>modern vidya is so shite that even zoomers and the gen alpacs are fleeing back to the olden days
What went wrong, Ganker?
>For some, the appeal of older games lies in their comfort and simplicity, providing stress relief and mental escape.
>Retro gaming may offer a sense of stability and comfort amidst technological advances and AI anxiety.
>Retro games hold cultural significance and are viewed as a piece of history by enthusiasts like Gabi.
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gaming may offer a sense of stability and comfort amidst technological advances and AI anxiety.
>Could it be that most modern games and developers suck dick and are absolutely fricking worthless?
>NO! IT'S CLEARLY ANXIETY ABOUT LE AI!
AI lives rent free so hard it's now expanding a real estate empire despite being in the tiny minds of journocucks and inkcels
Journos aren't allowed to say modern gaming sucks dick and modern devs are incompetent as it would get them blacklisted and put them under the storm of other journos, verified twitter checkmarks and redditors/twitter trannies being like "DUDE LEAVE THE MULTI MILLION CORPORATIONS ALONE"
It would be like the equivalent of starring in car commercials then being like "these cars suck dick, just get on the bus"
I've always enjoyed retro games, so this doesn't apply to me
but "anxiety" about AI (i.e. we are going to get flooded by infinite "content" and I dislike that somewhat) was one of the major reasons why I dropped my kindle and started buying and reading physical books again. push comes to shove, I know my old books weren't written by a chat bot
The best part is that AI will undeferrable from most of the shovelware published on Steam.
Maybe you should learn to write a proper sentence first, AIgay
Learn to prompt.
Yeah the lens through which these people view the world is so weird.
>AI anxiety
The only people AI anxiety are neurotic Redditors. The reality is wokeness and everything that surrounds it is the issue, and those same neurotics will never ever admit it despite the mountains of evidence.
It's simple
Modern gaming is fricking garbage
AI LMAO
>He never played TERDISTON
I thought leftists wanted automation. Now I'm confused.
they didn't realize their jobs were the easiest to automate. they thought that pedro the orange picker would be out of a job and willing to work as their (sadomasochistically enslaved) poolboy for 20 cents on the hour while they used their exceptional intelligence to write about how dean takahashi is a good game reviewer
They do until it actually starts happening, same with their "counterrevolution" that will target them first
They wanted it when they thought it would work in their favor. They wanted it to put trades & engineers out of work (generally conservative), whereas instead it's putting admins and artists (female dominated left wing jobs) out of work. Infact every feminine job except motherhood can realistically be replaced by AI with today's technology.
>it's about some moronic collectors instead of emulating
I just think a lot of retro games look better than modern slop lol (as a zoomer)
>whoa why are zoomers nostalgic for games made in the mid-2000s?
Gee I don't know. Why were Millennials nostalgic for games made in the mid-90s?
I'm playing a lot of those retro ps1 style indie games and I'm really enjoying them even though I've never had a playstation.
I won't play actual ps1 games since they likely have clunky controls though
zoomer brain too burned from social media to play a complex vidya so all it can muster is one-screen arcade stuff. they probably don't even enjoy it they just try to fill the personality-hole that all zoomers have with "old good new bad".
I'll gladly fill their personality holes aching for my robust old good new bad collection and knowledge
>no MxT
>no woke agenda garbage being shoved in your face
>actually fun
>most older games don't treat you like a moron and have 3 hour long tutorials or constant popups
hmmm i wonder why truly it is a mystery
>>no MxT
>>no woke agenda garbage being shoved in your face
fun
>>most older games don't treat you like a moron and have 3 hour long tutorials or constant popups
yet Ganker hates stellar blade
Most modern games make me want to stop playing videogames altogether, I can imagine younger zoomers feeling the same, maybe even to a greater extent. It's always a relief to go back to a simpler formula and have fun immediately.
Retrobros what cool games have you been playing aside from the obvious retro classics?
I've compiled a huge-ass PS1 library for my handheld, a lot of stuff I've never heard about it. More recommendations welcome
Also just completed the Jackie Chan NES game, the music's so good.
All I had to see was see Arc the Lad BoF and Clock Tower at the start and I could safely close the pic and nod my head in kino agreement
SOVL/10
Play azure dreams
Also, if you're going to play Alundra 2, do not go in with the hopes of 100%ing it, it's super fricked up the lengths you're expected to grind if you want to get everything.
Finally got around to playing Turok 3 because of the remaster (was scared of it as a kid). Was fun but definitely see why it is considered worse than the other 2. Might do another playthrough as the other character but am undecided
Grandia 1+2 and Shadow Hearts 1+2. Love these 2 Jrpg franchises to bits. Really sad how both got killed by the 3rd entry kek. Least SH will be back with Penny Blood. Grandia will never return sadly.
Should I suffer Koudelka before jumping into Shadow Hearts? The first game doesn't seem like my kind of thing, it's so damn slow even though I am okay with survival horror and slower-paced games usually. SH seems fun, however.
koudelka is very short(took me 10h?) and kinda fun and had a lot of effort put into it for an early ps1 game, especially the FMVs. It is not completely necessary but i enjoyed it a lot. So rare to have dark jrpg with more grotesque designs.
I don't remember Oersted fricking Pogo, what's going on here
i just photoshopped the dialogue line Oersted said before on top of it for fun, cuz it just fit so well. Live a Live was a bit tedious, but Oerstedts story was top tier. He was a good boy and deserved the hug/kiss from our primal friend.
>Live a Live was a bit tedious
Hard disagree, the chapter-based structure made me play through all of it in like 3 days
My problem was the random encounters being mandatory each chapter or the bosses will stomp you. That was the tedious part. I liked the storys aside from Street Fighter, Wild West and the start of Far Future. Middle Ages though was just amazing and is the main reason to play it.
Only had a problem with that in the Japan chapter cause there's that one pit where you can grind up for the next boss, which clashes with the stealth approach it lets you take for the rest of the level IMO
I see. I will give it a try, thank you.
I downloaded grandia and deleted it after being assaulted with blatant masonic symbolism in the first 5 minutes of the game. Shame you didn't recognize it. Who knows what went over your head and right into your subconscious
>horizontally aligned sorting
gross
Should be vertical for large lists actually, I guess I zoomed out somehow when taking/splicing the snapshot
Good catch
is that really nostalgia? im an old millennial and most films ive watched now are monochrome stuff from pre 60s but i just watch them because they are much better than modern garbage and dont feel anything old or nostalgic from them.
It was noslagia for me when I was 8 years old in like 2001 and discovered emulation thanks to my Dad, since I missed my Famiclone that died when I was 6.
But it quickly became much more, I got really into a couple of franchices I would've never gotted into otherwise or haven't heard about, and I got into ROM hacking when I was 10.
I am over 30 now and there's no noslagia anymore, haven't been there for decades, it's just discovery.
In fact, for some games I DID have huge nostalgia for as a kid (e.g. Contra), I don't feel it anymore weirdly enough, because that nostalgia itself was so long ago I can now only remember that it was there. It's like all the games I felt a particular bias towards got reset in my head with age and now I look at everything with new eyes (which isn't a bad thing).
Although I am also more analytical now than when I was a kid and can just appreciate a lot of little design-related things more, which is probably a part of why I don't feel nostalgia anymore; now it's a different level of appreciation.
It is cool when you notice subtle things older games did to encourage or trick you into trying new things. Like in Super Mario 64 when the rabbit would go down the hall to Shifting Sand Land, so most players would try to fly into it when cornered, leading you to notice the wall vibrate.
~~*Progress*~~ is garbage
Return to Tradition
>sweet baby when they read this article
Hows cans wes get in the way of thats
>the Wii is retro
OH NO NO NO DON'T LET /vr/ SEE THIS ARTICLE!
3 years.
I think it's a backlash against how huge, intensive and greedy modern games have become. You can play many classic old games like Bioshock, Simcity 4, Oblivion, Portal, Civ 4, etc on an office PC integrated graphic, no need for an expensive graphics card, or hundreds of gb of storage, or DRM crippling your system, or Day 1 updates, or microtransactions out of the box.
>Why
>ugly and uglier
I like how they phrase the headline to make it seem as if it's a problem that needs solving
They're right how do we fix (kill) the zoomer problem
For them, it is. For obvious reasons.
Retro games gave you a full game. No microhomosexualransactions and manipulative tactics to swindle sheckles out of you. We live in a world we're you have to bet on your cheese burger to get a good price and people get tired of that shit. No need to blame anxiety for a problem caused by greedy AAA companies.
To add, maybe these fricking companies can stop trying to lecture everyone about politics. I don't care to be manipulated by homosexual troops about gender or some other globalhomosexual bullshit. Just make good games with sexy waifus.
What's old is new again. It's really that simple.
>Nintendo's Will theme descends into a drill beat
>ASAP Rocky goes "full Minecraft" in a pixelated hoodie
>This is not a glitch
old games are games.
new games are a platform for mentally ill woketards to preach politics.
Why do people act like this is a new thing? 90s kids went to the classics of the 80s released before they were born too, so what?
People enjoying old games doesn't mean that they don't enjoy newer ones too.
theres always some generational overlap but its crazy things from the 80s and 90s have persisted into the 2020s the way they have. there has never been more talentless hacks looking for a quick buck than now
Millennials grew up with the idea of decades being culturally distinct silos, like every 10 years was some massive new zeitgeist that everyone around them was on board with. We stopped doing that in the 2000s for various reasons, so nostalgia pandering doesn't really have anything solid to attach to without going back to the 90s or earlier. Gen X is also currently having a collective meltdown as older relatives are getting sick and dying off en masse, and they're staring down the barrel of a future in which they'll be unable to work but also haven't planned for retirement and now it's too late to do anything about it, so many of them in their desperation are going hard on the comfort of nostalgia.
old games are simple and fun, modern games because of how much money is in the industry has been focus grouped to death, every game needs mechanics and features from every genre and becomes a mish mash of slop. arcade games are the opposite
>shoot shit
>fight shit
>drive shit
>get high score,
simple fun. from genres that either barely/no longer exist like light gun games or classic arcade racing games to genres that fricking suck now like fighting games. games are just simpler and as a result more fun.
why are americans obsessed with CURRENT THING?
what reason do i have to play something new, instead of something time-tested that people have mostly assessed their opinions on whether it is good and why?
why would i play something new instead of looking through the dozens of games in my favorite genres that already exist?
obviously i still play new games as the surprise of having no clue what an experience will entail is exciting also, but why should it constitute more than 5-10% of my playtime?
Because they are actually good games that you can just pick up and start playing immediately.
it truly is a mistery isn't it? i really wonder what's the gender, race and sexual orientation of the majority of gamers and their willingness to be lectured about political or current issues
>that pic
Uh, they aren't? Is this something happening that I'm truly not aware of?
Has anyone here ever worked as a game dev or in an aaa studio?
man, you really are desperate...
You can say that.
I'm working on my game and my friends released theirs on Steam.
I also worked at a video game publisher.
I've never "worked" as a gamedev though.
What kind of game is this exactly (game genre) and is it very complex?
Did you miss my post?
I miss you
don't feed it
Apologize.
>zoomzooms suffering from ADHD are finally realizing that playing simple non-nonsense games is more fun than watching shitty movie games or AAA slop full of padding
About time.
Fumoposting and playing indie pixelshit is not embracing retro vidya
Nobody said it was.
OP is
As year pass more games are retro and less are modern.
More options to play retro in 2024 than in 2000.
Idk, I only know a couple of kids (9-11 years) and they feel a visceral hate for anything retro.
Gen alpha kids hate anything that doesn't look like fortnite or those farting mobile ads.
>9, 11
That's too young. The more nerdy zoomers started to levitate towards older games when they were closing 20. I guess it's similar how I never played Quake on release but really started liking boomer shooters for some reason. And yes I am not a zoomer, I am 31, I just grew up with a ps1 and not a PC until wow/warcraft 3 times.
I am 31 as well and I got into Doom (GZDoom, WADs etc.) when I was already 19. Never played it as a kid. Still play it from time to time, it's basically an endless supply of free fun for me.
new games cost way too much for shit gameplay and are becoming increasingly tedious to pirate
AAA morons want to focus on graphics only, but dont seem to realize that you're either the best or you're the same as everyone else when it comes to photorealism shit
BEMANI machines have been popping up in my country and people are in there 24/7. Mostly zoomers and gen alpha gays. Arcade games can actually make a comeback.
God. If only i had money i would start an arcade near my uni. It doesn't have one near it.
GAMES TODAY ARE EITHER ESPORTS SLOP WITH $20 FOMO SKINS AND DAILIES YOU GRIND UNTIL BURNOUT OR MOVIE GARBAGE WITH Black folk
How did they measure it?
What percentage of game time is retro gaming for Gen Z?
>le born in le wrong generation meme
>le I am not like the other people from my generation
All contemporary media is failing.
Movies
Music
Video games
New releases flop while old shit dominates sales and streaming.
>people want vidya
>avoid new vidya, as indicated by shitty sales
>new vidya has problems old vidya lacks
SIMPLE INDUCTIVE REASONING
New games are soulless and SHIT!
Why is it always fascists that try to chase an idyllic past that only ever existed in their imaginations?
I thought I didn’t like gaming anymore
I barely touch my PS5 and I was thinking maybe I just need to build a better pc ans that would bring me back in
then my brother gave me his old Dreamcast from when he was a kid to me
I put a gdemu in it and have been playing on that thing every single day for the last three months
modern games are just shit
I have no nostalgia for old games but I definitely understand “soul” now
Literally every modern game has been a copy of a successful game
Remember when everything was a Gears of war clone, now they can't copy good games so they have to copy shit games.
It's because they are addicted to millennial streamers and speedrunners who play older games all the time. This isn't that hard to figure out.
>Retro game revival
>It's just zoomer normalgays and corporations pandering to them with beep boops and "pixelated" Minecraft-esque merchandise
>What went wrong
I'm not going to say new games can't be good they are simply unknowns while people have access to older verified titles.
The negative classics collection is available on switch for 6 dollars on sale right now I think. That's 50 megadeive games for 6 bucks.
Why would zoomers buy shit like Black personman on snoystation or whatever horrible game adapted from the latest marvelslop with GAAS features and microtransactions and woke propaganda when great old games are so dirt cheap you don't even feel like emulating them for free by yourself?
I just wish they made collections about PS2 games because it was my favorite generation.
>play game from 2024
>bored, forcing to push through
>play game from the 80s
>have a good time, clear in 1 or 2 sessions and look forward to the next
wonder why
skill issue
Why pay $80 for a broken game when you can pay $8 for a complete game?