Thread 719168078

It never made sense to me. All the best games being 2 clicks away to download for free and emulate, and the mechanics of said games having a lot of depth meaning you can always get better and be in competition with yourself, there's literally no reason to splurge on new consoles. I could play the DKC and Crash Bandicoot trilogy and keep getting better at the mechanics over and over and I'd have a blast doing so. And this is without even getting into mods/romhacks. I could play the infinite amount of Mario World romhacks and not even come close to the skill ceiling no matter how much I've mastered it. Barely any new games have the depth like they used to.

Not only that, focusing on a few games trying to master them makes you way better at video games and gives you tons of transferable skills between them, compared to jumping from game to game and being mediocre at all of them.

Sure 2 decades ago when developers were actually passionate about the games it made sense, but with how far emulating and computing has come since then, the appeal of new games has increasingly become less so. Games are way too expensive to be as shit as they are now.

I'm not reading all that

they have money

>>719168078 (OP)
Most of them are kids who think that there is nothing worth playing unless it's brand new
Raised on the SLOP, so they love it

>>719168078 (OP)
Normies do not buy games to play they buy them to enjoy the shared experience of being part if the current thing.
Old obscure shit is pointless for this so only asocial autists play them.

>>719168078 (OP)
Why do you care what others think leg alone normies scum?

>>719168078 (OP)
>It never made sense to me.

Because not all gamers are zoomers that never played the retro classics. Lots of gamer are actually millennials that beaten all the retro classics and want new shit.

Why do people constantly make new threads?

It never made sense to me. All the best threads being 2 clicks away to read on the archive, and the posts in said threads having a lot of depth meaning you can always gain something from them that you wouldn't get on the catalog, there's literally no reason to splurge on new threads. I could read arch.b4k and desuarchive and keep reading interesting posts over and over and I'd have a blast doing so. And this is without even getting into advanced search operators/plugins. I could find anything I want from the infinite amount of posts and not even come close to getting the full picture of what's already been said. Barely any new threads have the depth like they used to.

Not only that, focusing on a few informative old threads makes you way better at parsing good threads from bad ones and gives you tons of transferable skills between them, compared to jumping from thread to thread and seeing that they're all mediocre with no value to extract.

Sure 2 decades ago when anons were actually passionate about the threads it made sense, but with how far archival and documenting has come since then, the appeal of new threads has increasingly become less so. Threads are way too fast to be as shit as they are now.

>>719168903
top kek