Everyone knows 2008 was the "Year of Darkness" when videogames went to shit...

Everyone knows 2008 was the "Year of Darkness" when videogames went to shit, this means there are 18 year olds on Holla Forums that were 10 years old when it happened

Games were already shit before they were a man. They were born in shit, moulded by it.

Did some miracle keep them sane so they ended up here? aware of the state of the industry? What made them have a 'THEY LIVE' moment where they saw the truth of things and eventually find their way to us?

Or are they just the kids banned from Something Awful that needed another place to let them use the word 'faggot' as they secretly play Dota 2 and Call of Duty?

They play some old games and ask themselves "Hey why is this shit from ten years ago more fun than the AAA sludge coming out of the industry's asshole?"

That must be a sad feeling. Like in all the high fantasy or sci fi games with a post-post apocalyptic setting where they remember "the golden age" -which is literally what square enix calls 97-99 while 98 is considered by many 'the year of dreams'- and know what they have lost and can only revisit past glories of a now dead era.

Older siblings keeping their systems instead of getting rid of them are how a lot of kids found out how shit games were getting.

Thats how it was for me.

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Mommy and Daddy did not buy them all they wanted making them play older titles and they like vidya a whole lot more tham most people to actually search up good vidya instead of relying on marketing and shit taste plebs.

Games are undeniably of lower quality overall in the age of [CURRENT YEAR] and you know it.

So are younger generations of Holla Forums more likely to be poorfags or younger siblings?

Some people discovered emulation, or were unlucky poorfags and had to rely on getting games from rental stores, as gifts only a few times a year, or hope their parents would buy them a game from a thrift shop.

>>>/cuckchan/

Kill yourself newfag

bad b8 or underage as FUCK.

Little bit of both probably
I'm an only child and my parents didnt like me playing vidya so I usually got shit much later.

My first memories playing vidya was from 2005/2006 with games like GTA:SA, Shadow the hedgehog, 50 cent, kingdom hearts, pokemon, mariokart, and much much more that i cant remember.

My hunger for vidya only grew and I luckily managed to aquire a non shit taste by playing mostly nip games and eventually found myself here. Talking about videogames with a bunch of hopeless Holla Forumsirgins who dont know how to or dont even bother to dig through the trash to find the actual good games.

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your new is showing

My brother and I are just old enough to not be b&. My dad was one of those computer guys, you know, graduated highschool with credentials to get the computer science job at that same highschool type guy. Said fuck it to a shit ton of free rides through college because CalTech didn't want to give home a free ride. Well, when he was raising up my brothers and I, he was into the whole Linux freeware stuff. Still is. He hooked up some of the old computers he "received" over time and hooked us up with a shit ton of open source and free games to distract us while he worked on networks and mum was busy. Open arena, doom, and other shit like that is what we grew up on. Now, I went Holla Forums eversince I first found it, and kept to lurking because I didn't want to sound like an idiot, but when I found Holla Forums, I found that I actually could speak my mind and know what I an talking about. Soon, games like fear and eye got into my computers library over time. I know modern games suck, but a good thing is that the games that don't are cheap as fuck or even free.

You just sound like a fucking weeaboo from 10 years ago.

I don't want to say its Woolie.

But its fucking Woolie.

Well this thread confirmed what I've been suspecting.

cripple/v/ is filled with underage faggots, explaining the retarded shit I keep reading here

HOLY SHIT WHO GIVES A FUCK, QUIT DWELLING SO MUCH ON THE PAST

It was the economic crash of '09 that cemented videogames as shit.

I know right? ITS CURRENT YEAR! COME ON PEOPLE GOD DAMN IT!

I'm 21, but being poor means I grew up with NES, and PS1/PS2 as teen, then straight into computers where I caught up on playing as much as possible as fast as possible.

Give examples


I dont know, why are you still lurking imageboards?


Are you me?

visualboy advance and xsnes was a godsend as a poorfag of any age.

Judge me however you like, I play whatever i want. I am also open to suggestions, you anons along with some irl friends which probably are anons anyways gave me some great suggestions and gave me hours upon hours of enjoyment. I wouldnt mind wasting much more of my life on vidya.

Ow was quite enjoyable for a 7-8 year old.
I have and enjoyed kh 1.5 and 2.5 and am patiently waiting for KH3
I also quit playing pokemon games, I like SMT games now.

Go play Valkyria Chronicles.

We all know you're underage
My first memory playing vidya was playing Sonic the Hedgehog and failing to jump past the huge wall during the second lava trip on top of a cube in the Marble Zone

Mine was a wall of noise i did not understand and wished was mario i would later learn was called 'solar jet man'.

Don't feed the troll, please!

Oh well, guess I have more time to focus on my job now

Maybe people being retarded has to do with people being retarded education and genes and not age.

What an exciting time we live in.

Cool blogpost my man.

Or having old masterpieces on your PC like Age of Empires and Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis sat on the old family computer as a constant reminder as to the quality standards gaming was once adhered to

Yet the Iraq war turned America even more anti war supporting than Vietnam and the US military is taking anything they can get due to "tools and talent brain drain".

There are underage posters on Holla Forums who get to check my dubs.

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Nice

MODS BAN THIS KID.

Wouldn't be surprising, it's when everyone because terrified of taking risks and games had to have as broad an audience as possible (IE; dumb everything down for the most retarded and disinterested normalfags)

Ban everyone born after 1979 from Holla Forums

2008 my ass. The 7th console generation started in 2005. 2004 was the last good year.

So what?
There were some decent interesting games at the time and kike business tactics werent the norm.

I tend to play stuff that gets mentioned here and look for old games to play. 95% of games don't lose out by not having the "sparkly and new" factor. Though I wish I had been able to play some older multiplayer games before they became ded.

Go google the videogame releases and major developments of 2008.

Then feel a growing sense of existential dread. it's alright. It only means you are still sane.

The BIG problem was focusing on graphics over gameplay. Game development started costing way too much money, so it took fewer risks and made fewer games. The games that were made targeted the larger than ever casual/normalfag demographic. The combination made shooters the norm and basically killed RPGs entirely.

At the same time PC games started being developed as multiplats, using the lowest common denominator console specs, so nothing was safe. Before the 7th gen consoles were pretty much their own space. Multiplats were far from common and the ones that did get made usually had to be remade to fit the new system.


There MIGHT have been some OK PC games in 2005-'07, but those would have been the leftovers in development prior to the console releases, or from developers who hadn't quite yet jumped the bandwagon. Rest assured it was the consoles that killed gaming.

I wasn't a ten year old in 2008, but I've never played golden eye or banjo kazooi or jack and daxter or timespliters or that game with he lesbians and the pig or the original fallout or the original diablo or F-zero or ace combat.

I was more of a ratchet & clank / megaman legends 2 / jet force gemini / mortal kombat / smash borthers / sonic 2 / mechwarrior 3 / pokemon stadium (goddamn did I have fun with this one) / mario 64 type of kid.

Did I miss anything? Is it worth emulating the first ones?

The lesbian games are called Fear Effect.

Most 18 year old people here are only here because kids are usually contrarian narcissistic sociopaths, and the anti-hipster hipsters here provide a natural habitat.

Most people over 18 years old here are here because games aren't worth playing these days, and most old games (aside from shit like JRPGs) can be completed in under an hour or two. So this is their surrogate escapism.

I'm sorry you have shit taste


You missed a ton, time to play them

2007

07 was the set up, 08 was the pay off that cemented it as the new norm.

you dont hate the first brown and bloom game, you hate the trend that follows it later.

This
Plus there was still a ton of good shit in 2007 even if the trends were already changing.

CoD4 wasn't the atrocity everyone makes it to be.
It's effect on other games and its sequels have earned everyone at activision eternal damnation though.
As said, it was the set-up

Someone post the picture "2008 the year the internet went to shit."

Its 2007 you nigger


MW2 and its fuckhuge popularity was actually the one that influenced all of that trash
4 wasnt that influential

Hey shit dick
The encroachment of gamer culture dates to 2007 (Technically 2006) with a hollywood initiative to link their tentative paying consumer base to the much higher somewhat OTAKU-like culture prevalent in nerds/gamers in america and growing in the UK, because gamers spends a SHITTING DICKTON of money on merch and games, and they hoped to foist them as a sail to try and sail the sinking ship of TV Media by encouraging the kind of enthusiasm that gamers and nerds had for their passion but the unfortunate thing is that with TV being an incredibly passive activity and Gaming being a much more active involved activity you ended up with the weird hipster abortions that we have now that play games with very low skill and "cinematic" appeal, and at the same time are a very poor candidate for monetization and unfortunately this means that marketers and special interest groups now have a vested involvement in this industry and means they still have the tenuous grip on gaming media which they use to try and push games out of their niche.

This is very heavily prevalent when observing "modern" gamers that really play their hand at how long they have actually been involved with the industry and their are several litmus tests linked to industry involvement.

Several very obvious tells can give away someone who is a product of this initiative to get the TV audience into gaming.

Examples include
"Sonic was always bad/ All 3d sonic games are bad"
"Undertale promotes feminist values"
"Pyro is a gay man"
Anything involving game theory
"I like Scott Cawthon, what's a pilgrim's progress?"

No, no, no. Stop pushing this shitty fallacy. The 7th console generation saw the shift to focusing on marketing over graphics and gameplay. Games are increasingly bloated and unoptimized with each passing year, resulting in games that demand increasingly powerful hardware to produce a technically and graphically less impressive game than 10 years ago. Compare Fallout 4 to the original F.E.A.R.
One requires a GTX 1080 to maintain a stable 60fps at all times, the other can run at 144fps on a toaster by today's standards, despite objectively being the better looking game. Games today are neither deep nor pretty, because the street shitters and SJW hipsters the AAA companies outsource to don't know how to code.

Really faggot, you're going to blame the 360 here, and not faggots like Phil Fish who helped make it shit?

We really need a vidya board, or maybe an entire imageboard, where only anons born before 1986 are allowed to post.

What are you, 30? Go poo your diapers, kid

like come the fuck on man, also
that's quite a stretch user, how many posters you gonna get from that? 12?

The irony is that this doesn't actually solve the problem because a significant amount of the hipster trash is around that age.

Well I guess it's more incidental rather than ironic. The issue with the industry is a lack of Earnest. Not age bracket.

Most of us have been playing games since shortly after we were born, so we have distant memories. Also, don't forget that you don't have to be old to like old things.

A bit older, actually. 35 But I think 1986 is a decent cutoff.

You're right, that's why I didn't say it was feasible, only that I feel older anons need it.

Maybe. But the vast majority is still comprised of those born in the late 80s and during the 1990s.

It's probably why a lot of fucks here have shit taste.

something I've noticed with newfags is they don't stick with games, any game. get hyped by propaganda and crowd, buy game, play it until quickly bored (or don't), get hyped for next game. the animal shallowness of their pursuits, their strong consumer conditioning, it scares me.


I'm an oldfag and I play dota 2. it's an evolution of a Warcraft 3 map, has steep learning curve. lumping things in because "I don't like it" is retarded.

if you post more shit like this it's going to make me stop playing hots and start playing doto 2 again

In a few years they are gonna talk about 2012 being the last good year.

Sure, there are alot of threads/talks dedicated to good shit like stalker, hitman, mafia 2, etc. But that doesnt mean jack shit when ever one has different opinions on what is shit, and what isnt, and they prefer different genres on top of that. So there are going to be people who think that what I said above is shit, when people like me think they are good games just because we like different genres.

The only reason people think that our board culture has objectivly good taste, is because we all agree on the fact that 90% of Triple A games are complete shit, so we have an equal footing.

I like MOBAs from when i played Dota Allstars, but i can only pick from stuff like Dota 2, and LoL so sadly my choice in games are limited and are almost entirly regarded as objectivly shit.

don't think porn is a good reason to start playing again, but you asked

I dont know, it's just good taste I guess. I dont even know how I ended up here, around 2011 I started playing morrowind and fo1, then fo2, all mechwarrior and mechcommander games, doom… and I ended up here. The last 5 years have been a blur, I'm only 20 and I've already played almost everything there is to be played

I've always been a poorfag being a couple of generations behind. I had a used NES and Megadrive when everyone was rolling with N64s and PS1. Had a used P3 w98 PC when everyone had already moved on to XP and P4. I did have friends when growing up so I always played the newer systems at their places.
It's pretty funny how when I finally have enough money to spend on vidya, it turns to shit and there's not much incentive for me personally to upgrade. I'm pretty much playing old PC games and low spec indie PC games on a XP machine and playing through what the PS3 had to offer (pretty much exhausted it already). I'm 23 for reference.
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Whatever you say bub


You likely like Overwatch as well, you'te not welcome here and you never will, go back to your fucking hugbox.


I remember when shitters like you stayed on cuckchan.
Get over your social skinnerbox addiction you fucking retards.
You could be playing actual good games over this trash.

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But I would be lonely then…. The board would be slower than /a/.

19 yearold reporting in

My first games were Warlords Battlecry 2, Stronghold, Quake 2, Quake 3, Cossacks, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn, GTA: San Andreas.

Reason: I live in eastern europe where games are 5 years behind the american market, plus my dad bought me games that can be runned on the toaster.

The nice thing about video games is that while I get older, they stay the same age!

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I suspect there are a lot of us born in the mid-80s here. I often forget how young most of the anons here are, summer never ends.

I'm 20 and my first games were Age of Empires 2, Comanche Gold, Baldur's Gate, then the obvious like the original pokemons and some dragon ball z games on the game cube

You have good taste.

Now you have made it, whippersnapper, I'm fighting the urge to search for a torrent.

You mean 2007

2007 is when it all went wrong for SOME reason

If you think things are bad now, just wait another ten years. It will only keep getting worse.