It was a different time.
>>739838886>not mentioning us by name because we are le heckin nazists
Today in the Furukawa era, these Anons would've been shot down by security guards for even attempting to touch company grounds.
I remember how they thanked /v/ tendies by immediately censoring Xenoblade X and Fatal Frame
That years e3 was so unbelievably bad and full of pre-rendered trailers/no actual gameplay that when Nintendo closed it out and not only actually showed video games but then proceeded to do the treehouse streams for the first time after showing three days of nothing but gameplay for those games we got so high off of gameplay that /v/ went on the most ridiculous glaze-fest for Nintendo ever, resulting in that being made.I can't see where mine is on there but I drew a Bayonetta. Yeah I regret it, it was cringe in hindsight but again you had to have been there.I can't see where mine is on there but I drew a Bayonetta. Yeah I regret it, it was cringe in hindsight but you had to have been there to understand just how bad things truly were.
>>739838886saw one of the girls in that picture nude
>>739841330iirc 4chan got her fired kek
>>739841330Yeah, she also wrote Fuck Trump on her tits.
>>739843102based
>>739838886Cursed like every time /v/ makes a damn card.
>>739843380>/v/ makes a card for Nintendo Treehouse>games start getting censored and pozzed>/v/ makes a card for Iwata>he diesConsidering the results, who should we send a card next?
>>739838886I swear this was just 1 fag forcing this card shit multiple times because he worked at the company doing them. >>739841294I think I drew a tile for the Iwata get well card? /v/ killed Iwata with its curse that corrupts, rots and kills everything it touches.
>>739843527>sends hideo a card>releases an unfinished game and gets fired from konamithis shit really is cursed
>>739843527Third times a charm. Send one to Miyamoto and see what hell this creates.
>>739843527You forgot>send card to kamiya>he stops making games
didn't /v/ send gabe one as well
>>739841294Good post. The gaming industry in early 2010s was horrendous dogshit, even worse than today: >Western AAA solidifying itself as derivative normalfag dogshit (Peak of Ubisoft/EA/Activision's AAA output, continued casualization of older genres e.g. Fallout 4)>Japanese devs still struggling with HD development>Dev times and budgets continuing to balloon to 5 years between titles and hundreds of millions>Widespread proliferation of scummy DLC practices, microtransactions, and service games>Indie scene hadn't evolved to making AA experiences yet, still in its Super Meat Boy/Phil Fish-era>SJW identity politics started infesting the industry, cancerous discourse from virtue signaling faggots and its edge lord pushback>Start of anemic 1st party outputs from Sony and Microsoft2014 was the peak of many of those cancers, especially E3 2014 where every other trailer was CG and/or bullshot gameplay. Meanwhile, Nintendo actual had its best Wii U games 2014 lineup (Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, Smash 4) and had good E3 reveals (Smash 4, Splatoon, Star Fox, Mario Maker, BOTW) + 3 days of comfy gameplay footage.Dragon Age Inquisition won GOTY in 2014 and the most anticipated games of the year was fucking Destiny 1 and endless AC sequels. Those Treehouse streams were a reprieve amongst a sea of Western AAA dogshit.
I miss the <insert 16 years ago> timeline.
>>7398471752010s gaming industry had 3DS peak so it was great for that.
>>739845926It's Newell, newfag
>>739847175I read your post. Good shit anon.
>>739847175the sjw era will always be worse than the ai we have todayat least the indie devs try to make games fun, back then it's all movie games or quick events.
>sending a gift to fucking TreehouseI seriously hope no one knew what they were doing and everyone was oblivious to how fucking awful Treehouse were/are.
>>739849392You will never be white.
>>739847175>Western AAA solidifying itself as derivative normalfag dogshit And now we have endless DEI garbage and remakes (featuring DEI garbage). Epic.>Japanese devs still struggling with HD developmentNow we have Japanese devs butchering their franchises to chase the Western audience, both gameplay as well as "cultural sensibilities" resulting in complete abominations like RE4 Remake, Final Fantasy 7 Remake or Monster Hunter Wilds. >Dev times and budgets continuing to balloon to 5 years between titles and hundreds of millionsNow we have Sony and Microsoft losing millions on Concord and Marathon respectively. Also, how exactly is that my problem?>Widespread proliferation of scummy DLC practices, microtransactions, and service gamesYou say that like it stopped at some point.>Indie scene hadn't evolved to making AA experiences yet, still in its Super Meat Boy/Phil Fish-eraYeah and now the indie scene is "remember x from when video games were good? well, here's x but way worse!".>SJW identity politics started infesting the industry, cancerous discourse from virtue signaling faggots and its edge lord pushbackAnd now it's a thousand times worse.>Start of anemic 1st party outputs from Sony and MicrosoftAnd now there's none at all.Did you read what you were writing, while typing this out, or were you just having one MASSIVE stroke?
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It really was a different time, yes. That E3 was so unbelievably garbage on every stream then Nintendo's event coming up next right before the opening of the E3 floor was so fucking fresh with the puppets and the Smash 4 Wii U trailer with Reggie and Iwata trading blows followed by nothing but straight video games after video games including the reveal of BotW and THE new Nintendo IP Splatoon and then the Treehouse streams with straight gameplay, developer interviews and even more video game announcements all while the line to play the Splatoon demo stretched through the whole venue, it felt like Nintendo had brought the magic to E3 again and made even the most jaded /v/irgin giddy.This was all before the Treehouse crimes came to light and they kept piling up.
>>739849517silence, newfag
>>739838886Stupid slut got what she deserved
>>739841294I paid for the poster to be printed. again yeah kinda cringe, but also whatever, who cares
>>739850076It's not a thousand times worse, in fact with the scale of diverse players gaming, all over the world, it has scaled down in a per capita output. Also the right is the new SJW, Trump is the one who's trying to police content.
>>739838886And then didn't one of those women get fired for being a pedophile or something?
>>739855537one of them got fired for moonlighting as an escort/prostitute
>>739852703>puppetsThat was 2015, 2014 was robot chicken.
Nintendo's 2014 E3 was an oasis compared to the other shows at the time. The Wii U was and will forever be a shitshow, but this was the only time it looked like it had promise. The Robot Chicken sketch is super tame and definitely dated now (is it still made?), but the self-deprecating jokes and novelty of it was there. And it was game after game after game with developer interviews. The Direct format allowed it to be more concise than le gaijin flute man FWEEEE.They even had this as the pre-Direct musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jL2DPylmhEWay more memorable than 2015 using boring ass NSMB music.
>>7398388862014 was the best year for the Wii U, it had all my favorite games (except Mario Maker and Xenoblade X) release and it was just hype as fuck. I played Bayonetta 2 so much and yeah nowadays I think 1 is a better game, but 2 was also really good. Hyrule Warriors and Smash 4 were good games and I didn’t even like musou that much. I never even 100% all of Hyrule Warrior’s DLCs but I played that game for like 200 hours.
>>739856058>The Wii U was and will forever be a shitshow, but this was the only time it looked like it had promiseYeah, it was so shit they ported literally every exclusive over to the switch.
>>739856267They ported everything of worth* over to the Switch and nearly every aspect of each of these ports was improved or the benefits outweighed what was lost. Just because the Wii U had some good things, it doesn't mean it was a good console. Those good things existed in spite of it.
>>739856451The only thing that should matter to a console is having good games. The Wii U did so quickly, while the Switch struggled to get there to the point they were porting as many games as they could and now the Switch 2 is still struggling to the point they have to remake fucking Ocarina of Time as a panic button. The Wii U being a bad console is the biggest meme ever, and a clear sign /v/ only gets their opinion from e-celebs. It was one of the last times we got actual good creative new content that wasn't safe marketable slop. It only flopped because it filtered normalfags, that's all.
>>739856267They didn't really have much of a choice. Imagine if those games stayed trapped on the Wii U of all things.
>>739856703I fucking OWN a Wii U and actively bought what games I could. It was an underbaked console that Nintendo was too afraid to ever fully commit to. They had no idea what they wanted out of it, they just seemed to believe that things would fall into place because "The Wii was popular". The software droughts were fucking terrible, NSMBU and Nintendo Land were the first-party launch games and the next one didn't come until Game & Wario in June. I don't even think they did a commercials for Pikmin 3 in North America. They put out The Wonderful 101 to die the same day as GTA V (also avoided giving it commercials). But their commercials were so shitty and out of touch at the time that I think they would have made people actively avoid those games.Why was NSMBU the launch Mario in a year that already got NSMB2 on the 3DS? And right after 3D Land which was NSMB in 3D the year before. And NSMBU was quickly followed by NSLU and then 3D World which was again just NSMB in 3D going by its reveal trailer. Have you ever seen a company panic so hard that they double down on repeating things that were familiar and successful, evoking that image over and over again? New Super Mario Bros. U, Wii Fit U, Wii Sports Resort, all around each other. Xenoblade X was still being shown at E3 in 2015 when it released over a month before in Japan, and by the time they were actually releasing it outside Japan, they spoiled the big end game twist. Miiverse was a shitshow, Nintendo TVii was underdeveloped and put out to die, the OS required tons of updates to stop being a slow piece of shit, and even then it was never fast. The Wii U's strongest feature is backwards compatibility and if it didn't have that, it would have really been hard to justify.
>>739843527Gaben
>>739847175Worse than today?
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>>739857995Arguable. There's more casual trash slop today, gachas and battle pass trash and all that, but there's definitely more creativity compared to that era. So many IP's died during that era for Uncharted movie sims.
>>739857995Different flavors of shit, like the dudebro brown and bloom sportball FPS years of the 00s. We can look back on older eras with less animosity because they're over and no longer dominating absolutely everything, we don't feel trapped by them anymore or like they're the future forever. It's like how the early/mid 2010s had all the "guy facing the player" game covers, season passes, frivolous microtransactions, push for mobile, cinematic experiences, battle royales, etc.
>>739857885I'm don't remember what was the occasion, but /v/ assembled a squad and took a trip to Valve once, it was pretty sick to see. Might've been Gaben's birthday or something else, I really don't remember.
>>739858690And forgot to add, I mourn the death of yuki.la every day.
>>739843645>from fans in australiaSasuga Kojima
>>739856703>The Wii U did so quicklyLMAOThe Wii U went months without games
>>739838886noa is so fucking soulless now
>>739856703this guy knows
>>739858458There's no "eras" except for AAA. Every year has infinite games of all kinds, trends only affect big budget titles
WiiU was a better console than the Wii, to be honest.
We were so fucking embarrassing holy shit. The Wii U era of /v/ was fucked. So glad the Switch onions memes came out when they did because it saved this board culture wise
>/v/ discovered, simped for, and fired a l i t e r a l /ss/ Nintendo prostitutedifferent times
>>739861154Obviously "era" is a vague notion and that prevents it from being cleanly defined. Even when it comes to consoles, most old and new consoles simultaneously exist for a while and continue to actively get new games. The GBA was from 2001-2006, but the DS was from 2004-2012. And where you want to cut things off is entirely preferential. Maybe the DS was truly done for you only after 2014 when servers shut down. But what does that mean for consoles without servers?At any rate, trends in AAA affect a lot of the mood of the era. It's not like I play a lot of the boogeymen games, but they're boogeymen games because people have a lingering sense of encroachment and fear. And those boogeymen evolve into or are replaced by other boogeymen, and the old version seems quaint and we think it was better back then compared to now. I think 2017 was an amazing year for video games, but I'm sure that many people at that time were more preoccupied with the stuff they didn't like that they were seeing everywhere. 1986 was a monumental year in Japan, but how would that look to someone who grew up chasing high scores in the arcades in the late 70s as a kid? It's like a completely different era, and even where you play your games is different, the game design philosophy is completely different.
>>739841330Link or name
>>739861278Tendies are obnoxious. What's new?
>>739861706AAA boogeymen are literally irrelevant to gamers. We don't talk about nba2k or the newest cods on this board. If a big company comes out and decides to make a trillion dollar slop it doesn't affect what I'm going to play
>>739841294>>739847175>Japanese devs still struggling with HD developmentDon't forget that in 2010, JP devs also had to work around both the Western industry and Western media being ridiculously biased against them. Amazing games would get 20points knocked off their Metascores for having an anime aesthetic.It's fucking ridiculous looking back and seeing the way review outlets treated anything that felt culturally Japanese. Phil Fish was a retard and if you look at the games that came out that year, it's clear that he was wrong, but his sentiment was widely held despite that.
>>739862120That we didn’t bully these fuckers sooner
>>739862451>weI always did my part
/v/ is still a tendie stronghold. Nothing has changed
>>739857995Easily.The Japanese games industry is in a healthier state. JP devs have been making good console games since 2017 (e.g. Capcom). Got over 6th HD development hurdles.Nintendo being successful and a market leader is better than Sony or Microsoft, they still have an actual 1st Party output.Modern indie games are way better. Less pretentious 2D platformers made by hipsters. More 3D mid-tier AA games with moderate budgets and scope.Angry Birds-era of Mobile gaming died out. Did not replace the traditional industry, as retarded investors speculated. Mobile became Gatcha-slop, multiplats of F2P kids games (e.g. Fortnite, Genshin, Roblox), and Bejeweled puzzlers for old people.SJW/woke identity politics bullshit is finally starting to die down within the industry. Laura Croft can look hot again. The James Bond game can have babes in it and nobody bats an eye. In 2014 the NeoGAF/Tumblr SJW types would've flipped their shit about "objectification" and the "male gaze". All that feminist rhetoric died down when Trannies won the Oppression Olympics and (shockingly) turned out to be massive coomers themselves.The only thing worse now than the 2010s are Western AAA games. They got what they deserved for pushing the industry in an infeasible direction.
>>739838886It was a retarded time
>>739862793Nintendo still makes games. Sony struggles to release more than 1 game a year. Most of the time it's a movie games with simplified gameplay, or a multiplayer service game that immediately flopsMicrosoft can hardly even get games out this generation.Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World are better than any Sony or Microsoft game released in the past decade.
>>739863180Drag x Drive is better than any non-Nintendo game ever made.
>>739862274NTA but AAA games centralize the industry and trends therein around themselves.You nor the games you play exist in a vacuum and the creation of new things you would like (because you do care about the future unless you have surrendered your humanaty) is affected by said AAA games.
>>739839960These aren't Anons. This is NoA staff.
>>739862274Not all boogeymen are AAA. I'm using boogeymen in a very open way here, games that are seen as harmful for the medium should they have traction, representative of damaging trends.
>>739850076>And now we have endless DEI garbage and remakes (featuring DEI garbage). Epic.And most of it flops. Western AAA Studios are closing left and right because people aren't interested in buying as much derivative dogshit.>Now we have Japanese devs butchering their franchises to chase the Western audience, both gameplay as well as "cultural sensibilities" resulting in complete abominations like RE4 Remake, Final Fantasy 7 Remake or Monster Hunter Wilds.This was worse in the late 2000s/early 2010s. In 2014, the last Resident Evil was RE6, a dudebro shooter that got shit on so much they went back to the creative drawing board with RE7. The last DMC was fucking DmC. The last Final Fantasy was FF13, followed by FF15. Both FF7R and FF16 got better receptions.>Now we have Sony and Microsoft losing millions on Concord and Marathon respectively. Also, how exactly is that my problem?>You say that like it stopped at some point.Didn't say anything stopped. Just the overall state of the hobby is better than the 2010s>Yeah and now the indie scene is "remember x from when video games were good? well, here's x but way worse!".Indie games are definitely better now. Just way more variety and shit coming out than the limited selection of the late 2000s/early 2010s.>And now it's a thousand times worse.SJW ideology infested politics in 2016. We reached peak woke in Summer 2020, it's been slowly cooling down since. People openly say retard again. Less black chimpouts. Less feminist rhetoric. Trannies being insane took a lot of the spotlight.>And now there's none at all.Nigger I said start for a reason.
>>739839880>le heckin nazists>proceeds to move to the next /v/ thread to cry about how games are woke nowyou're not fooling anyone.
>>739863330No it's not. Was Mirror's Edge piss bloom dudebro?
15 or so years ago; back when the most retarded board on 4chan, /v/, would openly praise dogshit localization & censorship companies like Nintendo of America.
>>739841294Sincerity isn't "cringe". This is the thinking that killed /v/ and the wider internet.
>>739864885Ironic shitposting was, in fact, still shitposting
>>739864782And how many games like Mirror's Edge were there?
>>739861962I believe it was Allison Rapp, who we blamed or the censorship from the time and got her ass fired because she was moonlighting as a literal whore and also made some tweets or academic papers or something like that with extremist views related to pedophilia (in favor).
>>739864885I would argue that the whimsy kneejerk movement is even worse than irony poisoning
>>739866702>kneejerkInsincere as well. The real problem is that /v/ used to hate video games, now most people on /v/ are indifferent to video games and just use them for engagement bait and (you) farming since starving 3rd worlders use human interaction as sustenance.
>>739847175As someone who played Starfox Zero at launch and recently on CEMU, I can tell you its certified dogshit.
>>739850076Trvth nvke
>>739841294it sure is cringe, can't imagine/v/ glazing treehouse of all things. those niggers went onto ruin/censor so many games.
>>739843527I remember when /v/ wrote a letter a word per post to cliffy b back when he was busy with lawbreakers. he posted the whole thing on Twitter and the idiot thought an angry fan had an aneurysm LMAO
>>739841294Kys fag
