This was it, man. Thid was the peak of gaming, and arguably the peak of humanity in general. Booting up your WinXP PC on a warm summer afternoon in the aughts was cathartic. >Diablo 2>Ragnarok Online>Warcraft 3>C&C Renegade>Quake 3 and Team Arena>Runescape>early TF2>HL2, DOOM 3, Riddick, Fear and other high-tech shooters (that were actually good)>actually getting to play Halo CE with online multiplayer>last gasp of RTS games with 10/10 stuff like Tiberium Wars and Supreme CommanderIt will never get better than this. The games, the aesthetic, the time period... Windows XP was fucking magical.
agreed
Half Life 2 was dogshit kys and get off this site you new fag
>>11991061Faggot.
i should fucking beat the shit out of you
>2002>move to a new town>meet a fat kid at the pool one day, we become instant friends>find out we're both big nerds obsessed with PC games>ends up sleeping over at my house 3-4 nights a week>Diablo 2 is a mainstay, we're usually up until 3am hot-seating the PC, taking turns in PVP, trading people online, researching items and builds online, etc.>when he's not at my house, we're logged in at home playing together>bestbuddies.png>after a few years, he starts to change>starts coming over to my house just to play my PC while ignoring me or outright treating me like shit, all because his helicopter mom started limiting him to 1 hour of computer per day and stresses him out so much that he develops Trichotillomania and starts plucking/eating his hair to the point of being nearly bald at 13 years old>slowly becomes a huge faggot and talks shit about me to his friends from school (a couple of which I knew from boyscouts) even though I never did anything to him>put up with it for awhile until he starts telling outright trolling me: tells everyone I'm gay, takes my phone when I go to the bathroom at Applebee's one time and uses it to text another friend telling him I want to fight him, and other shitty stuff>finally have enough>log into all of his game accounts one day (we knew each others' login info from the days of him being less of a douche), including his Habbo Hotel account that he had several hundred dollars of stuff on>delete everything on every game and change all of his passwords>get into his email, delete all of his bookmarks and correspondances for college opportunities, and email all the people he's in contact with using a template that's basically nothing but a paragraph of slurs>call him on the phone and tell him to check his games and email>sit there for a few minutes while he logs into everything and realizes what's going on>he has an actual breakdown, has his mom call my mom>we never speak againThe fucked up part is, I still miss him.
>>11991146tl;drnobody cares, faggotprint scr for leddit upvotes and fuck off
>>11991160t. fat kid who got his ebotdz and enigma dropped in a mule perming server
>>11991142Pajeet
>>11991145No, I would physically overpower you. You wouldn't stand a chance. I'm taller, better looking, have larger bicep muscles, I'm charasmatic, have a way bigger dick, and I had sex with your mom in an Orlando netcafe in 2003. She farted on my sack. What now?
>>11991131>Half Life 2 was dogshit kys and get off this site you new fagI can understand some people not liking HL2 itself, but the period where HL2 modding was at it's peak was pure soul
Encarta was the GOAT
Can we ban these fucking "aw member the vibes the sovl" bullshit threads
>>11991281>can we ban talking about video games and nostalgia on the /vr/ board please browhy are you a faggot? have you ever asked yourself this in earnest?
>>11991281Sadly half of the users on this board don't really care about retro games outside of what they played as a kid.
>>11991287I can tell you're 23 and emulate games on your phone. I bet you won't even deny it.
>>11991291I'm 34 and I emulate on my PC
>>11991293>I'm not 23, I'm actually old enough to know better, but I still keep shitposting and sucking cocks anywayHey... weird... unrelaxed...
>>11991146brutal
>>11991285Saying "yep that was the peak they sure don't make em like this anymore" is just retarded nostalgia circlejerking, not discussion
>>11991318>Saying "yep that was the peak they sure don't make em like this anymore" is just retarded nostalgia circlejerkingyou only feel this way because you were born in 2005 and you grew up in an inherently gay world. you have my sincerest condolences.
It's funny how every time someone sees a post he doesn't like, the automatic reaction is "Call him a zoomer"It's the /vr/ version of /v/ calling everyone that disagrees with them "trannies"
>>11991353the solution to this issue is simply to kill all zoomers
>>11991281/vr/ is a nostalgia board in disguise.
>>11991392disguise?
>>11991394I mean it's obvious but not explicitly stated.
>>11991392It isn't "in disguise" at all, the whole point of having a board for old games is to discuss games from a time when the world wasn't completely shit and gay. The problems started when 19 year old fags playing Final Fantasy pixel remasters on their iPhones and thought they deserved an opinion.
>>11991146>starts coming over to my house just to play my PC while ignoring me or outright treating me like shit, all because his helicopter mom started limiting him to 1 hour of computer per day and stresses him out so much that he develops Trichotillomania and starts plucking/eating his hair to the point of being nearly bald at 13 years oldHoly lmao. What exactly motivates a dude to start eating his own hair?
>>11991408I don't know, but this lady was a freak. I shit you not, one day (prior to him getting b& on the family PC) we were playing D2 at his house and the mom walks by. We were in the Rogue Encampment and he pressed esc to save and quit, and she just happens to see the menu with the pentagram icons. She goes "ARE THOSE HEX SYMBOLS? THOSE ARE SATANIC SYMBOLS, THIS GAME ISN'T GOOD FUH YOU...". Yeah, the pentagrams, the "hex symbols". Even though the entire game is about killing evil demons, this lady saw "hex symbols" and thought it was going to corrupt the poor fat boy. Apparently it did because he ended up becoming the biggest douchebag I've ever known, so maybe she was onto something.
>>11991337What the fuck is this schizophrenic nonsense
>>11991415>post on /vr/ board>"Hey remember XP? So many good memories, so many good games...">DUDE STOP YOU'RE NOSTALGIA'ING LOL>get called a zoomer faggot (because you are one)>DUDE WHAT IS THIS SCHIZOPHRENIA LOL
>>11991414evangelical protestantcucks are a blight on this world
>>11991418>because you are oneSchizophrenic nonsense
>>11991131le orenji box was the best thing ever for PC gaming
>>11991146That's clearly some serious stress related mental illnesses Interesting story
>>11991146Sorry you lost your boyfriend, typical of a PC Gamer hahahahaha consoles rule
>Win95 thread consist of well-mannered gentleman that contribute meaningfully to the discussion.>WinXP thread is filled with shitposting retards responding to a vacuous 'member OP who shits on xer diaper on the daily.Really makes you think, huh?
>>11992068win95 era was more gatekept while XP was alot more mainstream combined with a focus on online multiplayer. You just end up with a more toxic enviroment
>>11991281Can we ban people like you?>>11991392"In disguise"? This is literally a retro gaming board. Nostalgia comes with the territory. Don't like it? Post somewhere else.>>11991405I don't think it's a problem if 19 year old kids like old games or remasters of them. What is a problem is the rampant shitposting on this board. And no, nostalgia threads don't count as "shitposting".
>>11992050You will never know the beauty of having all games for free
>>11992068What actually occurred:>seething Win95 cuck shits up the thread with 20 IQ shitposts and samefaggotry
>>11991061>no DOS mode
>>11992442You will never understand the joy and appreciation that comes from cherishing what you have.
>>11993745>appreciating physical objects instead of experiencestypical hylic
>>11993746Torrent fags don't have experiences, they just download every game in existence and then never play them. Meanwhile some kid who got GTA3 for Christmas will spend a year fucking around in Liberty City because that's what he's got.
>>11991061is why i threw together an xp build last week and been burning cds like a MFer. first foray into XP 64bit as well, which has been pretty fun to mess with. Only issue so far was gpu drivers, went to prior version and all good.gonna pick up a pair of titans at some point for sli memery, and maybe a dualboot hackintosh
