Quote from: kazekirifx on 09/13/2012, 02:50 AMretro Japanese PC's. Bought a PC-9821, X68k, FM-Towns, and MSX. I had a firm belief nothing made after 1995, or outside Japan, was worth playing. Also focused a lot on collecting Neo Geo MVS, original Famicom and consoles from that general era during that time.You had the right idea in mind.
I'm still very much into the older consoles - I wouldn't be using this message board otherwise - but my options have expanded, and I no longer see any necessity to choose one or the other. Late '80s/early '90s will always be my favorite chapter of gaming, and I will always come back to it - especially during frequent gatherings with like-minded gamers. I'm still occasionally uncovering new games from this period, and constantly collecting them. So, these systems are not really something that only exist in past-tense for me, yet
QuoteI understand that their time has passed.You just decided to rejion the ranks of the followers. The ranks that I just had to move away from. The ones who still thinks eating fast food is an option. I can no longer serve those ranks. Their was one game, that almost made me want to buy a PS3 and that was portal, but then I said, hey you know it is ten times fun to watch the darn thing, when the graphics even surpass reboot, and Starwars.
I do not know why you lke Assasin Creed. All I know is that it might appeal to j-rpg people like me, dad people, and of course the prinson culture crowd. The game was advertised as a movie.
QuoteThat's why they are retro to me. In a way, they remind me of a fonder time, a more innocent time when I was still a child, and so the nostalgic feelings that come with the word "retro" are not necessarily a bad thing for me.Now you are an adult you can appreciate what you never exprienced. Like the saying
"If I never seen it, then it is new for me". You can play online via Kalleria, and sample videogames before you purchase. With the neo-game consoles, you can't do that. Your stuck being a consumer. The only reason why it was fun, was because we had
other people to play with. Now you can enjoy for your purpose alone. I hate living in the moment. I rather live in my memories, and the memories of others. I can not go back to that world, I have gone so far, even with my wing clipped.
QuoteI can understand your argument that the term was coined to sell older games to current gen gamers - through things like the Wii Virtual Console and XBLA I suppose
Lets be fair in 1999 would you pay for something that you could never sell, never truly own, or never actually be able to store? When people buy invisible items they are basically classing their products no differnt then produce. Produce ( food substance ), is a one way ticket, and my or anybody meida products should never be like that. Everybody has a value. Our organs alone are worth tens and thousands of dollars to the right buyer, that is how it should be for videogames.
Quotehowever I feel that the term has been adopted widely enough by gamers,
Gamer is just a manager word for person who is an impulsive consumer for videogames. Just like the word Anime is an idiot word for person looking for Japanese
animation. How do you know you are implusive? When you buy something, that gives limited joy, and not infinitive joy, or representive joy. Like when I got DKN64 brand new, and was like WTF is this rubbish??? Then my mind just kept on saying, "hey at least you got an expansion pack.............and it costed 60 dollars. The same t hing happened when I got PN03 and was like, "where are the dead bodies on the space colony", and was like oh, so she was robot all this time", and I go through
the same exact room about 500 times" I think the last disappointing game exprience was Xenosaga................I can not have dissapointment. again. recently I decided to rebuy Metroid Prime, because I missed the game.
QuoteWhat should we use instead? "Classic" isn't much better IMO. Should we just refer to each console by its name? Or say "16-bit generation", etc?I just call them standard games, and call the more recent releases neo-games, or crappy plastic light Motion death games LMDs. Or just call the newer ones rubbbish, because that is what they are.
It is like I look at the stufff and know what it is, but seriously, I am beyond this stuff.
I mean who do you think they are fooling? It is like my eyes have been wide open and I can see the commercialism, copy cay behaviour on so many levels.
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To divide the generations it could be like this
Computer games /Videogames - That how things stayed until the X-box.
After that all previous computer systems are to be considered game systems.
The way I saw it is like this. ( MSX, SMS, NES PCE, NEC, Atari, Amiga ) that was videogames until 2001.
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Post 2001 games - Crap games - neo games LMD ( Light motion death games ) etc
Everything since then has been blah blah gimmick, after gimmick, after gimmick. I mean seriously.



