/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7161794]

When did you realize you were done with modern gaming and wanted to stay at a certain generation? Which gen or event was the breaking point for you?

[Anonymous No.7161810]

Was too poor to continue gaming after gen 6 and by the time i had enough disposable income to start gaming with new stuff again i felt things had moved too far ahead for me to bother.

[Anonymous No.7161812]

>>7161794
6

[Anonymous No.7161823]

I always knew I preferred retroshit but it wasn't until I built a gaming PC and only ended up really using it to emulate retroshit at 4K with shaders and upscaling that I realized there's really not much modern games have to offer me. There's some decent indieshit out there as well but by and large I don't feel like I'm missing out on much. I still kinda want to get into VR, that might be the leap I need. Games themselves haven't changed at all in gameplay since the PS2 era. They just look better and play worse thanks to all the anti-consumer bullshit that's crept into the industry.

[Anonymous No.7161825]

>>7161810
Recent retro here. Nothing about gen 9 looks appealing to me and even gen 8 was boring. The Switch will probably be the last modern console I buy as I focus on collecting, playing and emulating older games

[Anonymous No.7161828]

>>7161794
>Which gen or event was the breaking point for you?
7. Nothing clicked with me and I kept on playing the old stuff until I just wasn't "with it" anymore. 6th gen was the last great gaming gen for me.

[Anonymous No.7161831]

>>7161794
When I graduated high school in 1996, joined the military, and was otherwise busy as hell on a ship. not a lot of space or time for video games, plus I was enjoying my new found freedom as an adult. I fell out of gaming and lost track of things until I tried a PS2 one day. It didn't sit with me, and after 3 or 4 games, I just really wanted my NES/SNES/GB style of games and was fine with those. There are select 5th gen+ games I like, but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.7161836]

>>7161794
I don't particulary dislike or have "renounced" modern games, but honestly at some point all the tutorials, cutscenes and other fluff started getting annoying; it just felt to demanding and involved.

I just feel playing crappy old barebone-minded games is less of a waste of time (though still totally is of course)

[Anonymous No.7161863]

>>7161836
Yeah same here. I tend to think video games have very bad plots, so titles where tons of story is heavily front-loaded is incredibly annoying. I cant be invested in characters before I've played the game.

I pretty much gave up on most modern games when the introductory passage of persona 4 lasted 3.5 hours. I legitimately dont have time to do that, and I think its really disrespectful for anyone to take my attention for granted like that.

Some modern games still just leave you alone and let you play and learn yourself, BOTW for example. Ill play those without a doubt. Just fucking HATE tutorials...

[Anonymous No.7161987]

>>7161794
starting with the ps3 and xbox360, trailers were just lies, bugs, patches, day one dlc or cut content dlc became infamous, modern day gaming consist in waiting around two years after release so they'll patch the game breaking bugs out, and getting it for half or maybe a quarter of the price, realizing it's just okay and going back to playing quake 3

[Anonymous No.7162004]

It was around the turn of the century before I realized it, but really the writing was on the wall by 1995 when the world as going gaga for polygons

[Anonymous No.7162049]

>>Keiji Inafune/Mighty Number 9 Incident
>>the megaman legends 3 fiasco
>>kickstarter games that receivedvast amounts of cash but no games
>>Western games, developers, journalists became too political and it seeped into game franchises. Most Western games became cinematic pieces.
>>Japanese Games became rehashes, lazy ports, poor business practices when they kept re-releasing games made 20+ years ago
>>PS4/Xbox One only had multiplat games when you could've ran a gaming PC
>>Online distribution of older games on the Eshop and PSN are WAY TOO expensive for what it is.

The only thing I can do now for console gaming is find older ps3/360 consoles from dumpsters and thrift stores, clean them, and run emulated games to prolong its life. My only wish is that there will sill be mod support for these older consoles as time goes.

[Anonymous No.7162067]

>>7161794
The last new game I bought was red dead redemption. Before that was assasins creed 2. I enjoyed them both but wasnt crazy about either. I had been falling off for a while, those just happened to be the exact games where my interest in new stuff finally petered out.

[Anonymous No.7162074]

>>7161836
It's not a waste of time if you're having fun. We're microbes on a tiny space rock, nothing we do truly matters on the grand scale so we might as well enjoy our limited time here.

[Anonymous No.7162090]

>>7161794
Dawn of War III. That was it. I want to stay in late 90s early 2000s forever.

[Anonymous No.7162091]

After gen 6 I stopped caring about gaming.

[Anonymous No.7162105]

Gen 6 is peak gaming imo. It had the most advanced and refined gameplay while still having soul and 3D graphics that aren't an eyesore today. A lot of major games running at 60 fps too. 7th gen was a straight downgrade, games looked worse with less colors, ugly HD lighting effects and now most of them fell back down to 30 fps too.

[Anonymous No.7162110]

>>7161794
horse armor.

[Anonymous No.7162145]

>>7161794
I bought an xbox just to hack it w/splinter cell and use it for NES games

[Anonymous No.7162152]

>>7161794
7th gen

[Anonymous No.7162241]

>>7162105
And it was around the time gameplay was starting to be really simplified and restrictive.

[Anonymous No.7162645]

>>7161794
I don't have money to buy new consoles, so I got a free PS3 and thats as far as I can go. If I had money, I'd be playing the Demon's Souls remake right now. I'm stuck on this board because I have nothing to talk about with /v/, at least here people talk about games I've played or can play on an emulator and then join the conversation.

[Anonymous No.7162649]

I like weird obscure low budget shit.

[Anonymous No.7162650]

I skipped the whole PS360 generation due to the landscape changing. Widescreen, achievements, games being parted out and sold piecemeal, etc.
I eventually bought a gen8 console but I only buy 2-3 new games per year for it and mostly just played collections of old games.

[Anonymous No.7162682]

>>7161794
7th gen is when I gave up on new videogames.
Haven't even bought anything from 8th or 9th.

[Anonymous No.7162715]

>>7161794
Never... There hasn't been a year yet that hasn't had awesome games come out. I just also still enjoy the older ones. It's an amazing wonderful time to be a gamer.

[Anonymous No.7162751]

>>7162715
Name 5 good games from 2020.
Moreover, name 50 from the last decade.

[Anonymous No.7162793]

>>7161823
This is basically me. I don't care what anyone says, early 3D games upscaled to 4K look fucking great. And the good thing is you don't need an insanely powerful PC to do it. I'm a Linuxfag, I have all the emulators I could possibly want, and classic Windows games typically run perfect through a compatibility layer. So I've got enough shit to keep me going for life, either already on my NAS, or out on the internet to find easily.

[Anonymous No.7162802]

>>7161794
I'm not done with modern gaming.

[Anonymous No.7162808]

The 7th generation did it for me.
The Wii was underwhelming (all of that hype for a souped-up GameCube with an annoying gimmick) and I had no interest in the other two.
GTA: San Andreas specifically was the last time I recall being hyped and getting into a "new" game.

[Anonymous No.7162813]

Like others, the 7th generation did it for me.
The Wii was underwhelming (all of that hype for a souped-up GameCube with an annoying gimmick) and I had no interest in the other two.
GTA: San Andreas was the last time I recall being hyped and getting into a "new" game.

[Anonymous No.7162852]

>voice acting outside of cinematics
>cutscenes everywhere
>most games in a genre are now too similar

I still enjoy some new games from time to time, but I really don't like many games original /vr/ time window.

[Anonymous No.7162854]

>>7161794
Pong.

[Anonymous No.7162867]

>>7162751
Lol

[Anonymous No.7162897]

>>7161794
The don't know if I ever had a breaking point rather than just choosing to play olds games to get the weight off my back. New games chase trends and try to appeal the current right-think and have no real gameplay innovations whatsoever. Open world fields ruined the open world genre. It's no longer "look at all this stuff in the world!" It's "look how big our di- I mean world is! Don't bring up what there is to do in it tho"

[Anonymous No.7162952]

>>7162751
This thread is already dangerously non-/vr/ as it is, sis.
Streets of Rage 4 is good though

[Anonymous No.7162956]

>>7161828
Same for me. Just felt like with 7th gen nothing I played actually had really good gameplay and there was too much focus on graphics and cutscenes. Ended up just finding stuff I haven't played from 6th gen more often and had more fun doing that.

[Anonymous No.7163006]

>>7161794
8th gen. Triple A graphics actually hurt my eyes.

[Anonymous No.7163079]

>>7163006
From the lighting and particles and stuff like that? It doesn't hurt my eyes but I hate how visual clarity doesn't seem to be as important as cramming in as much detail as possible anymore, makes it feel like you're just looking at a mess of an image.

[Anonymous No.7163084]

I've said this on here before but I tried to play Twilight Princess sometime around 2016 and it just took too damn long to get started.

[Anonymous No.7163105]

>>7161794
I never had the need to go past the PS2. From that point on, gaming was suddenly all about corridor shooters. Fuck that shit.

[Anonymous No.7163137]

>>7163079
That’s annoying and it certainly doesn’t help. It’s a combo of too much detail/information, too much visual noise like you said, and the motion blur/interpolation every modern game seems to have. If I turn the camera around in one of these games I get nauseous.

[Anonymous No.7163141]

>>7163079
Also it’s why I like TF2 so much because the visual design in that game is really great. Colour coded teams. Muted environments. Not too much visual effects.

[Anonymous No.7163147]

>>7163141
Also the fact that every character is so visually distinct from one another down to their silhouettes.

[Anonymous No.7163152]

>>7163137
>and the motion blur/interpolation every modern game seems to have.
I hate that. It can look okay if you're just watching something, but it's not good for when you're the one actually playing.

>>7163147
Fucked that up a bit with all the cosmetics though. Still not as bad as some other games I've seen where they add so many obscuring cosmetics that you can't tell some of the classes apart anymore.

[Anonymous No.7163259]

>>7161823
As someone who got a job working with VR stuff, I have to admit I don't really get the appeal. It's a fun gimmick, but it's not really that interesting until you try to implement parts of it yourself. That goes from pretty easy (3dof tracking) to very hard (hand pose estimation) pretty fast though.

If you're looking into it though get a cheap headset. The Quests are good but they're Facebook and jailbreaking them is a bit of a pain in the ass. But the expensive headsets being $1000+, taking 8 months to ship, and then being basically a fancy monitor and controller pair is basically criminal.

[Anonymous No.7163296]

Games today seems like a fucking chore. Everything has to be +20 hours, RPG elements and endless tutorials. Sometimes those things are implemented right, but most of time don't. Indie games are more interesting, I have played Dead Cells on and off this year, no AAA game caught my attention that long.

[Anonymous No.7163345]

>>7163296
>Muh immersion
>Muh vistas & setpieces
>Muh graphics
>Muh scripted sequences
>Muh cutscenes
>Muh realism

[Anonymous No.7163412]

>>7163345
>>Muh realism
The pursue of realism kills novel design ideas. I mean, its easier to do something closer to reality than creating a different vision of the world.

[Anonymous No.7163562]

>>7161794
Red Dead Redemption. When did that come out? That was the last ((new)) game that I really felt compelled to play a lot.
After the Xbox360, nothing caught my eye and to this day I don't feel like I've missed out on anything. Even all the remakes and remasters dont entice me.

[Anonymous No.7163579]

>>7163147
Eh, soldier demo engie all have similar silhouettes, especially using their sidearms

[Anonymous No.7163673]

>>7161794
when I realized dlc and microtransactions were becoming normalized things and gaming just became another cog in the capitalist clock. now I just play old games like tomb Raider and shit

[Anonymous No.7163693]

>>7161794
December 2007

[Anonymous No.7163694]

>>7161823
>this

i literally just want a better gaming pc to play those gigantic as fuck GZDoom maps

[Anonymous No.7163703]

the first game i played on my brand new gaming pc five years ago was twilight princess with upscaled graphics lol

[Anonymous No.7163738]

I sold my 360 and everything I had for it in 2009 so that I could go to a music festival, thinking that I could just get another one if I was missing it. That was the last time I owned a current gen console. The first couple years of 7th gen were fun imo but idk, I just can't get excited enough to spend 300+ dollars on the hardware to keep up with increasingly gayer games.

[Anonymous No.7164213]

>>7161794
I still play modern games (recently got a ps4) but im usually always a generation behind and i buy more retro games than modern one especially 5th gen.

[Anonymous No.7164240]

>>7161794
it was when consoles started demanding you be online to even be allowed to play the games you own. xbox360 was the first experience with that. I had a net outtage in the area and went to go play some games and I got told you need to login to play... there was no way to play offline and so I couldnt even use my system. I have an xbox1 I got as a gift but thats the same way... no net no use the system. So wtf am I supposed to do in 10yrs if I wanna replace something and the live is shut down. I'll have a fucking paperweight and games I cant play anymore. add in the dlc transactions and lootboxes and games forcing politics and gender issues into them and I just tapped out of modern gaming minus like 4 games I still enjoy.

So back to the 1980s/90s I went and its been great. Playing thru silent debuggers on the tg16 again and next after that is a romp thru river city ransom again.

[Anonymous No.7164296]

>>7162751
>>7162751
>>7162751
I feel like you just want me to list games so you can bitch about them and act superior. That said, Hades, Spelunky 2, Animal Crossing, Ori, Crusader Kings 3, Streets of Rage 4, ibb and obb, Tetris vs Puyo 2, MH Iceborn and the FF7 sequel have all been fun. It's okay if you diagree.

[Anonymous No.7165894]

I have only been playing indie games and shit from the 6th gen and before, games now days just don't appeal to me, maybe there's Dragon Quest but that's because i loved the main series since long ago, DLC kind of killed the hype for new games, like you don't have the sense of having a complete game but part of it.

[Anonymous No.7165948]

>>7161794
When watching streaming became the only way people enjoyed games.....

[Anonymous No.7165949]

>>7164240
What were you trying to play? I've had my internet go out plenty of times and I obviously can't play 360 online but everything else works fine.

[Anonymous No.7165954]

>>7165948
I enjoy games a ton and have literally never watched a stream of someone else.

[Anonymous No.7166057]

>>7162751
Why delete your post asking for what modern games I liked? Are you really that upset that I replied?

[Anonymous No.7166064]

huge poorfag growing up so even though i had systems i never had many games. half way through gen 7 i felt disconnected with gaming and wanted to go back and experience cool shit i missed

[Anonymous No.7166585]

>>7161794
Sixth generation was truly my last generation. I haven't been quite excited for games since then. I didn't care about the upcoming PS3, Wii, and 360 at all. Honestly still feels taboo to mention the sixth generation here as I still don't really consider it retro. But it certainly isn't "modern". Kind of like a bridge between old and new in that awkward phase.

[Anonymous No.7166931]

>>7161794
Once I got to around 16 years old I stopped giving a shit about new vidya.

[Anonymous No.7166992]

>>7162105
Exactly, and it was the last gen before everything turned grey-ish.
>60 fps
Not for us PALfags. We had better covers though

[Anonymous No.7166998]

>>7162241
That's because 7th gen is when the Japanese video game industry basically collapsed. Who do you think made the vast majority of good games previously.

[Anonymous No.7167000]

>>7161794
When Gen 7 went crazy with online jewry

[Anonymous No.7167006]

>>7161794
I can remember having less than zero interest in ever owning a DS cause I thought touchscreens in video games were a stupid gimmick. Think I was like eleven or twelve. Replaced my Gameboy SP with a PSP and then sold it when I realized the games were shitty, traded all my consoles for a PS3 and then sold it when I got tired of FPS. That was like ten or eleven years ago, extent of my interest in video games since then is all /vr/ shit, specifically for SNES since I never had one.

[Anonymous No.7167028]

>>7161794
technically last gen.

outside of a few exclusives (that ended up getting ported to PC inevitably) i didn't see the point in getting a console since everything i was looking forward to at the time was coming to PC.

i'm still in that same boat now. everything i'm looking forward to is coming to PC and unless the series X has full backwards compatibility with previous xboxes i'm not really interested in getting it.

[Anonymous No.7167106]

I still enjoy some modern games but because of ridiculous dlc price gouging, early access, and being of a generation that is getting fucked over financially by rampant immigration and stagnant wages, I now pirate literally all media and am not going to pay for any of it ever again. The games are not worth anywhere close to their asking price, and they never get good enough discounts. I used to like the old steam sales where they would have really nice daily or flash deals. I haven't given a shit about buying a game since they made the sales generic 50% dogshit. And then when you get a game that's actually decent and had a good discount, like Dark Souls prepare to die which would go on sale for $5, the jews will "enhance" the game and re-release it for $50 and make it so you can't buy the old version anymore. The mind boggling thing to me is that people don't even give a shit and keep wasting their money on it. But some recent games that I actually enjoyed: Doom eternal, Rage 2, Subnautica, Prey, Death stranding. Currently downloading a torrent of Cyberpunk but it looks like it's gonna be garbage. Never paid for any of them. The last console I bought was a gamecube in 2003 and have had no urge to buy any console since. I mostly emulate now and bought an Everdrive 64 that I've been getting a lot of use out of.

[Anonymous No.7167343]

>>7161794
Halfway into or at least near the end of the 8th gen is when I realized something was fucked, and I ultimately dropped out of the 8th gen. I went back to playing games from the sixth generation again, and I'm a lot happier now. I also occasionally go back to and play some games from 5th gen and even some early 7th gen titles. 9th gen is looking to be the worst gen yet.

[Anonymous No.7167402]

This happened to me with the 6th gen, which I largely skipped because SEGA stopped making consoles. However, I got back into gaming with the Nintendo DS in 2009 and that got me curious about what was being released in the 7th gen.

I think I'm at the end of my second wind. I'm starting to hate devs that I used to think could do nothing wrong like Rockstar and Naughty Dog. It became apparent that good writing and gameplay is secondary to diversity and advertising. I spent most of 2020 revisiting 8-bit and 16-bit games than playing anything that came out this year.

Modern games are so bloated. You wait hours for some patch to download, fight through control latency, suffer through hours of badly written cutscenes in a story more interested in diversity than world building. Whoever thought that finding journals and audio logs was a good idea to flesh out a game's world should be murdered. Sometimes I play an absolute gem like Yakuza 0 but lately I just find myself reverting back to what I've always liked.

[Anonymous No.7167581]

7th generation, I was into what Platinum Games was putting out, the last games I really enjoyed was Vanquish/Bayonetta/Revengeance. After that I just lost interest. I do enjoy some indie games that are coming out, though.

[Anonymous No.7167773]

>>7161794
I'm more into retro gaming now that physical distribution is dying out and the industry is shifting towards streaming. Exploring games that have stood the test of time is just far more appealing to me than shit that just won't. Maybe it's because I'm a zoomer but I am still cool with the occasional new gen game here and there, just not frequently at all.

[Anonymous No.7168321]

>>7161794
i've honestly never felt that way. the closest i came to being that guy was 2014-16, and even those shitty years still had SOME new games i wanted to play, even if they were few and far between compared to the rest of my lifetime.
most "le tired gaymurs" are the type of people who only see big-budget western AAA blockbusters as valid and assume all of gaming has gone to shit just because those have gone to shit. either that or hopeless nostalgiafags who won't even give a chance to anything made past an arbitrary cut-off date.

[Anonymous No.7168326]

>>7161794
after i got xbox 360 i just didnt like the games as much as older ones

[Anonymous No.7168331]

>>7162852
Everything you dislike started with the PSX

[Anonymous No.7168358]

>>7161794
Before you buy videos on yt of PS miniclassic in 4k or 8k

[Anonymous No.7168361]

While I prefer gen 6 and below and noticed that since gen 7, I don't see myself ever just stopping. While we may not get as many great games in a year as we used to (which is ironic since more than ever come out), we still get some goods ones here and there. So if by "done" you mean "realized you won't get into any generation like your favorites again" then sometime in the 7th generation. If you mean actually stopped playing new games, then never.

[Anonymous No.7168371]

>>7161836

At least tutorials aren't as bad as they were during the 7th gen, when you were always forced through a tutorial section that holds your hand. They're gotten a lot more hands off and can usually be ignored, or go by very quick now.

[Anonymous No.7168372]

>>7161794
I don't feel like I'm done with Modern Gaming. I just don't like where it's at. I'll probably eventually try out CyberPunk. I'll certainly try out TES: 6 or any new single player Fallout.
I don't play Online. I don't play modern JRPGs.

[Anonymous No.7168378]

I want AA computer gaming to come back in a bad way. That's what I really want. You see that a little bit in VR games. I have a Vive, but I haven't had it hooked up in a while. It's a bit cumbersome to have hooked up.

[Anonymous No.7168380]

Gen 8, I only really really stayed up to date with consoles and games so I could play with friends. As soon as I finished high school and broke contact with all of them I just decided to fully devote myself to retro and older gen games.

I was already into retro stuff to begin with but that was the breaking point.

[Anonymous No.7168385]

>>7168331
not true. his first two complaints started in the 4th generation, not the 5th, while his third complaint is vague to the point of being meaningless.

[Anonymous No.7168386]

>>7168321
Yeah, plenty of fags who claim they like retro games that were all made by small teams of people on relatively small budgets, but won't play any new releases that aren't billion dollar movie games.

[Anonymous No.7168392]

Modern politics and online culture. I don't want to deal with snowflakes.

[Anonymous No.7168397]

>>7163296

Yeah, this is something that gets under my skin too. I do get annoyed that EVERYTHING has to be 20 hours minimum now. People shat on Luigi's Mansion when it came out for being too short, but I think it lasts only as long as it needs to, and its length makes it perfect for replays. I still haven't replayed Luigi's Mansion 3 yet because it was padded out to hit an arbitrary game length. And JRPGs are getting terribly long. I miss 20-50 hour JRPGs, it seems like 70-100 is the new goal.

I got annoyed when playing DOOM Eternal due to the various upgrade systems and lore files. I like that stuff in RPGs, even some non-RPGs, but I just don't feel that DOOM is a good fit for either of those.

[Anonymous No.7168398]

>>7161794
Why do you assume /vr/ doesn’t play modern games? Do you have any idea how gay your post sounds? I hope your carts catch fire and burn your house down, obviously, with you in it.
>TL;DR: Fuck you, faggot.

[Anonymous No.7168404]

>>7167106

I don't know why people still lose their minds over Steam sales. The last killer year for them I remember is 2009, and I only remember that because I got STALKER: SoC for two bucks two years after it came out. I didn't see it get that cheap on Steam again until maybe two years ago.

[Anonymous No.7168405]

>>7168397
I have actually talked to someone IRL who used sites that list game length as a consideration when purchasing games.
Literally quantity over quality.

[Anonymous No.7168479]

>>7168398
dilate

[Anonymous No.7168547]

>>7161794
This thread blew up fast. Must be a lot of Cyberpunk refugees coming in.

[Anonymous No.7168624]

>>7168547

A lot of people on /vr/ have problems with modern games and saw this thread as a chance to bitch. I don't think Cyberpunk is involved.

[Anonymous No.7168659]

>>7168479
have sex

[Anonymous No.7168686]

>>7168547
>>7168624
quick rundown on cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.7168693]

>>7168686

It's one of the biggest releases of the year, so /v/'s trying to turn it into another TORtanic.

[Anonymous No.7168702]

>>7161794
It's not healthy to stay stuck in the past. Good or bad, you gotta move forward.

[Anonymous No.7168708]

6th. 7th has some cool games and 8th even fewer. I tend to play only fighters, shmups and some open world like BotW and Red Dead Redemption on newer generations. Playing GTA V now and it's only worth it for the characters, because IV and V have horrible controls/physics and the story is generic.
Also started Doom Eternal and it doesn't feel as much arcadey as 2016, so I got kinda bored after 1 level.
Even new retro platformers are boring af nowadays.

[Anonymous No.7168710]

I don't support paid online, live service games, subscriptions, esports, remakes, special editions, microtransactions and politics in vidya. Shit really hit the fan in 2012 with Clash of Clans and in the next year with the XBONE and PS4, so I play almost nothing after that. The latest game I liked was DXHR.

[Anonymous No.7168712]

>>7168686
It's a glitchfest on top of a highly underwhelming RPG experience
Textures flashing in and out of existence on every other character model, cars driving through walls and over thin air, characters pulling guns out of their heads in cut-scenes, AI breaking on contact with a melee weapon, etc.

[Anonymous No.7168758]

>>7168710

Remakes and politics have been around in games for decades.

[Anonymous No.7168767]

>>7168693
>>7168712
thanks

[Anonymous No.7168794]

>>7168659
I was going to say "you will never be women", but looking back at this post >>7168398 you most likely are one.

[Anonymous No.7168809]

>>7168758
I agree, but I don't play those games. And it is much more prevalent now than then.

[Anonymous No.7168821]

I accept that I'm no longer the target demographic for games. FPS is all about team work now and I hate it. But I would say 7 was the last time I looked forward to new games coming out, now all the new games I play are indies.

[Anonymous No.7168838]

I think when I realised I'd owned Civ V and played it, but never enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.7169689]

>>7167402
>>Modern games are so bloated. You wait hours for some patch to download, fight through control latency, suffer through hours of badly written cutscenes in a story more interested in diversity than world building. Whoever thought that finding journals and audio logs was a good idea to flesh out a game's world should be murdered. Sometimes I play an absolute gem like Yakuza 0 but lately I just find myself reverting back to what I've always liked.

That's part of the reason why the only games I've truly loved in the past decade are the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3. I still think the original RE3 was better, though.

[Anonymous No.7169701]

PS3/360 was when consoles died and were silently replaced with livingroom PCs.

[Anonymous No.7169786]

>>7169689

REmake 2 was fairly good when I judge it by its own merits, but when I compare it to the original, I just end up complaining about bad decisions and lazy/rushed design, and I'm not even an RE2 super fan. REmake 3 was also fine when I played through it and just enjoyed it for what it was, but that one also suffers a lot when I compare it to the original.

[Anonymous No.7169928]

I was about 22 when I realised nothing coming out or new appealed to me. And then anything I did try just could not click with me, something always felt off or I couldn't get into it and would have to drop it minutes in.

[Anonymous No.7169982]

>>7161794
>>7169928
Playing over 30 hours of Hollow Knight and realizing it would never feel as good as 3 hours of Super Metroid did this for me. Also >>7161823

[Anonymous No.7170010]

>>7168794
What's that supposed to mean?

[Anonymous No.7170027]

>>7170010
He thought you were trans.

[Anonymous No.7170043]

>>7170027
Now that's what I call rent free lol.

[Anonymous No.7170046]

>>7161794
when every time I turned on the ps4 the fucker needed to update

[Anonymous No.7171360]

>>7161794
Ive almost exclusively played retro and some early 2000s titles since the early 2010s when I got fed up with modern media. The exception are fromsoft games because its the only developer i know that consistently puts out quality games (they are getting worse though and ER is looking bleak), and even those somehow have a retro feel to them. I find most modern games really unengaging and uninspired, but I'm open to suggestions.

[Anonymous No.7171983]

>>7170027
No, a literal women. Look at her post. Who else would get that emotional and fly off the handle right off the bat like that for no reason?

[Anonymous No.7171987]

>>7171983
It's time to take your schizo meds, anon

[Anonymous No.7171991]

>>7161794
When they revealed the PS5 and Xbox One X, I knew I was done with console gaming. I went straight to PC. Would have gone to PC way sooner had it not been for Shenmue 3 and the release of Shenmue 1 & 2 HD.

[Anonymous No.7172006]

>>7161794
Most developers started going to shit after the 6th gen. Most notably Square Enix, they REALLY are becoming another EA

[Anonymous No.7172082]

>>7171360

>and even those somehow have a retro feel to them

I think it's because they're clearly video games and are about the gameplay.

[Anonymous No.7172269]

>>7161794
Um. Whenever I watch a CoD game play. Or when I've had spent $000s to play Death's Gambit and make dada-esque .jpeg in paint.War and Peace is good.

[Anonymous No.7172305]

There has been a generational awareness that progress isn't quite what we think it is and that history might not be telling the truth possibly.

[Anonymous No.7172330]

>>7172305
Please elaborate. Are you talking about specific historical events or things on the metaphysical level?

[Anonymous No.7172408]

>>7172330
Bandits at 3 o'clock, hang on a minute.

[Anonymous No.7172431]

>>7163141
TF2 ruined me. Its visual design was so thoughtfully crafted that when I moved on to play other multiplayer shooters it was very difficult to tell who was on my team and who wasn't, plus modern games have too much visual clutter.
It was so cool how Valve actually managed to make a game as chaotic as tf2 easy to read without the need of team colored outlines/emblems and waypoint markers everywhere.

[Anonymous No.7172439]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[Anonymous No.7172446]

>>7163296
This is probably what I hate the most other than scummy business. Wasnt the FF7 remake just 1/3rd of the original but padded out to be over 40 hours long? What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.7172465]

>>7172446
It is Midgar (5-6 hours in the original game) stretched out to longer than the entirety of the original FF7, with a retarded plot about time ghosts added.

[Anonymous No.7172493]

>>7172465
>longer than the entirety of the first game
I got 90 hours out of FFVII.

[Anonymous No.7172503]

>>7172408
>Posts an Amiga shot with “NES” in it

[Anonymous No.7172509]

>>7172006
>becoming
They already were part of EA.

[Anonymous No.7172515]

>>7170046
Why is Chadoraemon tossing Noobita out the windee?

[Anonymous No.7172561]

>>7172446

It was only Midgar, but it's a bad comparison since it's not even a remake. It's a straight up sequel in the guise of a remake.

[Anonymous No.7174491]

>>7161794
the first beyond good and evil 2 trailer

[Anonymous No.7174496]

>>7174491
correction the one after the old first one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsoIUHDrPcg

[Anonymous No.7174682]

>>7161794
The death of the Dreamcast opened my eyes. Anything after it was trash and I switched to PC and made my own games. The eyetoy/wii was the nail into the coffin

[Anonymous No.7174871]

Grand theft auto five
Fallout 4
Breath of the wild
And of course the fact there just aren't Anymore games

[Anonymous No.7174885]

Middle of 7th gen. Thats when innovation stopped imo and just turned into muh better graphics and nothing new gameplay wise. I still haven't played a single 8th gen game.

[Anonymous No.7175002]

>>7161794
>>7174885
Late 7th gen for me.

The democratization of season/battle passes and micro-transactions. For the longest time I didn't understand what a "battle pass" was, turns out it's just a package of bundled, paid DLC or something you buy to grind levels for shiny cosmetics. Completely retarded.

At the same time, games started getting more and more movie-like, losing what made them appealing in the first place. Gameplay stagnated while pixel count went up.

[Anonymous No.7175032]

>>7162650
wtf is wrong with widescreen

[Anonymous No.7175046]

>>7166998
p much

[Anonymous No.7175053]

Skyrim was the last game I was truly hyped for. I bought my friend's old 360 off of him and played that, fallout 3, and red dead, which I enjoyed. After that I was too poor to buy new games during college so I just played indie games and pre-2010's games on my PC, as well as emulating a lot of older games. After I got out of college I've had other financial/time priorities so I never bought a new console or built a new PC. I also gamedev older-style games for fun on my shitty old computer so it's taught me to embrace and appreciate older graphics even more, considering what they were able to accomplish with such restrictions.

I do have a switch now but barely play it other than ports of older games and smash with my friends occasionally

[Anonymous No.7175056]

>>7171991
Shenmue 3 and Shenmue 1+2 HD were on PC tho

[Anonymous No.7175086]

>>7161794
When I compared the game list between console generations. They said the future was bright, it wasn't. Why are we making games with more bloat and less gameplay? I got a greater appreciation for games that felt too short yet were amazing.

[Anonymous No.7175102]

>>7161794
gen 7, 8th gen was pretty lackluster bare some very few titles so I didn't bother that much.

[Anonymous No.7175108]

>>7175086
Even if they aren't amazing, as long as they keep you engaged for one or two sessions without blowing your mind away, they're a lot more satisfying to play.

[Anonymous No.7175153]

>>7161794
Death of handhelds for me. There's so much more value to em than mobile "games" but morons would rather pay for jpegs than actual content.
The PS4/Xbone generation requiring gigantic patches on half their unfinished games, and the switch from "buy PC disc and install" to "Valve owns everything" digital garbage.
And I suppose watching all the series I grew up with die, get farmed out to shitty devs and then die, or get turned into porn bait had something to do with it too.
God bless piracy.

[Anonymous No.7175286]

>>7175153

>or get turned into porn bait

This is really annoying. What's even worse is nowadays, at least on 4chan, you're lucky if you can talk to someone who buys anything that makes their dick hard and make them understand your issue with that. I understand why a 14 year old would want constant stimulation and may not understand why you wouldn't be interested in a never ending stream of fanservice when you're 30, but I don't understand people in my own age group still thinking that fanservice = quality, and the more of it, the more quality, who cares about the rest of the game?

[Anonymous No.7175291]

>>7175286
seethe SJW

[Anonymous No.7175294]

>>7175291

I enjoy pornography and want SJWs to die though. That's the thing. People here think that if you don't want to see sexy things every single waking second of your life that you're an SJW who wants it all banned.

[Anonymous No.7175372]

>>7175056
I know, but I wanted physical copies of those games.

[Anonymous No.7175396]

>>7161794
I've been tapering off for years in terms of playing new games mostly because of dlc/microtransactions and day 1 patches that literally make the games playable, but I think Desth Stranding was the one that really broke me. I was really thinking it would be some kind of spiritual successor to Silent Hill or at least have elements of it, and I thought it would actually be fun to play (lol), but of course it didn't pan out that way. Now I stick to games that came out in my childhood and arcade games from before I was born.

[Anonymous No.7175409]

>>7175294
>i enjoy pornography
Fukin coomer get out.

[Anonymous No.7175410]

The two year double-whammy of the shitfests that were Duke Nukem Forever and Diablo 3 are what killed my last shreds of youthful optimism for new games. I guess I had to learn to expect disappointment from everything that I enjoy at some point.

[Anonymous No.7175430]

>>7175286
This. Underneath the coombait you realize its all there to mask a very mediocre game.

[Anonymous No.7175454]

>>7163137
I know that feel. Bloodborne, my favorite recent game, suffers from this a lot. There are times when I'm playing it and the screen just sort of becomes this giant splatter of tiny details and colors, all blurry and moving, and I just yearn for the snes clarity of my childhood favorites. Still a great game, but this problem is going to persist or probably worsen as photoreal graphics and increased polygon counts continue to get pushed in the new gen.

[Anonymous No.7175460]

>>7163579
based legally blind anon

[Anonymous No.7175875]

>>7161794
Sixth was the last gen for me. At least as far as consoles go. There's no point in owning a console now, all the good stuff is on PC. And by good stuff I mean mostly indie stuff, the only place where there is still creativity and experimentation. Everything else today is just MUH GRAPHICS and endless betas full of glitches.

[Anonymous No.7175896]

>>7161794
Second reply here, 7th gen gets a little crazy with indie games, and if I can't get them physically, what's the point?

[Anonymous No.7175915]

>>7162650
i felt the same as well but i've changed that in the last few years. finally enough time has passed so that those systems are easy to pirate for if you're not worried about online play. the games are cheap as fuck anyways and you can skip the COD Rehash/sequel shit and find some real cool stuff on those systems.

ps3 alone is worth is for the ps2 remakes.

[Anonymous No.7175920]

>>7162090
Amen, brother.

[Anonymous No.7175928]

>games getting more expensive while gameplay barely seems to improve
>upgrades in graphics plateauing to the point it feels superfluous
>most fun, interesting games I've played in the last 5 years have been small indie titles
>got a handheld emulation machine
>too poor to buy new games, decide to actually go through my incredibly neglected backlog
>definitely too poor to be buying the new wave of consoles coming out
>most definitely too poor to upgrade my PC any time soon
>find out that the homebrew scene is more than just basic arcade clones since the last time I looked into it (which has admittedly been more than a decade)

Hell, I've even switched over to playing mostly FOSS Android games instead of anything off the Play Store

Being poor can be good sometimes. Not often, but sometimes.

[Anonymous No.7175979]

>>7163673
Literally same dude

[Anonymous No.7176808]

>>7161794
I just watched videos of what was at the time "modern games" and borrowed someone's massive steam account. Lended PS4 once too. Everything just seemed horrible (to me) and/or I couldn't recognize it as a "game" because it was genuinely just too different for me to adapt to (I'm not even that old).

I don't know why, but I simply can't learn to adapt to new games. Maybe because I grew up with it, maybe I prefer the simplicity and my mind doesn't overload from over detailed graphics, maybe modern game looks are too unfamiliar. Maybe games after the ps2 died just became unplayable garbage. Don't know.

I do know graphics/"the feel" is a big thing that is off putting to me, game play comes second.

[Anonymous No.7176852]

>>7163296
This is what is driving me to retro games as well. Around the 10h mark I usually find myself not having fun and am just forcing myself to play because I wanted to make it to the end.

[Anonymous No.7176854]

>>7165948
Why. I won't ever undertand. That sounds horrible and asinine. I see 0 enjoyment in that except in very rare cases.

[Anonymous No.7176857]

>>7161794
Never, really. I stopped buying consoles at gen 7 though

[Anonymous No.7176889]

>>7161825
I'll buy switch games since at least you still own the game card

[Anonymous No.7177070]

>>7163079
>Lighting and particles
It certainly seems there's a lot of visual flair in combat heavy games either when you hit an enemy or get hit yourself. Slowdown, blurs, screen flashes, etc up the whazoo
One of the worse things in recent games in communicating damage is when your vision blurs and the outer edges start going red/grey. It's really obnoxious to deal with.

[Anonymous No.7177103]

7th gen ruined gaming and I wished I could stay at 6th gen. And it's not just nostalgia for the 6th gens and previous gens as I should have as much nostalgia for the 7th gen considering when I played it. I remember I really enjoyed connecting with all my school friends to play COD, but I hated everything else about it. I hated the brown brown brown color pallete. I hated that everything was a shooter now. It seemed that gameplay seriously took a hit in this era. I liked some of the cinematic games this gen, but they are overrated and are what led to the insane crap we have now. I wish the 7th gen never happened. To me it is clear it ruined gaming.

[Anonymous No.7177137]

>>7177103

Yeah, I understand completely. I was in high school when the gen started and I had some good times playing games with friends at the time, and I look back fondly on those times of course, but not the generation as a whole. Man, gen 7 sucked. I feel like gaming slightly recovered this gen. The tutorials weren't as bad and games were allowed to be somewhat challenging again, but they just doubled down on other bad shit or introduced new stuff like season passes.

[Anonymous No.7177151]

>>7177137
Yeah, I will still look fondly back on playing with friends but there was just a lot to not like with that gen. Nice to know someone else has a similar perspective.

[Anonymous No.7177160]

>>7177137
Same. I have nostalgia for the mid 2000s like crazy as I was just out of high school and doing whatever the fuck I wanted (barely staying in College, playing WoW all day, and playing SNES on emulator). But the console games were just bad, developers stopped making 2d games on PC, graphics and music got awful. Triple A publishers took over the industry. I got much more into retro games because around 2010 I just assumed I wasn't into gaming anymore because shit sucked. Things improved, and I now see 7th gen as the obsolete nadir of video gaming.

[Anonymous No.7177520]

>>7162105
>A lot of major games running at 60 fps too
Like what?

>>7166998
>the Japanese video game industry
The western video game industry was being championed as early as the 4th generation, and by the 6th generation most of the top games were by westerners. You only think that because you like MGS2/3 more than 4, DMC1 and 3 more than 4, FFX-XII more than the thirteens, and Melee more than Brawl.

[Anonymous No.7177534]

>>7161794
>When did you realize you were done with modern gaming
I tried just playing retro but there are some dope modern releases that grab my attention. For example Blazing Chrome, Fight 'n Rage, Streets of Rage 4, Eagle Island, the Curse of the Moon 1 & 2, Mighty Gunvolt Burst!, MM 11. etc

I mainly play retro cause that's where the best platformers, action games and beat em ups are but don't sleep on modern games. Some hidden gems will always come out.

[Anonymous No.7177554]

>>7167581
I do believe that, with all its flaws, the 7th gen has merit to it. 2013 is officially the year games went to shit.

>dead space 3
>bioshock infinite
>gone home
>the last of us
>dota 2
>colonial marines
>gta5
>FUCK YOU

Mass Effect 3 from the prior year should've been an indicator.

[Anonymous No.7177573]

>>7161823
> 4k
uh 800x600 should be enough for anyone

[Anonymous No.7177575]

>>7168758
>Remakes and politics have been around in games for decades.

See the difference is that political jokes were often very few and far between, nowadays it just seems like:

>Ahh, what a beautiful day with a nice shining sun. It's almost as orange as Trump!
>Time to have some toast, boy these toasts would be too big for Trump's hands!
>I don't believe in judging people by the color of their skin, unless they're orange like Trump!
>Republicans? More like Nazis!
>nazis nazis trump nazis trump trump nazis

[Anonymous No.7177576]

>>7175396
>arcade games from before I was born
i recommend robotron 2048

[Anonymous No.7177585]

>>7161794
Anything past 7th gen

[Anonymous No.7177602]

>>7177575

What games are you playing to see political jokes that often? I've seen some occasionally, but nothing too terrible. I've seen games chock full of political agendas though.

[Anonymous No.7177614]

I'm playing nothing but Atari 2600 and NES games. Thinking about grabbing a Master System. Maybe an MSX2 or x68000

[Anonymous No.7177779]

>>7161794
The corridor epidemic that swept the 360 killed it for me.

[Anonymous No.7177792]

>>7161794
when more women and mentally ill freaks got involved

[Anonymous No.7177801]

>>7168380
i did the same 5-6 years ago, kinda miss that i have no one to talk to irl

[Anonymous No.7177840]

>>7161794
When modern western gaming became more important or influencial than japanese gaming I felt that something changed in this industry and that a certain "fun" atmopshere was lost. I believe than western deification of seriousness and realism has hurt gaming a lot. When graphics were not so advanced, they were still forced to have more humor or try different approaches to game design and art direction but when they started to have full access to ultra-realistic graphics gaming was almost totally poisoned.

[Anonymous No.7177968]

>>7177840
>mobile cancer rakes in the money, companies follow suit
>westshit are just generic interactive setpieces at best, horrifying lootbox simulations at worst
>no mod support for most games, especially criminal for the new doom games as all the others did
>"games as a service" has infected most games
>japan is turning console games into mobage
>persona 5 is just "persona 4 2", series will never change
>ff7r is an "episodic" game
>capcom decided to "westify" their art direction, dmc5 looks fucking atrocious

It just makes those random ports/remakes of old games sting so much. What could've been, versus what we wound up getting.

[Anonymous No.7177983]

I'm not entirely done since there's aways some few games that are bound to be good among the sea of garbage, like DMCV, but i've been pretty disillusioned by it for a while now, stuff like the ever increasing pozzed shit in these last two gens, this year was the tipping point, too much politics and shit, constant censorship hypocrisy, games constantly being split into a million pieces with content locked behind extra paywalls, arbitrary tedious timers or pointless busy work that just kills any enjoyment and make more money, and just boring ass games coming out.
Don't like how Gameplay is taking a back seat for a lot of games, and certain genres, it's either too easy, not enough depth, or just thrown there for the sake of having gameplay since it's technically a game, putting a lot of pointless filler (more than before), lot of slow moments to "take in the world", cinematic shit that's overused and it's not as a reward to the player for beating or improving, but just constant endless interruptions getting IN the way of the gameplay. More focus on graphics than ever.
AI seems to be getting dumber and only a few games evolve it, but the industry doesn't adopt new standards to improve their games,
Story taking the front seat yet getting worse for the majority of games, writing is becoming more and more disneyfied, irreverent dialogue marvel style, no one can get spicy and off script, everythign is approved, even when being offensive, so it takes the spice off it, characters not reacting like they should, idk story seems to be a bigger focus yet it's still bad or also getting worse, people constantly forgiving broken games.
It's so much shit

[Anonymous No.7178028]

I don't want to pay $60 to beta test a game. Going back to my ps2 is easier.

[Anonymous No.7178071]

>>7177968
don't worry we'll just start making n64 games again, give it ~5 more years

[Anonymous No.7178113]

>>7177968
>capcom decided to "westify" their art direction, dmc5 looks fucking atrocious
Yes. DMC4, Dead Rising or Lost Planet were still mostly fine because their graphics engine was not yet overpowered and that forced them to stylize the art and made them look still like games. With DMC5 or RE7 they look so realistic that it look ridiculous in a bad way. Like a cosplay party or a bad TV show.

Basically, the search for full realism and the cringey attempts to make gaming being validated as high art are some of the recent issues I have with this industry.

[Anonymous No.7178458]

>>7178113
Monster Hunter still looks pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.7178578]

>>7178458
Yes. The Yakuza games also look like a bit like old SEGA arcades. Some japanese developers still mantain the "gamey" feel to their games, despite the advancements in technology.

[Anonymous No.7178780]

>>7177983

>irreverent dialogue marvel style

This is something I've been noticing too, both in western games and localizations of certain Japan games like Final Fantasy. While it can occasionally be fun, it's really tiresome to hear it everywhere.

[Anonymous No.7178873]

PS4 is most likely the last console i'll have. I've been an idort most of the time, but everything is coming to be able to be emulated so i'm consolidating to PC. I just wish i knew of a ps2 emulator that would properly run snowblind games.

[Anonymous No.7178916]

>>7178780
I feel like this is becoming more and more of a problem in real life too. Streamers, social media, and meme-culture have instilled a sense of insincerity into so many people who now act like screaming idiots for attention than being who they really are. Like the fucking guy in pic related.

[Anonymous No.7178936]

>>7178916
>forgot image
fuck, I'm retarted

[Anonymous No.7180649]

>>7161794
When DLC became rampant and people accepted paying for unfinished releases full of bugs.

[Anonymous No.7180684]

>>7177520
I haven't played most of those games and have played none of those 7th gen games you listed.
It is a fact that the Japanese market for console games imploded.

[Anonymous No.7180694]

>>7163345
Immersion is the only one of those that's not a total meme. And I still think Half Life 2 did it unironically better than any game after it, except maybe Amnesia.

[Anonymous No.7180758]

>>7180684
I think part of that is due to FIVE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS and the Japanese being highly reluctant to back western horses. Capcom, Konami, and Square survived because they weren't brand loyalist retards, but most of the smaller companies kind of sat in the dark and made otaku games like hyperdimension neptunia or senran kagura. The market for 'true Japanese' games was relegated to a niche while bigger publishers had to release on Xbox, and even PC, to reach the mainstream gaming market.

[Anonymous No.7180969]

>>7175896
>physically
found the hoarder collector fgt

[Anonymous No.7181008]

>>7163296
>wanting a game to be short, ever
>muh backlog or whatever your excuse is for wanting games to be shorter
This is a byproduct of you having too much money, access to free shit, or a short attention span.

[Anonymous No.7181014]

>>7181008
One sitting is a great length for a game.

[Anonymous No.7181071]

>>7181008

I have played some excellent short games that I still revisit decades later, and some games that would be better if they weren't bloated to meet some arbitrary length. It's harder to understand if you're a NEET.

[Anonymous No.7181148]

>>7181071
I'm a NEET and still prefer shorter games. My favorites are 10-20 hours for the first playthrough and then a few hours to replay. I might be a NEET but I still have other interests and I don't like when a single game seems to be demanding too much of my time. And most of the time 50+ hour games just have a ton of boring filler anyway.

[Anonymous No.7181226]

>>7181148

I was less bothered by long games when I was a NEET, but even then I still had an appreciation for some shorter games. Nowadays I don't mind seven hour games since I don't have nearly as much time as I used to (but I still play a lot of long ass RPGs because I like the genre, goddamn it).

[Anonymous No.7181234]

>>7181226
Yeah, but 30 hours is about right for an RPG. Much longer than that and it really starts to feel like padding.

[Anonymous No.7181442]

>>7181008
Games only get to be long if they're actually good. I'm not playing 300 hours of garbage.

That said, most modern games are too long.

[Anonymous No.7181868]

>>7161794
> Game I'm interested is on sale on Steam
> From $20 down to $10
> Looks good, I'm gonna buy it
> Go to the store page
> It has $105 of DLC
> lolnope

I still play PC games from time to time, but it's difficult to justify spending money on them when I can download and play any Saturn or PS2 game I want on actual hardware and emulate anything else on my desktop for free.

Outside of Darktide I can't think of a single upcoming game that I am even remotely excited for, meanwhile I am psyched to start the English patched version of Vandal Hearts or Shining Force III on the Saturn this weekend.

>>7163673
I stopped playing Rise of the Tomb Raider halfway through because I got bored, meanwhile I can endlessly replay the original game and have fun every time. I played through it again a couple weeks ago and found out that if you swan dive from the scion platform in Atlantis (the one overlooking where you fight the giant torso boss) the level is so high that Lara will scream three times before you hit the lava at the bottom.

[Anonymous No.7181880]

>>7181442
Rich

[Anonymous No.7181906]

>>7181014
>>7181071
>>7181442
No one addressed the point about having other options. Honestly, all I am looking for in gaming today is that one “infinitely” replayable gem. The Diablo series is probably the closest thing.

[Anonymous No.7181910]

>>7181442
Do they? I didn’t know you were the Game Master. All bow down before his glorious Majesty! Fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.7181945]

>>7161794
Xbox One/PS4 generation, even with the 360 era I was getting a bit hesitant.

[Anonymous No.7182087]

>>7161794
7th gen because pc games got infested with consolidated game design.

[Anonymous No.7182247]

For the most part, I've been done with 'modern' gaming since the mid 2000's.

1985-2005 is my jam.

[Anonymous No.7182435]

>>7161794
The breaking point for me was when they made games you can't play without an internet connection.

[Anonymous No.7182453]

Midway through 7th gen,not bought anything since ps3/360 and my ps3 is only used to play movies

[Anonymous No.7182758]

>>7178113
I agree with DMC5, it sure did lose a bit of stylization, but RE7 looks pretty good for what it is and helps a lot with immersion.

[Anonymous No.7182762]

>>7182453
>my ps3 is only used to play movies
lol, mine too, but I also play some Retroarch from time to time. It's a fucking great movie machine, specially after you hack it.

[Anonymous No.7182965]

>>7180969
He's kinda right if one plans to buy. Buying digital only content is retarded. They get lost once the store goes down unless you start pirating.

[Anonymous No.7182973]

>>7182965
>pirating
>not the best option

[Anonymous No.7183026]

>>7181148
Most people assume NEETs or people with tons of time that game only do that. Personally, I have time, so asside from gaming I watch anime, old media, repair/clean consoles and computers and just started playing violin.
I prefer shorter games too, since I have a big collection of already downloaded games occupying too much space, and I get bored of long ones, unless they're shooters or open-world.
>>7181868
Check Train Simulator. Fuckin thing is the most expensive game because of all the DLC.
>>7182435
I hate that so much. If it's single-player, what's the fucking point?
>>7182973
Never said that, ya mong. I pirate everything. If I can't, I simply don't buy it.

[Anonymous No.7183280]

95% of ny time spent playing games is with those release pre-2006. However my two favorite games of all time have come out in the last 5 years so I can't exactly say I hate modern games

Those would be Tetris Effect and Undertale

[Anonymous No.7183369]

>>7183280
>Undertale
Never got this. Game is boring and not funny for the most part. Gameplay is broken too. I didn't do something (can't remember what it was), so had to walk back a lot, which was a chore.

[Anonymous No.7183489]

>>7183369
I happen to like jrpgs, the mother games and I really dig shmups. Pair them together and you have a game that felt entirely catered to me. Tie that with the fantastic soundtrack and little meta elements and it just resonated with me really well. If those aren't your thing then yeah you probably wouldn't like it

[Anonymous No.7183498]

Gen 7 is when I slowly started losing interest and then Gen 8 is when I lost interest entirely. Can't even be arsed to give a single ounce of shit about Gen 9.

[Anonymous No.7183820]

Probably around 2000. Games just started trying to do more than they were supposed to in order to be fun. Many examples in every genre but look at Warcraft for example. WC2, brilliant. WC3, annoying 3D graphics because 3D, long cutscenes and dialogues during missions, pretending your heroes are RPG characters on an adventure... For me, it just ruins the fun.

[Anonymous No.7183927]

>>7183498
At the very least, gen 7 is when a lot of slavic games started getting exposure, such as the witcher or more famously the stalker games.

[Anonymous No.7185731]

>>7161794
I only got into older games when I realized that modern games were getting MUCH worse around 10 years ago. Especially when games started getting released unfinished on purpose.

[Anonymous No.7185750]

>>7161794
8th gen consoles and the current state of the industry have played a big part in destroying all hope and interest i had/could've had for post-2012 pop culture in general

[Anonymous No.7186759]

I think it was during the ps2 that the loading times became unbearable and didn't seem to reward me with interesting content for waiting. By then I spent more time looking at shitty pc freeware/indie/doujin than actually playing on my current-gen console. Then I found out cave story and touhou, and could never really look at newer stuff the same way again. My ps3 and ps4 were pretty much just fromsoftware-dedicated machines. The switch is the first console in a while that got me hyped up, and I like that I can boot it and be playing mario kart online as fast as I can, with most fp games also showing some consistency, but I guess the SNES and PSX are just too much in comparison to anything else. Apart from having the first 6 megaman x's their library also carry what I gather to be the golden age of JRPGs, the best fighting games, best co-ops, it's hard to find a genre where these two consoles don't excel far above the average and possibly at the top. I guess you could argue 3d platformers aren't really present in any significative way comparing to other consoles, but that genre was always inferior to 2d plats for me. I'm glad at least a few indie devs still feel like emulating the style of that time (as shitty as most of them are).

[Anonymous No.7186784]

>>7161794
There's still good games being released, never felt like i was totally 'done' with it. I lost interest in most mainstream titles around 2005-6 though and i don't actively keep track of what's being released at all anymore, outside of a handful of titles.

[Anonymous No.7187085]

Xbox One S taking a half hour to updating and downloading, then games having their own updates to download and install. Far Cry Blood Dragon tutorial hand holding you through every little thing. Death stranding cutscenes going on for what felt like hours. Now games are apparently several hundred GBs? Fuck off

I didn't realize how shit gaming had become until I got old games that were new to me like Sonic 2, serious Sam, quake 1, and you just fucking plug and play. I took it for granted on stuff I played since childhood. Now I basically just play up to ps2 era. I still play some newer stuff but overwhelmingly prefer older stuff since I don't have to set aside a whole day just to get the game started

[Anonymous No.7187212]

>>7187085

>and you just fucking plug and play

I really miss that. I've been primarily a PCfag for years, only using consoles when they have an exclusive I want to play, and lately I've kind of wanted to simplify things and thought about doing more gaming on consoles next gen, but they're really not what they used to be anyway. The days of plug and play for consoles are long gone.

[Anonymous No.7187409]

>>7187212
It gets better - apparently the Xbox Series require you to be connected to the internet as part of at least the initial install and boot for a game. Not only do we have to sit through who knows how many hours of installing, opening credits, opening cutscenes, opening scenes of just walking, tutorials, intro splash screen, you must be connected to the internet

Mega lame. The only wait for a game should be the ride home with Mom while you read the manual in the car or fucking around in a multiplayer map while your buddy/buddies are still on their way. Or the equivalent for people who just bought games as adults back in the day

The one upside I admit is that the Xbox Series is apparently great for emulation, with retroarch and even ps2 emu

[Anonymous No.7187979]

>>7183489
Not the dude you replied to, but despite liking those things and thinking the soundtrack is indeed fantastic I still can't bear it. It's shallow as a JRPG, uninteresting and kinda cringy compared to mother and very basic as a shmup. Being built the way it was made it so it needed to be somewhat linear (even though you can subvert that expectation somewhat). Coming after mother made it try to be as dark throughout the whole game as mother was by the end, but making a half-assed attempt to hide it, which just looks bad and low-effort IMO. The shmup aspect wasn't interesting to play by itself either; it could've worked as an optional mechanic if there were more mechanics to explore (like FFVI or tomato story) in battle, but it got repetitive really fast, felt like a chore not a challenge.
In mixing rpg and shmup I prefer Knights in the nightmare, but that's a whole different can of worms.

[Anonymous No.7188075]

>>7161794
I stopped playing modern games shortly after I started going on autopilot when I played them, games all feel the same these days

[Anonymous No.7188085]

8. 7th gen has some good stuff, especially with the Wii and I'm cool with everything 6th gen and prior. After DLC and MTX, astronomical console prices, releasing unfinished shit, and games that are always on the internet became the standard it got really ahit. That and newer stuff is targeted to people who don't even like video games.