WTF happened to the actual nerds?

>Japan is being taken over by phone games
>The west keeps lashing at their audience for not sucking up their latest OPENWORLD; RETURN OF THE COPY AND PASTE SIDEQUEST
>Online multiplayer games are at an alltime high but have no real sense of progress and the social aspects are basicly gone
>Gaming is bigger then Hollywood now but you still get shunned for commiting to it
>Games can only be too hard but never too easy for the modern audience
>Well made games undersell while corporate "products" are overhyped

Where have you been when normalfags started to gangrape the only thing you're good at?

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i can't do anything about any of that stuff besides stick to my own small private group so why bother worrying about it?

well i didnt buy destiny or most of the other shit that got released this year.

were are the actual nerds?

playing games and shitposting about them to get other nerds mad. suck it nerd.

You're about 12 years late, user. They haven't "just" started to gangrape the medium, this has been going on for years.

They're making games and playing dwarf fortress.

They haven't gone anywhere tho. Nowdays they are called autists.

>only thing you're good at
Nice projection you got there bud.

Maybe you're not asked?

>WTF happened to the actual nerds?
The internet happened. Took a while but just like music and shit counter culture and non mainstream things are no longer as niche and defined as they used to be. Since the internet essentially gives access to everything to everyone. Anyone and everyone can and has found out just how much they are actually into shit that is not as mainstream and can be considered nerdy.

The stigma you are talking about comes from a generations who have not grown up with the internet being a thing that existed for at least the majority of their lives. Since they are older they tend to be in higher positions of more power and influence so they shit that out because to them that was how shit was for them growing up.

So even though gaymen is bigger than hollywood. The people up in hollywood running shit tend to be older as well as knowing that vidya is competition to their shit so the put it down and create a stigma through propaganda that normie nerds who like shallow shit eat up.]]

It really is a bit of a nuanced thing with many things here and there adding up to this shit but the biggest most influential points are old people and the internet really.

You're retarded.

>Gaming is bigger then Hollywood now but you still get shunned for commiting to it
If you spent all day watching shitty movies instead of playing shitty games people would look funny at you too.

So we either have to get rid of the internet or remove the old people. Got it.

Nerds play indie, niche and hardcore games. Like unpopular indie games, niche shit that no normie knows about and hardcore shit normies cry for being too hard.

Japs migrated to mobile because like all asians they're incredibly weak to public opinion and media manipulation. They follow what's popular instead of what's good.

Also pic related. By now we, the actual nerds, are a minority in our own hobby and we have no actual say in what goes on in it.

they became indie devs, but then indie devs have been taken over by the same shit

I've been playing games since the early 90s. I also played sports and had a social life throughout school. I think I've been chirped for liking games like 5 times in my whole life. I don't get why you guys act like some persecuted group. maybe it's just where you grew up or something.

Alright. Now where do i find proper discussion about these games? Is there no safe haven, far away from the eyes of filthy casuals?

I live in a small town in germany. I spend alot of time with anything gaming related and don't know shit about sports, politics or cars. People here thread us like junkies. You know. Becouse games are addicting.

I suppose /vg/ is decent for some games and then there's probably all those private discords where people talk about all the cool shit that is normies free.

>theres a schmup general

>indie
Ask any rock musician from the 00s how that pans out. They went through the same shit. You get a decade of relevancy before the entire industry crashes into a black hole overnight.

Indie games have been around for like more than 20 years though. It was just that Minecraft and other early big name indies launched the 'rise of indie' and we're currently at the top of the wave. It's probably gonna crash at some point but it's not going anywhere.

>Where have you been when normalfags started to gangrape the only thing you're good at?

I'm going to drop a truth bomb, right here:

YOU HAVE BEEN MADE OBSOLETE as a nerd/geek. You became obsolete in, I argue, in 2008 when COD4 and Iron Man dropped and youtube "celebrities" started to be taken seriously. Geek became cool, and even more marketable than it already was.

There's more but I'll let that sink in first.

Bigger markets, bigger profits. All else is secondary.

More please.

being a fucking social outcast still isn't in style guys.

We're still safe.

The definition changing slightly doesn't make anyone less repulsed to see you outdoors.

>in 2008 when COD4 and Iron Man dropped and youtube "celebrities" started to be taken seriously
thank you very much blametruth

Gr8 b8 m8

How is this fucking bait.

It's not like the nerds of the past suddenly became cool.

It just became trendy to be into stuff that nerds typically liked.

the """nerds""" you're complaining about aren't pimple faced otakus, they're physically attractive and socially competent which has literally ALWAYS been in style, but now it's a different flavor.

>LE NORNALFAGGSSS
>he's only good at one thing
Your own fault for doubling down on one thing.

(It's more to do with geek/nerd in general rather than in vidya specifically.)

Your value as a geek has dropped.

The influx of normies into geekdom have lowered your value as a geek. With the internet, wikipedia and youtube...there are no longer any "fake" geeks and all that geek knowledge and "experience" you have has been made redundant. So you're basically in the same playing field in the geek world as you are in the regular world.

You have been BTFO of your own niche.

>It just became trendy to be into stuff that nerds typically liked.

You are getting this all wrong.
Nerds like to be balls deep into the things they do. Modern videogames however get more and more shallow to play but bigger and bigger in budget.
Thats is becouse gaming is more popular now, so more people can get into it.
However some long time gamers are not going to enjoy these new watered down AAA games. Or the communitys that formed around them.

How you calling people ugly fits into this, i don't even want to know.

I think he's talking about nerds/geeks in general.

Gaming was a hidden treasure, it was filled with unadulterated content. You'd see great writing and horror, concepts and themes that rivalled those of good literature.
Then it got opened to normies, it became mass produced and profit took over everything.
Profit is a demon of corruption, leading and bein lead by an army known as "the mass"

>You'd see great writing and horror, concepts and themes that rivalled those of good literature.
>rivalled those of good literature.

You have to be out of your tiny fucking mind.

>ribbit spacing

I didn't say writing, I said concepts. Some games had very complex and interesting concepts. Now everything has been dumbed down and made simpler, reduced.

In many cases we've got better graphics but not a big improvement in gameplay. There are games from 2000 that had better animation that games made today and feel more fluent, with more style and uniqueness. It's hard to find htat nowadays, even in Indie games because everyone thinks he's capable of making a game and get money.

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Can't argue with that.

Now that any chance of ever standing out and with it any point for social interaction are gone, what do i do with all this free time? Guess its time to install dwarf fortress and play it until i die.

Play tabletop games. Normies will never take that from us.

Never really understood why spacing made you a redditor.

Lot of mediums have very complex/interesting concepts. Doesn't mean that any of it was implemented well, especially in gaming.

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>TFW none of my friends play tabletop games but I always wanted to.
C-can you do that online?

i think thats the point hes getting at

you can try playing online with your friends using roll20.net/

Never again.
I only met the most elitist tryhards that argue over the rules while trying to prove their point by carrying 900 pages of rulebooks with them, when its clear they always just want to rig the game in their favour. Too much debate, too much drama.

Want me to dovetail it into a very /r9k/ reeeee point?

playing retro

Keep them comming.

The thing I miss most about playing FPS online back in the day was joining a server and making friends you would play with every day.

Fucking matchmaking RUINED online games.

It's a very REEEEEE point:

All the nerdy girls who aren't super ugly are no longer within reach when geek turned mainstream in 2008.

There are legit super nerdy/dorky girls actually into the geek shit but are now out of your robot reach for 2 reasons.

1. Geek/Nerd cosplay has improved the looks of girls who would otherwise be "ugly". In the sense that cosplay over the years has taught basic hygiene, beauty treatments, make-up etc, so we get the ugly duckling situation.

2. Influx of normies (with actual geek knowledge) have lowered robots' value as a geek.

So basically, you would have to aim even lower than before.

Like I said, a very REEEEEEEEEEEEEE point.


(T b h, it's less a problem for you if you're under 25, something about a monoculture and we were basically born in between transition periods.)

This.
Shit like wouldn't fly nowadays because of the risk of offending normalfags.

No screeching from my end, i gave up on woman years ago.
I never met those gamegirls, but i do know what its like to see a comfy guild meltdown becouse our healer just HAD to invite his girlfriend.

Patrician example.
Also
>Someone put tons of work on all those gruesome death animations

I no longer play anything that isn't at least 10 years old. Saves money and earns quality.

>ywn make long-lasting friends through random servers again
I will never not miss those days

I never quite undetstood this entire "offended" thing.
TV, movies and even books get away with so much worse shit and people love it.
Angry moms and attention whores didn't stop them.

Books get away with a lot more than even games could.
But back then TV and movies were much more regulated than games; those could practically try out anything they wanted and get a pass. There wasn't such a big audience as there's now, and thus, there wasn't a need to appeal to as many people as possible. The bigger your audience is, the higher the chances of hurting someone's sensitivities are for whatever reason, and an offended person makes for a bad customer.

>noticed this in 2010
>started working on my PS2/old PC game library to prepare for the dark days ahead
>tfw everyone here complains about AAA open world copypaste trash and MOBAshit
>tfw only new games I buy now are mid-budget localisations and imports
>tfw the only popular game I've bought since 2010 was DaS
>tfw I spend all my vidya time on Freelancer and Timesplitters
Suck it, nerd. You should have seen the signs and gotten ready.

The actual nerds have been largely pushed out of the industry we helped create and sustain.

All things considered, will the actual nerds be able to get back what we lost after the normalfags get bored with our hobbies, or are they here to stay?

degeneration of a hobby

If they keep listening to people that have a bias against games anyway, they will destroy their own business, becouse the core audience will just get their fix elsewhere.
Just look at marvel comics.

>I never met those gamegirls

I did, well, overheard their conversation while I was waiting for a train. Bunch of girls (late teens-early 20s) talking about Overwatch in the most dorky and insufferable way.

Reminded me of the way I used to talk about videogames as a kid but they were reciprocated. Hell, they were talking about Overwatch on a in-depth level coming home from a fucking LAN party. A fucking LAN party. Back in the 90s I could barely get 2 friends to play Mega Bomberman on the same screen using a multitap.

I was fucking envious of them.

>inb4 overwatch hurrr

Fairly sure they plan on running it into the ground. We'll have to either pick up the pieces after the eventual crash or become refugees to /tg/.

I have all the old games i could want at my disposal. And stuff like souls and fighting games are still doing their thing well enough.
I'm looking for a light at the end of the tunnel.
there is none

They're here to stay and have superseded you.

You can't call them fake geeks because the distinction doesn't mean anything anymore.

You're basically in league with r9k robots now.

I'll be honest ignoring copy-paste AAA games and microtransactions, and the offended brigade and the offended at "the offended brigade", gaming is in a pretty good place ALL things considered.

It's just that we've lost our place, it was basically a little safe space for losers & loners.

Which is why I say we've been made obsolete.

They all flocked to Nintendo systems where games are actually games.

My nigger. I only play oldass games while I perfect my dev skills. For now I just do music, but I hope I can get into large projects someday.

Keep it vidya.
They can only buy so many annual 200$ special editions.
There are still devs out there that want to actually make good games. Sometimes stuck in the wrong office, but they are still out there.

Lol, there isn't a more normalfag system than the Switch.

what a guy

There is. It's called PlayStation 4

This is nothing new OP. It's been going on for the past 10-ish years.

>the Switch
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Nintendo ubisofted the new zelda, does dlc as amiibos and has made the fucking Wii.

Nintendo has abandoned us long ago. God is dead.

Not for much longer. Already not the case in japan (the only country that matters)

They're here to stay. Grab your tools and craft yourself a nice shelter. You're the dev now, nerd. No one else will be.

I play neverwinter nights with friends all nights and spend most of my day doing computer stuff

Why?

>Keep it vidya.

Is is vidya?

Corporations pushing intellectually bankrupt forms of entertainment intentionally infantised a generation of would-be normies so they'll buy branded merchandise until the day they die.

The answer is always (((obvious)))

>Nintendo ubisofted the new zelda, does dlc as amiibos and has made the fucking Wii.
You say that as if those were bad things. The Wii in particular held a plethora of top tier niche nerd games.

Here you go.

Ok that got a laugh out of me.

They made collecting retro games so much harder than it used to be.

So fucking this. I have no clue what these sheep see in UbiZelda and Mario 06-I mean Odyssey. Not to mention that awful, AWFUL Metroid 2 remake!

In other news, what does Sup Forums think of this picture? Too many people are bluepilled and can't see that there have been nothing but scams released this year.

The beaten and bloodied corpse of the Xeno series isn't a "need game".

But at what cost? The wii is to casuals what merkel is to refugees, it opened the floodgate!

>not going for increasingly obscure and esoteric shit to keep your value up
lol

>it opened the floodgate!
Pretty sure the PS1 and PS2 did that long before the Wii entered the picture.

Not all groups are the same user, and that school of players using the knowledge of the rules as some sort of ladder to status are also moving away, most games coming out now focus more on the story telling exp rather than in the dice rolling one. If you feel interested then it's not worthy giving up

>reddit spacing

Vidya was our nice lifelong childhood friend who hanged out with the wrong people and became trash, while you slowly tried not to notice and to enjoy things like you used to only to realise that person you loved is gone forever and the purity of those moments you shared will be lost in time.

>all these normalfags that flooded here, looking forward to the slime, sludge, and SLOP on display here
Ugh, makes me sick!

Anyone who likes neo-gaming is reddit, this topic is as Sup Forums as it gets.

Don't worry Sup Forums! I'm going to save VIDEOGAMES!

I can finish Super C without getting hit, does that count?

>new games now are essentially movies, if you feel interested then ""play"" them

How?

Why it feels so bad Sup Forums?