How did Gamers stand playing on these for more than 12 minutes?

>>380779464
Gameplay was actually good

>>380779609

How did kids even know what good gameplay WAS pre-internet? How could you possibly have the perspective to make that call all by yourself?

>>380779751
3/10 bait. Apply yourself, anon.

>>380779464
>gamers

Underage b&

>>380779751
do you seriously need the internet to tell you if something is good?

The other choice was a ball in a cup

>tfw nobody makes CRTs
>tfw the TV Jew discontinued the Plasma in favor of lighter and cheaper LCDs

>>380779464
but they were sitting

>>380780271

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid my parents bought me 3 games I I just played them forever, regardless if they were "good" or not, & had no idea those games were considered bad until 2007 or so. You didn't really have a choice in the 90s, you played what was handed to you & didn't even think things like "but does this have good gameplay?". It never even crossed people's minds.

>>380779751
We had GamePro and Nintendo Power to tell us.

Real answer? Rentals. Looking at all the games I own now and how many I just rented a few times, 8 year old me had the right idea.

>no input lag

crts are still superior

>>380779751
we played it and made our own opinions

>>380779751
by playing it

>>380780271
>>380780449
I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic and you stupid fucks are missing the point.

People go back 20 years and ask stupid ass questions like
>HOW DID PEOPLE WATCH NEWS BEFORE THE INTERNET LOL
because low IQ shitposters can't do 3 mins of critical thinking and just share their dumb ass ideas on impulse.

Ignore the fact that people got what they had and didn't think for hours about why their situation was worse than some theoretical other person.

>>380780713
when I was a kid if I got a game that wasn't fun I just wouldn't play it or give it to my cousins/siblings.

>>380779751
spotted the millenial

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>>380780779
>We had GamePro and Nintendo Power to lie to us.

That "top 100 games of all time" issue of Nintendo power was such fucking bullshit I swear. Half that list was straight up lies.

>>380780942
You mean Gen-Zer.

Millennials are old enough to remember pre internet 8bit/16 bit games

>>380780782
>crt
Enjoy your eye cancer.

>>380780713
pretty much this.

you would go to funkoland and trade in what you could for used. Prices of new games were often well over $60.

I remember paying $80 for Super Mario RPG.

>>380780713
This. I played the living shit out of some of the "worst" games because, once I got a game, I wasn't getting another one for several months no matter how shitty it was.

>>380780942
Are you older than 35?

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>>380779464
are you fucked? i still play on them badboys

>>380781078
>shitposting
Enjoy being cancer

>>380780942

If you're old enough to have lived through the 90's you shouldn't even be on /v/.

>>380779464
>60 fps
>near infinite contrast
>black is black not dark gray
>no input lag
How can anyone stand playing on anything else for more than 12 minutes?

>>380780868
I'm not. I'm genuinely asking. When I was a child, I liked objectively terrible games, and I wasn't able to gauge what had good gameplay and what didn't, because I had a much lower standards, back then.

The fact is, the best games of this era are miles ahead of the best games of the retro era, and nostalgia is the only thing that causes people to have such high regard for these archaic "masterpieces."

>>380781062

>Half that list was straight up lies.

Like what? It was a pretty solid list for 1997. Those lists are never going to be perfect.

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>>380781226
friendly reminder 4chan has been around since 2003 you underage piece of shit

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>>380779464

Because they were fun and challenging without being overly complex. You have an adventure honing your own skills to finally beat the game.

Eat shit normie.

Eh, I had a big ass console-style RCA TV growing up that I played my Genesis and Playstation games on.

Keep in mind that older CRT's do degrade over time and the picture quality does get worse and worse, the CRT TV's you find today are nowhere near as good as when they were first new.

>>380781226
This is dumb and I'm not even a 2000s baby; I was born in 1999. People in their 20s aren't automatically better posters, nor do they have better opinions.

I still have yet to lose a debate on here, anyway.

>>380779464
Because they don't have genetically inferior eyes that need glasses by the age of 20 like people these days

>>380781078

it's a meme, crts only emit harmless amounts of radiation, that's why they coated the insides of them with LEAD.

you get more rads from a single xray than a lifetime of crt use.

>>380781062
yeah our modern lists filled with skyrim, call of duty, and every final fantasy are much better

>>380779464
Dat some Holy Diver? That games awesome. What other metal games are there?

>>380781895
>and every final fantasy
Some things never change.

Games were good. I never expected to finish a game. It was more about the gameplay than anything. Games like Mega Man were amazing since you could experience a good deal of the game without being any good at it.

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>>380779464
Not everyone had the chance to play on the family's big TV. I used this badboy for c64, atari, nes, snes and gamecube. Nice thing is it also have handles for portability.

>>380781248
>nostalgia is the only thing that causes people to have such high regard for these archaic "masterpieces."
Its definitely not nostalgia, I played Chrono Trigger for the first time back in 2009, I was blown away by it, and to this day I still regard it as the best game I've ever played.
Hell, I'm playing Grandia for the first time right now, and I'm enjoying it better than most of the shit that's come out in the past 5 years.

>>380779464
Stay back from the tv plz.

>>380779751
>needs someone else's opinion on something

>>380779751
>How could you possibly have the perspective to make that call all by yourself?
You play a few games, maybe a few more at friends houses.
Compare and contrast. Come up with your own opinions.

If this isn't a false flag "I'm just pretending to be retarded" post then I'm going to be sad.

>>380781226

Someone needs to keep around to remind you that movies are not games, Modern Bethesda is shit and paid online is for retards.

>>380779751
renting games

>>380783863

Netflix didn't exist in the 90's.

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>>380779751
>i need people to tell me what to think because I never learned how to think for myself at the commieversity

-t. lib millenial

>>380781519
>I still have yet to lose a debate on here, anyway.
Heh, well today's your lucky day then, kid. *Teleports behind you*

>>380781226
I haven't aged since 16 so I can do it forever.

>>380784614
oh you

>>380779464
I played in a shitty tv like that during the late 90s/ early 2000s because my parents said that the consoles ere going to fuck up the main tv.

>>380784814

Isn't that what they do in cults? You give up your individuality for the opinion of the group? Wish I could word that better.

>>380784614
Believe it or not, they did. But they only did DVD rental by mail.

>>380785365

How old are DVDs though? I used VHS tapes until 2004.

>>380785359
Fuck.

Flashbacks of "anon, your games gave the computer a virus. Delete them all." No, mom, nervous looking dad over there was jacking it to niche porn in all likelihood.

>>380779464
When you pressed a button on the controller the action actually went to the screen immediately.

Now a days it takes like 5 seconds to show up on screen.

>>380784814

Told what to think and also not actually playing vidya, just consuming let's plays, memes and shitposting.

>>380779464
i wish i had a small CRT like that

only ones i can find around me are the giant ass ones

>there is a demographic that has never been around CRTs

time flies

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>>380779751
If a game was fun and I liked playing it, it was good. If the game wasn't fun and I hated playing it, it was bad.
It's seriously that simple.

>>380780271
I don't know, seems to have buttblasted a lot of people.

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>>380785359
>convince parents I need privacy and get lock on door
>finally getting my own crt tv
>can play dreamcast in my room
>realize I have a phone jack too
>no more paranoia looking at porn on family computer
>browse porn on my dreamcast in the comfort of my room

It was amazing.

>>380779751
When newer games feel shallow and cash grabby in comparison to older games, you realize how good you had it.

>>380779464
Why do you think all the old-school gaymers need glasses?

>>380786312
>not downloading porn clips and converting them for PSP

>>380785940
>giant ass

It's pronounced thicc nowadays

>>380784814
Or they're questioning themselves and want to learn different views. Opposite of a uni attending milly. Closer to a badass like one of the characters from Borderlands or something

>tfw will probaby keep CRT around till im an oldfag
>tfw wont be able to lift the fucker one day

>>380786501
He said "parents," anon. Meaning he was a kid.

Not everyone's a "Halo was my first game" fag

Holy Diver is such a great game.

>>380786591

thicc = chubby/fat/obese
thicc =/= huge tits/ass combo

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>>380786501

PSP wasn't around then, anon. It was either take a risk by looking at porn on slow dial-up when no one was home on the family computer, jumping at every bump in the house and then nuking the history, printing sets or hoping a friend had raided his dad's nudie rag collection. Fuzzy cable channels never worked.

The convenience of the PSP and things nowadays is incredible. It's a stupid and cliche thing to say but kids these days don't know that struggle.

>>380787141
>thicc = chubby/fat/obese

Wrong.

>>380787141
This. THICC @ EVERY SIZE. /fit/girls need not apply.

>>380780713
You were a retard. If i got sone shitty game like that one shiity power rangers fightan (or a good game that was too hard for me like ghosts and goblins) i just would not play it.
I could just go outside or play with my d-ACTION FIGURES.

>>380781248
>modern mario
> better than nes and snes mario
>modern final fantasy
>better than nes and snes ff
>modern shooter
> better than classic shoters

Lol no

>>380787272
>When you had to get off on news paper lingerie ads
You didn't get much, but you worked with it.

>>380787141
>obese
Jezus christ go back to America

>>380779464
We weren't pampered little snowflake shit heads.

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>>380788915
>not fapping to ads in Electornic Gaming Monthly

>>380779464
Why do you think most people in their late 20s to early 30s wear glasses?

>>380789812
my nigga

i still remember a full page that was lara crofts ass

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>>380781186

>>380781078
CRTs have faraday cages. Same as microwaves.

>>380785359
Projection tvs would have burn in if you left it on the same position. They didn't have the small bounce that newer devices do now.

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>>380790686
Was it this?

>>380789812
I never really fapped to anything video game related. Maybe closest I ever got was the strippers in Duke 3D.

>>380793456
no iremember just ass taking up the entire page

>>380780713
I dare say games were more appreciated as kids for the simple fact they were harder to get your hands on. As an adult I could give two shits about my 300+ game library.

>>380781226
>and I base this on absolutely nothing.

>>380779751

serious answer: for single player games it was obvious based on comparing the game to its contemporaries. For example the Sonic games by Sega were much more linear than the Mario games and had less complex controls and the power ups in Sonic, such as they were, didn't really alter how your controlled the character or played the game. The stages were poorly designed and had stupid shit like running into springs which sent you flying backwards through the air only to hit another and end up going forwards again or you'd run along and end up running vertically up or down a wall, giving an illusion of complexity or verticality to a level when really you were just holding forward 90% of the time in Sonic. Of course back when I was 6 or whatever I didnt have the words to express all this, but it was obvious to me on some level.

For multiplayer games, it was simply whatever was fun. Local multiplayer was a huge thing back then. As in, literally anyone who had a friend and was into gaming probably played local multiplayer in beat em ups, racing games, fighting games, Bomberman etc etc literally every single day back then. Competitive viability was of no concern, fun was paramount.

>>380786624
Randy go

>>380789812
ah the best of times are behind us

>>380794572
I'll skip any bias arguments in that direct comparison and instead wonder why, with all those flaws, Sonic still ended up being by far the second most successful platformer series in the world?

>>380794763
absolutely huge install base, being that nintendo and sega were the only horses in the race back then. and good marketing.

i'm not here to discuss your love of Sonic anyway. the example was given to illustrate how I, for one, would have worked out a subjective opinion based on my observations, about the quality of the gameplay in a given title back then.

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>>380780820

>>380779464
60fps

>>380786151

The word you was looking for is "actually".

>>380781226
This. If you're over the age of 18 and posting here, you're a loser. I'm 21 and I'm here right now because my life is in a rut from drug addiction. Virtually all other /v/ posters in their 20s are here because NEET, fasc, social rut, drug problem, or physically disabled.

You're too young to be posting on /v/ if you never played the same level of an NES or SNES so many times you have nightmares about it to this day.

>Trojan on NES
>The entirety of Wizards and Warriors 3 on NES

>>380798047
>street fighter 2010 last level
>game forces you to speedrun it perfectly

>>380798047
sometimes i fall off those fucking platforms in Snake Man's stage in my dreams and I jolt awake

twenty five fucking years of this

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>>380798330

are you being serious? Holy shit man, get some help. How would you even go about that though? Do you see a psychiatrist?

>I have this recurring dream where I fall off the platforms in Snake Man's stage on NES

Like as a psychiatrist how do you even respond to that?

I used to play games on a 13" Orion tv.

>>380799049
Snakes represent penises, he's dreaming about cocks.

Falling represents fear, he's afraid of cocks.

Obviously, he is afraid of his subconscious lust for penises.

Citation: I have a psychology degree.

Why do people still play Super Smash bros. on these things again?

>>380799926
Display lag. On a typical LCD you have something like 30ms of latency, whereas crt lag is measured in nanoseconds. Of course the game's engine and the hardware used to play it still has shitloads of lag, but you might as well reduce what you can.

>>380799926
Modern flat panels have a bunch of processing to clean up broadcast TV signals, which adds significant input lag.

30ms input lag is considered outstanding for a "dedicated gaming mode", most TVs are 60 or even 100+ ms

>>380799926
That's how you get the game's proper native resolution. Using HD monitors would cause nasty upscaling.

>>380779751
HOW DID YOU HAVE FUN WITHOUT PEOPLE TELLING YOU IT'S FUN

holy shit were you born after the year 2000?

you had to be there, at least you didn't experience dial-up internet

>>380789812

Game informer magazine was my best fap friend back in the day.

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>>380779751
That one rich kid in the neighborhood had a magazine subscription, we'd huddle around it during recess to get our fill of console war bantz

>>380800580

Fun is just a buzzword when you can't actually think of any real reasons as to why the game is good, don't use it.

HANDHOLDING RUINED GAMES

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>>380789812

>>380779464
>No QTEs
>No tutorials every thirty seconds to tell you what a retarded dolphin can figure out
>Doesn't play the game for you if you mess up twice
>No online multiplayer for hackers to invade and 9-year-olds to discuss their sexual escapades with your mom
>All those colors? Fuck that! Gray-brown with a sepia filter FTW!
>RPG and stealth elements NOT contrived into a game where they don't belong?
>Where's the season pass and GOTY edition?
>Where's the remastered edition that somehow looks and plays worse?
>Why can't I preorder this?

You're right OP, fuck this shit.

>>380779464
CRT is the ultimate display technology
If you think otherwise you are a fucking millennial that needs to be purged

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>>380801257

>Doesn't even include a Neo Geo

They may as well have taken a shit in a box & mailed it to the winner. What a crappy contest.

Am I the only one that got frequent headaches for playing videogames back then?

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>>380801257
>those colossal speakers
>that phat stack of blinking orange lights

>>380801542

You were constantly having headaches & didn't tell anyone?

I miss walking into best buy in the 90s

>>380801576
Whos that?

>>380781124

I want to know what magical land some of you people went to where you ever paid $60 (or fucking $80, even) for a game. Because I recall at most paying like $45 for games most of the time. Even the hard-to-find shit wasn't that bad.

Granted, $45 in the 90's was still a lot, but it certainly wasn't more than they cost today.

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>>380787272
>use the family computer to look up girls gone wild pics
>dad comes home from work
>gets on the computer
>"anon come here I need to talk to you"
>tfw

Its weird looking back. Just how much my dad would get mad when my brother or I would be interested in women. Its like he wanted us to be gay.

>>380802049
>download pornclip
>forgot to close it
>dad sees
>anon you forgot to close porn btw
>doesnt even get mad

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>>380784814
>politics
Dumb frog poster

>>380801906

>Didn't know abut the RPG tax

This is how I know you're a millennial. I remember paying $90 for Phantasy Star II on the SEGA genesis. Game prices were out of control back then. They basically just charged whatever the fuck they wanted at KB Toys.

The only people that have ever actually played on screens that small, generally, are current year retro obsessed hipsters. Virtually everyone back then wanted a TV as big as they could get, same as today.

>>380802152
I'm on a tablet, sauce me up senpai.

>>380802251
wanted=/=had
family wouldn't let me game on the main tv

>>380779751
By having magazines and friends tell what game is popular/good.
Unlike internet critics nowadays and magazines with obvious bias (eg. Nintendo/Sony magazines), reviews were good.

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>>380779464
They didn't, that's why they wear these today

>>380802251
>Virtually everyone back then wanted a TV as big as they could get

They were prohibitively expensive, even moreso than today, so it wasn't uncommon for most households to have smaller TVs
Especially if it was a second TV for the brats to play their nintendo on, nobody was lugging a 600lb rear projection TV into the playroom or upstairs to a bedroom

>>380786312

Fuck me I was spoiled. When I was 8 I had a PC in my room with dial-up and we had two phone lines so it was really easy for me to use it constantly, and back in the late 90s the internet was the wild west...porn was so easy to come by it was ridiculous.

Even in 2001 we had broadband installed and using a wireless USB network thing I was able to connect to it. Most of my friends didn't even have internet, my school didn't have broadband, and I spent hours and hours browsing websites and downloading everything.

Nowadays kids have 80$ tablets that can access porn at any second, jesus. I can't even imagine what schools are like...even the iPhone was barely able to do online stuff back then, and I had an LG Voyager that had a pretty neat web browser on it I could use to avoid the school's firewall.

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>>380781186
>>380791318
>>>/vr/

Fuck off, gramps

>>380779464
Back in the day the answer was no other choice. Now it's nostalgia goggles.

>>380802139
See I had friends like that too. But my dad would go nuclear if we were watching something with nudity or if I was looking up boobs or something online and forgot to erase. I remember my mom being like hey he's just a kid. Funny looking back bc my dad would get mad when I was older and wonder why I didn't have a gf for so long.

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>>380803069

>Did you look at a boob?
>No dad no!

>>380779464
>CRT with less than 85Hz
Fucking eye cancer. Played pretty much exclusively on PC until we got a 100Hz TV.

>>380780782
i can't stand my crt's high pitched noise
it makes me feel like my brain is going to explode

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>>380803464
>100Hz TV

>>380780713
Obviously your Grandma never gave you a copy of SimEarth for your birthday.

>>380779464
CRT's are overrated, I grew up on them and didn't have anything else till I was 18. Have zero desire to ever go back to them.

>>380803863
Agreed. Angles and contrast sucked on early TFTs, but for me uncomfortable and eye-strain-inducing flicker trumps absolutely everything in terms of being horrible. Same reason I never got into plasma.

>>380800934
>Good is just a buzzword when you can't actually think of any real reasons as to why the game is fun, don't use it.

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>>380779464
I still play on one from time to time.

>>380782741
This. i didn't touch Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines until 2014, a decade after it's release, and for a game that's allegedly only good through rose tinted glasses, it's by far my favorite game ever.

>>380803863
>>380804537
You're both a couple of dumb asses.

>>380780691
>CRT's true successor was all but killed and only exists in commercial setting for Casino machines and hospital equipment
It hurts bro

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Some of us don't have a choice.

>>380806721
Good riddance to flicker.

>>380779751
Because when you rented games some were good and most were shit. It's called comparison

>>380806857
>CRT flicker
Your fault for buying cheap shit, we could have low latency, high refresh rate flat screens with perfect blacks and viewing angles. Instead we get the liquid crystal jew.

>>380805030
How do you reconcile your love with the fact that the entire second half of the game is utter shit? I've never been more disappointed in a game than VtMB because the first half was so damn good but it completely shits the bed.

hello
i'm 36 years old
ask me anything.

>>380779464
is that some mother fucking holy diver

>>380807684
The first half being so great kind of outweighs the second portion being so awful, for me at least. That and titties.

>>380779464

I used to as a kid. Hated the rounded corners that covered up the edges of games.

Later I bought a semi-flat Sony CRT with actual rectangular edges. Still had annoying aperture grille wires you could see going through the screen.

Modern HDTVs are so much better than CRT shit. Also much larger and cheaper.

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>>380806834
You do actually you can stop being a massive faggot and just use a scart cable. Most TVs still have those connectors.

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>>380779464
Consoles that offer RGB over scart look best on a CRT. They can look pretty good via a framemeister, but nothing beats a good quality CRT.

>>380779464
No regard for eyesight.

>>380808037
>framemeister
Sometimes TVs just have great component support.

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>>380789812

I remember that ad. I remember picking up the game purely for that ad.

It wasn't very good. No real save system, wonky controls, underpowered weapons, kind of like a Dark Souls or King's Field by rushed amateurs. Easy to skip ahead levels though. I almost want to see a speedrun just to see what I missed.

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>>380806721
CRT's true successor was SED/FED, which never even made it to production.

Our only hope now is REC. 2020 pushing Quantum Dot displays into the mainstream

>>380779464
shut the fuck up faggot
CRTs are god tier

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>>380779751
I don't need objectivity to guide me when I know what I like. People shit themselves sideways over Mario, but I don't like platformers, so I will never like them, but if you compare and contrast games through personal experience, you'll quickly be able to make a quick judgement based on personal preference, just by looking at trailers.

>>380807651
I was talking about plasma, and it's inherent to the technology as opposed to the sample-and-hold technique of LCD/OLED. Perhaps it would have been OK at 120Hz or something, but considering they still don't make any TVs that are over 60Hz, I really doubt we would have seen any plasma like that now either, had it survived.

>>380779464
How did your mother stand keeping you alive for 9 months?

>>380802647
merryy christmass

>>380779751
Here's a buzzword for you, "fun"

>>380808958
>Perhaps it would have been OK at 120Hz or something

Plasma had a functional Hz of ~600, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

>they still don't make any TVs that are over 60Hz
Every TV is "3D Ready" because they really want to push the 3D meme on everyone and make bank on stupid glasses and overpriced blurays, and 3D TVs have a minimum of 120Hz, often pushing into 240Hz

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>>380779751
You're doing gods's work son

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>>380779464
>mfw I've been wanting one for a while and I just find a fantastic CRT on the side of the road for free

>>380808764
Also you gave games more time.
Each game felt different, nowadays a lot of games feel the same, especially FPS.
You also played games at a friend and/or got demos.

I mean I thought that Demon's Souls was trash when I looked at gameplay videos so I rented it.

>>380781579
Most of those people are PC gamers, anyway.

>>380808407
Yes SED is what I was referring to, up until canon liquidated the division it was only being manufactured for a few commercial things.
>>380808958
Yeah plasma had an inherently high refresh rate due to the nature of the technology and as far as LCD goes my TV has a 120hz mode.

>>380779751
In a seriousness, when I was a kid and teen, the possibility of game developers not knowing what the fuck they're doing wasn't possible to me

if something sucked in a game, that's just the way it is bitch, nothing could have been done different

you just accept things the way they are, and without anything else to compare it to, you think it's okay

you know, I though that being stuck in place when aiming was a engine limitation in Resident Evil, couldn't conceive that that was voluntary design, same thing with the RNG in Diablo 2

>>380789902
Because of the use these people gave to their eyes. Always looking at screens at the same distance. Their eyes were not used to hunt animals or play games outside. the inner muscles or their eyes are fucked for not using then with variety if focus Same thing is going to happen to kids these days since they are looking at their phones a lot

>>380781519
>This is dumb and I'm not even a 2000s baby; I was born in 1999.
So you're a 2000s baby. You were literally a baby in the year 2000.

>>380810393

There's literally nothing wrong with being born in 1999.

>>380809397
>Plasma had a functional Hz of ~600, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
That might have been the metric for the internal processing frequency or something but the fact remains that the plasmas that existed flickered and shimmered compared to LCD, that's what gave it superior motion resolution. It was a tradeoff, but personally I absolutely could not stand it.

>>380809397
>Every TV is "3D Ready" because they really want to push
3D TV is actually dead, I don't think there's a single 2017 model with that feature. But anyway those numbers were just input/internal processing frequencies, there have been no TVs capable of displaying more than 60Hz.

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I recently played Shadow Dancer on the Mega Drive for no real particular reason for the past few days.

It was a fun game that you really had to learn to get good at. I barely got to the third stage on my first playthrough, then my second got me to the fourth and then the third got me to the final boss (which is fucking bullshit holy hell)

I'd say if the game was fun and challenging you'd play it again and again without really getting pissed and would find it interesting.

It depends on a lot of stuff really, but the person and the game are usually the two main factors.

Also the cover art is very bad and says nothing of the game.

>>380810695
>But anyway those numbers were just input/internal processing frequencies

The 3D would physically not display were that the case, it needs to display twice as many frames as usual because it's giving separate images for each eye

Fake Hz is absolutely a thing, but that was for "smoothing out" regular broadcast video with interpolated frames and is unrelated to 3D

>>380810671
If you weren't born during the Cold War, you lack the ability to distinguish good games from shit games. You have no concept of a world pre-World Wide Web.

>>380807908
The point that anon was referring to is that they have no input lag. Something which no modern offerings present.

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>>380779751

>How did kids even know what good gameplay WAS pre-internet? How could you possibly have the perspective to make that call all by yourself?

1. Play the video-game (regardless of genre).
2. Form an opinion over the game (mechanics, design and story).
3. Move on to the next game.

It was an easier time back then.

>>380810902
I never cared about 3D so I'm not super-knowledgeable when it comes to that, but most 3D stuff was made for movies at 24Hz so double that would still fit in 60Hz. Plus the resolution is generally reduced in 3D mode so maybe that did something. Fact remains there are no TVs capable of displaying a normal, native resolution image at anything higher than 60Hz.

>>380779464
There was nothing to compare it too.
Just wait until we've got 1000000k ultra-mega-uber-super-duper high def screens and we look back on the high end screens we have right now

>>380799926
autism

I don't play old Video Games. It feels weird playing something made before you were born.

>>380812797
Is it also weird that you drink water, a substance that's literally billions of years old?

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>>380813150

It is?

>>380779464
How can anyone stand to play non-hd consoles on anything other than a CRT?

>>380812797
This is the single most asinine post I've ever read. Enjoy not experiencing the majority of great cinema and literature.

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15 years and couple months ago I played the demo for pic related. I didn't need an e-celebrity or lp to tell that the game was amazing and worth saving up my money to buy.

>>380814715

>Letting a Demo influence your opinion

That's no better than any E-Celebrity with a let's play telling you a game is good. Without the demo you wouldn't have played it.

>>380815451
The difference is you get a hands on experience to decide if you like it or not, rather than watching someone play it and say whether they are enjoying it or not.

>>380779751
back in the day we actually played video games rather than watching e-celebs play them and regurgitate their opinions on an internet forum

>>380779464
DIO??
IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING JOJ FERERENCE?!?

>>380811904
>but most 3D stuff was made for movies at 24Hz so double that would still fit in 60Hz

Some movies and all telenovellas were filmed at 60Hz so double that would be 120Hz

>Plus the resolution is generally reduced in 3D
Now you're just talking out of your ass, buddy
Go pirate a 1080p 3D movie right now-- notice that it's two 1080p videos side-by-side or stacked one on top the other.

It's clear you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, stop stating your wild conjectures as plain facts.

>>380779464

I used to play NES on a 12" black and white TV. I was real bummed when I rented Dr. Mario not knowing anything about it and finding it nigh-impossible to play because red and blue looked the same.

>>380810030
>up until canon liquidated the division it was only being manufactured for a few commercial things.
really? hmm. How large did they make the screens?

>>380816774
I'm not sure exactly not much information is out there but probably not very big.

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>>380811305
>see commercials on tv
>see ads or reviews in magazines
>watch xplay for reviews
>read box art at blockbuster/hollywood video
>cycle through a couple new rented games every week

there was so much wonder and fascination back then. i miss being that excited about games

>>380806721
Why did SED die? Lack of interest? Too expensive?

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>>380815451
>>>Letting someone who gets payed to play video games decide if said game is good or not.
>>>paying 1/4 the price of a full game and getting to sample 5-10 games.

>>380779751
>How the fuck did you guys form an opinion on something without hearing others opinions first?

We played the fucking game, dude!

>>380817068
Even if they were only available in 3" size you could build a handheld system out of one and that would be very cool.

>>380817228
originally got set back due to a patent lawsuit but widespread lcd adoption was probably the final nail in the coffin.

>>380817404
Oh i'm sure it was bigger than 3 inches, probably closer to 5"-10" if it was for medical equipment.

>>380816597

This depends, 3d Tvs that used passive 3d would display 2 images interlaced at once, effectively reducing your horizontal resolution by half. Active 3d works by displaying alternating images. Giving you the full resolution by requiring double the framerate.

That said the only 3d TV still on the market are LGs OLEDS. several of the samsung JS(2015) series and 2 I think of Samsungs KS(2016) series(the KS8000 and the KS8500, Because its just the flat and curved versions of the same TV)

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>>380808037
Good taste in videogames, anon