/v/ - Video Games

>>14909421

I only had a small handful of games growing up, and mostly just stuck to what series I knew to be enjoyable to me, because getting something new meant either waiting for birthdays or Christmas, or trading in the bulk of what little I had, so I'd usually just stick to Pokemon and Spyro, even after starting to lurk imageboards (and thus find my way to /v/) in 2006/7 or so. Took until I was about sixteen for me to really start looking into games beyond those, namely due to a friend that had game he was wanting me to give a try.

Don't really have a lot of memories of that era of my own vidya playing, other than comfy all nighters during intersession from late elementary school/junior high, eating pizza, playing Runescape, and having early-mid 2000s anime (FMA 2003 reruns, Blood+, Trinity Blood, the earliest parts of Bleach, etc) on the TV next to the monitor. Part of which being that Runescape had a free version that still had a good bit to do, and that the membership then being only $5 a month, by parents didn't mind paying for it themselves (I wasn't given an allowance or paid for chores, so no income for me then besides presents).

I always found that the nonessential bullshit that you can do on the side of actual mmo content is really comfy, like driving a solo ant in Planetside 2 with a playlist of music or a radio on and sitting far behind the front line just building a base or filling up silos that other people just threw down in a random spot.

>Gamecube version of PSO comes out

>friends had played Dreamcast version, liked it

>play splitscreen together for a year and a half

>always third player because I didn't have my own GC or memcard

>give items nicknames, res items named after the guy who always dies

>joke about feeding them to our mags

>buy my own Gamecube and copy of the game

>year goes by, dad says we're moving

>friend comes over with a controller

>"Here's the third player controller, Anon, I want you to have it"

>15 years later, still have the gamecube, controller and copy of the game

>>14909421

>2002

>I'm 14 years old.

>Playing Morrowind for the first time.

>A day after I watched Conan The Barbarian for the first time.

>Your damn right I called my nord Crom the Testicular.

>16 years later I realise because of SoCal and CalArts Soyboys nothing made in the USA now will ever match Conan the Barbarian and Morrowind in quality.

>To hell with with this gay ass country.

>Favorite Level / Theme

Neon 80's slums

>Favorite Music

I'm a fucking pleb for Vice City's soundtrack due to my love for the music

>Favorite Memory

Playing through Baldur's Gate 2 EE entirely in a couple days with my brother. I ended up with a massively overpowered warrior Dwarf with a 92 attribute roll having to protect my brother's Wild mage. The bastard kept on using a spell which sometimes destroyed all of our money. My character ended up being pretty fleshed out just by the actions I took in the game, ending up as a gem hoarding, money stealing Dwarf who ransacked people's houses while his hero friend tried to help them. All of this because we kept on having to get as much money as possible to resupply after losing everything to a spell gone wrong. Eventually got to Kangaxx and this being the first time I played through I was told about this fight being a real slog, however by this time my character could tank like a madman with a healer on standby. I'd decided to run with flails to I was well equipped with the flail of ages and boy was that a great choice. In pretty much only eight turns we had defeated Kangaxx with only taking two hits in total because of the flail's stun effect. We finished it up about a week before he went off to seminary to become a priest. Really fond memory.

>Favorite Level / Theme

Spooky forests.

The Lost Woods from the original Zelda, where it was actually a riddle to get through. And ALTTP, where it's a shadowy place, but after retrieving the Master Sword it becomes bright and sunny.

The Witcher 3 had some of the best forests I've ever seen in a game.

>Favorite Music

The opening themes to the first two Zelda games on NES are probably my favourites. I like any chip-tune that sounds like it would make a nice piano or four-piece strings arrangement.

>Favorite Memory

Getting to Ganon in the original Zelda, six years old, and seeing the fucker turn invisible and randomly shoot me while teleporting all around the room, so I just start swinging and manage to clip him. I'd paid those rip-off old witches in caves and trees for hints so I knew to use silver arrows, but holy shit that was amazing. Fighting evil itself, six years old, just start swinging because there's nothing else you can do, and it works.

I felt like a goddamn hero.

Although I have to say my parents psyching me out that Christmas morning prior by hiding the game separate from all my other presents underneath the Christmas tree instead of in a sack hanging from the end of my bed is a close second.

I'd actually woken up in the middle of the night, carefully removed every present from the sack, identified it by the light of the streetlight outside, and gotten bummed when it wasn't Zelda. So I carefully put everything back, and decided maybe Santa got shit mixed up, so then I went through my sister's bag of Christmas goodies.

I carefully picked up the bell sitting on the topmost present, cupped the bottom of it so it wouldn't ring and put it down (clever booby trap on my mother's part, but I saw it glinting) and went through my sister's presents.

Not in there either.

I went back to bed that Christmas pre-dawn and huffed that I didn't get what I wanted.

When my brother told me there was an extra present I literally jumped up and screamed.

Oh, and wondering why the bottom of Death Mountain looked a bit off in Zelda 2, and wondering why it was in the south instead of in the north like the first game, and then realising that the small weird section that seemed a bit too "designed" and cluttered was actually meant to represent the entire overworld from the first Zelda game.

>>14910565

I wasn't expecting these sorts of deep feels. I had childhood friend who ripped the the padding off my GameCube controllers' joysticks, he said it helped him grip them better. Pissed me off so much when he did. He wasn't overall bad person, but later he got involved with drugs and I wish I could've done something about it. I miss the times we had together. We beat all of the Spongebob games together, Battle for Bikini Bottom, The Movie Game, and Creature from the Krusty Krab. I wonder why things happened the way they did back then and how I lost all of my childhood friends.

>>14937487

tbh stands for totally baiting hard.

>sometime in fourth grade

>find out about Newgrounds

>spend hours on it in the computer room during the after-school program

>even get away with playing a few softcore porn games without realizing what the fuck I was looking at

>tfw they blocked it on the school's network after they caught me watching webm related

I don't even remember what I did on the computers after that, but God damn those early years of discovering the internet were a magical time.

>remember enjoying playing Nintendo shit before the e-reader amiibo bullshit and the rabid fans

>I can never go back to that time

Pre 2000s Internet was the best timeline. Fuck all these AOL faggots.

>>14974139

I think one of my favourite memories was sitting in the park playing Advance Wars with my best friend, in the summer. We would bring drinks and find a tree to sit under and pass it back and forth while we chatted about whatever was on our minds. We did that pretty much every day during the summer. It's weird seeing her around now because there's an awkwardness between us and it sucks knowing we'll never be as close as we used to be.

>>14974768

Well, yeah, but on the downside–

I have fond memories of my bar mitzvah, the cake was amazing. I hope everyone had a good one too. :^)

>>14912182

>Fighting evil itself, six years old, just start swinging because there's nothing else you can do, and it works.

Sometimes, you just gotta swing the bat.

>>14975023

>>14975621

Reminder from an oldfag not to trust sink threads. Also I'd say to go check archives if you want more of a glimpse into how things were a decade or more back, but most of the oldest ones that went a long ways back (moreso than foolz or whatever the current one they use is) either suffered data loss or are outright dead and have been for years, leaving those times to live on only in screencap folders and sites like ED. We'll never get those more carefree days of imageboards back.

>>14975742

>Subway

I'm surprised a video of Yami summoning the Forbidden One against Kaiba has remained on jewtube for years now. Which I suppose says something about jewtube.

>Favorite Level / Theme

Detailed modern day buildings or rat mode. FEAR, Duke Nukem 3D, Max Payne and Stalker just ooze atmosphere for me.

>Favorite Music

It's rare, but when they utilize the sound chip on Genesis, they make awesome fucking tracks. Alien 3 was shit, but damn. Earthworm Jim 1 and 2, Jurassic Park… I still listen to some Klepacki tracks, Battle for Dune OST, Unreal 2003/4 OST and some others.

>Favorite Memory

Felix the Cat was the first NES game I ever beat. Discovering Shatterhand on my 9999in1 cartridge for the first time. Playing Contra and Battle City with my uncle. Beating Rayman 2 after being stuck on the final level for like a week. Listening to the main theme while chilling in the main hub of Torchlight. Playing Battlefield 1942 in a net cafe for the first time and scoring a double kill with a tank from across the map with only 4 people playing. Trying out RE4 at a store booth and some guy asking me if it was a prerendered demo playing.

Just too many to count or pick one.

>>14975985

I really do think that the loss of the archives going so far back really did a number on things. The current state of things, be it here or especially on cuckchan, have degraded so much that "lurk moar" just leaves faggots observing the current state of low quality with little in the way of proper quality, and with less readily available examples of how things used to be, there's even less reason for people to not want to just lowbar shitpost from the first fucking minute they come to an imageboard. At the very least there is "Yotsuba Society", but that's more a broad history of imageboards; interesting in its own right (especially in regards to the birth of Nanashi culture, imageboards, and ASCII memes), but doesn't help so much with quality or archival, the way actual archives do.

I honestly don't post that much anymore, compared to years prior, both here and elsewhere in the past. Feels too much like the era of imageboards I loved has been long dead, and most of the things I would like to discuss aren't of interest to anons at present, assuming they ever really were.

>Favorite Level/Theme

The only games I had as a kid were RTS games like Age of Empires 2, Empire Earth and Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun, I liked the maps that were flat so you could build whatever you want in scenario editor. I wouldn't even play the game I would just make a town or a city and watch the worker units work for 30 mins to an hour before I got kicked off.

>Favorite Music

Empire Earth main menu theme, or intro music. The Red Alert 2 soundtrack was pretty good 2 and had a lot of fun listening to it while I played.

>Favorite Memory

I don't remember a lot from those days. I had no friends and the majority of it was just a blur. The only memory I can call up is watching my father play space games, like Freelancer or EV Nova on his office computer when he was on leave from Iraq and stuff.

I don't even know why I play video games now. It seems like I do it more out of habit and obligation more than anything else. I don't know if it's because I grew up or the current state of the industry, but it's just not fun. Even the old games people laud as great and as seminal classics don't do anything for me anymore.

>the bittersweet feeling when point and clicks are dead

I miss playing primitive 3D racen vidya on a beige SVGA CRT monitor with the arrow keys.

>>14959632

>Randy Solem

Ah fug, why'd you have to open that can of feels.