>heh, I only play retro games
>everything was better back then, ESPECIALLY video games
>no the ps3 isn't retro, my arbitrary definition of retro is the only correct one
>>715073258 (OP)Don't worry little guy, in another 15years, video game consoles won't even exist. Then it will all be Retro.
Time does change but there was a fundamental shift in all games around PS1 N64 era that differentiates them from all games made after; titles today are closer to PS2 games then PS2 games are to NES games even though more time has passed since then to today then vice versa. It's a legitimate argument for what "retro" means.
>>715074069>Retro:>imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent pastRetard.
If we keep making the same shit for 50 years, will the shit from 30 years ago be considered retro?
>>715073258 (OP)Lately I only ever see the word "retro" used here when it's arguing about the definition. Everyone just says "older games"
>>715073258 (OP)And who's saying that? ...Oh right literally no one.
>>715074372I'm sure that sounded alot deeper in your head
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I only play indie games.
What a retarded bait thread here's your (You) faggot.
>>715073258 (OP)By OP standards, crysis is a retro game.
>>715073258 (OP)>PS1 takes around a decade to become retro>PS2 takes like 20 years to become retro>PS3 should be retro now!!!Do you know how to count?
>>715074945>>>/vr/11702620
>>715073258 (OP)Everything before the invasion of government-backed ideological subversives (Gone Home, The Last of Us, Undertale) might as well be retro.
Nothing after the millennium is really retro
>but le Xbox 360 is 20 years old!!!!
I don't care. Games have barely changed, and in some regards gone backwards in terms of technological impressiveness. That's not retro.
Retro is pixel graphics, and 3D so basic you can count the number of polygons on screen. End of.
>>715073258 (OP)>no the ps3 isn't retro, my arbitrary definition of retro is the only correct onewell yeah, the ps3/360 gen brought us the likes of on-disc dlc, esports, dudebros, brown n bloom graphicsfaggotry, cosmetic DLCs, paying money for shooter maps, and so many other forms of the modern cancers afflicting vidya today. calling it "retro" would be fucking retarded due to the sheer paradigm shift of game development as a whole.
>>715074321Are jeans retro or are they just jeans?
>>715075461Tell that definition of "retro" to someone in the 90s and see how it goes over.
>>715075569If you mean the late 90's, then yeah, actually. Super Nintendo felt like another world, even then.
Is PC retro? Will PS5 be retro in 40 years? I don't think so.
>>715075569There are no more people in the 90's bro. We left. Some were never even there to begin with.
The 90's called and said you can never go back.
>>715074069>>715075461Yeah I agree, late N64, PSX, GBC and the Dreamcast are a fringe case but imo, no post 2000 hardware should count as retro, there's a very clear line in the sand with what PS2 and specially Xbox started. Pic almost related.
>>715075702And the definition of a word that refers to a relative period of time can't be fixed in time before that time period has even passed you fucking mongoloid. If your definition of "retro" is just a set of years, and you think it can't change, what would the definition have been before those years were over? If it changed back then, why can it no longer change? If it wasn't changing back then, how?
>>715073258 (OP)PS2 is not retro
>Resident Evil 7 is a retro game, because Sonic the Hedgehog was a retro game in 1999
Yeah, nah. That's dumb, right?
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>>715075830You have forgotten what Retro means and so you have forgotten who you are.
>>715074321Going by that definition the PS3 isn't retro because the style and design of PS3 game is still current, graphics have improved but nothing of substance has changed from the PS3 era to modern day. It's not a style from the past because it's still the style of the present, we have yet to move past it.
You cannot kill what you did not create.
https://youtu.be/cLULSxENfWo?t=8
>The design is so retro
>Game looks the same as a modern game.
>>715076206I never got that lyric. You very clearly can kill what you did not create.
>>715075641>Is PC retro?No, but there are retro PC games.
>Will PS5 be retro in 40 years?Maybe yes, maybe no. It depends whether there's some other major shift in game style between now and then.
PS3 is retro. XBOX360 is retro. Wii is retro. Manchildren just never grew up so they can't accept these things are of the past.
>>715076770I'm happier to accept the Wii as retro.
Even then, it's barely retro. Mario Galaxy could come out now, and no one would know any different.
>>715076480Metal is all edgy garbage of teenage angst.
>>715073258 (OP)I look like this and I say this
Yes I regret not taking finasteride
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Categories generally spring about naturally, but over time they become perverted by morons who cannot think outside the box.
Berries are an example. Everyone knows they refer to small fruits that you can find in the bushes. Blueberry, Strawberry, Raspberry, Chokecherry, cranberry, huckleberry and so on.
By attempting to create definitions of categories that are more stringent, categories begin to work against their own purpose of grouping similar things together. Happens with planets. We made a group of them because they were all just giant circles we could see in the sky. Until some autists decided one of the circles doesn't really count. Did it suddenly stop being a gigantic circle, or something?
The same thing transpires here. An arbitrary need to create strict definitions, even when they clearly don't correlate to reality. Laying down some rule that every ten years, a game becomes retro. Stardew Valley has just joined the ranks of the retro, because it turned nine years old. According to idiots, anyway.
>>715078490>plebbit spacing Didn't read a single word
>>715078490Ok, but PS3 and XBOX360 are obviously retro now and you're a manchild if you disagree.
"retro" are arcade video games and pre nes
yes, i will die on this fucking hill
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>>715078643Grand Theft Auto 5 has joined the ranks of the retro.
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>>715078643for tonight's retro game night we will be playing: SKYRIM
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>>715078643MineCrafty, and the MineCrafty movie are retro games. Minecraft the movie counts as a retro game because that's how categories work, it doesn't really matter that it's a movie.
>>715078817>>715078891GTA IV is retro
Uncharted 2 is retro
LittleBigPlanet is retro
Red Dead Redemption is retro
Portal 2 is retro
Bioshock is retro
Mass Effect 2 is retro
Street Fighter IV is retro
Braid is retro
Journey is retro
I know, anon, it bothers you. You're old now. Like, REALLY old. Not my problem, though.
>>715073258 (OP)I prefer retro games mainly because of save states. I don't have as much time to play anymore, so save states save my ass.
I have a Trimui Smart Pro and play mostly PSX, SNES, PSP and Dreamcast.
>>715078891Skyrim came out a decade and a half ago dude.
>>715079438NOOO BUT I WAS ALREADY AN ADULT BY THEN!!! IT CAN'T BE RETRO. IT JUST CAN'T!!!
>>715079438and you're incapable of lateral thinking.
>>715074069This is what I keep trying to tell people, retro becomes arbiatry as a moniker if all it is an indicator of time passing. Leaps in tech and design is what I personally expect to see making games obsolete, old, retro. Modern game have staganted to a hault.
Also OP is a wojak posting faggot so of course he would complain about having opions.
All games released before 2010 are retro.
Don't cares what /vr/ says.
>>715073258 (OP)i look like this and say this
>>715079868Call of Duty 4 is retro by /vr/'s definition
Enough with the shitty wojaks you gormless faggots.
You can even see the categorization thing rear it's head in regards to generational names. It was actually really uncommon to group age cohorts together as a monolith. It occurred when you had grand, destabilizing events that everyone shared.
The Great Depression
World War 2
The post-war baby boom
uhh the children of the Baby Boomers
And their children
latchkey generation
mtv generaion
Generation X
Y
Z
A
you know I think you're starting to miss the point of what the categories were for. and it's speeding up too, how odd. we should be due for another one, already? We can just make the names up cause we have to have names for every generation because.........well you see watching MTV on the television is just like having a world war that everyone fought in and caused the greatest destruction mankind ever saw.
>>715079802We need a new word for Xbox 360 and after "retro". Any suggestions?
>>715074372i just made some shit and flushed it down the toilet
>>715080371Modern.
Games from that era and this one will only become โRetroโ if thereโs another gargantuan tech leap.
But that doesnโt happen
I look like this and say this. PS3 isn't retro, we're still living in the same era of corporate game design and horse armor bullshit.
I bought a Miyoo and loaded it up retro games I have never played and am having more fun gaming than with anything released in the last 10 years.
>>715080532But "old modern" is still looked at in retrospective nostalgia. It clearly confuses retards, like OP, who can only understand words literally.
>>715073258 (OP)Retro is n-2 and /vr/ jannies are stupid. PS3 is retro.
>>715080881The point is that PS3 and PS5 arenโt fundamentally different enough to justify calling it a full blown generational leap in the same way the PS1 to PS2โs graphical design was
>>715081050Yes, but the word "modern" doesn't fit well enough.
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>>715081050>PS3 and PS5 arenโt fundamentally different enough to justifyWhat the fuck are you talking about? lol
>This totally doesn't look old, bro
>>715081349It doesnโt. Shit still looks up to date and matches the general style of PS5.
Diminishing returns m8
>>715074069>titles today are closer to PS2 games then PS2 gamesNo they are not.
Enough time has passed for the difference to noticeable. And i don't mean about age. Genuinely, modern games follow a different philosophy than PS2 games. Yes, the gen 6 was the root of that school of design, but it has developed enough to be two twings.
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>>715075043Deeper? Why would it be deep? Should I register you as an idiot?
>>715075162Gachaniggers have no moral high ground to stand on
>>715073882>I wish video games won't exist in 15 years
>>715080240Windows XP released in 2001
>>715079175No one thinks any of those are retro.
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>>715079438Wow, Bethesda games must have really advanced since then!
>>715081587Heโs right you know
>>715073258 (OP)I look like that and say those things.
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>>715082734That's a low res picture of The Sexy Brutale, you disingenuous cunt.
im tired of this life
just let me play my shitty nes games in peace
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>>715082890what year is this one from. you won't recognize them all. How will you ever tell if I am choosing actually old games, or new games that just look old, or if I am taking screenshots of the one episode of CSI?
>>715083631>im tired of this life>just let me play my shitty nes games in peaceHe said as he shitposted instead of playing shitty nes games
>>715073258 (OP)We get it zoomies
You want to replace actual retro gaming discussions with your 7th gen slop and discard anything that has nothing to do with your "le childhood"
>EWWWW BRUH THATS NOT MY RETRO GAMES GET THOSE BOOMER GAMES AWAY FROM ME THOSE ARE NOT MY RETRO GAMES I GREW UP WITH THESE ARE THE REAL RETRO GAMES FR FR
>>715083794humans need a modicum of social interaction, even if its fake and gay and 4chan
Retro is like "gothic" or "victorian" era. Just because time passes, doesn't mean that when those periods happened is retroactively moved to a more recent date
>social interaction
Skill issue
I'd say the last time we had a visible generational leap was the late PS3 to PS4.
Graphical design has stagnated since then
>>715081349But does it play old?
>it's retro bcuz the grafix are badwow
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>>715083984This dude is a manchild KEK
>>715084494Meant for
>>715084321I am getting too much social interaction here that I am starting to make silly mistakes. AHAHAHHAHAhhhhhhhhh the social interaction IS TOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Which gang were YOU a part of anons?
The FPS purists
>every shooter must resemble Duke 3D or its unplayable garbage
>Half Life is the devil
>Halo is the antichrist
>talks about doom map packs the same way normal people talk about full fledged games
>aggressively angry all the time
>will be thinking about quake on their death beds
>still doesn't know how to feel about TF2
The Eternal Tendie
>Nintendo is their substitute parents
>Playing Super Mario is a religious experience
>any game that doesn't resemble Mario Sunshine is unplayable garbage
>still complains about 7th gen like its 2010
>dangerously delusional
>hates anything they didn't personally grow up with
>thinks everyone should be forced to act and think just like them
The Unironic Weeb
>lol
>lmao
The Geek Squad
>consoles are the greatest evil on earth
>turned not being able to play/afford/run popular games into a point of pride
>any game that doesn't resemble an excel spreadsheet is unplayable garbage
>has been trying to chase the high of playing that one specific RPG/Tycoon/strategy game they got when they were a kid for the first time
>hates anyone actually talking about the games they enjoy
>"everybody is stupid except me"
>will simultaneously wax poetic about the good old days while shitting on anything that came out after 2005
>secretly plays and enjoys popular modern games
>>715073258 (OP)Yup, makes sense to me. Imagine considering GTA V retro just because it came out 12 years ago.
>>715075641In 40 years Sony will be selling The Last of Us Part 1 ReRemastered 8kHD: Part 2 and it will just be an AI upscale. Then 15 years from then people will be asking if that game is retro.
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>>715084981Thanks
And I'll continue to be one and enjoy myself unlike you lel
>>715075929Game dev cycles are so long now that a game becomes retro before it's even released.
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>>715073258 (OP)>Yes, I love the middle ages.>Don't be such an elitist. The 19th century is medieval because it's old.
>>7150740696th gen was the last real console gen where the hardware was substantially different between competitors
everything has converged architecturally since then, and all consoles are more or less different form factors of the same guts locked down to different gaming network ecosystems
i like the old shit because it has character
t. guy who hacks old games
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>>715085136Geek Squad reporting
>>715075783The 2000s was more similar to the 90s than it was to the 2010s. Pre-iPhone times.
>>715085136>The Geek SquadYep. Been playing Civ 3 (Not retro, I know) for the last like twenty something years.
>>715085312And that shit stretches the definition of retro thinly when shit takes fucking forever to make
Look at 3rd through 6th gen with all the classic games that were released back to back yearly and compared that to 7th gen and "current" gen you would be lucky to have 2 or 3 AAA games on the same platform
Is a GTX 580 considered retro? What about a GTX 480?
Let me talk about Red Dead Redemption on /vr/!!!!
Are remasters retro if all they change is the graphics?
>>715075461>Nothing after the millennium is really retro Correction: nothing after the 13th baktun is really retro, as that is when the fourth world ended and we entered the fifth. Everything made from 3114 BC-2012 AD is retro.
>>715076141>>715073258 (OP)Basically, Iron Man 1 is 17 years old movie wise in example but there's modern cape shit that looks similar if not shittier. Same as the standard suburban house in America isn't "retro" despite spawning before the average internet users birth but there's an era of 80s and 60s era homes that have a distinct style that are called retro. It's essentially just a time capsule of style and tech from a specific era. PS3, Xbox 360 and them are closer to launch graphics of the continuing modern era, like comparing Mario Bros & Mario Bros 3 except the gap between those two games were massive on the same console gen compared to the smaller gap of the "modern era gaming" games.
>>715085343The 1800s unironically have more in common with the 1400s than they do with the 2000s.
>>715085954The Mayans were right
We should have listened
>>715086153The first half of the 19th century maybe. Second half of the 19th century had more in common with the 2000s. The Industrial Revolution changed everything.
>>715073258 (OP)Let me guess, you "need" more than a $60 Chink emulator handheld toy and 20000 retro games.
>>715074069This. GTA 5 isn't 'retro', even if it came out on the ps3.
>>715073258 (OP)playing tetris is more likely to help you change the world than posting on twitter
I don't even really care I just like my second golden age of the PS1 era. there's tons of ps1 games coming out now
I have even figured out how to make webms to show them off.
>>715086395They're just low-poly modern games with a wobble filter. Call me when then make them for real PS1 hardware.
>>715086374gb tetris was a sign of thawing of the cold war, no joke
>>715086562no you can go ahead and fuck off I don't give a single fuck about your retarded notions.
>>715073258 (OP)I say this.
>>715074069HD is the turning point in my opinion. PS1/Saturn/N64 generation was the final "retro" generation, even though I still like the PS2 era.
>>715087047>they're PS1 games because I say sotranny logic
>>715073258 (OP)I can admit I was born after the golden age of film, why can't zoomers do the same with video games?