It would be like RFN's retroactive thing but without the podcast and hopefully way more often. We pick an old game, play through it, and talk about it in a thread.
Playthrough 1:
Pokémon Black and WhitePlaythrough 2:
Lost ReaversPlaythrough 3:
Chrono Cross (on pseudo hiatus)
Playthrough 4:
Oracle of Ages/SeasonsPlaythrough 5:
Metroid Other M Current Nominees:
Super Mario Bros. (Nominated by Shyguy, seconded by Pokepal148,)
Ways a game can become the next Forum Retrospective:
- The game is nominated directly in this thread and two other people express interest in playing the game.
- I see the game discussed in other parts of the forum and at least 3 people express interest in playing through the game
- The game is featured in one of RFN'S retroactive polls and gets second place. If I feel particularly generous* I may even let the game that gets third place in the poll get a forum retrospective thread.
*This is mostly for special cases like the hypothetical return of Clex Yoshi's Russian vote farm or the 2d Zelda retroactive poll that's going on right now where Spirit Tracks and the Oracle games are thoroughly curbstomping the other nominees that have the unfortunate distinction of not including the words "The Legend of Zelda" in their titles. I may change my mind on this at some point though.
I'm not going to rule out doing games that aren't on Nintendo systems for this but those games are going to have to have
a lot of interest to get a spot on the poll. Since not all of us own PS4s and Xbones its going to be harder for people to jump into the discussion so more people are going to have to express interest in doing that game up front. I'm thinking like 5 people would have to say they are interested in playing the game although I won't rule out cases where the game is tangentially related to a game on Nintendo platforms and also available on multiple other systems like Chrono Cross is.
Also for a game to be eligible it has to be at least two years old. For major first party Nintendo releases that window extends to four years old.
There is no requirement for price of the game, unlike for retroactive. If someone nominates Cubivore and the two other people who own that game second that nomination than those three people are more than welcome to have a forum retrospective thread for Cubivore, just don't be surprised if that thread doesn't get much participation.