Was 2008 the golden age of vidya

Was 2008 the golden age of vidya

of Sup Forums maybe

Early 2000s

No

>Braid releases starting the indie cuckolding scene

GTAIV was the only game of note released that year.

I dont really know where you're going with this OP.

Anything post 2007 is shit.

>brown and bloom: the year

GTA IV was trash though

Ok if this is what you really meant OP then I get where you're coming from. But of video games in general? No.

I didnt say it was great, it was notable. Brawl was released of course, but only a few people really care about that. Great for memes on Sup Forums though.

Yes
Nintendo had Brawl
Playstation had Persona 4
Xbox had Halo 3
PC had WoTLK

2005 was.

Early 90s

2002, inarguably

Fuck no. How underage do you have to be to think that?

The gaming industry been in a downhill wheelchair derby race to the bottom since 07. The economic crash of 08 didn't do anything to help it.

>GTA IV
>Fallout 3
>Dead Space
>MGS4
>Smash
>Far Cry 2
>Fable 2
>No More Heroes
>Valkyria Chronicles
>Persona 4
>Yakuza 2
>LBP
>Mirrors Edge
>WoW:WotLK

>muh lack of le random shit
>muh driving
ok (you)

That would be 2004: MGS3, San Andreas, Metroid Prime 2, Prince of Persia 2, Halo 2, Paper Mario 2. It was a blast.

2007 was the best year in video games

> the motherfucking orange box, best value in big name dev history
> burning crusade released and became the peak of WoW, actually ending up the most selling game of the year
> crysis1 starting an era of PC superiority
> stalker was born, the only no big-dev here, making it more impressive that ten years later the modding scene is still alive
> modern warfare, together with TF2, ended the dominance of cs&ut04 and opened the genre to a broad audience. plus, mw made it's own genre of fps

sure it's very FPS focused, but no other year did we see triple-A performance this good across the board.

1998 was objectively the greatest year of vidya

2007 was the year everything went to shit and was ruined forever

I'd say the late 90's - early 2000's.

The HL1 era was great. A whole bunch of free and creative mods. It really was shocking to me just how huge the drop-off in the community was between HL1 to HL2 and it only got worse since then. I suck at analogies but it's like the little corner bar where you know the bartender and all the regulars becomes a giant pulsating nightclub filled to the max.

I took the HL1 era for granted. I thought it was only going to be the beginning of an even better vidya era. How wrong I was. I wish I could go back.

Nothing will ever be as modded and community driven as Doom.

NOTHING.

And it was over 20 fucking years ago.

I hate how I wasn't that into Doom or FPS' at the time. I was more into the huge flight sim scene until HL1 came out.

at least say why you think so

>was 2008 the golden age of vidya

Things something someone born after 1995 would say for 100

Plus, Halo 3.

Wrathbaby please fuck off

God of War 1, Burnout 3: Takedown, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory just to name a few. It was probably the highest point of PS2's lifetime.

1998 - 2005 were.

No, 2004 was.

There will never ever be a better year for vidya than 2004.

>1998 was objectively the greatest year of vidya

This too.

1998 and 2004. Awesome fucking years for vidya.

Nah.

I'd rank 2003/5/6/7, 2011/12, and last year over it.

This is some god tier bait

All you're missing is
>achievements - so I can show all my friends on Facebook my god tier gaming skills
>DLC - so I can give developers the money they deserve for their creativity like horse armor and weapon skins
>YouTube Let's Plays - so epic personalities can show epic games to wide audiences

>complains about modern vidya
>posts modern vidya meme

?????????

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He clearly isn't complaining about modern vidya as he thinks 2008 was the golden age of gaming, dumbass.

Fallout: NV didn't come out 'til 2010

But the far superior FO3 came out in 2008

>FO3
>Superior
Nice b8 m8

The golden age was 8 and 16 bit gaming.

>Nintendo and Sega having an actual console war
>Quality games being produced
>The technological jump between 8 and 16 bit was one of the biggest ones visually.
>It was about games and not trying to be art or being acceptable to society.
>PC gaming was dead

This
>all these great games

>PC gaming was dead
>good
Gr8 b8 m8

>Mirrors Edge is 8 years old

Shut the fuck up

>the other 4 grandkids of the original pic actually got fucking death threats despite showing up just a bit later

Top fucking kek

The actual golden age was Gens 3 - 6, showing a gradual drop off. This was the time when creativity and originality was paramount in order make a good game due to lack of graphical fidelity. Once high-polygon models could be rendered it all became a race to realism and the steady descent into more and more cinematic experiences.

Sooner or later the larger public will lose interest in video games, the bubble will burst, and it will again become a (relatively) niche hobby with small teams making passion projects.

Goober gobblers at it again.