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[burntman]

Do your friends in real life like retro games? Mine just put up with it, I wish I had someone to be competitive at guilty gear with or who didn't just wait for it to be over when I talk about sonic, lol.

 

[Gorse]

Absolutely zero of my adult friends are into video games whatsoever, except little nonsense games on their iPhones. Everyone I grew up with either stopped playing games entirely or has seemingly dedicated their lives to Counter-Strike Global Offensive.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

My best friend likes retro games, but he's the only one. We mostly play classic fighters and co-op arcade games.

 

[Yousef's iconYousef]

I don’t exist IRL.

 

[burntman]

Do your friends in real life like retro games? Mine just put up with it, I wish I had someone to be competitive at guilty gear

My best friend likes retro games, but he's the only one. We mostly play classic fighters and co-op arcade games.

Mine puts up with it, but I think its just annoying him, which sucks cus i invested a lot into physical multiplayer setup but none of em are really into what I like to play.

 

[Omegapunch's iconOmegapunch]

My friends only play either modern or mobile games.
So the answer is an (obvious) no.

 

[Mr. Daddy]

I'll be honest here and say, I don't really have very many friends irl. Those that I do have nowadays are into retro gaming at least, but I've lost touch with the vast majority of friends I grew up with, and they were most certainly not into retro gaming. I was always like, a gen behind at minimum when it came to consoles, so most of my friends had never heard of most of what I played growing up, and I never really got to play most of what they played until way, way later. That said, the few friends that I did get to come over to my house were pretty into the multiplayer retro games I did have at least, which was neat given it was pretty much a guaranteed new experience.

 

[Asian girls lover]

The ones I had usually played modern games, but one of them who now is just an aquaintance, liked to play WoW, if it counts as retro.

 

[RageBurner]

At least one IRL does, but I suspect it's a little rare.

 

[RustySK]

Where I live practically nobody my age plays videogames. It's mostly still seen as something you do when you're a kid and drop when you grow up. As a result I've never been all that outgoing about it in real life either, as it's still pretty frowned upon even these days.

Lately I've managed to get two of my friends back into HoMM and now we play a match every week or so, but that's about it. I've always envied people that could share this hobby with others.

 

[pr0xy]

A couple of them do. But most of them don't.
In fact, most of my IRL friends don't even play video games, which is a bummer.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Not at all.

In fact, I used to be made fun of because I liked them.

 

[WarpKaiser]

I don't have any friends IRL, I am anti-social.

 

[Elwiwi]

I don't have any friends IRL, I am anti-social.

Same

 

[burntman]

fair dooz, im trying to make new friends these days. When you are an adult it's much harder lol.

 

[GardeniaSky]

Not really. My partner is more into TTRPGS and card games. He prefers competitive/social games. My friends all play RPGs and stuff but aren't as into emulation and playing old stuff as much as I am.

All my interests are scattered among different people, but there's no one person that has all the same interests as me.

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

>Friends
>Irl

 

[burntman]

Not really. My partner is more into TTRPGS and card games. He prefers competitive/social games. My friends all play RPGs and stuff but aren't as into emulation and playing old stuff as much as I am.

All my interests are scattered among different people, but there's no one person that has all the same interests as me.

my best friend does like some retro stuff like project justice and jet set radio, but he despises sonic (other than sa2 1st stage lol) and he hates the sega saturn. He just got a steam deck and he has a fat library of steam games, where as all my stuff is pirated. He is great I do love my best friend, I just want someone to debate about sonic with lol.

 

[Faust03]

I only have one remaining IRL friend and I never asked her that question

 

[Azazelivae]

Well me and my friend grew up around PS2 Rental being a thing so yes lol.

Though it's not like i can talk easily about Retro with them because the type or genre of games that we like is not the same so i can relate at least to some degree about not having people to talk about it.

 

[Karnik 2.0: reboot]

I'm sorry to read here that many of you don't have IRL friends, and some of you even brag about this. Nah, that's not good at all! You have to maintain a balance between real life and virtual life, but the former has absolute priority. Your future is at stake: don't you think that there will always be someone to support and take care of you? Sooner or later you will have to take your life into your own hands: if not you, who? If not now, when?
Alas, better a hard truth than a sweet lie.
Your virtual daddy.

 

[Faust03]

I'm sorry to read here that many of you don't have IRL friends, and some of you even brag about this. Nah, that's not good at all! You have to maintain a balance between real life and virtual life, but the former has absolute priority. Your future is at stake: don't you think that there will always be someone to support and take care of you? Sooner or later you will have to take your life into your own hands: if not you, who? If not now, when?
Alas, better a hard truth than a sweet lie.
Your virtual daddy.

I hate the majority of people around me though

 

[LaserMoose]

I have one friend who plays retro titles, but only the games we played when we were kids. My other friends are not interested at all, unfortunately.

Retro games thankfully have an ever-growing online community, as evidenced here. I'm glad that I have the opportunity to discuss them with all of you! I've gotten the chance to learn many games that I otherwise would've never known about, through both these forums and CDRomance itself.

 

[burntman]

I'm sorry to read here that many of you don't have IRL friends, and some of you even brag about this. Nah, that's not good at all! You have to maintain a balance between real life and virtual life, but the former has absolute priority. Your future is at stake: don't you think that there will always be someone to support and take care of you? Sooner or later you will have to take your life into your own hands: if not you, who? If not now, when?
Alas, better a hard truth than a sweet lie.
Your virtual daddy.

I don't think that's a very convincing way of saying that lol. I don't even do online friend stuff, I've always been an irl person, in my youth i did make friends online, you can imagine the fucked up stuff that happens when you make friends with people online when your young lol. I think people should be very careful about making online friends more than irl friends in a way.

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I don't think that's a very convincing way of saying that lol. I don't even do online friend stuff, I've always been an irl person, in my youth i did make friends online, you can imagine the fucked up stuff that happens when you make friends with people online when your young lol. I think people should be very careful about making online friends more than irl friends in a way.

of course if your careful theres nothing wrong with having online friends but yeah i dont have much experience with that as an adult.

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I don't think that's a very convincing way of saying that lol. I don't even do online friend stuff, I've always been an irl person, in my youth i did make friends online, you can imagine the fucked up stuff that happens when you make friends with people online when your young lol. I think people should be very careful about making online friends more than irl friends in a way.

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of course if your careful theres nothing wrong with having online friends but yeah i dont have much experience with that as an adult.

also you knew saying virtual daddy was gonna get bad response in this context tbf

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I have one friend who plays retro titles, but only the games we played when we were kids. My other friends are not interested at all, unfortunately.

Retro games thankfully have an ever-growing online community, as evidenced here. I'm glad that I have the opportunity to discuss them with all of you! I've gotten the chance to learn many games that I otherwise would've never known about, through both these forums and CDRomance itself.

despite what i was saying to that other guy, I too really really like talking about my retro game hobby with everyone :) I am playing sakura wars and just turned on house of the dead 2 on the dreamcast with the gun. I fkin love house of the dead!

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I hate the majority of people around me though

I feel like that sometimes too, but people aren't all bad.

 

[peachGummiez]

I've had friends who assume that just because a game is older, then I like it. Then they assume that if a new game in that franchise is announced, I'm frothing at the mouth waiting for it to get released.

Then when I'm like "not only do I not care about the new one coming out, I don't even like the old ones in that franchise" they get weird and distant, like I slapped their grandmother.