The definition for the word retro needs to be changed in context of vidya. The PS2 is NOT retro and it never will be. It just doesnt make any sense. Retro for video games define an era, not X years.
The definition for the word retro needs to be changed in context of vidya. The ps2 is NOT retro and it never will be.
Any pixel game before 2000.
retro is 1970-1999 I don't care that it used too mean 'recent history' 1955 is not retro 2005 is not retro 2005 will never be retro
This is the correct take. And besides, games from that era are built differently from modern games. Everything about them is different. PS2 games are for the most part the same as 2023 games but with worse graphics.
the PS2 is retro, the Xbox is retro, and soon the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be retro
Within a decade and a half the PS4 and XBone will also be retro
elden ring being in the same conversation as pong when discussing "retro video games" wouldn't make any sense. at some point elden ring will be 20 years old and there should be a word to describe that era just like there needs to be a word to describe the 1996-2008 era of video games.
that word will be retro, if people need a term more specific than that they’ll refer to either the specific console generation or the decade
pleb-tier arguments. pong is “vintage.” regarding elden ring, age of gamesoft is not age of hardware. new games are being developed for retro consoles even today
If pong is vintage then why does no one refer to it as such? Everyone says retro.
Because the vast majority humanity has a plebeian lexicon and society strives to cater to their ignorance. They don't know what words mean, so they use the incorrect words, which, while remaining incorrect, society treats as close enough.
Which is exactly why the definition of the word should be changed. It's why the definition for the word "literally" and many other has been changed. Everyone misuse the word? change the definition.
>Everyone misuse the word? change the definition.
This mindset is responsible for turning videogames into garbage they are today.
I like following the rules, too, but words exist for people to understand them. The writer selects the word, sure, but the point of doing it is for someone else to get the meaning. The intended usage of a word isn't as important as the way people actually use it to communicate.
Actually you're just getting older and have to deal with the fact things you grew up with are now retro, you colossal homosexual.
who is this creature? Looks familiar.
it's a glegle you fricking newbie
glegle is used almost exclusively on the /lgbt/ board, it's quite understandable why anyone, newbie or oldgay, who doesn't go there wouldn't know it
stop trying to fit in, redditor
>glegle is used almost exclusively on the /lgbt/ board
false. if you go look at lgbt right now youll see 0 glegle threads. if you go look at /bant/ youll see like 6 of them. glegle is used on /bant/.
First post on duckduckgo for glegle is a reddit post on r/4tran
>duckduckgo
you're not allowed to call others gay
>google glegle
>get this
What the frick does this mean?
That's Detective Conan
They can't use Google to avoid copyright, so they used different name. It's pretty common thing in anime.
Heckin poggers fellow trannies!
sex with glegle
that is probably a troll post. people have been trying to make glegle look bad for years even though only a few other people and myself care about her. no one on reddit knows who she is.
me and like 20 other people
TO BE FAIR
who the frick goes on /bant/?
it's a /bant/ meme thoughbeit
Which Undertale AU is that?
you're actually correct but for the reason you think
retro
adj
imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
old consoles and games are not retro. New games imitating the graphics and/or gameplay of old games are retro
so undertale is a retro video game?
actually yes. As are Celeste, La Mulana, and Dong Freeze (gameplay)
This is exactly why I think the definition needs to change. People have referred to "old video games" as retro for decades. What you're explaining makes sense given the definition, but not historically.
then the definition needs to be enforced, not changed from the already pervasive misinterpretation. The correct word for old vidya is vintage
Definitions change all the time, anon. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary and it would make sense. No one is going to enforce its current definition ever. Everyone already calls the atari retro and have for as long as most of current day Ganker has been alive.
>glegle is used almost exclusively on the /lgbt/ board, it's quite understandable why anyone, newbie or oldgay, who doesn't go there wouldn't know it
>
>stop trying to fit in, redditor
I just found out what glegle is a minute ago and I gotta say she is cute and adorable my morning has been made
Good
>she
pronouns are gle/gle
shut the frick up, troony
glegle looks like a human man fricker
can someone explain to me what the frick is this thing and why do people post it?
please.
it was supposed to be a pepe the frog replacement. you post it when you have a topic but no image, i just post her because i like her even though this thread is the exact intended purpose i just explained
You arent being realistic. Do you really think people will just stop using the word incorrectly?
Do you think those who use it incorrectly should invalidate its correct usage? What about when someone does use its correct definition, are they to be considered wrong now?
Yes, they are wrong if the words definition change.
Try using gay the same way it used to mean.
>gay
we need the Flintstones back on tv
>Try using gay the same way it used to mean.
All right, I will.
I'm very gay.
Are you literally gay? Or just gay?
Just very, very gay
Retro is any game IMITATING the style games from 20 years ago, such as a remake, a spiritual sequel, or even a new doom wad. Vintage is any game that actually is 20+ years old.
>The PS2 is NOT retro
Yes it is. So you better come up with a better word for the era you like. You know, like generation, which is what people that aren't moronic hipsters use.
Vintage. They're vintage games. 3d games will never be vintage. Doom and Wolfenstein will never be vintage.
Doom, Doom 2, Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein 3D are 2D games you reprobate, your dad could have told you that if wasn't stuck in the milk dimention
The PS2 is decades old, gramps. I know you still think it's 2008, but it's true.
PS2 was outdated in 2005 much less 2007
Is this that one weird witch catgirl from this cartoon that only got a pilot episode and never happened?
no
yay, yay, RETRO!
Gonna cry?
Man all this cheap outdated electronic junk I beat up to make them work are now historical items worth hundreds of dollars huh...
It's just e-waste...
*I* will never be retro.
PS3 has been retro for a while.
>Retro for video games define an era, not X years
Wrong
>um retro is um what i feel like
I grew up starting with the nes. Yes PS2 is now retro
you homosexual, don't think you're going to escape the inevitability of the passage of time
Maybe instead of making the window for "retro" bigger, we should make a new term for vidya after 2000
Also post more glegs
>Maybe instead of making the window for "retro" bigger, we should make a new term for vidya after 2000
That's the point of this thread. We need a term for 95-08 games.
Easy. We call those videogames, and everything after, slop.
I like that actually.
Happy to see a trans-positive icon posted on Ganker.
Retro is at least 20 years old. Vintage just means "of age" and applies to wine.
People are going to talk about ps2 games on /vr/, there was a sticky about this. You should probably get over it.
I am right and you are wrong. Everyone on /vr/ that got upset about it was right too.
>I am right and you are wrong
Prove it.
qrd on fluffyjak?
fluffy pepe
So can someone explain to me the /bant/-glegle lore here wtf is this meme and why
Don't worry about that. She's cute. That's all you need to get from this
ah
I complete understand now
Retro is not a synonym for old. You all use it wrong anyway so why are you now getting mad when someone else, in your view, does it too?
glegle looks like an anthro jak
Someone could make a game for the NES in 2023 and it would not be considered retro. Zoomers are moronic.
Retro is a latin prefix signifying something old. It literally means "backwards," so frick whatever the hell you want the word to mean, because it doesn't mean that, you moronic homosexual. Make your own fricking language if you want to dictate the definitions of words that don't even belong to you. In twenty years time, everything you own will be considered retro, and you being the old frick you are will have to simply live with it like the rest of us.
They are going backwards in game design philosophy. Games from the PS2 up till now all roughly play the same even if graphics have improved, so there is no backwards there. Games 20 years from now are unlikely to move forward from what we have now unless VR or something else disruptive comes along.
Retro means something that purposefully mimics the style and fashion of a previous time. Something that was the cutting edge of technology when it was made is never going to be retro, it will simply be old.
>b-but the latin wor-
Nobody cares, that's not what retro is about.
>Something that was the cutting edge of technology when it was made is never going to be retro
What the actual frick are you on about? Half the consoles we consider to be retro were the pinnacle of vidya technology at their time of creation. At this point you might as well post the entire list of what you consider retro, because it must be very short.
PS2 will never be retro.
"Retro" is reserved for art, style and fashion, not toys. Consoles and video games are toys, therefore they cannot be retro.
Can a gun be retro? Also,
>pretending people nowadays don't use their video game preferences as fashion statements
>Oops bro your controller film was in contact with oxygen and now it looks like your ps2 controller stopped working for no reason all of a sudden
>Ha ha ha
kill glegle, behead glegle, roundhouse kick a glegle into the concrete
marry glegle, cuddle glegle, piledrive glegle into the bridal bed and knock her up
So is glegle just like a catgirl with a name?
Does she mean anything?
I keep trying to research her but I get no explanations
If it's old enough to vote/drink, it's retro.
>glegle is nonbinary
Bullshit, glegle is a girl who will have her womb filled with my seed and will bear my children
Who gives a shit.
Retro just means old or in an old style. Old is subjective.
So let the conversation just evolve organically.
If people coming to a "retro" board make and respond to threads about PS2, so be it. The community has decided that's retro enough to talk about.
glegle sounds like some deepthroating sound
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