/v/ - Video Games

Well Vice City obviously.

>>16389200

Retro city rampage?

Blood Dragon

>>16389194

Scarface

Yakuza O

The Warriors was late 70s I think

>>16389245

Also, Shenmue(s) maybe.

There was one on Steam called Devotion. It was a horror game (similar to P.T.), but it was removed back in February due to "a Xi Jiping/Winnie The Pooh easter egg and technical issues".

Not that I'm remotely complaining, but what was with America's fitness craze during the 80s-early 00s? Just about every babe you saw in media was some hot fitness model and there were all these aerobics related things going around, American Warrior, WCW/WWF divas, etc.

Any game made back then with a contemporary setting. The Streets of Rage games and the Kunio-kun series are both really good and they have a very 80s-90s feel.

>>16389322

action heroes, wind-down from the martial arts craze of the 70s, women's sexual liberation, and the 80s as a whole partially became about pushing yourself

>>16389322

Cocaine

>>16389322

You act like that wasn't ever not a thing up until recently. Check into the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

>>16389409

I'm not american but that was the era where I noticed their fitness craze in the movies.

i hope it doesnt bother you adults too much if i skateboard indoors with a backwards cap and sunshades

Le 80s XD was fad for a while. Now we're beginning the le 90s XD phase.

I just wish someone would make a good game like Fallout, only taking inspiration from 80s sci-fi.

>>16389322

Fitness crazed happen because fat acceptance movement was laughed at Still back than.

>>16389504

Speaking of 90s kids. I like to remind everyone that save by the bell was considered a kids show back in the day and no one complained.

>>16389517

>Now we're beginning the le 90s XD phase.

Without all the sex appeal and fan service. For fuck shakes. Save by the bell intentionally film cheerleaders to revel panty shots. You can only get away with that in anime. Girls in power rangers often wore thong leotards. They are kids show. Don’t get me started on married with children and Kelly Bundy. http://www.retrospace.org/2012/05/mini-skirt-monday-114-kelly-bundy.html?m=0

>>16389870

The females in American Gladiators used to get massive wedgies during the show and nobody complained about their attire either.

Also, vidrelated music clip, which is full of clear nipple slips, used to be played no problem before watershed.

Ditto for the Benny Hill Show (famous for its "spicy" comedy). You could easily be watching it with your parents during lunch time.

>>16389948

IN the same show married with children. It joked about Peggy and al bundy raping each other for years. But It usually Peggy bundy raping al.

>>16389974

Didn’t BBC apologized for Benny Hill show promoting rape culture? Remember that Irish dyke from channel awesome that has a boner for Islamic immigration bashed Doug Walker for saying Benny Hill funny. Hell Multiple occasions in the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride where walk Disney demanded they didn’t shy away from the historical fact pirates were and still are rapists.

>>16389443

>Splatoon, the game based on Japanese Urban Fashion

>Anything to do with the 80s/90s

I bet you think it's using the 80s/90s as a setting just because there's a fucking fax machine in it, you damn underage

>>16390000

Splatoon directly references 90s American skateboarding culture. Skateboarding in public places taboo in japan.

>>16390000

nickerodeon sama!

>>16389504

I want to go back :(

>>16389992

Is Mad Men worth watching?

>>16390097

>Is Mad Men worth watching?

>>16390069

Deal with it, old man. Magenta/cyan vaporwave is what the 80s will be known for. Same with how the 70s got stuck with psychedelic disco.

>>16390069

the left part is probably mostly true for miami and whatever ridiculous futurist fashion trends there were at the time

>>16390164

>You could watch Bad Santa 2 instead. There's more Christina

How so?

>>16390207

She is a co-star in the movie, not just a second- or third-part player, and there's a very brief scene where she gets fucked in an alley by the titular bad Santa.

>>16390260

That’s depressing

>>16390260

More like Nu-males, neon-hairs, and ancient reddit may-mays.

>>16390489

Though I guess 2007 onwards is more the 2010s

>>16390489

Did reddit even have memes before 2010?

>>16390260

Don't forget bushstein and Pop Punk bands singing about "leaving this town".

Katana Zero if somebody hasn't said it already.

First let's establish that cultural eras are not linked directly to actual dates, but to events. Many would say "the 20th century" did not truly begin until WWI.

>20s began with the end of WWI.

>30s began with the depression

>40s began with the start of WWII

>50s began with the end of WWII

>60s began with the assassination of JFK

>Hippies give different dates for when "the '60s ended," but some time shortly after Woodstock. Definitely by the time Watergate broke

>'80s began with the elections of Regan/Thatcher/other neo-cons

>'90s began with the fall of the Berlin Wall

>2000s began with 9/11

>2010s began with the cultural collapse of 2007. In the future, (((they))) will probably say it began with Obama's election in November 2008, but we all know that 2007 was the year everything fell apart.

>>16389194

Vice City and Vice City Stories. Liberty City Stories even does a late '90s setting despite being less than a decade later. But then San Andreas was barely a decade after its setting.

>>16389338

This. Tony Hawk is always the example I think of as the most of-its-time series. But I suppose that's mostly early 2000s. Though the first one gets the late' 90s with all that ska. 2 was technically 2000 and 3 was 2001, but I'm counting those as '90s. The '90s lasted from the fall of the Berlin Wall until 9/11.

>>16390113

It's an exaggeration of a style popular with a couple creators and products, like Michael Mann and his most popular product, Miami Vice. But it's a strong exaggeration, and Michael Mann didn't direct the entire decade.

>>16389504

>Earthbound, 199X.

Again 2000s, but reminder that most of the Mega Man Classic games take place over a decade ago. If anything, probably all the Classic games take place in the past now. How many decades are we supposed to believe Rock was active? I know he's a robot, but still.

>Grand Theft Auto 1, 1997.

GTA2 takes place just barely in the future, so still '90s as well, if we're counting that. But then you might as well count every game that takes place in the present.

>>16389517

The '80s nostalgia shit has lasted way too long. Since the early-mid 2000s. The '70s had lots of nostalgia for the '50s, the late '80s got to '60s nostalgia, and by the late '90s we were into '70s nostalgia, but that didn't last a full decade, and then the '80s shit is still huge. There's been some early '90s crossover nostalgia going on, but the early '90s were largely an extension of the '80s. We're not even at grunge nostalgia yet. I'm waiting for the futuristic late '90s look to come back.

>>16389977

To be fair, Married With Children was controversial at the time. But Fox reveled in being "the edgy network." They saw that it paid off, and learned to tell the '90s equivalent of SJWs to fuck themselves. Even by the late '90s, with the massive success of many of their shows, including The Simpsons, they were still kind of running with that mindset. But I think it was American Idol and its massive success with nothing resembling edginess or darkness (like say, The X-Files) that caused them to become just like all the other networks, ruining everything.

>>16390219

>How will people remember the 2000s in another 10-20 years?

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Jackass.

The 2000s were a very short decade, that lasted from early September 2001 to early September 2007.

>>16390814

>2010s began with the cultural collapse of 2007

That reminds me actually, 2007-2014 was the worst fucking era in video games.

>>16390898

>That reminds me actually, 2007-2014 was the worst fucking era in video games.

>implying it's gotten any better

>>16390814

>But then San Andreas was barely a decade after its setting.

That it’s self proof the 90s had more identity and personality than the 2000s and 2010s. Can anyone name a fashion style of the 2010s besides coloring hair cartoony colors?

Shenmue

>>16391106

When would you argue the cultural era of "the 20th century" began? You're allowed to disagree over any of the events I listed. They're kind of vague markers for large cultural shifts. For example, the '90s being the era between the Cold War and The War on Terror. It's a distinct era, and you could call it whatever you want, but it happens to line up pretty well with the decade of "the '90s," so it's useful shorthand.

>>16390069

As much as I like the Pink and Turquoise look I'm tired of it getting used for "Wow so 80s" cash ins.

>>16390069

>Why do people keep doing this?

Because people watched Scarface and became obsessed with the Art Deco remodeling and emo sythns and a party town that was all about status and loose morals. It was an 'it' place for once due to the new art movement and tons of cocaine and excess, like NY city and Paris. They are focusing on one aspect of one state of one country. The 80's and 90's were decent enough times to grow up compared to the leftist morality nightmare the kids today experience.

>>16391258

>The 80's and 90's were decent enough times to grow up compared to the leftist morality nightmare the kids today experience.

The US underwent an almost non-stop increase in violent crimes during this time period, but it was mostly in cities and mostly due to negroids and other minorities causing trouble for everyone

>>16391287

I think you have it confused with the '70s and '80s. The '90s famously cleaned up the major cities. Like NYC incorporating Broken Windows Policies and cracking down on crime enough that Times Square actually became walkable again. Although there is the theory that this was actually due to the fact that abortion was legalized 18 years before NYC instituted this policy, and therefore all the criminals were simply aborted.

>>16391363

>criminalising discrimination in the process.

Don't worry, with Affirmative Action, it's long been criminalized to NOT discriminate based on race and gender.

Vampire the masquerade bloodlines oozes that late 90s atmosphere which takes me back to my childhood days with the dog computers and the club scene.

>>16391303

The early 90s was filled with nothing but scare-mongering about gangs and growing gang violence and super-predators and shit, and all that fizzled out by the mid-nineties once the sheboons who had started getting abortions in the 70s-80s stopped dropping litters of career criminals.

>>16390069

It's more sad that someone took the time to make an image saying something that everyone already knows.

>>16389804

Man, imagine going back in time to 1980 and saying to someone "Yeah in 30 years being obese will become a trend and people will unironically take pride in it" imagine the reaction you would get

>>16390069

Thank you for this picture. I'm sick and tired of cyan and pink being 80's.

Looking at old family photo album, the 80's were more about mullets, neon gym clothes, roller skates and toys.

There are smaller games like embedded. Anons mentioned wanting to bring back 90s survival horror games. It wouldn't be too hard.

>>16392121

Well exactly. The early '90s were still carrying over culture from the '80s. Once the era got going, it was a time of unbridled prosperity and optimism. The '80s gets credit for this, but the '90s were "the end of history." We won the cold war, and we weren't yet reminded that a significant portion of the world was still literally cavemen, only stealing our modern technology and determined to use it against us. We were entering a new millennium, and it was like we were on the edge of tomorrow, about to step into the future. The colorful look of media in the latter half of the decade. The fact that sci-fi was still optimistic mostly. Tech was rapidly advancing and we still believed we might get flying cars soon.

9/11 killed that optimism and brought us into a new, shitty era. Of course how little we realized that things could get even worse.

>>16392563

>>indie vidya starts being PS2 looking games with forced 4:3 and CRT filters

This would require the actual skill to make good 3D indie games. We're not even at PS1 level yet, let alone PS2.

>>16392736

>This would require the actual skill to make good 3D indie games. We're not even at PS1 level yet, let alone PS2.

Some PS1 era and DS games could be made by a single developer at this point. Anything that has simple level geometry that is scene or room-based could be made without much issue. A game like Syphon Filter is probably the most you could expect from a full game.

>>16393102

Which is also stupid because home computers were not nearly as popular back then as today, or even as popular as they were in the '90s, obviously. Especially for vidya, the amount of significance attributed to things that would have displayed these kind of graphics is vastly overstated today. If you wanted to play video games in the '80s, you were playing Nintendo. You might have the one kid at school who had a Master System, and would get made fun of because he never had any of the good games, but NES was what a real video game was.

Europoors get butthurt because fucked distribution in their region means they didn't get the only real player in that entire video game generation. It doesn't change the fact that it was the only real platform that mattered.

>>16393146

>They knew damn well what the fuck they were doing when they animated this

Alvin the chipmunks use to be emotional and well written. Now the series is one big fart joke.

>>16393234

>Alvin the chipmunks use to be emotional and well written

Slow down there.

>>16393284

Nigga have you seen 80s Alvin and the chipmunk?

>>16390260

that's how I already remember it.

oh and thinking anyone could be a terrorist anti-American.

>>16393365

The proper term is nigger, you fucking nigger faggot.

>>16390102

>>16390155

>>16390164

>not an actual redhead, dyes her hair

>married a half-paki

>childless feminist hag

what a waste of tits

>>16389194

Get ready for some vaporshit in VR!

>>16389194

>>16390069

I really want an 80s neo western game based on Extreme Prejudice.

>>16393426

>Wanting her to make mutts with her husband

It's for the best that she's a genetic dead end.

>>16391029

rollerblades too

>>16392563

I used to own that phone. Played Tetris on it. Pretty fun.

>>16393541

>I'm not sure why the retrowave aesthetic gets such a bad rap.

It doesn't. where have you been?

>>16393118

in the uk it was all about the zx-81 and the c64

>>16393365

so stupid but the fart got me

>>16393796

I still see people complain about both it and vaporwave.

>>16393933

I agree, Fashwave is actually pretty cringeworthy

Someone mentioned this in the RDR2 hate thread, but I actually liked the idea and it fits here, so I'm gonna expand upon it.

>GTA game set in San Andreas, 1992, same time as CJ

>only instead of being based on Boyz 'n the Hood or Scarface or Goodfellas or whatever, it's based on Falling Down

>instead of nigger aesthetic, it's middle age white guy aesthetic (so basically '60s nostalgia and the current environment is played much more negatively, not that it was played positively originally)

>takes place while CJ is fucking shit up, which keeps fucking your shit up and you need to react to it. But of course the world is against you so you never get to actually interact with that story in a way that he would notice

Would be a good "San Andreas Stories" type thing if they ever made that. But I suppose that ship sailed a decade ago.

Alternatively, just do Falling Down in another city/time. But the fact that it was actually filmed during the LA Riots blew my mind, and using that as part of the story would only make it better. It's a perfect GTA type thing though.

>>16393541

Because it's overused, and mostly by "ironic" hipster types who don't even do it properly. They fuck it up the same way pixelshit games fuck up actual 8 and 16 bit aesthetics.

>>16390069

actually neon and those colors were everywhere if you don't remember, i actually had that ski jacket on the bottom …

but you're right, most of our shit was pretty ghetto,it's when a lot of our products first started to be cheaply made and mass produced, our concept of what the future would be was infantile…

as for the fitness craze that was a two fold issue,life had changed in America quite a bit in the proceeding decades, the 1950's produced the prototypical American lifestyle as opposed to the hard life people had to live in the 20's-30's-40's, by the time the late 1960's and 70's rolled around America was getting fat due to our lifestyle of convenience, as that was rolling along so was medical science and our understanding of health, i wasn't born until the mid-late70's but it was around that time when aerobics had been discovered or at least rather pushed into the mainstream….

I don't know if you guys remember PSA's, oh god how loved PSA's, they were always so terrible they were amazing, anyways, there was a bunch of PSA's on staying fit and making fun of fat people and it used to be shameful to be fat so yeah, people got off their asses and bought a bunch of highly flammable workout gear and got even fatter…lol, but yeah the fashion of the 80's was some of my favorite even thought the quality/materials of the clothes being made then was mostly shit, don't get me wrong, cotton good were far superior to what we have now, things like denim and t shirts were all well made…well at least by today's standards, but most other things were just absolute shit…

don't even get me started on the 90's and how tech never fucking worked, in the 80's things weren't really advanced enough and people weren't heavily relying on tech in their day to days lives but by the time the 90's rolled around computers had entered the mainstream,cell phones had become small enough and affordable enough to actually own and be useful….problem was the tech that ran all of this stuff was still so new nothing actually worked, there were compatibility issues that made almost every single device be a nightmare to install or get working the way it was intended, i don't know man, i just remember always being so pissed off and yelling at my tech because something was always going on with it and i spent more time keep things up and running than anything else…..one thing i do really miss and i've said this before, is i miss dialup, not the speeds but the way the "internet" was structured back then, during the bbs era it was fucking great, all of these little communities that you could only gain access to by word of mouth or having an in, all of the people in the scene were legit, normalfag faggots hadn't shown up to shit all over everything and even if they wanted to they couldn't as they'd have to get the phone number for the board in the first place and you didn't get the numbers for the really cool boards without knowing someone…it was really cool being there at the start of a lot of the major warez groups…too bad a lot of those guys have gone to federal prison now, thanks for keeping my name out of it guys,lol…anyways the internet used to be cool.

the biggest loss is not even something that you can quantify though, when 9/11 happened it was the end of a way of life for Americans, America, our mentality and the way we are changed as a result of that event, it changed so much that it would be hard for someone who wasn't there to even envision what life was like, no surveillance state, no real concern over domestic terrorism, yeah we had the unibomber and mcveigh, but there was no DHS or any of these other groups that were created to deal with these sort of things, the police officers were still police officers, they weren't hardened combat vets wearing a blue uniform, they weren't trained to think that everyone is out to kill them…..again, i don't know how to explain it, it is hard to quantify a way of doing things or a mentality change, the whole countries mentality changed after 9/11 across the board…what 9/11 did to this country was far worse than the 3-4k dead and we did it to ourselves….the government also learned that people will gladly trade their rights away for safety so we got more of the same.

meh, i'm done, i just feel so sorry for you younger guys who never got to know the good America.

>>16393933

>>16393935

I thought that the whole fashwave thing was just one extended middle finger to Pertubator because he got mad that /pol/ used his music for one of their videos.

>>16394879

>the biggest loss is not even something that you can quantify though, when 9/11 happened it was the end of a way of life for Americans, America, our mentality and the way we are changed as a result of that event

Not just America, but the west in general. The '90s were an optimistic time, despite the grunge fad in the middle of the decade. We won the Cold War. Right here, right then, we were watching the world wake up from history. Freedom won and technology was advancing and we were about to enter a whole new millennium. We reached the end of history, and were about to step into a utopic, Jetsons-like future. Little did we realize that we were just in our brief halcyon days. But after only a decade, cavemen who stole our technology but were still thoroughly dedicated to caveman culture ramped up their attacks enough to remind actual homo sapiens that our battles weren't really over. And of course, as you mentioned, other players who were ostensibly on our side used this effect to further degrade our society from within.

>>16395028

I don't view it as positively as you do. The 90s were basically the beginning of the kike post-game. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, they had complete control of the only remaining world superpower.

They just needed some sort of new pearl Harbor in order to use it's power to it's full extent. That was what 9/11 was about.

Islamic terrorism was non-existent in the west before (((America))) started fucking up Muslim countries for Israel, after all.

>>16395233

Everything you say is also true. What I was describing was just the attitude of the time. Of course as we learned, that attitude was not based on objective reality.

Also, /pol/ told me the Soviet Union was also run by jews. Communism is jews, but jews run all the major corporations under capitalism. If anything it's some Star Wars shit where the emperor was actually controlling both sides to start false flag wars and increase his own power. Which is exactly what happened after 9/11.

>>16394942

It's where it started yes. Sound that was used really helped how bad migrants where. Was a shame to, besides that he seemed like an alright guy for a fence sitting faggot.

>>16389232

We need more games with companions/soldiers that have explicit personal and racial preferences.

I miss these kinds of settings. You can't have them anymore either because the games are loaded with poz ("look how bad decade X was for wheelchair bound brown transsexual communists!") or it's tired neo-80s bullshit instead of something straightforward.

I particularly value period video games, particularly open world ones because it's like a virtual time machine. I mean, I have a whole library of TV shows and movies from those eras but video games are another matter, exploring a realistic recreation of a bygone era is pretty charming.

>>16391088

>>16391106

>many are wrong

And (((you))) are one of those who are wrong, not piss off kike

>>>/gaschambers/

>>16395503

now*

>inb4 muh grammar error :^)

>>16395425

>sexuality is only celebrated if it involves faggots or niggers, everything else is evil and must be suppressed

That's going to go really badly for them. The heart wants what it wants and furthermore the genitals want what they want. Trying to push so hard against it will only a massive rebellion of one sort or another.

>>16396149

Not sure what they are going for

>>16390069

The real 80s were actually cooler than vaporwave gives it credit for, and yet they were still shit.

>>16393416

Nigga is more affectionate then a downright insult, get your own terms correct before lecturing others faggot.

>>16396805

Why would you be "Affectionate" towards niggers? I don't think this is the place for you.

>>16392569

Fuck off, you're the problem.

You're fucking boring and mainstream movies from the 80s were cringe, especially if they had kids in them.

>>16396377

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229654/?ref_=nv_sr_7?ref_=nv_sr_7

Yep it's definitely got a movie. Don't know which one came first the movie or the game.

Apparently it plays much like a Dragon Quest game.

A lot of the the Star Wars Expanded Universe actually avoids introducing tech that was invented or popularized after the 1980. Thus there are no cell-phones (though ultra portable two-way radios are universal), video games that aren't simulators, or red dot sights and the holonet is comparable to very early internet (some news sites and primitive, text-only, BBS/IRC). This never really comes up in the video games though.

>>16394942

Gex fucked up and used Carpenter Brut. What actually happened was his (((license holders))) made a call. Put it this way, dude's live set has videos clipped out of shit like Horror Rock 1984 and Roller Mobster had some Italian thriller flick involving some mugger dragging a chick around with a chain while he drove his moped to escape, girls get bisected with chainsaws and the attitude that "the band" has now seems to still ring through with a focus on sex, drugs and rock and roll which is definitely too offensive for mainstream.

Perturbator's mention was that faggot fucking commie trans ally kid had a Perturbator wall photo on FB and that's it. Also, fucking hates SF because his shit got stolen out of his car during a tour.

In general, any synthwave artist who comes to sf gets a harsh dose of reality. You just can't speak out about because otherwise you're nearly immediately blacklisted from any venue that actually knows who you are. You're either some underground youtube Cybernazi synthwaver, a faggot who plays ball for (((them))) or you stay out of it as best as you can.

>>16395233

well, the world needs some of that optimism back. theres a bit of reason to be optimistic. they still must make neighbors fight eachother. that means the power the merchants of discord wield is still something that is "given".

how do you make people unwilling to hurt eachother? its difficult when theyre constantly being sold reasons to fear.

too much garbage, its like death by spam.

>>16401721

pozzed indie devs have ruin everything they touch.

>>16392660

What game

>>16389974

>hand at 1:54

>>16389977

They were married. It wasn't rape back then.

Like what others have said

Vice City

Jagged Alliance 2

Final Fight

Probably

Sam and Max Hit the Road

The Sims

Also this

>>16391363

>You do know the eath has been a marxist nightmare since 1945, right?

Try 1789, anon. The (((French))) Revolution is what's REALLY at fault.

Read the title as

>80s and 90s as game settings

I want both a neon 80s aesthetic and a grungy 90s aesthetics as selections in options menus now.

>>16413038

but anon the french revolution would have never happened if not for the (((Protistant Reformation))) and that wouldn't have happened if Ghibellines defeated the Guelphs in 1289 at the Battle of Campaldino and at Vicopisano.

>>16413056

I'm just saying that things were bad long before 1945 - the Second World War was essentially the equivalent of pissing on the West's grave. What happened prior is what set everything in motion. You've said it yourself, with the examples you mentioned.

>>16413070

The fall of the Roman Empire is the real culprit. Though really that wouldn't have happened if Constantine didn't forsake his own culture in favor of some dirty desert religion.

>>16413152

The Roman Empire was doomed with the death of Severus Alexander. While Diocletian's attempts at reuniting the empire after the Crisis was admirable, his reforms weren't going to hold off the collapse for very long either way.

>>16393791

anon, almost everyone owned that phone. I still have mine in a drawer somewhere. i heard a rumor earlier this year that they're considering rereleasing it on LTE/5G.