what lowered the standards of gamers?
Tourism and livestreaming
Take off the rose tinted glasses sonThe mmo craze was no different, people were dropping thousands in p2w shops for every korean mmo slop that was coming out every week in the 2000s
The free market
gaming standards in 2006: another cookie cutter shooter? over 'ereIm glad metroidvanias is the new slop genre
>>737114074gaming standards were not like that in 2006, or in any year
>>737114552That wasn't mainstream and if you told a normalfag this they would think of you as being severely more mentally ill than a chronic gambler.
>>737114074Gen Alpha plays Roblox, not gacha.
>>737114074Alphi chan sexo
>>737114074vidya was never seen as art, it was a children’s toy made by and for autistsOnly redditors act like vidya is high art now to make it more socially acceptableIn fact, this same phenomenon can be observed in anime and cartoons when they too are arguably more infantilized and devoid of substance and artistic merit compared to 20 years ago.The sooner we realize this the sooner we can get back to having fun media again instead of the fart-huffing overly cinematic exploration into intergenerational trauma with generic hanz zimmer soundtracks
>>737114845>he doesnt know
Why are we shitting on gacha's when they're the only games that actually give the player cute girls?
>>737115250That's what Guillaume did, he went back to PS2 era of JRPGs, and made what is essentially a modern take on FFX, and it's one of the best games I played in years.
Connoisseur is built for facial_abuse
>>737114074
>>737114074>>737114393>>737114552>>737114612>>737114783stop shilling your tranny comics
>>737114074Your art is still ugly.
nigga what 2006 was the peak era of brown-n-bloom shootersjust because you played shadow of the colossus 20 years after the fact doesn't mean that 2006 was some holy bastion of fine art, video games were a commodity then just as they are now. if anything even moreso, indies barely existed as you know them today. unless you were a turboweeb torrenting comiket doujin uploads, your most likely equivalent to an "indie" game was probably just whatever random flash games you found on newgrounds and I assure you none of those were trying to push the medium forward. most of them just wanted you to shoot Bush or Bin Laden in the face while titties flew around the screen.
>>737114074>2006>IndieLARPer
iphones have led to so much brainrot. i can't believe we went from comfy desktop pcs to total braincell obliteration in 3 decades
>>737115725Cave Story came out in 2004.
>>737115543OP is a faggot but...>sage in the name fieldLooks like you're a retard too
>>737114074>gamersThat's your problem right there. Modern games aren't being made for the same people who have been playing video games their whole lives. They are being made to appeal to as wide of an audience as possible much like any Disney content made in the last 15 years. Did you ever know those "gamers" in school who only ever owned CoD or just owned a console to play their annual sports game? Yeah, the industry decided to take that approach but with every possible genre and demographic they could think of in order to lock in the guaranteed cash. It's why GAAS is so big right now.
>>737115725RPG maker games were already a thingBlackwell Legacy is THE proto-indie and came out in 2006
>>737115348we should bring back sincerity while we’re at it
>>7371140742006 is just about time when games started going to shit for a good decade, so that's an awful pic
Social media conditioning. Social media overlaps with marketing and FOTM. It's a threefold problem.1) Social media is coopted by companies and marketeers to sell the product. An entire generation is growing up on "communities" (read: subreddits and discord) for games thinking they're in good company with authentic people and genuine interactions when from the top down the mods are in communication with marketing department staff and essentially function as unofficial partners cultivating an online space whose sole purpose is to hype and gush and sell the product while censoring criticism.2) The consumers themselves are conditioned into this mindset and essentially transformed into free unpaid marketing agents for a product because they grow up thinking social media managers are their friends and don't know any different. They can't tell the difference between socialising around a shared interest and selling a product. Games companies essentially have tens of thousands of marketing slaves at their disposal hyping their products for them.3) FOTM is a genuine psychological phenomenon that is amplified by social media. Whereas before it was just you and your real life friends or a couple poindexters on a vbulletin board to "compete" with, the modern structure of social media creates the impression that millions of people are HAVING A BLAST and you're not a part of it unless you're doing your fair share of free marketing work and double and triple thinking yourself into believing that the slop you got served is in fact GOATed.
>>737115951>t.
>>737116072He was right about everything
>>737116072I'll get to you someday, I promise. I started with the Greeks and I finally reached Pynchon, maybe I'll pick you up next year.
>>737114074wat? It's the exact opposite. Standards in 2006 were rock bottom. Shovelware regularly topped the charts on release. The indie boom happened in the 2010s along with the rise of digital distribution which changed everything. There was no "$15 for indies", there were barely any fucking indies. The equivalent was $30 games on handhelds. Also everyone rented games back then so there was even less investment in quality. Shitty game? No big deal, you're giving it back soon anyway>no extra bullshitOblivion horse armor premiered in 2006.Ironically this meme is like it was written by alphie because it's a LARP and she has no idea what the world was like 20 years ago. t.unc
>>737116180>started with the Greeksthat's very admirable. what resources did you use to learn the language?...you DID learn the language, right?
>>737115749>3 decadesThe demographic transition from all-PC users to mostly mobile users happened in like 3-4 years anon, it was very fast
>>737116274Pope is just as valid as the original Greek, sweatyAchilles' wrath, to Greece the direful springOf woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reignThe souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain;Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore,Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.Since great Achilles and Atrides strove,Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
>>737116329>first word isn't "wrath"I shan't be reading your translation
>>737114074the answer, as always, is third worlders.
>>737116090he was wrong about literally everything, its why he killed himself.
>>737114074I had the 2026 standards when I was a kid but the difference was the games I played then were at least free
>>737114074>better written then some books>thenThis whole image screams "20 year old who was born in le wrong generation." Labelling the bottom caricature as "Gen Alpha" is pretty much the smoking gun.
>>737116303i mean moreso that the time period was so short, for good desktop pcs to exist and then become drowned out by easy mobile access to the web
>>737116206Secondaries were always a problem. Difference is back then the charts were topped by secondary games but there were quality games buried beneath it. Now everything from top to bottom is made for secondaries because enough good games have already been made and the people who care about quality will just play those
>>737116516i hate seeing this dumbfuck argument. the fact of the matter is that if you feel endlessly wretched to the point of wanting to take your own life, no amount of rationality or spiritualism will save you. i hate to appeal to materialism here, but the guy killed himself not because of any failure of a belief system, but simply because his brain (and his medication) failed to regulate the neurotransmitters necessary for regular life. dismissing his arguments because of that is like saying Kant was a worthless thinker because he was often ill - these sicknesses are just the whims of nature
>>737116778Yeah :/
>>737116845>Kant was a worthless thinker because he was often illThis but unironically, nobody in real life gives a fuck what some incel loser is yapping about, how's that for philosophy?
>>737115951I wish we could bring back smiley faces being used unironically TTwTT
>>737115268GPO rapes, but that was years ago
>>737116072no I mean I genuinely couldn’t tell if that anon was being serious or if he was glazing E33 as a memeWe live in a time where everything wants to be treated as art or more than what it is and yet sincerity is dead. It truly is the worst of both worlds
>>737116845His illness indicates that he did not take are of his body, he did not exercise and spend time outdoors. THAT makes his opinions (I won't even call them arguments) worthless.
post more alphie
>>737115543Yes! Where's the wojak? I can't comprehend the comic without a wojak!
>>737117103yeah man all ills can be cured through exercisekeats? would never have died of consumption if he had benched 2pl8dostoevsky? squats would have cured his epilepsy and gambling problemsrimbaud? cancer would have passed him over if God saw that he could run a 6 minute mile
>>737116990I am serious. I've been looking forward to the game ever since it was revealed. FFX is my favourite FF and Nier has my favourite soundtrack, and this one feels like a combination of the two.The game is also sincere in that it tells a serious, emotional story without resorting to quippy "well, that just happened".
>>737117132She's too fat.
>>737114074draw them both sucking a cock
>>737114074We have our ups and downs. Now sucks, I haven't bought a game in 2 years, but 2022-2024 Spring was absolute kino. 2019-2021 was not good, but 2015-2018 was the best of gaming and I was around for 94-2001.I find the post weird as I'd say well 2006 was good 2007-Skyrim was grim as fuck, Mario excluded.
>>737114074Bottom is unironically cuter
>>737114074An influx of gamers who HAD no standards to begin with. Dudebros, girl gamers and so on. I've had the same standards since 1995 and I'm still let down year after year.
>>737115438trvth>>737117432cuter but not as sexy
>>737114074it's not gen a, it's browns gen a and the brown world that now have internet access, and just out of pure sheer amount of them, some kids follow the opinion of those browns. browns are fine with mediocre bland stuff, not the white ones, the whites ones just accept it because they don't have much to compare it against, and there's no way for them to escape this brown infested society anyway.
>>737115519So fucking this, and they all came here in 2014 for gamergate lowering the IQ of this board 20 points. Im not even joking.>>737115591I agree but WoW well shit in my opinion was a force to be reckoned with.
>>7371174212025 had E33 and Silksong, both great games. 2026 has Cairn, Terra Invicta, Quasimorph. I'm looking forward to playing Xenonauts 2, and 2026 might finally be the year when Songs of Syx leaves early access.I'm looking forward to Red Dead Redemption: Dead Red Hood too.
>>737116036This Anon /v/'s
>>737116036>2006 is just about time when games started going to shitSo it was technically at the peak right before it went down? Then the pic is true.
>>737117432That is why we love her
>>737117132
>>737115749I work in HR and while I would never be allowed to hire any of them, it's crazy to me how much more employable random NEETs from 4chan are compared to young people nowadays. Even you fuckers who have never worked a day in your life and probably think you have no skills can most likely type 90+ WPM from shitposting and have a strong knowledge of Excel just from making moronic spreadsheets about video games. Not to mention problem solving abilities from trying to troubleshoot issues with games, pirating, etc. Meanwhile some kid out of college in his 20s can't type at all, can't even use Word let alone Excel, and doesn't have the slightest idea how to navigate the files on a PC.
>>737117743>>737117920she's 15.
>>737114074Hilda became a gamer?
>>737118048/10
>>737118006Being a gamer makes you a workplace god for any type of work where your output is evaluated objectively
>>737118006This is my personal cope for why I definitely won't die homeless, surely my ebin typing skills and ability to work with non-ipad user interfaces will be worth big bucks
>>737116845>t if you feel endlessly wretched to the point of wanting to take your own life, no amount of rationality or spiritualism will save youFalse. It's implicit that men are made to live, if you can't then there's a problem with you. Solve that problem.
>>737117920She needs precision platformer correction, that way she'll at least be above the average /v/irgin
>>737118006>to get a job in the past, millennials had to go to school and become more educated>to get a job now, a millennial simply has to sit there and let the rest of the world fill with ipad kids, which raises his own education level relative to the average
>>737116754also the idea of game writing ever being better than complete garbage is laughable
>>737117648For some reason I thought E33 was another spring of 2024. Both were just so fucking good. Good point.You can keep Silksong...
>>737117373based fun enjoyersorry for the snark earlier, glad you enjoyed the game
>>737116845his hypothesis about irony was a defense mechanism to prevent him from having to address the fact most people are 100% dead serious. Once that broke, and he was forced to accept that only his tongue was is in his cheek, he killed himself."Clinical depression" is not real. He was "depressed" because this world is horrible and no amount of drugs will change that. Except maybe a mountain of dilaudid.
>>737116959>>737116959The people at the top do. Palintirs CEO got his doctorate writing about Kierkegaard. I do agree though, you dont care.Funny you brought that exact point up as Lenins wife said exactly this.Why was this index a mistake? First, because it missed the mark. It excluded from the people's libraries the writings of Plato, Kant, Ernst Mach, and idealists generally. These philosopher-idealists are harmful without doubt. But to have their works in the libraries intended for the peasants and workingmen is not harmful - it is immaterial: the masses do not read Kant. The list could not make any actual change in this respect. Much worse was the fact that the list of excluded 'religious' books was very limited.
>>737115519Wasn't Star Trek yaoi shipping always a thing?
>>737114074The "music" part is retarded, because in the olden days developers - especially Japanese ones - would just plagiarize music from other media.A good, very early example is Super Mario Bros. - literally every single track is ripped off from a Western piece.
>>737118781Star Trek is one of the earlier progenitors of fanfic yeah.
>>737117589It really always comes down to that huh, maybe the simplest and obvious answer isn't the most fun so they instead just blame young people for everything even though most of them were like 8 years old when gamergate happened
>>737118006Are you the only man in HR in the world? Why would you work with the worst people on earth?
>>737118619>>737118839We live in a world where chuds took control of the culture and instead of a golden age in gaming, we just got korean AAA shilling and gacha slop from it.
>>737118839its more that "generational warfare" is allowed but calling browns, brown, is rasis
>>737118903okay, so what does that word mean?
>>737118619You can keep E33.
>>737118619Silksong is better than Hollow Knight. I'm very sorry you thought face tanking false knight was an integral part of the experience.
>>737118839Change it to 2014 and keep the start of the original and this is perfection.
>>737119072so "chud" means "literal nobody with delusions of grandeur" or possibly "paid shill." Got it.
>>737115845>he doesnt knowall fields retard
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>>737119035what point is there in comparing metroidvanias? its all the same shit, over and over and over again.
>>737119184if its not in the password field it doesn't count
>>737119219thanks niggathis saves me trouble
>>737119219For me, it's KAJ!
>>737119035I like to pretend I am in a redwood forest of penises. All just slapping me in the face.Still less gay than silksong.
>>737119512Mouse be thicc!
>>737115348The story was pretentious "look I'm arting" trash.
>>737119689Do you think FFX is pretentious too?
>>737119527Faggot opinions disregarded.
>>737119735ffx was pretty far up its own ass yes
>>737119146The jannies actually removed my post, what humorless faggots
>>737114074We didn’t bring out the guillotines for Bethesda’s horse armor DLC, and we absolutely should have.In fact, democratic guillotine is the only way to solve any real problem. I say this as someone who’d likely be among the first to go.
>the astroturf33 campaign is still goingfor the love of god why. you already bought the goty awards, you can't get them again
Women. We should've stopped them in the early 2000s. Sorry Zoomies and alfies.
>>737114074>femalegross
>>737118903>chuds took control of the culturein what world are you living? yeah totally it was chuds putting trannies and blacks in media and letting women in charge of everything
>>737119824No, he does that personally.
>>737119873They haven't entirely stopped making those stupid problematic and cringy JRPGs yet so the mission isn't complete.
>>737115937>>737116206>pricing:15>implying the RPG maker/flash game wasn't free most of the time and called a freeware or just "free game"
>>737119735NTA but I kind of do. Not E33 though, pure masterpiece. Same with David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfpOugmd9E
gacha games usually have really good music, though for some reason
>>737114074both are cute
>>737119796Exactly. Its why even though Hollow Knight is better rated and sold more, its kind of close until you see that hollow knight fans tend to have actually fucked a woman before, or get prime south park references...
>>737119735Not really. FFX is your typical jrpg plot with a clear villian for most of the game and it never comes off as grimdark misery porn.
>>737118903>We live in a world where chuds took control of the cultureIs this retard conflating orange man with chuds or what planet is he on? Genuinely I am curious on how one can possibly be so detached from reality that you arrive at this conclusion.
>>737119939i think he meant the culture of the website
>>737119978that vid is me, fr fr
>>737120104The biggest faggot opinion of all is thinking Silksong is worse than Hollow Knight. Once again, I'm very sorry that you had to wait for the sequel to learn that bosses like NKG where you aren't cheesing the amount of hits you're supposed to be getting really were the end goal of Hollow Knight's design.
>>737119797>>737119978Okay, fair enough. I still like it. I want stories to be ambitious, experiment, take risks. It may fall flat on its face, but I prefer that over milquetoast nothingburgers being served to us.DFW I haven't read yet.
>>737120194If you werent here prior to 2014, you would not get it.
>>737120204if he's the guy who called out the faggot mod, he does have a point.
>chibislopi would kill for an actual chibi game
>>737120239But only one of us has fucked a woman before? LOL. And seriosly you should watch some season 4 Southpark, get some real taste. Stop simping for a tranny game that is empirically shown to be worse. Numbers dont lie.
>>737118724>the masses don't read KantKant is obligatory reading in high school...Sure, you're not reading the whole thing but you're reading fragments and learn the general ideas.
>>737119219do you have the one thats like "main character in the best game youve ever played vs side character in shitty gacha" or some shit
>>737114552>The mmo craze was no differentthe mmo "craze" was either you played world of warcraft, or you were weird and mmo hopped from game to game. there was no craze, wow and only wow was just that popular
>>737120356Blow it out your ass, reddit revisionist nigger faggot.
>>737120576>idk how to argue about a game so I'll just say you're a faggot, popularity is quality thoughlol lmao
>>737120602jokes on you i mmo-hopped and played wow. there was a legitimately crazy amount of mmos being made, launched, collapsing, etc at the time.
>>737120583Brother what planet do you inhabit where high schoolers are reading Kant (even excerpted). High schoolers don't even read full novels in English anymore (let alone dense works of philosophy)
>>737114074The karen meme taught zoomos that making fun of people with standards. It's not like karens weren't deserving of some mockery but like with anything, it was never going to stop at just karens.
>>737115519it is a well known fact that smartphones killed the internet.
>>737120247read infinite jest. it's a very funny and entertaining novel, and not nearly as dense or allusive as its size or reputation may suggest
>>737120247Agreed and thats the consensus amongst the intellectuals. Budgets have gotten so large media is afraid to take chances. Thats why the late 90s had so many great films and video games well everything today is just bland remakes... and tranny games like silksong. We will never get another Xenogears with 200m dollar games. Who'd risk it.
>>737120604To defend that image, please describe what is "political" about afroniggers forming a swastika and spamming pools closed due to aids?
>>737120713i mmo hopped too i know, but we were the minority in the grand scheme of things
>>737120041it's a genre that thrives on everything but the gameplay, the spend a lot of money on the aesthetics because that is the main selling point. they aren't selling you a good game they are selling you good vibes
>>737120604Except we both know you werent there, or played Duke Nukem.
>>737117432no you just love slop.Top looks cuter.
>>737120723>>737120723this and "cringe" as concept led us here, also isn't it interesting how zoomer internet culture is just black lingo and attitudes?
>>737120815compared to the ten thousand roguelike deckbuilder cozy farming simulator rpgm games released every MONTH, literally everything else is a minority.
>>737120813>Um nazi symbols and nigger mockery isn't chud culture actuallyBro just shut the fuck up and find another thread to rewrite history in.
>>737120884The long term amassing of resources is a type of gameplay I last experienced as an actual ten year old who played Pokemon daily. I think if I wanted to fill the void it would be gacha or like an MMO or Warframe or something, and ew, fuck no.
>>737120934Considering you can't tell anyone what that word means, yeah.
>>737120813See, this is an oldfag who gets it.
>>737114783>I'm so glad the trans friendly genre is more popular than the masculine oneSo true xister
>>737120909Over saturation of edgy made people contrarian which popularized itself as hipster culture.It never really went away, it just renamed itself multiple times.
>>737120780I'm currently in early postmodernism (Gaddis/Barth/Pynchon) and I expect to stay here for a while, I doubt I'm getting out anytime soon with all these bricks. But I do plan to get there eventually.>>737120802I didn't like Xenogears, I think it failed when it comes to execution (both gameplay and writing quality), but I appreciate its scope and ambition.
>>737121025>edgy>contrarian>hipsterliterally none of this is real
>>737120995>the genre I don't like is le trans friendlyshut the fuck up and explain what you don't like about a thing, it won't kill you
>>737119263>everything has to be new and never been made beforeYour favourite game was a copy of something else.
>>737120971you can literally just play factorio
>>737114074indie games as we know them now weren't a thing in 2006
>>737121103I just did
>>737119527You like to imagine dicks and call others gay? Funny.
>>737121178You're addressing someone who's forgotten more video games than you ever knew existed, who's growing increasingly desperate for literally ANYTHING new in video games.
>>737114074Oblivion had horse armor
>>737121103nta but I know what he means and I agree
>>737121058gaddis and barth mentioned...The Recognitions is mind-bogglingly good - I hadn't read a novel that captured my thought and imagination to that degree for a very long time. it very much seems like the ideal of the "fuckhueg postmodern novel"; it seems to encompass just about everything we do and see. have you read JR (i have not) if so, what's your take on it?barth is very funny - i adored Sot-Weed Factor, but haven't read anything else. i think Lost In the Funhouse is supposed to be good?
>>737121243Yeah no shit there weren't over ten thousand "indie" games released every month in 2006.
>>737121243Only if you ignore flash games.
>>737120989Look retard, nobody even used the word "political" until you brought it up. You, or someone you agree with, asserted that chuds "took control of the culture," I expressed disbelief at how someone could be so detached from reality, and then you tried to imply it only really started taking off after 2014, and therefore nobody who has been here since then could see it the way you (a true oldfag, obviously) could. Then I btfo'd you with a single image. Unless you're going to start saying that mocking niggers and writing swastikas is no longer chud culture, you've lost. Now stop replying and slither off to another thread to parrot your lies in.
>>737114074Draw the alphie with a fat ass please
>>737121243half life was a fucking indie game.Back in 2006 indie games were indistinguishable from other games because it was independent developer gropes wanting to make a popular game.Indie games now are full of snarky trash devs who do it to be "different"
>>737120989Yeah man nobody knows what you meant when you said "chud" and obviously he needs to define it for everybody here.What a dipshit.
>>737121558anon if you're going to tilt at windmills at least let them be real ones, not ones you imagined and labeled with a meaningless word.
>>737121373idk why you put indie in quotation marks like this, the gaming industry is fucking ginormous, more people are going to get into making video games on their own. it also helps that the tools to do so get easier and easier every year
>>737121241I have and it isn't the same. There needs to be an element of real time or it doesn't scratch the same itch. Did you not get what I meant when I said I played Pokemon daily? Did you think I was just saying I did a lot of grinding? The shit that takes mandatory real-world time was an important element.
>>737121739Did you reply to the wrong person? I don't use words unless they actually mean something.
>>737121776>why you put indie in quotation marksso it would include astroturf33. "indie," but also bankrolled by a billionaire with the most obvious shill campaign ever.
>>737120718Italy. Liceo Classico, but I imagine it's in every school's curriculum with Philosophy as a subject, not all schools have Philosophy as a subject.You guys don't have Philosophy in school?
>>737121297There is no such thing as "anything new". Once you reach the point where you can understand that there's very little objectively separating the design of one platformer from the next, when you boil it down a bit, you need to learn not to look for "originality" at all. What you used to think of as "new and original" is not something you'll ever find again.
>>737121779>factorio>no mandatory real-world time elementhuh?
>>737117417You're too gay
>>737121974>dude like nothing was ever like new bro so just accept thousands of identical games released every month broCope. this is probably the only time that was an appropriate response.
>>737120813>what is political about ideology?
>>737121994What the hell are you talking about? Did Space Age add a resource that you somehow can't scale up to do faster?
>>737121351I think the Recognitions loses some of its impact if you read GR first, it's such an explosion of information, of sheer density, that it still leaves me reeling. But because I get to see Recognitions as comparatively lighter reading, I get to appreciate the Recognitions from another angle: that of a novel focused on art and how we interact with it. It reminds me of a Thomas Mann novel in that aspect. And it's also a novel with scarily good dialogue. It captures the... you know, how certain individuals... or rather speech patterns of people in general, how they leave their thoughts unfinished, how clumsy and chaotic communication feels. Remember the party scenes? I heard JR is structured just like that, but for the entire book, it's all unattributed... I'm looking forward to the audiobook, apparently all of Gaddis' books were done by the same guy and he seems great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FOOCQpyaP8
>new games are bad>old games are bad>only very old games are good
>>737122120what's ideological about afroniggers forming a swastika and spamming pools closed due to aids?
>>737122104Nothing was ever new.Sorry you think your moment of personal revelation was a shift in the world itself.
what you fail to realize is that the ironic racism still runs strong on this website, peak stormfag was in 2016-ish
>>737122195yeah
>737121767>737121874>he is just going to keep posting despite being btfo'dsad to see enjoy the last word i guess, that means you won or whatever lol
>>737122198What do you think the ideology in question is? Come on, do a little effort, I'm sure you're mental handicap won't hinder you on this one, it's very easy.
>>737122201yeah bro there were 10k copies of super mario brothers released the month it came out, 10k copies of metroid the month it came out, etc.
>>737122198>>737122315oh please just get to making out already!
>>737114074>story: better written then some booksgod damn you faggots are dumb.
>>737122268>>737121767>>737121874Yeah, when you get that passive aggressive over obviously getting people mixed up, while you, yourself, become increasingly incoherent, its just time to stop.
>>737122315>get asked what is ideological about something>no you tell me what is ideological!
I cant even follow what this thread is mad about it’s so over the place first it’s young people then woman now niggers and trannies please just pick your narrative
>yo unc new games are deadass lit fr, im not even glazing, you never had graphical rizz like this gramps
>>737122318People made copies of Mario like crazy the second Mario happened, yes. I'm sorry you're blind to that.
>>737115551You're getting slow.
>>737122584name a thousand released that month.
>>737114074>AI slopWho's buying?
>>737122490>hurr what is not political about this ideology?>you didn't reply so I'm right!I refuse to point out the obvious. If you have something to say, then say it. Make your statement: this is not X. We all know it is and you're wrong.
>>737114074>60 for AAALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
>>737120723Zoomers are like two extremes, either the most pearclutching of the bunch or the total opposite. I remember when one of my porn comics (which was the most bland and basic story of this type) got uploaded to one of those piracy sites and the first comment was "bruh isn't this just rape??? skullskullskullskull".
I just wanna make an alphie thread bro but theres almost 0 alphies hereDraw alphie now
>>737123065I can't draw, sorry...
>>737123007basic bitch instant loss 2-koma break their brains, it's madness
>>737114074you must be confused because modern games are closer to 90s arcades than esports slop and failed pixar animator garbage
>>737118006I imagined I would be unemployable considering the void in my resume from being neet. Good to know I can always demote to being a full time wageslave thanks to years of excel, notepad, and keyboard writing games I played.
>>737120356>Being nostalgic for 2014 4chanlol
>>737122641Why does the timeframe matter? More people are making games now than were back then regardless. The fact is that Mario was relentlessly copied. Every decent game was.
>>737123369middle > (POWER GAP) > left > right
>>737116845suck a shotgun if you like him so much
>>737118619Coincidentally this is exactly what happened to souls games too
>>737123065kill yourself deertroon
>>737125554What
>2006 gaming standards>$15 indiesSuper meat boy did not release until 2010, and that is widely recognized as the time in which gamers started paying for indies instead of going to newgrounds
>>737117648>Xenonauts 2The early access has been unfortunately very consistently shitty.But in the other hand>song of syxDevelopment has been consistently good more or less600 more CGs
>>737123065Sorry brother. I'm at work. Here's an Alphie from another anon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games_in_the_United_States_by_year>pastmadden nfl, call of duty, bing bing wahoos, some fifa, gta, other games>presentmadden nfl, call of duty, bing bing wahoos, some fifa, gta, other gamesgamers never had standards in the first place
pedophile general
>>737127778and most of /v/ are pseuds complaining about "writing" thats how bad things are.
>>737116742Maybe the mutt isn't so bad
>>737123497>Why does the timeframe matter?Because you’ve been caught conflating decades of video game history with the amount of games released monthly since 2020. The 83 crash was caused by Atari shoveling out a fraction as many cookie cutter “games” as were released last month alone. You were also caught being unable to differentiate between thousands and dozens.
>>737123114Good stuff. Thicker
>>737128282All the games mentioned either don't have writing or have shit writing. You have zero awareness.
>>7371140742006 is when gaming went to slop hell
>>737114074>2006>indies
>>737114074realism beauty, aka graphicsVerification is not required
>>737131324valve and id were independent in 2006. As was epic games.
>>737114074>tfw no stupid chubby gf with a cute face
>>737114074Faggots justifying shitty jew moves from devs/publishers. Everyone was le based smart consumer until a game series they liked had microtransactions or pre order DLC. then it was all ''oh it's not AS bad as [EA game]. If you even bought 1 game with jew moves then you have no right to complain about gaming being shit now.
>>737114074I would argue that music is the one category that held up over the years.
>>737131790The real answer is internet astroturf, as that’s about when it started kicking in.
>>737115831>>737115937None of those were paid. Paid indie shit wasn't a thing back then. Also, AAAs were $50 on consoles in 2006, becoming $60 with the launch of MW2 in 2007.This image was drawn by a clueless zoomer.
>>737114552Additionally, videogames back then weren't "high art" either. They were strongly influenced by comic books, ID software was heavily influenced by Heavy Metal/90s comics and Capcom was influenced by comics/manga.The film influence set in during the 360/ps3 era
>>737132725it kind of was, the web back then used to work like mobile games. people used to either be paid by ad-revenue companies like google or publishers like Armor Games to distribute their content for free.
