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b5caf2 No.16669614
What game or part of it really gives you that bittersweet feeling of nostalgia?
The mix of happiness that you experienced something great but sadness that you'll likely never see those better times ever again?
For me it's every single music piece from the Unreal games.
1ef8b5 No.16669678
pokemon.
id give anything to be 10 again, was a huge pokemon fan.
started at gen 2. watched the anime religiously, had a trillion cards, traded them in school like a jew at a bazaar.
but the games, they were the best fucking thing for my kid self.
hours spent just wandering and exploring shit, AFKing and listening to the music. making the ultimate "cool team" and wrecking everything.
doesnt help that the soundtrack is this mix of sad and cheery that just fucks you over.
fuck you, hacks. fuck you for what you done to this franchise.
1feeeb No.16669679
>>16669614
didn't we have this thread?
a1e8ff No.16669702
Majora's Mask is pretty bittersweet for me. Helped me get through my dads beatings and parents divorce. I spent a lot of my time in Romani Ranch as that place seemed to calm me down when things got really bad. I cant tell you how many times I beat it or just chilled somewhere in the world.
Of course now the fanbase for MM is miserable but it'll always hold a special place in my heart. I go back and play it just about every year.
ceaadb No.16669715
>>16669678
Same here. My entire gradeschool existence was Pokemon, the games, the show, the card game, etc. Absolutely everyone at my school was into it, boys, girls, popular kids, nerds, it didn't matter, it was fucking huge. It was to the point where once I grew out of it after 2nd gen I really didn't know how to socialize with people properly because all I ever did was talk about Pokemon up until that point.
I remember fantasizing all the time about how incredible a fully 3D console Pokemon game with an open world would be, now that we're finally getting it decades later and it's absolute shit because Gamefreak doesn't give a single fuck anymore, it's just a cash cow to them now. The Gamecube was more than capable of this sort of title, I don't see why they didn't go for it considering it would have bumped up the Gamecubes sales an absurd amount, it could have single handedly saved that console from failure.
b8c511 No.16669768
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Okami is to this day one of the only games that elicits repeat emotional reactions from me, and I pin it almost entirely to the amazing sound design. God it's stupid at times, and really needs a hard mode, but when it's good, it really is damn good.
I would have thought that in playing it again, as an adult, on the PC release, would have eased those emotions. But instead, the Reset -> Sun Rises sequence just moved me more than it did the first time. How the hell does that work?
dd6fe8 No.16670228
For me it's the weird 8-bit computer games, like the isometric puzzle/platformers, willyvanias, and other oddball games with often surreal elements. The genres weren't really defined yet, so there was a lot of weird shit and experimentation. And all my games were pirated, so I didn't have manuals or have any idea what to expect, which made it all the more mysterious.
d20483 No.16671348
Definitely those two most of all but i have a very long list of games i'm nostalgic about.
bca3c7 No.16671623
>8 bit Konami music (tmnt)
>unfiltered textures on early 2000s pc games (Quake)
>1:1 movement with shoddy animations (Max Payne)
>well done pixel graphics (UFO: Enemy Unknown)
>fun (Neighbors from Hell)
67e5be No.16671749
>>16671623
Fuck you, you're the same anon who posts this in every thread about nostalgia or old games, aren't you? I was never into Spiral Knights enough to get nostalgic over it, but it just oozes from this track.
bca3c7 No.16672013
>>16671749
I'm one of a couple.
0ade23 No.16672110
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>>16671623
How about some of that fight music though.
>doing the multistage arenas
>Bro-Oping where you had a ridiculous shield and you covered you mates when things heated up
>time'd shield bashes to knock enemies back
>that teamwork to get through the tough bits
I wish I'd had a chance to play more of it back in the day with bros…
06313c No.16672236
>>16669702
> zelda will never be focused on such a detailed, rich world ever again
> instead we'll get another "It's fucking nothing!" Japanese Skyrim with even more DLC turbocancer
> there are anons on this very board excited about this
3d14f4 No.16672442
Looking at old games from the 90's and reminding myself that not only did people have fun playing them, but the developers also had fun making them. Everyone had fun. Staff roll sequences like the one from Marvel vs Capcom 1 give me a soulful, bittersweet pain. The music, the silly animation, and the characters making even the credits roll a spectacle of its own. It was so happy and upbeat, but those times are long gone now.
"Thanks for playing," so went the old adage. Feels like forever ago.
b5caf2 No.16673421
>>16669679
300 times, just like any thread faggot
652038 No.16673837
>>16669678
>>16669715
Most of my early nostalgia was for the show because my parents didn't let me have any kind of game console until gen 3 came out. I still did plenty of sleepovers trading and battling in gen3 and early gen4. (I still have secret bases on my Emerald save from one of my friends and his friends.)
Did anyone else spend hours listening to the 2BA Master album on the Pokémon website?
a55b37 No.16673852
Half-Life 2
I could write a fucking long essay of what an emotional journey it was to finally get to play it in the shit hole I used to live in was some childhood magic shit
c41048 No.16673905
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Everything about 90s SNK gives me a diamond hard nostalgia boner.
1ef8b5 No.16677955
>>16672442
money > fun in todays world.
c6870c No.16677967
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ITT tech used to have this commercial and every time i heard the song in the commercial it would remind me of facing worlds on UT 99, i would have the urge to install the game and play every time.
633d13 No.16677969
>>16672442
Happens when anything becomes mainstream.
Videogames went from an untested new piece of media with a shaky foundation to bigger than Hollywood in a decade.
Once the foundation was built it was time to nickel and dime on the furniture.
It's just sad to see many of those who helped create that foundation to become monsters or irrelevant, either out of greed or due to becoming out of touch.
c6870c No.16677974
>>16677969
It happened when modern warfare 2 made 1 billion. it was ridiculed before and then all the fuckeheads with more money than sense put their money into video games.
It went from making fun games to please customers to pleasing shareholders, Shareholders ruin companies.
5f72fb No.16677975
When I got a gamecube for my birthday with Melee, it was magical. I played that game to death and have reset the save just to go through the process of unlocking everything tons of times. I won't say anything in relation to newer smashes, but in that time and really until Brawl, I felt like nothing could replace those tons of hours of enjoyment.
633d13 No.16677985
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>>16677967
It really reminds me when EDM wasn't absolute fucking cancer.
All the UT games, Deus Ex and System Shock have some of the best soundtracks of all time due to being inspired by 90s electronic dance music.
633d13 No.16678004
>>16677974
>It happened when modern warfare 2 made 1 billion.
Way before that, shit like FFVII and Halo were already symptoms of the disease.
Decent but extremely marketed games made to attract a new audience, one that never played any previous game of the genre.
Most 7th Gen games were like that but with a fraction of innovation, content and game design thought put into them.
EA has been appeasing shareholders, shafting devs and cutting corners since the day it was born in 1982 same with Activision after the Bobby buyout.
Truth be told, you wouldn't have some great games without those fuckers taking a risk on the hobby, but that doesn't excuse their anti consumer business decisions or the current state of things.
1297ae No.16678009
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>>16677985
DnB still good to this day.
Locoroco is my nostalgia. Moved to a new city so all I had was my psp and locoroco for the first few months.
c6870c No.16678011
>>16678004
EA back in the day was good then they got too big and tried to apeas shareholders, they bought out their competition and killed them.
All the best gaming companies died at the hands of EA. EA made a statement that said they regret that decision because now there is no good game devs and they keep regurgitating the same old shit.
633d13 No.16678026
>>16678009
>DnB still good to this day
Lost some of it's quality, but I'll have to agree, quality is still abudant and it holds itself much better than most mainstream electronic music nowadays.
>>16678011
>EA back in the day was good
EA was never good you absolute faggot, Trip Hawkins cut corners everywhere and while that worked with EA due to the blood of several small teams it was a fucking failure with 3DO.
633d13 No.16678030
>>16678011
>All the best gaming companies died at the hands of EA
The only ones that could even be considered that were Westwood and Criterion.
>EA made a statement that said they regret that decision because now there is no good game devs and they keep regurgitating the same old shit.
Bullshit, modern big-mid size company PR is to never admit mistakes.
They don't use any of the IPs they sit on because they can just churn out 1-2 big releases and make millions out of the normalcattle that currently infests this hobby.
Where's the source?
c6870c No.16678033
>>16678030
There were more companies than just westwood, I've never heard of criterion
>>16678030
Where's the source?
it was the CEO, i can't remember where the source was.
252913 No.16678034
A game kinda like oxyd. Except I played it on my uncle's computer in grey scale. It involved moving balls into divots without touching skull boxes which would kill you and a coffee symbol denotes pause or something? Autists halp!
c6870c No.16678040
>>16678033
2nd image is old and untrue, Nintendo is Evil and some of the companies have gone woke.
633d13 No.16678045
>>16678033
>There were more companies than just westwood
And none were top tier outside Criterion and DICE.
>That second image
Absolutely disgusting even by 2012 standards.
>Source: My ass
Figures
5f72fb No.16678048
>>16678040
Well, Sony's no better on DRM than microsoft is now, and not like your PS4 isnt always watching you either. I would argue for the time, probably 2013, Blizzard, Rockstar were pretty untrue already. Valve doesn't make games anymore and Nintendo hasn't made much that interests me like Radiant Dawn or Xenoblade in a long while. It's all chibi and pandering shit.
633d13 No.16678069
>>16678059
>Shill
>For shitting all over EA
Sure lad
633d13 No.16678078
>>16678073
>Gives absolutely no reason why he thinks I'm a EA shill
>While I'm shitting on EA
Stop posting retard
ab2b3f No.16678110
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>>16669614
There's plenty of games I wish I could go back and enjoy them as they were back in the day. I'll just list a few.
>Pokemon
Self-explanatory. Everyone was into it, and it was fun talking about the show, trading cards, games, etc. Even though my friends gradually moved away who played it, I was still able to trade and battle occasionally in the DS games until WiFi shutdown. I'm trying to get friends back on the private servers, but it's a bit more involved now and we're all busier. (The good news is, if you buy a cheap router, you can just configure the DNS settings on it for the new server. Anyone who connects to it will be re-directed to the server without having to configure DNS on the DS itself. Depending on the router you use, can also export settings for someone to import and not worry about them mis-configuring it.)
>MapleStory
The game itself wasn't too great, but it was fun playing it with others and just enjoying what happened. I'd watch shit unfold as players summoned lv100 monsters around new players in busy towns, help players smuggle party quest items to clear them faster than normal, watch players get lost and wander into high level areas, enjoy some of the comfiest music in vidya, etc.
>Age of Empires 1/2
Friends and I stayed up all night playing this over breaks. I tried playing this again with friends, but networking is awful on modern computers. Frequent issues with random disconnects or not even seeing other players, and we can't figure out if it's the crack, or just how the game runs on Windows 7 and later. (AoE3 runs better on current systems, but I don't like the mechanics changes. The HD version doesn't support LAN, and I don't feel like buying it on Steam either.)
>>16673837
>Did anyone else spend hours listening to the 2BA Master album on the Pokémon website?
Yes. I also miss the mailbox. No one I've talked to seems to remember the website at all. (I still miss that era of web design, aside from a lot of websites doing everything in Flash. It was compact, but clean and functional.)
Favorite song from the album? Mine was the Dance Mix.
3d14f4 No.16678134
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>>16677967
>>16677985
>>16678009
>>16678026
Vidya DnB was one of the musical heights of the 90's. It's a shame most people conflate modern shit like dubstep and the likes of Pendulum with old school DnB and give it undeserved flak without really knowing anything about it.
94ada6 No.16678160
>>16669715
>I don't see why they didn't go for it
Given how much of a factor being able to trade with friends has been for Pokemon, probably something to do with how the Gamecube wasn't exactly portable despite the handle. Game Boy and DS lines worked out well for multiplayer interaction with the series because both were easy to transport and the latter had inbuilt wifi.
Or would you propose just using the memory cards as the "portable" functionality and just have the system load both card's data at once?
b7d444 No.16678188
>>16678115
That's fucking sad. A part of me wants to laugh, because I've been here too long for it to not illicit at least that, but I'm so tired realizing of how far western civilization has gone.
Bitches and whores, I guess.
36a7f3 No.16678205
>>16678188
I can assure you similar things happened all throughout history in every part of the world.
b7d444 No.16678212
>>16678205
I know. That doesn't make it any better.
36a7f3 No.16678221
>>16678212
then what does the decline of the west have to do with it?
b7d444 No.16678226
>>16678221
I don't give a shit about the rest of the world, especially now.
8585dd No.16678240
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>>16677985
>>16678009
>>16678026
>>16678134
90s/early 2000s electronic was just better in general. My favorite genre is trance, but nowadays it's a (mostly) dead genre with the biggest artists (Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, etc.) moving onto house, pop, or other more popular genres. Even if their current songs are labeled as trance, they sound nothing like the old trance songs that they used to be known for.
You'd never hear something like this on radio.
c6870c No.16678300
>>16678240
avicii was suicided trying to expose Peadophiles.
b8c511 No.16678361
>>16678226
I think this anon's point:
>>16678205
Is that there is no "decline of the west". There is no present Kali Yuga. The world has always been full of shit. The world will always be full of shit. And for as long as human civilization has existed, people have been complaining about the same shit: "Things used to be better."
Either lie down like a dog and accept that fact with maturity, instead of complaining about it, or go out, fight against fate, and try to make the world around you a better place. Lay down or struggle, but don't scream.
bca3c7 No.16678476
>>16678361
what about the 200 year life cycle of most great civilizations?
b8c511 No.16678724
>>16678476
You mean Glubb's theory? There's a modicum of truth to it, but it's an incomplete thesis. Glubb wasn't a full global scholar, and focused only on Europe and the Middle East; even then, a lot of his dates are arbitrarily picked, and he admits that.
When you consider East Asia - and the Chinese dynasties in particular - you'll find that that the things Glubb covers are less a cycle of culture, and more a cycle of governance. The people of the state don't change - the people in charge do. Well, that's not strictly accurate; as he points out, rich empires have a lot of money, and that attracts more foreigners, which does change the people. So sure, there's a change there: Before, people were stupid faggots; now, they're brown, stupid faggots.
64c07a No.16678790
>>16677967
now I want to host a UT gamenight again
even though Instagib CTF on Facing Worlds took fucking ages to win
ef526c No.16678837
>>16669614
Games that oozed some sort of style other than photo-realism or minimalist cartoonery.
e25c0e No.16678863
>>16678361
That's an oversimplified response to an oversimplified view. Of course some things used to be better, and other things used to be worse (think medicine, communications technology, workplace safety, and so on). The complaint isn't a blanket 'everything is now bad,' rather that we were promised progress and ended up going backwards. There are just as many references in history to 'those rude times past' as there are nostalgic lamentations, depending on when you look.
Likewise with video games. There was a period of innovation, followed by a period complete shit culminating in the crash, followed by a golden age in the 90s and early 2000s, and then another decline into shit. We all know this, but it's simpler to just say 'things used to be better' because most of the posters on this board are old enough to have experienced the golden age but too young to have experience the shit which preceded it.
e25c0e No.16678893
>>16678863
Some on-topic contributions to the thread
64c07a No.16678933
>>16678893
how the fuck does one surf
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64c07a No.16678948
>>16678935
how does one air strafe? Is it just jumping while only moving left/right?
1ef8b5 No.16678961
>>16678948
you have google, you massive fucking retarded newfaggot of a shitniggercoon im not spoonfeeding you anything more faggot
9a017b No.16679012
it's super Mario Bros on the fami clone consoles I had as a kid.
750ba5 No.16679309
>>16678300
That's bullshit but I believe it.
605855 No.16679331
Pokemon was mentioned so I will skip it. For me nostalgia usually comes from the social moments I've had with these games, but not always.
>Hitman Codename 47
Wasn't really a good game but the story moved you and the disguise system was revolutionary.
>Last Bronx
Had some fun fights with my cousin and the cutscenes at the end of story mode were also pretty moving. The main theme is beautiful.
>Horde 2
A very little known RTS with some fun mechanics like genies stealing your money and peasants auto-upgrading to some of the strongest warriors in the game if they gain enough experience. Lots of stuff to discover - actually it was an "open world" game really.
>Kingpin
Serious, adult atmosphere impressed me as a 12 year old or so. Nice cutscenes and voice acting. Can recruit thugs to fight for you which is cool (and required to survive on higher difficulties)
1ef8b5 No.16680053
>Horde 2
just checked it out, seems like a fun game.
a1aea5 No.16680558
Carefree summer days; waking up at 5AM Sat to get 4.5 hours of uninterrupted dial-up, watching cartoons while playing Neopets and downloading Gameboy Advance roms. Collecting .txt files from GameFAQs, printing out cheat codes at the library…IT ALL FEELS SO DISTANT NOW
2adf76 No.16680644
>>16680558
Your childhood isn't terribly special, a lot of us grew up in poverty.