Why did old /v/ have such different tastes to other sites and why does it have the same taste as every other website now?
>>748218085>[thing you get banned for mentioning] makes normalfags more aware of this place>Marketers discover this place actually has relevance>Marketers start marketing their AAAslop here>Normalfags see there are 'totally organic' threads about the AAAslop they like>Normalfags never fucking leave>/v/ becomes Reddit 2.0
>>748218085must've been some inciting incident around 2016 that drastically changed the population of /v/it's a mystery
>>748218085did it? there's a lot of popular slop in that image, I don't see the difference between that and now
>>748218159are you implying games are slop if they're popular?
le old good le new bad
>>748218085i still have this taste, we just get drowned out by all the fucking screaming faggots.
>>748218157Nope, absolutely nothing happened, please move along and do mention this again.
those are still hidden gems. normalfags only know about sports games and the Call of Duty/Battlefield rivalry.
>>748218254I am not implying anything, the image directly says thatdid you even look at it?
>>748218261It's actually a case of>Normalfags bad
>>748218320yes yes, and any movie that isn't made by Marvel is "obscure kino"
>>748218085Genuine question; when was the last time a game became uniquely popular here?
>>748218385this but unironically. people only watch whatever is splattered on netflix's front page, or marvel.
>>748218480the only examples I can think of are indie rpgmaker games, like Black Souls and Fear & Hunger. F&H later broke containment but I'd say BS is still fairly obscure outside here.
>>748218085/v/ use to be White.It is now brown.Time to flush it down.
>>748218480most of the people who post here are paid to do so by marketing corps half of this isn't organic firstly so you'll have competing agencies poisoning the well in threads with competitor products in turf war style tactics, plenty of anons enjoy games here we just get drowned out by the corporate bullshitery that takes place on 4chan.
>>748218480>when was the last time a game became uniquely popular here?Slay the PrincessFear and Hunger was popular here before the rest of the internet caught onBlack Souls IIPathfinder Kingmaker and Pathfinder Wraith of the Righteous AlislibraMuramasa when it got translatedVoid StrangerFAITH
>>748218649>>748218740I feel like Black Souls is the only one that gets referenced a lot here, and even then not to the degree that the OP games used to be.
>>748218695Internet used to be White.It is now brown.Time to flush it down.
>>748218709>competing agencies poisoning the well in threads with competitor products in turf war style tacticsOne of the worst things about modern /v/. Can't go a single thread without a bunch of "[other game] is better!"
>>748218085Just talk about games you care about.
>>748218956See >>748218709
>>748218085This looks like a normalfag poser's list.
>>748218893yup its completely fake engagement by competing firms trying to gain a foothold with the crowd here on /v/ while trying to appear like they are organic anons and will derail threads that get support if its not a company that people are part of, and anyone thats been here long enough saw the slow increase of marketing budgets to online spaces like 4chan, i'd say probably half at the very least posts in a given day are done by completely outside agencies with no ties to this community at all.
>>748218480>>748218740I miss when games were naturally popular here to the point that we even got banners for them.
>>748218980I just make a thread about the game I like (or find one already made) and that's it.
>>748218085>pre-2016>Prey came out in 2017Larp pic
>>748218085I wonder when /v/ will stop being retarded and thinking that your average ball and gun gamer has to have heard of it for it to not be considered "niche."
>>748218740>Muramasa when it got translatedBullshit, I read it on release and I felt like I was the only one on /v/ who read it. I only started seeing threads about it pop up 2-3 years later. Apparently the VN's popular on /vg/, but that's a completely different demographic.The rest are on point.
>>748218085>not a single good game thereMaybe it's good that old /v/ died
>>748218085Most of these games have shit gameplay. /v/ has always had shit taste.
>>748218480Lobotomy Corporation + Legend of RuinaRIP Project Moon
>>748218085there's a 2017 game in that pic a big part of old /v/ spent their time seething over just because of its name
Because brown people, normies and marketing bots infested the internet. Once upon a time, this was a half decent site for discussing interesting games with other white guys. On some level I do feel sorry for zoomers who missed out on the internet during its prime years, but then I'm reminded of just how absolutely niggerbrained the average Gen Z is, and I no longer care. Stop scrolling NigTok and make your own shit for once.No idea why Prey 2017 is on your list by the way. The lack of Demon's Souls, Ghost Trick, Recettear and Nocturne is also puzzling.
>>748218085>different tastesHere is a /v/ list made around 2014 or earlier? Do you find it to be different to other sites?
>>748218085/v/ use to be white, now it's all thirdies and bots shilling and shitting the board up
>Eye>Vanquish>Mount & Blade Warband>Killing Floor>Radiant History>Sleeping Dogs>Deadly PremonitionFOTM slop, you're mistaking a reverence for a game of the time over an actual classic. In Mount & Blade's case, the real reason for its popularity was its very cheap price>VTMB>Deus Ex>Thief 2>Planescape Torment>Parasite Eve>Vagrant StoryEveryone in any niche vidya community has always agreed these were goodCurrent /v/ made FOTM threads for stuff like "Don't Look Outside", "UFO50", "Abiotic Factor", "Cruelty Squad", the new Might and Magic game. That new Japanese Wizardry game, so on and so forth. It's literally, LITERALLY the same shit.
>>748219016>Normalfag sees games that are legitimately popular here>Pretends to like them to fit inNo fucking shit, retard.
>>748220925EYE is a classicOlden Era is a decent entry in the HoMM franchise. Worse than 3, better than 4, 6 and 7. Probably on par with 5
>>748220925Oh yeah, and that sokoban game. Void something. You couldn't walk around /v/ and not step on a thread for that shit.
>>748218085I feel like normalfags are starting to leave this place, I see there their terms like 'normie' and nog-adjacent slang less often now.Eventually it will be>10% oldfags>10% normalfags>40% marketers>40% subversion groups
>>748218362This.
>>748221415Apparently someone working on a show produced by Netflix said that they have a mandate that key points have to be repeated several times by different characters for viewers that are scrolling on their phones.Normalfags literally ruin things simply by existing.
>Before 2016 /v/ had->Has game from 2017 on itIf you're gonna post headcanon at least make sure it's factually correct.
>>748221210Only normalfags think these games are good to begin with.
>those first few Dark Souls threads before the game and the genre itself got popular with normalfags>just a few autistic anons discussing boss strategies and trying to piece the lore togetherTake me back
>>748218085/v/ hated Prey and would have shit all over you for being dumb enough to even think about praising that dude
>>748221630I'm a zoomer who missed out and now I will disfigure and appropriate your culture.
>>748221415This dying board is so starved for OC since 90% of posters are phonefags that you can my one shitty Photoshop and see it reposted in every thread about that game.
>>748218085>liking Nintendo too openly got you mockedPeople have long complained that /v/ is a Nintendo board. It's only as true as it is now.
>>748221543Holy fuck that's just. Not even any words for that
>>748221751>People have long complained that /v/ is a Nintendo boardIt is a Nintendo board. It used to be a PC board, but now it's a Nintendo board.
I couldn't give a fuck about what this board plays or even thinks, and this goes for every board btw. I play/watch/read/do whatever I want and have a great time doing it - only because of the fact that I don't listen to what this shithole of a website has to say.
>>748221543>someoneI thought it might be some random nobody saying it for attention, but it's worse than I could have expected.Grim as fuck.
