retro regrets

[Anonymous No.3364106]

or regrets relating to retro ramifications

>you will never have the freely disposable time again to sink 80-100 hours into an RPG because obligations keep bogging you down

what now

[Anonymous No.3364119]

I'll never be able to purchase retro consoles for dirt cheap.

[Anonymous No.3364151]

I had the option to buy factory sealed copies of Super Metroid for $25 a pop 15 years ago. I didn't buy any.

[Bernie Sanders No.3364161]

>>3364119
Sega genesis is still kinda cheap tho. I just got one for like 30.

My regret is selling my gamecube. N64 and dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.3364371]

>>3364106
allocating gaming time is a choice. If you don't want to do it, stfu

[Anonymous No.3364381]

>>3364371
i can't really choose to not feed or wash the baby

[Anonymous No.3364383]

>>3364371
>>3364381
the feeling when I want I want a daughter...but I know damn well my game collection will get sold

[Anonymous No.3364384]

>>3364381
you can choose to ramble on 4chan, or play games, to watch tv, or play games, to go to the movies, or play games, to have other hobbies, or play games

[Anonymous No.3364385]

>>3364371
like, how do you imagine that works

"anon, we need to go through these medical bills"
"shut the fuck up woman, i'm grinding phantasy star II"

[Anonymous No.3364386]

>>3364383
>my game collection will get sold
you have no say in this? That's one fucked up relationship

[Anonymous No.3364390]

>>3364385
checking medical bills every evening for 4 hours, I take it, and 15 hours on weekends?

[Anonymous No.3364392]

>>3364384
>ramble on 4chan
literally my first post in months because the baby is asleep and the wife is out for groceries

>watch tv
doesn't happen

>go to the movies
doesn't happen

>have other hobbies
what other hobbies

is that really all you do in life man, hang out on 4chinz, watch movies, play games, watch tv, and have other hobbies?

[Anonymous No.3364398]

>>3364392
your time management skills are fucked

[Anonymous No.3364401]

>>3364390
>what is an example

[Anonymous No.3364403]

>>3364401
now the medical bills make sense, you don't seem to be bright enough to understand a simple point

[Anonymous No.3364409]

>>3364403
do you happen to be a young white male in your early to middle twenties, bro

[Anonymous No.3364598]

>>3364392
> what other hobbies
What? don't you even like books?

[Anonymous No.3364639]

>>3364106
Use an XP/Loot mod so you don't have to grind and don't hesitate to check a faq if you feel yourself bogging down (resist the urge to play directly from the guide though). Also using an emulator with a fast forward function can speed things up considerably.

[Anonymous No.3364654]

>>3364392
>>3364381
I had a baby simultaneously with the birth of /vr/. He was even pretty aggro as an infant. He definitely put the crush on my social life but it was like kismet for me to get back into my video game collecting and appreciation hand in hand with a fresh lively forum here. He and I spent many hours playing retro games together when he was wee little and he retains an interest in them now. He's a real cool little dude you should hear him ask to play "pantsy sta"

[Anonymous No.3364667]

>>3364654
you don't exist. People with babies can't do anything but work, sleep and handle the baby, sometimes at the same time

[Anonymous No.3364674]

>>3364385
You chose marriage over retro games. Some of us do the exact opposite.

[Anonymous No.3364684]

>>3364674
the smart ones do both and marry their favorite system

[Anonymous No.3364714]

>>3364392
Serves you right, having babies and a wife is for fucking idiots.
Dying completely alone is the way to go.

[Anonymous No.3364719]

>>3364714
>having babies (...) is for fucking idiots
indeed, it is. That's how babies are made. wife is optional though

[Anonymous No.3364725]

YEAH... WELL I FEEL SAD FOR YOU STUPID ASIAN KID!!!

;-;

[Anonymous No.3364745]

>>3364719
Yeah for fags that can't fucking keep their dick in their pants.

[Anonymous No.3364759]

>>3364719
>indeed, it is. That's how babies are made.

[Anonymous No.3364764]

>>3364598
How different reading books is from watching movies/series/animu? Both are being used for entertainment, with a bit of wisdom to share here and there. Extend it to vidya and all there is in common is entertainment, with bits copied from each other.

It is interesting initially, but this gets old quickly, with /lit/fags subtly bragging about how reading makes you cult and other arbitrary terms, but seems to refuse to acknowledge that their interest is in philosophy (in other cases it is just to show off, with a minority that acknowledges that they are just killing time).

[Anonymous No.3364793]

I didn't buy a TurboGrafix 16 the one time I saw one at a yard sale because I went for their box of records instead.

I left my Game Boy Color and games at home when I went off to college and I haven't been able to replace all of that yet.

[Anonymous No.3364796]

You know you guys don't have to settle for people who don't support your hobbies

[Anonymous No.3364802]

>>3364796
they're desperate. They'll take anything with mostly functional sex organs that won't kill them instantly

[Anonymous No.3364810]

>>3364796
B-b-but muh genes
I gotta settle for the first girl who says i love you
Muh family
Muh genes
What do you mean you should get along with your partner
What do you mean they should respect and understand the hobbies i enjoy
Muh genes! Im passing on my genes!!

[Anonymous No.3364821]

>>3364802
>>3364810
why are you projecting so hard

the number reason why people have less time to spend with their hobbies is just, well, time. things need to get done which are of higher priority than hobbies. how is that hard to understand.

[Anonymous No.3364826]

>>3364821
>the number reason why people have less time
these people are not talking about that

[Anonymous No.3364827]

>>3364106
I put over 1000 hours in a game in 3 months. I think I can manage an 80 hour RPG.

[Anonymous No.3364830]

>>3364827
that's well over a third of the whole period. Having a job? Insomnia?

[Anonymous No.3364876]

>>3364106
I commute 3 hours a day on a train, I beat long RPGs every few months.

[Anonymous No.3364880]

>>3364383
Dude what the fuck. First off, you can't really choose a child's gender, secondly, your relationship sounds fucked up.

[Anonymous No.3364884]

>>3364880
>you can't really choose a child's gender
sure you can, just repeat until you get a right one and throw away the ones that turn out wrong

[Anonymous No.3364906]

>>3364714

[Anonymous No.3364913]

>>3364714
>underage is now allowed to post on /vr/
Great job mods

[Anonymous No.3364924]

>>3364913
I am 30, but congrats on making a fool out of yourself.

[Anonymous No.3364930]

>replying to shit b8

you guys are idiots

[Anonymous No.3364934]

>>3364930
and yet here you are

[Anonymous No.3364936]

>>3364654
Truly, seeing your kids enjoy the same stuff as you brings a little joy into your heart.
My 5 year old son I've only allowed to play the cartridge consoles so far. He's gotten huge into Kirby's Adventure lately.

[Anonymous No.3364992]

I bought an n64 for 80 euro because they hardly ever show up around here, just recently they have been popping up for €40-50
Ive only played the thing 3 times and I'm almost certain only controller port 1 works
I payed 20 bucks for 2 seperate football games just so I'd have something to play

[Anonymous No.3365017]

Selling all of my consoles and games and other stuff that I'll never get back 10 years ago for cigarette money because I thought that emulation was good enough.

[Anonymous No.3365024]

>>3365017
you can emulate cigarettes now

[Anonymous No.3365028]

>>3365024

I quit smoking cigarettes without becoming a gigantic faggot.

[Anonymous No.3365034]

>>3365028
so you quit games, cigs, why are you still here?

[Anonymous No.3365039]

>>3364924
He meant you sounded immature, regardless of what your actual age is.

[Anonymous No.3365041]

>>3365039
Precisely. It's actually worse that he's not, in fact, underage.

[Anonymous No.3365047]

>>3365034

I didn't quit games. When did I say that?

[Anonymous No.3365049]

>>3365039
>>3365041
>Implying I give any fuck of what you faggots think in 4chan of all places
Whatever helps you sleep at night, kiddos.

[Anonymous No.3365052]

>>3365047
you sold all your consoles, games and other stuff

[Anonymous No.3365056]

wait, the kiddos shitposter is just 30 y/o? That's hilarious

[Anonymous No.3365062]

>>3365052

10 years ago. Because I thought emulation was good enough, which should have implied that I continued playing games through emulation. Now I have job that makes me enough money to raise a family on, but I've chosen to not have a family, so I get to spend my money and time on games and consoles.

[Anonymous No.3365068]

>>3365062
emulation has caught up. You can sell that shit again, grab a cigarette or two, and emulate

[Anonymous No.3365074]

>>3365068

Nah. I'll never go back to emulation except to play games that I refuse to pay the ridiculous premium for or otherwise can't obtain.

I can afford to smoke without selling my shit now. Too bad I quit. I might start again so that I can have the best of both worlds.

[Anonymous No.3365076]

>tfw have a qt gf who enjoys my hobby and also plays retro vidya with me all the time

Feels great, just beat crash 2 with her

[Anonymous No.3365091]

>>3365074
so, wait, you're not smoking, even though you know you could, and regret that you quit; you're not emulating and refuse to pay for games. That sounds so fucked up

[Anonymous No.3365103]

>>3365091

My life is one big contradiction, Anon. I do pay for games, though. I just don't pay over $30 for games unless it's something really, really special.

[Anonymous No.3365197]

Everyone in this thread is a butt hurt fag, hahaha. I'm sorry I dropped in for a read

[Anonymous No.3365243]

>>3364667
You can handle the baby while playing games. He would sit on my lap held in by an arcade stick then when he actually started to be able to move with intent I switched to a pad and let him mess around with the stick.

>>3364936
His favorite is Skylanders but he can develop an interest in a game just from seeing it for one second. He also thinks there's a video game about everything in the world like for example he's really been into swimming for the first time this summer and just today he /asked me for a swimming game. My first instinct was Summer Games for XE but it'll probably be something Android so it can go on his Nabi. I can't wait until he can operate emulators on that thing but he can't yet.

[Anonymous No.3365256]

>>3365243
>He also thinks there's a video game about everything in the world

He's not wrong. Don't you even know about simulators and indie shit?

[Anonymous No.3365301]

>>3365256
There are plenty of very specific things there aren't games about but every concept he can grasp at this point there is and probably will be for a while. The humor is that he just firmly believes there is right from the beginning. It's one of his core beliefs.

[Anonymous No.3365305]

>>3364106
Passed up a copy of Hagane in a pawn shop years ago for next to nothing, I didn't know what it was. Just fucking kill me, I'll never get over that.

[Anonymous No.3365345]

>>3364392
>the wife
how does it feel being devoured alive by the female parasite?
kys redditor

[Anonymous No.3365363]

>>3364106
I have severe tendinitis and nerve damage so my hands are too weak to really play many videogames now. I had to give up going online a lot too and playing piano. I still play videogames because it's too soul crushingto go cold turkey from all your hobbies.

[Anonymous No.3365365]

>>3365363
Jesus anon, I'm sorry to hear that.

[Anonymous No.3365369]

>it's a "normies try to justify having a family" episode
>"i-i don't care! i'm fine with not having time for games, selling my collection, never having any time to myself and living exclusively for my wife and child! who needs friends when i have a wife and child!"
>"you kids need to grow up and get a wife! then you'll understand how great all of this is!"

[Anonymous No.3365371]

>>3365363
that's awful man, sorry to hear that

[Anonymous No.3365387]

>>3364106

Jokes on you, even as a kid I didn't have that much time.

[Anonymous No.3365412]

>>3365371
>>3365363

I try to look on the bright side because now I have more money for videogame merchandise from Japan. But yeah it sucks. Also add drawing to a list of things I had to give up...and the fact I still play videogames means it's getting worse everyear so ...fuck me.

[Anonymous No.3365564]

>>3365345
i dont get this "only redditors get married" meme. am i out of touch

[Anonymous No.3365590]

>>3365564
Yes. You need to get back in touch with Reddit.

[Anonymous No.3367373]

>>3365076
Same here. I showed mine Guardian Heroes and Legend of Oasis, but she's really more into the Wii U games I showed her.

[Anonymous No.3367504]

>>3364106
>had ebay account since it first started
>could have bought all the retro for pennies, and sold it at a huge markup that retards today find to be a reasonable price

[Anonymous No.3368001]

>>3365369
>My parents are still alive

[Anonymous No.3368160]

>>3364392
You just can't manage your time, bro. When my kid was born I was playing through Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy VI.

Still took care of the baby.
Still went to work
Still made time for my other hobbies.
Still cooked and cleaned and took care of the house.
Still made time for the wife.

It's hard, trust me I know. But it's not as impossible as you're making it out to be.

[Anonymous No.3368167]

>>3364880
When people say "I want a daughter/son" they don't mean that that's what they're going to give birth to. He's saying he would prefer having a daughter over a son.

[Anonymous No.3368181]

>>3365369
Some people enjoy having families, anon. You're being a hypocrite.

[Anonymous No.3368321]

>>3365056
No he is in his early 20s.
He just needs to pad his age to sound relevant in an argument.

[Anonymous No.3368442]

>passed up a dude selling a pallet of PVMs for $40 each
>never found a single one at that price or lower ever again

It still hurts.

[Anonymous No.3368445]

>at yard sale
>guy has Demons Crest CIB
>wants 100€ for it
>tell him that's a pretty good deal, as I just bought a loose copy for the same price
>he checks on ebay
>"well I guess I'll put this game back in my truck"

I could have made a profit of around 400€. Fuck me.


Just fuck me.

[Anonymous No.3369763]

>>3364106
You're just making excuses. You can always allocate a tiny portion of free time like an hour or so to beating an RPG.

[Anonymous No.3369778]

>>3369763
RPGs, regardless of their total play length, must be beaten within 7 days, or their savestate and all your memory of it will completely vanish. That's the rules

[Anonymous No.3370161]

>>3365039
Then why didn't you just call him immature, you fucking sperg?

>>3365049
If you really didn't care this post wouldn't exist

[Anonymous No.3370185]

>>3364106
Bitch I'm 30, I work full time and I have 3000 matches on Starcraft II and 1200 hours of CS GO, the fuck you talking about

[Anonymous No.3370192]

I had the option to buy a ton of SNES games for cheap 10 years ago.

I did not do it.

Not only that, but I lost the Super Scope 6, Super Nintendo box, Sega Gen 16 Bit, Super Mario World, all complete with box.

Bugs me every day.

[Anonymous No.3370196]

>>3370185
>Starcraft 2
>CS GO

I hate to think how much you'd play if you had some decent games.

[Anonymous No.3370305]

can you post that video please

[Anonymous No.3370338]

The constant playing of retro games for years made my eyes unable to adjust to modern HD games, mostly FPS games (all my best friend plays)

I find everything in modern games waaaay too bright and shiny. I also get motion sick after about 15 minutes and get a wicked headache.

[Anonymous No.3370368]

>>3370338
That's not just you, 3d games by nature are more likely to cause motion sickness. Camera panning and FoV make some particularly bad.

I used to love games when I was younger when everything was 2D side scrollers or top down, but all these FPSes and walking sims I struggle with because they just make me wanna hurl.

[Anonymous No.3370404]

>>3364403
Do you expect him to write out a complete time table of his weekly schedule or something? Holy shit you are literally autistic.

[Anonymous No.3370409]

>>3364821
They are NEETs living with their parents. I bet they don't even have to do their own laundry.

[Anonymous No.3370496]

>>3364796
Fucking this. God damn.
My bf and I have lived together for a few years, and we do all kinds of shit together, or separate if we feel like it.
Admittedly, I'm the one that really likes retro vidyas, he mostly just plays more modern games.

[Anonymous No.3370535]

>>3370496
gay but glad to hear it's working out for you

[Anonymous No.3371278]

>>3370368
I have a similar thing, not motion sickness but modern games just don't engage me at all. You can give me a copy of the witcher 3 and I wont have the attention span to finish the first boss. Yet give me a shump or any old snes rpg and i'm hooked till the credits roll.

[Anonymous No.3371292]

>>3371278
>I wont have the attention span to finish the first boss
Let me be bold and say you don't have the motivation to finish it. The game just gave you no incentive, no reason to do it. Because modern games are absolutely terrible in that regard. They play back whatever narrative they're on to and don't give a damn about the player. Worse even, they'll interrupt the most crucial face of exposition with endless tutorials, suffocating any spark of interest right away. Meanwhile old games give an exposition to entice the player, and from there on keep them glued to the screen, and will let the player make mistakes, learn and improve. The player does not feel strung along by the game, but like they're actually achieving something. You showed with your snes rpg example that attention span is not the problem, the game is.

[Anonymous No.3371298]

>>3364598
DFW books? really? I mean I dont like tennis so..

[Anonymous No.3371308]

My biggest retro regret is buying Bubsy 3D.
I had the first Bubsy on SNES (and loved it) and was amazed to see the game getting a 3D sequel.
Ran into the exact same problem with Spot goes to Hollywood. Had the SNES game and loved it, thought the PS1 version has got to be better in every way.

[Anonymous No.3371324]

>10 years ago.
>Walking down my local street
>See a Boxed NES in the window of a charity shop for £20
>At the time I knew what it was and I didn't own one
>Considered asking my mother for money to buy it but I assumed she'd say no (I was 11 at the time)
>Consider saving up Pocket money for it, thinking no one would buy it
>It's gone the next day
>Years later tell my mother about it
>She said she would've been fine buying it for me

r.i.p

I've also lost many boxes over the years, my mother once bought me pic related from a chairty shop once. Boxed and everything. I was around 11 at the time so I threw the boxes away and just kept the gameboy and game. Even then, I should've known better.

[Anonymous No.3371325]

>>3371324
>I should've known better
how so? What's the value of the box to you?

[Anonymous No.3371330]

>>3371325

I enjoy having everything complete, these days I save everything I can when I buy them. Boxes, manual's even the shitty adverts. Boxes also have a lot of cool and interesting stuff on them that I like to read, plus the artwork is always nice to look at.

Plus it's more valuable when it's in it's box, so that's always a plus.

[Anonymous No.3371331]

How about some retro atonements?
>I can download every cartridge video game ever released and put it on a thumbdrive that fits in my pocket
Take that, younger me!

[Anonymous No.3371335]

>>3371330
>it's more valuable when it's in it's box
Do you plan to sell it?

[Anonymous No.3371342]

>>3364119
Why are people so crazy about retro consoles all of a sudden? I got my N64 with cables, a controller, SM64 and Wave Race 64 for only 20$ back when I was 12 at a garage sale. Got a PSX PSOne model with cables and two Dualshock controllers for $10 too at a garage sale also around that time.

I remember selling them at one of MIT's monthly flea markets four years ago for 50$ each w/ controllers when the craze started, bought a overheating Radeon 4850 at the same flea market for 40$, and took the thing apart as soon as I got home to clean the heatsink out with canned air, and put new thermal paste on the GPU die itself. Thing went from running at 90C to like 50C under load.

16 year old me was pretty fucking stoked to have a PC capable of doing serious gaming. Build was an Athlon II X4 645 + the Radeon 4850 1GB, 4GB of RAM and a good 1TB HDD. For 2012, that was the dream budget build for me.

From that day forth, I realized that emulating games was the way to go if you only care about the gameplay.

[Anonymous No.3371343]

>>3371335

Well, I don't have it so no.

[Anonymous No.3371350]

>>3371342
>Why are people so crazy about retro consoles all of a sudden?
they aren't. The internet allows you to reach a much wider audience. On a flea market you show your goods to a couple hundred people, and have to set your price accordingly. On the internet, a couple thousand or more can see it. Someone among them, only takes one, will be willing to pay more, so you can set your price accordingly. So, it's not more people interested in these old consoles, it's just that the same crowd that has always been interested in them, is more visible.

Regardless, people are understanding that games are games, independent of their age. So they'll want to play games from 1995 just as much as they want to play games from 2015. Only, the hardware for the former is not in production, making it a bit harder to come by, resulting in higher prices

[Anonymous No.3371352]

>>3371343
just saying, I never got that "point" because if one isn't considering selling their stuff, why even wonder about the "value"?

[Anonymous No.3371829]

>>3364639
What's a XP/Loot mod

[Anonymous No.3371880]

>>3371352
Well, if it's worth 500€ with a box and 100€ without, I would consider selling it and getting the same console back for 100€. Makes sense.

[Anonymous No.3371935]

>>3365564
Basically if somebody does not like something about you that means you're from Reddit.

It's stupid.

[Anonymous No.3371964]

>>3371829
A mod that increases loot and/or XP.