Towards the end of ’00s, the obvious streamlining / casualization trend started taking root. Now big publishers wanted "simple and safe" games made for shitty / non-gamers, meaning mostly casual console FPS games and movie shit revolving around pressing X to do “cool stuff”. This resulted in death of numerous genres and unique play styles.Now, nearly 20 years later, we got an entire generation of GenZ and A fags who have only ever played Uncharted-style OTS 3rd person action games with lukewarm stealth mechanics, or CoD4 style cinematic FPS games mostly played for the match-making oriented ADHD multiplayer. They've never had to put any effort into learning how to play a new game, because all of their games, from their childhood to adulthood, look and play exactly the same.This is why they also get filtered whenever they try just about anything pre-2010s at this point, often crying for more "remakes" of said older vidya, hoping that they'd get downgraded to the modern, rock bottom standards they crawl in. Happened to Resident Evil, happened to Doom and Final Fantasy. Even in Half-Life, they easily get lost and confused within minutes.
>>7308018872004 is where i start the Age of Disappointment. that's when you start seeing these games that were immensely hyped but not exactly "beloved" on release.Sonic '06, Oblivion, Fable. you've also got the most infamous bullshot of all time, the Killzone 2 E3 trailer.before 2004, we had 3 golden ages in a row.
>>730801887true
>>730801887Not compeltely pertinent, but you can see a good take on the corporatization of early gaming developing process in TRON (1982).In the movie the good guys win in the end, but that's not how it went in reality
>>7308025752004 is literally the peak of video games nigger
>>730803860>literally the peak of video gamesloli'm not saying NO good games came out in '04, i'm saying it didn't reach anywhere near the peak highs the previous years did.1998 is pretty widely considered the actual literal peak of video games. if you were alive, you know how much better things were before '04. we had the Golden Age of Arcades, followed by the Golden Age of Consoles, followed by the Golden Age of PC Mods. '04 is when the biggest flops started coming.
really makes you think
>>730804449I replayed Warrior Within for the first time in 20 years last fall and holy shit that game is much, much, much better than I remembered. Funnily enough, despite being remembered as mindless, endless action, it's actually features far more platforming (and far more sophisticated platforming and puzzling) than Sands of Time.
Yeah..
>>730803860Wrong, 2001 is the real golden age, autist.
>>730806184zoomzoom
>>7308061842025 is the true golden age, games are more readily available than ever now.
>>7308061841998 was the best year to date.
it's over
>>730807650What did he mean by this?
>>730811405dunno, couldn't make it through all the brainrot le funny meme xD cuts and edits.
Lads...
>>730814101*lards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlwg68YW50
>>730801887THAT'S what IGN stands for?
>>730801887Before it got took over by homosexuals.
>>730816038you didn't know?
>>730801887Lara sexo
>>730801887Boomers pissed shidded farded and cumed in their pants over this.
>>730819104based boomers
>>730802575I've always considered the 7th gen to be the beginning of the decline of gaming. It was when consoles mutated from their own unique architecture to just being shitty PC's and developers started really going in on both making games more similar to movies, billing them as cinematic experiences, and when they started aggressively chasing after normalfag bucks.Old vidya coom thread?>>730803860For multiplayer PC, it was right around there, sure, but a lot of things started falling apart around that time too.
>>7308192767th gen decline started in 2006
TLDR, here's a video of classic Lara stroking here pussy.
>>730820847uh, why is there anon sitting behind her
>>730801887Just don't play them lol.
>>730822124way ahead of you
>>730807628>DEI-driven era>more gachaslop & aislop & bugslopwrong
>>730823081>took the bait
>>730801887Does anyone else miss dudebro marketing like this? I do.
>>730823379>implying i can decide taking the bait
The peak of everything video games including video game culture and the games themselves was the period of 1990-2006. The ads were so much more soulful, there were literally video game books, cheat codes, easter eggs, the games were more fun, in my opinion they even looked better than the empty solid oily smooth textures we have today. Video games officially died in 2007 when the iPhone was released and when women starting becoming gamers for the first time. Lol.
>>730823731>1990-2006https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cQOej9nuho
>>730823504The destruction of your happiness was inentional.
>>730802575meh 2004 to 2012 produced good games2012 to 2020 had alot of good stuffnow its trash lol
>>730824047>>730802575The problem is early gamers saw and experienced the change and advancement while current-gen gamers only experienced the same graphics but higher reslution and framerates.
>>730801887>Towards the end of ’00s, the obvious streamlining / casualization trend started taking rootmuch earlier than that you fucking newfaggot
>>730824281reddit harambe diapers
>>730824047>to 2012 produced good games>2012 to 2020 had alot of good stuff
>>730823938That image perfectly describes exactly what happened.Not just to gaming though, but more like it precisely demonstrates what happened to our world and life in general.The transition from "I'm so excited for when things get better in the future" to "You can't afford to eat because we gave all your money to transgender war refugees."Lol.
>>730823938That image portrays exactly what happened to society as a whole, including gaming. Lol.
>>730824457>>730824620holy samefag batman
>>730823938sexo
>>730824795>still using batman memes in 2019Yikes
>>730826530fuck you
>>730819276i still put the "beginning" at '04, but if you're saying '05 i don't think you're far off. before 7th gen, exclusives were make or break for consoles. they were the reason to buy one system over the other, they were what gave each one its own flavor and personality. then, with 7th gen, we started entering the war of "features." shit like what did the system avatars look like, how good was the browser, were there cheevos, can you order a pizza from an app, what about social media, etc.i saw the decline started a little before all that. by the time it was around, it was plain for all to see.>>730824047like i said, my argument is not "there were never any good games made after 2003," it's that the decline in quality started around 2004. like i pointed out with the titles i mentioned. before then, a GLOBALLY hyped and anticipated game flopping was not a frequent occurrence. but it sure was after.>>730824243this is another part of it that i think about. zoomers will never know. the oldest of them were literal toddlers back when we were seeing the largest leap in quality there has or will ever be. by the time they were forming memory, we were already seeing diminishing returns.if you didn't live through the '90s, you don't know how FAST gaming was advancing.
>>730826530>still yikes in 2021Oof
arent the niggas who started gamergate in their 40s now or some shitmove on lol
>>730827032>still playing roblox in 2023Despacito
>>730827478dilate
