What was gaming like in the early 2000s?

You can tell things went to shit when companies stopped making interesting designed consoles and monitors and got into the simple minimalist design meme. There's no creativity anymore.

sure was.

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Lan parties were absolutely amazing. I'm sad I will never relive those days.

>mow the lawn

Kids really need to do things like this to build character

It had less presenters going "You get to kill NAZIS! You gotta kill ALL NAZIS. This is a game about slaughtering NAZI SCUM. HATE NAZIS! Die NAZI death to NAZI shoot NAZI hang NAZI murder NAZI!! FUCK EVERYTHING ELSE"

Comfy

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>build character
What does this mean in simple words and why is it a desirable trait in every man?

And almost no one liked nazis even without such powerful speech.

>everything you knew about games came from dedicated magazines
>e3 was small and comfy and you only read about it on said magazines
>pirating ran wild but not online. Everyone had 'that friend' irl who could burn any game you wanted on a disc
>going to internet cafes to play csgo with friends
>studios were just a couple of nerds making videogames in a garage, not multibillion companies with thousands of employees making products
You should have been there.

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Its a buzzword that boomers use, that you either understand it or don't, and is never explained.

Holy shit, while I know that's wolf, it just gave me a massive nostalgia pang for AS-Overlord from original UT.

>csgo
1.6 you mean

Most modern men have cookie cutter builds instead of investing points on stats for a specific build.

early 2000s is when online piracy blew up as P2P file-sharing took off.

>buy one of those cereal boxes that included a vidya disc to play with
>flash games
>that one chinese bootleg console with 200 games in it

>csgo
wannabe boomer zoomer detected

it was the only time in my life i was "that friend"

Its not only comfy, it's realistic. Its why I cant stand battlestation threads where they have this clean neat straight edge designs and glowing lights. It makes their room look more like a hospital. where's the interesting designs, the clutter.

>discovering online play
>download every halflife mods there was, dick around and play just for fun
nowadays nobody wants to have fun, it's all about leaderboards, K:D ratios, muh e-sports, mmr or whatever. I want to go back and play stupid shit like wizard wars or rocket crowbar for hours

Yeah, sorry, fuck me, I've gotten so used to it my fingers run on neutral

napster and livewire absolutely uprooted the music industry so hard, they literally whined to government to create laws to shut down those sites.

It was fucking great.

It was a time before everything was trivialised by min/maxing.

You wanted to get good at Counter Strike? You played 600 rounds. You knew how to throw a grenade to get it to bounce perfectly where you wanted it to? That was skill, not watching a youtube video of exactly where to aim for every possible spot.

It was a time when you built your character how you wanted in RPGs rather than looking up a guide to ensure not a single stat point was wasted.

Was a time for real men who enjoyed playing games more than just following a set of steps in order to win.

>livewire
What's up with wannabe boomers iit?

this

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I destroyed so many computers with limewire/morpheus trying to download pamela anderson sex tape

>go to Microcenter
>great fucking games everywhere, holy shit
>literally 3 or 4 aisles full of big ass boxes with great art
>Quake, System Shock 2, Duke Nukem, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate, Warcraft 2, Warccaft 3, Starcraft, Diablo 2, AoE 3, Fallout 1 and 2, Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Civilization, Deus Ex, Empire Earth, Simcity, Wolfenstein, C&C series, Battle for Dune, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Half-Life, Secret of Monkey Island, Sanitarium, Hexen, Tomb Raider, Worms Armageddon
>racks of magazines
>second phone line to play red alert
>playing diablo 2 on 56k

They were honestly better times, especially as a PC gamer.

This and there were a ton of them. Even literal kid's games were pretty difficult and had a lot of passion put into them.

lmao, I thought I was the only one who did this with CDs for no reason at all

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blasting slipknot and meshuggah 24/7

i still burn game backups and such on DVD's sometimes despite shit like 4tb hdds/sdds being online for cheap

It was hell, but it was the real deal.
You had to drag a deer to stone arcade to play with stones for half a day with all those T-rexes all over the streets just waiting to take it from you, so they could go to Dino arcade and play Dino Crisis.
My friend Bob was eaten three times before he actually managed to get to human arcade with a dead dog intact.

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Back then we played competitive OFP all fucking day long on hexenkessel when we weren't playing zombie coops or other random mods, you had ravenshield, H&D2, CS1.5, Day of Defeat, The Specialists there were so many great games and mods coming out at a crazy pace and people actually played all of them. Then HL2, CSS, DODs and GarryMod... RO ostfront and Darkest Hour and the OrangeBox in 2007 and then suddenly it just stopped, pc gaming went to total shit...

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PS4 isn't an interestingly designed console?

This.

Even the packaging was pure fucking kino back then.

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It fits his description perfectly

>remember downloading the Iron Wrath expansion for Rainbow Six 3 when it came out on dialup from Gamespy
Pretty sure I had to leave it on for a day

I remember spending all my money on an internet café to play CS and DOD while I was in highschool then we got fast internet home in 2k4, then my life was over.

Boxed/Big Box PC games were pure kino, can't find them anymore.

>there and brothers among us who will never know these joys

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>console is in italics, glossy on one side. Buttons are essentially hidden from view
Don't even have a PS4 but it's pretty creatively designed

The Specialists was fucking insane

>all the gamers back then grew older and got families, so they dont even fight for the industry going to shit anymore
>devs have gotten old and dont care anymore, so just let business men decide all their decisions
>microtransactions and short games everywhere
>lazy open world games when back in the day, we could only dream what the ultimate open world game technology would be able to allow
>notch the only person who did anything interesting with tech. everyone else just cares about vr

Game industry died when the passion died.

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its a rectangle

It's a parallelogram. Retake Kindergarten

Hate Gen X all you want but they demanded creativity and the entertainment industry provided.
As young as I was, I'm still glad I got to experience just a small taste.

my modern battlestation is full of clutter, from used cups, pencils, papers everywhere and some other shit that should be in the garbage

there were few games to play too and we invested more time in them
also playing games was pretty much guilty free and just our personal nerdy hobby
and I thought at that time that gaming popularization could be a good thing

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wow amazing. shouldn't you be reposting a tifa thread?

Why doesn't shit like modern os x and windows have much SOUL as their early 2000s OS's did with all that shading and high contrast colors?

Shouldn't you be growing up?

>handdrawn covers
>manuals and leaflets you could study for hours
This was it, bros

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It was shit. People actually though Ocarina of Time was a good game. No standards whatsoever.

1995 to 2006 was the Golden age

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Box/cover art has really gone down the drain. It's no longer about standing out or having some unique composition. Instead its decided and designed by soulless marketing suits to increase appeal. It's lost any sense of identity.

>just our personal nerdy hobby
This was the most important.
Games were something for the nerdy kids who didn't do sports to play and the general public didn't give a shit save for when some mothers league or whatever stirred shit up about violence in games.
It feels too big, too bloated now.
Everyone plays videogames and they are regarded as important in pop culture as music and movies are, with all the baggage that comes with it.

youtu.be/E6IK1XiTtIw
We listened to bad music while playing very buggy games.

Fuck this game was good.

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this pic will always be true until the end of time

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It was fun, mostly because life didn't seem so stressful and the internet with its gigantic wave of retards wasn't sipping into everything.

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Online cafe culture was great, nobody had their own internet connections yet so everyone would come and play together.

It was gaming, like pure gaming without any other bullshit added on it.

when i saw that pic for the first time, it translated my feelings exactly
over time i find myself replaying old games or investing in old franchises instead pursuing new things
sooner or later i'm finding another hobby Yea Forums, let the normies finish destroying this thing

I was only a kid back then and never fully 100% got to fully experience it as much as I would've liked to. But what I experienced I enjoyed. I played almost all the PS2 and PS1 classics back then. Enjoyed the shit out of Legacy of Kain. Then my brother introduced me to mods and PC gaming. We played Half-Life, Earth's Special Forces, They Hunger etc, I remember adoring Windows XP and spending hours browsing it. Then my brother attempted to install a bootleg of STALKER he got from a Russian friend that wound up bricking our computer. And we switched to Windows Vista. At which point I got to experience the nightmares of Games for Windows Live

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>manuals and leaflets you could study for hours
I remember literally taking these where I went and reading over and over again repeatedly.
I still have few of them with me.

I was a poorfag and didn't really even have a computer in my home until 2007 or so, so going with some friends to an internet cafe after school to split the bill and share a computer for an hour or two was an amazing treat.

It had so much soul...

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Man i remember running this on my school computer in 5th grade, teachers back then had no idea how computers worked

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So much this.
I wish indies weren't just pretentious tumblrites hoping to be the next undertale and just operated like older studios did and made games for a small niche

Holy shit is that some fucking Motherload? I played the shit out of that

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What you described was more mid to late 90s though. By 2001 the internet and P2P were already in full swing. Reminder the PS2 came out in 2000.

Although I agree on the mags
>magazines had demo discs that offered hours of gameplay for the non-ADHD and cool trailers

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>writing a basic script on the school computers that made the CD tray immediately open up as soon as someone closed it, that I read off somewhere online
They even called a legit technician to fix it and never found out it was me.

DUN DUN dundun DUN

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What I lived through is mostly 2000-2006 but I live in literally nowhere - Europe so the internet wasn't really a thing in my country until 2009 or so

I miss class based shooters like RtcW or old Battlefields from about the same time. One of the first online shooters I was hopelessly addicted to.

Beach Invasion was so much fun. Why have they never brought that back?

Kino.

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My current battlestation is full of cheap clutter.

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before they can do that, they have to be nerds and have made their own way. a lot of companies back then got started on bank loans, publishers, and their savings

>nowadays nobody wants to have fun
Fucking right
I hate tryhards, man
Everyone is a wannabe e-sports faggot now and if you don't play the meta you'll just get shit on

>Beach Invasion in RtCW
>Titan Assault in BF2142

WHAT HAPPENED?!

I was too young back when rtcw was a thing, so I only played it offline, but damn they really dont make games like that anymore, it had such a dark weird atmosphere, completly different than what you get today...

My god the memories! I've played this game probably when I was 8 or so. Never finished the marine story because it was too scary though.

Faggots didnt watch other faggots playing vidya, other than jealously watching your dickhead brother conplete level after level, hoping he would die so you could have a go

anyone else have really fond memories of soldat

I never was much of CS guy.

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>RTCW and Doom on GBA
What a great pic.

You're right, man did it have a wonky (in a great way) campaign. I can assure you the multiplayer was even better. I can still remember placements for the Lieutenant's smoke grenades to call in the perfect airstrikes on certain maps. Fucking beautiful.

Those were the days. you could look at porn in the library and nobody would know, it was still all so new to everyone

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This, I was only 6 years old when I played it for the first time, but I played the SP RTCW for years over and over and over. Never tried the multiplayer or ET. I definitely missed out.

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Somehow I don't think Meshuggah caught on until the mid '00s.

The part about gaming devs being le small indy companies during that period is bullshit, as well as the piracy part, but the rest is true.

Id also add that couch co-OP (or versus) was the standard if you were a kid. When my mom or my friend's mom took us to blockbuster they wouldnt even let us rent SP games most of the time, we'd have to pick out a game we could play together when coming over. The idea of gaming as a social hobby was just that strong back then.

I miss just walking through a Blockbuster and looking at the cover art for all the games. Even if I didn't buy the game, it was cool still looking at the pictures.

You can go to any game store and still do that. The unfortunate part is, we have so much entertainment now that you go "I could play this, but I dont have time"

No it wasn't poltards, it was shit and Wolfenstein The New Colossus it's a LOT better than that shit, you are just being racist.

everyone played cs 1.6

Early 2000s?
Xbox play warthog jump!

youtube.com/watch?v=nGQIQljaAc0

I miss being a kid.

>you racist

dont you have a rally to go to to cry about how communism is better than capitalism?

@466724919

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Dilate.

>"I could play this, but I dont have time"
This. I miss having time to play all my games.

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>no existential fear of the future or past regrets
>could just be satisfied with the present moment
>every day was fresh and exciting

Good times.

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E3 had bikini models and developers could basically do whatever they wanted without backlash.

Fuck 1988 was a good year to be born.

oh shit I remember we spent hours looking at orgrish, rotten and all the porn .gif we exchanged through msn messenger... holyshit the memories..

>childhood buddy lived a few blocks from our local Mr. Movies
>almost every Friday for probably six years we would ride our bikes there
>grab a game, a movie, and a snack
>spend Friday night and most of Saturday enjoying our acquired media, snacking out, playing basketball outside, etc.
Shit was so fucking comfy, lads, I too miss the days of rentals and just chilling.

was gucci

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My man!

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Barely played 1.6 personally, we stuck to 1.5 for a whole year after 1.6 came out until we switched directly to CSS. Too bad though, since as a result I waited almost a year to create a steam account.

>The part about gaming devs being le small indy companies during that period is bullshit
Iirc from the bethesda documentary, they were boxing game copies themselves.
You wouldn't see that from any company today.

>that one song forever stuck in your brain because you played that map so much
youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4

MOMMYYYYYYYYYYYY

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correct

same, 0188

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Had that same mouse for my old Compaq Presario

the ps4 is an italicized vcr

pretty great. max payne blew my mind completely. I havent had a similar sensation since. maybe when I played first gears of war on release but thats about it.

All these memories

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It was exciting
youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63Q
youtu.be/HN06zn_S-CM
youtu.be/8ZJ4Osk2yNo

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Hit or miss.
Game quality is about the same, to be honest. People just remember all the really good ones and ignore the massive amount of trash that released back then.
Though, there are a lot more games these days, thanks to how easy it is to develop and distribute a product, so there's a lot more trash proportionally.

am I the only person who still takes old game manuals to read on the toilet

Fuck youtube and their re-encoding.

good times *sips*

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my nigger

>tfw coming home after school to watch e3 coverage on g4
>getting hyped as fuck for re4 and whatever bioware was presenting

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1998, Neversoft.

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I remember when I encountered the catacombs, I was so scared it was unreal, but with countless hours in the internet cafe (had no pc ofc) eventually I managed to get to that big ass boss thing with the claws, thats where I ultimately stopped, that thing was absolutly horrifying with the heads everywhere and shit.

There were other savegames from other ppl at later levels too, so I did see other things too but damn. UT,rtwc and cs 1.6, good times...

98-02 is pure kino

>be 11
>playing Command and Conquer Red Alert 2
>Playing the 3rd Soviet Mission in New York
>blow up the Trade Centers in order to make space for my tonks
>Dad comes in and tells me the Trade Centers just collapsed
I felt guilty for a whole week but goddamn was Red Alert 2 a fantastic game

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SOUL

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liar

why werent you in school

I live in the UK, m8

>things that totally happened: the post
Don't forget to screencap for /r/Yea Forums on your way back, user.

As a kid, I used to choose games based on the box art. Rarely did I make a mistake, not only because of the art, but also due to the fact that the average game had a lot more quality back then.

>brit dad comes into his sons room to tell him about 9/11
obsessed brits

>responding to something so obviously facetious

I mean sure you can be a cynical asshole but I dont really care. Was just an event which makes a particular game from that era stay entirely fresh in my memory.

Well, it was kind of a biggish deal, I guess. We had a slow news that day over here, you see.

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I was that faggot playing the ninja and doing nothing but summoning useless shadow clones

I was also that faggot with the spin kick

>I was merely pretending to be a retard. Isn't falseflagging fun?!
Fuck you.

Are you fucking stupid?

If Big Ben got slammed by a plane it'd be all over American news too mate.

A liar and a weeb. Consider suicide by jumping in front of one of your double decker buses, you poor dental hygiene having motherfucker.
Actually, user, you're alright. Have a nice Sunday.

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>be 6
>09/11/2001
>school lets us out early, everyone's worried, all the adults huddled in the living room watching the news when I get home
>I just quietly play Crash 2 in my room

I miss being a kid

If you have to be told, you aren't a man, user.
LONDON?

Are you, hombre?

when does it end

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'87 here. While I don't miss the dogshit dial-up speeds, being around to watch the rise of the internet and advancement of tech was great. Makes me really appreciate the conveniences we have today and recoil in horror as social media has made the planet an embarrassing nightmare.

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You too, you raging faggot!

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Passion, or big capital devouring everything.

both

I'm wasn't the one responding to a shitpost

Hmmm, good idea. Might take the WoW one.

secure.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/userscore/all/pc/filtered?sort=desc

My favourite was Firen. Spamming fire balls and running around leaving a burning trail was so fun.

I really miss the way the internet was the wild west of weird shit and forums were almost alive.

I think we can all agree on this:
FUCK 2007

rip

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lost

Magical

>he thinks everyone he loses to is just try-harding
get gud, faggot

Remember Kid Cuisine? Remember Elmer's Glue? Remember Play-Doh?
What happened to society?

Like tears in rain

Beginning of the end.

is that fucking myth?
please jesus take me back

>You had to buy demos
>Demos were reasonably priced and contained a third of the entire game
It was a strange feel.

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Remember bicycles? Remember ice cream? Remember video games? Kids these days will never understand.

any oldposter remember incredible universe?

youtube.com/watch?v=n8XB4qiOjgI

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>brother keeps doing this and blaming me
>finally snap one day when I come back from staying over at friend's and our computer is fucked again
>lock him out and he immediately starts getting angry
>tell parents I just want to fucking play UT99 and that I can show them the browsing history from when he was on the comp
>brother turns white as a sheet
Didn't happen as often after that.

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it was so fucking cool dude. imagine gaming without faggots. it was like that

What the fuck does Wolfenstein have to do with this?! I like Return the best because of the pacing, it just lets you run around expansive levels getting into fights, where as The New games frequently put you into slow scripted sequences.

>still have the floppy disks for MS DOS games like Wolfenstein 3d, Centipede, Frogger, Speed Racer, and Doom

>tfw being able to go on battle.net and freely call people niggers and faggots and not get your account banned
>pretty much everyone was doing it

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Yeah, fags usually hung out with the goths. Now they intermixed with all these different groups and they wonder why everyone hates them

my dad told me that during the sun season, they took rocks and threw then in the duck pond making animal noises.
The winner got a beer and a pack of cigarettes. He was about 7

i wanna go back

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I miss the days when I could say what I want without fear of having my account removed. I think taking away that freedom of speech killed a lot of expression in mmos

>tfw no early 00s closet goth twink bf to take to the mall and walk around the local park

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How do you win at that? You make the best animal noise? You hit the most ducks? You throw the biggest rock?

twinks back then were nothing like today, they were way too masculine still, we're living in the golden age

It only gets worse until 'geek' stops being 'chic'.

'Geek' and 'nerd' nerd culture and interests going mainstream has irrevocably damaged them. People from the mainstream flood in who don't care about the culture or the interests as a whole due to lack of investment and cheap thrill seeking. Companies follow hot on their heels, producing easily digestible content for mainstream sensibilities. The founding groups are out numbered and pushed further to the fringes, alienated by the very same thing they created.

These people who started flooding in during the mid to late 2000's have never had to build up, create, or search for the things they wanted. Being from the mainstream, whatever they've wanted has always been right at their fingertips. This desire for convenience inevitably erodes the content of everything.

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TAKE ME BACK, GODDAMIT

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People weren't wary over the future prospects of games like they are now.

a microcosm of society as a while.

It means building experience and resilience.

>Bubble Trouble
aw yeah, that's the stuff

nothing about life post social media is golden, the world died

>xp
>2000
?

>csgo
FAKE NEWS

>By 2001 the internet and P2P were already in full swing.
I'd say that was closer to 2007. That's when the internet went from this second reality to an extension of real life, with stuff like social media becoming so prevalent, smartphones making internet access more constant, everything phsyical was turned digital so even if you wanted to avoid the internet, now it's pretty much mandatory.
>Recently went to a job interview
>Guy asks me for my social profile on Facebook or Twitter just for some standard review to see if I was a good fit for the company
>Tell him I don't have one
>Guy looks at me like I just said the most offensive thing he's ever heard
>Didn't get the job

The world started dying in 2007, and completely died in 2010. We are now in Hell.
Fuck this world.

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S'alright.

The Internet really became an extension of real life in 2010, but it started going down that road around 2007, yeah.

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>Go to a large chain store like walmart or target in the mid 2000s
>Usually a medium sized aisle filled with PC games, some obscure, some more mainstream, usually in those big boxes with chunky manuals
>Go to a big chain store now
>Maybe a 5 foot row of PC games, 99% garbage that's been sitting there for years that no one wants

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It's vidya, nobody understand the rules.

I'm pretty sure Windows 2000 had a theme like XP with the green start menu.

I played everything one that picture at the time of their release except for the football and hockey.

Lan parties were still super common
Budding internet meant torrenting, kazaa, LimeWire etc
Games were good
Normies didn't use the internet yet
Msn Messenger, Yahoo messenger etc

Only drawback was forums and online play wasn't a thing

>mfw shopping has long since stopped meaning actually going outside to stores in order to purchase things

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you would take your friends systems and physically link them together and then youd play for like 10 hours or until you got a headache and youd cram as many fuckers into the game room as possible

the duct tape to the ceiling guy is a meme but that shit was the truth

except degeneracy like twinks, porn and traps, it's better now than ever before

MK Subzero was a pretty cool game, despite being really flawed. i wish more fighting game franchises had side games like that

'94 kid reporting in. I kinda wish I was born '88-'89, early 90s -early 00s were soulful. SNES games had sould, PS1 games had soul, N64 had soul.

>Not playing 0.6 beta
Fucking newfag

better

true but I'm too old now to have a cute 18 year old twink bf. the gay window is 18-21. If you're any older you need to give it up and be straight.

>Go to Best Buy a month or two ago
>there are no PC games
>closest thing is Steam cards

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>AOL chats
>go deep undercover in anime RP one with online buddies
>go for weeks and bullshit at every turn
>eventually kill a bunch of people's donut steels
Still won't forget the IMs with people switching from 'that's not allowed or cool' to 'please use your powers to bring us back man'. We then all used methodustoolz to spam chats/ims/emails till people logged off. What fun times.

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>csgo

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why are you sucking dick
Fuck You!

Yeah, that's more accurate. 2007-2010 still had it's highlights, it was just a last breath of joy.

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It was the greatest nerd hobby in the history of the world, until zoomers, women and trannies fucked everything up.

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I used to survive off of Kid Cuisine, shit was so tasty back then.

2006 to 2007 is when Yea Forums started to die. It’s pretty much the point when Yea Forums stopped being niche.

I genuinely don't have a FB or twitter either. The only thing I do have is a YT account and that's it.

There were very few months i wasn't genuinely looking forward to a new game. The lack of internet meant that learning about new games took effort, and hearing about something new meant being hopeful, not obsessively cynical to the point of absurdity.
Tiddies were still very okay in all aspects of the medium.

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I miss it.

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Unreal Tournament 24/7

Yeah but at least 2008-2009 had Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the Caramelldansen craze.
Everything after is pure unadulterated dogshit.

2007 was the last good year for everything. it's been all downhill since.

There's no going back, is there?

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Zoomers didn't fuck gaming up. The most you can blame them for is microtransactions, but that's really more their shitty parents' fault for letting them blow money on worthless shit using their credit cards.

What was the last good era here?

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Read comment above.

>Worked all summer at my first part time job
>Saved up enough to buy Warcraft 2
>so fucking hype, reading the manual for hours at school every day
>Manual was 200 pages of lore, art, backstory and side stories

take me back

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Late Millennial

In November 2000, war was beginning

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>Tiddies were still very okay in all aspects of the medium.
Friend of mine was sorting through his stuff before moving recently and brought over a huge stack of gaming mags, mostly the Xbox ones (original xbox). Flipping through them was a trip but also both of us pointing out art/ads/sexual jokes etc. that's get you crucified by twitter babbies today.

This is the third day in a row I told you to fuck off with that pic! It's inaccurate, sucks, and was made by a consumerist zombie.

It stopped being niche but the people who were getting involved were somewhat committed to what Yea Forums should be. We got a bunch of OC from that era, fun threads, silly threads, interesting threads, the occasional what the fuck am I looking at at? threads.

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One of the engineers behind Facebook's tech/backend said he regrets what he's done because it tearing apart society.

>every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
>plans that either came to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines
>and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you
>no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

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Ads from that time could be very 90's-early 2000 crude humor but some were fucking genius.

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That was back when the Internet felt like the deep end of the swimming pool.
You could hang out in with your friends in the real world, or you could go on Yea Forums and expose yourself to hardcore porn and gore juxtaposed with cute cat pics. It felt like another dimension that you weren't allowed in, but you went anyway.

we lost the war on feminism and faggotry in video games before we many of us were even old enough to realize there would be a battle, unfortunately

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Depends where you were honestly, which state or country you were in.
Internet wasn't a widely available thing until like 2003 where i was at. Before that it was CDs with "60min of free internet!" that came with a ham radio magazine but you could just reinstall the software again to reset the time.
Back then Lan parties and BBS servers were where you got your movies and isos. I miss BBSs, they were like private localised 4chans full of shit that'd get you banned now

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I don't know because I spent all of the early-late mid 2000s playing Diablo 2 and WC3

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we end up with some of these people killing themselves and simply leaving a "i'm sorry for the modern internet" note.

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I worked briefly at a game store during the 6th gen and I remember always getting a chuckle when seeing this game on trade-ins. Never played the game though.

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>lava lamp
>crt
>microsoft sidewinder
>eric fucking cartman
>generic dell keyboard and mouse
There is so much boomer shit in this picture it brings me back

>Why do people freak out when they see lesbians in vidya gaems, the fuck is wrong with you bigots?!
literally no one complained when this came out. we requested more, actually

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It was a different time. Looking back it's kinda awkward seeing so many ads that treated their audience as horny adolecents.

Maybe things changed because things got more 'woke'? Maybe things changed because with more easily accesseable pornography such titilation didn't really function as well?

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>expose yourself to hardcore porn and gore juxtaposed with cute cat pics
Perfect definition. Never knew what you'd get.
Now I can guess entire what entire threads are writing just by looking at whatever image OP posts.

If you don't know you're not welcome on this board. I'd tell you to fuck off back to /r/eddit but even they would probably shit on you.

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>the skullkid

this takes me back.

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I wonder if Moot will ever have to make a formal apology for the existance of Yea Forums and all that it has brought the world.

Whoever made 2ch should be the one apologizing for allowing the id to run wild.

That's fantastic. I always liked how stuff from this time wasn't afraid to do a bit of banter.

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The worst part is, Yea Forums is easily the best part of the internet these days.

One thing I notice playing GC/PS1 era games recently is that games were a lot more arcade and barebones back in the day. The menus are much simpler and the games usually carried themselves by having great core gameplay/replayability. Games seem a lot more fleshed out nowadays and there is a lot of shit to do in-game but at the same time they're also kind of overwhelming and you're like... I don't have time for this shit.

>no Bomberman 64
That game was always more expensive than the others for some reason. I was so happy when I finally got it.

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It's because the vidya scene was/is full of thirsty losers who would do anything for a whiff of some pussy.

>Never played the game though.
Do yourself a favor and give it a whirl.
youtube.com/watch?v=SrEFWv8aSQ8

I'd blame the second one option. This stuff eventually just lost its edge, not really because anyone really complained. Only nowadays do people look back and complain. Ads simply changed because they wanted to grab more people.

Wow even then boobs were censored I guess nothing's changed!

And even that is starting to fade.
Now, every thread has people saying, "Now that the dust has settled, please have sex :)"

I'm surprised he wasn't lynched at Google for having created Yea Forums.
100% agree. Which is a terrifying thought.

and now this is no longer okay. its fine to HAVE tons of sex with random people you meet on the internet, but to WANT sex with beautiful women? you may as well just do the world a favor and kill yourself.

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no seriously. you guys are fucking idiots for falling for such obv. bait.

im not either one of them either

Google hired him because he made Yea Forums.

comfy

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>The worst part is, Yea Forums is easily the best part of the internet these days.
There are definitely better parts. The secret is having relative small tight-knit communities and never mentioning them to anybody apart from people you know would make for good members.

Gaming in general was better up til 2010

After 2010 propaganda bullshit and political drivel ruined it. Thanks progressive shitheads.

That's for gay people user

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I've kinda lost track of time due to every day feeling the same. I only know it's a new year because shitposters start using a new "insult". Now it's dilate. Have sex is so 2018.

this looks sterile and soulless

It was good up until about 2007, after that it started to come apart at the seams

First person shooters off the wazoo
Also monthly-subscription MMORPG getting shat out every season.
Those warcraft III custom maps are pretty lit though

>no more halo 2 lan parties with highschool friends

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Someone at Google hired him because he created Yea Forums. The rest of his co-workers probably hate his guts for having created Yea Forums.

EARLY 2000s nostalgia is dead pretty much ran its course on the internet back in 2016-17.

Now Zoomers are posting childhood nostalgia on social media for the LATE 00s-Early 10s things like Minecraft, MW2, iCarly, Johnny test, Chowder, flapjack, Adventure time, etc.

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>Pico’s School
>Metal Slug Rampage
>the Skull Kid
>Strip Down

Now it just needs that shooting game with the priest and Frank’s Adventure

God damn this game sucked. It marketed itself as a cool game because you could do drugs. I remember the final boss being some mecha.

Shut the fuck up, Echo.

You call that comfy, get ready for REAL COMFY

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>this looks sterile and soulless
Well you were born after 2005 so I can understand you not getting the early 00s futurism.

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>that pic
i hate having been born in 2000

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>how to get tinnitus

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thats because of the difference in philosophies in game making. games were made as a product back then - complete on purchase, relying on nothing but itself to entertain. now they are a service, meant to keep people engaged for long periods of time, and not necessarily through entertainment - lots of games now give you a sense of duty, like you have to do this before a certain window or you'll miss out on this or that item.
its crazy that finished games are a rarity these days

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futurism was so fucking cool

I don't get it.

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'Cope', 'Seething' and 'Have Sex' seem like recycled 'Deal with it', 'U mad', and some version of 'virgin' insult.

It's the same kind of featureless bland plastic jewish shit we have today

this is soul

>Born after 2005
That's generous. Anyone born after 97 wouldn't consciously remember the early 2000s(2000-2003) too much.

All those CRTs, most of them running sub-VGA resolutions with sync frequencies right in the range of human hearing.

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You're just a faggot and you never were a true gamer if you're that booty tickled because women play games now

I think starting in the 2000's games you bought installed and worked.

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It feels like you can actually smell the fucking carpet, damn life is just suffering now

I worked at CompUSA back in the mid to late 90s. The economy was still in the dot com boom and everything was fucking awesome. I was making great money to reinstall Win95/98 on every PC with an issue to come in because fuck troubleshooting anything. Got a fairly high end computer I built for cheap out of "DOA" parts back then. I want to go back so bad

The problem is that women playing games now means that developers now feel the need to cater to their tastes, which are shit.

this thread just gave me such a boner. where are my Wolf:ET senpai at?

I played lans n stuff, i was 16-18 and those were some of the most fun trips ive ever taken. everyone was trashed, team captn gave us all adderall or concerta and we still got our asses kicked

...kino

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Can confirm, was born late 90s. Don't remember the early '00s too well (I remember bits and pieces, but I don't have a continuous stream of memory of the time).
Sometimes I wish I was born ten years earlier.

So which futurist style looked better? The neon day-glo 80s-1993 style, or the 1998-2003 Y2K chrome style?

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>sort of poor
haha let me be le ironic XD

Holy fucking shit

was all about aquarius and 4 nerds playing and 1 in a queue my nigga

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>It's the same kind of featureless bland plastic jewish shit we have today
It was a pre-9/11 aesthetic of the future. Where everything was cheap and clean and optimistic. If anything, the jews ruined that with 9/11. Just because something is plastic and uses industrial materials doesn't mean it's soulless. I posted both pics you're replying about.

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Yeah this. Before 2004 or so MMOs were the hot new genre that took over after RTS games.
Funny that the 4-5 MMOs even worth playing are still ones that came out in 99-2004.

Core Millennial was the last great one and probably its greatest peak. Late Millennial was ok but a downward trend that continues to this day

Holy shit user... I wanted to go back, but not this far back... Fuck...

They each have their own greatness.

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80s-1993 futurism is better by far, there was plenty of colour and variety and soul, the 00's futurism shit is as bland, sterile and soulless as it gets. It's the artistic/aesthetic equivalent of commieblocks.

im a fan of y2k more

Things were already on the decline from the 90s. Early 2000s was basically the same as current gen honestly.

Wow look at these commieblock russian aesthetic. I remember this is how shoe stores looked under Stalin.

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seething poorfag
work harder

>Early 2000s was basically the same as current gen honestly.
Definitely not the case. Most can agree that 2007ish was some kind of weird turning point.

>Early 2000s was basically the same as current gen honestly.
Mid 2000s maybe, but I'd disagree about the early 2000s. The early 2000s were a trippy/weird time that was like the last breath of the 20th century, and had a mysterious/cool feel that 2004-2009 just didn't have as much.

People often said "The 90s ended in 2004", since 2004 had a lot of changes that screamed "the 00s culture is here" and the late 90s influences were fully dead:

>Nick and Cartoon Network cancelled all the 90s shows
>The re election of Bush
>Approval ratings of Iraq began to dip
>Movies like Team America began to come out that were disillusioned with the American Dream
>People began to get over 9/11 and the "Bush is stupid" schtick began
>The Rock retired and WWE begun transitioning to Cena and Batista
>Emo overtaking nu metal
>Crunk rap overtaking glam rap
>Myspace getting popular
>Web 2.0 coined
>Friends finale
>Laguna Beach started
>Release of Nintendo DS
>Broadband overtook dial up for the first time
>Eminem fell off with Encore
>Green Day changed their sound with American Idiot
>Last full year of 6th gen gaming, before 360 came out next year
>iPod became popular
>TechTV murdered by G4

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>went to school for game design
>postgrad so most people were pretty old
>expect them to respect the classics
>wear Neo Geo shirt on the first day
>they only play modern Ubishit
This is why modern gaming is trash

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Ah yes, comrade, no soul here.

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fuck you for asking
both are totally amazing

It's crazy, all these old light gun games meulate so well now but light guns are dead as fuck, you got that new light gun on kickstarter but who knows if that's gonna work.

looks like cheap shit

>installing UT99 and CS 1.6 on school computers
>playing those shitty DBZ flash games
>going home and playing RO all afternoon, waiting for wednesdays WoE

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unironically because 2008 obama took office and his administration sucked the soul out of the world

but also social media's rise

I like this stuff best, I think it's 70s.

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the women looked sexy rather than like dykes thats why

>went to school for game design
I bet your parents were wholly disappointed in you.

was good times family, coming home from watching LOTR and playing wc3 lotr custom.

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>no soul here.
correct

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2007 was the turning point, dumb Zoomer.

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Feels like I'm about to walk on to a 2000s Jeopardy set.

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>that built-in breaker panel
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEET

Nah I still have a CS degree and did some database work with the government before I went in the industry so it wouldn't be hard to leave and find something good. But what job do you do user?

>G4
I didn't realize what we had until it was gone.

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Fucking this, last few years of highschool had the best culture

>ATI Radeon and all those cool graphix cards boxes
>Those shitty standing mics everyone had before we realized headsets were better
>webcam to use in MSN messenger

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Obviously their taste ain't shit because they're making a lot more money because of it. If companies did not expand their base you would not be getting the same type of good immersive AAA games you're getting now because companies can't keep selling to the same 10 white fat loner virgins over and over and expect to make a profit.

Now this is boomer kino.

in b4 "but this isn't y2k aesthetic!"

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check my voip on the wall, very important for natural selection with your neighbor best friend.

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>Obviously their taste ain't shit because they're making a lot more money because of it.
Non-sequitur

No I get you. I understand. We all have our first nostalgia hole about neon arcades and VHS tapes. because those things existed for 2 decades and covers multiple generations. but soon you realize the nostalgic landscape is much bigger the older you get.

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>good
>immersive
>AAA games
pick one

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this just looks like shitty melty blobs

I've said it countless times by now, this industry has a long-term memory problem. Nothing they do thinks in the long run. Games from the past are left for dead and buried, only saved by fans in a sort of illegal way with emulation. A lot of stuff from that time, stuff like source code, was thrown away because these companies are fucking retarded. Despite this, they still try to enforce takedown, because they don't give a shit about their own history and legacy.
Because of this, modern devs are only capable of looking back 5-10 years for references, with the few exceptions of stuff like Ocarina of Time, which everyone claims to love but then you try to talk about that and they'll only talk about Breath of the Wild.
>Oh yeah, BOTW is my favorite game of all time. I only played for 5 hours, got bored afterwards but it's amazing.
Don't have an image to express the full extent of my anger.

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>you would not be getting the same type of good immersive AAA games you're getting now

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>in b4 that guy who just discovered the 80s replies to my post again

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we're reaching a level of aesthetic that shouldn't even be possible

Looks like logan's run or the prisoner

>everything is just clean straight lines
>hardly any variance in visuals
>sony
not him but this is about as jewish as it gets

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the world is legit a dystopia now, anyone around back then can confirm the newspeak and orwell shit now is out of control

soul

soulless

Why does this instantly scream Spice Girls and chrome dresses to me?

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more importantly what was a nigger doing in a British music group?

because that's the time period it represents

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>everything is just clean straight lines
Yea that's what happens in an economically stable and productive future. everything isn't dirty ass DUDE CYBERPUNK MLAMO normiebait.

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The cameraman on the right is perfect nostalgiacore.

Miss me?

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>chrome clothing
>not transparent clothing

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MOH

I still have mine in a drawer somewhere.

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>Yea that's what happens in an economically stable and productive future.
You mean it's what happens in a future ruled by jewish interests. You see the same exact ideas in Bauhaus art, which was a degenerate school of art created by the kikes in Weimar Germany.

>Please, don't...

This

thanks doc

>Don't have an image to express the full extent of my anger.
How about this one?

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There was shitposting, banter & alot of bloat in game genres like MMOs but at the same time something more - today, it feels like more and more people are becoming just antagonistic

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Gameboy Light was peak aesthetic

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Danke Herr Doktor

thanks doc

Are you that same guy from a couple months ago who thinks brutalism is a jewish conspiracy to get rid of old architecture? This shit has nothing to do with the Weimar republic and you saw nothing like this from then. You sound like you just want to complain about jews in a thread that's not about complaining about jews.

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this is a photoshop right?

>Yea that's what happens in an economically stable and productive future. everything isn't dirty ass DUDE CYBERPUNK MLAMO normiebait.
Literal NPC opinion. You crave efficiency and straight lines in everything because you have the soul of an insectoid automaton. You are a bugman.

That's because the Nazi's were just Nazi's and not literally everyone who disagrees with the current social narrative.

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>want to experiment new things
>omg report user for trolling

If you think this aesthetic is about straight lines you're a fucking moron. Learn to analyze art fucktard. You looked at one thing and invented a jewish conspiracy about something you didn't even knew existed before the post. And you're calling others an NPC while going off on pre-programmed rants you read from some other mentally ill faggot's manifesto.

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89 masterrace checking in

I'm not the same person, but that guy sounds pretty much correct.

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I miss when there were bad guys who weren't just nazis or zombies or nazi zombies.

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The feeling of your loved ones not aging, everything feeling eternal and happiness didn't come packaged in with guilt or destructive consequences...

Games didn't need to be amazing because your imagination made the game eternal in depth, scale and story. You remember when you still thought characters actually existed, and wasn't just graphical "things" that had an actor behind its facade?

E3 was a huge event like San Diego Comic Con and had booth babes.

Booth
Babes

Just imagine the smell Yea Forums...imagine.

wtf lads

Take that shit back to /pol/ because it's irrelevant to what's being posted here.

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at least TGS still has them

It was the best.

>getting gaming news and content primarily from Nintendo Magazine and G4TV shows, like XPlay, Cheat!, Judgment Day, and Portal
>Local Multiplayer was on it's last leg but powerful and so much fun to spend Friday nights with pizza and the bros playing Halo or Melee all night long
>E3 was actually like watching the Olympics and felt SO big
>PC games felt niche and like you were apart of a secret club
>NO fucking politics in games ANYWHERE, and the political left didn't care about ruining them yet

It was a magical time.
*G$TV logo noise
youtube.com/watch?v=GxcOzblY5L8

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Seems like I struck a nerve with the kike.

this is the company that's censoring everything right now.

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pls stop

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what is this building supposed to be?
cause it looks kind of vaginaish

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>Take that shit back to /pol/
Dilate.

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It was a different time. Back then they needed to do everything they could to make it to the top, and now that they've been there for a while they've forgotten how they got there.

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>what is this building supposed to be?
Degenerate nonsense built by some jew.

kill yourself faggot

88 is the master year, same year moot was born in.

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Never forget.

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The thread is about the early 00s and your entire tantrum is because nobody is posting synthwave shit and 80s shit. You're the asshole for not understanding the thread, dummy.
It's just some architectural concept from the 00s.

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It's this sort of poor meme again. Fuck off

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>The thread is about the early 00s and your entire tantrum is because nobody is posting synthwave shit and 80s shit.
I'm not even the same user you dumb kike.

Based

Fpbp

pretty weird isn't it
>no you can't tell me to not be a massive roastie slut fucking random guys on tinder everday
>but you also can't have good looking women in video games, that's sexualizing women!

The argument is that it removes agency from women. Women want to be huge roastie sluts on their own terms, fuck the guys they want to fuck. They do not want undesirable men being aroused by the women they want to fuck. Female mentality is batshit.

Close but when it comes to this stuff about the legacy of games, my anger has gone full abstract.
My anger transcends the mortal realm of reality. My anger sees the past and the future and the present all at once. It sees the disrespect from both the players, the developers, the publishers. It sees the devs of yore dismissing their early work due to some trend, it sees the current devs disrespecting franchises just because the new one is more "cinematic" and "mature". It sees it all. And nothing seems to quench that anger.

Time to post this:
youtube.com/watch?v=8Kglt82JmPc

This looks exactly like the shit we have today.

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>i jumped in the conversation without announcing myself but it's your fault for thinking i'm the same person

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>i jumped in the conversation without announcing myself but it's your fault for thinking i'm the same person
Nigger this is an anonymous imageboard, are you retarded?

Ah, Playstation 2 ads. In other words, jesus christ what are they even trying to sell me.

I was always autistic about gaming history. Growing up I'd talk about 'oh man this game has x composer/director/character designer' or 'they did game x' etc. and be met rightfully with blank stares from my friends. Skimming any piece by a game journo usually makes me wince in pain since they know nothing about the fucking industry or its history.

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>happiness didn't come packaged in with guilt or destructive consequences...

fucking baby

i always liked this one

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Just jumpin in this nostalgia thread to say FUCK the Metro-style, borderless UI that infests every single user interface of every media in the world, whoever created it deserves to be put on a cross.
You may now resume.

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Snoy was already experimenting with artsy unfun degenerate bullshit back then. It was a sign of things to come.

oh fuck right in the feels
i feel like i'm the only person who actually cares about video games at all on this planet

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Late Millennial/Gen Y. 100%.

They predicted the future and it turns out to be awful, as usual

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Doesn't apply to flight sims...but ill allow this opinion.

Remember needing an IP to join a server?

>this is an anonymous
My point exactly. So when you magically jump in when the other person stops replying it's almost like it looks like the same person!

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This game is too fuckin good

>Back when they trolled sjw.

long time ago.

There's no point in assuming it's the same person in the first place, brainlet. You're too used to posting on reddit to understand how this site works.

Thread music:
youtu.be/oOfdU98JzCk

What do you miss most of all?

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It was still a niche culture, so, if you were a pc gamer, there was a good chance you could strike up some friendships with other such people at PC gaming/pc stores or vanila eb games/ gamestop if you were a consolefag.

Yeah but then you get to claim you weren't the same person when backed into a corner for being a dumbass. Sorry, you're not getting the plausible deniability faggot. Take responsibility for being wrong.

It's nice that I see more yt channels dedicated to the history, but it always felt weird to me when people would just mindlessly buy games. I always wanted to know the company, its history and people involved before purchasing.

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Seething gaylord

You're still wrong, and you're taking this way too seriously. There are no upvotes or downvotes to worry about here. You have no reputation to uphold. I recommend you stop posting and lurk for a few years before attempting again. You very blatantly have the mindset of a redditor.

>You have no reputation to uphold.
I've been here since 2005. Even anonymous people are worried about looking stupid. You'd know that if you've spent any significant amount of time here.

I don't think they predicted so much as never moved on from the futuristic=ugly and misshapen idea. Future generations will probably laugh at us for not realizing you can actually make beautiful things with new tools and techniques.

I'm seriously considering trying to go full out with game preservation. I have no idea how, not exactly what I planned my life to be but I'm seriously getting to the point where I think that if I don't, no one else will. I'll make a god damn manifesto, I'll fly off to every developer and publisher in the world to convince them to care about this.
Who knows how many games have already been lost due to companies not giving a shit about their own games? How many games that could be used as jumping off points for new ideas and concepts? Early gaming was the wild west of ideas, good and bad.
But now, every single motherfucking time, I pick up a new game, I know exactly how it's going to play out because everything plays out the exact fucking same. Only indies still experiment and all the need is a bit of money to suddenly go along with the AAA formula. The fucking nickle and dime bullshit where no game is complete because buying into these sleaze tactics IS part of the game.
I fucking hate it all.

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How the fuck does mowing the lawn even come close to that? Don't tell me the spirit of your words were literally "to better mow lawns"?

Shit theme. But I miss manuals and LAN xbox as well as 4 controller ports for split screen(screen watching) and relying on toys r us slips for release dates and prepurchase.

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>Working my ass off in the cold rain raking leaves to save up $300 bucks to buy the PS2.
>Friend's parents paid for all his stuff
>Mfw I buy it a week before Christmas when he gets his.

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Well I am not rich and I am not middle class.
And I am not on food stamps but belong to the lower class.
So I am sort of poor.

I even drive an old 2002 VW Jetta 1.8t GLS.
It's having issues starting sometimes.
I might scrap it and get a 2017 prius for gas mileage but I don't like the idea of paying 350USD a month for 5 years and I don't want to drop 18k all at once...That would dip into my savings for a house down payment.

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No, you've made it very clear to everyone that you have that reddit mindset of being worried about carefully maintaining your internet reputation. This is an anonymous message board you worthless nigger. This will be your final (You). Now go back.

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why don't you fuck off outta here, and take your giant butt plug with you, fag

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>I had those exact same speakers before they got wrecked from falling too much
Fuck bro, I want to go back

The term you are looking for is yonic

Voltaire lied when he said anonymity means people tell the truth. People lie even when they're anonymous because they lie to themselves. Like you're doing now. You can't admit you were wrong because it makes you feel weak. So you lie about your posts and pretend to be other people. Not the same guy you're replying to btw, just an observer.

youtu.be/7Jfzh2s3jlE

I miss goofy commercials like this

My grandparents and parents bought my consoles and handhelds up to PS1. Then I had to buy my own.

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Fuck character, I mowed lawns for money to buy vidya and Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

The handhelds were easily their worst regret because of how many batteries they ate up.

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I wish I was born in 88 and not 89 so I could be part of the master race. Jan 1989.....

youtu.be/SKH4NOA0pPA

"AH DAHK MASTA MAN"

Gaming had mostly gone to shit by then.

fuck off

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It's the ability to persist with something either menial or unplesant to attain something desireable rather than having the instant gratification of getting something there and then whenever you want it.

I litetally bought Gran Turismo 1 before I had a PS because i needed that game. Got motivated and had one 4 weeks later doing odd jobs. Felt so good.

As a kid I figured out really quick that my Genesis power plug would work on my Game Gear. Fuck that thing ate up 6AAs in like three hours.

>HE'S A RESCUE

was this really where they made the Mario PC demo? wasn't it at the building in the back where they originally where working?

I stopped posting pictures 20 minutes ago you dumb faggot. Stop replying to my on-topic posts with your architectural and design butthurt. Nobody cares you don't like apple or anything that isn't 17th century roman columns and plaster.

I always imagine myself giving my kids the newest entertainment system and feeling huge regret after seeing them squeal and fawn over it nonstop while using it constantly for months on end. I know I felt huge joy being the kid myself but it sure was a slippery slope of playing VIDEO GAMES way too much.