What went wrong? Was it ahead of its time?

What went wrong is that it isn't retro.
/thread

The mods need to stop this once and for all because otherwise it'll continue all summer long and then some. This is what happens when you start allowing 7th gen games like GoW. OP knows this and is doing it on purpose to shit up the board.

>>11857878
On the one hand, the notion of retro in this board is basically arbitrary, and so is the cutting line.
On the other, encouraging bored zoomers who can't even read a two sentence sticky can't do anything good for the already nosediving posting quality.

>>11857874
25 years is pretty old man

>>11857878
Ah yes lets bump the thread instead of reporting and moving on
retard.

>>11857872 (OP)
Terrible battery life, as well as being a non-Nintendo portable.
UMDs were arguably a questionable choice for a storage medium too, but at the same time, nothing else would've offered the same ratio of cost to storage capacity in 2004.

>>11857897
Whats so terrible with teh battery life you can see it in%

>>11857893
The psp didn't come out in 2000 retard

>>11857930
So how long has it been out?

>>11857935
About 20.

Oh we gon' have fun in November...

>>11857872 (OP)
ridge racer psp was based beyond belief, the best game in the series and the most fun I had with a psp game by far

>>11857915
I owned a PSP back when they were relatively new. The battery only lasted about four hours. Wasn't so bad on road trips if you had access to an inverter though. Tbf, I mostly used mine for emulators and I never kept track of how long the battery actually lasted. I know the UMD drive was supposed to use a lot of power.

>>11857895
Yeah you really wish we were silent so you could make it look like there are posters who want 7th gen to be allowed.

Also >implying I'd take the bait on the bumping thing

>>11857872 (OP)
I had a PSP and lived it but I'll always laugh at the fact that all the games I would have liked way more like the MGS game of Gran Turismo I never had or played, the library I actually played was awful but I loved it anyway. Wish I could get a new in box one nowadays

>>11857872 (OP)
> no l2/r2
> no 2nd analog stick
> needed 2x the final versions RAM and VRAM in first version, with no revisions
> could have used larger or faster data buses, and a slightly faster CPU
> should have gone the flash ROM route instead of UMDs, and given us a bigger battery instead
> lack of anti-piracy fucked it long term as a profitable platform

>zoomers still think age = retro
You don't understand what was it like to play close to PS2 quality games on a fucking handled when the competition was still stuck in the early 90s. It will never be retro, zoomer

>>11857954
Are the mods changing the rules?

>>11857989
I was just passing by but bumping a thread like you did with GoW is mega retard move

>>11858021
No, but I say we spam the board regardless.

YEAH, BURNOUT PARADISE GENERAL.

>>11858014
> lack of anti-piracy fucked it long term as a profitable platform

Ah, the ol' Dreamcast demise argument.

Wasn't the UMD anti-piracy enough?

>>11857893
>retro just means "old"
No, fuck off.

>>11858078
>i'm going to ignore standard word definitions and make my own up

>>11858089
Is a car from 2000 a retro car?

20 years = Retro
the gap from today to PS3 is bigger than it was from PS1 to PS3.

>>11858093
My 2001 Toyota Camry, with a broken aircon and shitty transmission s an antique, yes.

Is it true that the disc popped out of early models or was that just a meme?

https://defective.ytmnd.com/

Just while I have a chance to ask. Is the PSP Medievil any good?

>>11858093
A 05' Pontiac Solstice GXP is 100% retro.

>>11858089
>>11858101
Retro is a time period. Imagine going to a classical music forum and trying to start up a discussion about Closing Time by Semisonic.
>That's not classical music.
>Everyone knows that song, it's CLASSIC!
That's how dumb you "retro means 20 years old" retards sound every time.

>>11857989
Hi, I'm another anon who wants 7th gen to be allowed here.
>>11858128
I'm tempted to say no, but thinking about it, I'm not sure. It's been a really fucking long time, but I remember owning an early model. TA-081 motherboard. I was thrilled to discover this since it meant my system was easy to set up for homebrew.

>>11858143
Don't quit your day job to professionally make analogies

>>11857872 (OP)
To be honest I think PSP and DS should be allowed because their libraries contain so many 4th and 5th gen games. They ultimately feel like 6th gen platforms.

>>11858167
No. That just opens up the rest of 7th gen.
>No it won-
Yes it will. It already happened here once.

>>11858129
No

>>11858167
Yeah and then PSP and DS are in we should totally allow the GC because it's like a Gamecube anyway and it had virtual console ;);) and then once that's in we should put in XBOX360 and PS3 because they're the same generation! And then we should allow 3DS because it covers the same years and it's basically one gen behind anyway ;)
or wait a minute! you can just go on /v/ or gamefaqs or retrogametalking or any other faggy place like this that welcomes 20 years old retards who like to shitpost on their summer vacation from college

>>11858169
I think early 7th gen (2004-2007) would be okay but the rest of it doesn't feel retro at all.

>>11858167
They also came out over 20 years ago. That's not what I call modern.
>>11858175
I think 2010 should be the limit tbqh.

>>11858175
Lol, if you let a little bit in all of it will get in. Doesn't matter what you think. Same arguments were made with the GBA saying it was more 4th gen and then surprise, all of 6th gen is included. Can't fool anyone when there has been histroy of this happening on this board.

>>11857872 (OP)
How did it go so right? Popular, excellent library of games, graphics and gameplay still hold up to this day, cheap, reliable, easily modded.

>>11858178
The modern gaming era started with broadband internet connectivity, it's the biggest and most obvious dividing line between "now" and "then." PSP and DS both had wi-fi, placing them squarely in the camp of modern internet-connected gaming.

>>11858146
All PSP models can be softmodded these days, right? Or are they like PS2s where the last models manufactured were hack proofed?

>>11858182
>Muh camel nose in the tent fallacy

>>11858178
PSP and DS were basically, a portable PS2 and N64 respectively. Like how a GBA is a portable SNES. Not specs-wise but in terms of vision I mean.

>>11858191
You could connect Sega Saturn's to DSL lines, right?

>>11858197
It's not a fallacy and neither is the slippery slope. They're valid concerns raised by people capable of thinking further ahead than today. The only people who poo-poo such "fallacies" are the ones trying to exploit them for their own ends.

>>11858197
It happened before. It will happen again if we allow more. In fact allowing 6th gen embolded people like you.

>>11858193
>All PSP models can be softmodded these days, right?
I think so, but back in 2006/2007 having a TA-081 motherboard was special. It took longer for TA-082 motherboards to be softmoddable.

Nothing? It's a great piece of hardware and right up there with all the best selling consoles. The only real problem was the garbage screen on the 1k but they fixed that in the revisions.

UMDs kind of sucked for many reasons and the battery life was relatively short but when your game loaded up and it felt like a full blown PS2 title in your hands (compared to the DS and its barely PS1-tier 3D) you didnt care.

>>11858216
Dude, it's just 4chan. Relax.

>>11857872 (OP)
they should have made more ports from ps2 to give it a bigger library. also umds were dumb and gay.

>>11858246
If it's just 4chan, use one of the other boards.

>non-retro system
>probably has been reported enough times to be nuked
>jannies do fuck all
Not the first time PSP shit stays up on here. Methinks the cutoff date is getting pushed up who the fuck am i kidding it's because this board sucks

>>11858014
>lack of anti-piracy fucked it long term as a profitable platform
>80 million units sold
>enough to get a follow up console
Are you the retard in every Dreamcast thread that pops up saying piracy killed it too?

>>11857872 (OP)
>Was it ahead of its time?
No, but it was ahead of this board. Not retro.

>>11858271
>Complains about the PSP thread being tolerated on the retro game board
>Proceeds to participate in the thread

>>11858280
Good job bumping the thread

I like how this has been up for hours
>>11857872 (OP)
Nothing went wrong, it was a success. Just because the NDS won that gen, doesn't mean the PSP failed. It's like the 7th gen as a whole, no console was really a loser.

>>11858310
How did the damn DS win? Was it cheap?

>>11858310
It's a sign of things to come, and I like it.

>>11858285
>Proceeds to participate in the thread
Yeah, we are you doing that?

>>11858167
Agreed.
Like I mean look at this shit.
How is left retro but not right?

>>11858323
It had pokemanz

>>11858342
PS2 isn't retro, either, retard. Gen 6 never should have been allowed here, it has severely damaged the quality of this board.

>>11858356
I can't wait for 7th gen to be officially allowed so that you leave.

>>11858356
How about you just stick to your wonderswan threads, Wonderboy.

>>11858371
How about you stick to /v/.

Should have just made a /v2k/ for 6th and 7th gen butt trannymods would rather have a million shitty boards with zero traffic for strategy and mobile games

>>11858381
If they changed the rules for the mobile board and kicked mobile games off /v/ it'd be better. I am bewildered to why they can't have generals there with most games discussed there run for many years and every month there is a new event. So instead of staying on the mobile board they disperse to /v/ and /vg/.

Why do you get so worked up about people discussing things that go slightly beyond what's considered retro here?

>>11858391
Just a couple of weeks I copped a 3-day ban for "not retro" for mentioning the PSP in an existing thread, in the context of using it as a retro handheld back in the day. Yet this thread is, apparently, fine.

>>11858173
The PS1 version is better?

Maybe it's because you don't belong here.

>>11858395
I hope you did some productive projects during your three day holiday.

Psp was the steam deck of its Era. I took mine absolutely fucking everywhere with me. Don't forget you were also chained to sonys bullshit overpriced proprietary memory card formats. I just used a converter with a microsd card tho.

Like the steam deck, most normies at the time preferred the inferior Nintendo device on the market. Psp was better in just about every conceivable way. Like the steam deck, you mostly just carried it around the room with you while it was plugged in.

Another big thing was that I used to love using this thing for porn. Nowadays everybody watches porn on their tablets or smart phone. But back then I had my psp loaded up with all my favorite pics and vids. That a portable gaming system could do this at all was revolutionary for its time. It was a Swiss army knife, it did way more than video games. There was a converter program I used to use to convert pdf and epub files into png slideshows so i even used my psp as an ereader for a variety of books.

Psp walked so steam deck could fly. Also took a lot of inspiration from the Sega game gear imo. In that it was an excellent hand held for its time that was shitty on battery life and none of the poors owned one lol.

I absolutely loved my psp for every moment that I owned one. I own a steam deck nowadays.

I think psp does belong on retro vr however. There was a sequel hand held, the psp vita, and kids these days hardly remember psp happened at all. Ergo its retro imo. You see lots of these things being modded and sold on fb marketplace and pawn shops etc. Its far from new. Most sane rational adults would agree its a retro system.

did it really fail?
it always felt like a contender even if the DS did better.
then it became one of the most easily hackable things and that gave it new life.

>>11857872 (OP)
Lack of support from Sony, especially in the run-up to the PS3 launch. You can look across Metacritic and the vast majority of PSP games are "meh" at best, with relatively few outstanding games. Even so, It was still the best selling competitor to a Nintendo handheld since the Game Gear. I personally loved my PSP and I even managed to earn a few bucks softmodding them for other people at the time. The homebrew community was where the PSP truly shined.

>>11858416
>did it really fail?
It didn't, people are just retarded in thinking that because it didn't dethrone Nintendo as the king of handhelds, it failed. If it "failed", there wouldn't have been the Vita (was a failure)
>>11858534
>You can look across Metacritic
>trusting gayme critics
>ever
lol retard

>>11858395
Things are finally changing for the better, and I'm happy for that.
>>11858415
Good retrospective. The PSP was a crazy device for its time. I regret giving mine away when I was in high school.
>>11858534
The homebrew scene was fucking kino. It was the first console I ever modded. I loved being able to run emulators and rip UMDs so I could play games without a disc.

Why is this blatant rule-breaking thread still up? Pathetic /v/ Jr.

>>11858813
two options:
>/vr/ mod had a stroke and he's dying covered in pepperonis
>they're testing in order to add 7th gen content very soon

>>11858828
Testing going "well" means jack shit. Posters act nice and are excited because of the novelty of it; but once that wears out and all the /v/tards realize they can shitpost about their childhood and casual Wii games on here as well as on /v/ admist the "let's discuss modern politics through the veil of this video game", mods will be like "well, /vr/ is just another /v/ now so it's pointless, might as well delete the board and tell the old guysto make generals on /vg/"

>>11858847
it's gonna suck either way. 4th gen and earlier barely gets discussed anymore since the 6th gen addition, and the topics on 5th/6th gen content are extremely low quality. 7th gen is going to completely annihilate this board

>>11858828
>they're testing in order to add 7th gen content very soon
God, I hope so.

>>11858860
>God, I hope so.

>>11858415
I think DS had more games that normies liked like Pokemon or Mario. There was also this touchscreen/pen appeal.

>>11858534
I think the PSP had good games early on but no real killer-apps from the start like Final Fantasy X, MGS2, GT3, SH2, Halo or SSB Melee.

I was thinking that 7th gen content would destroy /vr/, but I think it's destroyed already. I mean, you have people responding in earnestly to granite fag instead of bullying him. How the mighty have fallen.

>>11858890
The NSO killed retro gaming discussion because it gave easy access to retro to zoomies

>>11858902
I was playing old games on the Wii virtual console in 2010, how old do you think gen z are?

>>11858914
Oldest zoomers were 13 in 2010.

>>11858890
At least he plays video games.

>>11858919
Coomlecting =/= playing.

>>11858902
I'm not sure if Zoomers even play games that much compared to Millennials. The ones I worked with didn't besides a few really popular modern ones.

>>11857968
>The battery only lasted about four hours.
That's over twice as long as Switch 2, the best selling console in history btw.

Nothing went wrong, it was extremely successful.

>>11858813
>>11858828
They're active ITT
>>11858347

So clearly something's up.
>>11858928
>The ones I worked with didn't besides a few really popular modern ones.
Anon, that's how most people who aren't "gamers" have been since the dawn of video games.

This is what you're getting a centerfold once 7th gen is allowed >>11857667
>pretending to talk about a DS game to make a modern political statement

>>11858890
>I mean, you have people responding in earnestly to granite fag instead of bullying him
Anons have been doing that for years, very rarely do you see anyone telling him to fuck off.

Imagine /vr/ with 7th gen... If Tendies are annoying with their GayCube revisionism... just imagine with the fucking Wii that sold a gorillion units... that would end up with PlayStation faggots on suicide watch & Total tendie domination.

If that would be the case then fuck the whole 7th gen. Actually, we should ban the whole 6th gen too. Fuck nintendr0ns.

>>11857872 (OP)
The library was shit

What’s so bad about discussing 7th-gen stuff here? It’d be fun to talk about forgotten gems from that era, like Heavenly Sword, Remember Me, and the tales of games on /vr/.

>>11858971
No but I saw a major generational difference.
The Millennials that I worked were nearly all gaming enthusiasts. It was the topic that was most discussed, old and new games.
For Millennials video games are like what VHS tapes are for Gen X or classic rock is for Boomers.

>>11858902
How? I thought the issue was that they don't play retro games.

>>11858996
Because they might as well be a totally different hobby. The games are very different. 7th gen is just going to turn the board into 100% /v/

>>11859001
Well, maybe because millenials grew up in a time when games moved from strength to strength in just about every way, it seems special to them. But also, just how much of an "enthusiasts" are we talking here?

>>11858996
>It’d be fun to talk about forgotten gems from that era, like Heavenly Sword, Remember Me
Those pieces of shit are not "gems"
>and the tales of games
You can discuss everything up to Symphonia here already

This has been a glorious day for /vr/

>>11859026
But I wanna chat about the Tales of Graces f Remaster and Tales of Xillia here. I never liked Symphonia that much, it felt clunky compared to the 2D entries

>>11859018
The IT office where I worked had Millennial people discussing older games all the time like PS1 horror games. Basically some of the games that are discussed here. We even had game-jam contests on weekends and board-game events like D&D.
The zoomers were all talking about work every time.

The normie Millennials that I grew up, all played video games, even the jocks. It was all sports games, Call of Duty and GTA. Even some girls did so.

>>11859072
>The IT office where I worked had Millennial people discussing older games all the time like PS1 horror games.
>game-jam contests on weekends and board-game events like D&D
>IT office
That's why anon. You're in an office filled with people who played vidya because they were nerds, not because of their age.
>The normie Millennials that I grew up, all played video games, even the jocks. It was all sports games, Call of Duty and GTA
Anon, that's all normie shit. And reinforces what I said earlier
>that's how most people who aren't "gamers" have been since the dawn of video games.
You wouldn't consider your boomer dad a "gamer" because he played Pacman a lot back in 1980, because EVERYONE was playing Pacman back then. Just like how 20-ish years ago everyone played GTA because it seemed exciting and new you could play a game that let you be a free flowing criminal in an open world. And Madden is the literally THE normie franchise, has been for decades.

>>11858129
It's perfectly mediocre. From what I remember, the gameplay itself wasn't drastically changed but it's still pretty dumb in its simplicity.
What people usually bitch about is the change of tone - the Tim Burton atmosphere was turned into an unfunny cartoon.

>>11857872 (OP)
Piracy killed the PSP.

>>11859093
Yeah no but I have never seen the Zoomers that I worked with being into that, that much.
All the normie Millennials played video games of some sort, it was hard to find someone that didn't.
My father used to play at the arcades in the 80s. He would tell me about Outrun and Sega all the time.

>>11859118
>Yeah no but I have never seen the Zoomers that I worked with being into that, that much.
Probably because they grew up in a time where games were either mobile shit or stagnating in terms of innovation.
>All the normie Millennials played video games of some sort
Not to the extent of a "gamer". Chad Chadson the Alphamale who played Madden and occasionally GTA wasn't considered a "gamer" you could seriously discuss games about because playing Madden and GTA wasn't an identifier that someone played games as a hobby, they were the equivalent to normalfags who play mobile games now.
>He would tell me about Outrun and Sega all the time.
Your dad was a nerd. Not an example of boomer normies.

>>11859131
My dad played casually at the arcades. I think he played pool and darts at the arcades and got curious about arcade video games at some point.
My dad always played casual stuff on his PC like card games or Mahjong.

>>11857337
youtuber thread

>>11857667
/pol/ shit

>>11859125
>>11857778
>>11856247
several threads of just retard /v/ tier bait with an OP that doesn't even break half of the og twitter character limit

>>11857872 (OP)
>>11855923
>>11852038
7th gen people feeling at home; the root of evil.

I like it because it has many decent racing games I can play on my phone with a controller.

For example Test Drive Unlimited with 60fps cheat/hack! Pretty cool.

>>11859201
Why don't you apply to a janitorial job and tell the head mod he's doing it WRONG?

>>11857872 (OP)
Not retro yet
That said, nothing went wrong.
80 million in sales is no small number and it left a good legacy.
Has a good library of it's own, plays PS1 games, can run several emulators, homebrew, multimedia capabilities.
The biggest problem was battery life but even then, you can at least still use it when plugged.

>>11859201
Yea wtf is going on. Some sort of raid lol?

>>11858129
Doesn't work on the switch emulator

Change the board name to "Classic Gaming".

>no platform released after 2001 is "classic" in any way

>still up
Kek, you know the rule change is coming very soon. It was nice to know you /vr/ - RETRO games.

>>11859201
>/pol/ shit
For a DS game no less

>>11857872 (OP)
Expensive and a shit battery. Nintendo DS had come out a year earlier and was immensely successful, and backwards compatible to the GBA. And, reminder, was WAY cheaper.

>>11859536
/vc/

>>11859304
80 million units, but how were the software sales proportionally? It seemed like people just bought these to emulate other game libraries.

>>11859839
Bye :p

>>11859879
All 80 million had CFW?

>>11857893
>actually around 20
But since around that time we have seen the homogenization of gaming into modern gaming. Using age only as a distinction is meaningless.

>>11859839
It'll be especially hilarious if they insist "we're not going to keep changing the definition of 'retro'," despite blinking yet again.

Is this or the DS version of Chinatown Wars the best version?

Is this game fun?

>>11858359
Honestly I cannot imagine 7th gen ever becoming retro as defined by the board because there is essentially zero difference between 7th gen Call of Duty / GTA / Assassins Creed / Gran Turismo and current generation. People are right that 6th gen is just skirting the line.

>>11860000
quads confirm

>>11860000
You mean you don't want our retro classic to be discussed here? It surely has more in common with games here rather than changing what sort of modern games are made.

>>11859934
Of course not all 80 million, but software attach rates should tell at least some of the story

>>11859968
Psp version has the most content but the mobile version is best.

>>11860013
>It surely has more in common with games here
You don't play enough video games to think that.

Is Locoroco easy?

>>11860075
I forgot my picture with it. Jannies are being very selective. They deleted a 7th gen console game but allowing PSP and DS ones to stay up.

What the FUCK did I just play? I just wanted to play a fightan game with hot chicks ..

>>11860023
...which are?

>>11860080
DeS was an outlier in an era of extreme casualization. And they're still going on now, and as such, they're modern games.

>>11860095
You have to be a special kind of retarded to not know that's an XBVB spinoff.

>>11860154
It said DoA. Why the fuck would you spin it off?

>>11857878
>people are discussing a decades old console on a board for old video games

>>11860193
>The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro".
Where's the PSP?

>>11859304
Whether or not the game library was good is a difficult question to answer. It didn't have a lot of great exclusives and even shit that started as exclusives eventually got ported to consoles thus negating the need for the psp version. But its backwards compatibility even without modding gives it so much additional content I'm not sure how many exclusives it really needed to justify its existence. Even if you only used it as a portable PS1 that's a fucking amazing inventory of available games. Not to mention the extensive numbers of compilations released for it.

Mine currently has a Genesis collection, one of the Capcom collections, Chrono Trigger, Rayman 1, Bonk's adventure , P3P and Pixeljunk Monsters on the memory card, and I have hard copies of Dracula X, Metal Gear Acid and Portable Ops and Crisis Core. That's SNES, Genesis, Turbografx, PS1, various arcade games and some original stuff, and that's without any custom firmware, just what I could get legit off PSN, usually for fairly cheap. I kinda wish it had more original games but honestly it's a minor consideration. That thing was retro paradise. I actually like playing older games on it even if I have console version because they just look right. I don't know if it's the small screen or a resolution thing but they look like they looked on CRT without the blurriness or pixelation of the newer ports.

The psp was a great machine, I just wish they would let me download stuff off psn and transfer it to the psp with my PS4 like the PS3 did.

>>11857872 (OP)
It has no good games. Genuinely everything on it is just a massively compromised installment in a franchise that was good on console. I hate all the MGS games on it(Peace Walker fucking sucks it's time to stop pretending it doesn't), Daxter is terrible, Secret Agent Clank is terrible, the 2 GTA games are technically impressive but have horrible missions, I could go on forever. I don't care for the few original games on it either like Patapon or Loco Roco. It has some surprisingly decent fighting game ports on it, but I and I'm sure everyone else would rather just play those on console too.

Out of every game playing machine, PSP might be the only one that doesn't have a single game I want to play on it. The system just kind of lacks an identity. It was powerful enough to have almost PS2 level graphics, but general game design was universally thrown out the window to cater to shorter session portable experiences and I have never liked that kind of design, even when I was playing portable games on the go.

>>11860182
How unfamiliar are you with DOA?

>thread is still up
oh no, i dont like this. we already barely discuss the 2d era. once wiibabies and 360 chuds start posting its unironically fucking over.

>>11857878
I hate to tell you, but this is literal propaganda to get you used to 7th gen discussion before they make it official over the next year or so. It's all down hill from here.

>>11860272
>Daxter.

I heard that was good tho. What about the Jak and Daxter PSP game? (Or the Ratchet and Clank one while we're at it)?

>>11860284
You think there's a grand conspiracy afoot on a 4chan board?

>>11860282
There's 2D games on PSP. How about you discuss them instead of whining like a lil bish

>the waggling, DLC and red ring era is now """retro""" I guess

pack it up, its fucking joever.

>>11860337
2007 was just like five years ago, right?

>>11857878
so what's the alternative, a "new retro" board for stuff from the mid 2000s that are outdated and never discussed on /v/? No one's talking about PSP and the mid 00s systems anymore

>>11860337
>blowing on your N64 cartridges and turning your PS1 upside down era is now """retro""" I guess

What's the best Hockey game on PSP...if they have any?

>>11859858
Ah so the Gamegear and Gameboy all over again?

>>11860357
/v/'s been regularly getting threads about the PSP and Wii lately. You're fucking blind.

So, why DID the PSP only have one analogue stick?

>>11860357
/vr2k/ is an idea people have been throwing around for a while. I'm a proponent of it. It'd keep the old timers who only want to discuss 5th gen and below happy, and it'd give people like me who want to discuss 6th and 7th gen a place to do that without using /v/.

Yeah it is fucking over. At this point so many threads feel they're giving me brain damage and lowering my IQ just by looking at them, exactly like the state of /v/ before /vr/ was created, so the entire point of this board is now gone.

Honestly it was moderation that had been keeping /vr/ together for a while now, they weren't afraid to just delete retarded bait thread pretending to be about video games, hence why you'd often see those retards come back crying "wtf why are you deleting my RETRO VIDEO GAME thread".
But something's changed since the attack, I don't know if it left a gaping hole in the moderation team so now they can't handle everything anymore, or if they simply decided to tell trolls have their way because they're afraid of getting doxxed again, either way if that's how it's going to be /vr/ should have staid dead.

Honestly we had a good run and it was inevitable, I'd even say that good /vr/ lasted longer than good /v/ lasted back in the day before the 7th gen changed something (hmm, what a coincidence); but now it's time to migrate to other places. Yeah I probably won't be able to tell the retards they got filtered or that they didn't beat the game or ask them which youtuber gave them their cute opinion, but at least in those other places it's easier to not be affected by brain damage. (no I won't tell you where, no it's not reddit)

So long, and remember to keep playing old games even if you can't find a place to discuss things anymore, otherwise you never liked the games to begin with.

>>11860375
NHL 2007 is the only one I can think of. There's romhacks for it that update the roster.
>>11860421
Sony probably wasn't expecting FPSs to be a big genre for it. Damn shame, because the PSP could've been a half-decent console for them if it had one.
>>11860430
Sayonara, and good riddance to you.

>>11860430
Yes, I do think too many mods and jannies left because of the hack. You mix that with how good posters left while bad posters stayed, and you get a recipe for a truly unusable website.

>>11860430
Nigger no one's stopping you from discussing what you want. The board is slow as fuck. Make a thread about whatever you think the threads should be about and have it.

>>11860430
The whole site is a far cry from its better years.

>>11860456
This. Wanna discuss something you consider retro? Make a thread about it.
>>11860457
4chan has never been "good", but it's always been great.

>>11860465
>>11860456
No. The purpose of /vr/ was a board for older games because /v/ is simply too fast to discuss them. One of the biggest "pros" in including additional generations is more board traffic. That literally goes counterintuitive to /vr/s initial creation. Older and less popular consoles and games have significantly lesser chance to stay on the board now as those threads get pushed off by 6th gen topics and eventually 7th gen.

>>11860465
>people are making insufficiently retro threads
>should I make my own threads that are about exactly what I want?
>No, I'll bump the ones I don't like by complaining incessantly

>>11860478
Some threads stay up for weeks at a time. I don't think the board is moving too fast, and I don't think a thread about the fucking psp of all things is going to suddenly result in a massive zoomer influx. They literally didn't exist when it came out. Unlcench your asshole, anon.

>>11860480
Yeah. Is it like the same two dudes having their periods about a thread discussing a two decade old video game console? Aren't there better things in life to gatekeep?

>>11860435
Ah sweet. I see there's a couple of Gretzky themed hoc games too

>>11860485
>They literally didn't exist when it came out.
Not only did they exist, the older ones were right in the target demographic

>>11860485
Gen Z was around when those handhelds were out. I have no problem with Gen Z here when they stick to the guidelines.
>>11860489
Because the topics you are discussing thus board isn't about. There is nothing in the rules about a sliding 20 year rule. The sticky is very clear with 6th gen being the cut off in regards of consoles and handhelds.

>>11860503
Rules were made to be broken, baby

>>11857872 (OP)
the games were boring

>>11860456
Because once the retards feel at home they'll do everything to clog the catalogue with shit and drive out or ruin the other threads
here is a few more obvious bait threads >>11859417 >>11860041 >>11859317

>trolling is a art

>>11860524
Might as well delete the board to merge back with /v/.

>>11860000
>Honestly I cannot imagine 7th gen ever becoming retro as defined by the board because there is essentially zero difference between 7th gen Call of Duty / GTA / Assassins Creed / Gran Turismo and current generation.
For me, excluding handhelds the dividing line is CRT televisions vs HDMI out wide screen displays. I know 7th gen was a bit of an in-between gen but I mostly put it on the widescreen side of the fence.

>>11860430
see you tommorow

>>11860531
So make your own 4chan and do that.

>>11860586
Why don't you make your own alt-chan to include PSP and DS?

>>11860528
Even FIFA 09?

>>11860590
Why would I need to do that? I'm posting in a perfectly good PSP thread right now

>>11860272
Wait...there are people who don't like Peace Walker?

>>11860604
I honestly think it's better on the PSP, and played in short bursts of a few missions at most. The enemy AI, the bosses etc were all balanced around the clunky control scheme and your slower average response time. The PS3 remaster gives it much smoother controls but the game is a lot easier to play around everything and it seems bland. I played the PS3 version first and thought it was kind of mediocre, but later tried the original PSP version and found it oddly more enjoyable.

>>11860601
It's a pretty shit PSP thread made by an retarded OP.
Nothing went wrong with the PSP, no other non-Nintendo handheld ever did as well as the PSP did. Which is pretty amazing considering it lacks the casual "for the whole family" appeal of Nintendo handhelds.

>>11860607
The PSP did well, but people on this website tend to be Nintendo fanboys and love to make it out like everything Sony did since the PS2 was a massive failure with no games.

>>11860604
NTA but Peace Walker was a fucking letdown, it will sound weird but I genuinely prefer Portable Ops to it, not only is it more enjoyable to play overall (to an extent it still at least feels like a classic MGS game), the plot is also better. PW looks great, especially for a PSP game, but that's about it. PW is the only mainline Metal Gear game that I don't like at all and I like pretty much all of them from MG1 to TPP AND Ghost Babel. I know a lot of people claim that PW is like the better V but I disagree, it's just such a fucking slog man. The HD version is supposedly better because of the controls and 60 FPS but I've never played it

>>11860607
>no other non-Nintendo handheld ever did as well as the PSP did

Probably not /vr/ but do iPhones not count?

>>11860619
>>11860606

Now I think about it, wasn't there some shitty turn-based MGS on PSP?

>>11860624
Why would they count?
Might as well include the 3310 because you can play Snake on it.

>>11860607
Was it a dudebro console?

>>11858078
retro means fashioned in an old style. even new games can be retro, but mods freak out over that. lmao what do you think retro music means? it means music that sounds old, not that it is old. retro isnt interchangeable with old in years, but indicative of old in style.
>retro: imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
look it up yourself. this place was named wrong if we cant discuss things that have an old style but are new.

>>11860619
>PW is like the better V
that's crazy, V's main problem was the story, the gameplay was great compared to PW

>>11860631
Honestly not really. The PSP was more of a weeb console in the end. SRPGs, MonHun, quirky Japan Studio games, and visual novels are the most notable titles.

>>11857872 (OP)
Nothing, other than the controller/controls

It’s kinda impressive other than that. I mean it’s not THAT impressive but in a way it is

How's your UMD collection looking guys? I heard there's about 1500 commercially released UMD movies

>>11860591
especially fifa 09

>>11860639
>weeb console

I just remember where I lived both the nerds and jocks and all inbetween at highschool had PSPs. Not a DS in sight.

the PSP Vita is a **very*** weeb console on the other hand.

>>11860680
>I just remember where I lived both the nerds and jocks and all inbetween at highschool had PSPs. Not a DS in sight.
Which country was this?

>>11860635
It isn't this place that is named wrong, for video games they use retro as in old rather than something emulating a style back then. It isn't just /vr/ that does this.

>>11860687
NZ

Favorite PSP game? Mine is Retro City Rampage on the PSP.

>>11860750
It's Peace Walker which is a boring answer but I do have a soft spot for Pursuit Force

>>11860624
>Probably
>>11702620
>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier
You're not even trying. Kill yourself.

>>11860698
Makes sense, I've always had the impression that Nintendo was more of a Japanese and North American phenomenon until fairly recently

>>11857872 (OP)
Nothing, it performed great and even looked like it was going to beat the DS until Nintendogs. Amazing how modern Sony’s hardware from 20 years ago looks today.

>>11860803
Nintendogs was the DS's killer app?

>>11860814
Not exactly, but it did well early on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_DS_video_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_Portable_video_games

>>11857872 (OP)
>what went wrong
Nothing
>was it ahead of its time
No
Why do stupid questions like that get asked? It was of it’s time. You want to go to a parallel reality or something?

>>11860819
yes ;(

>>11858129
Fucking no lmao. It's honestly one of those "have to know" kind of games where you have to play it yourself to get how bad it is (after playing the original of course).

No reason to play that shit when the PSone classic is right there to buy, and if you don't like clunky ps1 graphics or whatever then the PS4 remake is right over there and it's great.

>>11860835
is it just tedious or something? It looks nice at least.

>>11860835
I legitimately never got the hate for Resurrection. I grew up with the original and that remake is at worst mediocre yet people act like it's abysmally bad. But then most people also seem to hate OoT3D

The PSP emulator has the best CRT filter I've ever seen. It uses animated scanlines, and you can set the speed they move at, too. I wish I knew how to use it on everything

>>11860874
Why would you use CRT filters to emulate an LCD handheld?

>>11860876
Because it looks better?

Is it true that Sonic Rivals is a crock of shit?

>>11860891
I had both of them, they were some of the most aggressively mediocre games I ever played, which might actually be worse than just being shit.

>>11860635
Autism.

>>11860480
Hey, I'm not the guy who's been bitching about the PSP posting here. I've actually been one of the main people propping it up in this thread. I know it's hard to tell because there's no IP counter or poster IDs.
>>11860489
I forgot about the Gretzky games. I assumed NHL 07 was the only one. I don't really play sports games much.
>>11860531
Nah, fuck that modernslop shithole.
>>11860612
I think it's funny that one of the main things I used my PSP for bitd was emulating SNES games. Wish it didn't struggle so much with it.
>>11860891
Never played it but I've heard it's hard to emulate.

>still here

Kek.

PPSSPP needs to get their shit together and finally support this gem

>>11860995
There are games that don't work on PPSSPP?

>>11861001
Yes.
https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/3128

>zoomers celebrating they invaded and destroyed another board
How's gonna be the brave soul who will spam BBC porn in literally every non retro thread

>>11861031
At least BBC is retro.