Was the early 2000s the peak of PC gaming?
if that was what you're nostalgic about then sure
Playing warcraft 3 was better in 2010s than 2000s. In the 2000s you had 2.5 sec delay online because amerisharts had terrible internet and they wanted to equalize things.
I am a zoomer and have a battlechest I got as a gift back in 09. Warcraft 3 is peak RTS and my childhood.
>>739853786Definitely was the peak of online multiplayer. You had relatively small fanbases by today's standards making 100+ maps, skins, and other mods and sharing them on fan sites where they could be utilized by server owners. The amount of extra content made it possible to enjoy a multiplayer game for literally thousands of hours without getting bored. Competitive gaming was an offshoot of the vanilla public experience, not directly facilitating the game design, making it so that large server populations were the norm (many further modded 32-player limits to be able to run 64-players as well), allowing noobs to learn the game's maps and mechanics at a leisurely pace in a non-toxic environment where a new player's skill expression doesn't matter that much in the grand scheme of a match. Compare that to today's sweaty meta-driven 5 vs 5 """casual""" matches, and it's no comparison which format is more friendly to new players. Competitive lads would still have fun competing in clans and sharing fragmovies on sites like own-age, but again, it wouldn't affect how 95% of people play.Add on top of all this the fact that the Internet was in its best state due to the demographics being mostly intelligent nerds and hobbyists, and you had a smaller, more niche (compared to consoles), but healthy subsect of fellow diehard gamers to play with rather than mentally ill normiecattle and third world children.
>>739853786The Diablo battle chest was cool
>>7398537861995-2005 was the peak of ALL gaming, media, internet and culture.
The 2000s were the peak of everything.
A reminder the 7th gen killed big box art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuAfbxOTYSM
