Does anyone feel bad for current gen kids

I only feel bad for them right now because the newest, hottest smartphone game is making them go outside in 95 degree heat.

I don't feel bad for them because they have access to emulators to try great games from the past for free. I kinda envy them, actually.

Stuff like the NES mini will bring older games back for normies, a lot of people are gonna be getting that thing this holidays and a lot of kids will be introduced to NES games for the first time. Most of them will probably think they suck because it's not touch and it doesn't have modern, 3D graphics, but hey.

Stop worrying about the newer generations, OP. For them, video games isn't even anything special at all, they were born with them, they take them for granted.

>>3382654
>don't feel bad for them because they have access to emulators to try great games from the past for free. I kinda envy them, actually.

Born in 88, Idk man I had emulators to play the games I missed out on when I was 3-11 and knew nothing about the rpg or things of that nature.
The current gen kids will just see these consoles as outdated.
>For them, video games isn't even anything special at all, they were born with them, they take them for granted.
That's the thing, they will take them for granted, and they won't be held in as high regard as we hold them.
Less game devs, will appear and that will be a shame.

>>3382632
I feel bad for them about other things, like being pampered narcissistic retards that won't function in the real world. Although you can say that the type of videogames they play are related to how they are developing as human beings.

>>3382632
> Caring what games kids are "exposed to"
> Implying games are some sort of beacon of all good

Could you be any more pious, video game pope?

>>3382632
Only the mobile stuff thats clearly being designed to exploit kids. Games are still being made based off of the older stuff. Undertale is a perfect example. It's this generations Earthbound.

>>3382689
Games influence kids like any other sort of media. A well functioning adult should be aware of this, if you're even an adult to begin with. And you spelled bacon wrong.

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i only feel sad for those who would rather watch let's plays or (even worse) youtube "celebrities" yell about the HOT NEW GAME!!!!!! instead of actually playing video games.

i know this is "old man yells at cloud" tier, but that pisses me off more than Pokemon Go or the next hot new app

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>>3382781

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>>3382781
>And you spelled bacon wrong

No I don't. They got all these amazing new games to play on top of the games already out there for retro gaming. I'd say they are more lucky than the older crowds because they are growing up with an even bigger variety of games to choose from.

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>>3382781
>And you spelled bacon wrong.

>>3382796
Most kids these days never ever play most of the retro games.

>>3382805
this desu

>>3382632
>Maybe I am being a nostalgiafag
Yes you are. Kids are just as likely to be exposed to what we were, since VC and the like exist.

>>3382805
Truly horryfying. Oh, the humanity!

Believe it or not, I can honestly say retro video games have made me a different person! Without them, I'd be an average college dropout/low wage worker with 6/10 looks, who most people describe as "awkward". With retro video games, I'm still all that, but I can post on /vr/ and feel like I'm a different guy here, justifying my disappointing social position by pretending to be a connoisseur of sorts, being in touch with some greater art of video games. Truly, I feel blessed.

>>3382828
If you never played a single retro game in your life, you should really consider suicide.

>>3382632

I feel bad for the assholes whose identities are so dependent on their childhood nostalgia that they think a new generation is somehow worse off because they didn't have the same shit we did.

I mean for fuck's sake you could have at least not posted a Nintendo pic. Fucking sad really

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>>3382632

>>3382909
Should be the other way around.

>>3382654

>I don't feel bad for them because they have access to emulators to try great games from the past for free.

This. They have so many great games to choose from and they can play them all for free. On top of this, let's not pretend that every modern game is a soulless, terrible experience. The majority of smartphone games fit this description, but actual proper PC/console games generally don't. There's still loads of great games being released this generation, just like there was in the past generations. There's still loads of games with 'soul', there's still lots of them with great music.

And hey, this is a generation that will never need to deal with password systems or games where you can't save and you're expected to just leave your console on overnight if you want to beat the game. I don't feel bad for them at all.

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I don't care and want all of them to stay as far away from retro games as possible so I can go back to buying them cheap. I'm an old man leave me alone with my cartridges.

>>3382632
meh
the truth is players of yore longed for realism before it was a thing and now we long for games of yore

>>3382635
It's a great new thing that's getting our kids to go out and talk to strangers who have never had sexual contact and collect gigabytes of drawn pornography featuring children

>>3382842
desu anyone who unironically cares about whether someone's played retro games should probably consider suicide

I only feel for the kids (and sometimes not even kids) who solely play only one fucking game like some retarded grindy MMO or only one FPS or only Minecraft, there are good games around and they can even play old games if they want.

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>>3382787
I feel you man.
These young folks today and their youtubers.
They think watching them play the game is qualifying for playing the game themselves.

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>>3382654
>For them, video games isn't even anything special at all, they were born with them, they take them for granted.
This is something I'm kinda jealous and worried at the same time. You see back when I was a kid I only got NES as my first game system when I was 7 and I usually only got 2 games for it each year, one for my birthday and one for Christmas. If I got a 3rd game that meant driving 15 or 30 miles to the nearest stores that sold video games, picking one based on the game boxes and reading the instruction manual on your way back home building anticipation towards that new game you got. The point here is that getting a new game was a big and rare thing, not something you do every single day simply by downloading them from internets. It's also true that if you got a genuinely shitty game you were stuck with it for months but you played it for months instead of bitching and whining about it on internets like kids nowadays do.

yes
it's why I gave my nephew shitloads of retro shit so he grows up with some taste, luckily my brother is all for it.

You guys don't even know. In another 6 years VR is gonna mean what it did when we were kids and shits gonna flip.

I'll only feel bad for them because they'll have to continue to put up with people whining about how games were better "back in the day" for years, whereas I'll be enjoying the cold, sweet sleep of the grave.

I'm not saying old games ain't awesome, cus I don't make it a habit to perjure myself. But lets not pretend that somehow no good game was made after.... Gawd, what's the cutoff for retro, now? I thought it was 2000, but now people are feeling "retro" about the GCN?

>>3383573
>lets not pretend
no need to pretend

>Gawd, what's the cutoff for retro, now?
ah, clueless, that explains it

>now people are feeling "retro" about the GCN?
sure, playing it nowadays is retro gaming, just like PS2 and XBox. They're off-topic for this board, but that's unrelated

>>3383182
I'm with you on this. Scarcity made them all the more precious, and now between having enough money to buy any game I fancy or emulation, each game is no longer as special as it was.

>>3383597
it's a choice. A difficult one to make, but a choice

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>>3382793
>>3382795
>>3382802
samefag

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>>3382781
>>3383608
>being this obvious

>>>/r9k/

>>3384558
what's up with you people

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>>3382632
>What are your sentiments on this /vr/?

I don't get that sentiment at all. I love retro games, but there are boatloads of awesome modern games too. Kids have access to the best of both worlds.

I know an 8 year old me would have totally fallen in love with Minecraft or Terraria.

Shit taste cannot be created nor destroyed, only transferred. Just because you were born in a certain year doesn't guarantee how good or bad your tastes are.

Symptoms of bad taste include refusing to play games that are "out of your era", but as it is clearly demonstrated here, it's not just millenials who fall for that.

>>3382787
>>3383147

I've been wondering about this... I have a shiton of newphews and nieces. I introduced the older ones to retro games back in the day (I mean like 3-4 years ago, when kids didn't required to have a cellphone and didn't spent time watching youtube). Generally, they enjoyed the games and found it to be great fun. Nowadays the younger ones spent all the time watching let's plays of minecraft and GTAV (yes), while barely playing games themselves. Guess what? they show an absolute lack of interest when I show them retro games, don't even want to touch the pad. It's like it's too "gamey" for them. Perhaps they would like them bettter if they watched a LP in youtube.

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>>3382695
>Undertale is a perfect example. It's this generations Earthbound.

>>3382632
I feel bad that even the mine craft super nerds among them are legit tech illiterate.

I was crafting my own config.sys and autoexec.bat and hand copying basic games and shit. Kids drag and drop minecraftserver.exe and copy and paste a port forwarding command into their router

Programmers from the 80s are already incompetent compared to the 70s. The 90s and 00s kids are going to ruin computers if they don't start coding themselves soon

>>3386861
"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

-Socrates

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>>3382781
>and you spelled bacon wrong
I am using that until the day i die

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>>3386952
And that's why they had him killed.

>>3386861
>Programmers from the 80s are already incompetent compared to the 70s. The 90s and 00s kids are going to ruin computers if they don't start coding themselves soon

Can you give some examples of the degradation of programmer ability over the years?

I know the new generation of web "designer" are fucking idiots, for example.

>>3388457
It's going in two ways. On the one hand, doing shit like threading and graphics by hand was wicked retarded and anyone who says that made "better" shit is a drooling retard.

on the other hand, the pad-left debacle....

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>>3382781
> And you spelled bacon wrong.

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>>3382632

>Maybe I am being a nostalgiafag

Yes. Kids don't give a fuck and will like anything, so I don't give a fuck about what kind of entertainment they grow up with. You don't really appreciate entertainment until you're an adult and have developed your own tastes.

Slightly unrelated but it seems like many people in /vr/ don't really appreciate retro games for what they are, and only like them due to nostalgia.

>>3388457
At work they got a cheap kid in to do a call desk ticket system and he couldn't figure out how to make it perform adequately with a character size of more than like... Some arbitrary number, like 800, not even a binary number.

And like, game performance is shit now. Like you can't play unreal tournament without a less than 90ms ping, battlefield 2 was also a pile of dogshit


Games literally btfo by tribes 1 and 2. I stopped playing online games because they had all gotten sich shit netcode. I'd rather play tribes 1 on a 56k modem than cod 24 on my 50 meg cable modem, jusy because the netcode is so much better... And the maps.

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>>3383573
i was in my mid\late teens when gcn was hitting big, and it feels me up and down in that old nostalgia, nothing like the sega and psx opening logos, but damn senpai bambalamb!

>>3382632
It doesn't matter, it's just a hobby.

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>>3383608
>being this bad at English

>>3386773
it's fine, since earthbound wasn't good anyway

>>3388784
I love stuff like that. Can't understand why someone would be let down by SF2 or SamSho, though.

>>3382632
I don't. I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. Despite all the influence bad parents, society, technology, etc has on them at the end of the day it's still their choice what kind of person they want to be. They have more opportunity than any previous generation to good games. If they choose to waste their life playing bad games and making oh so many other bad life choices they are ultimately responsible for their choice and don't deserve my pity.

>>3391451
>opportunity
what looks like an opportunity to some is a burden to others

>choose
dare you to make that choice on a library this big, that's growing faster than time passes

>>3382695
holy shit
that better be lulz posting friendo, because you KNOW that EB was barely talked about back in the day

UT is def not a lesser known game, it is popular (still?) and i keep seeing cosplay at cons.

>>3382654
Emulators don't quite feel the same
A lot of kids (I know my brother at least) are too retarded to know how to download an emulator and run it
The kids don't know what the great retro games are
A lot of the reason why these old games were so good is because you could talk with your friends about difficult parts or how to get through specific areas, and they won't have that

There's a million reasons why kids won't enjoy the older games nearly as much as we did

>>3391869
>There's a million reasons why kids won't enjoy the older games nearly as much as we did
first, they'll enjoy them differently, and second, you mentioned none of the reasons

>>3382632
I don't feel bad for them, I feel bad for everyone else who has to get dragged through the shit show they're enabling.

i am curious just like we are nostalgic for nes , snes games. and shit on newer games. similarly did guys who were older than us, did they say shit like joust is amazing and mario is garbage. i am really curious

>>3391876
I mentioned quite a few of the reasons, actually. I like older games just as much as anybody else, but the truth of it is is that kids just aren't interested in playing the older games. Kids play Minecraft and CoD. If I asked my 15 year old brother what games he plays, he'd say CoD, Minecraft, Star Wars Battlefront (he doesn't like it anymore though), Borderlands 2, Overwatch, Halo, NBA2K, and CS:GO.
We've owned a Gamecube, Wii, and I own a Wii U that he plays on some times. While he likes those games, he's not interested in playing them on his own. They're not exciting and he can't play them with friends (that's another big reason, online playability).

>>3382632

you used to get a game or two fro christmas
and play for months
and it was the best thing ever.
Now it's all like
I'm gonna dl those apps and hit the club with my m8s
you're fucking 8 ffs.

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>>3382632

I feel worse for people with nostalgia goggles as thick as binoculars.

It must be really miserable, being so closed in a n idea of "back in mah days" that you're completely blind to the array of great games that come out every year even today, doing things even with minimal budgets that a retrogame could have never hoped to do no matter how much money was behind it.

Being a retro-only nostalgia shitter must be like being a vegan.
So many foods to choose from, yet you limit yourself to a tiny portion of everything available "just because".

>>3391462
Everything's a burden to the millennial. It's so coddled it will soon require it's mother to chew its food. Making a choice is much too difficult. Better to let others make the choice for it.
I have no problem choosing a game, sticking with it and finishing it. It's just an unfortunate fact that your generation is pathetic. Like I said, the cards are stacked against you. But in then end your solely responsible for what sort of man (or little girl) you turn out to be.

>>3382635
>I only feel bad for them right now because the newest, hottest smartphone game is making them go outside in 95 degree heat.
Also, go around like retards on railroads, highway tunnels.

Damn, I don't like the idea that games should be "inclusive" and shit (read: sissy-silly). I want games to be as books or films. Some are plain fun and some are "dangerous".

But dam, son. Getting yourself killed because of Pokemans or behaving like an Asshat on Arlington Cemetery. No, not cool at all.,

>>3382654
You're forgetting that the NES and SNES had loads of shitty, terrible games. There are great games for this gen of gamers, and unlike in ours, they don't have to sidt through terrible games to find good ones. I used to rent games to find good ones, and wasted so many weekends on shit games. Now anyone can just look up reviews and see what games are good. Shit man, I wish I could've done that.

>>3392221
Meant for
>>3382632

>>3392147
This.

The standard for judging current games seems to be "what is the most profitable game this year", despite the innumerable shitload of vidya being released all the time.
>hyper realistic shooters
There are lots of shooters that are deliberately unrealistic, especially in the last few years when everyone got bored with cover mechanics.

>>3391959
>kids just aren't interested in playing the older games
they don't know about them, and if they do, they don't have the time for them, because modern games are released at an insane pace. You got to have good reasons to pick an old game over a new one, and these reason don't come out of nowhere.

>>3382632
It's sad you can't walk into a video rental store on a Friday afternoon and browse the box covers and pick out an unknown game and be giddy with excitement to get home and try it out. That was half the experience right there.

>>3392165
Just curious, what years do you consider a millenial to be born in? Let's see if you get this one right.

>>3392819
Only millennials believe their personal definition of something is more valid than the commonly accepted one when in fact it's not worth a pitcher of warm spit.
Also, learn how to spell your name Millennial.

>>3392819
1982-2004 is the commonly accepted dates but I think it's 1982-1995. No way my 80s born ass is in the same generation as dumb little shits nowadays.

>>3382654
Emulators arent the same man.

>>3382632

current gen kids are spoiled shiteaters with no attention spans

but they will learn

Who fuckin cares.
People dont even read books now

>>3393331

have you ever tried reading any modern books? There's a reason people still study the classics. Unless you`re into academic publishing there's really not much worthwhile out there.

>>3382654
I'm 18 and I love retro games, but a large part of why is 1) my brother's vidya collection 2) YT let's plays circa 2007-2009 3) AVGN. My favorite generations are SNES, and PS2/Gamecube, though I play some NES, Genesis, and PS1. New generation of gaming is sad in many ways, but great games still come out. Doom 2016 is one of my favorite games of all time and I can't wait for Breath of the Wild. I basically just play a wide range of games from 85 til 2007, with a small pile of standout winners from 2007 onwards buried among a wasteland of AAA clusterfucks and indie trash.

What I'm saying is not to worry too much. My generation has lots of ways to discover classic games, even if it may be through nostalgia bait and youtube, and the classics are readily available and simple to find. I could literally play DKC2 in less than a minute right now and love it, except I already beat it not that long ago.

>>3393318
I agree. Many people born in the 80's, in particular the early 80's share a lot more in common with the previous generation than people born in the late 90's/early 00's. Don't get me wrong. I know plenty of 30 somethings who have stereotypical millennial leanings. But I know as many who are rational responsible and mature. A shame these get lumped in the same generation as those born in the mid 90's to early 00's. I don't think I've met more than a handful that aren't worthless shitstains.

>>3393309
>>3393318
I'm not a millenial. But I'll spell it that way now since it seems to trigger your autistic ass that 1 letter was left out.
You all have the years wrong you Gen X faggots.
"Millenial" is a broad term, comprised of late Generation X, Generation Y, and the front end of Generation Z (born 1980 to 1999). It is used for anyone who grew up or alongside the Internet and digital age. However, it is much more accurate to break it all up individually.
>The Lost Generation a.k.a Génération au Feu (1880-1900)
>The G.I. Generation a.k.a Greatest Generation (1900-1925)
>The Silent Generation a.k.a Lucky Few (1925-1940)
>Baby Boomers a.k.a The "Me" Generation (1940-1954)
>Generation Jones (1954-1965)
>Generation X a.k.a MTV Generation (1965-1980)
>Generation Y a.k.a Millenials, Generation McGuire, Boomerang Generation (1980-1995)
>Generation Z (1995-2010)
But you know what I find so hilarious? Is that this whole thread is clogged with oldfags complaining about how bad modern games are, when it’s their own generation that are responsible for making these shit games we have today. When Boomers were in charge of making games back then, up until the end of the 5th gen, games truly did show a higher sense of quality. But until this wave of Gen Y artistic try-hard, indie company minded cunts paired with the bland Gen X cubicle sucks started flooding the gaming industry, there was a huge decline in quality. Then again, we still have good modern games floating around. But don’t think for a second that it isn’t your shit generation that caused all this shovelware, micro-transactions, yearly cash cow franchise sequels, and “postmodern game art” that is infesting the retails stores today.

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>>3393531
>A shame these get lumped in the same generation as those born in the mid 90's to early 00's. I don't think I've met more than a handful that aren't worthless shitstains.
You realize that age group is still in grade school? The majority are children for fuck's sake. But I feel the same exact way about it too. Knowing that I have to be lumped in with Gen X, being the most coddled and pathetic generation of all time. While these fucks were off at Pearl Jam and Dinosaur Jr concerts, they chose to ignore the economic tremors going on that were signs of the impending crash of the housing market. What kind of an imbecile thinks things will get better forever? Mind you, this is the same generation that has produced the likes of Lena Dunham, Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and countless others who have destroyed the gaming industry, turning society into a censorship shithole. Your generation has blamed Boomers for everything bad that has led up to you, while pointing the finger at future generations for the bad days we have now. Doing all of this while not coming to terms with the damage you have done, because it's so much easier to blame others for your failures. It's also easier to relish in the past with video games from your childhood well into your 30's, longing for that time in your life because you've failed miserably at your adult life thus far. Grow up. >>3392147 and >>3383573 are right.
You're all pathetic if you cling to your nostalgia that blinds you from seeing how shitty the Genesis and NES were.
I really hope you manchildren realize how culturally irrelevant you all are. You don't matter anymore, it's fucking over. Those born int he late 90's and 2000's having to grow up in a recession, saturated job market, relentless government spending, and a college degree bubble will all realize who deserves a nice wake up smack towards your middle aged asses, because not even your Boomer parents tolerate you.
Gen X and Gen Y following them, are worthless.

>>3394427
Normies not a generation thing. See mobile gaming.

>>3394484
>crazy underage rant
Yes. I realize you're still in grade school. If you don't like "back in mah days" games why don't you fuck back off to /v/?
I don't blame the boomers for anything aside from being ignorant treehuggers. Not braindead lobotomized ignorant like your generation, just naive ignorant. But they grew up and most don't lick that sphincter any more.
Most of us gen x guys have a good life, family, job, etc. Not sure where all this "failed miserably at your adult life" is coming from. Did your daddy touch you in the wrong places or something

10/bait