>is retro on your path

Wii, DS and PSP are the only good things on that image.

Anything with a digital storefront isn't retro.

>>713533348
more like 360, ps3 and the psp

all of these consoles were key components of my childhood outside of hand-me-downs like an n64
t. born in '98

>>713533540
I guess that tracks. You'd have been 8 in 2006.

>>713533398
cope
soon I will be able to shitpost about 7th gen on /vr/ and ruin the board for everyone making it /v/ 2.0

>>713532818 (OP)
>hd consoles
>retro
that can't be right

Demarcus yt boi outee steppin

>>713533540
I think kids born in the late 90s are probably the ultimate litmus test for whether games have TRULY gone to shit.

Older folks like myself cherish the sixth gen more so I feel like the perception gaming went to hell in gen 7 is skewed but gen 8 is widely seen as a very underwhelming gen and 9 is virtually pointless. So if the kids who loved gen 7 without any attachment to something older also think gen 8 was a huge dropoff then that is indicative of an industry off the rails.

>>713532818 (OP)
Anything before the GameCube is retro
Yes the GameCube is modern

>>713533794
>DS
>hd
huh????

>>713533847

>>713532818 (OP)
My kid plays my psp, hacked and plays so many games.

im starting to consider this generation retro because it was from the older era where there was still a large selection of games on each console. Lots of good exclusives too. many hidden gems in each library. basically the same hallmarks as the ps2 and ps1 gen. that shit is OVER.

I find it hard to buy into consoles with HD output as "retro" because you can connect them to modern TVs without any issues (all my 4K TVs have PS3s attached to them without needing any special accommodation like the Dreamcast and Saturn I have connected to a 1080p set, which are run via a RetroTink).

I guess the Wii and early 360s couldn't (and the Wii in particular feels retro since it's basically a SD console anyway, about as much as an original Xbox) but it's one generation so, eh.

>>713533621
You can post all you want, but the gap between storefront consoles and offline consoles is as big as consoles and arcades, because the way you make money in em is completely different, and that affects how the game is designed completely.

>>713533930
>my kid
piss off normalnigger.

>>713532818 (OP)
the home consoles were kinda shit but the handhelds were fucking awesome

>>713534361
Ehh...

The PSP could be hacked, which was pretty fresh and interesting at the time, but I think the DS might be one of the more overrated platforms in history.

>>713534424
That’s just like your opinion man. The 3ds had a far better selection of high quality games than the psp. It took a while to get there but especially the (new) 3ds cemented it as the best handheld ever made

>>713534341
Haha good one fellow redditor here js your upbeat xD

>>713532818 (OP)
32 here
I've already accepted 6th gen to being retro as it's the last gen that followed a lot of old game designs from 5th gen just a bit less jank but 7th gen being retro is a hard sell, early 7th gen I can see that but with all the bad practices and movie styled games that was happening way later in that gen, it makes it difficult to consider that gen being overall retro
The fact The Last of Us and GTAV gonna be called retro when theyre very similar to the games release these days really speaks about the stagnation of the industry and that hurts a lot of rather arbitrary rules and discussions about what is considered this or that

>>713533819
>So if the kids who loved gen 7 without any attachment to something older also think gen 8 was a huge dropoff then that is indicative of an industry off the rails.
yeah i think gen 8 is when i started caring less about consoleshit and started my transition to pc so this checks out
i did think the 3ds and vita were great however

did anyone ever play this game? I kept getting stuck on one of the boss fights and never finished it

>>713534745
The 3ds has nothing to do with the thread why are you talking about the 3ds? Hey guys the nes was great but the ps3 was better!

>>713533621
>wii u
>retro

The last generation where consoles were worth owning.

>>713535634
You needed a PS4.

>>713534873
Your examples are two latecomers that released in the same year as the PS4

Ah yes, MGSV The Phantom Pain, my favorite retro game.

>>713535860
I like that by /vr/'s rules you can talk about Call of Duty 4 on the board.

>>713534137
what a dumb arbitrary definition... just accept it that you're old.

>>713533539

Wii had Wario Land Shake It, Mad World and No More Heroes. 360 had uuuuuuuhhhhhhh Crackdown?

>>713535764

>>713535846
Same thing happens on /vr since the cutoff date is PC or 6th gen releases before December of 07. Horse armor threads, COD4 threads, Crysis threads, Guitar Hero threads. All viable on /vr/

>>713534948
>coping pctroon
since early 2000s stopped having AAA games at all, it's all console games playable on consoles of that time
even now this holds true: stellar blade, death stranding 2 final fantasy...
you lost pc keks

>>713534137
Your retarded take has nothing to do with reality. The payment method/monitization has nothing to with that fact that some is/is not retro.
Eearly xbox360 didn't have HDMI even and ps3 had composite output.
>>713534873
>32 here
Kill yourself unc. Nobody cares about this industry. Also you refused to purchase a VR helmet so here you go get more moviesloppa. Thank you for ruining games balding faggot.

My personal cutoff for retro is probably early 7th gen games. COD 2 which was a 360 launch title looks and feels pretty old and dated compared to BO2 which came out on the same hardware but 7 years later and feels a lot more modern if that makes sense. It's a little murky with 360 ports of PS2 games like Burnout Revenge and SVR 07 but generally I think it makes sense

>>713536576
>stellar blade
anyway

>>713533794
It's a graduation thing. I know assholes who up until recently wouldn't accept anything as retro from dreamcast and backward. They seemed to have changed their tune.

>>713536084
360 has Infinite Undiscovery

>>713533348
Wii had less worthwhile games than the n64 lol it relied entirely on the waglan gimmick.

>>713532818 (OP)
PSP, PS2 and Xbox are all that I need

>>713533348
PSP, XBOX360 and NDS are the only good thing from that image.

>>713538126
I think the Wii is fondly remembered for easy exploitation of the system.

>>713533621
>on /vr/ and ruin the board for everyone making it /v/ 2.0
it has been that way since 2013 or 2015
/v/ is best board to talk about retro vidya, /vr/ is just /n64andgamecube/ over and over and over.

>>713532818 (OP)
>People will literally shit their pants at someone saying that the ps3/360 are retro because they would have to admit they're old already
Many such cases...

>>713534137
I've always said this. Connectivity and "post launch support" was the exception rather than the rule in 6th gen. I was the only person I knew that had my PS2 online and Timesplitters Future Perfect and Resident Evil Outbreak and whatnot function just fine without it and still feel like complete games.

I still use my Xbox 360 frequently as well, but I don't know what's going to happen once the servers are shut down. I'm already locked out of buying some DLCs I want (missed one for Soul Calibur V). These are permanently gone for all subsequent players. To say nothing of full games that cannot be bought anymore. Every game had a few updates, imagine being stuck with the launch version forever.

It is a vastly different style of "ownership" and development philosophy etc.

>>713533930
Do you have Retroarch on it?

>>713538717
I'm only 19 that's not old wtf

>>713538384
>/vr/ is just n64 and gamecube
weird, every time i went to /vr/ outside spammers like the guy making 10 nes threads or the subjectfag making low effort bait, it was always sega shit, from fanfictions about how to save the sega saturn to how obscure genesis game is better than the entire snes library, and whenever you made n64 or gc threads it was always spergs calling the games or the console shit and console warring galore.

>>713538968
Aren't you proud of yourself.

Also how is the 360 not old? It's going to be 20 this year. It's as old as the NES was when it launched and no one denied that was "old".

>>713539472
B-b-but 3D can't be retro

>>713532818 (OP)
OK, how?

>>713539519
There's some truth to that. Quantum leaps in the first 20 years leading up to the 360's launch and the following 20 aren't nearly on the same magnitutde. Even you can't deny it.

Textures got higher resolution, visual effects improved, and frame rates got better but Unreal Engine 3 was popular in the 360 gen and Unreal Engine 5 is popular now.

>>713532818 (OP)
It's just old shit
Nothing else

>>713532818 (OP)
Skyrim and GTA5 are not retro anon.

>>713539472
Retro is a specific time period, not a specific age.
retro-age is 50~80s. Anything made in the 90's or later is not "retro" by virtue of them being made post-retro.

You're thinking vintage, which is when something becomes 20 years old. stuff made in 2005 is vintage now.

>>713538968
The people who grew with those consoles are already nearing the 30 years old, you literally weren't even born when the 360 released.

>>713533398
So the snes isn't retro then due to the satellaview

>>713541952
The Genesis and the Sega Channel probably fit that description better.

>>713532818 (OP)
none of these are retro