>We talk about retro games...unless they came out one day after December 31st 2007
What causes this kind of autism?

>/v/ - we don't talk about video games to begin with

>>716166869
fpbp

>>716166695 (OP)
> /v/
>we fucking HATE video games

Woah they added new boards?!

>>716166695 (OP)
they should add a board for retarded rage bait, it would be the most popular board on the site

>>716166695 (OP)
it used to be a retro games board but fags thinking their console they had as kids is retro killed it.
they never should have added ps2/gc/halo, its a slippery slope.

Retro btw

If it makes you feel better, the majority of /vr/tards are already pissed it goes that far to begin with.
They're manchildren that want retro to be what was their childhoods forever. Utterly pathetic board.

GTA 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

Deal with it.

retro is an aesthetic as well as an age.
they're still mad they have to accept ps2 games on the board.

if it's retro enough for gamestop and ebay then it's retro enough for /vr/
two more weeks years and after the ps6 drop the ps4 will become retro

Retro should just be 20 years to the day so they can mark the 20th birthday of ecah game as it rolls around

the board will lose all its meaning when ps3 and 360 become ''retro''

>>716168032
>They're manchildren that want retro to be what was their childhoods forever.
No. "Retro" in video games refers to a specific type of gameplay and style, otherwise everything about discussing games becomes impossible to categorize. There is a very dramatic shift around roughly when the Dreamcast came out where games function more like they do today visually, in terms of quality of life, in terms of mechanics, and in terms of general respect for the player's time instead of introducing padding to keep people playing or renting the game via difficulty spikes or grinding. Prior to that you had games in the exact same genre that would have wildly different thoughts on mechanics or features, have completely different control schemes, focus on life systems that make no sense for the game you are playing just because it was done at the time, and so on.

If everything is retro just because of the passage of time then functionally the PS4 will be "retro" in the next 3-7 years despite games still coming out for it and you will have to equate Tennis on the Maganavox Odyssey with something like Elden Ring as "Retro games" which no one in their right mind would agree with.
Standardization is a great indication of when "retro" games should be separated from "modern" gaming and that happens roughly around gen 6. I'd consider gen 6 "retro" but anything past that makes no sense. Even then mechanically there is no difference between many PS2, GC, and Xbox games released even half way into the generation from PS5, Series, and Switch games released now outside of visuals.

>>716166695 (OP)
>go to an alcoholic anonymous meeting
What LE FUCK? why arent we talking about smoking weed???

retro = 80s and 90s
classic = 2000s
modern = 2010s and onward

>>716169035
retro means 20+ years old. it doesn't mean the reign of the Showa emperor.

>>716166695 (OP)
It definitely does feel like autism to get angry over slightly older games being discussed. The definition of retro is: imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.

What constitutes the distant past? I'd argue that fits games up to 2015 at least. We can nitpick when gaming lost it's "soul" or uniqueness but games of the 7th gen had a unique style that feels retro by today's standards. As for /vr/ the board itself seems funny enough... stuck in the past with older millennials, gen x'ers, and boomers desperately seeking validation. They have to gatekeep in order to convince themselves that their precious NES games (which lets be honest were mostly shit) are worthy of being talked about in current year over anything else.