Was gaming and the internet really better in the 2000s? What was it like back then?
>>738850279>Was gaming and the internet really better in the 2000s?Yes>What was it like back then?Better
Stuff was exciting because you genuinely believed things were improving. Compared to now where things are clearly going in an obviously negative direction both creatively, financially, and societally, with the only positive beliefs coming across as paid marketing trying to gaslight you into thinking up is down.
i would play pokemon ruby in the back of my trailerpark in between my dad suffering PTSD episodes he got from his tour in afghanistan and my mom cheating on him with some black guy who she owes drug money to
>>738850279>Was gaming and the internet really better in the 2000s?Yes
>>738850279>Was gaming . . . really better in the 2000s?Yes.>Was . . . the internet really better in the 2000s?No.>What was it like back then?I had a child brain and 56k.
Game culture was really anti-japan in the 2000s for some reason
>>738850279it was differentI do not miss endless load times on those cd/dvd based gamesalso most broken games just stayed broken, never receiving updates (but 20 years later nobody remembers those shitgames so the past seems golden)
>>738851613>Patches don't exist
>>738850279>What was it like back then?Less "QoL" shit and more challenging and complex, but way better and designed games with more variety.
>>738851613>also most broken games just stayed brokenMaybe on console, and there were plenty of games that were just shovelware trash. The only difference is that you could tell the difference between shovelware trash and what's actually good because of a lack of atomization in society and a higher barrier of entry for creation. On PC you could generally find a patch either made by a company or by fans, and if you couldn't then that was a sign you made a mistake.
>>738850279I wasn't able to experience it to it's fullest but yeah, it was, it really was.It started being a bit worse by 2011, and starting with 2015 was the real downside with things becoming marginally worse as every years goes by.I pity the generations after the early zoomers who never will have seeing how it was. They will only hear tales from it. Like someone reading an history book.
>>738850279It was just like today, older people looking at kids with their shiny new toys, and not understanding them.
>>738851613Hey we still remember Oblivion
>>738850279Only up to 2007 internet-wise. Then the Eternal Summer started and everything went to hell.
>>738850279The internet was 100% better since the majority of 3rd worlders didn't have access to it yet and smartphones weren't a thing for most of the decade so the internet was still relatively normalfag free.
>>738851652I never heard of patches on the Nintento Gamecube
>>738851589was that an xbro thing? i didn't see it in playstation forums.
>>738851946There's still a lot of things significantly different (and worse) about the internet of now than in post-2007. even 2015. It wasn't a one time thing, it was a slow disappearance.Even after 2007, there was some years when you could still use the internet the same way it was, which is almost completely impossible today
>>738852449that's because it was never talked about openlygreatest hits versions were always the latest patched version of the game
>>738852449Another win for PC master race!
>>738852137things really got worse when we got non-english videos in search results
>>738850279xbox and gamecube were absolutely horrendous, ps2 was pure kino
>>738850279early 2000's was basically the perfect stage of technology in general. new, groundbreaking shit all the time, but not yet interfering or integrated in daily life. being able to access the internet from your pocket was really the turning point
>>738852613things changed when websites started formatting for smartphones
>>738850279You could say nigger without having money stolen
you could have a black person in a game without people trying to convince you it was the end of civilization
>>738850279I lost.
>>738850279The internet was all white male nerds back then so you can imagine it was based.
>>738852947The only major online games at the time were MMORPGs which were already corpo normalfag central with language filters and ban-happy mods.
>>738850279In 2005 I went to a video game store to buy Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. The guy behind the counter wouldn’t let me buy it because it was rated M. He asked why I wanted to play it and I said it would be cool to fight the giant enemy in pic related. He recommended Shadow of the Colossus instead.
>>738853091there was a good amount of black nerds on the internet, you couldn't really tell them apart from other people, thoughonce kikes started heavily pushing ghetto nigger culture everywhere, the black nerds more or less disappeared
It was 99% white and felt libertarian, thats why.
>>738850279Imagine a world without mobile games or gacha games
>>738853138Not just MMOs, online FPS games were riding high in the 2000s. Xbox live hadn't yet become big brother and you still had private servers on PC. MMOs were always trash
>>738853259Based clerk, he recommended you a better game with even bigger enemies
>>738853138not true RTS were big back then
>>738851613As if things are better now. I bought Zeus: Master of Olympus from steam, and it's the unpatched launch version. Arguably the industry has become even worse; they re-release 30 year old games without bothering to even apply 29 year old patches.
>>738853910back then you didnt know better unless you read the top 4 gaming magazines.today its your fault. you knew about this and buyghted the game anyway
>>738854380>unless you readSo your own fault.
>>738853091>>738853276>>738853326go to bluesky or reddit if you're that desperate to hang out with your fellow tranny whitoids instead of crying like a buckbroken bitch
>>738854624no, the magazine is not the storefront you buy the game from
>>738853910horrible and lazy PC ports have always been a thing
>>738850279magazines weren't free and even if they were you had to find them
>>738855423Meant for >>738854624
Putting the internet in woman's hands was the biggest mistake humanity ever made. Even worse than the Balfour declaration.
>>738850279A time when every game wasn't "completed" on arrival thanks to internetAlso a time when you didn't have to buy DLC day one to even start the gameA time when you didn't have big patches day oneA time when you weren't forced microtransactionsA time when leftard political agenda wasn't forced down your gullet, with trannies, faggots, girl bosses. revisionism and raceswaps at every cornerA time when WOMEN didn't make themYeah it really WAS a better time for everything. Later 2000s is when we started to see the cancer that we see today.
>>738850279I was younger and lived nearly free of an awareness of the world beyond my suburban life with my loving parents, so yes it was better. Thats most of the reason, cuz every game that existed then exists now in addition to at least a million more and theyre more accessible than ever. The thing that changed is me and the scope of my awareness and responsibilities.Short answer is yes cuz nostalgia
>>738856245See>>738856231
>>738856459I've not encountered any of those "problems". Nobody forces me to look up spoilers and guides to games i play, I can't think of any games that won't start if you dont buy the day one dlc, patches not existing means I rented a number of games from blockbuster that had game breaking bugs that were forever part of the game, and the existence of people different from me doesnt send me into conniption fits. Your misery is mostly imagined and self imposed in the stoic sense and is fortunately not a universal experience.
>>738856775I was referring to the image.
>>738856856Ohhhh. I mean such consolidation has happened in every industry under capitalism, the internet was just new so we lived to see it in real time. It sucks but I'm mostly logged off the internet these days anyway and adblockers and vpns let me use the parts I do use without making the corpos who own it any money off ads or data harvesting. In the stoic sense, I can't control what happens there but I can also choose not to engage with it or waste emotional energy thrashing against it.
>>738851589Not really we just lightly made fun of their eccentricities and autistic tards would seethe
>>738856775>sounds like a you problemhaven't seen that one in while, bravo anon
>>738857609I mean there was all the stuff after which is 100% true and was also not proven wrong, so it's well founded
