I miss comfy early 2000 video game magazines :(
I miss comfy early 2000 video game magazines :(
Thomas Russell
Brandon Sanchez
you don't. it was the only thing we have to get gaming news.
Brody Jackson
I miss when Halo was good.
Alexander Nelson
Effort and research had to be put in. No clickbait or sjw poz.
David Robinson
Demo disc bros...
Robert Foster
You can still read a bunch of the old mags online if that's your thing.
Jacob Jackson
cute you actually believe that.
Nolan Garcia
so much soul, take me back.
Samuel Morales
zoom zoom
Brandon Hill
Isaac King
Joshua Hughes
I also miss the same for early 2000s anime magazines.
Elijah Reed
John Bailey
>we have ended up in an age where young people would prefer living in the past over living in the future
Fuck whoever has managed to ruin the Western world like this.
Christopher King
Xbox magazine was awesome. Anyone have a link to download the issues or anything?
Asher Richardson
From the issue
Angel Torres
For some Xbox stuff
archive.org
For everything else
archive.org
Daniel Butler
>you don't.
I do, but not because they had magic in them.
You had one or two magazines to read monthly with a finite number of pages in them. You started, you had fun, you finished and maybe looked back later when you went to take a shit.
Now you could watch previews for new games for six hours and still have more to go. You could listen to some blowhard review a game for 45 minutes and still not know if it was good or not.
There is such a glut of gaming content coming at you from all angles, you start to ignore it. Every game is hyped up to be the best thing you've ever seen that hype means nothing anymore.
There's 100 sites for gaming news. Fucking Forbes.com has a gaming news article. And for all that, it's all the same content. Neutral factual "reviews" of new games that you should *maybe* play.
Ryder Roberts
Yay old-school magazines.
Alexander Bennett
It's genuinely mindblowing how bad it's gotten so fast. Thoughts and emotions that used to be innate have been shunned and repressed, and the unnatural has become the new normal. Imagine how much confusion and anxiety kids growing up today must be dealing with.
Juan Roberts
It's been fucking me up how long ago this era was.
I was getting ready for work last week and I looked at my PS2 and it it hit me that was decades ago. It's an antique. The gaming culture I clung to so hard is dead. I barely even game anymore myself. And when I do, it's just trying and failing to grasp a constantly receding past, while the ever encroaching end inches closer.
I cant do this anymore.
Nolan Peterson
can I have your games?
Ian Torres
William Martin
This is not about people that could have excessive "nostalgia", it's about young people.
It went through the German press yesterday:
spiegel.de
Among the German 18-to-34 year olds, given the choice, 56% would choose the past, while 44% would choose the future, which is complete reversal compared to 10 years back (30% past, 70% future).
Andrew Sullivan
Basado
Isaiah Cook
The internet fucking existed. Forums existed. Webpages existed. Demo disks existed. G4 existed. What the fuck are you on about?
Justin Morgan
I'm glad I'm not the only one that notices just how bad shit has become. The only happiness I have anymore is either drowning myself in nostalgia or simply consuming entertainment from a better era where things made sense.
Ryan Campbell
Don't forget to vote Yea Forums!
Levi Ross
I miss early 2000s websites.
Parker Bennett
>fuzion frenzy
was so much fun back in the day with a bunch of friends.
>DoA 3: The New Face of Fighting Games
It was at that time.... what happened, bros?
Michael Roberts
Isaiah Allen
Fucking same. Early web design was not only peak kino, but peak efficiency. Everything was either on one page or you only needed to scroll down a little and not hidden under a million other links or tabs. Websites took up barely any bandwidith. everything was warm and inviting
Adam Wilson
Producer was an Xbox fan, did a sexual harassment and the remaining team brought the game multiplatform.
Aiden Wright
Yeah man, spot on.
Eli Jenkins
Itagaki, right? The series really needs him back. I love the franchise but DoA 5(6? I can't even remember what the last entry) was just lacking.
Charles Richardson
rose tinted glasses at it's finst, most 90s websites were trash, fucking ffxiv still has the same layout as XI did back in the day and it's complete aids.
James Mitchell
Blake Powell
Remember when fan service was actually celebrated in the industry?
Tyler Green
Nathan Bailey
Not everyone had access to the internet at that time though.
Jeremiah Roberts
Oliver Hill
Why the fuck did it change? I know about early web etiquette and how all that stuff evolved from when adverts were originally not even allowed on the web, but how the fuck did we get here? Forgotten websites, links buried under links, scrolling for ages, bandwidth problems, trouble finding who maintains the pages, lack of archival and backwards compatibility... How the fuck did we even let this happen? What we have now isn't even efficient compared to what we had back then. It doesn't even make sense. Literally anyone can figure this out with a bit of time and the wayback machine and see the regression of webpage design through the ages
Wyatt King
Jeremiah Adams
Nicholas Wood
yes they did lol, everyone had a phone and AOL
Sebastian Adams
Oliver Kelly
Logan Gray
>you didn't
Nah I enjoyed going to the local library to rent them out for the week. I still remember the whole rundown CVG did for the lead up to San Andreas. It was great for poorfags like me who couldn't afford the internet.
Zachary Ortiz
To be fair DOA 3 looked absolutely fucking amazing in the early 2000s and Itagaki was pushhing the graphics to the very top with DOA3, DOA 2 Ultimate and NG Black.
Now you see DOA 5 and 6 and they barely look any fucking different. It all just peaked with 5
Luke Nelson
5 and 6 kinda blurred into one another.
Zachary Rivera
user common don't be an asshole the other user is having a existential crisis.
Camden Jenkins
is it just me or were things more aesthetically pleasing in the 90s and early 2000s? maybe im wrong but I feel like things were 'prettier'? I dont think its nostalgia because im constantly surprised at different things that look cool from that era that I had never seen before. games,music,commercials, just seem more cool. if this is true why is everything starting to look so...boring? is it because there was more of a filter and barrier of entry then? what happened?
Joseph Anderson
Corparations. That's what happened. The vast, VAST majority of websites that have been created since the 2000s is created by a company in some way. And the one thing that companies care about above all else is just money. Why waste the money, time, and effort in creating an optimal website that works well when it ultimately does nothing for your bottom line of ad showing and data collection? People will use it either way and it will generate money for you either way. Paying for actually decent programmers is just a pointless waste for what they want to accomplish.
Brandon Anderson
Reminder you can read many of these on Archive.org
Great thread OP. I certainly do miss some aspects of presentation in the mags, particularly custom covers and art like this. Digital Foundry fills some of the role that the old mags provided for me, maybe the similar emphasis on presentation since almost all of them started their careers in print?
Ryan Reyes
Putting boobs in a magazine to get your $5 is not the same thing as celebrating.
Jackson Sullivan
My archived copy looks different.
Gabriel Brown
Dylan Stewart
>RPG
Baldur's Gate Jagged Alliance 2 would be a very close second but it feels wrong in this category
>Flight Sim
Flight Sim 2000 is the only one I played so it wins by default.
>Mission Pack
Brood Wars
>Fantasy Sim
Freespace 2
>Action Adventure
Soul Reaver
>Strategic Action
Thief Honorable mention to Delta Force though
>Adventure
Grim Fandango
>Pinball
Judge Dredd Pinball
>Arcade
Mortal Kombat 4
>Sports
WCW Nitro
Matthew Jones
That was another thing that was based. You could be dirt poor back then and still afford to game. All you needed was a console, a game, which was cheap if you knew where to look and the ps2 had backwards compatibility, and optional shitty internet and cheap memory that could be off brand. Now you have to have good internet which isn't even always an option no matter how much you're willing to pay in some parts of rural america, decent storage if you have a lot of games which always costs over 100, an hdtv or monitor, speakers if you have a monitor, batteries, and games are being backported to the later generation less than ever. The transition to the sex/ps5 is faster than any other console generation
Aaron Hill
lol
Ryan Brown
Gavin Bennett
Its not an understatement that the PS2 was one of the better consoles for the sheer fact that its already bursting catalogue of 3000 games could be supplemented by most of the stuff from the PS1 gen. With some adjustments you could use the same controllers and memory cards too. The day when they announced the $1300 PS3 fuckin killed it for me and I stayed on the PS2 for at least another five years before moving on to PC. People forget that poorfags will continue to exist even when technology has clearly left them behind.
Xavier Gray
In some cases its better. Seeing those racing games I couldn't afford as a kid for 5 or 4 dollars and getting to play them on a ps2 I got for 20 dollars before the pandemic? That's not poor mate. It's fucking based.
Oliver Lewis
man i miss 2002 when i was 1 years old
Brayden Morris
why do mutts cling to advertising as nostalgic pieces of culture
Isaiah Roberts
Jose Price
Because capitalism used to work in such a way that you had to seek out where you belonged and what you enjoyed, but there was ALWAYS something for you and s community for it, no matter how niche. Now everything just has to be a monotonous blob of everything that appeals to everyone at once instead of focusing on a certain group or interest. Just look at movies nowdays. Everything is an action flick with witty one liners and shitty romance
Juan Bailey
Because the childhood memories of you and your friends playing in the park aren't exactly era-defining.