>>742255517
It was never great but /pol/ made everything unbearable. Can't have one thread without the trifecta of nigger/tranny/kike.

>>742255517
It's definitely gotten worse. But it's not limited to just game discourse.
Social media as we know and governments and special interests having control over it has really steered things down a dark path.
And this point it's safe to assume at least have of posts and responses on social media are bots.

>>742255679
>have
*half

>>742255517
they were having console wars in the 80s on usenet
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/IKQkExqofSA?pli=1

The great Election Toursim of 2015 ruined damn near every hobby, not just video games. You can't have a honest discussion without someone saying MUH ORANGE MAN BAD or THANKS OBAMA!

>>742255517
This video remains absolute cinema and 9/11 for trannies/groomers/other Mossad agents

its gotten way worse. im a relative newfag (2010) and general discourse, not just video games, has plummeted in quality. /v/ wasnt a board i frequented that much back then. it was more /lit/, /mu/, /tv/, /diy/, etc. everything got worse during the gamergate era and then post-election it got WAY worse

i miss the old internet more than anything else

>>742255517
YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF

>>742255517
Most games are just boring or shit for me. And there are others that I might play, but they have some annoying aspects, like I would like to play Bannerlord, but it's still being updated after so many years, which breaks mods.
I hate live service and never ending update cycle shit. Release the fucking game when it's finished.

>>742255770
Its insane that he was caught once and decided to roll the dice again and doodoo first.

>>742255593
This. But exchange /pol/ with people complaining about anything /pol/ or "politically incorrect" before it even occured, thus derailing any good faith conversation from the start.

An example:
>Has video game discourse actually gotten worse over the last twenty years or was it always this awful?
>Has video game discourse actually gotten worse over the last twenty years or was it always this awful?
>It was never great but /pol/ made everything unbearable. Can't have one thread without the trifecta of nigger/tranny/kike.

>>742255593
>>742255747
Why do smelly tranny tourists use every opportunity to seethe that 4chan will never be your far left echochmaber? You can just go to pedosky for that

>>742255738
Console wars since consoles were a thing.
Playground arguments over SNES vs Sega Genesis were a thing.
But that's pretty different than how gaming is discussed these days where it's all about outrage over this or that, engage with the outrage, watch this influencer about the outrage, spread that outrage on other social media about outrage you read about on a completely different social media.
It's exhausting. There used to be majority discussion of actually enjoying games, with some arguments and shit around it. Not almost entirely outrage.

Even more annoying part? Even pointing it out gets you labeled as part of "opposite outrage junkies" than the outrage junkies currently talking, almost every time.

>>742255970
just because you are not a /pol/ack tranny does not mean you are far left, you retarded tranny. old 4chan was a lolbertarian champion, if anything

>>742255970
literal smoothbrain

>>742255970
nta but reddit The_Donald subreddit literally had posts instructing people over to this site, and how to "blend in". I suspect you now that since you probably got here that way.

>>742255970
the irony

>>742255970
>you don't want to bitch about trannies 24/7?
>what are you some kinda leftist?
this is you

>>742255517
>Has video game discourse actually gotten worse over the last twenty years or was it always this awful?

gotten worse every game is filled with microtransaction shit and designed to make you addicted.

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>>742255517
With the fact that the entry to barrier for media discourse has never been easier to access it's no wonder, fanbases are now more obnoxious than ever, triple A games are garbage due to being made by people who don't play videogames nor engage in hobbies that make for a good source for inspiration, speaking in mind to the higher ups that dictate things with an iron fist.

if we're talking about the chan, yes everything has gotten worse every single fucking year but recently has just become mediocre, nothing exciting happens, nothing really novel happens most of the time and it seems like the energy within most boards has drowned out unless you're into select franchises that're still making new content for engage in; post hack may be boring but I'll take it over the teenjakniggers derailing whatever threads they saw fit.

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>>742256090
I summoned the whole discord KEK

>>742255995
>Playground arguments over SNES vs Sega Genesis were a thing.
Wasn't my experience. The Genesis kids would just go over to the SNES kids' houses and play SNES, and vice versa. I didn't see passionate arguments about this stuff until N64 and PSX.

>>742255970
If I'm talking about a game, I don't want to talk about trannies at all, but you can bet your ass these days that a few posts in some sperg will barge in, screeching "TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY"

>>742256187
you're probably just retarded anon

>>742256241
Was mine.
Kids are kind of dumb (myself included), I think the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" marketing played a part in things.

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We've always shamed people for liking the wrong things, but now it seems we're shaming people for liking anything. The "liking" is the crime, not the "thing". Consequences have been dire to say the least.

>>742256683
It was sort of a Gen X/Millennial trait of "it's cool to be above liking things" a few decades ago. Unfortunately it seemed to morphed into being a monetizable thing over time.
It's actually one aspect I've noticed zoomers and younger being better with is actually enjoying things

>>742256683
OH SO YOU LIKE SHAMING PEOPLE FOR LIKING THINGS?!?!

>>742255959
>/pol/ defense force go!!

>>742255770
If his parents had bought him a PS3 or a 360 instead of a 3DS that fateful Christmas, things could've turned out completely different for him

>>742255970
Because it wasn't always like this, redditor.

>>742255517
It was bad but it’s gotten even worse

Reminder that 4chan in 2004-2010:
>fapped to traps
>didn't care if you were gay
>was overwhelmingly atheist or agnostic
>hated and mocked conservatives and Christians
>thought Western culture was shit
>sided with Bioware for their right to put gay people in video games after Fox News ran a hit piece

>>742255593
Good you made sure if that

pol isn't welcome here. Go back coward.

>>742258950
That culture was sexist and white-centric, they had to be purged and substituted with intersectionality, and their resistance made them nazi trash
Luckily we as the gaming community have moved on from such outdated stereotypes

>>742259152
I just stated facts, I don't know what you're trying to do here

>>742255517
Discourse was better when it was just people burning EA at the stake for their shitty monetization models, because it was addressing a serious problem in the industry. People now are bitching more about surface level shit like identity politics, photorealism and story, when there’s genuine problems like bloated production budgets, trendhopping with shit like battle royales and extraction shooters and bad gameplay are seen as an afterthought. Not every company has to be in California where the burn-rate for a single employee must be nearing 6 figures and the project suffers from genuine scope creep which is a death sentence for studios that are stuck working on that one big game. There’s a reason why indies thrive and AAA studios, in the US at least, are slowly going extinct.

>>742258950
>fapped to traps
>didn't care if you were gay
Yeah because it wasn't their ENTIRE personality and political bullshit.
It's like yeah this is someone, and they happen to be gay, where as now it's LOOK AT THIS GAY PERSON THEY ARE GAY *RAINBOW FLAG* LOOK AT HOW GAY AND BRAVE THEIR ARE, IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS WE HATE YOU GET OUT OF THIS COMMUNITY

Same deal with traps, it was a novelty and somewhat ironic, like yeah this dude does look quite feminine so lmao fap fap fap, where as now it's not about haha dude jerk off it's an ENTIRE personality and subculture who NEED to force it down your throat and invade and take over everything.

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>>742258950
>fapped to traps
4chan’s full of degenerates
>didn't care if you were gay
maybe but words like faggot and queer got thrown around every single day
>was overwhelmingly atheist or agnostic
nope. *tips fedora*. it wasnt overtly catholic, but atheist dorks were always dogged on
>hated and mocked conservatives and Christians
no not really
>thought Western culture was shit
not really. more so weeb and anime centered, sure.
>sided with Bioware for their right to put gay people in video games after Fox News ran a hit piece
complete revisionist bullshit.

It has gotten significantly worse due to the endless political posturing bullshit. Most people into games used to be on the same page, laugh at the retarded fundies and bitch about out of touch politicians using games as a scapegoat. Now it's all tranny this and chud that, you people never stop fucking whining and treating your hobby as nothing more than an opportunity to proselytize your shitty political views.

Or even worse, you start going on about your idiotic fucking religious views. No one gives a shit, everyone hates you, just leave, everyone can tell you don't actually care about the hobby.

>>742259378
>Yeah because it wasn't their ENTIRE personality and political bullshit.
Brev this was before gay marriage was legal, being gay at all was considered political, conservatives have been parroting this line for ages whilst moving the goalposts all the time.
The reason you saw rainbow flags everywhere was precisely because it became less politicised.

>>742259382
>4chan’s full of degenerates
And now it's full of degenerate hypocrites.
>maybe but words like faggot and queer got thrown around every single day
To the point of meaninglessness, yes.
>nope.
Ayup. You gave yourself away, redditor. The only people shitting on atheists were self-described "agnostics" but they got shit on just as much in return for being fence-sitters who didn't want to admit they were actually atheists.
>no not really
Ya rly. George Bush and Fox News were frequent targets of mockery, and their lies and logical fallacies were routinely called out. Their reputation for lying was common knowledge.
>not really. more so weeb and anime centered, sure.
Yeah, remember that original definition of weeb? "Cursing your Western heritage"?
>complete revisionist bullshit.
Right, so we know that you're at LEAST as new as 2008.

>>742258950
The traps thing was true but everything else is just contrarian faggots going against the current thing to farm (You)s

>>742259650
I'm not even going to waste the effort

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It objectively has, for various reasons.
>The internet has expanded and become more popular with stupider people and literal children
>The internet has expanded into third world shitholes en masse
>Popularization of video games in general
>People are literally paid to argue/shill in bad faith
>Culture war

The list goes on.

>>742259606
The whole reason people started hating SJWs was that they were supposedly too much like fundamentalists, religious hypocrites, and puritans.
And now somehow people think that the problem is that they're the wrong kind of fundie.

>>742259685
(You)s weren't even a thing at the time, newfriend. This was the board culture. Christfag larping was the contrarian thing and was literally done by two or three tripfags.

>>742259850
If you think things have gotten bad, always just remember that only around 30% of India at present has regular access to the internet.

The next decade's gonna be a doozy!

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>>742255517
it got worse when journos started getting paid per click
then it got worse again people realized they could make money from it via youtube
then it got worse again with streaming/twitch
then it got worse again when twitter started monetizing engagement

so now you have a bunch of dumbfucks trying to get paid for their hot takes and 'ragebait'

>>742259650
cope. anyone can go back and read any archive and prove you wrong with literally any thread. but you’re gonna stomp your feet and cry foul because you want to push an agenda. revisionist. yes, 4chan was never stormfront 2.0. /pol/ isnt even stormfront 2.0, outside of a handful of larpers. you can claim old stock as much as you want but you’re wrong.

>>742259895
I am well aware, unfortunately.

>>742255517
much worse, because every idiot has very important opinions including whamen.
Back in the 80's and 90's gaming was limited to the arcade, consoles, or richer people with certain basic levels of tech literacy. Plenty of people were gaming, but they still were a small minority of the population. Plenty of people (normie cattle) and certain cultures used to look down on video games.
Ironically the games themselves were (much) better, because they weren't packed with braindead propaganda, degeneraty goonery, and milking of the unwashed masses.
Whenever any retard is trying to argue politics or goonery you can shut their tourist retardation immediately by simply mentioning tetris (arguably best selling game of all time) and pacman. Or hundreds of other actually good or great games.

TL;DR: Business decided to turned video games into the everlasting milking machine of the masses, ruining everything and flooding gaming with shit eating goyim.

>>742255517
This shithole specifically? It was better. Then for some reason some retard made /pol/

>>742260060
I don't need archives, I was there, I witnessed all of this. You're the revisionist and you're projecting.

>>742255517
It was always bad but honestly it wasn't totally irony poisoned until the last 8 years or so. People are incapable of being genuine anymore (everywhere, not just here).

>>742260183
so more cope, ok.

>>742255738
It's always surreal to me that people were console warring "online" before I even existed.

>>742260257
From you, evidently

Prove me wrong, then.

>>742260330
retarded nerds have always been the same. theyve never changed. whenever i watch the simpsons im suprised by how much comic book guy still resembles modern day redditors and 4channers.