Were the 2000's really better for video games or is it millennial cope? I remember Gen X saying as early as 2005 that they missed the 90's
>>720094491largely cope. people had no responsibility in their youth, and wish to go back to that time so everything is viewed with a rose tinted lens. some games are still great today, but have clearly aged, however a lot of them that are just dogshit now.
>>720094491Early 00s was good, but around 2004 everything went to shit and has yet to recover.
>>720094491An all time classic game came out every single month between 2000 and 2010
>>720094621Wrong, San Andreas, Half-Life 2, and Paper Mario TTYD all came out that year.
>>720094621I beg to differ. I think 08 was the true end of the 2000s.
>>720094550then why do white women not choose black men?
>>7200947472008 was pretty 2000s. 2009 was when you could see the start of the early 2010s showing.
>>7200944912007 was the last great year of video games. It's only been a downward slope of loss of consumer rights, lack of freedom of expression, and a very obvious competency decline to anyone paying attention to the quality of things.
>>720094491Certainly more optimism because with the shift of the millennium and birth of the mainstream digital age. We didn’t realize how shit that would go so quick
>>720094491I miss the mood and vibes>Were the 2000's really betterOther than technology and programs most media (shows, movies, games, music) all became shit. I miss early-mid 2000s pop. Probably the best thing nowadays is that we can always watch/listen/play old stuff.
>>7200948362008 was one of the best years for video games though
2010-2012 last good era. Love fallout new vegas,lost planet 2, red dead redemption
>>720094814MCU slop started its roots in 2008. It's also when Obama was elected.
>>720094491Most triple A games nowadays are remakes of games from the 2000's. That should tell you something.
>>720094948This. Mayans were right.>>720094970The first Iron Man was good and Obama was good unless you're retarded and thought Bush was somehow better.
>>7200948362007 was dogshit. I can name so many better years including 2008.
>>720094970Iron Man 1-2 were good and I despise the whole MCU shit.
>>720094774Those are the purest ones, the ones that do usually have jewish genes on them, the more they have the worse
We need to go back. I miss the 2000s. We need to reject everything modern.
I think multiplayer games were better. They were not all focused on trying to squeeze as much money out of you as possible with loot box mechanics, whacky skin drops daily, and a new battle pass every 2 weeks. They still did try to squeeze money out of you. A lot of multiplayer games excluded you from main lobbies if you didn't buy the map packs.
>>720094491Late 90s early 00s was the best. It was really awesome because technology was advancing so fast. Especially on PC, games released a year or two apart would be radically different or more impressive. New games coming out were always really exciting to see.
>>720094491
So much old fucks here. Sorry grandpa but you miss out. 2010 was the golden era
>>7200952292010 still felt kind of 2000sy desu. 2011 feels like the first "true" 2010s year to me.
>>7200946922000 to 2010>halo 2>halo 3>gta 3>gta vc>gta sa>gta 4>mgs2>mgs3>left 4 dead>RE4>mirrors edge>countless fighting games>a billion other 10/10 games i cant be arsed to list2010s+>dark souls>uhhhhhhhhhh>um>uhhhh>ace combat 7?>armored core 6?what the fuck happened man
>>720095131If you want to reject everything modern then you have to go back to the 80s or before. All of today's modern shit was in manageable primitive states in the 70s and 80s, and absolutely absent in the 60s and before.
>>720094491Look at the board. Most threads are hate. Hate towards games, hate towards consoles, hate towards pc, hate towards everything except nintendo toddler related Theres no gamers and therefore no games. The end of games is shown on this diagram.
>>720094491>Were the 2000's really better for video games The 2000s were better for EVERYTHINGThe 2020s are worse than the 2000s in every single way
>>7200951522000s MMOs were the highest forms of kino. So many worlds you can get lost in, so many memories you could create. If you play an MMO now, your only memory of it will be how you have to grind something every week and do your dailies all to experience a 2 hour long patch update every 3 months, and that's being generous. In the end your reward is glamour and mounts you show off to players.
>>720095318I'm not using the word modern literally, I'm using modern in reference to everything post-2010. We need to go back to how things were in the 2000s. It's objectively the best era.
>>720095318I personally consider modern to be December 21, 2012 onwards
aaa was better then because major publishers hadn't focus tested everything interesting out of their games just yet but everything else is much better now than it ever has been
>>720095302>2010s+DishonoredRed dead redemptionLost planet 2Fallout new vegas Pokemon black and white 2Bioshock 2God of war 3Dragon age origins SkyrimDragon dogmaSuper meat boy
>late 80s>literal plethora of games, cost 5 bucks + nintendo or sega console>90s>similar, 12£ for the most expensive game>2000>3d games but no one knows what the fuck they're doing, try their best, innovators make cool stuff>2010>dark souls, and gaming stagnates, lootboxes and corpos galore>2020>remakes, game 3 from 2000 era finally comes out, the only platformer left literally crashes steam simply by existinggames WERE better back then.
>>720095229It will happen to you, don't deny it
Newer games have to stand out among an ever increasing pile of tried ideas, and there is no broad landscape of new technology to explore. They're not pushing the envelope as much now. It's just the same old stuff with marginal improvements to graphics (if they don't somehow regress).
>>720095302>2000-2010 >BF1942-Bad Company 2>CoD4>MW2>C&C Generals / Zero Hour>Sim City 4
>>720095676the only actual good games you listed are lost planet 2 and DDSMB is good too, but we're talking about AAA stuff
>>720095131Here's how (you) can go back. Make your room look like pics-related. Only play older games (pre-2010). Only watch older media. Only listen to older music. Get rid of all social media. Stop using streaming apps. Get a CRT tv. If you really wanna go far into it, throw away your smartphone and get a dumbphone. You can bend the rules for some things like instead of collecting physical games you can just emulate.
>>720096115
Games had shorter devcycles so there were games coming out constantly, some of them were bound to be good.
>>720094491No, the 90's were better for video games. The mid 2000's was just its last gasp.
The 2000s were the peak years for vidya, but also entertainment in general. They probably were the most fun days and times to be around by how much energy packed every corner of culture was at the time. Everything just feel so cool and aggressive, and in the mist of edge, the decade felt optimistic. 2010s was when everything went downhill, specifically in 2014 and onward. And here we are, the 2020s, the most dreadful era so far where there is no sense of hope and creativity is dead for good, no fun, no identity, no love, boring shitty world where's there is only fornite, chat gpt and culture wars. What a fucking dogshit timeline.
>>720094491Yes.
>>720094550Queer
>>720094884That's not the best. That's not even great. It's just one of the last good years.
>>720094884Some gems here, but most of these games were considered bad or left their fanbases divided.
>>720095131>shoes in bed
>>720094491While video games and entertainment as a whole was better, I miss the people more than anything, so so much. Discussing things online used to be fun and genuine, now it's demoralizing due to bad actors with a vague agenda of controlling some narrative. You have people who come online just to shit everything up ritualistically, usually from a certain demographic of course. It's virtually impossible to have good threads on here anymore, and the rest of the Internet is even worse for different reasons.
>>720094491It's worth noting just how big the leaps in console tech was with each generation back then. Waking up and kicking on your PS2 with FFX was an incredible experience and giant leap forward compared to your PS1. You just don't get the same impact today when advances are so incremental and the tech specs are pretty underpowered and graphics themselves stagnated and underwhelming. There was also a good argument to be made back then for owning each console and go full idort to take advantage of all the exclusives worth playing. Now the same idea is lmao-tier given everyone is playing the same serviceshit we've been playing for the last decade except for bingbros rocking their latest and greatest N-branded smartphone also with nogaems
>>720094491The developers in general were more talented then the ones we have now. and the important factor is games then had a two year deployment cycle compared to the glacial five year's we suffer with now.
>>7200944911995-2005 was the peak of all culture.
>tfw '96 boomer>tfw remember the time when my ilk was the "underageb& kids who dont know shit" on 4chan>now fairly certain we're in the minority along with the 80s boomers and god forbid, the 70s boomers
>>720094491>noticeable graphical upgrades>mechanic innovation without budget bloat>the greatest console generation and game releases>no online centric anti consumer practices>internet was completly free from any kind of temrs of service>nobody took anything seriously or got offended for pety bullshit as being a contrarian edglord was normal>nothing was censored, everyone was anonimous, everything was pirated, the whole web was descentralized>no curated results in any search algorithm>no faggots and niggers shoved into everythingit was a true golden age, all inaccecible media that one could have ever wished to enjoy back then suddenly became available for freethere was no monetization back then, everyone did stuff just to flex or for funmiss those days
2009 was the last good year for games and anything really>Cod MW2>Left 4 dead 2>Borderlands>Minecraft>Plants vs Zombies>Prototype>Resident Evil 5>Halo Wars>Assasins creed 2
>>720099713I was born in ‘95. You’re welcome.
Never forget that 1998 was the peak year for videogames
>>720099878>remember the time when my ilk was the "underageb& kids who dont know shit" on 4chanYou're still that and you'll never be anything else.
>>720100181yeah yeah, im an eternal newfag etc, i know
>>720099713>there's just 1 decade between Ristar and Resident Evil 4god i feel oldzoomies will never know the feeling of being marveled by the transtion from pixels to low poly graphicsthey will never get to experience such a noticeable technological leap during their lifetimes
>>720099878Born in 1996Calls everything a boomer. Checks out.
Bring Back Clay
>>720095131Pandora's box is open, you can't go back. Yeah you can buy an old CRT and build a shitbox 98 machine but then what? Every time you go online it'll be the same bots, browns and mentally ill people. Every time you go outside it'll be the same people but in person. Sure if you're some rich recluse and you only frequent niche forums but most of us aren't that.
>>720095353man i still have this old versionthe 2025 version would just be a scream i feel like
>>720100332it's just slang grandpa
>>720100789A bunch of people and bots that don't belong showed up.
>>720100870That's exactly what 12 year old Alphas say.
new years 1999 was the endpeople say 9/11 but they're wrong
>>720094491someone post the year the iphone came out graphic
>>720094618you've got some shit taste there, bud.
>>720099713Wow.You think it's all just nostalgia until someone shows receipts.It really was just straight up better.
>>720101654I remember coming across a demo disk from a year after the PS2 came out that had more games on it than the PS5 had exclusives after 4 years. shit is has not been looking up.
>>72009449190's/00's to Gen-X and Millenials is like 80's/70's to the Boomers. It's our version of peak and it has not been surpassed since culture wise.
>>720101979I for one will not miss looking shit up in the phone book
>>720094491It's with some irony that the best gaming to be had in the present are from fan projects (producing modern version of older games and translation efforts of never imported titles) and indie titles, which was the opposite in 2004. The "mainstream" gaming industry is deader than hell in terms of quality.
>>720100651Your perception is your reality. If your home looks like something out of the 2000s and you don't consume anything modern at all then do you really live in modern times? For all you know, you're still living comfortably in the 2000s.
>>720100891
What is the Hybrid Theory of video games?
>>720094491>Were the 2000's really betterYES, gaming in the 90's and 00's were the industry peak and you all missed it. Instead of wallowing in the now desolate landscape go and play all the old games that've already been made.
>>720102062remember paper maps and stopping to ask people for directions? i remember having a rotary phone and calling someone to put me through to someone else
>>720094884You know this list is really reaching when it includes Spore and Ninja Gaiden 2 and Soul Calibur 4 and Rock Band 2
I think 2010 to 2012 was still good.You had games like Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption and Skyrim.
>every year from the 90s to the early 00s we had an iconic genre-defining game that is a classic today>it didn't have any dlc or microtransactions and cost $20-$60>most of them had free online and free updates and supported modding (remember downloading map packs?)
>>720102357Half Life 2
>>720102273How are you going to keep maintaining the illusion whenever you have to go outside to buy food or work? Are you going to pretend the local market or your workplace are also stuck in the same time period? You can't even say "I'll just order my groceries from home" or "I'll work from my bedroom" because you would have to use tech from beyond the 2000s.
>>720094491Clearly you're a zoomer OP so let me help you with some leads:> between 1993 through 2008, there was a slew of video games that spanned from several generations of consoles, whereupon there were both technological and game design leaps and the dramatic changes were something not seen since.> I'm of the opinion that when P.T. came out in 2014, I was convinced that we had as a consuming public finally arrived at something that in the early 1990s (I'm going by 1991 when I was around 7.8) where the marketing was "photo-realistic graphics" was the promise for the future (roughly about today let's say)> Between technological constraints in hardware and software and the costs degrees of semi-specialized talent (that's to say that you needed people with serious programming and program design chops along with other disciplines more or less there besides programming) you had either in North America, Europe or Japan, a particular pool of talent that was either underwritten in a purely corporate manner (Japan), subsidized (Europe), or invested in (U.S.) that had different sizes and methods of managing the talent pool.> The end result was a series of sometimes back to back titles that really were good but there were many bad ones as well and some that were popular for the the time but were duly forgotten (check every PC game that's no longer sold on Steam or never on Steam that were sold in boxed retail SKUs).> The diversity of businesses in capitalization was there between high cap, mid cap, and micro cap even of video game developers that sometimes even made shovelware (the $0.99 bargin bin non-premium edutainment software)But today we have a large amount of consolidation and mergers which was happening in slow motion.I would encourage you to watch any old show like Gamepro, Extended Play (before X-Play), and ask any 40-something about the games they had.
>>720102429I still have my grandparents' rotary phone. It's a black desktop one. I'd still use it, but I had the land line disconnected because of constant spam calls.
in hindsight it was alright, some things were cool and fun, there was still some optimism and excitement for new things coming out but maybe inevitably on track leading to worse things
>>720102740Is that...?
>>720102771It's a small setback. Not everything is going to be authentic. Like you'd have to go so far to live in a small town that doesn't have modern stores and you'd have to downgrade to an older car to truly be illusioned when you go outside, but even then you'll still see other people who dress modern and use smartphones and drive modern cars. >You can't even say "I'll just order my groceries from home" or "I'll work from my bedroom" because you would have to use tech from beyond the 2000s.To be fair if I downgraded to a dumbphone I can still order pizza through the phone which is very much a 2000s thing
>>720102642its kind of crazy that game felt like it was 3-4 years ahead of all the completion.
>>720102826The best kind of research in primary source research. Don't watch a youtube "documentary" (they are patently shit especially if someone with a lilt English accent is there - all they know and look at everyone else in the world is through their Commodore 64, Amiga, and ZX Spectrums)> Start with magazine scanes of any magazine published in the 1990s and 2000s> Again watch any VHS rips uploaded to Youtube or Internet Archive> Do some inflationary price comparisons from what was advertised in toy advertisements or general product store franchises that sold consoles like here in California we had Service Merchandise> Talk to people that had those systems and not just collectors that are of the same game age group because the "casuals" of the time were usually people that only could afford 1 or 2 games at the time back then (like me) because it was expensive but you'll hopefully a non-nostalgic and not social media influenced opinion.Oh and play the games! Play them. even if you don't finish them, play them for research and you'll understand, first hand, why they were considered fun by older people like me anyone else of the time even older (going into Gen X).Because I can give you my opinion but I'm biased to say "yes" because the terms and conditions for buying games were very different from today. I think many young people today are being ripped off with sometimes not knowing how exactly. But you guys seem to be getting around to figuring it out.Good luck anon. Remeber primary sources. No cutting corners with social media intermediares.
>>720099846Kino. Imagine playing Ragnarok Online in that setup.
Zoomers are pathetic.
>>720094491There was a brief time after gaming made the leap to 3d and hardware got substantially better that gaming was amazing. The very fact that corporate parasites recognised the money making potential (again) and latched onto it so hard they haven't let go for a single second since is proof of that.
>>720103571I like the top because of the warm colors
Growing up in the 2000s it was so weird to see people older than me who were still nostalgic for star wars and transformers and other 80s cartoons get really upset I was nostalgic for 90s stuff.https://streamable.com/356jb4
>>720103716>no ads>no apps>no store>no social media tie insGod. Making a thing like this would be inconceivable today.
>>720100692>there is underageb& here who weren't even born when that pic was mademy only solace is that those kids will be dust and bones in 100 years too
>>720103824don't forget the unique ui that isn't made from a ux factory
>>720100837All the cool kids in my school were on IRC in the early 00s
>>720103882There was absolutely no need for the ambient sound either, but they put it in anyway, just for the atmosphere.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-LPjXXsrV8
>>720103639enjoy it, ff13 sacrificed everything for its pretty backgrounds.
>>720103960people went the extra mile for fun even if nobody was expected to notice, now everything has to turn a profit or they cut it out
>>720094621>2005>re4, dmc3, mario and luigi partners in time, mario kart ds, need for speed most wanted, minish cap, shadow of the colossus, destroy all humans, fear, chaos theory, starfox assult, god of war, ninja gaiden black, guild wars, guitar hero, killer 7, jade empire, mario superstar baseball, geist, super mario strikers
>>720094491Early 2000s killed PC as a platform and it just got console ports
>>720104114You forgot F.E.A.R. came out in 2005.
>>720094884half these suck thoughdefinitely the beginning of the end
>>7200950282 was bad
i wish i could go back
>>720095676>Dishonored>Lost planet 2>Fallout new vegas>Bioshock 2>God of war 3>Dragon dogmaonly six good games less than 1 a month
>>720094491zoomcucks really think generational labels made to sell shit are some kind of all powerful horoscope
>>720103716Take me back
>2003>the year before my life ended>sitting in my dad's office making custom warcraft 3 maps on his computer while listening to linkin parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhUPc2IFYo
>>720099960almost all these were considered downgrades at the time except ac2. Even prototype had beef with infamous and crackdown. Borderlands had to cellshade itself to differentiate from fallout and some other game rage I think.
>>720102357splatoon
>>720099878>96>oomerfies everythingWere you born after fucking Christmas or what? You may as well be Gen Z, how often do you speak in ebonics?
I just want to play vidya with friends again. Is it too much to ask these days?
https://youtu.be/ePLDO68lcA4?si=q80Sv26sipsxQu5f
>>720104204its on there just no caps and dots
Better than what? The 2000s had some great elements and some amazing games, but there were downsides as well. I can definitely see a degree of GenX and Millennials who were tired of things like >Brown 'n Bloom shootan >Squeenix and others who got away from JRPGs and other things they were good at making in favor of knockoffs of what they thought 'murricans wanted etc. but there were a lot of great developments from the emergence of Steam into a top tier platform to distribute both AAA / indies, plus a whole slew of games during that period
>>720104773You might wanna sit this one out.
>>720104706if you're older than me you should know better than to pick at semantics like a faggot
>>720104924maybe if it's on legendary
>>720104985Semantics has nothing to do with this, you're just talking like an idiot.
>>720104854Okay, for those of us who lived through it and remember it well what do you want to know? I was born in the 80s and ended high school / started university in 2002, to frame my perspective at the time.
>>720104582https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3hOofojFw
>>720095173>Post-2010 zoomer
>>720102452>I think 2010 to 2012 was still good.Fuck no.>You had games like Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption and Skyrim.That's EXACTLY THE REASON why it was utter SHIT.
>>7201055742011 had Dark Souls, thoughbeit
>>720105574>I hate video games and do not play themWe know.
>>720103716>>720103824>>720103882>>720103960This was back in the days when >The Internet was another place entirely and the stylistic elements of everything from that Xbox design to a fuckload of Winamp skins weren't all sanitized. The Japanese had one hell of a great concept of ambience for such things, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6mxRUKehtEWas part of >PlayOnline, the FFXI launcher even things like the >Wii Shop and Weather channel themeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyjUmv1gJEghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVTHg9JcoAc
>>720105660Wow, ONE (1) exception to the list.>>720105676I've played hundreds more games throughout the years than (You) can even name off the top of your head, you child.
>>720095302>2010s+Assassins Creed BrotherhoodMGS4MGRGod Of War 3Hitman AbsolutionBatman Arkham City/OriginsThe Last Of UsLittle Big Planet 2Rayman LegendsAssassins Creed 4 Black FlagResident Evil 6Yakuza 0Dantes InfernoAnarchy ReignsThe DarknessResident Evil 7the list goes on junior
>>720105729I do hundreds in a year, you're out of your element.
>>7200950061st term Obama was good. 2nd term was when he was more radical and started getting behind woke shit and fanning the flames of BLM racial tensions
>>720105751>AC brotherhoodworse than AC2>MGS4moviegame meme, and this is coming from a staunch kojimafag>MGRtrue>god of war 3meh>hitman absolutionlol>bamhamlol>TLOUlol>LBPmeh>rayman???>black flagdecent i guess>yakuza 0true>dantes infernokino but meh>anarchy reignsgood soundtrack but meh>the darknessmeh>RE7okay i guess
>>720105780Congraz, son.You got ADHD, and binge 5 minute long indie slop.
>>720105998>calls himself a gamer>doesn't know who rayman is embarrassing
What was the first moment you realized deep down that things were starting to get worse?
>>720106134i've beaten rayman 2 several timesNOBODY gave a shit about Rayman Legends
>>720106210Windows 8 bringing minimalist flat design and mobile-first user experience.
>>720106025Never play indie games. Like I said, you're out of your element.
>>720104114Still not as good as the years before.
>>720106210After 9/11 when everybody started talking about stricter security as a positive thing.
although the 90s were better in every other way, 00s still had the best video games since the technology didn't fence the games in too much, but didn't make it ultimately too boundless and costly and long to produce
>>720106446it really was amazing>saudi terrorists destroy the towers>so america has to invade iraq and afghanistan and spy on its own citizens and send them to blacksites
I lost my virginity to this album when I was 14.I was visiting my Dad for the Summer and some trailer trash chick that stunk like cigarettes a few years older then me sucked my dick (poorly) then rode me reverse cowgirl. The sight of her worn out panties that were like a size too small pulled to the side and her hairy asshole are burned into my mind...
>>720105039talking like a fag, and his shit's all retarded
>>720094491I played video games all day in 2005. I play video games all day in 2025
>>72009462190's kids are too young too have noticed how 9/11 ruined literally everything
>>720094491There's only one word that can describe videogames from the early 2000 and it's excitement.Everything in videogames was made on the promise of a new and futuristic medium, a way of enjoying media contents like never before. The evolution of graphics, physics, hardware was the selling point. People where exited to see this medium mature. Until at some point around 2013 something changed and everything went to shit wasting everything that was built before that.No more excitement, no more progress, no more passion. Gaming magazine died, gaming convention died, E3 died. Gaming literally low-key died but nobody knows or remembers it.
>>720106867feel free to share
>>720094491In the 90s and 00s I was buying and playing games left right and centre.By the late 10s, hardly any appealed at all.Now, most just look shit, either worse do-overs of existing formats, woke/politicised do-overs, or UE5 overly demanding poorly optimised shit that for all its polish and lighting looks worse than a 90s game when totalled up.The underlying gameplay was perfected before the 10s in most genres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3wUD3AZg4
>>720094491Video games have been stagnant since 2007. Most people on this board now never experienced a time when games weren't shit.
>>720094491not all of the 2000s, just the first halfthe second half is where focus test groups took over and also direct-to-publisher telemetry (achievements), about how much of a game wasn't being played, made it so they could "trim the fat" for the rest of their catalog and boil it down to only easier games to increase retention
>>720107492also rise of the dudebro and brown&bloom and on-disc dlc
>>720094491Yes everything was better in the 2000s
why /v/ so suddenly obsessed over cuckshit>suddenlyyeah but why regarding this game right now, seems to be going harder than usual
>>720107964You sure you're in the right thread?
>>720107964>>720108000meant for a hornet knight thread loli'm retarded and apparently too drunk to be posting so im just gonna go to bed
You can't go back. You are in your 30s.
>>720108221My intention is not to go back, but to drag that time forward to me.
>>720108221>You are in your 30s.but i won't be next year
>>720108480share some wisdom with a soon-to-be 30 year old?
>>720108657It's not too late.
>>720108731actually it is but thanks anyway
>>720103436You can't go back...
>>720094491>videogamesIn some ways, it depends how you view games as a service and how they're funded mainly, as well as micro-transactions in general. There were lots of good games but soulless brown/bloom and WW2 were in plague proportions.>the internetAbso-fucking-lutely. Watching the decline of the internet in real time has been miserable. I genuinely believe a reversion to pre-2016 (at least) internet would be a massive benefit. Pre 2012 would be even better. Earlier has benefits however I think around 2012 is a good balance.
A lot of it is nostalgiafaggotry but I kinda get it. Some of the best games of all time came out in the late 90's and early 00's. Then there was what still stands as the medium's greatest Dark Age in the late 00's and early 10's when the whole brown and bloom multiplayer first military shooter shit took over.At that point it genuinely felt like singleplayer gaming was going through a crisis. It was when all those classic single player series needed to have a tacked on multiplayer moder while the actual single player itself was neglected for it. I think the worst and, depressingly, most successful example for that was GTA V.Then it got better in the mid to late 10's, we got stuff like Witcher 3 and MGS V, Ubisoft briefly had some genuinely good releases like Watch Dogs 2 and Far Cry 5, indie games really came into their own, it genuinely felt like gaming was becoming an actual medium again and not just a team sport.Now we're in a bit of a slump again, with a lot of younger gamers being stuck on scammy "live platform" shit like Fortnite and Roblox and mobile devices. The decline's not as bad as it was around 2010 because single player gaming is still mostly doing fine but it does feel like the golden age is on its way out.That said, in the 90's and 00's there was just a healthier culture around video games. It was a hobby and a culture dominated by young, passionate people not corporate suits and political ideologues. Magazines were fun to read because they were written by actual fans and you got events like E3, back then still ooen tonl the public, to look forward to. No one was going around making a fuss about how "woke" Half Life 2 was for giving you a black girl as a sidekick.
>>720104985>semanticsOomer shit is the embodiment of shameless forced memes that should have died like rage faces before them.It was forced by a literal advertising campaign on /fit/ for fucks sake.
>>720109923>Watching the decline of the internet in real time has been miserable. I genuinely believe a reversion to pre-2016 (at least) internet would be a massive benefit. Pre 2012 would be even better. Earlier has benefits however I think around 2012 is a good balance.Paradise Lost, man. Seeing what has happened and is happening to the internet for the last 10 years makes me feel like a squirrel watching the forest burn down. Social Media was one of the worst things to happen tonthe modern world.
>>720104985Cringe
>>72009449180s, 90s, 2000s all had both good and bad games, with plenty of in between.2010s is harder to pin down. Early 2010s had plenty of good, but also had some bad and in the middle. I don't things actually shifted to having less good (but still very good) until late 2010s and 2020s. Largely the in the middle and bad increased in this period, but this isn't some, "it's because the late 2010s or 2020s are bad" sort of thing, so much as business practices just changed a lot in general. When people talk about a particular time period being better, I suppose you can say it's, "they were young then," but I look at it more like, "the things they like were probably in greater supply in that period" or "business practices were more to their taste in those periods" the late 2010s and 2020s are flush with some really nasty business practices. It doesn't make the years bad, but I can certainly see how if you like games you might dislike some 2010s and 2020s practices. That said, video games in these periods have another half, which is the indie scene, which I feel are largely barren of the negative practices afflicting the AAA scene. And, for that matter, there's some really interesting AA stuff going on too that I feel compliments the good stuff in the indie scene and might spell a better future for the AAA scene. Some of the AA games released in the past few years have been absolutely amazing.TL;DR :: There's always good and bad no matter what time you live in. I'm more concerned with modern censorship threats, of course, than I am past censorship threats because those threats have already been settled - but the issues right now are still undecided.
>>720105751That's a list of garbage, anon.
>>720095353Well, where are the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 entries?
>>720094491I’m 50, fuck everything made before the 2000’s, stuff made these days is insanely better.
>>720105908It was obvious before he ran for his second term. It was not obvious before he ran for his first. He was not honest.
>>720096115What if my hardware breaks down?
>>720097107I liked it, but I prefer the gameplay mechanics of 2. I liked Aqua's moves and especially her magic the best in BBS. If Kingdom Hearts 3 combat had played more like a Fragmentary Passage's KH3 would have been a better game.
>>720094491it was better because it still allowed the majority of the industry to experiment and run with unique ideasnot all of them panned out, but many of them were memorable
>>720106867If you mean someone born in 1996 I agree.
>>720108657Start a family with a girl about ten years younger than you. You're welcome. It's just old dried up karens yelling at men not to date younger women. Ignore their bitching.
>>720099167Right, I used to be able to just discuss the game with someone and not worry they were going to bring up some social, or political issues (left or right) because back then it was just understood you left your religion/politics/social issues at the door and were there to talk about and play games. The were at the game's forum because they wanted to talk about the game, it excited them. Not saying there weren't ever disagreements but it was different than the modern stuff.
>>720100692Why does the image start in 95? People were calling people losers for being into electronics and video games all the way back into the 80s.That said. I remember being a kid and living across the street from four sisters. Two older, one my age, one like a baby. That household had an Nintendo. No guys except the dad. The girls played the Nintendo in a bubble without any internet. First time I played american mario 2 was at their house.
>>720110456I remember when the worst thing about normalfags and social media were the utterly worthless stream of consciousness things they would post and tweet like >John Smith is eating ham sandwich at Bob's ham shop. Like and Share!>@Sarahyoung: i wonder if dogs dream #showerthoughtIt's a million times worse now. Social media is legit giving people brain damage and ruining their lives.
>>720102740video game development studios looking like this made games better
>>720107947>imageVideo game conventions used to be better anyways.
>>720106710Where you raped?
>>720109923It's really fucking miserable. I remember having so much hope as a kid in the early 00's thinking about how cool video games will be. How cool the internet will be. The usual childish hope etcNow I've seen video games decline remarkably and games from my childhood being remade in the slop factory and churned out so much worse than the originals. It's not all bad though, some good games do come out but it's a far-cry from the so called 'golden age' of the 90's and 00's. The internet though? It's fucked and it'll never be how it used to be. The people were a product of the time in the 00's and we'll never go back to that mindset with newer generations who quite frank;y are insufferable (case in point: 4chan). But the censorship and consolidation of the net to a few awful websites and social media is the nail in the coffin. (They) have killed everything we used to enjoy.
>>720094491honestly, the 2000s were better for games in retrospect because there wasn’t as much remakeslop.
>>720094618You're strictly wrong. The 2000s were so monumental for video games, that 20 years later, the top most played video games are the ones which try to emulate the 2000s.What is Counter Strike? What is DotA?What is WoW Classic?What is OSRS?
>>720095006The proto version of the Iron Man suit that the jew built for him in the not GLA cave was pretty rad. Just a tin suit with flamers and rockets.
>>720094618Holy fuck you are actually retarded. I hate people who say this retarded fucking trope because they out themselves as being total morons.
