What was gaming like in the 2000s?
>>737656456your eyes would swell up and turn red from how long you would play vidya
>>737656456I distinctly remember people fighting over whether south park or beavis & butthead were better or cooler to watch
>>737656456dragon ball z toonami on kazaa/computerphantasy star online on dreamcast/gamecube on the othereating your mall chinese food slop full of msg and dopaminedrinking your vanilla coke or surge sodablasting the latest slim shady disc
>>737656456It was rad.
>>737656456>the CD key you entered is already in use
>>737657209what does that green goop taste like
>>737657032Drinking your Sobe actually
>>737657271"Apple Green Sauce" which is like sweet & sour fused with apple and dyed green. It tasted better than that Rick and Morty sauce or whatever.
>>737657271corn syrup
>>737656456Shit, those LCD monitors were the worst possible monitor technology ever.
>>737656456Better online discussion of games due to the higher quality people that used the Internet. Tons of high effort posts, no buzzwords. People hadn't been oneshot by social media algorithms, only had access to a handful of games at a time (christmas presents + local video store rentals), and therefore appreciated what they were playing and invested their energy into each game without distraction. LAN parties were common since not everyone had good Internet, and it let you play multiplayer games on 0 ping.
>>737657689Why did supersize me have to brainwash the US into removing biggie size?
>>737657316Oh right can't forgot those.
I recently had a dream that I was cognizant, while dreaming, was taking place in 2013, and in-dream I was gobsmacked by just how much better of a place the world felt then, even though I know 2013 is basically the year the internet first became unusable. The weather was nicer, the people were more relaxed, and the magic was still there. I am 100% certain that if I time-traveled back to then, it would feel the exact same way IRL.
>Grand Theft Auto games came out regularly>Peak split-screen era>New ground broken regularly in regards to genre, technology, and more>Lots of information online, but no "data miners", so there were still rumours>Playing online with 56k sucked so bad, yet was so cool>Broadband started sweeping through the middle class>5th-6th gen maybe the 2nd biggest generational leap after 4th-5th>Many devs actually targeted 60fps
>>737657818Do hawaiians like hawaiian punch
>>737656456>daily unc nostalgiafag threadyawn
>>737656456online gaming on PC was pretty rad in the early 00s
>>737657931THE ENEMY IS WEAKENED
>>737656456pure sovl
>>737657919hell no. its only made with 3% fruit juice.
>Going home after school to waste your time and do nothing in maidmarian games onlineWE LOVE ABOBE SHOCKWAVE
It was peak soul. Nothing better than intoxicated Mario Party 2 with the bros.
>>737657919processed slop in a can is basically traditional hawaiian cuisine
>>737657974holy fuck is that STALKER? didn't realize how old the game is
>>737657931i really wish they'd remake this game. such fun times.
>>737656998they were barely on tv with any overlap. South Park essentially replaced it culturally.
>>737656456Better times.
>>737656456We'd all get together at one of our houses and play videogames.
>>737656998it was simpsons vs southpark vs family guy. the shows were even in on it.
>>737656456System link 8 player timesplitters 2 was fun, local MP always felt more fun
>>737658029We had an eMacWas fairly nice hardware for the time, but might've been the low point for mac game supportIf you weren't a blizzard fag, you basically had to just play shareware and old gameZooms might not hate Apple these days, but they had like a 5% marketshare or less and it was suffering to be a mac household
>>737657974there's powerful irish energies in this image
>>737658029>>737658240I kinda want to buy an eMac. They're pretty cheap nowadays, but I've got no space left to place it. Might just go for a Mini instead, I've got enough CRT monitors to last me a lifetime.
https://youtu.be/zhZlwKsemx8
how did we go from this
>>737656456You won't get a birds eye view here because most of the posters at this point are doomers that were 12 sometime in the 2000s. I can tell you this though, it was pretty cool in the very early 2000s until games/internet became more accessible.
>>737658427to this
>What was gaming like in the 2000s?You know how even EA's games, on their into logo cinematics, had these sound effects and slogans trying to sound as fresh and cool as possible?That reflects the era otherwise as well, game developers were clearly cutting edge technology and design pioneers because that helped bring in the cash. Designers had grander visions because we weren't hitting practical limits of graphics and memory use yet, every year or two someone would actually release a game seriously unlike what had been seen previously and creative projects got monetized because it still wasn't that crazy expensive to make the games.The games were also a lot cheaper and more toy-like in many ways on the parts the developer did not have resources to pour their focus on, just sort of little jank that was commercially watched through fingers at the time but that wouldn't seem like it'd fly today. In GTA: San Andreas you had quite consistent-feeling driving model with plenty to drive across, but then you hop to the gym for a bit and it's just button mashing for a little bit.
>>737657271Tasted like it gave you magic points
>>737657769>not going after the HFCS shit>not going after food dyes or the numerous other poisons>not going after the BPA leakages>not going after the lead or cobalt poisoningsSome would say, it's a false flag. Probably is, considering the massive MUH CARBS MUH SUGARS MUH LOW FAT DIET MUDDAFUCKA type shit that was flying around for decades. Not like McDicks didn't increase the portion sizes over the years anyways. It's all bullshit blame for obesity, when it's sedendary lifestyle + poisoned foods + crash diet shocks, but revealing that means several billion dollar industries crash overnight. In case you wanted the secret diet for losing weight, it's finding out your TDEE , eating around 500-1000 calories below that. And running Intermittent Fasting like 1-2 days a week. There, suck my fucking dick corpos
>>737658481>waow waiting for some fat neckbeard to unlock the games cabinet for me >truly these were the times of the gods
>>737658481>goo goo dolls starts playing automatically Fuck
>>737656456>PCSketchy but improving>Consoles Absolute GOAT tier, not on one side but all around>ArcadesGreat but fading out at alarming rate
>>737658671>Only decent human being still in the movie is the guy who eats 1 big mac a day Its like poetry it rhymes
I genuinely wonder what gen alpha thinks when they see these boomer ass uncs reminisce fondly about those gigantic clunky boxes and handhelds with a hundredth of the resolution that an average phone has.
>>737659278doubt they think, as a generation they're borderline braindead
>>737658781
>>737658481What are those Ms. Pacman things?
>>737656456You sat in front of the tv and you pushed the buttons
I grew up gaming in the 90's and i remember having conversations about what if they made a 3D gta holy fuck, then the PS2 and gta 3 happened. And then you think how good multiplayers tfc classic/everquest were in 1999 and we ended up with tf2 and wow.... Gaming in the 90's was awesome, to see video games developing from like wolf 3d to half life in the space of about 5-6 years still gives me goosebumps, but it really kicked in when the 00's rolled around.
>>737658481>Game StoreThat's a costco, they use cards for the high ticket items to prevent niggers from stealing them. It sucks but you save a lot of money going for their bundles and discounts.
I was riding my bike and skateboarding outside
I specifically remember a scene from south park where someone gets a chicken shoved up their ass and it's like been scrubbed from history like it didnt exist
>>737657974>SoCbased
>>737661394>lcd and ps3
>>737660151Old bliz forums were kinda fun.
>>737658736>waiting for some fat neckbeard to unlock the games cabinet for mezoomer detected. that shit wasnt necessary in the 90s and early 00s. games were on shelves and you just picked them and went to the cash register
>>737661735i also had a setup like this around this time and thought i was living in the future
>>737656456Faggy nepobaby collegiates hadn't quite ruined the hobby yet but they were working overtime on it, largely by throwing every penny they could at Microsoft and their utterly worthless product.
>All those cartoonnetwork games i loved and invested time into being gone like nothing happenedCN Orbit would be addictive as fuck in modern day
>>737658403you forgot to include the fact that everyone was poor back then.if you arent a millionaire after covid and crypto you are an actual absolute buffoon
>>737656456Fun.I don't think we'll ever get an age like 2000-2007 ever again.I miss all the different sites I'd lurk between, Zelda Universe, Half-Life and DoomPlanet, Gamespy, all dose gaymur webcomics
>>737662051>everyone was poor back thenThose people are even poorer now, thanks to your precious pandemic and fagcoin scams. When niggers like you have a million dollars it starts to look like Zimbabwe money.
>>737658671Okay but what about gaining weight. Trying to stuff 2800 kcals down my throat is fucking hard how do fatfucks do it
>>737656456Never forget what they took from us.
>>737662051>going full boomer "I got mine"
>>737658125>there will be a generation that will unironically call the 2020's the "good times"
>>737658125My cousin let me touch her boobs under her oversized tshirt after i impressed her with my sick Guitar Hero 3 skills, i only ever played on Hard. Really was better times
>>737657931For me it was zm_ amd surf_ maps in CS:SAlso so much L4D versus, I would regularly get invited to groups or friended just because of how I played and my personality.Now everyone's in their own little discord voice chat or mutes the game
>>737663238And where is your cousin now
>>737663043ngl i think going through wow classic during lockdown i will be remembering on my death bed. This was in april 2020.
>>737661983>CN OrbitJesus I didn't even know how to play this shit but I thought it was so cool. Always tried to get the anime tokens or whatever those things were.I also played that DBZ fightan game a lot
>>737662307You’re poor as fuck and probably on welfare but you’re right. Poors like you who still get the same $900 universal benefits a month can’t seem to grasp what the dollar is actually worth anymore. With that said, six dollars for same food they serve to prisoners but from taco bell is not worth it.
>>737663305not 100% sure i havent seen that side of the family since i was a teenager, but from what my mom told me last she saw them she has a kid and is one of the only two out of that whole group of cousins and aunts/uncles not jobless and on drugs
>>737663043It's the last decade where things were made by humans instead of AI. Even now you can tell streaming shows are using Chat GPT for ideas.
>>737663396I grasp the worth of what I work harder than you to obtain better than you do, actually. You might have money but nobody ever paid you to think.
>>737657032there's a rumor that keeps floating around that my town is going to get a Panda Express but it's been years now and no luck, I want one so bad
the mass adoption of the Internet has been a disaster for gaming and society as a whole
i miss forums and noob culture a lot
>>737656456It was more single player focused. If you did play multiplayer it was with friends locally. Online multiplayer existed but it was still in it's infancy. I never had Xbox Live in the sixth gen because I couldn't convince my parents to pay for it. They thought paying for a online service when they're already paying for internet to begin with was retarded. Honestly they were right. It is retarded to pay for an additional internet service when you're already paying for internet.
>>737656456It was peak but I definitely do not miss those bulky ass TV's and CRT monitors >t. 1990 anon
>>737664421kek Wings made that exact reference
>>737664421>It was peak>t. 1990 anondoubt it
>>737663715It's not worth it. I used to get a craving for it on occasion, but despite all the grease, the taste is vacuous. Each bite is more dissatisfying than the last. By the end, I would just feel like I stuffed myself with cotton balls and remember why I hadn't gone in so long.
>>737663715if its anything like the one i recently got its gonna have some bomb food for a few months then drastically drop off the face of the earth. Last three times ive gotten the orange chicken its come hard and crunchy like its days old, and the rice is gross and unseasoned
>>737663043You mean it gets worse?
Anyone got any good nostalgia playlists? Flashes, old youtube videos, random webcomics they go back too, etc
>>737658671>In case you wanted the secret diet for losing weight, it's finding out your TDEE , eating around 500-1000 calories below that. And running Intermittent Fasting like 1-2 days a week. There, suck my fucking dick corposPlease expound, I'm hitting my 40s and barely eat but I'm slowly gaining weight and becoming skinnyfat. I recently hooked up with a girl I was messing around with back in 2000s and she's having the same problem.
there is a whole generation out there who will have nostalgia for playing shitty gacha "games" on their phones
>>737663365>>737665391>flash is dead and buried, murdered by it's creatorWe needed Stop Killing Games back then
>>737663043I hope not. Early 2020s: Crappy post-covid economy. President struggles to even speak and stay awake because he's a old senile fuck.mid to late 2020s: nothing but AI slop shit. President is a pedo defending israel dickrider.actual cesspool decade.
>>737658427>consoles selling for 100-150 buks>now they're selling for almost 1000 bucksdamn, sad
>>737665783b-but inflation! Ignore that $100 to $150 in 2003 is about $179 to $269 today which is still way cheaper.
>>737662505high carb intake. high fat intake. high corn syrup intake. Add some potato chips and a bottle of soda to your daily diet and you will gain weight. One of those bottles in your local supermarket is about 150% of your recommended daily sugar intake.
>>737661767This is still the case in my country. You live in the crime-ridden 3rd world now.
>>737658481I wonder why stores need to keep their valuable property protected in such a way.Could it be to prevent rampant acts of theft from a certain group of people?
>>737663043Kids are already calling the pandemic era "good times".Everyone was online, you could easily hit up a group of 10 of your friends and play some rounds of among us.It's all relative. The 90s and 2000s had their problems, between the war in the sandbox, y2k and the 2008 financial crisis, not to mention NINE-ELEVEN. The reason we have nostalgia for that era is because we were kids/young adults and didn't have to care about all the problems of the time. Now we're older and have to actually give a shit, and giving a shit is tiring.
>>737666461>Everyone was online,Everyone is still online. The only difference is that it was online (PC) instead of online (Smartphone)
>>737656456Not very different from today except there were no p2w/crate/gacha trashThe biggest different was web 1.0 vs web 2.0, 1.0 was better for most things though it meant there was much less information if you needed to look something up.
>>737666461It's not just kids, I know many adults like this. If you play video games and COVID didn't fuck your life over in some way, it was a great time to play. It was like going back to college for a lot of people and I genuinely miss it
i filmed this in 2008 on my first handycam and uploaded my setup to youtube. it's a great time capsulehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4CWMmH19VU
>sitting in front of screen 20 years ago... LE GOODsad how friendless and lonely 4channers were even back then
>>737656456It was great>2008>Pure Y2K suburbia>16-17 just got my license>Summer night being a shit head with my best friends stealing Miller Lites from his dad's garage fridge like he didn't know we were doing it>Pick up Sheetz in my little Ford Ranger blasting shitty pop punk/emo music>Spark a shitty rolled joint on one of those glass top outdoor tables when we get back to the homies place>Go inside and feast on MTO food and play Halo 3 co-op campaign>Get more high and watch fucking Mythbusters til I fall asleep on the couch
>>737658029we have to go back
>>737666461>Things were NEVER better than the post-modern hellscape we're forcing you into!>You're stupid for thinking things could ever improve!>Things are better now than they've EVER been!>Now eat the bugs and suck off infinite niggers, and MAYBE we'll think about not torturing your family and mutilating your children.
>>737667809I said none of these things. You are a troll.
>>737658564It is genuinely fucking wild how wrong this person was (mostly), and how much better the world would be if he was right.
The Xbox brand is returning to the 2000’s atheistic and the Xbox series X is getting a modernized version of the blades dashboard that uses a glossy/aero theme and it’s getting revealed at the game awards in June
>>737668349Xbox games showcase*
>>737656456>What was gaming like in the 2000s?Dog walks into the room and trips on the controller cable, your console blacks out on you. Now you're going to have to replay the entire endboss fight sequence in your JPRG all over again.
>>737668004and a beep boop to you as well
>>737663043
>>737656456Comfy
>>737668720THE HOVERHAND
If you're a kid in poverty, you're screw. Your parent will not buy you games. You will most likely not be able to play during the MMO golden years. This is assuming your parents can afford internet.
>>737656456There were so many bangers being released that there simply wasn't enough time to play them all. Every year we would get new IP's that would become legendary and games that would define the genre. We thought that was how it would be forever.
>>737656456all the women wore low cut jeans and had hot midriffs, and it was good.
>>737656456absolutely insane levels of couch co-op gameplay. 4 player splitscreen. leaving games on with the title screen music playing for hours while you went and played outside.
>>737668720Regardless of hoverhand. What were the point of these scholgirl booth babes? were they promoting Lollypop Chainsaw?
>>737656456My TV was actually small during the mid/late 00s and I just sat there like it was normal in a basic wooden chair enjoying some of the best PS2 and GCN games
>>737656456christ this looks like my friend's basement
>>737664219Did you miss emo and scene online users?
>>737663365Last Legacy, Frontier, and one of the Commando games (idk the name, it was wave based and you had to destroy the enemy base) are the best flash games ever made.
>>737669563not him, but yeah, I do
I miss good web design
>>737669104it was hot and made men dominated spaces fun to go to with your young budsfuck everyone
>>737656456I miss it. Every time I see a can of SPAM I think about a particular summer morning when I was playing Gauntlet: Dark Legacy on my 13" TV with built in VCR and my dad came in and asked if I wanted some SPAM & eggs. I ate SPAM & eggs with my dad while we watched Andy Griffith on TV Land and then I went back to my room and started those cool Egypt levels. Egypt stuff in games is always cool.
>>737657209>>737657372I still remember the taste of this.
>>737670612I am aware, i was just trying to understand what game or booth were they promoting.Bully maybe?
>>737658481>ceiling-high shelves of appliances>"game stores"
>>737661983https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games come home white man there are also like at least 3 Cartoon Orbits you can play
>>737671241https://youtu.be/XRhi8Tk9nNE
>>737656702my eyes were fine but for some reason my ears would get really red and warm after playing for a long time
I'm not familiar with modern consoles, is split screen still a thing on them?
>>737677476It is extremely rare to find split screen in modern games.
>>737656456it was harder to get the games you wanted, so you cherished more the ones you had, for better and worse.
>>737677476>I'm not familiar with modern consoles, is split screen still a thing on them?You unironically have more chance with Steam and Nucleus Co-Op
>>737656456Furking awesome. Peak hobby before corporations sloppified everything
>>737669104>>737672263I shit you not I believe they're journalists and those are their uniforms actually, I remember a youtube video were a hot girl shows a bunch of hot schoolgirl outfits in her closet and then goes to a gaming expo like E3 dressed like that with a mic to talk to people, I saw it like in 2012 but the video was older I think, have never been able to find it, maybe it was G4 or Batinthesun something like that
>>737657974>01/07/2007two days before the iPhone was announced. how things would change.
>>737656456The best because it's all co-op games. Early 00's you also had lan parties where everyone brings their giant monitors and desktops to a friends house and play world of warcraft or counter-strike.
>>737677976frfr bruh, it was deadass lowkey peak af
>>737675249this happened to me too but in hindsight i think it was because i was in a hot room with windows that magnified the sunlight shining directly into the house
>>737656456comfy
>>737663307riding into mc or bwl with your whole 40man raid in hopes of getting in with wbsmassive pvp that made the whole server lag and stacked skeletons up high when bwl openedthousands of people on the same layer creating literal 20s of input lag before tbc drop, bears dancing on top of the barren lands portalgood times
>>737656456Consoles were king. It was far more a group activity with a group of dudes hanging out in a dorm room or someone's house playing mostly sports or fighting games with 2 players and passing the controller on loss while drinking 40s and smoking blunts with wu-tang blasting. everyone had a variety of games from different genres but there was a lot of buying the hot new shit and trading in your old games that weren't 10/10 masterpieces to do so so libraries never grew huge. You'd have different friends with different systems too so you'd get exposed to everything. PC chads played quake or starcraft or some shit and the pc sections in gamestop or babbages grew smaller and smaller until it was one half of an aisle, waiting for Gaben to come and save PC gayming.
>>737657689I remember finding some post on some random website with tuning numbers for the toyota carolla on Gran Turismo and them shits worked perfectly. Thank you, ancient car autist.
If you were on PC, pretty mediocre. The industry was creaming itself over consoles and hated PC's for "piracy" and the only games to play were shooters, strategy games, online shit and random shovelware. Emulators for consoles like N64 or PS1 were in a weak state. Copy protection malware on physical discs. Gays for Winblows Die. Crappy console ports. Etc etc etc. PC gaming was at its best in the 90's, then only improved when Steam got really good.
>>737658036>Getting on the little earth ball in Moon Base and then starting a huge diatribe about how you are superior to the plebians unable to jetpack properly on the earthball.
>>737661489>2008>crtwhat in the actual fuckeven schools by that point had stopped using crt
>>737675082>All those old 00s websitesShit anon where did you find this
>>737683435I had a crt monitor up until 2010, and used a crt tv well into the 2010s. we did have a flat screen tv in the house by that point too, but crts were still in use, especially if you were not very well off. can't remember when my school stopped using them.
>>737656998MTV turned into niggerslop long before Family Guy or South Park were a thing.
>>737656456I had a shitty PC, a GBA, a xbox (later a xbox360) and my knees didn't make cracking noises. It was the best of times
>>737656456>2 tv>1 monitorThis is what a millionaire's house looked like
>>737656998Beavis and Butthead ended in 97, same year South Park started, nobody in the early 2000s would be comparing them.
>>737656456Overrated
>>737657931Kids these days don't know what we've lost with moddable games. Practically every server was modded
>>737658564God, imagine what it would be like if facebook had failed and modern normie social media had either never happened or at least had been delayed for a decade or two
>>737656702This never happened to me.
>>737663715Panda Express is trash. That image is mall food court food. They always have a different name but they all taste the same.
>>737661767Somewhat false, toysrus and kbtoys kept theirs in cabinets.
>>737685379also the content creation tools that used to ship with games. you'd never see something like the Warcraft 3 editor release today. it would be like if Mario Maker was just a free mode that came with New Super Mario Bros, and was 1000x more robust in its cabaility.
>>737685078>I had a crt monitor up until 2010, and used a crt tv well into the 2010sSame and same, I only stopped using them when they both stopped working within a few years of one another (monitor overheated due to something stupid, TV was just a cheap brand so it only lasted 10 years instead of the usual meth addict's lifespan)
>>737663569You seriously believe he has money? LMAO.
>>737657372Wtf
>>737658481The cuckstation looks like souless iSlop
>>737656456Halo 3 MP with the boys on my big fat CRT was peak.
>>737657974Literal peak of humanity
>>737679869Boothbabes were a normal thing at e3 for ages, and a lot of Tech TV/G4 hostesses were just sluts that fucked some producers to get roles so they often went out in some slutty cosplay to do interviews with devs and randos a shit.
i miss dedicated servers and the forums and communities that formed around themconsolisation ruined online gaming on pc for me
>>737656456getting multiple monitors to work flawlessly on winXP after shitshow limitations that win98 was fucking magical, felt like cheating playing old ass mmo's with irc to coordinate pvp on side screen
>>737658403I went into a Carl's Jr last week, and the Big Carl way back used to be 1.99 introduced as a big and cheap burger but now it's- I shit you not- 9 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR THE BURGER ALONE. Carl's is a bit worse than most but still, shit's nuts.
>>737686230take me back
>>737685613Shit feels inevitable, Myspace was already a thing so it was only a matter of time until anyone else did it in a more modern way to appeal to normalfags. Twitter intentionally bought and killed vine only for chink Tiktok to later fill that void and blow up.
I blame Reddit for the death of forums. There are still forums and website out there that function like they once did, but they have fewer users and a much lower % of the internet.
>>737686678discord too, a lot of would-be forum communities are now just hosted on discord servers. but reddit was definitely the primary driver. honestly it's impressive 4chan is even still alive when most other social websites from that time are dead (other than reddit). although activity here is ok the decline, when you consider that we were launched the same year as myspace...we're doing alright.
>>737686923>activity here is ok the declineI hope it declines back to pre-2016 pre-phone levels.
>>737686973Oh the things I wish I could do to election tourists...
>>7376630432020s kids are saying they'll be the last generation to get a real childhood and expressing 90s nostalgia for a time they never saw. It's going to be a rough century.
>>737686973The biggest problem is the wrong people are staying (shills and fagets)The notion to lurk moar is pretty much gone and even just the type of vidya this board talks about has gone from niche/hardcore games to gacha and total FOTM normalfag stuff.
>>737664846>and the rice is gross and unseasonedFeels like this is how most commercial white rice is prepared. Why does no one in those businesses know how to use a rice cooker?
>>737657689>the higher quality people that used the InternetNo one just handed you internet access 20+ years ago, it was something you made an effort to get. You had to set up your own modem. Depending on where you lived you might have a shitty ISP. Sometimes they would have to run a CAT5/Coaxial cable through the walls of your fucking house just so you could connect. It took effort.Compare that to now when every phone plan gives you unlimited online access and we just give old smartphones to naked Zulu warriors because "fuck it".Back when the internet was small, search engines could literally find anything. You could type in a quote from a thread you read the week before + the forum you saw it and the top link would be that thread. Now people try to cheese the algorithm so much you're lucky if what you actually want is in the top 50 results.
>>737663043>erm chud, everyone thinks their childhood was the best.>you need to just take off your nostalgia goggles
>>737687625the only thing I know for certain is that my childhood was the best
>>737666461>>737666706The pandemic felt like the spirit of the old internet was revived for a short time, it was fun
>>737685758Giving people that level of freedom gave us so much. I don't think people realize how much of recent gaming comes from mods.>Team Fortress spawned all the team/hero shooters. Quake mod.>Defense of the Ancients spawned literally all MOBAs. Warcraft 3 mod.>Counter Strike is still being played competitively today. Half Life mod.>Battle Royal mode (the Fornite juggernaut). ARMA2 mod.We're living in the shadow of 2000s gaming. We peaked and we all know it. We're caught in a repetition of the same cycle from 20 years ago with almost no innovation.
>/v/: My childhood was the worst. I was a friendless loser who was bullied by everyone for being a gamer and girls used to make fun of me and I never even got to so much as touch one much less have sex.>also /v/: MY CHILDHOOD WAS BEST! I WANT TO GO BACK!
>>737687983It's funny, day z is a mod of a mod which inspired rust, and most mp game devs would die to have rust's numbers
>>737687983>We're caught in a repetition of the same cycle from 20 years ago with almost no innovation.The giants of today started as the mice of yesterday. But the mice of today will become the behemoths of tomorrow.There's always tons of innovation in modding and indie games, you just don't play those anymore. You're still playing the same things you were playing 20 years ago.
>>737656456It's either PC lobbies near school or something and alone with playsation games in your room.Good times.
>>737688139Case in point: autochess.
>>737656456Great
>>737656456niche jap games were once a thingnow they have been replaced by gachashit and vtubers
>>737688073
>>737656456for me me personally it was 90% ragnarok online. I still remember the name of the first online gf I had in that game. I remember the first online bully that almost made me quit. I remember the first private server I went to(MobRO). I remember that server shutting down because the owner was addicted to crack. I remember
>>737687983You forgot to mention Tower defense games also came from sc/wc custom maps. Another entire genre. And shit like autobattlers / auto chess / team fight tactics / Mechabellum etc ... All from a Dota 2 mod... Mod of a mod lol
>>737675082Appreciate you, man
People played games because they were fun not because they'd made "gaming" a facet of their personality.
>>737690010this is not true
>>737690010It's definitely more corporate than it was...Nobody identified as a "gamer" back then... It was a stigma. People hated gaymurs... Playing games was something you would do if you weren't out playing basketball or swimming, it was like a rainy day activity... Else you were a fuckin nerd like me..
>>737692371>It was a stigma. People hated gaymurs...This is such crap.I played video games. Was never bullied for it. No stigma from it. Still had friends. Still had girlfriends.You weren't ridiculed because you were a "nerd". You were ridiculed because you were a loser and did nothing about it.
>>737690010Are people forgetting that this was the golden era of the gamer webcomic (like PA or CAD), and any adult who consistently played video games acted like they were a hardcore gamer. Tbdesu I assume that everyone in this thread was in middle school/high school at the time, so are only looking at it through that lens.
>>737692371Skill issue. I had to fight my hot girlfriend off my pc to get some playtime by the time 2000 rolled out.
>>737656456It still felt like the future of gaming was going to be amazing. It wasn't.
>>737658427>brand new sealed OG Xbox for only 149.99God fucking dammit
>>737656456The time before internet was better, we just didn't know it at the time
I really wish i took more pictures of daily life.
>>737694570Same. I took a bunch of pics as a kid on those cheap disposable cameras that you'd have to send to K-Mart to get developed. Lost them all due to moving so many times. I'd kill to see those pictures again.
