/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5717395
Generally I don't think about how others play or enjoy games. Why should I care how others spend their time and money?

>>5717395
/vr/ thinks it is autistic repeating the same task over and over again and it makes you a tranny, despite this board being about playing the old stuff over and over again.

Personally I find it a nice way of making a game you like and played to death more interesting, speed running first happens when you really know the ins and outs of a game and comes naturally for most players. A lot of games even wanted you to speed run (metroid for example) or at least didn't want you to take your time.
Now talking about speed running community is something different though, I would say that almost has nothing to do with playing the game, but collaberating to find mistakes like weird detectives. It's more about abusing the System than really enjoying a game, as well as copying the movements that a program showed you to do (TASBOT).
This makes every game into guitar hero

>>5717395
nice typo. and i personally think speedrunning is for fucking faggots. im not interested or impressed by it.

>>5717395
What happened to Darbian? Haven’t seen him in months.

>>5717419
Dont forget to dialate desu.

yabba dabba dialate

>>5717557
Nice memeing friendo
Have an upboat

I think it's good that there's people still actively playing and learning these old games instead of just putting them on a shelf to collect dust. Too bad the community's so shitty and nintendo centered, tends to attract a lot of retro-hipster faggots

>>5717419
>despite this board being about playing the old stuff over and over again.
There's a difference between playing the same games repeatedly and playing one game for hours upon hours doing the same exact shit for attention.

>>5717731
Anyone taking videogames too seriously is desperate for validation. Look at the arcade, shmups and fighting threads.

>>5717395
speedrunning is cool but it's hard to deny trannies are weirdly over-represented in speedrunning communities.

>>5717731
Did you read the whole post?

>>5717743
Yes.

>>5717736
speedrunners are just obsessive. The shmup/arcade posters here with the massive chips on their shoulder and hyper-sensitive egos are a different breed entirely. I've never seen anything like it.

>>5717419
I rarely play a game more than once
Even my favorite game Ive only played like 3 times in 3 decades
Speedrunning is pathetic and borderline degenerate

>>5717758
You must have been a rich kid when you played a new game every week in the 80s, or a stinkin zoomer who cant imagine times like those back then.
If you only had 5 games you would usually replay them

>>5717731
Not really, both are loser shit

Speedrunning is cancer.

Score attack > speedrunning

Speedrunning does take plenty of skill, but "do it as fast as you can" is only appealing to me for racing games. Other genres of action games have more exciting ways to compete.

>>5717765
I had at least 60 NES games as a 6-year old in '90. I remember it was two suitcases full. They were these special cases with sleeves made specifically for NES carts.

>>5717395


scoring >>>>> speed running

Too bad there's not as big a community and media push around the hobby. Guess the millenial crowd just isn't into high scores.

>>5717765
We didn't own games in the 80s, we rented them. So yes, every weekend you could get a new game to try out. And guess what, if it was a shitty game, you could return it and never play it again.

>>5717395
It could be fun. I want to try it one day. Not to get world competitive but just to go for a decent time. I'd probably do it with a NES action/platformer that can be beaten in around 15 minutes. It would be annoying to speed run something if it takes more than 30 minutes to do a run. Do you speed run anything, OP?

>>5717765
I got my first PC in 1992, before I had any console. Everyone shared floppies, so I never had a shortage of games and never got into speedrunning. It's a symptom of $112 Nintendo tapes

>>5718021
No one wants to watch a scoring marathon.

>>5718472
yeah because they are man child low i.q millenial cunts as already discussed

>>5717395
I have limited opinion since I don't watch people play games, never have. From my understanding it's just using glitches and extreme methods to more or less break the game. If that's the case I don't see it as legit. Oh you beat Final Fantasy 6 in 2 minutes because you ran against a wall and unplugged the controller 4 times? That's not beating it at all. It's not even playing, it's just breaking.

If someone wants to play legit really fast, great. I'm still never going to watch but at least I can respect the effort. If you use glitches, cheats, whatever then you aren't competing with people, you are just manipulating code. Then it becomes about efficient manipulation. No skill. In fact you wouldn't even have to know how to play really.

As far as impact? I see far too many threads about it or the people that do it. We don't talk about Space Quest or Dark Forces. We talk about people broadcasting their inability to play a game. That's a huge net loss for quality discussion. Even making fun of them. Even what I'm writing now. Because we aren't talking games, we're talking people.

>>5718471
>1992 is somehow the 80s

>>5717395
>What does /vr/ think of playing games really fast?
I like it. Speedrunners that give good commentary and have a good understanding of the games they run are cool to watch.
>you think it has helped or made things worse for the retro game community
It's definitely helped. More people are playing older games and contributing to discussion. Not here though, this is just a slower /v/ and everything is terrible. There's also not one retro gaming community. This place is a toilet and I wish I could leave. But 90% of other retro gaming communities online are as bad, if not worse.
>have you tried or completed to beat a game as fast as you could?
Whenever I have free time and the drive for it, I like to marathon all 6 Mega Man games on NES for time.

>>5718513
For pretty much every game multiple categories exist, often including "no (major) glitches", which rules out sequence breaks.

>>5717395
Look at the people who do it, and the people who watch it. Look at the guy in your picture. Enough said.

>>5718547
>implying anyone that posts here looks any better

>>5717395
sorry OP but I'm comfortable with my gender.

>>5718010
So... You guys were rich? Or your parents divorced maybe? Or did you like stealing from friends?
Just curious

I like how speedgamers actually play old games instead of whinging about new games.