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>added hundreds of games to my retropie
>end up just playing atari 2600 games, mainly berzerk and yars' revenge

>> No.5235649

What's wrong with that? They're good games.

>> No.5235678

The problem with the whole rpi thing is that you're still stuck in the 1999 emulation context of a generic machine that plays everything. It's neat for a while but it loses the legitimacy and genuineness of playing on native hardware.

>> No.5235814

>>5235540
That's the way it goes.
We perceive a few games as not enough.
Then at some point it always becomes too many.

>> No.5236178

>>5235540
When everything is free, nothing has value

>> No.5237268

>>5236178
>free and worthless are the same thing

>> No.5237291

>>5236178
But anon. The greatest and most valuable treasure of all is completely free. Friendship

>> No.5237607

>>5235540
>retropie
You didn't give a shit about the games to begin with.

>> No.5237697

>>5236178
Except Yars' Revenge

>> No.5237725

>>5236178
Not that guy, but this guy is right. I have countless ISOs, roms and DOS games downloaded, but in the process of preserving retro games I've turned into a hoarder. A hoarder who who launches a game, spends up to 10 minutes with it and goes back to the main menu of RetroArch after a while. Face it, having access to everything there is spoiled us. It made us numb to the games, since there are so many to choose from we don't appreciate them anymore, and having a vast library to choose from, we don't keep focus on that one title we want to play anymore. We just want more and more. And this is what kills retro gaming in general. You're just doing it to collect games, not to play them.

>> No.5237734

>>5237725
>>5236178
I never pushed myself to beat SMW after all of these years until I got an actual cartridge.

>> No.5237738

>>5236178
>>5235814
>>5235540
>>5237725
This is a personal problem, you guys need to exercise more self control. I have a curated collection of about 2100 games across a wide variety of consoles and operating systems, but play them one at a time to completion (with the exception of score attack games)

>> No.5237752

Having access to full romsets seems to lead many people into overchoice psychosis. It can legit mess up your mind.

Try to organize your games by preference or something like that.

>> No.5237754

>>5237752
OP here. Maybe I should make a custom category in emulationstation containing my favorite games. Thanks for the suggestion.

>> No.5237762

>>5237754
It works. I made a folder structure 3 levels deep as follows:
> favorite games
>> fun games
>>> other games

If I can pick something I want to play, I go up a level. And I'll shift games around sometimes. Works really well.

>> No.5237779

>sjwpie
found the problem!

>> No.5237789

>>5236178
It is almost unimaginable to me that a living person could be dumb enough to think this.

I don't be to be the type of guy that goes around accusing people of being a troll when really they're just stupid, but surely this can't be a legit person, that if something is free it has no value?

>> No.5237796

>>5237725
Speak for yourself dumbass, if you were less retarded you'd notice the OP is having the EXACT OPPOSITE problem as you - he sticks with the same games. Just because you never liked videogames and were just here for the memes and youtube drama don't think everyone is.

>> No.5237817

>>5237789
Not that guy, but I think the idea behind what he said is that when you have access to everything in large amount, it loses its value. Since you can play any NES, Genesis, SNES rom, any Saturn, PS1, Dreamcast ISO is at your fingertips, you don't appreciate what you have anymore. There's so many games that you can play that you end up becoming that sloth from that one webm where he can't even pick up the food.

>> No.5237837

>>5235678
Literally fucking this.

>> No.5237847

>>5237817
Well I can't relate to that faggotry, the easier my access to games is the more I play them.

>> No.5237850
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5237850

>>5237779
>Retropie is SJW because the Twitter account said anti-GG statements RRRRRRRREEEEEEE
Oh sod off with this drama and this pea-wit "US vs THEM" mentality!

>> No.5237851

>>5237796
Not that guy, but that's a lot of assumptions you make in your post.

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5237874

>>5237762
Damnit I still can't decide. Maybe I'll think of something before I go to bed. At least this helps a lot.

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5238350

>>5237874
okay you stupid fuck, try this next time:
>take a dice like a d20 (to cover all games in the list)
>roll it
>pick the game in the list with that number
>play it for exactly 1 hour
>give it a rating afterwards

If you are enjoying the game you will play longer than an hour, if not you don't feel like an utter fuck cause you can't into videogamez

>> No.5239860

>>5235540
>too retarded to use sets
>to hardcore for anything except 2600
What a goof

>> No.5239885

>>5237725
just download a game you want to play and play it. when you're done downloader another, like going to the game store.

>> No.5239923

>>5236178
wrong. your ass is plenty valuable to the several dicks constantly inside it

>> No.5240834

Too easy, gamers are dumb little self-involved creatures

>> No.5241943

>>5236178
This is the only reason why I don't pirate games. No matter if it's retro or new stuff. I only do exceptions for crazy expansive and hard-to-get stuff.

>> No.5241959

>>5237874
EIther do a dice roll or select one with your eyes closed