What was gaming in the 00s like?
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>>732769159Better than what we have now, worse than what we had in the late 80's to 90's. If I had to pick a year it went to shit I'd say between 2005 and 2006.
>>732769159Did the game in the wallpaper ever come out?I feel like it got stuck in the time dilation bubble.
>>732769423Is it FF7:Crisis Core? It definitely came out. Only game to make me cry at the end.
>>732769489Oh, yeah.That's good, I couldn't remember if it ever did release.
>>732769159The Piss Shit Piss was so bad that the only point snoys had in favour of owning one was to emulate snes games
>>732769159I had this one & my brother broke it in a fit of rage.
>>732769159You pushed buttons
>>732769423no, versus XIII never came out.We got XV instead.
>>732769159fun
>>732769654What a faggot o.o
>>732769159It was fucking amazing. Frankly, I don't think gaming will ever be so good again.>Every console had a distinct and worthwhile library>controllers were getting good>computers were getting great>the explosion of flash games, if you never dicked around with newgrounds or coolmathgames you missed out>emulators were taking off, so you could play imports you never even knew existed>people were selling off their NES, Sega Genesis, PS1, and N64 collections for pennies on the dollar, so you could get hard copies of old games for dirt cheap>blockbuster rentals were awesome>games were discounted frequently at walmart and Kmart>big releases were constant and good
>>732769593you wish you had one, you miserable faggot. It's probably the most cozy handheld ever made. A symbol of peak early 2000s tech.
I remember waiting for AAA games with excitementEvery year we had something new and it didn't had to be indie for thatI can't remember last time i cared about anything AAA in the last 10 years and i highly doubt it will change in the next 10
>>732769876Zoomers will never understand. I nearly shit myself playing ridge racers and watching spider-man 2 on the go after years of playing GBA without a backlight.
>>732769814I still remember seeing pokemon games like yellow or crystal for sell for 3 bucks at stores for reselling games. It was an insane time for sure.
It was actually the best decade. In 2000, we got FF9 and by 2010 we got Red Dead Redemption. Crazy advancements within that decade.
>>732769593For me it was the internet browser and downloading pr0n specifically resized and formatted for PSP.
>>732769676See, I knew there was an alternate universe where this was real.
>>732770003Going from the GBA, with disposable batteries, no proper sleep mode, link cable horseshit, and a screen that couldn't be played in a dark room or dark car to the DS, with a rechargeable battery, a sleep mode that lasted for days, download play, and a lit screen almost made 7 year old me explode.
>>732769489No, that's FF13 Versus (ie FF15).
>>732770003>I nearly shit myself playing ridge racers and watching spider-man 2Same but my first PSP game was Medievil Resurrection and I almost couldn't believe my eyes, especially with the Wipeout Pure demo that came with itThe PSP was fucking sci-fi at the time
>>732770282>>732770160I remember using wipeout pure as a backchannel to look at porn before the web browser officially came out on the PSP.I liked javs back then. No I am a nofapper.
>>732769159great. bringing internet services to consoles ruined everything though.
>>732769159you don't remember? what are you a kid?
>>732770360>using wipeout pure as a backchannel to look at pornExplain
>>732770579The last day of the 00s was December 31 2009. That was over 15 years ago.
technology actually progresses pretty fast back then so every new console looked better than the last.
>>732769159the first psp is still my favorite handheld because of how easy it was to jailbreak. the GBA library is the best handheld game library. The combination of the two during my childhood meant I would often be up until 2am on school nights playing legacy of goku under my bed sheets.
>>732770630Man, I remember 2-3 years ago /v/ called me a "zoomer faggot" for being born in 1997, and then I went and turned 29 a couple of weeks ago.
>>732770630yes and?
My wife wants me to get rid of my CRT collection and my old console.How do I satiate her and let me keep my childhood?
>>732769159we didn't have to be such informed consumers when it came to making game purchases. you could be a bit of a normalfag and only play blockbuster games but they would still be of high quality, since back then AAA is what drove innovation in the industry. now AAA is sterile and you have to dig through oceans of indieshit to find interesting games.
>incredible graphics for a portable device>it was also a media player>it was also an internet browser>the world of possibilities that opened up for you once you got custom firmware in it>could emulate tons of retro shit, fuck I even played Ocarina of Time on it>the insane homebrew and modding scene>looked cool as shit, still does, holding it in your hands felt like holding something from the futureYou had to be there
>>732770946build a cuckshed in the backyard like all the other whipped bitches
When I sold my old PSP on eBay years back I listed it bundled it with 2 Burnout games but then some time later I found a Tekken game as well so I just shoved that in the parcel too after the auction ended. Guy who received it was dead happy, left me a glowing review proper astonished at my generosity with his free extra game. Nice to make someone's day.
>>732771040I built my cuckshed in my basement but she wants them gone.
>my 21 year old psp battery hasn't blown up or caught fire yetAm I safe at this point? That battery hasn't been charged up in...I don't even know, probably at least 5 years
>>732769159The PSP was hella garbage while the Vita had untapped potential to be where the Switch is at now. It has SOME games but it was limited as fuck. I dont know why they could think of two analog sticks at the time
We are living in the fall of the Roman Empire compared to what came before.>ShootersAte like fucking emperors. The 2000s was their decade. Start to finish you had casual shooters, twitchy shooters, tactical shooters, you even had the first real hero shooter (I can remember) at the tail end with TF2. No wanting for options here.>RTSThe start of their decline but they still had a golden age with Dawn of war, Total Wars, the first half of the decade littered with forgettables, Civ 4, the list goes on and on.>CRPGSThe first half of the decade was generous to them with Icewind Dale, BG2, NWN, you could sneak Planescape torment in as a november 1999 game if you wanted. The second half of the decade I remember being much less generous with the rise of Fallout3 and Mass effect and so onFighting games were doing great, racing games were doing great, MOBA existed as first a WC3 mod then at the tail end appeared with league, Pokemon was great, platformers were doing great. As >>732769814I cannot fucking name a genre except indie pixel-crap or depression simulators that did not do great in the 2000s at some point and time.
It was a lot more fun because access to the Internet was ridiculously clunky and cumbersome. You had browsing on the PSP, Wii, and your house's desktop computer on dial up that worked like complete fucking ass.The integration of gaming and the Internet too fluidly is what ruined everything. We had browser games, MMOs, and online games back then of course, but everything felt different.Fucking Borderlands 1 having online, story mode co-op felt insane at the time.It's hard to describe and even if you completely remove nostalgia entirely, things were simply better. En masse, shit was made for single player or local multiplayer. Games had their jank but they weren't unplayably bad in hopes of being "patched" later. Physical media was king and ran rampant so anything you wanted to play you'd have to play at a friend's house or borrow their shit.Gaming felt more like a place. The Internet was a place. It forced you to interact with people in real life and on the Internet more often. Playing an online game was so much less common, though of course still readily available.
>>732770946>>732771069But why does she want them gone?
>>732771387>2005>dial upm8
>>732769296Literally this, technology was improving by leaps and bounds and all of it looked like magic. Innovation around every corner, soul poured into works instead of wokeslop. It was an emerging industry just like how AI is now.
>>732771467Who said anything about the exact year 2005? The thread is about gaming in the 00s. That means January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009.
>>732769876Not only do I own one. I own the exact one in the op, minus the gay keychain that's going to put a gash in the screen.It was an overrated piece of shit.I can still hear the loud whirring and scraping of the umdsI still remember having to pay jewney a ludicrous amount for a proprietary memory stick'The only game I enjoyed on it was called kingdom of heaven or some shit.
>>732771559you mentioned the psp which released around 2005 so I assumed you meant that timebut anyway I'm pretty sure dial-up was phased out in favor of adsl well before 2005 in my country at least
>>732769159Consoomerist slop. Rad dudes with ‘tudes flexing their plastic. Games being a kid’s hobby—and yes, teenagers are still kids. Tech innovation was great in the early 2000s but grinded to a halt in the mid to late 2000s. Brown ‘n bloom overtook EVERYTHING as EVERY game needed to amp up the ‘tude. >>732769814You know why emulation and retro gaming took off for the first time in the 2000s? Because people were tired of copy-paste brown ‘n bloom jank slop. The switch to 3D was great for a handful of franchises and terrible for the rest. People were just as nostalgic for the 80s and 90s back then as we are for the 2000s. Time is a flat circle. And anyone who doesn’t realize this was just a kid, and as we all know, everything was the best when you were 12. Kids these day already have “nostalgia” for Fortnite and Overwatch.
>>732771690>I can still hear the loud whirring and scraping of the umdsEpitome of soul.
It was the Friday after Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green came out. It was my girlfriend's birthday. My friends and I loaded up into a cheap ass car and stopped by her place before we headed to Walmart to pick up the new games. She kissed me in front of her mom for the first time. We left, I got Leaf Green and stayed up all night playing it with my friends. Like tears in the rain.
>>732771483Gaming as an industry was in a sweet spot. Still had the funding to make shit happen, yet wasn't so soulless and corporate in a desperate attempt to min/max every single dollar imaginable. Today, AAA games are a fucking joke. They're synonymous with poor quality, ironically. Back then they were the kings. A new Nintendo game or a new Sony game or anything like that inspired hope, the promise of quality. They weren't all hits, obviously and some shit was terrible, but the hope was still there.Online, live service games ruined it all. Games meant to be played forever. Games meant to have "seasons". Games meant to be endlessly updated. Back then, they made a game, you played it for anywhere from 30-100 hours depending on what it was, and then you put it down in anticipation of the next one. You didn't need to play the same game for over a decade because within that decade thousands more would pop up.
>>732771793>having a girlfriendFag.
>>732769159I was the younger brother and I had legos and erectors and that shit, games didn't really interest me until they became 3d worlds and not just arcade style games. Midtown madness, midnight club, halo 2, cod 2, need for speed, those games became my bread and butter, seeing a psp was crazy because the most immersive handheld game up to that point was Pokemon. We got a 360 and most games doubled down on how good they were, oblivion and halo 3, we got a hdtv in 2012 and just seeing how much better everything looked compared to our crappy old TV was a experience. PC gaming was turbulent, there were a lot of 'could have been's like apb, la rush, juiced, and if you were really on that shit you found RoR which is the predicessor to BeamNG, I used to spend hours wrecking and bringing equipment out to recover the vehicles, crashing planes, etc Halo ce modding was primo shit, eldewrito felt like it could not get better, and really it never did. Computers were expensive and games weren't optimized so there's lots of rose coloured glasses thinking my experience playing games on a celeron with 256mb was much better than it was. The people fighting over this ewaste to make a period correct system just makes me giggle
It's a sad state of affairs to see how little we've jumped in such a long time. Gaming from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2009 is an exponential climb. There seems to be absolutely no difference in 2020 to today. Nothing new, nothing revolutionary, no enormous jumps, all with games making more money than ever before. I'm glad I didn't grow up in this time.
>>732772069>nothing revolutionary, no enormous jumpsRaytracing, kind ofToo bad it costs too much to run for 99% of people so it's pointless
90s were better but 00s were still based.
Old men reminiscing about their childhoods. It wasn’t better, you were just younger.
everything tech back then felt so new and exciting and wild and fast paced in development and I get part of it was that I was a child and then a teennowadays everything is so established and perfected and it feels like nothing's happening, there's AI and I'm sure that is making scary progress behind closed doors but as regular people all we see is chatbots, slop and virtual boobs, it doesn't feel like all that much
>>732772296It was better. How do I know? Yours was never good.
>>7327722963/10 bait, got me to reply. Good for you.
Hearing the opening theme for Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time is a PALPABLY distinct memory for me. Like I can damn near taste this memory. So good.
>>732772430>>732772397How is today worse?
>>732769159Go play a PS2 and find out, faggot
>>732772296Videogames absolutely were better, if for no other reason that they were still being made by gaming nerds for gaming nerds, not by corporate committees for non-gamers. Videogames are like music now where good music definitely still exists but you have to look for it in an ocean of garbage that big media wants to shove up your ass.
>>732772483What am I supposed to do? Create an objective argument as to why the current iteration of a medium of entertainment is worse? You're not going to be convinced no matter what I say on this subjective topic, because I cannot objectively prove entertainment is better or worse, so fuck off.You went up to 5/10 bait now, good job. You're getting better.
>>732772296No it was absolutely better, retarded zoomer scum. We don't need opinions of a broccoli head that can't even use a can opener
>>732772613>no argumentAh so desu ka
>>732772296You would tell someone reminiscing about their childhood in the 1910s that no, the 1930s are not worse you were just younger. History is not progressive or whig where things always get better. In certain domains they will be better and in others they will be worse. Gaming is objectively worse in 2016-2026 than it was in 2000-2010. It might be objectively better in 2030-2040, but right now for reasons illustrated here and obvious to anyone with fucking eyes it's worse now.>>732772613Precisely. Offer the rebuttal then leave as it's wrestling with a trolling pig. No need to get stuck in a trench war with a contrarian desperate for attention.
>>732772692>ou would tell someone reminiscing about their childhood in the 1910s that no, the 1930s are not worseWell, someone who was a kid in the 1910s would be getting sent to world war in the 30s, so it would kinda be worse
>>732772692I get that he's trolling for (You)s but people do really have this opinion.Google "Gaming in 2004" and that one year has more hits than the entirety of 2015 to now.
>>732772483No paid DLCHigh speed internet wasn't widespread so Devs were still forced to fix their games before releasing them because they can't patch them Limited graphics means better games as opposed to today where all games are shit but hey look at the shiny 4k gaytracingGaming industry wasn't as big so the kikes and trannies weren't trying to take it overNo woke shit not politics because the aforementioned weren't trying to co opt the hobby
>>732772296how come zoomers arent faking nostalgia for pre-90's games? where's all the atari/magnavox/etc posters? oh right, the games are all fucking trash, especially when you put compare them to the golden years
>>732772930>Limited graphics means better games as opposed to today where all games are shit but hey look at the shiny 4k gaytracingThis one in particular is huge. Any AAA game nowadays is 100+ GB and that's 85% textures. Games are being played on consoles and PCs that can't even scratch the surface of how it can look. Back then, games were made around the specific platform they're made for. Even certain games would be made for multiple platforms, yet would have different developers entirely because of how radically different consoles were.
Gaming is still really good. Indies exist. Finland exists. Hempuli exists. Baba Is You exists.I really don't care tripleA is bad.
>>732772296>mfw boomers didn't experience the monumental leap between the shartpad 8.2 to the shartpad 8.3 (it has 2.3 extra shittaflops of ram and a fifth camera)>mfw boomers didn't experience Captain buttwipe's youtube let's play of brown and bloom shooter (he screamed really loud at the funny part)>mfw boomers didn't experience a free fortnite battlepass (you only had to play for 50 hours to get Jonesy wearing a toga instead of spending $20)>mfw boomers didn't experience the anticipation of spending 45 minutes waiting for a new console to initialize (they just plugged it in and started playing... cringe!)>mfw boomers didn't experience the smug satisfaction of banning a toxic teammate (he said I was playing "not very well", fucking bigot nazi asshole)
>>732773380>Finland existsThis is a problem to be solved, not a positive.
For me its the 1700s
>>732773524What a malevolent think to say
>>732769159The best. It's never been better. From Final Fantasy IX to Dragon Age: Origins. It was the best time to be a gamer.
>>732772296More like zoomers reminiscing about childhoods they never had
>>732770197>7 Zoom zoom
>>732770946Now you understand why white men beat up their wifes
>>732770946You just tell her "no" and move on.
>>732769416Most retarded shit I've ever heard. There aren't even 5 games from the 80's that are worth playing. Most 90's games have not aged well either, even the highly praised ones
>>732772653>1992 is now considered zoomer4chan really is a retirement home for boomers, isn’t it?
>>732769814The biggest drop in quality was the music, the music is so bad nowadaysRhythm games had insane music
