For me, it's 2015 to 2017. So many timeless classics came out during that small period of time, it was amazing.
for me, its the witcher 3
>>721444369Gen Alpha is so fucking gay holy shit
>>721444369>Gen z experiences the last gasps of the industry before it fully went to shit>"Golden age"
>>721444369Share your name and location please?
>>721444771>>721444798what miserable faggots you are lmao
>>721444771Gen Alpha is like 0 to 14 years old
>>721444857At least we know you're trolling now. I was worried that was your genuine opinion for a minute.
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>>721444798Zoimer here. Nigger we grew up with KOTOR Halo Mass Effect FNV and Skyrim.Gen Alpha got i dunno, Hollow Knight No Man's Sky, Fortnite and Starfield
>>721444983Yes.Are you one of those Helicopter parent nintendo fags that thinks game age ratings matter?I was squeaking in Halo 3 lobbies when I was 9.
>>721444703Oh god I forgot to add that one.The more I think about it, the more I realize how kino those three years were.
>>721445415Okay but these games are a decade old so I assume it's zoomer nostalgia rather than gen alpha just discovering the games.
>>721445415There are retards on this board who unuronicalky think>gen z = anyone 10 and under
>>721444369Holy shit what a fucking disgusting faggot you are>>721444771Dude I couldnt imagine being a faggot ass zoomer, It's too far removed from my gen and where I grew up
>>721445845also MGSV Dying Light Ori Battlefield 1 Hitman Titanfall 2 Prey RE7you're right, probably the best 3 consecutive years in vidya history
>>721444369Ps2 era because we actually get huge variety of games with different gameplay and control schemeNow every game has a template
>>721444369This era spawned the absolute worst fan and hatebases of all time. It permanently killed vidya discussion.
>>721445975Conversely, there are retards who think generations are around 10 years as the average age of conception in the west is now over 30. Go figure.
>>721445961No bro. All my zoomies and I are nostalgic for Skyrim, Halo, and Fallout New Vegas. The most common thing in my High School was Halo Reach parties even up to 2016, because, as we all complained at the time>there is just nothing good coming out now.I remember my mate at the time, Ryan, getting the shit bullied out of him because he convinced a dozen of us to buy the Division and we all hated it.To be fair though I got us all to play Destiny from the Beta untill Taken King got released. The whole time I got an earful for making us play that shit.So yeah, we just bounced between Halo Reach and GTA Online mostly.It was a Gen Alpha this year who introduced me to Hollow Knight.
I love how much boomers glaze their dated 1995-2005 slop but when you actually go back and play those games maybe 10-15 from each console gen hold up today.
>>721446968>boomers>2005Hush faggot
>>721444369god-tier bait
Doesn't hold a candle to 1998
>>721445845please add splatoon and mario maker to your list
I think it was the 6th and 7th generation. 2000-2013 was the peak.
>>721444369/v/ doesn't like these games because people talk about them and generally like them
>>721444369There are good games in every era.
>>721444369>2 rollslop rehashes>Yakuzaslop>Fomo knight>Undertrash>The worst Persoyna game>Commerbait Automata>cuckheadI feel bad for BOTW being edited along with all that slop
>>721444369Grim.
>>721449074Or 1999
>>721444369Golden age is every year if you don't get your games spoonfed by the youtube algorythm.
>>721449908Or 2000
>another one sided thread where millennials crash out about being old and irrelevant Good job OP you stir the 30-40 year old pot of uncs.
>>721444369It's unironically peak but I was miserable and poor at that timeMost people hating on you itt are also old bitter losers
>>721450350don't worry this thread will be delete soon. there are some zoomie mods that delete any thread related to old age nowadays.
>>721444369>>721445845where’s shovel knight
>>721450185Or 2001
>>721450639>shovelware knightand nothing of value was lost
>>721450708fuck you i love shovel knight
this thread really goes to show that /v/ is full of ass mad boomers that think hating new things makes them smart and fit in
>>721449908Or 2000:>Deus Ex>DK Country>Vagrant Story>FF9>Majora's Mask>Counter Strike>Gran Turismo 2>Vampire the Masquerade>Quake 3
>>721450684nah, this one is worse
>>721450898I'm a boomer and I love the games in the OP. Besides maybe Tumblrtale tho.
>>721450898Boomers don't realize /vr/ is next door and ruin discussion like karens.
>>721450898But saying that Vagrant Story is better than whatever the fuck Nier Automata is doesn't make you sound dumb anon...
>>721444369Would also recommend Nier TomatoMario OdysseyTitanfall 2Project Moon
>>721451346This isn't about you, geriatric loser. You have all the 2000s and 2010s and an entire board to brag about ancient slop.
>>721450898>be zoomer>best games of the past are all at your fingertips for free>chose to play modern slop insteadWhy are you like this? 2017 was a much stronger year than the rest of that decade, I'll give you that, but compared to the mid-90s up through the mid-00s, it's really nothing that special.
>>721451619This isn't a comparison thread, retarded boomer.
>>721451605Cuphead and Hollow Knight are completely ripping off "ancient slop" like Contra and Metal Slug or Castlevania. Why do you choose not to play good games? Where do you think these indie games came from?
>>721451619Most of what was posted about those decades in your pics would be considered mainstream/modern slop if they released today.
>>721451775Metal Slug and Castlevania would be called Contraslop or platformslop etc...
>>721451775Witness as the boomer's interests fade into irrelevancy
Ignoring the retirement home and performative oldfags spilling all over here, I think 2019 and 2012 were underrated years.
>>721451878I was alive back then, and they weren't because the industry as a whole had yet to be slopified.>>721452087This makes no sense. If you like Cuphead, you presumably are interested in 2D run and guns. The vast majority of 2D run and guns were released prior to Cuphead. Yet you refuse to play more games that are like this game you like? I don't understand this mentality. It would be like enjoying movies, but refusing to watch any movies made before the decade you grew up in, even though you'd clearly like them. No other medium has this kind of faggotry.
>>721452856You're just angry and jaded that video games continue their course after your 15th birthday. You're just as obnoxious as the Remeber da 90s, 80s, 70s Facebook dads.
>>721453181But they haven't continued their course. Half the games in the OP are throwbacks/homages to games that were over a decade old when those games came out.
>>721453257Most cultural things are from clothes, films, music etc... that's where that word inspiration comes from. Everything always cycle. Nothing comes from a vacuum.
>>721444369Amazing. A 3x3 with not a single good game on it.>>721445845And with an extra column, he still fails to get a good one in.
>>721453467That still doesn't answer why you wouldn't check out the games that inspired the games you like, especially in regards to indie games. It's not even like they've aged in a gameplay or even graphical sense, since the pixel art in games like Metal Slug is still better than 99% of indie games that use the same style. I just don't understand why you would willfully choose to ignore the time when games that play like these indie releases were thriving.
>>721453724Nier is good
>>721453996You don't understand the ludokino narrative dissonance of modern retrofuturistic indie games with oldschool style graphics evoking memories of yesteryear. You probably haven't even had a true chai mocha cafe latte with oat milk (because oats give milk), but only the imitators sold at your corpoglobohomo ripoff, Starbucks. You're not on my level.Posted from Safari™ on my Apple® Macbook™
>>721453996Every medium iterates as soon as a foundation is established. Not everyone would enjoy the pillars or bedrock works and there's more iterations and games for different people now more than ever.
>>721444369Forgot MGSV and Hat in Time.
>>721454413Iteration implies progression. Iteration would be like Symphony of the Night to Order of Ecclesia, where the gameplay refined itself and evolved over the course of each installment. Homages are when you just grab elements from other shit you like and throw it in a blender, which is what most indie games are. That's not to say they're bad or anything, but there's a difference between some boomers forming a tribute band to an old band they liked, and that band putting out a new album.
>>721453996Who says young people don't play old games?Yes less people are playing old shit than new, but fucking obviously. Liking Cuphead doesn't mean you don't like Contra or have never played it.
>>721444369I deliberately go out of my way not to dismiss entire years as poor for vidya, since I think that type of thing is overwhelmingly likely to be due to the person who says it not looking hard enough for games which appeal to them, and even still I found 2015 and 2016 (and, outside of the period you've specified, 2018) dry as fuck. My favorite game of all time came out in the 2010s and even taking that into consideration I still think it's easily the weakest decade for games that I've been alive for (i.e. the 90s onwards). I already substantially prefer the 2020s despite us only being halfway through them.
>>721454832https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Nh9L8NaRY
>>721450684>2001>No GTA IIIRetard.
>>721455110I was born in the 90s too but most of the 2000s shit felt like a blur. 2010s were a rough start but had a strong mid to late finish. I think most people around my age quit or became jaded in the early 2010s which I can understand.
Undertale is the most quintessentially reddit game of all time.
>>721444857>>721444369>>721444771probably the SNES/N64/PSX daysEverything after 2010 been pure fucking unfiltered garbage.Also lol at the flash game hollow trash
>>721455457You mean Tumblr, tourist coomer-kun.
>>721455457>>721455596Man what was the deal with the guy masturbating while getting his head chopped off? And waht does the woman garbage nigger low IQ brainlet webm of celebrity has to do with that? nigger faggot?
>>721452087Contra will always be superior to those, you refuse to play good games, your problem nigger faggot. Literally nothing more pathetic than a zoomer, not only your are a brown weird creature but you are also extremely stupid with no cultural relevance other than trying to make others angry to cope with your failuresthats crazy
>>721444369Only questionable games are P5, BOTW, and DS3. I liked the rest.
>>721455789Contra doesn't have a fun artstyle nor more fluid animations.
>>721455437>but most of the 2000s shit felt like a blurIt's interesting how much this sort of thing can vary from person to person, because the 2000s are my favorite by a pretty wide margin. I could throw a dart at a list of years of the '00s and find any number of games I love released that year no matter which one it landed on (my favorite's 2005). I agree about lots of people becoming jaded at some point during the 2010s, even outside of just games the wider internet became noticeably different then compared to before (I'd argue more negative in general).
>>721455893u like flash game nigger tranny adventure and inferior metroidvania? Why are you people so..cattleish? >>721455975So basically what you are saying is that the art is too manly for a fucking faggot muttnigger like a zoomtard to like contra?Also Hard Corps.
>>721444369>*removes nier automata*perfect
>>721455975Hard Corps has a pretty cool style, and the Metal Slug series literally has the best pixel-art animations of all time.
>>721456046Recession made people spiral into depression especially among elder millennials who were lied to since the beginning. It slowed so many gaming projects to a halt and killed studios in the US. I'm a baby millennial but also felt the effects with my family.
>>721444771Gen Alpha: 2012-2025Zoomers: 1997-2011Millennials: 1981-1996Do you really think a 12 year old made this list and is browsing /v/?
video games died to me in 2011, everything before that date is a golden age
>>721456058>>721456234>calls Cuphead tranny zoomer artstyle when the artstyle is homage to cartoons twice his grandfather's age.Fake masculinity is gay.
>>721456234Metal Slug has incredible artwork and characters. While cuphead and team cherry sharts don't. It's that simple, they were games made with passion blood and glory during the actual golden years of gaming. Overrated Knight is just a bug with black eyes, no expression, no lore, just... empty like zoomniggermutts
>>721456564Kenshi came out in 2018
>>721456564For me it was somewhere around 2006/2007. The entire 7th gen was a massive black hole and minus FromSoft games and the odd indie game here and there, there's been barely anything I've enjoyed since then. Meanwhile I can emulate games I never heard of from the 90s or early 00s and find new favorites constantly. It isn't nostalgia, games were just better.
>>721456653Are you implying we didn't watch hannah-barbera or Disney cartoons? Unlike the weak willed zoomnigger mutts we didn't dislike everything that wasn't part of our gay faggot nigger generation.cuphead Fake old-style is fucking gay. You are gay. Consume the slop piggy piggy
>>721456689Nothing beats Metal Slug in pixel style. Not even old games at the time. I still think you're a faggot who doesn't play video games and pretends to know more.
>>721449725Why? I think open world slop fits right in with the rest of the trash.>oh my science! is that another rehashed korok poop puzzle? Now I can heckin expand my inventory to hold more useless junk
>>721456984yeah I agree, I wrote 2011 but it was "here and there" games from 2007 onwards
>>721456564>my PC only plays games from before 2011ftfy
>>721456405/v/ is full of retarded 35 year olds
>>721457043Have you seen the original Contra covers? Pure unoriginal lazy half assed photoshop renders of movie characters of the time. Don't pretend to have value when you don't understand the material you're defending.
>>721457043You're trying too hard
>>721457248 Predator and contra are badass.
>>721457043Fellow boomer here and I fucking love Cuphead's art style and would love more games that look like it. Graphically it's fantastic and is definitely better than Contra, I'm just telling the zoomie that he would like these older games too if he gives them a chance. They're not going for the same style and they look good in their own right, and they play just as good if not better.
>>721449725Bloodborne is the best iteration of the souls formula and Automata was a decent story/action game. BOTW is just garbage if you realized temples are AI generated and there's nothing to do after getting 1/4 into the game.
>>721457128lol I have every playstation console, I can play any gen game
Late 90s was the golden age.
>>721449725BOTW is the prime definition of slop if you're not blinded by brand loyalty.
>>721445961>a decade oldDo you think people start playing vidya when they are 20? Zoom zooms are almost 30, and 15 at the youngest. Millenials are hitting 45 and still cant own a home.
>>721444369I don't care about specific years, but the golden age was 4th to 6th generation, and that includes PC and arcades
>>721444369It's 1995-2005. Anybody telling you otherwise is categorically incorrect.
>>721458472I would be more specific and say 1997-2002, but otherwise I agree with that general timeframe.
>>721457601Cuphead art and style is whack and doesn't hold a candle to the golden era of gaming but it is better than the cartoons that it's trying to imitate. Don't see how that's relevant to every single game in OP being turbo shit. Also he won't like Contra, zoomers piss and shit themselves with easy games like silksong, can't even imagine what's going to happen when the game actually punishes you for dying, losing your weapons might as well be a reset in certain levels.
>>721458737I can't think of any games from the golden era that use hand-drawn 1930s Western cartoon animation style. I guess the closest thing would be the Disney games on the Genesis, but Cuphead definitely benefits from the higher resolution when it comes to actually looking like a playable cartoon. Otherwise I don't see how you can compare it visually with Japanese pixel-art games. The zoomie is right that Contra is visually very generic outside of Hard Corps, and even then, Hard Corps looks like a generic late-80s action anime.
>>721444369>DS3Eh maybe but I didn't like the lore nor movements.>CupheadIt's simple, fun, and thrilling. Idk why Contraboomer is triggered over it.>BOTWI wish it was linear like the previous Zelda. It's fun at first but feels like a chore.>BBFun and the lore and weapons is more interesting than its predecessors. >Nier TomatoThe cast was ok but og Nier was so much better. The combat was passable but felt mmoish.>UndertaleLove me the gameplay and the writing isn't so bad aside of a few annoying plot devices and characters.>Yakuza 0Improvement over the previous titles. Mini games felt more alive.>P5Artstyle and UI were great but everything else felt lacking.>HKNot really a fan since I prefer Castlevania over it. Power ups aside, I do think it has good premises.
>>7214443692017 was a good year admittedly.
>be me, zoomer>fall for the OLD LE GOOD NEW LE BAD meme parroted by uncs on this board >try out some boomerslop like Fallout, DOOM, Blood, Chrono trigger, Timesplitters, OOT, SotN and Half-life>get brain dead "gameplay" with dogshit controls, ear rape audio, unplayable latency and broken UI>time wasted award
There's good games that come out every year, there's always something new to play every month.
Videogames have nothing to say anymore
i'm impressed that we got these visually impressive and fun games a decade ago while modern games somehow look worse and need crazy hardware with upscaling to get near 60 fps
>>721460715What are you talking about, they invent new ways to say "fuck white people" every year
>>721460761Idk man. If looked closely at MGSV environments then you'll see the cracks but otherwise I agree since devs fell for the under detailed cartoony looks and SH fog.
>>721461002mgsv and fox engine were god tier dev work and optimization
>>721444369for me snes era
>>721444369There's always good games coming out. But it's no golden era. The QUANTITY of good games is so much lower compared to the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Back then, there were amazing games coming out every single month. Now, a AAA game takes 5-8 years of dev time. It's ridiculously bloated. While indie games are releasing frequently, they're mainly derivative of innovations from the 80s-00s.
>>721462143We're still getting multiple great games coming out every month though?
>>721444369Remove hollow and Nier
>>721462143Innovation is a meme when alot of games back then were just iterating or blatantly copyinging each other in a larger scale than today.
>>721460267>unplayable latencyThe snes has extremely low latency since it's analogue>doom , blood, Sotn, HF >latencywhat the fuck are you even talking about. Even Zelda has low latency, it just feels like absolute shit to play cause it runs @t 23 fps
Literally everything in that pic is shit
>>721462945>implyingI'm not insane enough to play these games on og hardware and all emulators have shit latency that can't be fixed. PC ports are okay in this regard though
Looking back, it was a good time>witcher 3>arkham knight>super mario maker>titanfall 2>hitman woa starts>deus ex md>horizon zero dawn>mario odyssey>Breath of the wild>sonic mania>the evil within 2>horizon zero dawn>cupheadAll fantastic. Battlefront 2 and Resident Evil 7 were also good.
>>721445203He's still right though, he just has the wrong timeline and games to go off of. We got the last crumbs of what the industry had before it all went to shit in the late 7th gen-early 8th gen. It's why we obsess over the 6th gen, it kind of was the last good gen from start to finish the WE could experience.
>>7214443694 of the games in that image are actually good. Not bad for a shitpost.
>>721449074Just like the OP, you only posted 4 good games.
Nowadays all it takes to bait people is to say 'dude new games are cool too' and then list the most putrid, dogshit troonslop imaginable. We get it man, you were born 15 years ago, all you know is feces.
>>7214443691998 to 2004.
>>721444369ds3>decentcuphead>solidzelda>trashbloodborne>decentnier>pornslopundertale>great if you cut your dick offyakuza>dont knowpersona5>see undertalehollow knight>dont knowverdict>not really the golden age!
