What was the PC game industry like in 2005? No consoles.
everyone played on console
>dipshit zoomer thread #135871498->I HAVE NO OPINIONS OR CONNECTION TO GAMES, PLEASE EXPLAIN HISTORY TO ME FROM BEFORE I WAS BORNfuck off
>>12399053My older brother and his friend owned a PC repair shop and they pirated various games for me and and built my PC tooLoved playing Max Payne, Far Cry, Age of Mythology and Freedom FightersI was about 15 at the time and didn't know how to do this stuff myself so I was pretty lucky
>I posted it again!
>>12399053The last days of its golden era, right before the DRM hellscape. HL2 was the first dark omen.
>>12399053>What was the PC game industry like in 2005?Mostly World of Warcraft.
>>12399053Counter Strike, The Sims and RTS games
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>>12399068This
>>12399053Not owning your games is good though.
>>12399053You can't lock down PC, because piracy isn't limited by hardware.Gaming on PC in 2004 was great and it still is great. Why do you concern yourself with the herd?
>>12400068Sorry memelet but I have to side with grownupanon on this. This board has become infested with an unholy incestuous union of kiddos trying too hard to fit in with their "what was it like" threads and their butt buddy babies with their AI fueled shitreplies. Regardless of intention, any such threads are cancer and need to be mocked.
>>12399068dumb retardWhy did you bump the thread then?
>>123990532005 PC was peak jank and peak soul.>You installed from 4 CDs.>You patched manually.>You edited .ini and .cfg files to get 5 more FPS.>You updated GPU drivers and prayed.WoW had everyone socially imprisoned.Battlefield 2 melted mid-range rigs.Civ IV consumed entire weekends.Steam existed but people still hated it.>Physical boxes were normal.>LAN parties were still a thing.>DRM was getting annoying but not yet dystopian.>Graphics were DX9 shiny but not cinematic sludge yet.>No microtransaction sludge.>No battle passes.Just: Install. Tweak. Play. Break. Patch. Repeat. Half 90s PC energy, half modern online takeover. Wasn't great but definitely better than today.
>>12399053I remember quitting World or Warcraft cold turkey which was unthinkable at the time. In the spirit of Ragnarok Online and the Softmax titles with Hyung Tae Kim character designs, I found refuge trying out all sorts of free Korean MMOs at the time. In dealing with the withdrawal of quitting what all my friends were invested into, I started going back and getting all those old games I loved for PCs (and consoles) in the past, got a lot of cheap games for the distraction.From the B&W bumpmaps, to RGB normal maps, parallax occlusion maps gained popular usage in real-time graphics. By this time nVidia was the way it was meant to be played, since ATi was riding the success of the aging 9800 to its last drop while everyone else moved on.I still have not played the episodes, as I burned "steam-less" copies of Half Life 2 from Morpheus, given the dislike for the concept of Steam. I still prefer GOG as the digital distribution system, as Steam is pretty blatant DRM from that time. The game industry was pretty lively, and better was to come, but I was unable to afford any of it so I hung back.
>>12400234PC game boxes were the shit - you could see them in PC hardware shops, from the other side of the street.https://bigboxcollection.com/HL2.3DBoxHowever, thinks started to change from 2005-2015, with smaller boxes to... NO BOXES. Just digital download using Steam.But people did not realized how dumb and anti-consumer this bullshit was that time... The graphics, the physics, the combo boxes (with 3 games in 1, like Orange Box) made people distracted.Also, consoles like Xbox 360 and PS3 incorporated tons of PC online gimmicks, maximizing this logic... I remember my old bro saying "online is good, take a look how many 2D indie games for pennies can we buy now...". SAD.In the end, we still had some great games (HL2. Farcry 1, Doom 3 etc), but things started to go to the bad timeline we are now.
