I miss a time before iphones and social media and normies fucking invading my hobby everywhere I look.
I miss when I could ask someone "do you play video games?" and knowing that if they said yes, they weren't going to be talking about shit like League of Legends or Farmville or some other horseshit like that.
Back when if you found a girl who played video games, you knew she was legit a shut-in like you and not some fucking slut desperate for chad dickings.
Back when developers made games for people who actually played them, instead of SJWs who only wanted to TALK about playing them.
Back when the internet was still a wild west.
Is there anything that could help replicate that old experience for me Sup Forums? The closest thing I've found is shit like "Emily is Away" but good god is that a cringefest with almost no real interactivity. There are also those old newgrounds flashes that were meant to simulate windows computers, but that still isn't close enough. Is it possible to re-enter a world that hasn't been tainted by normies and social media? Is it possible to go back to 2005 or 2006?
Continued from the yesterday's "not a member berry" thread?
Jaxson Gutierrez
Facebook ruined video games. Prove me wrong You can't
Oliver Price
>post on facebook that I want video game culture to return to how it use to be >"Why, user? Video games are much better now! Have you seen the graphics of game X?" >others chime in praising graphics and framerates
Angel Collins
>short haired >glasses >gamer Literally catered to my tastes.
Angel Rivera
Pretty much this
>Back when the internet was still a wild west.
I do kind of miss this though. Not for likely the same reasons, but before social media the internet was a lot more fun to browse. Now you've only got the choice between the sterile internet of web2.0, practicing archeology by digging around to find 10 year old websites that are still running for some reason, or going deep web diving(and getting a note added to your file because you downloaded a tor-configured browser).
Jason Hall
Actually, facebook and flashgames have been my jumpstart back into gaming, but nothing comes after that to todays consumers what is kinda whack. (except for some very niche games getting kinda popular and old games but this is unlikely for the majority of people.)
Noah Stewart
>normies
Fucking normalsfags
Gavin Green
>because you downloaded a tor-configured browser Do you also browse sad panda through a plugin?
Zachary Reed
>You will never again use limewire or frostwire to download music and slow your PC to hell and back.
Owen Diaz
>downloading music >through limewire
Asher Long
>"sponsored" post by some gaming website >something about Fallout 4 >comment that thr predetermined character story and dialogue hurt the RPG-aspects Fallout used to have >30 or more casuals throw sissy fit over me criticising the "best game of the decade", filled with ad hominems and stuff like "but the graphics and totally epic power armor!"
Casuals are thr root of the problem.
They are many, they waste money easily and they're easily affected by cinematic trailers
Aaron Martin
>not using emule
cuck I miss 90-2006 download era.
Colton Flores
What you want to do is go back to being a child because you don't like having responsibilities.
That's why you became a NEET; because you don't want to grow up but you still want to moan about things changing, even though you're too pathetic to actually do anything about it.
The world's changing without you because you chose not to be part of it dumb dumb.
Ayden Cox
If you only realized how retarded you are, armchair psycho
Ian Bennett
>pre 2007 >where people were saying shit like trolololol, we are lejun, and other cringe shit. Neck yourself.
Hunter Carter
Can't you just play VIDEO GAMES
Jose James
>not liking the innocent early internet culture
kill yourself 12 year old
William Jackson
The Internet's nearly dead already. Corps are putting the final squeeze on it. The good news is the cool kids will move somewhere else. Maybe packet radio. Who knows.
Joshua Thompson
Hey, you're the one who blames everyone else for your unhappiness.
Bentley White
>do you like videogames? >yeah I love runescape xD
>do you like videogames? >yeah halo is SOOOO cool :D
Yeah dude, when I was 13 it was so cool.. Haha xD
Tyler Thompson
Are you a bull? Because you keep pulling bullshit out of your ass.
Robert Russell
we all want to go back...
Sebastian Clark
I fucking hate nostalgia fags so much. Newsflash retard: things were shit back then too, you were just too young to notice it.
Samuel Edwards
What is it with pseudointellectuals being present in every thread today? Cant you be real intellectuals in some media that actually caters to intellectuals?
Adam Garcia
Stop posting
Hunter Collins
>micspam culture HAHAHAHAHHAHA
THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT? GOOD ONE MATE THAT'S HILARIOUS.
Colton Baker
>What you want to do is go back to being a child because you don't like having responsibilities. >tfw 45 years old
Every time I get asked my age on an MMO and I answer this truthfully, people seem super surprised. sleep snug, smug
Ryan Jones
This guy gets it.
Chase Lewis
>mods I miss those already Warcraft 3 maps, gmod shit etc.
Nowadays everything is too centralized.
Bentley Carter
F-fuck...
This seriously made me sad...
Jayden Rivera
I don't think you remember all the trash that was on the sixth generation of consoles. Also gaming has been held up by normals and casuals forever. Madden has had yearly releases since 1990 and used to have multiple fucking rivals like Gameday and NFL2k.
The only thing that was different was prople didn't use social media abd it wasn't hip to talk about the games you played.
Jeremiah Brooks
They're still there though?
But they're not as fun right?
Because you grew out of them maybe?
Jaxon Taylor
>"It was better in my day." Said every cunt growing older ever.
Noah Myers
Things were shit in totally different ways.
Nowadays things are shit because everything is rehashed, settled into "proven good" (read: bland and safe) patterns. We need more chaos in vidya. Less big companies, less patterns, less "dark souls of x", less authorities and less "every game should be like this".
Angel Parker
>Spoiler Image >Click it >I told you not to open it >Check Post >This guy gets it
Nobody said not to open it....
Bentley Barnes
>waah I miss being a caveman
Not even my fucking grandma misses the times where she had to walk for 2km to go to the nearest potable water source. But if you really dislike the new technology you can still go back and use your potato programs.
I fucking hated Emule, days of download only to find out you downloaded yet another dolphin porn. And when you looked for dolphin porn, you'd find a malware instead.
Go on, stop using whatever you're using now and go back to your beloved outdated service. And in case they don't even have content you can always use Baidu to emulate the slow downloads.
I'm sick of seeing 25yo kids talking like senile grandpas.
"Yeah things were shit but it was a different shit!"
Jesus fuck, listen to yourself.
Adrian Perry
It was the same shit when you were a kid too. You were just less jaded. Look up the term Juvenoia and move on.
Aaron Brown
Which games have this kind of modding?
Did DoTA 2 actually deliver?
Because if you want to list shit like >you can fix Fallout 4 with mods then just don't bother pretending you have an answer.
Logan Rodriguez
>He hasn't been invited to the white-list.
Colton Anderson
>butthurt fags who didnt have a good childhood and dont want others to talk think about their childhoods
Just leave nobody cares about you
Jeremiah Hall
>If you're going to provide answers then don't even bother!
Camden Rodriguez
>Is there anything that could help replicate that old experience for me Sup Forums? No. The world is shit now. Everything is shit.
Alexander Miller
And who's going to pay for that?
Who's going to hide the workers to work on it?
Who's going to work for YEARS to polish a game to today's standards?
You think some huge fucking CEO of a company is just going to hire people for millions of dollars to make some fucking stupid ass game for an absurdly niche audience when they could just make an actual good game wanted by lots of people?
Are you fucking ACTUALLY retarded or what?
Go play some japanese games and you'll see it's fucking shit and expensive.
Robert Price
what white-list?
Nolan Richardson
>Butthurt fag who peaked at childhood and doesn't want others to talk about the present day because they're NEET
>things were exactly the same >no, they weren't because here's a proof that they were different >WOOOOOOW I GOT AN ANSWER THAT I DISLIKE
Objectively false. When I was a kid, FPS were a new genre, RTS were a new genre, RTS were alive, video games weren't a giant business with budgets comparable to movies and thus were more likely to try out new things. Nowadays only indies actually explore new options.
You'd have to be an actual retard to deny that games change slower now than they did 10 or 15 years ago.
Aaron Rogers
It seem like consolidation is a natural course of things in the current world. Wait till in 2-3 decades we will see actual megacorporations and shit, producing anything from IT to Military. Kinda like Chaebols or Keiretsu, except on worldwide scale and with unified management and common brand ideology.
Jonathan Perry
OP here. I'm not a NEET. It's not the world changing I'm afraid of. Hell, I think change is a good thing overall. But our modern society is changing very, very quickly. Too quickly for our primitive monkey brains to really handle. Why do you think "Le 90s kids" are a phenomenon now? Because for the first time in human history we're seeing entire technologies and infrastructures become new, prominent, and obsolete, within a fraction of our lifetimes. I'm not going to act like change is a bad thing, I just want to enjoy the present a little longer before it slips out of my hands. And the present I particularly enjoyed was the president of the early 2000s. I just wish it had lasted a little longer, that's all.
>implying that shit wasn't fun >implying those shitty memes haven't just been replaced with equally shitty memes, like kek, dat boi, and whatever other flavor of the month shit is spewed out of the wastepipes
godspeed
fuck off faggot
Man I really miss Zombie Master Source. That was the shit. I also miss when gmod rp servers used maps other than Downtown, and the TTT servers used shit other than minecraft maps.
this shit is fucking horrifying
Ian Stewart
No, you dumb cuck you don't get it.
Those folks all had great childhoods. Cause they were children and didn't know better.
But they aren't kids now and DO know better.
The World didn't get worse you egotistical fuck. You grew up and became more aware.
Cooper Garcia
Now you know how people older than you feel about you and how you ruined gaming, you tremendous faggot. I want to go back pre-1997 before you fucked everything.
Carter Scott
You're retarded.
Problems you listed only exist because you want to keep the biggest cancer in videogames - huge companies.
Lincoln Walker
I think this is one of the main problems, I remember forums about literally everything being popular, now everything is just grouped up to big forums for some reason.
>tfw you'll never re-visit websites that shared md5 porn blacklists >this shit is fucking horrifying Do you see that small white spot at the bottom? That's Sup Forums.
Liam Wright
Everything you've had then, you have now plus more. You're only being nostalgic because you've had less responsibilities back then.
My life is much better than it used to be then, therefore I don't look at that time so positively.
Evan Smith
Micspam was the most annoying shit ever, fuck you. Just because I was younger and dumber doesn't mean I was clinically retarded to enjoy the "micspam culture"
Mason Powell
>You're only being nostalgic because you've had less responsibilities back then. Is everyone here 20 years old or something?
what kind of responsibilities do you have these days, not shitting yourself?
Anthony Bennett
>Everything you've had then, you have now plus more. Retard.
Jayden Brown
>Implying it wasn't all a business then too If you have some issue with AAA, and who doesn't, then play more indie.
But for fucks sake have some self awareness.
Games aren't all BECOMING more formulaic and generic. You are just more aware of the formulas and genre conventions.
Oliver Scott
haha yeah Sup Forumsro society is exactly the same as it was 10 years ago, let's players haven't replaced saturday morning cartoons for every child in america, memes haven't replaced humor and culture, journalism isn't dead, an illiterate scam artist isn't the president, 9gag/memecenter/ifunny/funnyjunk haven't been invented, Sup Forums isn't full of literal malware instituted by admins and blatant unashamed redditors, and most importantly this generation's console library is even better than last gen's, which was better than the one before it
everything is exactly the same as it was and if you disagree you're dumb b/c i saved some gay quote about aging :D
Elijah Cooper
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Daniel Brown
Legitimate gaming culture now necessarily has to downscale, discord servers are currently the hot thing since they've replaced IRC, MSN, Skype and steam groups.
You're going to have to deal with young shits but if your memecraft is strong, you can meme on them and gain cred in the social group.
It's never going to be the same, but you're going to have to look forward, and perhaps focus on playing video games a bit more than just culture participation.
Cameron Perry
Most modern Sup Forums posters fall into the 15-17 bracket.
All those "There's actually people here whose first console was a PS3/360/Wii" jokes ended up coming true.
David Barnes
Pretty much yeah. What was your point?
Dominic Jenkins
>malware with emule
nope also malware became a thing when normies like you start using the web.
Jacob Ward
Nigger compare budgets then and now.
>Games aren't all BECOMING more formulaic and generic. Yeah, entire new fucking genres being created back then, having obvious "growing pains" and obviously figuring totally new things out, was all according to big company formulas. It's not even a strawman - this is what you are actually implying.
Gavin Jenkins
>ironically posts unironic truth kekkerino
Noah Richardson
>Most modern Sup Forums posters fall into the 15-17 bracket. People who started browsing Sup Forums in last 2 years are nu-Sup Forums (to differentiate them from neo-Sup Forums, which is ~4 years).
Gavin Rogers
You're a faggot.
Chase Perez
Nobody has answered OP though.
What IS the best way to simulate that early era of the internet, short of a time machine?
Camden Hernandez
kill all normies
Elijah Hernandez
What do you want? Pity?
Cry more you faggot, I'm sorry getting older is hard for you.
Or do you just want to bitch?
Some games were bad then, some games were bad now.
Techhology advanced, sure and so did budgets.
I'm not even saying that games and the way they are made hasn't changed.
All I am saying is that you refuse to accept that part of that shift is due to your own perception.
Nicholas Morgan
yes normies are the problem, not neet leeches
Mason Jackson
>Not just keeping in with retro groups >Not helping retro based communities by becoming the content creator for them that you dreamed of being when you were young Download doombuilder or learn how to use hammer son, old things are still niche as fuck.
Cooper Phillips
>Games aren't all BECOMING more formulaic and generic
AAA sure do because they are dictated over by big publishers that are not willing to take any risks with big franchises and/or big studios. There are weird wildcards like Doom or Siege sometimes, but I think these don't have such big budgets to begin with. And they are only considered strange in for a modern market because AAA games have been shit getting more and more generic after financial crisis. If you've said this shit in 2008, I'd agree. But today? Hell no. The only reason AAA tries to change somewhat recently is because of indie sales and modern esports market that push back the AAA sales
Gavin Bailey
Build a time machine and take me with you. Please, user.
Samuel Watson
>framerates Literally ffs why do games that are not 60fps still exist >playing dark souls >can't beat bell gargoyles >install dsfix for dem 60fps >beat first try >subsequently drop through the floor when sliding down a ladder
Liam Sullivan
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Dylan Roberts
So who makes the games if not big companies, are you fucking retarded? You think indie games are easy to make or something? There's a reason why they're all shitty glorified flash games you could find on newgrounds.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to make these games and how much money it costs?
You can't just fucking put an idea into a video game engine and suddenly you have a game, you realize that right?
You realize if you flop the game (which is most likely will because lol you're a fucking indie team of devs) you'll be in HUGE debt?
haha I wish games would just be AAA quality that have 50-100million budgets to spend on things to put into the game but actually made by a group of 4 people on their basement with a budget of "hope I don't die of starvation before it ends, woops lost my house xD" - you
Gavin Clark
i wish my hobbies didn't fall victim to manufacturization
by this i mean what you get nowadays is a sterile manufactured product lacking any soul
back 20 years ago you'd get something that was handcrafted and brimming with the hopes and dreams of the weghwekjafafyudkkhf
Connor Russell
>get told because you assumed indefensible position >acquire massive butthurt Try harder next time
Gavin Moore
All this truth is tasty.
Jonathan Martin
Everything was better when I was twelve dontchaknow.
Kevin Moore
>games should all be literal (figurative) feces made with 6 gorillion dollars each Oh and let's just forget the fact that all the best games were actually made by eastern yuros with 10% the budget of the giant ones, nerds in their basements and small teams with no fame.
Sebastian Evans
oooooo member when games were good?
Lucas Martinez
Everything is cheaper in eastern euro tho
a litre bottle of heineken was the equivalent of 70p in Poland
Tyler Myers
>The Whole World Changed >But not me Sure. My position is the indefensible one.
Charles Cooper
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Elijah Smith
>nu-Sup Forums mad that they weren't there for the golden age of vidya It's OK, Undertale is still a really good game.
Maybe if Trump kills vidya, there will be another golden age.
Jaxson Jones
fuck this hurts
Ryan Morales
>still mad that he has no arguments >actually defends my position by confirming that vidya has changed How long until you actually admit you're retarded in an attempt to prove me wrong?
Landon Wilson
>i-if i say they have no argument then i'll be wrong
That sums everything up about people like you.
Luis Carter
What you mean like cd projekt red? They're the ONLY company who has made it from small to large, even then witcher 2 had 10million budget.
What fucking "best" games other than the witcher series can you even argue? witcher 1 was shit, 2 was good and 3 was great.
Amazingly as each game got better the budget went up from10 million to fucking 60 million and their company was far bigger.
Wow, maybe there's something to that..Hmm? Almost like they were no longer a small company anymore maybe?
Jack Kelly
>I want a voodoo 2
The current generation really needs more CPU/GPU companies.
Carter Martinez
>has no argument >gets mad when that is pointed out >still doesn't get an argument