/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9039884]

Gaming was certainly better when this was used more.

[Anonymous No.9039902]

>>9039884
>Gaming was certainly better when this wasn't owned by gamespot
ftfy

[Anonymous No.9039961]

Internet died with the banning of VeghEsther

[Anonymous No.9039974]

>>9039902
wE wIlL nOt MeRgE wItH gAmEsP- shut the fuck up Jeff you lied.

[Anonymous No.9040024]

>>9039884
I preferred GameSages

[Anonymous No.9040036]

>>9039902
My most vivid memory about this website is how me, being a 13-year old boy from non-English country, wrote a e-mail to a guy who made NES Gimmick walkthrough with description on how to get all secret treasures.
My intention was to praise him and say thanks for the great job, but what I sent him was most likely the most broken garbled nonsense he ever read in his life, since that was my English level at the time.

[Anonymous No.9040324]

>>9040036
I remember sending a shitty email to a guy about unlocking kits on FIFA 2004 using my parents' email address. That was fun.

[Anonymous No.9040357]

>>9039884
>2002
>fat jew friend comes over
>he brings printed out pages from gamewinners
>play gamecube and PC for hours on end
>friends for years, slept over almost every night
>started turning into a dick and made fun of me to our other friends, called me gay because i thought it was funny to make michael jackson sounds, but they would watch porn together
>2007
>we get into a fight and i end up logging into his accounts on runescape and ragnarok and destroying all of his items
>log into his email by guessing his mom's birth place
>delete all of his messages with colleges and recruiters
>he hacks my habbo hotel account and takes my furniture
>we never talk again
may the wind be at your back, brother.

[Anonymous No.9040452]

>Is heal amount affected by the Magic Attack stat?
>Will this buff persist if the character transforms, or does it get lost?
I will never again find answers to questions like these because gamefaqs autists aren't so common anymore. I really really miss ASCII maps too.

Fandom wiki is NOT an appropriate substitute.

[Anonymous No.9040484]

>>9039902
I remember when they used to have bounties for requests that went unfulfilled. Got a $50 gamestop (EB games?) gift card for writing the only faq to a game nobody wanted to play.

[Anonymous No.9040526]

GameFAQs was nice, but the moderators on their message boards were faggots. YouTube and livestreaming destroyed gaming.

[Anonymous No.9040537]

>>9040526
let's plays destroyed gaming, now I have to type "no commentary" or 'longplay" just to not hear some dbag talk in a gameplay vid

[Anonymous No.9040550]

Gaming was certainly better when this was used more

[Anonymous No.9040551]

>>9039884

>Be me
> Go to the highschool computer lab during lunch.
> Go to gamefaqs and print out some cheats/ walkthroughs.

[Anonymous No.9040552]

>>9040537
Boohoo sugar tits you shouldn't be searching game content at that age.

[Anonymous No.9040782]

>>9039884
Usenet anyone? The FAQs were pure. No URLs no adverts.

[Anonymous No.9040839]

>>9040552
Why are you even here then?

[Anonymous No.9040864]

>>9040526
Janniepilled

[Anonymous No.9040872]

>>9040452
Fandom wikis are so fucking shit, badly laid out, never finished and full of ads.

[Anonymous No.9040874]

>>9040552
Why post here then?

[Anonymous No.9040891]

>>9040526
>YouTube and livestreaming destroyed gaming
This. So much this.

[Anonymous No.9040912]

>>9040452
>>9040872
Fandom wikis are seriously the worst and I hate that I'm using one for my favourite game, but these days no one fucking looks for guides on any other website. It's like that place is actively designed to be as ugly and awful as possible.

[Anonymous No.9040918]

>>9040357
I ganked some ffxi items from a irl acquaintance when he left his ps2 over
It was kinda dickish, but hey 400m Gil

[Anonymous No.9041000]

>>9040526
I started my internet posting after finding the Capcom vs. SNK 1 board and its subsequent social board. A bunch of us members wound up setting up an AIM chat group and talked regularly until maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I found my IRL best friend close to 20 years ago through that group because a bunch of them played Ragnarok Online and invited them to our chat group.

[Anonymous No.9041082]

>>9039884
i mean, i wouldn't disagree, but that doesn't mean it was better because of gamefaqs, just that it was a better time in general
correlation ≠ causation, ya know

[Anonymous No.9041087]

>>9040357
> best childhood friend turning into a dick and selling you for the company of other people by the end of 2007

I know this too well

[Anonymous No.9041105]

>>9039884
I got banned for "claiming" a board if memory serves me right, was ages ago too, think even before the takeover/merge. Anyway, the FAQs were on point, but that's due to the userbase. Whoever modded the place did not have a funny bone whatsoever. Also, to those of you who wrote guides, FAQs, etc. - did you get any sort of a commission for it? If you haven't, that's a shame, because I'm fairly certain that even "official" printed guide books oftentimes used FAQs from GameFAQs as a base. Either way, hey, thanks!

[Anonymous No.9041108]

>>9039902
I remember every other thread on the GTA3 board was HOW DO I HORN

[Anonymous No.9041118]

>>9040357
these weird &sad teen friendships end up being some of the best and most memorable friendships we ever have

[Anonymous No.9041140]

The GameFAQs forums were great.

[Anonymous No.9041146]

>>9041082
>it was a better time in general
Some things were better, others sucked and we didn't know better. Going into stores to buy video game magazines, local multiplayer at your friend's house, going to the arcades, visiting weird japanese websites on a 56K connection, masturbating to Sailor Moon gifs, arguing about Nintendo consoles on forums. Things were just more localized and "slower", there wasn't so much irony and "avoidance of cringe" in everything people did, everything felt more genuine.

Social media and the iPhone pretty much ruined the internet forever with the flood of unwashed masses, it destroyed forums, smaller community websites, fansites etc. However, I think this was inevitable, the internet was always meant to become a worldwide spanning network connecting every human. We need to be grateful to have experienced a time where dedicated (now called autistic) people put in the work to make unique things about stuff they were passionate about.

[Anonymous No.9041148]

>>9041118
> 2002
> a lot of green contacts on ICQ
> chatting almost every day with different people
> happy

> 2008
> almost every contact is now red
> trying to message last person on your list that stays active
> doesn't have any common themes with them anymore
> asking them how's the weather in their region

[Anonymous No.9041160]

>>9041148
Icq heyday was really 99/00 at the latest. I used to have quake 2 players on there lol. EH OH!

[Anonymous No.9041207]

>>9041140
Oh please, I bet most of the people here got banned eventually.

[Anonymous No.9041231]

>>9040357
that's what you get for being a habbofag

[Anonymous No.9041232]

>>9041146
literally everything goes downhill when the masses discover it

[Anonymous No.9041234]

>>9041140
I only posted for a few months back in 2002

[Anonymous No.9041332]

>>9041118
this is true

[Anonymous No.9041481]

>>9041140
The gamefaq forums are still great. One of the few gaming related places in the internet that managed to stay clear from culture war shit

[Anonymous No.9042849]

>>9039884
after i played through my first emulated game (Link to the Past) i was so inspired i began drafting a walkthrough for gamefaqs.com

[Anonymous No.9042864]

>>9040036
I emailed a guy that made a dragon warrior faq confirming the cursed necklace is found in a chest in the mountain cave, but appears randomly with RNG. He credited me in the faq, then later removed my credit.

[Anonymous No.9042904]

Who NGG here?

[Anonymous No.9042928]

>>9040357
Haha, I probably kept you out of the pool. Good times.

[Anonymous No.9042937]

>>9041148
>met a Korean girl in some Zelda message board back in '99 or so when we were like 11 or 12
>message board shuts down, but I add her on MSN and we keep in contact for years
>we could talk for hours and hours about literally anything
>eventually start talking about lewd shit as we hit our teenage years such as how we like to masturbate
>even sends me a pic of her lifting up her shirt
>sooner or later I get her number
>actually spend money on phone cards back when long distance calls were a thing just to talk to her
>she actually sends me letters, at one point mailing me a small ocarina she made herself and her copy of Kirby's Dream Land 2 just because I once mentioned it was one of the few Kirby games I hadn't beaten
>interests start diverging around our late 'teens
>we chat less and less, and when we do we quickly run out of things to talk about
>we stop chatting altogether
>find her on Facebook around college years
>chat briefly with her, mention how I miss talking to her
>she just says this was bound to happen, people change as they grow up and things aren't the same anymore
>try talking to her a couple of times after that
>she doesn't respond anymore
>mfw

[Anonymous No.9042971]

>>9042937
I get that feel from time to time. I just went through a period where I reflected heavily on all my divergent friendships. I am, fortunately, at the best point in my life now, but there are so many people I loved who I drifted away from.

If it's any consolation, there are tons of people who you will vibe with now whom you may not have been in resonance with before. That goes for friendships and love interests, etc

We live in a sea of potential and everything is always fleeting.

[Anonymous No.9043021]

>>9042937
This one actually stung anon. I’m sure she was worried her husband would find her messages with an American guy or something.

[Anonymous No.9043049]

>>9043021
She was born in Korea but was adopted and raised in the states, forgot to mention that bit.
>>9042971
Yeah, I'm not doing so hot right now (better than I was a year ago, but still not out of the hole I dug myself into about 6 years back), so I guess it's only natural I look back to better times, even though I know it's not exactly healthy to keep doing that. Anyway, that's enough of my blog.

[Anonymous No.9043058]

>>9041146

Random nostalgia: I actually knew someone with a PSN that had this sticker on the lid. It came from one of the PS1 magazines?

[Anonymous No.9043062]

>>9041146

Random nostalgia: I actually knew someone with a PSX that had this sticker on the lid. It came from PSM magazine.

[Anonymous No.9043108]

>>9041481
it's horrible now.

[Anonymous No.9043145]

>>9039902
I haven't seen Gamespot in almost a decade. Not looking good lol

[Anonymous No.9043152]

>>9040552

[Anonymous No.9044157]

>>9039884
Soft drink and (informally) fizzy drink are the only acceptable options. Anything else makes you sound like a homo.

[Anonymous No.9044786]

>>9040024
>GameSages

[Anonymous No.9044829]

[Anonymous No.9044838]

It's still the best gaming site on the net. Nothing will ever beat it as a resource.

[Anonymous No.9044843]

>>9041146
No way back, corporate Internet killed the web.

[Anonymous No.9044847]

>>9044838
it has that old school internet vibe that is hard to find nowadays

[Anonymous No.9044873]

>>9040526
>>9040537
None of these things destroyed gaming because the reality is none of these can compare to overmonetization's effect on gaming. I've never seen a game be actually ruined in development by fan content.

[Anonymous No.9044878]

>>9039884
CyricZ is a fucking hero for the amount of work he puts into the Yakuza guides

[Anonymous No.9044891]

>>9039884
Honestly it's kinda amazing how little has changed there. I bring up the page and yup, that's still GameFAQs. Sure some little aspects have changed but for the most part the site is the same it's been for 20 years.

>>9039902
Gamestop logo isn't even there anymore, lel.

[Anonymous No.9044893]

>>9040526
I remember it was a big shakeup in the forums when they actually decided to let us swear.

[Anonymous No.9044902]

>>9041207
I thought that too but I just tried logging in and no, my account still works, never banned. But then the last time I posted was 13 years ago.

[Anonymous No.9045270]

>>9044829
step up nigga

[Anonymous No.9045907]

>>9040357
>gamewinners
I miss this site so much. Why did they have to kill it?
>>9040872
Man, if there isn't one thing I "LOVE" about Fandom it's when I scroll down too far on a vidya trivia page and get video ads and fake article recommendations for random capeshit I couldn't care less about.

[Anonymous No.9045912]

>people are now nostalgic for gamefags
where did we go wrong?

[Anonymous No.9045936]

>>9044891
the boards are not nearly as good. Just go to the politics board, it is basically reddit, they censor everything remotely conservative. Same for CE and others. It is a shell of a shell of what it used to be

[Anonymous No.9045978]

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[Anonymous No.9046030]

>>9045936
CuckSJWs is a bona fide echo chamber.

[Anonymous No.9046063]

>>9045936
The message boards have literally always been cancer. It was garbage back when I was posting (see >>9044902) and it's garbage now.

[Anonymous No.9046070]

>>9039884
That webpage looks nostalgic, nice.
A genuine hobby site where you saw what was popular, saw what was wanted, and had a search bar for what you were looking for.

[Anonymous No.9046086]

Anyone else post on NGG? It was basically their /v/, except it was kind of reverse /vr/ in a way, since it was originally named Next-Gen Gaming, and thus as a rule you could only talk about the most current generation and speculate on the next one (IIRC there was also leeway for the immediately previous generation, since there's usually overlap). I remember there was eventually a huge shitstorm over mods all of a sudden enforcing that rule hardcore whenever anyone dared to talk about, say, Super Mario World, since there was a board for "classic games" for that (which, surprise surprise, was dead a fuck). Enough people raised a ruckus over this that SailorBacon, the guy who took over GameFAQs for CJayC, decided to rename the board Nonstop Gaming General, and opened it to discussion of all generations.

[Anonymous No.9046106]

>>9040357
Take your antisemitism and stick it where the sun don't shine!

[Anonymous No.9046121]

>>9039961
I'd say it was a blessing. I STILL see him show up on random Star Ocean 2 videos. Dude is committed and has to be on the spectrum. That or a master troll of the elite caliber.

[Anonymous No.9046123]

>>9046106
post nose

[Anonymous No.9046150]

>>9042937
>brings retarded long distance relationship with a w*man into a conversation about high school buds
The fuck did you expect after she got onto college cock carousel?
Teary eyed greentext garbage like this just proves it's impossible to share interests with a girl. You're either fucking her and deal with all the baggage that comes along with that or you can find people that are actually worth maintaining relationships with (not women).

[Anonymous No.9046278]

>>9039884
>Gaming was better when I liked it

[Anonymous No.9046284]

>>9046278
>I took the fattest shit and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dank

[Anonymous No.9046296]

>>9046106
there's nothing wrong with bein a fat jew
pretty antisemitic to assume there is ya know

[Anonymous No.9047067]

I used to vote in the poll of the day every single say

[Anonymous No.9047076]

How long until GameFAQs nukes their forums like IMDB did?

[Anonymous No.9047078]

>>9045936
who even goes to the non video game boards?

[Anonymous No.9047079]

>gaming was le better I was born in le wrong generation XDDDDDD
shut the fuck up. Everything is so much better now. You have access to literally all games now on PC, including rare ones, from Pong to the fucking PS3. The options are so much better now than back then.

[Anonymous No.9047107]

>>9040912
https://userstyles.world/style/3846/basic-wikia-cleaner
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/431706-fandom-com-cleaner-wikis-userscript
it still looks Fandom-ish but they do the trick

[Anonymous No.9047120]

>>9040357
Man something about the year 2007 just made things go sideways, didn't it?

[Anonymous No.9047132]

Any LUEsers here?

[Anonymous No.9047146]

>>9040036
Kek. Those were the days. I actually learned a ton of english when I was 12-13 years old just hanging out on forums. Even got an online girlfriend and got to see tits. Girl was suicidal though, i broke up with her once and she called me on webcam to threatne suicide. Fucked me up

[Anonymous No.9047167]

>>9041146
>Things were just more localized and "slower", there wasn't so much irony and "avoidance of cringe" in everything people did, everything felt more genuine.

God I miss that

[Anonymous No.9047179]

>>9042937
The feels. My forum gf was my first gf, and all because I added random forum people to MSN messenger and started talking to them like it was nothing. I started talking to this girl so much she said she loved me out of nowhere. We were literally 12-13 years old and she told me she used to look up guys to have cybersex with all the time.

[Anonymous No.9047259]

>>9047079
Everything technological is (mostly) better now. Everything spiritual and meaningful has declined.

[Anonymous No.9047275]

>>9047120
for video games 2007 was the downhill moment but culture in general has been going downhill since 2001

[Anonymous No.9047284]

>>9047275
Post-2007/2008 things really accelerated, though

[Anonymous No.9047313]

>>9047132
I went on LUE a bunch but missed the signups. I wonder what it's like now.

[Anonymous No.9047334]

>>9041140
>Dat filename
>That browser
>Those icons
Wow I can't believe I'm getting nostalgic

[Anonymous No.9047352]

>>9040484
Which game?

[Anonymous No.9047414]

>>9047076
They'll turn it into Discord channels.

[Anonymous No.9047489]

>>9047146
Haha, no one asked

[Anonymous No.9047504]

>>9046121
Which videos exactly? I miss him

[Anonymous No.9047539]

>>9039884
Friendly reminder with every single game on your bucket list you should also download the guides from GameFaqs in case the site ever goes down and its all lost. Especially useful for games with poor translations or no translation at all

[Anonymous No.9047934]

>>9047539
I did this with RARusk's GTA guides.

[Anonymous No.9048037]

>>9047313
They're a bunch of fags. I signed up but didn't have enough karma to get in until a year or so after the cut off so I never saw anything that interesting other than the occasional account suicide.

[Anonymous No.9048383]

>>9040872
more like Fandumb amirite

[Anonymous No.9048531]

>>9045936
there's a politics board? Well shit...

[Anonymous No.9048540]

>>9046278
>>t. /v/ tourist

[Anonymous No.9048545]

>>9048037
>LUE is literally a basic bitch echo chamber
The whole site can't die fast enough.

[Anonymous No.9048647]

>>9047078
This, it's best to stick to the individual game boards and maybe some general gaming boards.

[Anonymous No.9048667]

This thread makes me emo

[Anonymous No.9048793]

>>9047275
2007 was the golden ages for me. Sophomore in highschool. Red vault (the soft drink) was in the machines. Knew some oldschool autists that would break into the computer lab and steal mouse balls and bulbs from scanners. We’d shine laser pointers on the water tower late at night and collect as many old computer parts as we could and Frankenstein shit to play doom and quake on…I was in debate team, their was a games club in my school where you could play risk and dnd, and I remember finding a box with 10 first party n64 games at goodwill for $30. Mudvayne, evanesence, and three days grace were on the radio, people still went on walks in the marsh and everything was a little different…a little more innocent…a simpler time. I’d love to go back.

[Anonymous No.9049467]

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[Anonymous No.9050318]

>>9047275
I blame a certain country overreacting to a certain event that dragged the rest of the world to from 90's good vibes, 2008 crash was the final nail in the coffin.

[Anonymous No.9050348]

>>9039902
This is how I best remember it. Back when websites would ask if you wanted a version with frames or without frames (Cheat Code Central I remember did this)

[Anonymous No.9050484]

guys life has sucked for a long time now
life was great until the 80, girls looked better too

[Anonymous No.9051028]

>>9047539
Surely the internet archive has saved them all? They're plain text or simple HTML mostly, surely their crawlers found sll of the guides.

[Anonymous No.9051035]

>>9039902
bros... take me back

[Anonymous No.9051038]

was it though?

[Anonymous No.9051132]

>>9049912

>>9047417
>>9044691

>>9046827
>>9049510

>>9045880

[Anonymous No.9051157]

>>9051038
sounds pretty based to me

[Anonymous No.9051301]

>>9046086
>To read messages on this board: You must be level 15 or higher.
yeah, no...

[Anonymous No.9051405]

>>9048545
LUE used to be 4chan before 4chan. I remember thinking even as late as 2006 coping that LUE or LueLinks would outlast 4chan

[Anonymous No.9051417]

GameFAQS

[Anonymous No.9051435]

>>9051417
>Those of you who have a daughter coming of age

[Anonymous No.9051447]

>you're getting older

[Anonymous No.9051458]

>you're getting older

[Anonymous No.9051491]

>>9051417
>SC ruling on natives
Huh, I hadn't even heard about that until now.

[Anonymous No.9051493]

>>9051028
Yeah. I recently downloaded this: https://archive.org/details/Gamespot_Gamefaqs_TXTs

[Anonymous No.9051543]

>>9039884
Secret board hunting in 2004 holy shit.

[Anonymous No.9051605]

>>9041105
Some boards of certain dead consoles were allowed you must have tried someplace too modern

[Anonymous No.9051618]

>>9045270
Banned

[Anonymous No.9051620]

>>9047078
Paranormal Conspiracy was /x/ lite

[Anonymous No.9051621]

>>9047120
That's the year rock stopped being the biggest genre ever. It's related

[Anonymous No.9051696]

>>9051038
Sovl. Pure SOVL.

[Anonymous No.9051801]

>>9044878
>Look up a guide for a game
>First guide is by A I e x

[Anonymous No.9052912]

Following along with all those text guides as a kid probably did wonders for developing my reading comprehension.

[Anonymous No.9053184]

>>9045936
>just go to the politics board
No