>>743315469
convenience always wins in the end

what is even that

>>743315837
an indian. They've unfortunately invaded America.

>browns front and center
KEK

>even back then the audience was full of browns
Kek, says a lot.

>>743315469
Bunch of consolecattle that couldn't wait like humans (pc players). I would never wait in a line for a slaughter at middle od the night instead of sleeping, going to school and buying game box after I'm done with school.

>>743315837
Americans in a pre-Covid shopping center

>>743315469
>Bro, don't you miss being a consumerist sheep
>don't you love the security of being in the floc--I mean being part of a community
mmm, nah
I'm too White to need that feeling, thanks

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>>743315914
>>743315987
GTA IV was not that much better

>>743316134
You're brown enough to respond to an AI image instead of letting it slide off the board, faggot.

>>743316004
That's the UK.

>>743315914
>>743315987
You're racist cause youre a virgin

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And a bunch of browns standing in a mall for a shitty videogame will never compared to original 2000s videogame launches

>>743315837
fanboyism

>>743315469
It's crazy how millenials have constructed their entire identities around the media products they consumed as children.

>>743316365
I think these kids are zoomers

>>743315469
I can use AI to generate this feeling

Nah fr, GameStop used to be the spot. Whole lil' crowd outside, everybody loud as hell, folks clownin' each other over what game they coppin'. Somebody mama yellin' from the parking lot, somebody swearin' they finna hit Prestige by tomorrow, somebody lyin' 'bout beatin' the final boss already. Didn't matter if you had money or not—you was outside vibin'. Simpler times, on me.

>>743315469
imagine how brown the fanbase is now 13 years later. disgusting

>>743316203
>an AI image
I thought zoomers are "digital natives" and were supposed to be good at recognizing AI

I;ve been noticing the trend that the majority of users on this website cannot identify clearly AI generated images. Sad that the average 4chan user in 2026 is somehow just stupid as the average facebook boomer or reddit fag

>>743315469
I do not get the appeal of waiting long times at late hours with several potentially stinky individuals for a piece of media or entertainment platform.

>>743317372
>>743317462
https://www.flickr.com/photos/106173509@N08/11240007295/

>>743317462
I learned that zoomers and gen A don't know how to reverse image search

>>743315469
gta is overrated

>>743315469
>consoomption
>consoomption, physical media

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>>743316717
that picture is 13 years old!

>>743315469
I miss the hype of new releases when new games were worth getting excited over

You goyslop jet-black jeet-adjacent retards are going to buy GTA6 like the goddamn jet-black jeet-adjacent fucking stinky fuckers you are and it'll be over this time for real for real.

>>743315469
>dont get to stand in line with a bunch of smelly dysgenic third worlders
yes, truly sad.

>>743317738
That was from a time before blind consoomerism, when people who made games were still talented and actually tried

>>743317785
Just say "American"

>>743317749
I am a 26 zoomer, GTA V released when I had 13

>>743317749
most zoomers are pushing 30, anon. these teens were probably zoomers born in the late 90s.

>>743317563
Yeah, but you shouldn't have to reverse image search to check for AI. Just look at the image for 3 seconds and you can tell

>>743317556
>Resolution of that photo
>Resolution of OP

It's upscaled you mouth breather.

>>743315469
Yeah but I don't wanna

>>743317840
>That was from a time before blind consoomerism
lmao the naivety is astounding. you think blind, greedy consumerism was invented in the last 10 years?? are you underage?

>>743317840
>GTA V
>biggest whale container ever
>made with passion
lmao

>>743317904
https://x.com/VideojuegosGAME/status/2076978284139569557/

>>743318039
Oh, it's grok

>>743315469
>the store is literally called Game
Europe is not real

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>>743318039
for fuck's sake

>>743316315
it was a bunch of browns back than too but i don't want to ruin your nostalgia goggles

>>743318217
On Spain nobody uses GAME as a word to talk about vidya, it's mostly an UK problem

>>743317940
Slop was just starting around that time, you can't tell me things are no different between now and back then
>>743318008
Again, relatively to today, absolutely
But ultimately gaming has been in a varying degree of decline since the mid 00s

>>743318336
The crash was caused by corporate greed tho, vidya has never been pure

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>>743315469
Still inferior to this.

>>743315469
I hate looking at pics from over a decade ago and seeing how dated it looks since it feels just like yesterday to me.

>>743315469
imagine the smells

>>743315469
This is no longer the audience that AAA studios and publishers make games for.

>>743318425
Casuals en masse comong to gaming because wii, and spec/ immersionfag normies replacing the previous ps and xb during ps360 didn't help matters

>>743315469
The feeling of having to constantly deal with minorities?

>>743315837
>>743315469
goym-cattle in line for their propaganda slop

>>743318336
>you can't tell me things are no different between now and back then
i never said that, there definitely are worse games nowadays and retarded management, but the question here was whether or not consumerism was different, which it certainly was not. blind greedy consumerism existed back then as well, its just that the industry has continued and accelerated the practices that were normalized back then. there is a reason why everyone talks about the horse armor, you know. that was 2007, anon.

>>743316308
You're a hideous brownoid pest

>>743315469
nowadays you would just end up in line with a hundred scalpers who havent showered in weeks

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LOL that was me

>>743319654
lol
I got banned from a forum for being a probable future spoiler poster.

>>743316220
Typical mutt deflecting

>>743315469
This is AI slop

Whatever happened to the guys breaking consoles in front of the day one lines?

>>743319573
Found the virgin

>>743317904
but it's not AI Generated

>>743319974
Typical seething britbong Europoor

I did that for the Switch 2 launch. That's enough for me.

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>>743315469
We didn't knew how good we had it.

>>743315469
why are they brown

>>743320254
Why did you ask the question for, what makes you this obsessed

>>743315469
A small part of me misses it, however the last time I went to GAME to buy a physical game it was Skyrim (2011?) and I'm fairly certain it just had a Steam code inside the case. I have no reason to go in person to buy a game.

>>743315469
Gen alpha is gonna experience life in their pods. Never will have walked into video rental stores, books stores, music/record stores, movie hifi stores, video game stores.
They will live their lives disconnected from the real world but always connected online.

>>743315469
Fuck
I still remember when I got my first job at 18 outta high school and overheard some mom say to her kid we can't afford it pick a cheaper one (it was Pokemon Pearl and was like 49.99) and tried to move the girl towards the cheaper 19.99 second hand ones and was like 'ok just pick one since it's all we can get for Christmas'
Retard here ended up buying the fucking Pokemon pearl for the kid and apparently made the kid's christmas

>>743315469
you can join the release party on a live tiktok channel with an influencer who will make it way more fun than waiting in a line like a boomer

>>743318295
It absolutely was not.

>>743321028
>be me
>be 16
>liked tekken
>found about JFLC from reading online. >Thought it was the funniest shit ever
>played only against the CPU
>joined a local tournament for 10 euro entry
>win and get 500 euro

kek

>>743320451
typo *as in wrong reply

Oh yeah don't forget about Arcades, LANS, net cafes and all of that. Even the idea of online gaming will always be constrained to the pod life.
The only pure thing they'll have left is the the movie theatres. Not sure if Drive in films will ever be apart of that though. Everything about the culture they're growing up in is soulless.

>>743320254
They're British.

>>743315469
I don't long for this feeling. And yes, I was alive back when this was a thing.

>>743318217

They started out by selling pheasant and badger meat

>>743315469
they look retarded

>>743315469
the last midnight launch I went to was for Skyward Sword and I brought my then-girlfriend along to show her how epic and hype it was

and it sucked so much ass, oh my god, it's been 15 years and I'm still so embarrassed I brought an actual human to one of those things. We saw a college kid do an actual Naruto run and attempt to jump up a wall only he fell and badly hurt his wrist and he scream-cried for 20 minutes.

>>743320254
What do you mean? That's the average GTA fan.

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I've never had to wait to buy a game, what's that experience like?

>>743316717
Zoomers would get a social anxiety from that many people

>>743323038
It was fun. Especially in the 3DS days where everybody had Streetpass on and you'd gain a ton of connections. I remember standing in line for some game (don't even remember the game, lol) and there was a huge lobby of people playing the 3DS version of Smash 4.

>>743316004
I remember i had a girlfriend who I really cared for but we just didnt click on a lot. One of her favorite things was Black Friday shopping. Where she would wake up at 9pm grab her coffee and purse and go out wait in all the lines.

Now none of this made any sense to me but she clearly missed that feeling since covid so to try and replicate it. On Black Friday i woke her up at 7am and dragged her ass out to the mall. She kwpt saying no to go to bed cause she knew i hated shopping but i forced her out. And in 2024 we were actually waiting in lines and looming for deals in person and she had the biggest smile on her face with my silly recreation if Black Friday shopping.

We broke up 2 months later. That was probably the last time I made her smile.

>>743323284
StreetPass sounds amazing on that situation yeah

>>743323373
She was cheating on you

>>743323431
Yeah, with me

>>743322950
that's really funny

>>743323373
You're a great person, so bad you two aren't together anymore

>>743315469
>Artificial tribal-like """happiness""" at waiting long hours just to "consume next product"
It wasn't that amazing there, lil' zoomie. I was there. Almost every single individual in that line smelled like months-old salty garbage, rancid sweat and liguid dog shit.

>>743323431
No, i was cheating on her, or well at least pursuing other options at the time. Eventually i found someone better and I knew i wasnt going to be happy with her

>>743315469
Never cared about waiting or even seen any meaning in it. There has never been a game that caused me to pre order or one I didn't just wake up in the morning and go to the store to buy and skip lines entirely

>>743315469
>75% browns
Welcome to Britain

>>743323628
Men...

>>743323628
Sorry, I didn't meant to imply I was only speculating. I know for a fact she was. You'd think a chubby brown haired girl would be grateful for the attention, but they have a stable of exes they call on when they're unhappy for a "long time" (more than 48 hours)

>>743315469
>>743318039
kek, it seems that no one here has informed you guys.
>GAME Spain has been freaking out ever since Sony announced it was going to stop releasing physical discs because they’ll probably have to close down.
>In Spain they are the major bootlickers to Sony.
Now they don't stop hyping up the physical format and playing the nostalgia card,
>They are hypocrites promoting pre-orders for GTA VI
>That’s going to come back to bite them, since they make their money from the used games.
>Most of the replies on their Twitter are about how ridiculous they look right now.

>>743315469
I can go to the DMV if I want to wait in line

>>743323791
>they have a stable of exes they call on when they're unhappy for a "long time" (more than 48 hours)
This is true. My ex used to call me to come and dick her down when she was dating a new guy, but when things started getting serious she tried to break our casual get togethers for sex off until I told her if she did I would tell her new BF. I say we used to call me up because she broke up with him out of guilt (and maybe what I was doing) and knew not to call me up again make the same mistake with her new BF she's with now

No, seriously, why are men like this

>>743324369
just imagine you're at a shoe shop and a new shoe is about to come out

>>743324297
You both sound like a couple of winners

>>743325242
which stats does that shoe give?

>>743319974
Nta but enjoy dying from heatstroke. You peasant retards

>>743323038
>females
>waiting in line to buy a VIDEOGAME
I refuse to believe such nonsense-

you can still get the same vibes when pokemon cards drop

>>743328468
It's the DLC for Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library.

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Indepedent stores were cool
Gamestop, GAME and EB Games are soulless, always have been.

>>743328468
it's Zelda, for some reason girls like Zelda

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>>743320246
SOVL

I hate standing in line

>GTA is a brown series
makes sense

>>743330796
I started only playing on PC in late 2009, it was staggering to see most games or communties were lucky to have 5k players after being a halo 360 guy and even thinking that 250k online was low.

>half the thread is talking about brown people
please keep my BBC out of your mouths

>>743319573
trvke

>>743332370
Abascal

>>743323038
Boring, you mostly wait.