC and a Commodore 64, but we mostly emulated Gameboy and SNES. It's difficult for me to get into Atari and some particularly bad-looking NES games.

[Anonymous No.364662]

I dislike threads like this because a lot of what people post are just innocuous things said by kids or those who aren't involved in gaming.

If you're an adult you really shouldn't get upset at the things children say.

[Anonymous No.364669]

>>364615
Nothing serious, just dismissive. And it's a 12 year old girl, so you need to think of what she thought of him. But again, I'm just a guy who'd try to steer the conversation towards other games or try and get her interested in other games. It's amazing how you can steer kids from the popular shit to actually good books/comics/vidya.

>>364637
23, first contact with video games was my cousin's Amiga 500. My dad bought a C64 at a flea market after that. It's funny that being really young I didn't care about the difference between the Amiga and the C64. They were equally cool to me.

[Anonymous No.364674]

>>364637
What does it say of people who grew up with different consoles of different generations?

During my formative years, I had a mixture of newer consoles and older stuff donated by my aunt.

[Anonymous No.364678]

>>364669
I agree, and I read the comment wrong. After reading it with more of a businesslike attitude, the guy was definitely in the wrong.

[Anonymous No.364687]

>>364656
>The Marine recruiter used it as a recruiting device to get my kid brother in by telling him that joining up was just like CoD

That's just... wow, I can't get my head around that

[Anonymous No.364689]

>>364656
Ahh that I can understand.

Context is always important with opinions. If you have disdain for Call of Duty and shooters because you believe they help glorify war and recruit young people into the Military, then you should tell people that.

Maybe not that bluntly, but maybe be like "CoD are fun games, but as a veteran I can say that war is nothing like a game." etc

[Anonymous No.364695]

should have just responded "yes, even better then S K Y R I M"

[Anonymous No.364691]

>>364662
I know what you mean, but I only ever post stories that genuinely got me rattled during the short period I was in a games design course
Some of the things they said, heck, even the lecturers said, were horrific
In my mind, they are supposed to know better, so I get mad

[Anonymous No.364697]

I swear, if I ever have kids I'm going to introduce them to NES first and gradually expose them to the consoles that came after that as they get older.

[Anonymous No.364701]

>>363686

I know this one guy who is studying for a game development degree in college, and he doesn't play ANY games. The only game he said he played was "one farming game on PS1 I remember playing" and I had to tell him it was Harvest Moon. I don't fucking even.

[Anonymous No.364705]

>>364697

This. Do this.

[Anonymous No.364715]

>Playing mario during class
>Friend ask to play
>Never runs
>Walks right into goombas
>"Anon what do the green mushrooms do?"

[Anonymous No.364720]

>>364697
Honestly, sounds like a recipe for making the kid resent you.

[Anonymous No.364721]

>>364697

I can't see how I'd deal with it when she/he grows up in age to go to school and other children are all playing their edgy shooter games and expose my kid to it.

[Anonymous No.364734]

>>364715
At least they're interested in learning...or maybe they're just doing it to piss you off.

[Anonymous No.364736]

>>364721
Homeschool.

[Anonymous No.364728]

>>364656
>>364687
I wanted to write the exact same comment, that's mind boggling. I have no idea how I would deal with that.
Though it reminds me of the stories of kids/young adults looking forward to join the military because of "CoD's awesome" and they would end up in tears the moment they felt the recoil of an actual rifle at a shooting range.

>>364697
See here >>364310 for the reasons why that is a great idea.

[Anonymous No.364731]

>>364630

[Anonymous No.364746]

>>364720
I'd give it all to 'em after a certain point. Just wean them on the the early shit before the new shit. Baby food, before solid food in a sense.

[Anonymous No.364748]

>>364687
>>364689
Yeah, that's how I think. I don't necessarily think that it condones war, and I personally see nothing wrong with war, as it keeps me in money, but I don't like to see kids that think that a videogame is the same as seeing your battle buddies die next to you and having to kill the enemy or be killed yourself. I loved my time in combat, but a game is not the way to prepare a kid for that. I went through a lot of training before I went downrange. The last thing I told my baby brother before he deployed(to the same area I'd be shipping to in 2 months) was "there are no respawns in real life. Keep that shit in mind" I just got an "Oorah, Sarge"(he was a Marine) from him, and by the time I shipped and saw the wall on their FOB, his name was on it. The new Call of Duties are shitty games, though. Battlefield is better.

[Anonymous No.364753]

>>364691
That, I can understand.

I guess I was lucky. I hate a GREAT group of friends in University. We would hang out in the campus arcade playing Soul Calibur 2, Tekken 4, watch trailers for new games, play Halo 2 on LAN, Starcraft. We would have a lot of great discussions about games.

[Anonymous No.364756]

>>364736
Seems to me the only people who do that are one who really shouldn't be the ones to teach their children math and reading skills.

[Anonymous No.364758]

>>364697
That's a very stupid idea. Kids should play the mdoern stuff first and then go back and they grow odler and have better taste.

You fucking imbecile.

[Anonymous No.364768]

>>364756
There are qualified private tutors out there.

[Anonymous No.364770]

>>364697

Just throw everything to them at once

They'll figure it out

[Anonymous No.364771]

>>364753
Lucky bastard. I have a bunch of friends like that, but they're in another country so we don't get to do stuff like that often anymore.

[Anonymous No.364775]

>>364758

2/10 got me to reply

[Anonymous No.364779]

>>364753
had a great*

[Anonymous No.364782]

>playing ZSNES at friends house while they play Borderlands 2
>they keep looking over sometimes,watching me play
Geez, that game looks awful...jsut look at those graphics..
>another friend agrees with him
"You have to udnerstand, guys, this was the SNES era, the graphics were never that good"
Yah, but that looks so bad...how can you play those games

They wont touch a single game from pre 2003

[Anonymous No.364783]

>>364721
By that point you could have already brought them up to the modern era.

[Anonymous No.364790]

>>364731
> looks like a playstation bla bla bla

implying that he needs to actually be playing the xbox in the picture.

[Anonymous No.364791]

>>364758

I don't agree with what you said, but I do agree kids need to have their own damn childhood without neckbeard parents trying to force it on them.

As long as my kid isn't doing meth, stealing cars, or whoring him/herself out on the street to pay for aforementioned meth, he/she can do whatever the fuck he/she wants.

It's part of the reason I turned out how I did. My folks didn't force me to play sports or anything.

[Anonymous No.364804]

>>363783
>If you call any other person on this page a bibliophile I will ban you
WOW

[Anonymous No.364812]

>>364701
that may be a good thing, game developers should harvest guys like that.
A guy who know how to code stuff, but havent play videogames, big failures on sight, but maybe just one good game out of it.

I think that the prince of persia movements were praised and stuff, and the guy who did it didnt even knew wtf was he doing, there is some kind of myth around it.

[Anonymous No.364808]

>>364791
>introducing kids to gaming a certain way with one system working up to the rest
>forcing them to do anything

So your first book was Das Kapital, right?

[Anonymous No.364816]

>>364808

No, my parents gave me that after I finished Cat in the Hat.

[Anonymous No.364824]

>>364753
Out of the 4 people who called themself my friend at university, all of them took a game design but only one of them had a genuine love for games, but he had grown out of it 5 years ago and just watched anime and played League of Legends all the time

The other guys were just awful
A) Thought all games should be cinematic, favourite game was Uncharted and basically wanted to do a cinema-based course but failed to get in
B) Played only a few shooters on Xbox and owned a couple of JRPG's he didn't finish like The Last Remnant
C) PS3 sony fanboy who just hyped Sony merchandise the whole time, had all the Fifa and Madden games, I saw he had Ultimate Marvel 3, asked him who he played as most and he just said he has never bothered playing it

My lecturer would insult FInal Fantasy even though he had only played XIII-2 and no other games of the genre

So glad I got away from that shit

[Anonymous No.364828]

>>364748
you're full of shit. you were never in the military, and I can tell by how you talk.

[Daft !Punk.1WkDc No.364838]

>Playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
>Show friend the game
>"I'd play it if it had better graphics."

*sigh*

[Anonymous No.364839]

>>364637
I grew with a NES...
and I can't enjoy Atari games at all ...

So you're probably right, what you say makes sense.

[Anonymous No.364847]

>>364828
>and I can tell by how you talk.

haha, I'm not the guy you're replying to, but... ALL people who were in the military type in a certain way on the internet?

Can you break down their mannerisms for me?

Since it applies to EVERY veteran.

[Anonymous No.364843]

>>364824
>basically wanted to do a cinema-based course but failed to get in
>failed to get in a cinema course
HOW.

[Anonymous No.364845]

>>363543
>I'm told Diablo 2 is a shit game

This one's actually true. It's absolutely baffling why PC hack and slashes ever got popular because they're nothing more than clickfest carrot-dangling sims.

[Anonymous No.364854]

>>364828
you're wrong. here's my VA card

[Anonymous No.364851]

>>364839
I also grew up with NES, and there are a bunch of Atari games that kick ass. It's all relative, baby.

[Anonymous No.364863]

>>364843

Not him, but I don't know why you people think arts programs let just anyone in. Contrary to what your anecdotal evidence tells you, they DO have standards.

No I am not a film student before you ask.

[Anonymous No.364864]

>>364854
James?

[Anonymous No.364865]

>>364847
Thanks for the back up.

[Anonymous No.364874]

>>364828
People think I was in the military because of how I talk, how I carry myself, and my thousand mile stare.

I wasn't even in the goddamn scouts.

So people don't know shit.

[Daft !Punk.1WkDc No.364875]

>>364637
I grew up playing DOS games.

I guess that explains it.

[Anonymous No.364879]

>>364864
Nope, I won't give my full name, but james isn't part of it.

[Anonymous No.364897]

>>364874
lol, it's thousand yard stare, but I agree with you. I'm this guy.
>>364854
I'm not worried about people believing me. Honestly, I'm glad that a few people on the internet were ok with talking to me about what bothered me.

[Anonymous No.364891]

>>364838

I'm not trying to defend your friend, but "graphics" can mean a number of things. Like art design for instance.

I have no problems playing a game that doesn't use a cutting edge engine, millions of dollars worth of modelling and textures, etc.

But if a game has shitty art design, I find it very hard to play it unless the gameplay is very good.

Take Everquest 2 for instance. Very cutting edge graphics engine for when it was made.... used to render generic ugly-ass D&D shit with no artistry whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.364894]

>>364863
My bad. I defaulted to thinking of something like "film studies" and had a small flood of memories dealing with those people. I'm aware some film schools can be ridiculously hard to get into, because I know really talented people who were rejected at a particular one.

[Anonymous No.364907]

>>364891
That's not what his friend meant and you know it. that said, I get your point.

>>364845
>nothing more than clickfest carrot-dangling sims.
Oh sweet Jesus, there are actually people other than me that have this opinion. It was horrific when D2 was knew and all my friends were playing the fuck out of it. I just didn't get it. At all.

[Anonymous No.364905]

>>364697
The best thing to do would be to allow them a (mostly) modern console, but only give them a hacked PSP for a handheld. They'd end up spending most of their time on the PSP due to limited access to the home console, and since the PSP has only one modern game and 500 retro games they'd inevitably end up trying the retro games out. If they start playing the retro games, they're pretty much guaranteed never to become casuals due to >>364637.

[Dyno No.364908]

>I'll have fun with my GRAPHICally superior games that I can play on my PHONE, and my deeply immersive CINEMATIC experiences

>mfw at every caps

[Anonymous No.364915]

>>364897
>it's thousand yard stare

The other guy's stare is just more intense

[Anonymous No.364926]

>>364915
lol, that may be it.

[Anonymous No.364927]

>>364891
Even that's not a big issue for me. The only time where graphics are a big deal breaker for me are when they convey things poorly. When you have multiple "oh, that's what that was supposed to be?" moments dealing with the graphics, it's a sign that the graphics are indeed hindering your appearance.

Poor art style can hinder a game, but not so much as to be the sole reason to not be enjoyable. Give me a game with great gameplay and awful art style over mediocre gameplay and amazing art style any day.

[Anonymous No.364934]

>>364907
I'm the same way about D2. I got it a a thrift store a bit ago and everyone said it was the shit, but I played it and just got bored right away. I gave it to my dad since he used to be into fantasy type games and he got bored of it too.

[Anonymous No.364943]

>>364656
>twelve year olds shouldn't play Call of Duty because my brother was retarded
>my life experiences apply to the entire world

[Anonymous No.364960]

>>364943
>>>/v/

[Daft !Punk.1WkDc No.364961]

>>364845
Oh my god, I'm glad someone else agrees. Everyone raved about Diablo 2, but I played it and hated it. Couldn't stand it.

I liked Baldur's Gate shit-tons more. Even Temple of Elemental Evil.

[Anonymous No.364962]

>>364943
I didn't say that. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be used to recruit kids into the military. You have a hard time with reading comprehension, don't you?

[Anonymous No.364968]

>>364943
He never said that.
Troll softer.

[Anonymous No.364972]

>>364630
wow dude, thats really how you judge people?

[Anonymous No.364976]

>>364934
D2 is all about the loot and customizing characters. Honestly, you can say this about every game, but it really shines with friends. Arguing over hogging the best loot and fucking over your friends so you can steal that shit was glorious.

Not to mention you can apply the term "clickfest" to a lot of games like Doom. Just because you're clicking a lot doesn't mean you can just mindlessly click your way through the entire game without thinking every once in a while.

[Anonymous No.365000]

>>364962
You should be a professional bicyclist, with all that backpedalling you're doing.

[Anonymous No.365013]

>>364976
>Just because you're clicking a lot doesn't mean you can just mindlessly click your way through the entire game without thinking every once in a while.

Except that the "once in a while" amounted to "almost never" and boiled down to "do I heal, take the risk, or use a town portal?"

[Anonymous No.365018]

>>363962

I remember some kid at a clinic was watching me play DS games off my R4 (Legend of Kage 2 at the time), and he asked if I had any games on it that had "super holographics" or something like that.

[Anonymous No.365025]

>>363481
OP you dropped the ball when you said 'I'm not even going to explain'. But trying to shift the blame on someone WHEN YOU WON'T EVEN EXPLAIN SHIT makes you look like a fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.365029]

>>365000
You're still trolling too hard. Dial it back if you want to upset someone.

[Anonymous No.365038]

>>365025
This is the last time I'm going to say this. The conversation went on a lot longer than that and it's fucking stupid to compare a game like Crono Trigger to Skyrim.

[Anonymous No.365049]

>>363481
>playing shadowrun on television
>roommate appears out of thin air, a self-proclaimed serious gamer from our very first meeting
>'man what the hell is that, some old half-baked gta?'
>'not really, it's a classic scifi rpg'
>'whatever turn that off and let's play something way more amazing that I just bought, you'll like this'
>turn around in sofa
>he's shaking a gamestop plastic bag in midair, biting his lower lip with the worlds widest shit-eating grin while nodding
>'it's the new tomb raider man'

[Anonymous No.365053]

>Playing guardian heroes
>friends come in the room
>"anon what's this shit, we want to play mw2"

And so 3-4 more people got blacklisted.

[Anonymous No.365063]

>>365013
Prioritizing enemies, skill selection, and weapon choice can be critical at times. Look, I agree that for the most part the game takes no thought, but there are occasions where you can't just click through every barrier in your way.

Unless you somehow managed to beat Duriel without dying your first time.

[Anonymous No.365070]

This happen to be twice but it seem like anything that use sprites automatically get compared to Pokemon.

>Last year in high school just goofing off in a computer class that basically let you learn photoshop for yourself.
>Free time so play Dragon Warrior 3 GBC remake.
>Some girl asked if I was playing Pokemon.
>There are three people following me in the game.
Only one Pokemon game and a remake allow followers and even then it was only one follower at that.

>Not even a few days ago I was getting back into Dragon Warrior Monsters.
>My little brother who was over at the time asked if I was playing Pokemon.

To be fair I was in a battle...O wait, no. A Pokemon game don't have three on three battles often and even when they do the background isn't completely white.

Have this only happen to me? People seem to think Pokemon is the only reason to ever touch a GB again.

[Anonymous No.365071]

>am 18
>know shit tons about retro games
>older brother/father were huge import fanatics back in the day
>spent months with brother playing FFV on super famicom with a fucking translation guide
>brother/father lost interest around 98/99
>still love retro games
>Never encountered any problems like in this thread
When most people found out I played retro stuff, it was more of a "meh, right on. Whatever suits you" kind of thing.
Guess I'm lucky.

[Anonymous No.365082]

>>364731
>pads chewed off analog sticks
HELP

[Anonymous No.365093]

>>363578
she wanted the dick bro. She was just trying to impress you by saying she was like "one of the guys"

[Anonymous No.365103]

>>364259
My girlfriend's cousin is constantly taking me into his room and shows off his achievements. "DUDE. IN LESS THAN A DAY, LOOK. 38 OUT OF 57 ACHIEVEMENTS."

He then proceeds to tell me what he has to do to get the rest based on what Achievement Hunter videos he's seen. All I can do is just nod my head and say "nice........."

[Anonymous No.365119]

>>364934
>mfw I read this and thought you were talking about D2 for the Dreamcast
>mfw nobody has ever played D2

[Anonymous No.365123]

>have a bunch of people introduce ourselves and say what our favorite thing is
>books
>movies
>reddit
>finally, one person says "video games"
>it's a normal looking girl
>ohboyherewego.jpg
>professor asks what's their favorite game
>she says Tactics Ogre: LUCT, FInal Fantasy V, and Castlevania: SOTN
>okay that's nice, next person
>it's another girl says she likes games too and says POKEMON, MINECRAFT AND BIOSHOCK LOLOLOL
>everyone in the class starts laughing too

I can't /vr/. I just can't do it anymore.

[Anonymous No.365126]

>>365123

I like Pokemon, Minecraft, and Bioshock.

You can deal with that.

[Anonymous No.365128]

>playing at a friend's house some game on PS3 on a giant tv screen
>Friend's brother comes in
>Ok, I don't mind
>Somehow the conversation turns into how great was to have a genesis in the early 90's (notice that I live in a shitty country and it was pretty rare to have a Genesis in the early 90's)
>I said something like "It was magic"
>Kid (who hasn't said anything so far) star babling something like "What was the magic about? the shitty graphics, or the small crt screen?"
>Rage and say "Shut the fuck up kiddo, you don't know shit"
>The kid and his brother (my friend) stop playing at stare at me, didn't say anything for the rest of the night
>So I'm probably not going to see him again, just because of some stupid cunt and my incapacity to keep my mouth shut

[Anonymous No.365136]

>>365103
"How DARE he try to make contact with another human being, especially myself?"
is what you sound like
he could've been a total prick,
>FUCK YOUR RETRO SHIT ANON
but no
he was trying to be friendly.
Sorry anon, YOU'RE the cunt

[Anonymous No.365131]

>Sister says her favorite game is LoZ MM
>She never left Clock Town

[Anonymous No.365143]

>>365126
The point is less that she liked those games, but that the other girl liked equally as good if not slightly better games and nobody cared
But when this other girl likes these well-known games and makes a big deal out of it suddenly everyone is behind her

That's what made me mad anyway

[Anonymous No.365161]

>>364687
If someone is that stupid than I think he's doing the right thing signing up.

[Anonymous No.365179]

>>365161

Sadly that is true

[Anonymous No.365186]

>>365161
Thank god for the military. Removing retards from the gene pool for years.

[Anonymous No.365183]

>>365126
You should be mad that no one gives a fuck or even recognized those titles.

Two of those games were really popular or are part of a popular recognizable franchise.

Or you could just be mad that there are women that play shitty video games, take your pick.

[Anonymous No.365184]

>>365161
Yeah, not like young people have a tendency to do reckless things or not think things through, you know?

[Anonymous No.365189]

>>364845

Diablo 2 has never been bad. It's just the hipster talking. Somewhere down the line it became "in" to hate everything that was considered good and successful. Same reason everyone all of the sudden hates OOT or Super Metroid or Final Fantasy 7.

[Anonymous No.365190]

>>365131
Maybe she just really liked exploring Clock Town?

[Anonymous No.365191]

PLay Broodwar semi well, not professionnaly but could hold my weight

>Dude that game is shit, really competitive gaming is LoL

[Anonymous No.365203]

>>365189
I don't hate it, just don't like it and don't understand the fanatical following. And I didn't like it then just as much as I don't like it now.

[Anonymous No.365212]

>>365183

SotN was a PSX title. Most people don't go back to past generations when new stuff comes out. And Final Fantasy V was never popular here, probably mostly because we didn't even get a port until 1999. And Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre is niche here in the states.

You people need to stop getting mad about retarded shit. You think I give a fuck that I'm probably the one person on my campus that plays Etrian Odyssey?

[Anonymous No.365214]

>>363481
>"I'm not even going to explain to you why comparisons can't be drawn between those two games dude."
>"Okay, don't get your panties in a twist. I'll have fun with my graphically superior games that I can play on my phone, and my deeply immersive cinematic experiences in the land of Tamriel."
Sounds like you tried to turn on the flame but couldn't handle the heat.

[Tensnake !S/BuDDdVmc No.365219]

I know people will take this the wrong way but I feel it's odd how most kids nowadays seem to mostly just play realistic shooting simulators as opposed to colorful platformers with memorable characters like pretty much every gen before this. Granted almost all kids have that edgy phase when they want to do all the "rad" stuff and play all the "badass" games but it seems like that's all they play now. Either that or I have a completely misconceived view on it since I've grown up.

[Anonymous No.365228]

>>365136
How is he being a cunt? His post just sounds like he's not interested in the achievement shit and was humoring the guy.

[Anonymous No.365234]

>>365186
I'm glad you think that. It couldn't possibly be another grown man imposing his will over a high school kid, huh? That was my fucking brother. He wasn't the brightest, but he should've known better. I hate that I found out on the FOB, though.

[Anonymous No.365246]

>>365184

There's a difference between being reckless/not thinking things through and equating war with CoD.

[Anonymous No.365253]

>>364475
>It's why dumb people love achievements - they never think about it, just keep chasing that next hamster pellet.
Which is why a smart person such as yourself still follows hamster pellet, albeit not as obviously?
>>364552
Please elaborate.

[Anonymous No.365270]

>>363825
You're a genius; no one else realized this. You won at life, here's your imaginary medal.

Now kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.365275]

>>365219
Kids have always been interested in shooters because they're action games, and blowing things up is fun. Shooters in general have trended toward gritty realism, because mainstream gaming companies think gritty realism is the best way to show that they're totally making an awesome game. Look at all that gritty realism! Those realistic graphics and game mechanics!

Modern shooters can suck a dick, the best shooter of all time is still the original Unreal Tournament.

[Anonymous No.365315]

>>365246
Except it was the recruiter who did the equating, using his authority to manipulate what essentially was probably still a kid. It's also difficult to judge someone's decision based on half a paragraph of rather vague info.

[Anonymous No.365340]

>>365253
Do you honestly don't see a difference between
>You've unlocked a new mode/track/character/what the fuck ever!
and
>*ching* Achievement unlocked!
>....
>What, we're you expecting something more?

[Anonymous No.365416]

>>365340
>You've unlocked a new mode/track/character/what the fuck ever!
But games still have extras, and stuff like that. Though it seems to be mor prevalent in japanese games

[Anonymous No.365454]

>>364731
what the fuck is wrong with that analog stick?

[Anonymous No.365474]

>>365038
You should have posted the whole thing then.

[Anonymous No.365479]

>>365123
>she says Tactics Ogre: LUCT, FInal Fantasy V, and Castlevania: SOTN
what the fuck? get on that

[Anonymous No.365483]

>>365340
Is it bad that I actually heard the ching sound effect in my head?

Sorry but my brother got Dark Souls and even though he got it for the xbox I wanted to try it out. Surprisingly for a game that is anti-casual they have a shit ton of achievements. One just for lighting a bonfire and another for leaving the tutorial area.

Not sure who decides the achievements but they kinda miss the point with that game.

[Sanchez !!3gXLsG3WAvU No.365487]

>>365184
it's just a joke you pussy no need to get upset. keep in mind this is 4chan you're on

[Anonymous No.365492]

>>363686

Sounds like Staffordshire University... never again...

[Anonymous No.365513]

>>365340
Pretend a game with achievements has extra -- they don't need unlocking.
How does that feel?

[Anonymous No.365507]

>>365492
>Staffordshire University

I literally just left there 3 weeks ago when on a games design course
I couldn't take the amount of pretentious fucks who think they know all about gaming cause they played Bioshock 1 are at that uni

[Anonymous No.365572]

>>365483
I think Microsoft actually REQUIRES achievements to be implemented into Xbox games as part of the certification process, along with other bullshit. Or maybe I'm getting that mixed up with PS3, or it's both. In any event, it seems like whoever implemented it definitely went overboard, or was being spiteful and trying to make a point.

[Anonymous No.365582]

>>365487
Careful with those edges, broski.
>>365513
What?

[Anonymous No.365614]

>>365416
What's the point of the achievement? A virtual pat on the back? An unlockable is an actual reward, you actually get something for achieving something. An achievement is just an acknowledgement of what you did. Might be cool for people with distant fathers or something, but I just don't see the point.

[Anonymous No.365654]

>>365614
So you're saying that, if a game has nothing concrete to unlock, it's worthless? Perhaps the same could be said of all retro games then.

[Anonymous No.365664]

I live with my 6 year old nephew and I play a lot of games with him, he likes mario and sonic games the most and it doesn't matter what kind of game it is as long as it features characters he likes. He plays mostly on the wii but I let him play my systems when I'm around so he gets to try everything. One day he walks in and I'm playing Super Mario Bros on my NES and he says "O cool a new paper mario game, can I play it with you?"
Its great to have him around because he has an amazing imagination and accepts everything just like I did when I was his age. He just now asked me to play Mario Kart with karts he made out of legos, I asked him if he could build me a megaman cart and thats what hes doing as I type this. You all need little kids in your lives.

[Anonymous No.365673]

>>365507

I did the Games Design Degree there too. I graduated 2011. It's the same in every year I've seen come through the place. Also Fedoras and the guy who wore a bathrobe everywhere.

[Anonymous No.365692]

>>365614

"Achievements" used to mean something. They were challenges that were recorded. They were then casualized and every step you take is an achievement on new games.

[Anonymous No.365702]

>>365507

I did the same, graduated 2011. You see them in every year.

It's good fun to mess about with them though: "Half Life 2 is the pinnacle of gaming", well no, not really. That guy used to rage.

[Anonymous No.365712]

>>365692
See >>365572
I remember reading at one point quite awhile ago about how Microsoft requires a certain number of achievements in any given game, and of those a certain percentage must be "easy", "medium", and "hard" achievements.

[Sanchez !!3gXLsG3WAvU No.365724]

>>365582
edyness is just a le maymay used to reply to someone that offended you when you can't think of an actual reply because you know that they're right. The same goes for implying and grammar fixes, the only one here that's trying to be "edgy" is you because in reality you realized that you sounded like an idiot over the internet, and that is just too much for you so you reply thinking "yeah I totally showed him i called him edgy" which is in itself edgy behavior

[Anonymous No.365729]

>>363519
I actually lold pretty lod

[Anonymous No.365749]

>>365123
>she says Tactics Ogre: LUCT, FInal Fantasy V, and Castlevania: SOTN
why are you not smashing that yet?

[Anonymous No.365751]

>>365712
>"easy", "medium", and "hard"
Surely that defeats the purpose, an achievement is by its very definition a challenge.

[Anonymous No.365758]

>>364627
>Year 2020
>Some random Youtube "gamer" reviews an NES game.
>"So... this game is like minecraft, but it looks in one side and you just jump, so it's lame".

The future looks fucking horrible.

[Anonymous No.365772]

>>363630
I donno anon, Call of Duty 4 on Veteran was pretty damn hard.

As for this thread, i don't associate myself with retards that dismiss a game because of it's age, my little sister once called my weird for playing Pokemon Stadium, I told her if she enters my room again i'm going to beat her to death with a claw hammer. That hasn't been my room for 7 years, every time i go up it's exactly the way i left it. Little shit knows her place.

[Anonymous No.365774]

>>365751
Whose definition, yours? They're for feel-good positive reinforcement. Nothing else. Games were better without them.

[Anonymous No.365776]

>>365673
>>365702
This one guy lived across from me and he just wore a fedora, fingerless gloves and trenchcoats everywhere

What got to me more than anything is that all the lecturers were just as bad
One of them hadn't played anything released in the last 10 years beside Darksiders and The Witcher and still tried to pretend he knew everything about games

You two are pretty much right, it's the same every year, even the "Half Life 2" is pinnacle of gaming guy

I remember this one lecture where it derived into the entire hall discussing what makes games "Art" and I just decided to throw out the idea that games should just aim to be fun for the player regardless of whetehr they are artistic or "deep" and I got ignored almost completely

Another time we were discussing interesting "Narrative Techniques" in games, and I suggested Ghost Trick because it is like watching a theatre play and such
Not a single person in the 250 person hall had even HEARD of it, like I know it isn't big, but to have never heard the name of it once or seen it around

That is all my rants for today

[Anonymous No.365779]

>>365712
Which makes sense, because they do help to give a player an added sense of accomplishment and general idea of how good they are at the game, if designed well. The easy achievements give someone a sense of having received something for their work, albeit small. The medium and hard achievements are dangling carrots that encourage them to get better. Yeah, some players do play to get a higher gamerscore, just like how plenty of /vr/ gamers tried to go for the highest score in whatever games had them, or to get their names on the arcade leaderboards. Nothing's changed since then, except that the whole process has become more streamlined thanks to XBox Live, PSN and the Internet.

[Anonymous No.365791]

>>365779
>Nothing's changed since then, except that the whole process has become more streamlined thanks to XBox Live, PSN and the Internet.
Nothing has changed except for the accomplishments becoming far more meaningless and proper competition being phased out instead of "look how high my gamerscore is from all these games in which I've accomplished generic things, which may or may not even be skill-related!"

[Anonymous No.365818]

>>363626
>not being good bros with your bro
>not inviting him to at least try out TF2 and maybe his opinion will change.

It's all your fault anon, you could have raised him better.

[Anonymous No.365838]

>>363783
>The Christian believes the Bible, because he..

I don't give a shit about religion or whatever, but I can't stand to see people stick commas where they don't belong. It ruffles my neckbeard terribly.

[Anonymous No.365834]

>>365776

I feel for you man. Ghost Trick is amazing too, Webley (If he's still doing narratology) would probably never pick that up. To get this back to /vr/ I did manage to spend some time talking to lecturers during Handheld games design about 8-bit graphics when we were tasked with using their limitations to make assets. Talking about Shadow of the Beast and stuff.

I still hang with some of the lecturers nowadays, they're alright outside of the place. They're slightly jaded as they have to put up with the same students. They've got a SNES hooked up in their office though. I think they just need to keep on trend.

[Anonymous No.365864]

>>365751
a·chieve·ment
n.
1. The act of accomplishing or finishing.
2. Something accomplished successfully, especially by means of exertion, skill, practice, or perseverance.

So not necessarily a challenge.
Also, having different difficulty levels doesn't mean it's not a challenge. I can't beat most SHMUPs on even normal without practice.

[Anonymous No.365871]

>>365791
The top gamerscore is always reserved for those with the skill to complete the hard achievements, so the only question is whether the game's developers made the a test of skill. But even if they haven't, it's no different than past games where score was meaningless and there were plenty of low-skill ways to game it, like the Launch Base spindash trick in Sonic 3.

>>365838
lrn2grammar

[Anonymous No.365878]

>>363789
>TV scientist aimed at kids
>Astrophysicist
>Kids show host/pedophile
>Astrophysicist
>TV Art instructor

Whoever made this image could have made some much better choices

[Anonymous No.365890]

>>365834
Don't think Webley is there anymore, we had some guy called Mike Beardwood and his friend Steve
Steve talked about DnD and Horror Comics a lot

I remember one lecturer was pretty good, Adrian Gurney I think it was
In the middle of marking the 1st semester work he noticed I had a 3DS and began to ask me if I had played much on it
Ended up discussing N64 Pokemon Stadium 2 Mini Games / 007 Goldeneye party stories and Ocarina of Time remake

Trying my best to keep it /vr/ here

[Anonymous No.365901]

>>365871
>The top gamerscore is always reserved for those with the skill to complete the hard achievements
No. The top gamerscore is always reserved for those willing to buy and play through every awful game, and games with easily gained achievements. If an individual game is worth caring about on a competitive level, there will almost certainly be a means of assessing this outside of the useless gamerscore, usually in the form of an actual score.

[Anonymous No.365907]

>>365878
>calling Mr. Rogers a pedophile
Get the fuck out, burn your computer, cut off your own genitals, throw yourself naked into a den of live scorpions and then set yourself on fire until you die a slow, agonizing death.

Yes, I'm fucking mad.

[Anonymous No.365910]

>playing Dwarf Fortress
>roommate ambles in
>"Whatcha playin?"
>tell him it's like Sim City only with dwarves
>"What's happening now?"
>tell him they're all dying of plague, and that one's one fire
>"Dat's cool. Hey, Dan's throwing a party tonight. Pregame at seven?"
>agree and go with him to buy beer

And Everything Worked Out For The Best

End

[Anonymous No.365923]

>>363481

You sound like an autistic sperg

[Anonymous No.365924]

>>363953
>/ck/
That whole board is psychotic

[Anonymous No.365931]

>>365890

Webley is Steve, sorry I always call him that. They're usually good guys. I think Steve loves the old school WW2 RTS games. Beardwood is alright too.

I'm surprised about Gurney, nicely surprised though. He did used to go on at us about using CRTs for FPS games. Once you get to know the lecturers more you'll find they're a lot more retro than you think. I mean, Greg's desk is mostly covered in 80's Transformers stuff.

So are you just out of the first year? If you are then it should get better next year. A lot of the deadwood will drop out/not make it to the second year so you'll find a lot of the douche bags leave.

[Anonymous No.365947]

>>365901
>an actual score.
Which is just as arbitrary and meaningless as a gamerscore.

[Anonymous No.365956]

>>365910
COOL
STORY
BRO
!!!!!

[Anonymous No.365967]

>>365878
>Fred Rogers
>Pedophile

You sir, are a swine. And you ain't my bro.

[Anonymous No.365972]

>>363543
>I'm told indie games are the best kind of games
this is true 65% of the time.

[Anonymous No.365974]

>>365931
I had a inkling Webley was Steve but didn't want to say it in feaer of appearing stupid
I still gotta go back for like a month and a half for one semester's work but after that the first year is clear

It is apparant how most of the deadwood is dropping slowly, I have seen the people not interested in games go out, and apprantly some guys have started up a non-official video games society that, unlike the actual VGS, plays stuff other then Street Fighter 4 and PES 2013

There first meeting consisted of swapping one pre-90's game with each other randomly and playing it on emulators in the room, sounds pretty good

[Anonymous No.365980]

>>365774
>something that has been accomplished, esp. by hard work, ability, or heroism.
I was just thinking about in general, that when people use the word in everyday language, it usually refers to something above-and-beyond, and/or took some serious effort, though I concede it doesn't always necessarily mean that. If they're going to use that word to refer to these things, I would've thought "easy" and arguably "medium" are the same as just *playing the game* normally, although I don't really know where they are implemented.
And I agree with you that they are unnecessary.

[Anonymous No.365981]

>>365947
An actual score has always been relevant, at least in any game worth caring about how high your skill is. Arcade games and games modeled after them being the prime example.

That's why I said "if an individual game is worth caring about on a competitive level."

[Anonymous No.365992]

>>365910
But it's 7:10PM on the East Coast.

[Anonymous No.365994]

>>365123
>Favorite games are the superior FFV, one of the better SRPGS, and the easiest, but most fun metroidvania game.

Get on that asap.

[Anonymous No.365998]

>>365972
Very few indie games are worthwhile. Most of them are poor imitations of retro games that rely on low resolution artwork with no real limitations to pretend that they're "retro". Even worse is the fact that these games pretend to be imitating the design sensibilities of older games, but it's clear that the developers don't know the first thing about design or balance.

[Anonymous No.366005]

>>364637
My first console was a PS2 but I love 8-bit artwork.
Before you yell underage my parents were the hardcore Christian type. I wasn't even allowed to watch Power Rangers or Dragon Ball Z.

[Anonymous No.366006]

>>365924
>Implying that story is real.
>Implying that any greentext story is real.

Dohhkay!

Also, my brother's a weird case. He LOVES CoD, but likes the fact that older games are more of a challenge. I'm trying to see if he likes some of the MGS games and Perfect Dark.

[Anonymous No.366010]

>>363686
Do any 'game design' students actually go on to design games? It seems like it's a position that's more earned over years in a studio, like how animation directors usually go through assistant animator->storyboard artist->high story position->head of story->director. I know a chick who is doing a game design course and from the work she posts on facebook, it seems like they do little bits of art, animation, audio, 3d, programming, marketing, etc. without taking the time to get good at any one thing.

Anyway, I tend to just play games when I'm on my own, so I don't get bothered about it. The one question I do get is people asking why I bother with all the old consoles instead of emulating. I don't really have a solid answer for that other than that I just like them and already own them

[Anonymous No.366015]

>>365981
Scores are programmed in by devs based on whatever they feel like, and may contain low-score/high-skill and high-score/low-skill elements that result in the score not necessarily reflecting a person's skill.

Gamerscores are programmed in by devs based on whatever they feel like, and may contain low-score/high-skill and high-score/low-skill elements that result in the score not necessarily reflecting a person's skill.

They're not different at all. If a game is worth caring about competitively, then the only thing people are caring about is whether one person can defeat another person in multi-player. No one cares about who has the record scores in Starcraft, just who wins each individual game.

[Anonymous No.366016]

>>365924
Second

[Anonymous No.366032]

>>365974

That sounds really good man, I'd be all over that.

[Anonymous No.366057]

>>366010

I teach it now funnily enough. A degree will help you get into the industry, but only so far. You really need a great portfolio to stand out. Even without a degree you can get in.

It's easier for artists in that sense, do some rad models and pop them on Polycount and you'll be seen by someone eventually. Doing the degree actually helps you learn methods and techniques if you're into the theory/design or programming sides.

Two teams from Staffordshire are getting quite big. One lot from my year were entered into the game BAFTAS and another are looking quite possibly to win Make Something Unreal with their game Polymorph.

Indie seems like a better route into the industry though.

[Anonymous No.366112]

>>366015
In many games, let's use Super Mario Bros. as an example, you're right. Score is programmed in as something of an afterthought. Super Mario Bros. is an example of a game where there are very few useful metrics to truly decide one's skill at the game.

Speed would be a good example. Attempting to do this via achievements would be a useless metric, though.

For example, there is an achievement "Beat the game in under 10 minutes!"
Player 1 earns this achievement with a total time of 9'59".
Player 2 earns this achievement with a total time of 6'30".
Player 2 has utterly destroyed Player 1 here, but the competition is simply forced to end with the bar set at a low "completed the achievement".

Now, let's take a better example that fits what I'm describing, an arcade shoot-em-up. The scoring is still "programmed in by devs based on whatever they feel like", but the game lends itself to proper competition via score. MANY arcade games are designed this way.

But, as above, once we start reducing these things into simple, baseline, binary achievements, you've destroyed any value to the system... not that anyone actually interested in these games will pay any attention to their achievements anyway.

[Anonymous No.366119]

>>365128
Now this is autism.

[Anonymous No.366125]

Yes, I'm sure that's what happened and that you're not greatly over exagerating parts of it

[Anonymous No.366146]

>>364056
>Shatterhand
I just played through that game after seeing Continue review it. good game

[Anonymous No.366165]

>>366146
It's one of my favourites, as well. It's also one of my favourite to recommend as it's a fairly unknown platformer.

[Anonymous No.366174]

>>363481
>walk into my dorm
>loser roommate is playing some weird rpg game
>tells me it's "chrono trigger"
>ask him if it's better than skyrim
>he begins mouthbreathing heavily
>gives me some weird look as his face turns red
>mutters something about comparison between games through his fat mouth
>leave

hate my roommate

[Anonymous No.366186]

>>364637
that sounds about right. I grew up on 16-bit, and I have trouble dealing with games that are simpler than Donkey Kong, with a few exceptions

[Anonymous No.366226]

>>365776
I would never study game design, but man, I could watch those Jonathan Blow lectures on youtube all day.

[Anonymous No.366253]

>>365454
the pads were removed

[Anonymous No.366291]

>Playing SMB2 2
>Cousin says this was the first sequel ever made in video game history.
>I just nod my head and make a funny face trying not to laugh.

[Anonymous No.366310]

>>366010
Game design positions are basically for senior programmers, writers, artists etc. Check out professional studios and 9 times out of 10 the designers have CS degrees.
If a "game design student" is in a position like that it's likely in a company he co-founded or because he excelled in one of the aforementioned areas irregardless of education.

[Anonymous No.366361]

>Talking about how I'm excited for the new Virtua Fighter with friend at work
>"Oh god, fighting games, they're the same thing every game!"
>"Haha, says the guy who gets FIFA every year!"
>"No! They change the roster and update stats!"
>"Yeah and in fighting games each iteration they rebalance, add new characters, new moves-"
>"You have two characters, two health bars. It's the same game every time! All fighting games, Marvel, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat..."
>"By that logic, all sports games are the same too. In FIFA, NBA2k12, Ice Hokey, you have two teams, two nets, whoever gets the ball in the net the most times win! Same game!"
>"What about baseball games!? That's a stupid argument"
>"But you admit that FIFA and NBA are the same game?"
>"... Piss off will you, piss off!"

My Face

[Anonymous No.366376]

>>366361

You should have brought out the tanks.

[Anonymous No.366395]

>>364637
I grew up with a Gameboy, and I played NES at a friend's house, but I still enjoy Robotron: 2084. This looks more primitive than NES/GB games to me.

[Anonymous No.366431]

/fit/ has fat people stories, /vr/ has normal people stories

[Anonymous No.366442]

>>365123
>second week of classical mythology class
>sit a few rows behind a 6.5/10 girl who always has a laptop out
>mind starts to wander halfway through class
>eyes sudenly rest on the girl's screen
>she's playing some 2d game in a small window in the bottom right corner
>"it's probably some stupid fucking hipster indie game"
>look closer
>she's playing terranigma
>mfw

I would have married that girl if I had the balls to talk to her.

[Anonymous No.366449]

>>366310
>irregardless

[Anonymous No.366587]

>>365967
>sir
Sure is le Ribbit in here.

[Anonymous No.366624]

>>365479
>>365749
>>365994
Just because she likes the right games doesn't mean she's going to fall for the first spaghetti dispenser that makes an awkward pass

[Anonymous No.366638]

>>366624
>spaghetti dispenser

[Anonymous No.366650]

>>366624
>implying being charismatic and well-spoken is the only way to woo a woman

[Anonymous No.366687]

>>366650
>STARCRAFT 2 GENERAL
my sides have transcended humanity and the heavens

[Anonymous No.366698]

>tfw my 12 year old cousin plays CoD and some other causal as fuck games
>tfw he acknowledges how retro games actually work, and very much likes them
>I now have a cool little bro to play vidya with
Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.366756]

>have a brother who grew up with older games
>only wants to play those he played back then
>almost everything else he loses interest in after 5 minutes
>"it aged badly"

I fucking hate this excuse. Modern gaming has wrecked his attention span like so many others.

Oh well, at least he did enjoy games like Mega Man and Battletoads, so I should be grateful.

[Anonymous No.366796]

>>365183
Do you honestly expect the average person to know a bunch of obscure video games?

[Anonymous No.366832]

>>365128
You got baited, m8.

[Anonymous No.366836]

>>366442
What's the worst thing that could have happened if you talked to her?

[Anonymous No.366846]

>>366431
>mfw you're right
>>>/fit/18960187

[Anonymous No.366862]

>>365483
Ha! It's like my high school programming class. My teacher wanted comments for every single line of code you did. It was hilarious since we did object oriented programming.
>mfw making a comment for "This will move the object's arm 0.1 meters"

[Anonymous No.366879]

>>366836
She would have laughed at me and everyone in the room would remember my shame for the rest of their lives, with suicide being the only option left for me.

It's social anxiety, man, this shit ain't logical.

[Anonymous No.366892]

>>366879
You could have just said hi to her at least. Maybe strike up a conversation about who told her about Terranigma.

[Anonymous No.366921]

>>366879
Why would she laugh at you? She's playing a SNES game on her laptop already, not many girls do that.

If you just said to her, something like
>oh hey, is that [name of game]?
Nothing bad would happen.

[Anonymous No.366932]

>>365189
Nobody hates Super Metroid and OoT and Final Fantasy 7 are only hated because people go on and on about how they're both the best in their respective series when in Zelda's case at least it couldn't be further from the truth.

Ocarina of time is a good game but it's really unremarkable in terms of being a Zelda game. There are FAR better games in the series, Majora's Mask and LttP come to mind immediately.

As for Final Fantasy I like 7 quite a bit but I think 4 is better in many ways.

[Anonymous No.366942]

>>366879
A 6.5/10 is laughing at you? Damn man, you need to reevaluate your life.

[Anonymous No.367024]

>>366921
>>366942
It was a joke. The point being that I have social anxiety that makes it difficult for me to talk to strangers regardless of what the potential outcomes are. I don't even like calling my bank if I think a real person will answer.

And this is getting just a tad bit too /r9k/ right now.

[Anonymous No.367042]

>>367024
no you don't anon

[Anonymous No.367147]

>>367024
iktf, but remember you don't have to be witty or special or anything like that, all you have to be is nice. that's what i kept telling myself to get over my own social paranoia, and it's helped me somewhat

next time you see her playing, just ask her "is that terranigma?" she'll be shocked enough that you would know it, so you'll already stand out. then you can say "yeah, i had that as a kid," and normally girls are chatty enough to take over the conversation from there

[Anonymous No.367162]

>>367147
>then you can say "yeah, i had that as a kid,"
And at that point she'll know you're full of shit, since, presumably, he's American.

[Anonymous No.367175]

>>367162
That has nothing to do with being American you dolt.

But "yeah, i had that as a kid" isn't the right thing to say, you should say something like "cool game, i've played it"

[Anonymous No.367239]

>>367162

I'm American and my aunt owned it because she's an RPG nut.

[Anonymous No.367312]

>>364630
>the rubber is missing from the analog sticks

[Anonymous No.367435]

>>364656
I swear recruiters will say anything to get their numbers up

[Anonymous No.367474]

>be 20
>babbysitting 5 year old half-brother
>he has a busted PSP (got it that way) and a GameBoy
>Plays GB more and only really plays Sonic Rivals on PSP
>Usually bring my NES, SNES and N64
>Kid watches me play Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, SMB3, Ocarina of Time
>Begs me constantly to play Pokemon for him
>Best way to keep him calm and quiet

Feels good man

[Anonymous No.367530]

>>367435
FUCKING GAMESTOP

[Anonymous No.367774]

>>364656
>The Marine recruiter used it as a recruiting device to get my kid brother in by telling him that joining up was just like CoD.

I didn't know that real life soldiers magically heal their wounds after 10 seconds whilst having raspberry jam clouding their vision.

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.368339]

>>365123
>>365143
Why complain when there's no competition?
>>366442
>>366879
What's the worst that can happen?
Look, start off with small talk about stuff, then lead into retro vidya. Just don't talk too little or too much.
Hell, I just did casual talk and it got me laid. Then again, the girl was an outcast

Sorry for the late response. I was waiting for a ban release

[Anonymous No.368374]

>>368339
> I was waiting for a ban release
Since you're going to do nothing but contribute to /soc/ conversations, hopefully another will come quickly.

[Screwy !BDcKesnEik No.368412]

>>368374
Ok, fine.
Polite sage for off-topic

[Anonymous No.368446]

>>363626
>getting this bad over something so trivial

[Anonymous No.368447]

>>363626
I wished we had the original TF2 and made TF2 TF3 instead.

Valve dropped the ball there, they could have beaten out the Battlefield and COD crowd but nooooooooooo they had to stall.

[Anonymous No.368485]

>>363626
Maybe it's just me, but it's irritating when people wander up and just start talking to you in the middle of something.

Then again, I usually play games that can pause and don't need to be 'always on'.

[Anonymous No.368593]

>People claim classic Resident Evil games are unplayable because of the camera
>Same people claim that RE4 was the best game ever made because of the graphics and superrior controls (even though the controls are almost the same as classic RE...)
>people claim Metal Gear Solid's gameplay is "clunky" (because it's so hard to press a direction and have Snake instantly move that way...)
>people also hate on turn based RPGs and JRPGs in general. And not even justifiably...
>An asshat I work with gave me shit once for playing SNES games, and informed me all about his PSN+ subscription and other such retarded bullshit.
>PC gamers for fucking decades telling me their games are better because of graphics alone (no mention of variety or good gamelay though. wonder why)
>younger guy at work talking games with me, has no concept of the differences between WRPGs and JRPGs, plays 90% CoD, first console was a 360, ect. (if he wasn't so cute, I'd have killed him to cleanse the gene pool)
>Peope assuming I give a damn about CoD, DmC, God of War, Gears of War, ect, ect
>same people getting butthurt when I call those games shitty on-rails shooters with no actual level design
>Getting funny looks standing in line with a Kirby game
>People assuming I only play those games because I'm gay
>99% of "gamers" I meet IRL only play shootfests. If there's no guns (or boobs) then they won't touch it.
>the same people are insane anti-gun liberal idiots (or maybe just sheep who think what they're told...)
>People talking about games not aging well, but use lame excuses. Like the graphics in FFVII, witch were always bad compared to other games of that time..
>People who refer to Resident Evil 4 as "classic" and RE6 as "new shit". It's ALL new shit god damn it!

I do get a laugh out of that though. The RE4 fans all rage because "their" RE got raep'd, but they all thought it was awesome when "MY" RE got raped. Fucking tools got what they deserved, and they STILL don't get how I felt when RE4 hit...

[Anonymous No.368614]

>>368593
A-are you me? I'm pretty sure I didn't post that myself just now, so I'm a little confused.

[Anonymous No.368619]

>>367530
lel

[Anonymous No.368645]

>any game
>typically your favorite game
>have friends try it
>they play for like ten minutes and quit
>"It's boring" "This game sucks" etc.
Bonus points if they end up playing it all the fucking time later.
>never again

[Anonymous No.368654]

>>368593
I agree with some of that, but let's try to avoid the CASUALS here, kay?
Which Kirby did you get, btw? I picked this one up despite already having all of them.

[Anonymous No.368910]

>>363758

My best friend is home schooled and I'm basically his only access to the outside world. I talk shit about his hobbies in order to steer him in a better direction. I'd like to think that I contributed to him shelving his beliefs of becoming a manga artist in Japan.

[Anonymous No.368936]

>>368645
I hear you, man. The only place my good friend and I have common ground is wind waker. no other games are compatible.

[Anonymous No.369230]

>>366587
You know, "sir" was commonly used on 4chan before that other site was even big.

[Digger No.369287]

>>365664
>you all need little kids in your lives

True, but we only need the ones with actual IMAGINATION, like that little fucker you have there.

[Anonymous No.369470]

>playing Chrono Cross at work on Vita
>"no that Chrono Trigger?"
>Nah. it's Chrono Cross
>"yeah thats what I meant. i never played chrono trigger"
>It's a great game. I'd put it up there as one of the best RPGs I've ever played
>"More than FFX?"
>mfw

[Anonymous No.370005]

>>365071
>Used a translation guide
Your amazing

[Anonymous No.371447]

>>363481
Ask your roommate what he thinks about Mirror's Edge. ME was fuckin GORGEOUS ... too bad the buttons you were pushing had so little to do with what was going on on the screen and it was boring as hell. Compare that to something like speed running in Conta or Super Mario Bros which STILL gives tingles in your palms and feet.

tl;dr IMMERSION, BITCH DO YOU SPEAK IT.

[Anonymous No.371453]

>>371447
Still think it's a shame so much of that game was guns, and not matrix-dodging while running.

[Anonymous No.371457]

>>368645
I'm not gonna lie, first time I played starcraft in middle school I was like "... this sucks." When I found it again in highschool my mind was fucking blown and I felt stupid being THAT GUY trying to bring it back.

[Anonymous No.371515]

>>364637
I'm 19 had Mame32 in my childhood and a Famicom, I can enjoy everything.
Thanks Mame.

[Anonymous No.371571]

>>364637
I grew up with arcade 16 bits, I fucking hate snes and genesis 16 bit with a few exceptions, but I love 8 bits.

My first console was the PSX

[Anonymous No.371584]

Oh man, this thread. Where would /vr/ be if Notch hadn't invented minecraft graphics and subsequently time travel?

[Anonymous No.371820]

>>366174
>role playing game game

[Anonymous No.371878]

>>368593
MGS is smooth but it's nowhere near as smooth as later games in the series, so that's kind of understandable.
PSN+ is actually fucking awesome to have.
Resident Evil 4 is a good game and you can go fuck yourself.
But other than that I agree with you.

[RallyFTW No.372038]

>>368593

>99% of "gamers" I meet IRL only play shootfests
>99% of "gamers" I meet IRL
>99% of "gamers"
>99%
>IRL

People you meet online aren't people you meet in real life, dumbass. RE4 is the pinnacle of PS2/GC gaming. It was being developed in 01', so I would consider it old.

And you play a game for the storyline, asshat. Gears isn't half bad IF you pay attention to the storyline.

And according to you, I'm the 1%, but I wouldn't consider you the same.

[Anonymous No.372101]

>This past Easter
>Playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles with my 5 year old cousin
>Our other cousin, who's 10, comes in "That looks neat, can I try?"
>"Sure." Give the first player controller.
>She can't figure out the controls, runs into the first enemey, and uses up all here lives aganist the mid-boss
>"This game is stupid Anon. Why don't you have any good games like Angry Birds or Skylanders?"
>Keep my comments to myself but mfw

What's sad is that my 5 year old cousin, she understands how to play this stuff just fine.

[Anonymous No.372312]

>>372101
>Playing Metal Slug on emulator
>One cousin playing Assassin's Creed on my 360 while a another cousin tries to tell me all about how Angry Birds is so great.

[Anonymous No.372360]

>>372101

>She can't figure out the controls
>Sonic
>three buttons
>they all do the exact same thing

Jesus Christ, what's even to figure out?

[Anonymous No.372585]

>>372360
How to potato.

[Anonymous No.372625]

>>363768
>but there -are- a lot of good indie games

I'd say there are some good indie games, not a lot, but I suppose that's just petty.

[Anonymous No.372657]

>>372101
You missed an opportunity to take a crack at Angry Birds? What's wrong with you, man?

[Anonymous No.372667]

>>366310
>9 times out of 10 the designers have CS degrees.

Out of curiousity, is this the way it's always been? Because I'd say at least 90% of games released each year are generic, disappointing, and soulless.

[Anonymous No.372695]

>>372360
>>372585
Not quite. Everything she plays is on iPad or Wii, so she only understands games with touchpad or motion control.

[Anonymous No.372720]

>>372695
>she only understands games with touchpad or motion control

I weep for the new generation.

[Anonymous No.372730]

>>363519
>playing original SMB last christmas
>I suck at it
>5 y/o nephew walks in
>Can I play, anon?
>sure
>he fucking owns at it, gets to stage 8-3 before getting a game over
>wow anon, this is way more fun than my xbox games
>mfw

[Anonymous No.372743]

After this many posts someone surely already mentioned this, but Chrono Trigger is not a whole lot better than skyrim. They're both really simple, really easy console rpgs.

[Anonymous No.372762]

>>372743
Hahaha, no. Chrono Trigger actually has a charming world, fun dialog, memorable characters. The game just oozes charm. Skyrim is bland and generic, even if the world itself might be beautiful. If we were to draw an analogy with colors, Skyrim would be grey or brown, while Chrono Trigger would be all the bright colors of the rainbow.

[Anonymous No.372763]

>>372720
I hope you have lots of tears left, because mobile super easy F2P P2W micro-transactioned games are the most likley future for this industry.

[Anonymous No.372767]

>>372762
That's one....colourful analogy.

[Anonymous No.372773]

>>372763
Not if I can help it.

[Anonymous No.372783]

Is everyone here a buttmad manchildren like the OP?
Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.372786]

>>372762
The dialogue is very simple and the characters are all stereotypes though. There isn't much depth to them. Though their design is certainly more iconic than anything in skyrim.

[Anonymous No.372795]

>>372667
>Because I'd say at least 90% of games released each year are generic, disappointing, and soulless.
That's more because safe shit sells and suits with money often have some creative rights as a result. Combined with new development costs (majority of the budget goes to marketing and art assets) and short development time.

But yes, early on and into around the mid-90s game companies were often just a few programmers with ideas.

[Anonymous No.372791]

>>372773
50 million copies of Angry Birds sold, friend. It's far too late for you to do anything.

[Anonymous No.372794]

>>372783
We prefer "cynical retro gaming enthusiasts"

[Anonymous No.372803]

>>372786
Stereotypical, and shallow, characters aren't necessarily a bad thing. Remember, this is a video game, not a novel or a film. Chrono Trigger understood this. Skyrim was aiming for a cinematic experience, like so many modern games.

[Anonymous No.372810]

>>372795
Just curious. Wasn't knocking programmers at all. A close friend of mine does game programming and he's probably the smartest guy I know.

[Anonymous No.372820]

>>372803
Whether it was intentionally shallow or not doesn't change the fact that it is shallow though.

[Anonymous No.372832]

>>372820
The characters were (mostly) shallow in terms of complexity. And yet still more beloved and more memorable than anyone in Skyrim. Why do you think that is? Because CT knew what it was and worked within those restrictions, instead of trying to be something it's not.

[Anonymous No.372852]

>>363626
Except TF2 is a horrible game. Howabout you go play Quake 3 Arena or something.

[Anonymous No.372856]

>>372832
I'm sure in ten years everyone will be screaming how beloved and memorable the characters in skyrim are. If you think about the rpgs from the mid 90s, heck if you only take square rpgs from that time, chrono trigger doesn't stand out too much either.

[Anonymous No.372891]

>>363686
A guy I only know from internet is studying some kind of game design course, too. He only plays Dota 2 and when I tried to talk to him about other videogames he basically said that those were a bit too nerdy for him. Yeah.

[Anonymous No.372926]

I was actually just playing Kirby Super Star with my niece.
She died a lot, so we just kept on redoing Spring Breeze.
>mfw watching her slapping Dedede's shit alone without taking damage

[Anonymous No.372930]

>>372856
Chrono Trigger doesn't stand out from RPGs in the 90s? You're trolling me aren't you?

And no, no one is going to give a fuck about the characters in Skyrim a few years from now because they never did.

[Anonymous No.373076]

>>372856

But it has none. As a yuropoor I've sadly never played Chronotrigger, so no idea about that one though I wanna play it soon - but Skyrim has not a single memorable character.

Morrorwind, that one had at least a bunch of memorable and a handful of really outstanding characters, NPC's I gladly return to from time to time.

[Anonymous No.373120]

>>366112
>But, as above, once we start reducing these things into simple, baseline, binary achievements, you've destroyed any value to the system.
THIS

[Anonymous No.373221]

>>363626
i'm not a huge fan of Team Furry 2 either.

[Anonymous No.373270]

>>372852

[Anonymous No.373287]

>>372763

[Anonymous No.373309]

>>364393
getting all of sonic 2's achievements was fun, but now that I did that, I went back to playing it on the genesis whenever I feel like playing.

[Anonymous No.373326]

>>372791
I wonder is decades from now, Angry Birds sales figures will be considered the point at which the gaming industry began to die, as companies realized the opportunity to spend next to nothing to release a shitty game that the masses lap up like candy, earning a massive profit margin, and thus no need to bother with true games any longer.

[Anonymous No.373340]

>>363481
>"I'm not even going to explain to you why comparions can't be drawn between the two games"

Translation: I'm pissed someone has an opinion that the internet tells me is wrong.

[Anonymous No.373354]

>>373340
Go sit in the naughty corner and think about what you just said.

[Anonymous No.373437]

>>372930
Not at all, look at all the final fantasy games from the time, the romancing saga series, squares more action oriented rpgs and all the jrpgs that aren't made weren't made by square. It doesn't stand out from that bunch more than any of the other games do, except for mybe the level of graphical polish and variety.

[Anonymous No.373439]

>>363626
>What is happening to the youth /vr/
They have no imagination

[Anonymous No.373460]

>>373437
Except for the fact that Chrono Trigger is consistently named in the top two, sometimes the very best, jRPG from that period, and also gets brought up again and again as one of the best ever in the genre. You don't see that from other RPGs of that period with the exception of FFVI.

But yeah, other than that, no one remembers it at all.

[Anonymous No.373470]

>>373460
That has more to do with the fact that most jrpgs didn't make it over to the west at the time, and not with the game's merits.

[Anonymous No.373484]

Secret of Mana

[Anonymous No.373491]

>>373470
Damn, you are so hipster it hurts.

But at least answer this: why is Chrono Trigger so highly regarded in Japan too?

[Anonymous No.373493]

>>373484
What about it, anon?

[Anonymous No.373505]

>>373493
Better than Chrono Trigger.
Those two dopes arguing will never see this through our spoilers!

[Anonymous No.373517]

>>373505
>yfw I'm one of the dopes
I agree though I'm not particularly fond of that game either.

[Anonymous No.373542]

>>373491
I'm not aware that they are any more fanatical about it than they are about other jrpgs. They go crazier for dragon quest than anything else don't they?

[Anonymous No.373556]

>>364637
good for those of us that grew with ASCII master race