First game that comes to mind?
wizard101
>>737309680Downgrading to XP
>>737309680Upgrading to Windows 7
I never used Vista, so I always associate it with some early youtube tutorials.
>>737309680Dawn of War II
>>737309680Star Wars Battlefront 2. Had to downgrade to Windows so it could work.
Mirror's Edge
Sim City 4.
>>737309680shadowrun duh
>>737309680Tux Kart.
>>737309680Team Fortress 2
>>737309680Ricochet Xtreme
this :)
flyff
>>737309680>Rainmeter holy fuaaark I loved that shit no matter how bad it fucked my CPU.Also Stalker AMK or Oblivion Lost
>>737309680World in Conflict
The first PC I ever built was a Vista machine back in early 2007. Had an 8800 GTS and an Athlon 64 processor. Anyone remember the Dreamscene, where you could have animated wallpapers?
>>737309680
runescape
Bioshock 2 games for windows live was fucking awful but at least their call support center was white back then
>>737309680GTA IV purely due to the turboAIDS GFWL integration being so memorably terrible and sharing a UI style with vista
>>737309680Fallout 3
>>737309680sims 3
>>737309680i dont think i ever played videogames on vista. i was using XP until windows 10
visual novelsI was crazy reading them back then
>>737310767Wow. You missed Vista, 7, and 8? Not judging that's just quite something. My guess is most people went XP, 7, then 10.
dad's pc was vista and I had an xbox. there was a common aesthetic at the time.
>>737310934It was kino. Why did they drop that in favor of bland minimalism, anyway?
>>737309680halo 2
>>737311440I can only guess that it has to do with "visual management", something that makes sense in a workplace where the average retard needs to be able to follow basic processes. This concept has now bled into every other medium which is why we have the 'yellow paint' problem and nintendo using boring white text in every game.
Just Cause 1
>>737309680Quake 3 Arena
>>737309680locoroco
>>737310189This, Running TF2 at an unmet capped 60 with vysnc while rainmeter fucks your CPU in the background.
>>737314592The jews don't want you walking your Robo Dog with your Robo Extend-O Arm with Leash Attachment
>>737310579Nothing comes close to Dark Souls hatemail
>>737314816is there anyway to play this again?they killed themselves with their "windows 10 only" min specs at a time when everyone was still using win 7
TES 4 Oblivion running at 30fps on low 640p
>>737309680toribash
>>737310340That was only on Vista UltimateVista had a bunch of weird ass features like that
>>737309680Those widgets are unmatched to this day in terms of soul
>>737310016>game sells itself as a parkour simulator>parkour is about freedom of movement and the ability to go anywhere>game is actually a linear narrative experienceYellow Paint: The Game
>>737315130Rainmeter would still be in active use by people if it didn't take huge chunks of CPU usage per widget. I think ring0 access for software is also revoked on 10+ nowadays so it probably wouldn't be a useful stat tracker now, either.
>>737314996I imagine if you set up some kind of server, you could. You just need a game key, which are still redeemable.It's a shame that no revival scene happened, cuz spare physical copies were only like $6 a decade ago. It's why I still have a sealed spare copy on my shelf
re5
>>737314592this aesthetic style is gone because the basis of it was hope and wonder for the future and we all now realize that the future is going to be today but worse, but worse in terribly incremental and mundane ways.
>>737309680Audiosurf
>>737314816I was thinking about this game the other day but couldn't remember the name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDqC9bFAMc
>>737309680In-browser games when I was 5 or so, before my Dad trashed the PC we had XP / Vista on and got an iMac
>>737311440Unironically due to mobile devices.
>>737315908When our PC broke and my parents got a new one, my dad destroyed the fucking hard drive because someone at his work told him he should. Like, nigga, I'm basically the only one who uses the computer. None of my parents did any online banking or anything remotely sensitive. All you fucking destroyed was my shit.
>>737309680Counter Strike: SourceGarry's ModTF2SA:MPHabbo HotelRunescapeSNES emulators
I just really miss the Windows 7 aesthetic, there's that one Win 10 LTSC mod that makes it look like 7 (classic7) but it's fucked because it can't use antivirus. We finally have PCs that can run the UI effortlessly but now instead we get this minimalistic bullshit.
>>737320173thiswhat a fucking downgrade from XP's games
>>737309680Retarded people picking terrible OSs and wasted potential.
>>737320530The OS wasn't that bad the hardware just wasn't optimized for it and took a while to catch up, Win 7 is literally just Vista with a thin coat of paint.
>>737309680My grandma played the hell out of this. It looked fun but I never understood it and she wouldn't teach me how to play. She said she was gambling real money and for some reason I believed her. Eventually we got her an iPad and actually did start playing real money casino game apps. That was a mistake...
>>737312854>>737317848It's not even that. It's so they could save money on the artistic side of things by making a desktop environment a codemonkey could prototype and make in Excel. No I am not joking.
>>737321420I'm not sure about it but I think they improved the performance in some way for w7, I remember trying Vista a few years ago and it was lagging like crazy with 4GB of RAM. I had a 2GB XP machine and it was fine for the time.
>>737309680Halo
>>737309680WoW.
>>737309680What's the world come to?
>>737309680osu
>>737309680World of Warcraft
>>737321715I wonder how many people these games helped. Yeah, you're still addicted to gambling, but at least your finances are in a much better shape since you're not spending real money.Now they're gone and all you can do is real gambling from the comfort of your couch, which is much, much worse.
>>737309680Zero, not long after installing Vista I went back to XP and waited for Windows 7.
>>737315095Yeah you're right, I remember I got ultimate with my new PC build. I kind of miss having to buy an actual disk of the OS to install it.
>>737315187it's actually red, but the first thing you should do if you ever play this or Catalyst is turn off the red flash indicator that highlights shit. Ruins the immersion
>>737309680Halo 2, which was vista exclusive. Yes there was an XP patch, but it crashed at the Gravemind cutscene.>>737310327I still have a lot of desktop gadgets running even right now on win 10. Very handy for keeping graphs for cpu,gpu, network usage, etc.
>Hated Vista at the time (as did everyone else)>Now have nostalgia for itIt's probably because the first computer I built was a Vista computer, and man I remember buying all the parts through newegg and was so excited because all my previous computers were HP desktops my parents bought for me.
>>737315187>parkour is about freedom of movementYeah. >and the ability to go anywhereYou're just making shit up to get mad about.
>>737324612>Hated Vista at the time>Still do
>>737309680>Windows desktop>First game that comes to mind?MinesweeperOr do you need to pay a subscription service to play Minesweeper on a Windows PC now?
It was on a PC with a dual core e2200 and a gt 8400
>>737309680Platform racing 2.
>>737309680Playing whatever the fuck would run on my Acer laptop that was very much not meant for playing high end games of the time.I got by on TF2 and Oblivion on lowish settings. Fallout 3 worked too. Dawn of War worked as well, but DoW2 not so well.I remember trying to run Unreal Tournament 3 and it just would not fucking work outside lowest settings, smallest resolution so you couldn't see shit anyway.Had shit like Sins of a Solar Empire working too so that was cool.Otherwise, whatever fuckass f2p mmo was out. Flyff, 2Moons, Perfect World even though it also ran like shit, Dofus, Nostale.
>>737325273https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhvPmXoPpU
>>737310327aren't these native Vista widgets? but yeah Rainmeter was based
>>737314592Having a house that close to the railway sounds fucking horrible>>737314996Bots still work, thank god
>>737325919It's maglev
>>737309680Sins of a solar empire
>>737309680'rism.
Just Cause 2
>>737309680chess titans
>>737325649They are, yes.
I hate fruitniggers
>>737326678Vista is from 2007, anon. It's like saying the N64 isn't a 90s console because it came out in 96.
>>737326678They're all soulful. What's the complaint?
>>737309680Postal 2 because of that double nigger of Starforce protection shitting out errors after logging in.
>>737326883millenisharts need another way to obsess over zoomers on their mongolian circlejerk weaver forum
>>737309680Halo 2 for vista
>>737326678>early 2000's vs mid 2000'sdo you have unironic brain damage?
>>737309680GTA IV
>>737325271based, i liked this game
>>737309680I bet there was nothing wrong with vista. Critic bs is the reason i'm not using it. I might try and downgrade to vista. 7 has issues and it doesn't look as good.
>>737327021One of the weirdest mindfuck launches was GFWL. They had a "launch date" and it was all in the news cycle. Then I waited for a client to download or something and.... nothing.I went around sites trying to figure out what the fuck was happening and it was literally nothing. I think they just made the service connectable by the public instead of whatever test environment they had.
>>737326678based chess profile pic
Halo 2
>>737310417>>737326061Hell yeah. Still play them and they're still some of the best games of all time.
For me it's associated with comapny of heroes when it introduced DX10 with opposing forces
Combat arms on my mom's computer. Only vista computer I ever accessed, I got kicked off after a few months for installing a virus trying to hack.
>>737309680Gothic 3.Runs equally shit as the OS but both are overflowing with SOVL.I know it's nostalgia, fuck off.
>>737309680The Undying
>>737326678you can easily spot zoomers when they unironically use terms like "Frutiger Aero". Why do they have nostalgia for a time they haven't experienced?
Purble Place
>>737327125Me too, I miss the vidyas with time-control mechanics
>>737309680WotLK
>>737309680Counter Strike: Source. I specifically remember having to bump up from 256 to 512MB of RAM to keep that running acceptably due to the OS bloat.That has the best Explorer theme to date, though.
>>737309680I'd take vista any day over modern windows. At least they eventually fixed vista. These days every single update makes the OS worse.
>>737326678Yes they're all from the 2000s and they all look great. Only an actual zoomer (and a younger one to boot) wouldn't automatically know this and hate any of these themes for the autistic reason you're trying to insinuate.
>>737327478I need some more music with this feeling manhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb77ca68KEU
>>737333748Vista's problem wasn't the OS per se, but the fact that the specs for the effects were overkill for most PCs at the time. You could run Vista well on a decent rig a couple years after the fact but Windows 7 came out and that ran great for most PCs out of the box, so it became kinda redundant.Modern Windows is just a dumpsterfire and has been ever since some retard at Microsoft thought they should unify the UI for mobile phones with PCs. It was a portent to all the senseless nonsense Microsoft has been pulling at an exponential rate ever since then.
Vista makes sense for home PCs but not so much for work. If someone's miserable in an office he'll want a grey and depressing computer screen to match his mood.
>>737309680garrys mod
>>737326678Right is literally a real windows vista screencap.
>>737326678The only thing that bothers me about the whole concept of Frutiger Aero is that it has people thinking that was the only look the 2000s had going for it, when it was only one of the many things you would see.It almost feels like a theme park rendition of an era that you lived in.
>>737335954Right looks more like a modded Win10 with Vista icons and RetroBar, there's also some open source reimplementation of widgets too.
>>737336047Frutiger Aero got completely derailed into this green and blue sustainable future bullshit rather than just the cool glossy aesthetic they were going for during the mid 2000s, it's just cringey to look at what that "community" is doing these days, completely misinterpreting what the older aesthetics were about.
>>737315543>every time you got a new expansion in 1 and 2 the main menu UI changed and the theme got a remix
