Remember when Gears of War was revolutionizing the industry?
Remember when JRPGs were exclusive to Xbox 360?
Remember when achievements and gamerscore were an important thing?
Remember when Xbox was the center of the new Indie gaming wave?
Remember when PC gaming was dead and Sony was on the verge of bankruptcy?
Joshua Gray
I Remember when computers were like consoles.
Jace Hill
No, No, No, Yes, No and Sony still is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Hudson Collins
Awful times indeed At least nowadays not everything is a Call of Duty clone, AA is having a resurgence and there is actually variety in games and genres.
Of course we now have the standarts pushed by companies during these 10 years, but at least now people are complaining and there are bigger niches.
7th gen was cancer
Nathan Bennett
Gears of War had pretty neat cover mechanics which translated into above average mobility for a cover based shooter. It was overrated as fuck, though.
Aaron Gomez
Halo and Gears of War revolutionized the industry for the worse imo.
Connor Murphy
But there were actually great CoD clones, like King Kong, Crysis, Wolfenstein 2009, and Metro 2033.
Kill Switch did cover based mechanics 2 years before Gears of War.
Ian Clark
Oh, I forgot BLACKED.
Austin Davis
That's Black, unless interracial porn is now considered a FPS
Noah Rogers
Technically, it was a revolution, yes, but fuck me was it for the worse. I fucking hate cover-based shooters.
Mason Gomez
Cover based shooters are good when taking cover is optional.
Benjamin Russell
Remember when video games were good?
Nathan Rodriguez
No. Fuck you, We are not going to get nostalgic over the 7th gen. I forbid it.
Ryan Lopez
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED WITH XBOX?!
No seriously the 360 was actually competing with Sony. Even in Europe the 360 was a real thing.
And then they pissed it all away on the Murrica box.
Weirdest shit in gaming industry I ever saw.
(And yeah I remember all the cool jrpgs on the 360. I bought and played them all. They weren't really exclusive though. Most of them ended up on the PS3 eventually. As did I. Switched to Sony a few years ago).
Nathan Roberts
You make me sad op. You really do.
Microsoft doesn't love you. And I'm sorry your first console was an Xbox and now you have this huge chip on your shoulder because your bought into brand loyalty
Ethan Bailey
Are you implying that Sony is actually any better than Microsoft? Both are garbage.
Caleb Davis
Well considering I only play JRPGs and VNs these days, yes. I like Sony. They're old school. Support their consoles for 10 years and you don't ever need to go online to play a game.
Pay a one time investment of 400 euro and play games for the next 10 years.
That's what consoles are all about imo.
Landon Bennett
Yes I do. Those were dark times, imagine if Xbox and Microshaft came out the winners in the end! No modding, no multiplayer without subscription, no proper piracy scene, no Japanese games industry saving vidya because Japan would take a massive hit with Nintendo being the only major company left.
I am glad it turned out the way it did.
Connor Lee
Even they you could tell that Xbox was a glass cannon, and it shattered pretty quickly
I really hope the massive losses console companies are seing they'll all die out and be replaced by PC Consoles have brought barely anything good to gaming in the last decade and PC can do everything a Console can do now but better
and dont use exclusives as any kind of positive for consoles, exclusives are cancer and need to die as soon as possible
Nolan Brooks
Exceptions, even franchises and genres outside FPS were trying to go for the CoD crowd after 2008.
Andrew Cox
I loved Gears so much, must've logged well over 2000 hours in the multiplayer across 1-3. So fucking sad to see the path its gone down, I was actually considering jewing myself and buying an Xbone just to play 4 before they started showing actual gameplay. It's truly amazing how little of a fuck they give anymore, even after "reforming" their studio.
James Young
No and I think you're making this up.
Cooper Brooks
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Grayson Kelly
Remember when achievements and gamerscore were an important thing?
Achievement have never really been exclusive (and were only good when making you play the game in different ways) and just being used by developers to reward stuff like 1000 kills or getting 25/50/75/100% the game just to track how many players did so.
While gamerscore is just a glorified e-dick measuring contest.
Cooper Torres
Wow, Jesus Christ, your opinion doesn't worth a shit.
Ian James
I appreciate it when anons let me know to disregard their worthless opinions in the first sentence.
Aaron Torres
Everytime
Matthew Diaz
I wish that shit never fucking happened Fuck shitty cover based 3rd person shooters Fuck all those chest high walls and the guy that came up with it should be hung by the neck
Leo Evans
Cliff Bazinga is the sleazies greaseball Ive ever had the misfortune to witness.
William Ramirez
the director of kill.switch was brought on to help the design of gears of war
winback also had cover centric shooting back in like 1999
Juan Watson
Must have happened in the berenstein universe.
Matthew Lewis
Cover based mechanic is really handy and practical, but when overused by lame devs it's annoying. I actually like how they implemented it in GTA IV, it's not mandatory but has to be used strategically. Shame it didn't really hurt the weapon accuracy. It should be, like in Kill Switch.
Winback's mechanics were primitive.
Kevin Cooper
People generally liked the story, world, and gameplay even though GoW was supposed to be a tech demo commissioned by Microsoft for the Unreal Engine for Xbox 360.
Mistwalker and any Japanese dev that deals with Microsoft gets shafted in the end.
They ruined a lot of MMOs I played and made faggots who want epeen scores here.
And it got us Phil Fish and the rest of the pretentious indie hipster clique fucktards.
There are nights where I want all of the madness to end and let the industry pick itself up, but then the Chinese and SJW Indie shits would take over.
I want to forget ;_;
Jaxon Richardson
10/10 post
Cameron Powell
Binary Domain is much better.
Angel Campbell
Video games were never good
Jason Cruz
I dont rememeber any of those ever happening kid
These new ps3\360 babies flooding this site sure a dumb
Leo Martinez
I remember making a thread about how 2007 and 7th gen after that brought the rotting industry that we know today.
I was promply accused of console wars and half the thread was around 5 shitposters trying to derail the thread.
James Wood
This, things only got worse when MS got involved, as usual
Luis Hughes
ITT: People who missed out on the peak of GoW multiplayer
A tragedy really
Samuel Gomez
Gnasher was overpowered in ll 3 gears.
Gabriel Brown
The only tragedy is that people were actually willing to pay to play online. It's even worse than the fact that they though Gears of War was good.
Chase Thomas
No. No. No. No. No.
Robert Foster
Oh I know. I haven't been part of the mainstream industry in years. Feels good.
Enjoy your Overwatch.
Jeremiah Ward
I don't remember anything you said, but i do remember when 360 fags were still on Holla Forums, and they were the biggest shitposters on the entire board.
Then they went defunct and jumped ship to PC, and that's when pcucks became obnoxious.
Basically modern pcucks on Holla Forums are all ex-360 fanboys and that's why the PC community on Holla Forums now sucks dick.
Eventually they'll just get bored of shitposting all day and we'll be rid of them once and for all.
Xavier Collins
What the fuck are you talking about?
Andrew Peterson
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Carson Reed
360 fags jumped ship too, they were the kids the massive PS2 edgy ad campaign brought on and those Nintenyearolds disappointed by the soft nature of the Gamecube
Also i remember those times from the 360, dark times indeed but they were far, far better than these times, back then there was a heap of shit games and a few good games. Thse days we have no games, and a bunch of bad movies The days before CoD4 were strange and very interesting, and like all succesful games, GoW brought a ton of shit copycats, but it wasn't their fault (even when the game wasn't that good either)
Mason Rivera
no
Nathan Powell
Sonyggers are worse than any console warriors out there.
Jaxson Rodriguez
like, 2 of them yeah
Brody Martin
Mcfucking kill yourself. A lot of my PS3 games are half worthless now. Can't play MGO2 either. Sony is shit and consoles as a whole are shit too.
Josiah Wood
Yes, it was a cancerous. Gears is shit and the 360 killed console gaming.
Christopher Cook
Microsoft never had a chance of capturing the Japanese market. All Sony did was make a Cancer bridge to the Japanese market.
The industry has gotten worse and you are fucking retarded.
Parker Nguyen
Yep, and imagine how much worse than this it would be if people didnt complain and piracy/used games werent a thing.
Mason James
End your life.
Aaron Allen
We didn't fall down; we climbed down.
For every hero that pops up in this industry, we delay the crash further until the shit taste and brainwashing have made it almost completely crash-proof.
PS4 has paid online now but no one cares because M$ tried to super jew us.
Soon the next Cancer is going to be cloud gaming.
James Hall
No, the next cancer will be incremental console hardware ala Apple/iPhone. Some anons here are already thinking of buying into it.
Andrew Hernandez
My thoughts exactly. I have no idea in what bizarro world people who believe any of these actually live in.
Jayden Rivera
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Chase Miller
I don't remember any of this shit. Was a 360 your first console or something?
Luke Ross
I swear this thread is unmeasurable proof that summer is upon us.
Austin Evans
Summer really is here, isn't it.
god, you're fucking retarded.
Jayden Ross
Kill Switch was a mediocre ripoff of Operation Winback.
Nathan Foster
Newfag spotted. Sony refused to allow companies like CAVE and SNK to release full price 2D games on PS2 outside Japan and even refused a full price SF Anniversary collection on PS2 outside Japan. Their Anti-2D policy was putting companies out of business till Microsoft offered to release their games at full price on Xbox and even worked to implement online in them. It lead to a revival of 2D Fighting games and the massive popularity of SF Collection on Xbox meant it had to be constantly reprinted as stores quickly sold out gave Capcom the confidence to make a new SF4.
Never mind the things Sony did like get Oddworld Inhabitants to make an expensive PS2 tech demo for a new Abe game, then tell them to fuck off when they asked for tech help and their publisher folded. Or paid a billion dollars so Squaresoft would only release it's games on PS2.
Or remember when Microsoft actually had quality control on their XBLA service and actively told Phil Fish to fuck off if he thinks he can leave a major bug in his game. The cuck media and the "Gamers" sided with Fish. Now every game ships broken and with a day 1 patch and you are ENTITLED if you believe a game should be released fully working for the customer.
The neo-sonyfag is a cancerous beast who tries to bury what Nintendo and MS did during those generations and hype up Sony's constant bandwagoning and marketing trying to make it look like they invented gaming when they did their very best to destroy entire genres and art styles only a decade ago.
Zachary Nguyen
You did this to yourself. A game that can be played fine by yourself. Unless you're playing a new shitty one.
I still don't know what JRPGs were 360 exclusive since the nips hated Microsoft.
I want to call out the meme, but at the same point, it feels appropriate. I wonder if their parents are buying them Gold membership to have internet on their Xbone over the summer and that's why they disappear when school comes back.
Nathaniel Diaz
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Noah Edwards
No to all. Am I missing something? Like a parallel universe?
Joshua White
OP made a thread to bait out the underage faggots posting here who grew up with the 360 and ps3.
Brandon Ward
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Colton Bailey
Blue Dragon Infinite Undiscovery MagnaCarta 2 Lost Odyssey
Levi Baker
I thought Blue Dragon had a DS game, but you're right, the original is 360 only. Never even knew there was a Magna Carta 2, super weird that it's 360 instead of PS3. The other two I vaguely knew about but I never hear them brought up in JRPG discussions. Are they any good?
Landon Brooks
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Nathan Stewart
Fuck man, the Xbox 360 era was a dark time. Those things were such breaky shitboxes and yet they got all the good games. The PS3 sucked ass back then and the Wii was always the Wii. It's crazy to think there ever was an era where Halo 3 and Gears were considered revolutionary in any sense of the word but that was indeed how they touted it back then. It was sort of a gross transitionary period from the very console-y 6th gen to the modern "entertainment hub" style of the 8th gen. The 7th gen consoles were supposed to be online centric yet the online never quite developed so it was janky and vastly obsolete to the PC. They were all optimized poorly and for the first time we really saw major framerate issues all across the board. DLC was finally becoming super mainstream in favor of expansion packs which led to the development of HORSE ARMOR and so many people said "If you don't like it then don't buy it and it won't make any money so they'll stop making it!" as if that even remotely turned out to be true. Wireless connectivity wasn't a standard yet so the 360 had a $100 wireless adapter which bit ass. Games in general started to become "modernized" and cinematic. CoD4 was a NEW and ORIGINAL breath of fresh air.
7th gen was such a terrible shitty era. Thank god that's over. It produced a lot of great games but literally every other aspect of it was shite. Good luck reliving your 7th gen memories in a decade when the servers are kaput and you can't get your DLC or update patches. I doubt there will even be any surviving 360s in the year 2026, those things had such an abysmal failure rate.
Nicholas Martinez
Gen 8 is worse in every single way
Jacob Garcia
The only saving grace of 7th Gen was that it had a good year between 2006-2007 and the better game here and there. That generation however popularized absolute cancer, from games that needed to be installed to Microtransactions in fully priced games.
Now that shit has been standartized thanks to the 2007 normalfag flood, now the biggest assfucking coming our way is Cloud and Incremental console hardware updates.
John Thomas
I honestly can't argue that because I have minimal experience with gen 8. Still though, 7th gen sucked. I want to believe the 8th gen is better but then I ask myself why I don't own any of the consoles and it's because there exists ~1 game I want to play total for them.
Bentley Jackson
No, user its worse, much much worse
Gabriel Mitchell
I'll admit, I haven't paid attention to vidyergames in about 6 months, please do summate to me what I'm supposed to be seeing here. It looks terrible.