On this week's edition of Zoomer reminisces about 2007

I don't mind people being nostalgic over things 10 years ago, but I do have a problem with Scott.
Actually watch his videos. Not in your second monitor or while you do something. You'll realize how he says absolutely nothing interesting or even something that isn't the general consensus on a game.

Guy had pepto bismal in the background.

2007 was kind of enjoyably shit to be honest. The early 360 era holds some nostalgia for me even though at the time I was wrist-slittingly convinced it was the nadir. The same feeling i had with the PS2 after the dreamcast died. In 2007 there were still appreciable performance increases and some gameplay changes to take interest to, plus online being more than a novelty but less than a nightmare.

Now i'm just bored of consoles desu. The idea of meaningful difference had kind of died by 2011-12 from my perspective, except the xbone's abortive tilt to 1984.

That's true. He's not really great as a game reviewer or an informer. I mostly watch him for the humour, I usually know I'm not going to learn too much or mostly learn about his life rather than the games and history I already know.

Wii play tanks was the real shit

You are still making an e-celeb thread, even if you dislike them.

What is video game iDubbz doing here

>NOOOOOOOOOOO WHY DIDN'T YOUNGER PEOPLE GROW UP WITH THE SAME STUFF I DID?!!?!?

kys faggot

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Is there a way to block channels from appearing in my recommended feed? I watched him once, and now youtube always spams him at me.

He always talks like Wii Sports was the shit
Only bowling was good, the rest was mediocre to bad. Wii Sports was the holy grail of non gamers, old people, and children at the time.

Anyone being nostalgic for Wii play, must have never played a good game in their life. They had better motion control garbage even on the PS2. The PS eye.

Zoomers took over the internet. Recently you're seeing nostalgia memes for 2007-2012, feels kinda weird.

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Stop shilling this faggot and post good channels.

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The real winners are the ones who aren't ever born on this planet.

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The world will end in 2028, I hope.

>You'll realize how he says absolutely nothing interesting or even something that isn't the general consensus on a game.
The same can be said for literally any other youtuber/historian of gaming. The only difference is that many of them focus on games much older than you, so you don’t have the familiarity with the subject matter they talk about. It’s funny how some of the e-celebs that Yea Forums (used to) idolize are simply boomer versions of people like Scott, except many of them had a stupid gimmick that ran its course far too soon (like, “Upset Vidya Gamer Who Swears a Lot! xD”).

I know its pretty faggy but I like those game challenge channels like Ceave Gaming, Nicobbq, and Gamechamp3000

Boxing was great you fag.

What was the last "real" era here with soul?

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This picture is how your parents generation feels about your generation, and your grandparents generation feels about you and your parents generation.

Was this survey taken in California, by chance?

Maybe if you were 11 at the time

I see soulless shit all up and down that pic.
I think the amount soul, to me, is determined by how much general effort, in one way or another, whas put into something. That seemed to be mitigated further and further as tech progressed, to the point that we get the 2010s era

Even then, there's still quite a lot of "soulful" stuff in that era aswell.

I agree, and I think it shows a gradual decline with lots of little spikes in between. Generally by the mid 2000s we're starting to see some absolute garbage that continues to spread.

The humor is the worst part. He always tried being witty or clever at the end with his tu tutu tututututu tu tutu outro. Other than that he’s had a few good vids here and there.

>Was this survey taken in California, by chance?
You wish
Women just suck

>still using zoomer

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Good luck finding examples worth cherrypicking when you're my age.

Oh good, they're still stealing our memes rather than the other way around.

>Women just suck
I wish

videogames are interesting because unlike every other cultural medium, they unambiguously peaked post-1970s

And pre 2000

Who cares what another dude enjoys? Christ let people enjoy what they do. You fucking went out of your way to go to his channel on the day he uploads, screenshot the thumbnail and post it on Yea Forums.

What a neat video.

You missed the point of what he was saying dickhead.
What he meant was that everybody looks on their "good old days" fondly, and sees the new generation as not good and the stuff they did as a kid was better.
Really, the fads of every generation are always cancer that is forgotten when the new generation comes around. Remember when people liked rounded furniture and had shag carpets and fake as hell wood paneling on their walls? Of course you don't, you're 16, but people did that. The 90s was all about consumerism, fucking pogs, TCG and games based off of the dumbest of shit that quickly got forgotten, etc. And there was a time, where shitheads on youtube and early forums looked back at these times fondly, and now that the 2000 babies are all past the Canadian AoC, they're posting about their nostalgia. Talking again about the dumb shit that was popular when they were a kid, youtube has recc'd me enough videos on Bakugan and shitty videos on shittier cartoons from the mid-late 00s for me to realize this.
In the late-20s and early-30s, you'll see fucking Fortnite, FNaF, iPad, etc. nostalgia videos. You'll see "Do You Remember The Superhero Craze of the 2010s?" and so on. This will never change until the end of time, you just think it's shit because you didn't grow up with it.

>post yfw someone doesn't think Scott is pure kino

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Also, he legitimately believes the Wii was the greatest console of all time. Zoomers should be euthanized for even entertaining that idea.

>Scott
>Humour

Every "joke" revolves around censored swear words. It's the laziest shit I've ever seen.

best reason to get wiiplay was a wiimote

What do you mean, he said himself the Wii is incredibly flawed but underrated.
He speaks more fondly of the GameCube than the Wii.

ITT: >STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE

That depends on the concentration you want.
I'd say until late PS1 was unambiguously soulful. PS2 era was more doubtful on consoles, but the GBA and early DS were great, as was the PSP. There's a case to be made for 2005-2010 as well, after that it's a mess.
Painting with years might be using too broad strokes though. Consoles peaked at a different time to actual games, which declined at a different rate to movies, and so on. Internet culture has at least three major peaks, with a bunch of community level peaks and troughs too.

Really what's needed is a more economistic type of analysis of cultural production desu. I don't mean in terms of paeans to the rational market delivering what people truly want(tm), but a look at what drove different kinds of production. For example, post-9/11 there's a quantifiable die-off of gaming magazines because 9/11 resulted in a huge drop off in advertising budgets. That also directly killed Britain's digitizer teletext based games-magazine because it relied heavily on ads from holiday companies. Similarly there's the changing economics of indie games, or the way Ouya could only have been produced in the kickstarter age, or the exponentially growing costs of making an AAA game. Following down that line of thinking makes it easier to get away from just acting like a boomer about why your own selected period is the best, and lets you provide specific explanations for what created the things you like and the things you dislike, without drifting into ad-hoc explanations that don't really hold weight.

This list is bullshit I was born in 2000 and I only ever connected with the "Core Millenial/Gen Y" and "Late Millenial/Gen Y" shit for most of my upbringing.

Not reading your blog

This is npc tiger thinking we’ve all heard this argument a million times.

Imagine growing up in the in the last years of the bubonic plague and fondly reminiscing of all the shit in the shit in the streets. The 90s was a period of economic growth as well as leaps and bounds in technology I don’t give a fuck what you say seeing consoles double in power, seeing 3D games for the first time, experiencing the internet’s earliest days was all hype shit.

>The 90s was a period of economic growth
the 90s were kind of shit economically desu. that was when we should've reckoned with the hangovers from the 70s and 80s and we never did.
so we got 2008. and then we never properly reckoned with the causes of that either.
maybe after the next recession. (which will be started by the irresponsible stock market actions of tech companies.)

You do realize that the same will be said for motion controls and how they became usable, to a point where they're now common in controllers, the advancement of cloud tech, improvement of AIs and computers in general as well the the creation of the iPod and iPhone, right?
You do realize the kids of today will look back on these events as being "hype as shit", right?
You hear this argument all the time because it's true. Somebody made all the exact same statements you are making right now, just replace 90s with 80s, 3D with the consoles of the time, and the internet with computers in general.
Just learn to grow up mate. You're just mad because the generation after yours likes the things they grew up with instead of the things you grew up with. Boo fucking hoo.

Zoomer/boomer are shit memes and I'm glad it's mostly contained to Yea Forums and it's sister-boards.

Fuck Scott for shitting on Find Mii that shit was great.

Scott makes entertaining videos, but my god, he wears his zoomer pride on his sleeve. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone so blatantly nostalgic for Wii games

Well I understand the comment but at the end of the day what's he supposed to do, be ashamed of it? Being happy and looking back fondly on childhood is something I'm always happy to see others are able to do.

Fuck. You know I never felt too bad because I only felt like a few years behind the zoomers but now there's kids a decade younger than me in the communities I frequent. Time just flies.

I think it's just cringey because a lot of us grew up in a golden age of video games. The Wii era was when everything was getting corporate and stale, and there truly didn't seem to be the soul that was previously around. It's weird to be so blatant and unaware. Like saying how much you loved the blockbusters of the 2010s when you never realized how better the 80s and 90s we're.

The '80s and '90s were literally built on consumerism. You're looking with rose tinted glasses.

Man I really dont get nostalgia at all. Everything just kind of bleeds together and I cant care about any of it.
Born in '96 btw

You'll get there

Who gives a shit, a lot of small creative teams got money to make games with creative freedom. It took like a dozen people to make Mario World and ten to make Earthworm Jim. Get fucked Bernie Bro

>Bernie bro
If you mean the Bernie that's running for president I've never given a shit about politics so I don't know where that came from, but we're in an age where independent game development is running rampant and has never been more accessible, though it is a flooded market.

>This will never change until the end of time, you just think it's shit because you didn't grow up with it.
Nah, that's not true. The big break is in the internet era. Already 2014 is simultaneously yesterday and open to nostalgia.
There's been a reduction in the production and breakthrough of the truly new and weird since the 1980s, combined with a tendency for the old to be better preserved. Think how many fleeting things - photographs, demo-recordings, TV episodes, etc, from even the 1980s have been lost compared to now where a digital backup is kept of almost everything. At the same time, the tendency of computer recommendations and human-searching is to find more of the familiar. "If you liked that, you'll love this!" is the motto of a recommendations algorithm. It's not like watching TV in the 80s when something new and weird could plant itself in your living room because you've got 4 channels and one of them has broken out.

When countering the tendency towards nostalgia, it's important to realise that history isn't just the same cycle over and over either. Dadrock nostalgia doesn't negate full employment.

>The Wii era was when everything was getting corporate and stale
lmao
PS2 era at the latest. The corporate hype for that thing was insane.

>to make games with creative freedom
creative freedom was away lower back then though. you now remember that there was a period when nintendo wouldn't even allow blood splatter in games.
more important than creative freedom are creative restrictions. adversity breeds creativity. when you tell people to just make what they want, they don't remember to re-draft, to consider what's really necessary. they don't cut the fat. they don't think of how to make something appealing without just pandering. people imagine there are more restrictions today because individual incidents are more widely reported, but the reality is that a combination of reduced pearl-clutching, 'think of the children!' and improving technical specifications has been a boon to the freedom available to creators. it's just that freedom without something to overcome is creatively dry.

>cartoons
It's all soulless

Nah, 90s was objectively the best era of gaming. Doesn't matter how old or young you are, or where your nostalgic sweet spot is. It's just not the same anymore.