>Le when did games lose their soul? threads >1996-2004 was the golden age of gaming >Omg miss my childhood >7th gen was the downfall >Zoomer zoom zoomer zoomer zoomer
Man can this board shut up about this. Games lost their soul when your childhood ended. REMINDER that while Yea Forums keeps circlejerking about how gaming died at 7th gen and constantly acting like you're so "old school cool" and circlejerking over the N64/PS1 and Tamagotchi pizza blockbuster nights, Gen Xers even older than you thought YOUR childhood of 5th gen like N64 and PS1 was polygonal babby stuff that ruined gaming or that 3d was a mistake.
So really it's all relative, there is no one true "golden age" of gaming. You may keep saying it's 1996-2004, yet people in their late 40s would say it's 1977-1983 or the Atari era, because that was *their* childhood.
BASED - and the Lil B based. Not this nuBased shit.
Juan Nguyen
LMAOING@your life triggered Zoomer. Too bad you missed out on the best childhood experience in human history. You little faggots are gonna need nostalgia goggles the size of monster truck wheels to see the likes of Johnny Test and Fortnite in a positive light.
People are not the only entities that change and evolve, games also do. Associating a preference to older things solely to nostalgia is retarded, as there are new advancements that the majority of society welcomes and enjoys. If modern videogames are not met with the same warm welcome, it may have to do with their intrinsic characteristics rather than people being used to older stuff.
Asher Long
t. 30 year old incel boomer
Asher Miller
Fortnite is better then goldeneye 007 gramps
Adrian Roberts
But it's largely met with the same, rose tinted, back-in-my-day, justification as to why video games are worse today.
Charles Stewart
The world was not necessarily better, but video games were. No one that isn't retarded looks at the capeshit dominating theaters today and thinks "WHOA MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE"
Nostalgia is only a valid way to dismiss someone's arguments when they're actual trash or they outright say they prefer a game because they're used to it. As it stands right now, the nostalgia excuse is used to dismiss completely valid criticism of new games solely because the reviewer comes from a older generation.
Some people can criticize both old and new games without involving nostalgia in between. They can say that some old games are complete trash while some new ones are good, and viceversa, but they may still state that games in general were better during a older era. Just don't immediately assume it's nostalgia, listen to their arguments before jumping to that conclusion.
Ryder Foster
>I'll write hyper-articulate justifications of its genius >Of course, I'll be totally wrong-- >opinions >wrong >fully expounded-upon, logically reasoned opinions and analysis >wrong This comic lost me there. That's the same typical old "turn your brain off mentality" where people just scoff and denounce anyone putting serious thought and passion into appreciating and dissecting the things they love, just because it's a dumb meme for the retarded masses to make fun of people like that. Mocking effort and intelligence is the greatest comfort to laziness and stupidity.
Hunter Howard
Basedthing
Colton Young
Gamings rise starts with the NES and then tapers off into the sixth generation. The end of soul happens once Microsoft started offering self-publishing for games which cut off much of the support that developers had relied upon during that pivotal sixteen-twenty years. You definitely saw differences in the seventh generation.
Luke Gonzalez
I'm not saying it as something negative, I'm just curious, is it my idea or are today's films shorter? The three acts look like express versions compared to films 10 or 20 years ago. Maybe it's just my brain and its damage so I wanted to know if anyone perceives the same thing. .
James Young
God, I'm so tired of relativists. At least you can discuss with other people even if they have different standards as you can try to convince each other and it often leads to very deep and insightful analysis of the game at hand. Relativists just say "it's subjective" or "it's fun" and then actively turn their brains off to fully indulge themselves in their solipsistic experiences, not because they're dumb but because their fucked up philosophical worldview tells them to do so, which is even worse.
Not gonna comment on the state of vidya, but multiple studies prove that music actually has become less complex and more repetitive, with less timbral variety and pitch progression. This trend has been going on since the end of the 60s. Here's one such study. nature.com/articles/srep00521
So no, it isn't just boomers reminiscing about a better time. Music OBJECTIVELY used to be, if not better, at the very least more varied and richer in tone(s).
You might've been seleting different fare. But according to averages the mid 80s were the worse and lousy with movies that barely made the cutoff for "feature length". There's a bit of creep with additional credits length but that's not enough to offset the increase in runtimes.
It entirely depends, I can believe most stock-standard summer cash-in movies being shorter because they all follow the same rigid plot structure and the only thing that needs to be changed in the individual jokes and minor character beats along the way. So it just makes sense for them to streamline that industrial machine, making the movies shorter while literally removing nothing necessary to draw the moths to the flame.
On the other hand though I see the opposite problem cropping in which stuff like Star Wars and the Hobbit films are way, way too overly long and indulgent to the point of damaging the pacing and enjoyment. I'm not going to be extreme enough to say that a 3-hour movie should never be shown in theatres, but if it is, it better damn-well earn that fucking runtime, and it's been a long time since I've seen anything do that.
Robert Lee
Nah, that's just stupid relativists. Same as how "regular people" can be boiled down to all just screaming about what they enjoy being objectively good entertainment and getting nowhere with anyone. But that's not true, that's just the stupid people. As with every demographic, the stupid portion is the majority.
