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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7379776" data-attributes="member: 996">I suppose we do have something in common. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I agree it's not relevant to the topic of popularity whether a given system is any good or not, let alone how they all rate in quality, collectively. &nbsp;You have an opinion about how good the stuff is, and speculate that others sharing that opinion is /the/ reason people use it.&nbsp; Fine, as far as it goes.&nbsp; It doesn't go as far as providing any evidence anything is good or bad, and those kinds of in-depth discussions rarely lead to solid conclusions anyway.&nbsp; Suffice to say you like it, thus its good, for you, and that's perfectly valid, and not something I'd want to disabuse you of, anyway.OTOH, OSR games harken back and tie into an 80s fad, which could also go a ways towards explaining why people use them.&nbsp; Because returning players are nostalgic for the kind of game they remember from the fad years, sure, but also because it can be a point of pride for hard-core fans to value &amp; talk-up the positive qualities they perceive in systems of that era vs 'new fangled' ones, and/or because new players are curious about the old games the new harken back to and/or want to be 'in the know' &amp; accepted by the long-time &amp; returning communities.&nbsp; Can't say I ever heard that idiom before.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7379776, member: 996"] I suppose we do have something in common. ;) I agree it's not relevant to the topic of popularity whether a given system is any good or not, let alone how they all rate in quality, collectively. You have an opinion about how good the stuff is, and speculate that others sharing that opinion is /the/ reason people use it. Fine, as far as it goes. It doesn't go as far as providing any evidence anything is good or bad, and those kinds of in-depth discussions rarely lead to solid conclusions anyway. Suffice to say you like it, thus its good, for you, and that's perfectly valid, and not something I'd want to disabuse you of, anyway. OTOH, OSR games harken back and tie into an 80s fad, which could also go a ways towards explaining why people use them. Because returning players are nostalgic for the kind of game they remember from the fad years, sure, but also because it can be a point of pride for hard-core fans to value & talk-up the positive qualities they perceive in systems of that era vs 'new fangled' ones, and/or because new players are curious about the old games the new harken back to and/or want to be 'in the know' & accepted by the long-time & returning communities. Can't say I ever heard that idiom before. [/QUOTE]

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