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Post by nivery on Apr 19, 2016 21:10:58 GMT -5
It's difficult to find anyone interested where I live (Alabama) -- I'm guessing that's true for a lot of retro gamers that aren't living in larger cities. I have friends that like to game, but they're obviously all interested in modern games I don't care about. Retro gaming conventions are hard to get to and infrequent.
Gaming alone is great and all, but not being able to regularly share the experience with people drains it of quite a bit of the fun. Online gaming is only an adequate substitute some of the time.
Can anyone relate?
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Post by zargon on Apr 20, 2016 9:10:23 GMT -5
Since moving, I've recently made some new friends who appreciate old games, but for most of my life, the only games my friends liked tended to be garbage like the latest Call of Duty. Usually they wouldn't be willing to play anything else for more than a few minutes before they started whining like little kids. I don't think I'd ever have been able to get them to touch something in 2D.
There's also a problem with how these days you have trouble even finding games to play with people in the same room, due to the focus on online (there's some weird, oddball exceptions like Double Dragon Neon and Resident Evil Revelations 2, where you can only play multiplayer offline). I hear this is actually bringing back board games, of all things. It's like we're regressing technologically. It's too bad it's so damn expensive to collect older games.
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Post by nivery on Apr 20, 2016 20:55:18 GMT -5
You're definitely right that the board game boom has to do with wanting to game in person with other people.
Unless technology is eventually able to produce something virtually that's indistinguishable from reality, I can't see that going away.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Apr 21, 2016 7:05:35 GMT -5
FWIW, I've been pleasantly surprised to find out how many retro gamers live in my state/area thanks to Twitter, it might be worth a try.
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Post by zargon on Apr 21, 2016 9:48:05 GMT -5
It's a shame that the video game industry has such a low opinion of consumers that they think they're all stereotypical basement dwellers who don't have friends, sort of like how a friend and I have been complaining that fighting games lately are more geared toward hardcore players, and usually have a half-assed excuse for single player (the only reason people complained with Street Fighter V was because of the problems with online too).
But a good way to meet people is meetup.com. You might have to commute for better stuff if you live in a small town, and some areas will definitely have groups of less interest to you (my town is filled with yuppie networking garbage), but if you can find some with people in your age range (surprisingly hard for me, since most groups here seem to be dominated by people 50 or older for some reason), it's a good way to make friends.
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Post by nivery on Apr 21, 2016 17:34:45 GMT -5
FWIW, I've been pleasantly surprised to find out how many retro gamers live in my state/area thanks to Twitter, it might be worth a try. Thanks -- I appreciate the advice. |
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Post by nivery on Apr 21, 2016 17:40:46 GMT -5
But a good way to meet people is meetup.com. You might have to commute for better stuff if you live in a small town, and some areas will definitely have groups of less interest to you (my town is filled with yuppie networking garbage), but if you can find some with people in your age range (surprisingly hard for me, since most groups here seem to be dominated by people 50 or older for some reason), it's a good way to make friends. Meetup.com has some groups for board gaming in my area, but retro gaming is apparently too niche of an interest to spawn a group. (Then again, maybe I should make my own meetup for it...) |
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Apr 21, 2016 17:40:57 GMT -5
FWIW, I've been pleasantly surprised to find out how many retro gamers live in my state/area thanks to Twitter, it might be worth a try. Thanks -- I appreciate the advice. No problem, hope you have good luck! |
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Post by vetus on Apr 21, 2016 18:43:56 GMT -5
Even if I live in a big city with many friends that love retro games, when we have friendly gatherings at someone's home we mostly play modern games. We used to play some retro games in the past sometimes but not anymore. Also some other retro maniacs I personally know through forums and social media are busy with their daily life, mainly the ones which are married with children and I can only meet them in retro games conventions. Still I should be thankful for that conventions where I have the opportunity to talk with old friends and random visitors about old games and it's good to see that even little kids appreciate the old technologies instead of mock them.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Apr 21, 2016 19:00:47 GMT -5
Even if I live in a big city with many friends that love retro games, when we have friendly gatherings at someone's home we mostly play modern games. We used to play some retro games in the past sometimes but not anymore. Also some other retro maniacs I personally know through forums and social media are busy with their daily life, mainly the ones which are married with children and I can only meet them in retro games conventions. Still I should be thankful for that conventions where I have the opportunity to talk with old friends and random visitors about old games and it's good to see that even little kids appreciate the old technologies instead of mock them. That's one thing that I do like about the "mainstream retro" fad, it's nice that younger people that didn't grow up with the games are getting exposure to them, and hopefully finding ones that they can appreciate. |
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Post by zargon on Apr 22, 2016 20:49:28 GMT -5
But a good way to meet people is meetup.com. You might have to commute for better stuff if you live in a small town, and some areas will definitely have groups of less interest to you (my town is filled with yuppie networking garbage), but if you can find some with people in your age range (surprisingly hard for me, since most groups here seem to be dominated by people 50 or older for some reason), it's a good way to make friends. Meetup.com has some groups for board gaming in my area, but retro gaming is apparently too niche of an interest to spawn a group. (Then again, maybe I should make my own meetup for it...) You could, but it costs money. I guess it depends on your income level, I don't know just how much they charge, and I think it depends on the number of members (so if you have enough, you could get them to help foot the bill). You could give Facebook a shot. Only problem is Facebook is a graveyard of dead groups, groups that don't even realize they're dead. I never saw any Facebook groups that interested me that still operated, so I can't say how easy it would be for people to find it. Maybe make some posts on Facebook or forums somewhere, it would be easier if you live in a bigger city. |
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