/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it 'retro'? It has continuously had an active player base since release and works on all modern OS. It feels a little different than booting up a PS1 to play Final Fantasy VIII.

Is there any way to actually play this game anymore? I mean normal 5v5.

Every server seems to be filled with bots, a few Russians with 300 ping or just some really sketchy server that will probably install malware on my PC.

Hmm Quake is too difficult. What if we...
>slow the game down
>nerf movement
>make the game team based
>make the game round based
>remove all the pickups
>allow players to buy the weapons
>remove projectile weapons
>make TTK so short that anyone can frag if given enough luck
POPULAR GAME!

And then the cycle always continued from card games to battle royales. In an attempt of trying to invent a product that as many people as possible can consume.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the series that turned skill based FPS games into crouch+shoot hitscan weapons with le lepic headshots

The other day on /v/ I saw someone trying to claim that Half-Life and Counter-Strike were hated at the time by "hardcore" fans of games like Doom and Quake. Does this assertion really hold any factual reality? Everywhere I look on the old internet, people loved HL and CS, and fans/developers saw it as a huge groundbreaking phenomenon. Many of the biggest contributors specifically come from Quake and Doom, in fact. Why do some people hate these games (Half-Life and its derivatives) so much, that they retroactively try and change history, which they weren't part of?

This is almost as bad as people claiming that Half-Life "pioneered" cinematic games, when actually one of the biggest praises it received at the time was the fact that it doesn't have many interruptions, and all the gameplay is introduced in real-time, like pretty much every 80's game, during the era where this was becoming less popular.