Community RPG Codex Top Ten Vintage RPGs Poll Results

[Morenatsu.]

Romanticism is trash. Poetry is trash. Writing is trash.

 

[DY050503]

These old fantasy covers are so~much better.

 

[Darkozric]

So much fuss about a fucking term, Atlantico is truly Retardico.

 

[Atlantico]

So much fuss about a fucking term, Atlantico is truly Retardico.

Thanks for your input Dorkozric. Your feelings on this matter truly are important and your point of view is of great concern.

Now kindly go kill yourself, you autistic waste of oxygen.

 

[Morenatsu.]

I mean, what kind of name is ‘blobber’? Who the hell came up with that, a slime?

 

[Grunker]

this thread really merits some kind of autism tag for Atlantico

 

[Atlantico]

this thread really merits some kind of autism tag for Atlantico

Oh no, RPGs being discussed on an RPG forum.

You rather deserve a Safe Space tag.

 

[Grunker]

no u

how imaginative

 

[Atlantico]

no u

how imaginative

Not really the core of my post, but evidently the one thing you picked up on.

Hence my suggestion, you seem more upset about yourself than the content of the posts you reply to.

 

[Maxie]

when will this god awful website hold a best jrpgs poll

 

[Deuce Traveler]

These old fantasy covers are so~much better.

Yeah, I really love the box art from this era. I'm too lazy to research it, but since this was the time that fantasy books based on RPGs were all the rage, it must have been the peak for artists that could do such covers for RPG Rulebooks, fantasy and science fiction CRPG boxes, and shitty fantasy novels. I do feel that these 90s covers are much more evocative than the photo-realistic style of the last two decades.

 

[Lord_Potato]

These old fantasy covers are so~much better.

Yeah, I really love the box art from this era. I'm too lazy to research it, but since this was the time that fantasy books based on RPGs were all the rage, it must have been the peak for artists that could do such covers for RPG Rulebooks, fantasy and science fiction CRPG boxes, and shitty fantasy novels. I do feel that these 90s covers are much more evocative than the photo-realistic style of the last two decades.

All the fancy box art of the era, with brave bare-chested barbarians, skimpy dressed sorceresses, dark elven dominas, basically a wank material for underage boys of every possible sex orientation...

And still Ultima 7 killed it all with it's cover:

Spoiler

 

[Gastrick]

80s and early 90s are "retro", not "vintage". The words refer to specific time periods.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Actually, they are ‘vintage’, not ‘retro’. lrn2dictionary

 

[roll-a-die]

Actually, they are ‘vintage’, not ‘retro’. lrn2dictionary

80s and early 90s are "retro", not "vintage". The words refer to specific time periods.

Vintage refers to anything from a specific era. 1980s Vintage Clothing.

Retro refers to things that are in the style of a certain vintage. More generally retro means something styled to look like it's from 3 or more hype cycles ago. 1980s-style Retro clothing.

Antique is the only one with a specific time period, and that is anything more than 100 years ago.

 

[SerratedBiz]

80s and early 90s are "retro", not "vintage". The words refer to specific time periods.

Go away, Twitch-spawn.

 

[Morenatsu.]

But my Oxford English Dictionary mentions nothing about specific age on any of those words...

Oh, I see, they are just arbitrary rules not inherent to the actual definition. Well, they make sense, but!!

 

[Gastrick]

Intuitively, it's pretty obvious that old games are retro, from the most common word-usage. This is the Wikitionary definition:

1. Of, or relating to, the past, past times, or the way things were.
2. Affecting things past; retroactive, ex post facto.

"Of the past" is one of the definitions of retro. I don't completely agree with them, like I said earlier.

 

[Morenatsu.]

Wiktionary is fake and gay.