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a4f744 No.14402609
Remember when Journalists called Facebook gaming the future of the video game industry?
a95925 No.14402620
Remember when Pokemon was one of the biggest things to ever happen and infested every area of popular culture?
5ca09b No.14402626
747bf3 No.14402627
remember when 2000 and 7 happened?
aadc33 No.14402644
>>14402620
>one of the biggest things to ever happen
kind of is still, but
>infested every area of popular culture
yeah, not so much of that anymore
a4f744 No.14402666
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>>14402644
>>14402620
Remember when bronies were considered the worst fandom to hit the internet?
ace90e No.14402673
Zynga's stock is still significantly lower than its IPO even after all these years.
a7bd28 No.14402674
>>14402666
They're still up there.
c50e4c No.14402677
Remember wben /v/ was good?
a95925 No.14402678
>>14402644
>kind of is still, but
fucking nope
3f0cea No.14402681
ONE NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
TWO NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
THREE NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
FOUR NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
No, you're wrong, there is something wrong with you OP.
e7e987 No.14402686
>>14402678
It was 2 years ago
a95925 No.14402688
>>14402686
>It was 20 years ago
agreed
b4f4bd No.14402695
Remember when the a laptop touchpad was the future of video game controllers?
193f50 No.14402704
>>14402678
>>14402688
I have to ask what kind of bubble you've been stuck in, because saying Pokemon isn't a big deal is just outright delusional. Even if you focus solely on the games (ignoring the massive amounts of generated content, anime, tv shows, movies, card games, products) they still rack up some of the highest sales figures.
A series can be popular without being good, if you're trying to virtue signal something.
3b78ba No.14402713
>>14402609
I remember this unity facebook game that was super cool and wasnt grindy as hell which got neutered for reasons I never managed to find out, dont even remember the name of it
576845 No.14402717
>>14402688
>1998 was 20 years ago
Oh, man…
321456 No.14402725
>GTA 3 spawned a certain amount of crappy gritty crime "gangster" titles like True Crime
>CoD4 MW inspired an endless barrage of brown&bloom shooters or "shootan' games"
a95925 No.14402730
>>14402704
I'm saying its a 20th as big as it was 20 years ago. It has penetration where it started, card games, video games and anime. The anime is incredibly small these days, the card game is a footnote and is even smaller than yugioh and magic, and even the games have lost a lot of their momentum with how they sequelize releases and end up making mainline games even the casual fans don't like.
I'm not interested if it's good or bad, I'm just providing an observation. I personally haven't played a pokemon game since gsc and have no interest in playing them again.
321456 No.14402751
>>14402730
The seventh gen revitalized the sales of the franchise mostly thanks to Pokemon Go but its nowhere near as big it once was, it was actually getting less and less popular with each entry ever since the first gen came around.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon
a95925 No.14402756
>>14402751
ah yes, pokemon go, the mobile game that died in 2 weeks after nintendo and niantic failed to capitalize on it appropriately and actually get it to run. Classic game stores also saw a huge increase in sales for the old pokemon games due to pokemon go, new games not so much.
4b0da7 No.14402774
>>14402666
I thought it was common knowledge that, from worst to still bad, it was: fetishist furries, furries, superwholocks, homestuck, undertale, bronies, neofaggers, rick and morty fans, reddittors and 9gaggers.
a1ff65 No.14402776
>>14402695
That pic
>track pad
>good controller
Hwhut
>specifically naming apple's like it's better
I wonder how much this ad cost them
We should do something about unethical journalistic practices
a4f744 No.14402785
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>>14402774
>Not listing Steven universe fans
a4f744 No.14402794
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>>14402681
Happy to hear people on here still have good taste in music.
a4630e No.14402808
Rammstein and Disturbed in every golden-era MMO PvP video
e9b6b8 No.14402824
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>>14402818
CUM ON STEP IT UP
c67e6e No.14402826
>>14402808
And every PVE video using Requiem For A Dream soundtrack.
b53899 No.14402834
>>14402609
One i'm glad died was that online pass bullshit.
All that did was kill multiplayer communities faster.
0486e6 No.14402835
>>14402725
>crappy gritty crime "gangster" titles like True Crime
True Crime is neither crappy, gritty or about being a "gangster". You're a cop for crying out loud, you can go around town frisking everyone for drugs and other illegal goods and then busting their asses.
b53899 No.14402845
>>14402835
The True Crime games were glitchy but fun as shit.
Had fun fucking around with the built in cheat menu in NY.
a1ff65 No.14402848
>>14402824
>Linkin Park
>sonic
>stilted humor
>bad sound mixing
>stupid plot
Takes me back to the good old days
504464 No.14402851
0486e6 No.14402854
>>14402845
Not to mention all the crazy magical stuff that happens in one of the story paths in the original. How can you look at a game where you take down a Best Korea army general in a hand to hand kung-fu fight in the best ending while surrounded by plane wreckage is beyond me.
0486e6 No.14402855
>>14402854
as being gritty*
837f66 No.14402856
>>14402794
To this day I'll never understand why it was so popular.
eca4ee No.14403038
I remember in 2009 how PC and console games would all die and be replaced by mobile games with microtransactions. Nothing you can do goyim, it's inevitable!
2ba99e No.14403219
Digital card games you had to collect actual physical cards for.
Kart racing for every franchise.
Asking you to sign up to a newsletter after you install a game now it forces you to give up your personal information instead.
Movie tie-ins.
Split screen (pretty rare nowdays).
Gritty and edgy shit.
Brown and bloomy shit.
Chains on characters.
EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!!!
Violence for violence' sake.
Fun adventures.
e1288f No.14403292
>>14402717
>>1998 was 20 years ago
I read that and my brain registered it as those ironic "statedyear was 1500 years ago" shitposts, and then I remembered that 1998 really was 20 years ago.
9f956b No.14403313
Remember when we thought that games would keep improving with new generations of console?
164935 No.14403344
>>14402848
Friendly reminder shit like this will never be popular again, and possibly isn't even being made again.
c89c0c No.14403413
>>14403038
Which… happened. And?
0275f3 No.14403414
aa1ba9 No.14403462
>>14402834
Here, take endless microtransactions instead.
542e0b No.14403531
>>14402704
The Pokemon craze of the late 90s was insane. You couldn't go to any store without a pikachu or some random poke merch staring at you. I remember seeing stores opening up overnight that only sold pokemon cards and other pokemon stuff like stickers, plushies, and keychain. Of course once the craze was over they all went out business or converted to a tabletop gaming store before going out of business a few years later.
e9b6b8 No.14404615
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>>14403344 (checked)
Kinda. Still doesn't have the same feel to it though.
ba875a No.14404648
>>14402774
>superwholocks
>undertale
Am I going to regret asking what this is? I don't want to google it.
0823b0 No.14404675
>remember that time I fell for an obvious clickbait years ago
Lmao sucks to be you. Stop reading gaming journalism you idiot.
c29f93 No.14404677
>>14404648
>superwholocks
Fans of Supernatural, nu-Doctor Who and nu-Sherlock.
>undertale
How new are you?
shit furfag ms-paint looking "inspired by Earthbound" RPG, that had an okay demo and then dropped the one interesting character in favor of Puns the Skeleton.
164935 No.14404691
>>14404615
Oh come on thats not gorey, edgy, or nearly as unprofessional.
Also the dude wants money for it.
ba875a No.14404697
>>14404677
Thanks not new just have a autistic savant-like ability to block out things
0dcaf5 No.14404712
ee9aaf No.14404789
>>14402609
smuganimegirl.jpg
99e5a6 No.14404840
>>14402666
trips confirm
I legit miss making fun of, pissing on, baiting and trolling bronyfaggots like I did from 2011 - summer of 2014. GG helped kill it which in a way was good as it gave me something productive to do but at the same time what I wouldn't give to revel in something as petty as a low-T nu-male going full sperg over a cartoon aimed at prepubescent girls one last time.
a86a13 No.14404877
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>>14402674
Good taste faggot.
67b9d6 No.14404889
Anyone remember things like Wildtangent or Big Fish?
>>14404789
Didn't people make a big fuss about Frustrat Birp being "truly BASED and redpilled"?
a95925 No.14404893
>>14404789
>/v/'s resident pcfats will quote the former while also laughing about the latter
>>14404889
>"truly BASED and redpilled"?
yes, but I don't think it was much more than a joke except a few idiots took it a bit far.
67b9d6 No.14404926
>>14404893
I hope you're right anon. I couldn't fathom living in a world where people see shittily drawn birds as anything more than shittily drawn birds. I'm glad it's not like those stupid yellow fuckers on the TV.
4bb7de No.14405291
When everyone loved zombie games.
b6295a No.14405488
>>14402848
The good old days of Newgrounds after school.
beating it to the random scene in ganguro girl that shows up after you right-click - play.
3fcabc No.14405567
>>14402666
Here's a secret
Those are the same people
b6295a No.14405590
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Anyone played runescape back in 04-05?
I am 30 now and I still know the map like the back of my hand.
3fcabc No.14405609
>>14405590
I still do.
I go out of my way to find and destroy gay in the wilderness with a group organized off of their website.
Still haven't been outed and banned by p/jmods nor has the forums caught onto it.
a36d6f No.14405621
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There used to be this fad where companies would make good games to make money
0ff1bf No.14405677
>>14405590
>the obnoxious faggy kids who played runesgay back in the day are now 30
>a kid who was 12 when Mega Man 3 came out is now 40
Just fucking kill me, whenever I think too much about this shit I feel depressed as fuck.
b6295a No.14405976
>>14405677
>13
>long hair
>slipknot tee
>high contrast red and black myspace theme
>Get introduced to a new game by a friend of a friend
>Play on and off for a year
>Game gets massive update
>He calls me out of the blue to tell me
>It becomes a habit
>He'd call every day after school
>We use the phone instead of msn messenger
>Sometimes complete silence for 2-3 hours
>His parent's utility bill up the ass
>But mostly we adventure together
>Lumbridge Goblins
>Draynor Willows
>Barbarian Village ranging
>Imp Catcher
>Edgeville Dungeon Giants
>Outsmarting bots at South Varrok Mine
>Varrok Sewers Moss Giants
>Thurgo's Redberry pie
>Karamja Volcano Lesser Demons
>Bank sales
>Killing Elvarg at the same time
>Mum agrees to pay for membership
>Friend steals mum's credit card just to join me
>Go to the dig site
>Discover Panning gets you easy sapphires
>Become convinced it can yield dragonstone
>Pan together 4 hours straight
>current year
>friend is a doctor
>me a teacher overseas
>both 30
>haven't talked in years
>average life expectancy is 75 years
>900 months
>-360 months = 540
>That's not a whole lot
4c6d94 No.14406463
>>14402785
Or any Cal Arts garbage for that matter.
e1288f No.14406735
>Gaming fads of the past
Couch Co-Op.
a95925 No.14406744
>>14406463
this is why anime is the only thing worth watching
6bb6b4 No.14406767
>>14406744
>All western cartoons look the same!
>This is why anime is better
f14966 No.14406788
8151ca No.14406799
>>14402774
>non-fetishist furries being so low on the chart
Half of that shit is a fad that will disappear in 5 years time.
The only ones that are going to have staying power are furries and bronies, and community driven websites. Superwholock and Rick and Morty die with the show, and based off the troubles Rick and Morty has been under who knows if there will be a fourth season. Homestuck is finished, right? So that will die out. Undertale will die out unless it gets a sequel, but the sequel will never live up to the hype and at worst it'll turn into Five Nights at Freddy's.
Problem is, there is already a brony show coming that makes it an anime-style magical girl series, so they ain't goin' no where.
a502a6 No.14406809
>>14406799
non-fetish furries are the fucking worse, what are you on? The whole "it's a lifestyle not a kink" and other-kin shit is half the reason they're hated.
8151ca No.14406821
>>14406809
Compared to what, fetish bronies? Gemsona's?
6bb6b4 No.14406824
>>14406799
Homestuck flooded mostly into Undertale and were one of the factors that killed it. As one of those autists who was on in inside of the UT fandom since the game came out, I can tell you for sure it's dead. The only folks still going on about it in any sort of "fandom" capacity are a few stray reprobates who got too attached to their retarded skeleton OCs and fanfiction worlds.
a502a6 No.14406831
>>14406821
Sure why not? Fursonas are worse than gemsonas, and people wanting to fuck a sparkly horse isn't as bad as people believing they are a wolf in man's body and going around in fursuits.
c31100 No.14406855
ITT: butthurt furfags who need to go back.
8151ca No.14406864
>>14406855
We're literally arguing about how low on the scale they are.
eccde9 No.14406876
>>14406463
All disgusting.
>>14402785
Webm related
35bffc No.14406880
>>14406809
>>14406821
"Fetish" anything is pretty benign most of the time, furries are no exception. Practically everyone here faps to some kind of weird porn or another and most don't go around talking about it outside of porn boards. It's the ones who take it outside of the bedroom and into the streets and conventions that should burn, and most of them don't think of it as anything sexual at all.
13f77f No.14406899
>>14406883
>there are people born in the year 2000 that can post here
6bb6b4 No.14406915
>>14406906
>Remember Horizon: Zero Dawn? They don't make 'em like that anymore.
e1288f No.14406919
>>14406883
I want to go back, but I'm afraid that if I did my anime waifu would no longer exist.
a4f744 No.14406921
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>>14406855
>>14406888
>>14406899
>>14406883
Remember the 2000s?
It was so much better!
There was no micro transaction or political correctness SJW shit like there is now
2e2e10 No.14406928
>>14402673
Fuck 'em for closing iilwy/OMGPOP.
>>14406744
Western animation may have it's turds but at least it has freedom and hobbyism. Same for any other media.
Japan would never make something as varied or surrealistic as TAWOG because it wouldn't sell as much as low-common denominator shit like moeshit or dramas.
422cf1 No.14406933
>>14406915
>>14406906
>I remember being a kid, Undertale filled me with such wonder, the series lost everything good about it after Undertale XXIII: Papyrus's Revenge
a502a6 No.14406942
>>14406928
retards who think anime is nothing but vapid moeshit are just as bad as those who think western cartoons are all calarts socjus slop.
a502a6 No.14406950
>>14406944
>>Trump was two years ago
6bb6b4 No.14406951
>>14406942
Just fucking with you anon, you're right.
422cf1 No.14406952
>>14406928
>TAWOG
Is shit, but if you want surreal, Paprika immediately comes to mind, if not also Dead Leaves though it's more actiony then self-dwelling on it's own surrealism, and Madoka Magica has as much if not more variance animation technique wise then TAWOG purely do to the more stop animations involved.
15f48f No.14407005
>>14406944
lol, i don't remember 9/11
a9cedb No.14407022
>>14406944
But the Wii was released 12 years ago
2e2e10 No.14407041
>>14406952
Dead Leaves looks cool, i guess. I have been researching upcoming anime and i have found some interesting stuff as well.
But i was actually referring to how many anime is mostly more based on realistic everyday slice-of-life stuff, light cliche humor, realistic characters with realistic attitudes and so on. And to how TAWOG experiments by throwing many artstyles together. Anime just plays things too safe for my taste. The only exceptions i can think of are PTE and some older 2000's anime.
>>14406942
I suppose. I admit anime also has some things the west can't offer eiher and both have their own set styles and traditions. But /a/utists still act like anime is the ultimate perfect replacement that covers anything positive the west can offer.
eccde9 No.14407051
>>14406921
And Rockstar weren't a bunch of greedy powerhungry pricks.
a502a6 No.14407054
>>14407041
>weeaboos are weeaboos
You're really blowing my mind anon. There's a reason people make/made fun of weeaboos.
eccde9 No.14407057
>>14406947
/b/ was never fun.
>>14406944
>>14406950
>>14407022
a9cedb No.14407064
>>14407057
The Dreamcast was released almost 20 years ago, and the PS2 was 18 years ago.
b91a72 No.14407081
>>14406944
>the exodus was five years ago
are you fucking serious? what the hell where did the time go aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
2cee58 No.14407115
>>14406944
I thought the exodus was 3 years and some months ago. It was 2014 yeah? When the Five Guys debacle happened? I saved this picture from a thread at the time because I knew it was going to become big. This site existed in 2013 but nobody really cared about it (in relative terms).
b91a72 No.14407125
>>14407115
>I saved this picture
.gif
cba5a6 No.14407129
>>14402774
>undertale
>still having a fanbase
>implying
2d7480 No.14407131
>>14407125
It was something involving Dragonite?
1ab3ba No.14407133
>>14406944
>Trump was two years ago
I still remember when he said he was going to remove common core
b91a72 No.14407139
>>14407131
I can see that, silly. Be more specific next time.
2d7480 No.14407141
>>14407133
>Current year
>Trump blames video games for shootings
422cf1 No.14407160
>>14407041
>TAWOG experiments by throwing many artists styles together
Then you want FLCL which had each episode directed by a different animator, although the animation techniques will remain the same, and if you want varied animation techniques, again, Madoka Magica uses as many as Gumball if not more
>traditional animation
>stop motion
>3D models
>puppetry
or you could go for Panty & Stocking with Garter belt
>traditional animation
>live action film
>flash animation
>3D animation
>stop motion
though it occurred on an episode by episode basis.
eccde9 No.14407166
>>14407064
>The Dreamcast was released almost 20 years ago, and the PS2 was 18 years ago.
193ec5 No.14407170
>>14406899
1999 is the 6'0" of birth years, until people born in the 2000s become the majority we shall mock them for what they cannot change, much like manlets.
97fag speaking here
1ab3ba No.14407171
>>14407141
>Everyone thought that Trump would save vidya
621ba4 No.14407173
>>14407171
I doubt we'll see too much come from it, unless Trump invites Sarkessian to the White House.
b91a72 No.14407180
>>14407171
no one could save this retard so nice false equivalence.
49247e No.14407188
>>14405609
Banned for what, organized PK groups in the wildy? Clans sweeping through the revenant caves is a regular thing, why would you be punished for killing anyone out there? They know the risks.
25bfd2 No.14407228
>>14407171
>yfw gamergate was a social experiment which resulted in cultivating detached useful idiot millennials of the right leaning variety inorder to fuel the endless and pointless struggle of the American political show.
>yfw people generally thought this time would be different
>mfw I hope BRexit isn't going to sink too
>mfw counterculture was countercultured by the establishment
40c8f0 No.14407269
>>14406944
Your timing is off fucktard
Trump was July 2015
GG was August 2014
3cc703 No.14407402
>>14402627
please, I nearly went a week without getting reminded of TBBT
3cc703 No.14407406
>>14402856
same reason linkin park and edgy screamo bands were; depressed middle class white kids
837efa No.14407436
GUITAR HERO
WAGGLAN GAMING
DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION
>/tg/
Pokemon cards
Mage Knight
abc949 No.14407632
>>14407228
>>mfw counterculture was countercultured by the establishment
What is controlled opposition by said establishment you fucking retard. They do this every god damn time because they have money to funnel into it and you know it, don't pretend you don't know that (((they)) treat it as their trump card.
49a0f8 No.14407638
hi guys i come from the future, specifically from 28th february, 2025 10:47 PM ask me anything
5818ad No.14407644
>>14407638
has randy given up on battleborn yet
222a12 No.14407688
Consider how much better it was in the past compared to now.
Consider how much worse the future will be.
aea1ca No.14407701
>>14407638
if you're a time traveler, then prove that you could get multiple digits on your next post
5818ad No.14407710
>>14407701
>>14407688
anon I think he's for real
fd5b04 No.14407711
>>14407638
Just tell me whether video games get better or worse.
Also, does the Euro crash?
393842 No.14407714
>>14407638
Will us anons get cute loyal women and happy children?
aea1ca No.14407721
>>14407710
>Singles
Why the hell should i even listen to you?
4b0da7 No.14407737
>>14402785
I think that more than forgetting about this I WANTED to forget about it. Thanks for reminding me, this is extremely off the chart though.
>>14404889
A joke comment that looked eerily conspiratory, I bet someone animating that movie really added those in by his own volition (like the fucking Coexist sticker) but half the shit is just funny coincidences.
>>14406876
Whenever I see humanoids like that I'm reminded that even gook-faced geriatrics from the 1800's had more feminine qualities instilled in them by virtue of being clown cars for baby making.
027975 No.14407752
>>14407171
>Everyone is as gullible as me
Many people pointed out Trump's stance on video games. They were called shariablue shills.
25bfd2 No.14407755
>>14407632
is it controlled opposition when both sides are that?
393842 No.14407774
>>14407755
Do ya know what an ‘opposition’ is?
b6295a No.14407776
>>14406735
this.
I'd say we need to bring it back but I guarantee it the nu-male devs will find a way to ruin it completely.
a4f744 No.14407842
>>14407632
>>14407228
With that said. Even a cuckhold soyboy PJW isn’t wrong Conservatism becoming a new counter culture.
3fcabc No.14407844
>>14407188
>why would you be punished for killing anyone out there?
Because we're specifically targeting gay players, and one of the mods is a fag who forced in a gay pride event and is trying to get an autism event (yes really) put in.
3426b0 No.14408060
>>14404789
You know it seems a bit screwed up for that CEO to say that considering his company can't seem to make any successful new IP and has to constantly slap the Angry Birds name onto every different game genre they make to have it sell. No other developer has that problem.
4b4b47 No.14408196
>>14406744
You aren't wrong but now you woke up the goons.
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261284 No.14408491
>>14406883
>>14406899
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
dea55e No.14408504
>>14402609
Yeah, Majesco and a few other companies shut down because of it.
6a1535 No.14408540
Remember your first internet username?
Remember the stupid shit you did under it?
4e3315 No.14408658
>>14408540
Jokes on you, I'm still doing stupid shit on the internet.
deb663 No.14408690
baa2ab No.14408713
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>>14405488
You only have 100 days to win her heart, don't let time and true love slip by.
277e0d No.14408731
>People who were born when Neopets first came online are almost old enough to drink
0d9634 No.14408871
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>>14402609
Holy shit, I remember watching all these videos from a decade ago. Jesus Christ.
d29c3b No.14409214
>>14406933
>Undertale
>Sequels
I think you're confusing it with FNAF.
b6295a No.14409586
>>14408731
>neopets
pic related
>>14403313
This. The 7th generation made me realize this trend was over. It's all about hype marketing now; getting enough people to buy it before they realize it's shit. Indie nu-male devs have taken this to heart too.
I still think VR has potential but this industry doesn't. Going forward it's either going to be always online, microtransactions, dlc and general privacy concerns. It ain't cosy no more.
67b9d6 No.14409593
>>14408731
They are old enough to drink in Canada.
30c930 No.14409601
>>14402774
>and 8channers
What Did He Mean By This?
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69a1f3 No.14409982
Hooktube embed. Click on thumbnail to play. >>14403344
it fucking kills me that there's an entire generation about to reach adulthood that will never know what pre-YouTube internet was like.
69a1f3 No.14410017
>>14402609
LAN parties. Arena shooters. RTS games.
You will never again go over to a friend's house with 4 of your other buddies and down a hundred cans of Vault and shittons of Domino's pizza while playing hours worth of Unreal instagib deathmatches and Starcraft high-resource-map matches
>>14404889
I remember WildTangent. When we got our first WinXP machine back in 2002 it came with the WT client with a bunch of games pre-installed.
>>14406799
The Homestuck fad has largely passed. Don't really see any of them at conventions anymore. Same goes for Bronies, more or less - they're still around but I think most of them retreated into whatever clopsite they fap over and don't come out much.
>>14406934
>>the habbo raid was 10 years ago
ha ha kill me
84454c No.14410038
>>14410017
I recently went to the city where I was born and ended up finding this old internet cafe located in a basement of a commie bloc building. I used to go to this place with friends after school when I was a kid back in 98-99.
It's still fucking open!
I wanted to go in and get an hour, but I bitched out.
ec0d0c No.14410055
>>14402774
Why'd you separate undertale, bronies, and furries?
08e8be No.14410070
>>14410017
>LAN parties
I actually still go to LAN parties with some new friends from a music group I joined a few years back. But, we play garbage games like R6:Siege, CoD4, and Fibbage for most of the night together. Later, the group splits almost in half with one half playing LoL, Overwatch, or PUBG and the other half leaving, falling asleep, or watching The Room. I tried getting them into some older games like Battlezone, but they're never interested.
92d932 No.14410262
>>14406883
That image reminded me of this painting from Wolfenstein 3D.
8bc40c No.14410282
>>14402609
Gaming fads ? Let see:
>Vehicular combat games
>Muh Immersion, no hud on screen allowed
>WW2 Games
>"Tunning culture"-based Racing games
7eb6fd No.14410290
>>14404697
To be fair it is pretty easy to see things like that pop up while never finding out or remembering the name.
>>14410017
>>14410070
>tfw never been to a lan party and if i manage to have one it'll probably be hard to get anyone to play decent games
>>14406744
>not also watching nature documentaries and third reich propaganda
>>14408540
It's still poorly scribbled into an old journal along with the password.
4b2c80 No.14410297
>>14410282
You forgot
>online interaction with other players in single player games
14df96 No.14410316
>remember when journalists
Who the fuck actually reads game ""journalism""? I've literally never met anyone in my entire life that does this besides autists on forums. Do people here actually read journalism about fucking video games and video game reviews? I've literally never heard of anyone being persuaded or even talk about game reviews and game scores. If a game looks fun they buy it, if not they avoid.
Not once has anyone who I've played games with or talked about games with cares about any of this shit.
ae4df1 No.14410325
>>14410316
Anon, the world doesn't revolve around you.
14df96 No.14410344
>>14410325
Are you autistic? I'm saying that not once in decades of living and interacting with people that play video games have I met someone who cares about this shit. What does that have to do with the world revolving around me? It's an analysis of the world around me, it's the exact fucking opposite.
You're either illiterate or retarded, either way fuck off.
22fe72 No.14410360
>>14402609
Remember when every fucking game had a stealth section shoe-horned in, even if it was completely inappropriate like an Adventure game?
ab9d9f No.14410379
>>14410017
do you have that picture with the guy duct taped to the ceiling?
ae4df1 No.14410420
>>14410344
You assume that because YOU haven't come across someone that cares about game journalism, it means that nobody does. While it's a fact that some people must care, otherwise all those sites would have dissapeared years ago, nigger.
14df96 No.14410425
>>14410420
Really? I thought the websites were just a figment of my imagination. Surely my post couldn't possibly be directed at the very people who visit these websites and trying to understand why they do it.
You're a literal retard, consider suicide you fucking mutt.
7af4fe No.14410458
>>14410316
I used to, like twenty years ago when I was a child. I read PC Gamer, and going by their rating and whether or not the game was something interesting to me, I'd buy it or not. They would actually talk about game mechanics and compare it to similar games. I bought a fair bit of trash, but mostly classics.
Example: I was subscribed to one of Columbia House CD deals for a little while (where you agreed to be sent a new CD every month and if you didn't send it back, they would charge you. very happy those don't exist anymore), except instead of music CDs it was for PC games. They sent me Red Alert one month and I was about to send it back because I had no idea what it was, but I looked at trusty PC Gamer and found it was a really good game, so I asked my mom to let me keep it.
I ended up pouring countless hours into Red Alert. I'd play it so often that my mother can recall what it sounds like when you click on and order a unit. She still teases me about "Unit Reporting!" "Acknowledged!"
RA is a great game, and I would've sent it back, but PC Gamer told me "no dude, it's a good game, really" and they were right.
That's why it hurts to see gaming journalism talk about sexism because of boobs or stupid shit. I'm sure it was always corrupt, but at least it used to be helpful. Now PC Gamer tells me how Gone Home led them home but they already home or some stupid shit.
e1288f No.14410529
>>14410458
>I was subscribed to one of Columbia House CD deals.
Columbia House, Jesus fucking Christ you poor bastard. I got hooked into BMG's bullshit, so I know that feel.
Used to read Sega Visions and InterAction Magazine when I was a kid, which I guess you can't really claim corruption there since they weren't exactly hiding that they were corporate rags - though I was too fucking naive at the time to know why that's a bad thing.
081c40 No.14410537
>>14410420
>it's a fact that some people must care, otherwise all those sites would have dissapeared years ago
At this point, I don't believe that anymore. It seems as if there are plenty of people on this world whose very jobs depend on people not caring about what they really do. There's just too much money going around, and some of it inevitably falls into crevices where it's first forgotten, and then eaten by bottom feeders.
69a1f3 No.14410567
>>14410458
>>14410316
There was a time, in our hobby's golden age, when both game studios and game review places were staffed by people who actually liked video games. This was before the hobby went truly mass-market and everything was ruined. For the most part you could actually trust what you read in gaming magazines because it was rare for mega-wealthy publishers to buy them out.
This changed sometime around the mid- to late-2000s. Pic related.
7eb96f No.14410574
>>14410484
Is that a sewage line?
e1288f No.14410600
>>14410574
I've seen dumber shit, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say it's a support beam. Either just a basic cylindrical pillar or one of the those adjustable support jacks with the screws on the bottom.
Hint: It's directly below an I-Beam - so there's nowhere for a "pipe" to go - and there's a plate where it connects to keep it from slipping out if the load shifts.
93a578 No.14410622
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>14402794
>>14402818
>>14407406
I can't help but post this, this shit was my childhood.
Also it aged surprisingly well, I managed to watch the entire thing without cringing from any poor quality.
ddf421 No.14410652
>>14404889
>>14404893
>based and redpilled angry birds
That wasn't the game, that was some cheeky animation team inserting some tidbits into the movie.
ddf421 No.14410661
>>14406944
>>14406950
>trump was 2 years ago
Shit, he announced his candidacy in spring 2015. That's coming up on 3 years.
32df7f No.14410700
>>14410017
>mfw a pretty nice gaming center opened recently here in jew york city after they all died in the early 2000's
Of course they're catering to the e-sports crowd but these days it's probably what any business like that has to do to stay alive
d0f387 No.14410861
>>14410017
>You will never again
I never got a chance to
1e336c No.14411006
Let Le bodies hit Le floor
4c6d94 No.14411023
>>14410017
>LAN parties. Arena shooters. RTS games.
>You will never again go over to a friend's house with 4 of your other buddies and down a hundred cans of Vault and shittons of Domino's pizza while playing hours worth of Unreal instagib deathmatches and Starcraft high-resource-map matches
Fuck, this hit me hard. I had a core group of dudes, and we did LAN parties at least once a month from 1997-2004. About 8 of us, and we always rotated hosting for each other.
Eventually, I moved out of state for college. The crew broke up, some dudes got married, got girlfriends, enlisted in the military, got office jobs, and the LAN lifestyle was no more. I miss it dearly.
This is probably something I would just do forever if I won the lottery or something. Just host LAN parties for friends who want to escape and basically be irresponsible 19-year-olds again.
e3e3de No.14411672
>>14402785
Its OK that its pointed out, but I don't agree that it should be taken seriously much like I don't take Anita Sarkeesian's "internet death threats" seriously. If the point is more about pointing out their leftist insanity rather than victimizing the artist that uploaded that fan art, then its fine
40cd1e No.14412856
>>14405567
As a horse fucking enthusiast I can say you're most certainly wrong on that front.
ab9d9f No.14412890
>>14410484
Jesus, that never ceases to amaze me.
164935 No.14412992
>>14406906
Actually whats weird is vidya might do a complete turn around to retro methods after it crashes again, which means we'll be the 'modern' ones again.
Theres certainly some hope for a return to quality with the slightly older fashioned style shooters popping up, 'Retro' indie games falling out of fashion, and normalfags getting up in arms about gambling and DLC. Not to mention platformers seeing a bit more love again.
Its not 100%, but if loot boxes go illegal you know companies will pump up prices until nobody buys their shit anymore, a crash happens, and the people who want to make money will have to work for it again.
31de03 No.14413771
I know how you feel anon, growing up I really only had one friend, who I was extremely close with, but he attached himself sophomore year of high school he attached himself to a group of extreme normies and they turned him into a real fag. I dissociated myself from him and that cancerous clique and ended up practically friendless. Every time I hear about people having fun with their mates I feel a deep sadness.
31de03 No.14413774
eca4ee No.14413939
>>14406944
>There are now legal-aged adults who didn't exist in the 20th century
9a7603 No.14413942
>>14402609
Hi I'm 21 and since I lived in a shit country I used to have a family in 1998.
AMA
e1288f No.14413971
>>14412992
You're full of shit, but it's a nice dream. The game market is too well entrenched to crash again like it did in it's infancy, and too global to be affected much by local trends.
The best we can hope for at this point is that as more and more games go the route of live services, you'll see a sub-market emerge within the larger market at writ which resembles the classic model. Populated largely either by companies specifically catering to a targeted demographic, or new experimental IPs that don't justify the live service investment, or smaller indie studios who can't afford/secure a live service partnership - or are just hobbyist devs. It'll very much be like a "secret club" where you have to dig and pay attention to find new titles - and god forbid if one of them goes viral, then the franchise is ruined since the influx of popularity would make it a prime target for exploitation/"enhanced monitisation" via the injection of the live service cancer.
4038fe No.14413994
>>14402776
>We should do something about unethical journalistic practices
Why do you hate women?
075fee No.14417941
>gaming magazines
>freeware, demo disks & demos in general
>untalented artists doing pin-ups of game characters outside of DeviantArt
>mouse pads with game designs
a95925 No.14417972
>>14417941
god I hate that fucking artist
e3b2eb No.14418047
>>14413939
There are some adults buying and playing video games, affecting the hobby market you like with their money acquired from employment, whose first Halo was Reach at the age of 10.
c457b3 No.14418102
I miss reading the editorials in vidya magazines that were just three pages of extremely shifty sonic fan art. I remember tips and tricks magazine had an arcade token of the month in every issue and the featured token got a little blurb detailing the history of the arcade. I want to go back.
I miss vidya zines.
075fee No.14418165
>>14418047
>implying Gen-Z kids ever played Halo
They were too busy screaming into their microphones about CoD: MW2 to pick up Halo: Reach. I can confirm; my cousin's one of them.
985980 No.14418198
>>14417941
What's the business reason for not releasing demos? You'd think with digital distribution being widely available it would cost a lot less and everyone would do it. Show those "try before you buy" pirates they're full of shit.
Oh wait, modern PC games are basically demos with all the "we'll patch it later" and day 1 DLC, maybe that's why.
ff0c1b No.14418233
>>14417941
Classic Lara was fucking hot back. Not ashamed to admit I fapped to her, making up fantasies about her being my lost art and becoming my ara ara long before I knew what that was.
>>14418198
Demos actually reduce sales. And since demos are usually from games not yet complete, with unpatched bugs and before final optimisation and shit, it's not surprising.
2e58d1 No.14418296
>>14410017
>tfw you have never experienced a LAN party
7af4fe No.14418550
>>14410529
>>14410567
That about sums it up, the golden age of gaming (and we were kids). Consoles actually got better and were exciting, LAN parties with Quake and UT, game magazines were fun to read, even the company-owned magazines at least gave decent game info.
I still have stacks of old Nintendo Power and shit somewhere in my basement that I couldn't bear to throw out. Game magazines were just so much fun back then.
I was able to get back at Columbia House a bit; the family computer we had was one of the very first to come with a CD-R drive, games had no copy protection, and games could be returned. I copied a couple games that way before my mom was freaked out the police were going to knock on our door.
>second review is by the game guy
Someone really got on his ass for that first one.
e1288f No.14418845
>>14418550
>I was able to get back at Columbia House a bit; the family computer we had was one of the very first to come with a CD-R drive, games had no copy protection, and games could be returned. I copied a couple games that way before my mom was freaked out the police were going to knock on our door.
Hah, nice one. I was able to pull one over on BMG as well, doing the same thing except with cassette tapes. The problem was, they didn't register a "return" - so they charged me anyhow, and then they kept sending me shit I didn't order since I think there was some kind of opt-out form you had to fill in occasionally and send back or they would automatically charge you. Ended up amassing a $400 bill from them, so I got my parents involved, since they knew nothing about it initially. Basically, they entered into a predatory contract with a minor, and while I did lie initially about my age to get signed up - they sure as fuck didn't want to have it go to court where those predatory practices could be scrutinized in light of being leveraged against a child (well, teen, but whatever).
Would have ended up with a shit-ton of free cassettes, but my dad made me send most of them back. So all I got to keep was a few of the legitimate ones I paid for early on, and the bootleg copies I made of the shit they sent.
4398de No.14419293
>>14417941
Those swimsuit editions were the good shit. This april fool's edition too.
7ea3e4 No.14420057
>>14402776
As far as laptop trackpads go the ones on Apple laptops are probably the only usable ones. Still awful for gaming though.
4edbee No.14420090
>>14419293
I'm surpised no one has made this yet.
27e6a8 No.14420128
>>14418296
No reason you can't. Get a few buddies together and try to make some old game actually run on modern PCs and play it up. If you don't have any buddies find some kind of online meet up site and plan it there.
0994ca No.14421051
>>14410360
That shit is why Beyond Good and Evil was trash. Fuck that game and fuck every journalist for shaming everyone for not buying that shit.
a358ca No.14422471
>>14413771
I know that feel.
>TFW you missed out on everything cool in video games and tech because of no friends and underageb&, and, your 20's will be shit because (((culture))) has become objectively worse with the likely hood of saving any of it now seemingly nearing zero.
Why live
faf099 No.14422478
>>14418233
Demos reduce sales on bad games.
Shareware Doom didn't reduce Doom sales, shareware Quake didn't reduce Quake sales, etc.
8f96cc No.14422505
>>14418233
>And since demos are usually from games not yet complete, with unpatched bugs and before final optimisation and shit, it's not surprising.
That's complete bullshit. These days anything they call a beta is identical to the finished product. If they call it a pre-alpha, it means it's essentially finished and they MIGHT change some insignificant shit. If they release a demo today, it will be identical to the finished game.
b5760b No.14422557
>>14413771
>had one friend as a kid who I felt I could actually relate to and who I felt was the one actual peer I had around me
>for a long time I would have called him the smartest person I've ever met
>because I had a lot of personal issues we were both having pretty fucked-up childhoods I never showed much actual closeness to him, shared much about myself with him or even really just acted like myself around him, and when he would would show closeness to me I would mistrust him for it as well as just mistrusting the sense of himself that he was sharing with me
>eventually as a teenager he entered into a downward spiral of drug abuse
>I never even realised until it was too late - although it didn't help that he would have given up entirely on trying to tell me about his issues by that point
>the last interaction we had was that he was the most likely suspect for my house having been broken into and robbed eight years ago
9c3099 No.14422643
>>14404789
I really don't know how the owner thought releasing the same game over and over wouldn't get stale
e8596c No.14422686
>>14409982
Remember when screw attack was an actual competitor for Youtube just because they would have swear words?
Let alone when Screw Attack wasn't just constant fucking Death Battle videos?
f52266 No.14422696
>>14422643
Beating the dead horse works for PC and console games. Maybe we were the console pesants all along and mobile is the master race.
fb7b2c No.14422825
Stop whining or go to /r9k/ or something, jesus christ. What are you, teenagers?
faf099 No.14423054
>>14422696
It works on mobile too, worked for Angry Bird for a few years and a ridiculous amount of money.
The problem is that due to the short and shallow nature of mobile games, coupled with the tiny price point and nature of how people use their phones, their "generations" are much shorter than PC/Console.
a8ce6b No.14428744
>>14402609
Now it's cell phone games and diversity. Idiots gonna idiot.
2284b1 No.14429198
>>14420057
All trackpads are good for is moving your cursor while you're typing with both hands.
321ca1 No.14429287
>>14403413
>arrogant ellipses
Kill yourself, you pretentious faggot.
8c8533 No.14429439
>>14429287
>arrogant ellipses
ba2e4a No.14429457
>>14402666
Yes, I remember, Satan.
0a7f29 No.14429628
>>14403413
I wonder who is behind this post…
55adcd No.14429674
>>14403292
Here's one for you
GTA Vice City was set in 1986 and released in 2002, a 16 year gap. 2002 was 16 years ago from today. Think about that for a second.
4f7d44 No.14429829
>>14408540
I am still using it 20 years later.
e1288f No.14429874
>>14408540
My first username was "The Marlboro Man", and I was only like 13 at the time and I smoked Camels. Dunno if it counts as "internet" though, since that was the handle I used on one of the local Renegade BBSs.
476682 No.14429992
>>14408540
>first username was surprisingly decent for a ten year old
>early 2000s, hit edgy phase
>hundreds of accounts with irredeemably terrible names
I don't deserve forgiveness.
2b6f5d No.14430103
>>14408540
I'd rather not.
afa07e No.14430164
>>14429874
>smoked Camels
J-Jim? on 8chan?
bcb25c No.14430168
>>14408540
I stole my dentists name.
124c3d No.14430180
>>14402824
I unironically love this. Takes me back to the good old days.
10f9d2 No.14430242
>>14422471
that's a really cute snake. it's like a white poo but without all the repulsion that usually comes with poo
b308fa No.14430379
>>14407638
If I find you in the present and suck your dick, will that make you gay in the future?
d06d46 No.14430673
>>14402725
I much preferred GTA clones from the PS2 and early 7th gen era over today's meme open world games (which are much easier to make since they can have not much stuff in them at all unlike games with populated cities).
4b721a No.14430680
>>14430180
they may or may not have been better, but they were definitely simpler
d06d46 No.14430681
>>14429674
Man I would kill to have another game set in the past like this. Too bad GTA fanboys aggressively don't want anything outside of CURRENT YEAR because they claim GTA can't be GTA without cellphones, internet, and old cars are gay.