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7861436 No.7861436 [Reply] [Original]

Post a positive universal truth about retro games ITT. I'll start:
>they're all basically free

>> No.7861441

they're better than nu-games

>> No.7861547

They keep being good even after replaying them 20+ years after they were released.

>> No.7861561

They take next to no space on a modern hard drive

>> No.7861567

>>7861436
There's a huge number of them so there's always something to play. And they can't be subjected to modern politics or social issues.

>> No.7861568

They have sexy girls.

>> No.7861589

>>7861436
They can be played on any computer.

>> No.7861597

>>7861436
They're from a better time.

>> No.7861617

>>7861436
You can fit more amazing games that you could never live long enough to play on a 20 dollar SD CARD.

Because retro games had smaller teams than comparable games of today there is much more of a cohesion in the artistic vision, even if the result isn't great.

>> No.7861659

Why the fuck can't zoomers have ways of communicating that aren't cringe retardation

>> No.7861661

They all suck ass

>> No.7861665

>>7861661
t. filtered by rental game padding to ensure you don't just rent the game and have to purchase it lmao

>> No.7861672

>>7861659
Raised by the internet. They’ve been speaking in memes since like age 4.

>> No.7861927

>>7861441
FPBP

>> No.7862000

>>7861561
Objection. My ROMs and ISOs folder is obscenely huge.

>> No.7862019

>>7861672
>since like age 4
So nearly a decade?

>>7862000
That's what you get for allowing 6th gen

>> No.7862024

>>7862019
While you're not wrong, a lot of it is 'miger, DOS, and MAME too. 5th gen ISOs add up too. Probably should wipe some I will realistically never play, but most of them I will consider playing at some point, or have before. I try to compress them to CHD and such at least.

>> No.7862050

>>7862000

But that's because you have a shitload of them retard, more than you could ever possibly play in your lifetime. Try to do the same with new games and you'll find that a single generation will be bigger than all the last generations combined.

>> No.7862057

>>7861436
People talk about them more than they actually play them.

>> No.7862468

>>7862050
That's not the point, stupid-ass. Obviously I won't play them all. The idea is playing whatever strikes my fancy that I didn't know about previously.

Yes, though, the individual games *are* small. Just saying, a lot of my disk is dedicated to them.

>> No.7862481

>>7862024
PC is a bit of a rabbit hole but DOS, no. Amiga, hell no. MAME is US Saturn tier. Sure they all add up, but not to a lot. I have maybe 5TB of "retro" stuff and I have everything. Including "nu-retro" I have about 25 TB. Just US PS2 stuff is over 2TB, zipped. And because I'm not an emufag I have to keep a copy of the stuff I use unzipped. Fortunately storage is cheap.

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>>7862000
>folder
>not having a drive just for emulation
ngmi

>> No.7862535

>>7861436
Also:
As retro games have been played so much by so many people over the last 35 years, you can draw on a huge range of opinions and documentation to help choose which ones to actually invest time in playing.

>> No.7863860

>>7861436
They've created arrested development idiots who still think the console wars spergery that they were involved in 25 years ago is still a topic worthy of consideration now. However bad and numerous my faults, at least I'm not a socially retarded vidya version of Pee-Wee Herman.

>> No.7863869

>>7862505
You didn't format that properly.

>> No.7863914

>>7861436
They don't age.

>> No.7863918

>>7861436
People in current year don't actually like playing them, they just like looking at them

>> No.7863937

>>7863918
I would say that there's more normies playing games these days and that's why there's such a massive amount of people who barely play games, have low standards, hate video games despite playing them, use video games as a status symbol, parrot opinions of others, buy dlc and cosmetics, watch streams, play smash bros, hate being called casuals, expect to be catered to, promote sjw shit and so on and so forth

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>>7862505
>my drive is a fraction of the size of your folder
yikes

>> No.7864737

>>7861659
Why do zoomers communicate so poorly?

That's how your post should read. Work on your own skills before you attempt to improve the babbies.

>> No.7864774

>>7861436
go easy on the pepsi

>> No.7864779

>>7861436
I can pick them up and beat them in a few hours without having to sit through a bunch of cutscenes

>> No.7864829

>>7861436
You don't have to spend an hour installing them onto the hard drive and then another hour downloading updates and patches. No DLC or microtransactions, no connecting to the servers, no loading for 5 minutes. Just put the cartridge into the system, push the power button, and press start.

>> No.7864840

>>7864829
That's a big one for me. I'm a family guy so my time is limited as is. Waiting for hours of installing on top of hours of patches kills my interest in games quicker than anything.

>> No.7865046

>>7861436
almost any computer can play them

>> No.7865049

>>7861659
You really can't complain about that when you just used "cringe" as an adjective.

>> No.7865059

>>7864169
wow u download romsets, u must be leet hackerman

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>>7865059

>> No.7865117

>>7864737
>>7865049
That wouldn't cut it you autist. This thread is the equivalent of a presschool teacher asking the class why vegetables are good for you. You can almost picture each toddler raising his hand and blurting out "because they're colorful!", "because they're healthy! "because potatoes are yummy!". You are, literally, within infantile cringe retardation right now.

>> No.7865254

>>7861617
>>Because retro games had smaller teams than comparable games of today there is much more of a cohesion in the artistic vision, even if the result isn't great.
This is largely in part why most of the best games today are "indie" games.

>> No.7865274

>>7862481
>Just US PS2 stuff is over 2TB, zipped

ps2 is like 17-20 tb....

>> No.7865297

>>7861436
>Post a positive universal truth about retro games
No LGBTQ Trannie Blacks Good Whites Bad Agenda shoved down my throat.
Although I will say the politics in Mafia 3 had me rolling on the floor laughing. Fucking Jemimas bitching about the Gold Standard. LMAO

>> No.7865457

>>7865274
How many US PS2 games do you think there are?
How big do you think PS2 games are?

>> No.7865876

An entire console library takes less space than a modern video game.

>> No.7865890

>>7861441
Based

>> No.7865904

>>7865117
You have once again used "cringe" as an adjective.

>> No.7866259

>>7865904
Shut the fuck up already ya cringe retard.

>> No.7866280

>>7865904
This is how over time the word "fun" became an adjective when it was originally a noun. You look like a retard though and I hope you die.

>> No.7866287

make my pp hard

>> No.7867271

>>7861617
>>7865254
Very good example of too many cocks in the kitchen, you get basically no individual touches in the aspects of modern AAA games, because there's like a hundred people on staff. Rather than the ideas and tastes of a few level designers, each having their own style, you get a few dozen of them for a modern AAA game, and all blended together.