God-Tier Home Menus

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>woosh woosh soosh woosh

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muh childhoood, I miss it bros

>Changes to the one that came after
>Couldn't really see the background I had any more
Thanks Microsoft.

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>>376906630
>>376906338
>heavy nostalgia wave incoming

>>376906338
>>376906630
you fags must love windows vista as well

Why do modern menus feel so soulless?

>The "new" 360/bone menu is straight out of idiocracy

it's like pottery.

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the PS4 home menu is a disaster
who's idea was it to put your library of games at the very end of the row of options

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>>376906902
>you will never play halo 2 online ever again
>you will never fuck around with Tower of Power on Acsension all day ever again
>you will never play hide and seek on Ivory Tower ever again
>you will never play cat and mouse on Blood Gulch ever again
>you will never play lockout mlg all day long ever again
>you will never turn a corner and instant kill some scrub with a BXR ever again

It hurts to be reminded.

>>376906809
Yeah but you couldn't get all these annoying ad spaces and stupid menus to dig through to complete the most simple tasks.

>>376906338
I want it back

>>376907041
It's not as bad as the store
>Have to scroll through a list of letters to find the one you want to type in
What the fuck were they thinking?

>>376907041
>>376907223
>Original PS3 store is fine
>XMB is great
>They ruin both
Why?

>>376907041
So you aren't as disappointed when you open it.

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>>376907104
>You will never dick around on Zanzibar just chatting with friends while not playing seriously at all

IT STARTS WITH..

>>376907041
Looks like it was designed to be on a touchscreen device. Seems to be a trend on things that don't fucking have touch input.

>>376907223
I seem to recall the PS3 store for the EU being shit and either didn't even have a fucking demo section or it was hidden within a million menus.

>>376907335
Original store was not fine at all. The one before the current was, but their initial store was a mix of psp and browser based menus. Total shit.

>>376907104
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
TIED THE LEADER
GAINED THE LEAD
LOST THE LEAD
GAINED THE LEAD

>>376907691
I blame Microsoft and that ugly piece of shit Metro. Ever since that came out I've noticed a rise of ugly square touchscreen looking menus on non touch devices.

>>376906338
The blades were perfect. Everything that came after is garbage.

Sony should drop their horrid UI and rip them off.

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>>376906902
I just realized I haven't seen the online menu for Halo 2 in 8 years

>>376907335
because the "console gamer" aesthetics don't sell as well as "entertainment device" asstitdicks

it used to be about cool "this is the future" / "it's thinking" UI
now every console home screen is like looking at a screensaver

>>376907437
I bought a PS2 at a garage sale last year just so I could have that menu on my tv, I wish I had a decent library going for mine though.

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>OLD 360
>COULD WATCH NETFLIX WITH YOUR FRIENDS ONLINE
>YOUR AVATARS WILL SHOW UP IN THE THEATER
>YOUR AVATARS COULD FUCK AROUND DURING THE MOVIE
>FOR SOME REASON NETFLIX DECIDED TO GET RID OF THIS FEATURE

WHY WHY WHY THE FUCK ?!!?!?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uf8nP-W1bI

>>376907380
ONE THING

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>>376906902
>>376907104
in high school my bros and I played so much halo 2. fun times

>>376906965
vista has the nicest UI of any windows version
sidebar 4 lyf
i only stopped using it in 2014

>>376908703
Oh man I almost forgot about that feature, that shit was a lot of fun to watch The Boondocks with my friend.
Removing that and 1 vs 100 completely rendered the avatars useless.

>>376907437

that perfect mix of moody edgyness and sci-fi futurism, a bit of a relic of its time but i still love it

>those subtle graphical changes depending on your memory card
>that doomsday screen when the disc can't be read
>that loud as fuck noise when you turn on the console on that sends you into hyperspace and lets you know that you're about to play some VIDEO GAMES

>>376909141
i know and there was no point to remove it either

I really like the simplicity of the Nintendo UIs. At least the 6th and 7th gens ones, dunno about the Switch since I don't own one.

>>376909307
Too bad the they were so Jewish with ram on the WiiU that loading the menu takes 30 seconds.

I didn't have a Wii U but I'm very fond of the Wii and 3DS menus, especially the latter. Just the right amount of customization.

Xros Media Bar is the patrician taste.
It's literally perfect.

>>376906338
>Mod og Xbox
>Install xbmc
>Set theme to 360 blades

feels good man

>>376907104
>you will never

But you can, just use xlink kai, what I used before I got Live.

>>376909448
The 3DS UI improved so much. It was fucking garbage on release.

>>376909448
Yeah the 3DS has a pretty cool menu, I really like all the cool themes they've put up for sale on there including the Sega Dreamcast and Saturn themes (as well as Metal Gear Solid 3 with Snake Eater playing in the background).

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As much as I hated the avatar shit at first, it really grew on me with the swarm of avatar clothes and arcade games
>avatar drop
>avatar paintball
>avatar war
>mfw bought a bunch of tacticool clothes from cod and splinter cell just to play the avatar shooters to pretend I kept all my shit in my pouches and bags

>>376906338
Xbox HUEG

>>376909307
The switch's ui is extremely simplistic, but it's clean and nice
I like it quite a lot, the little clicky noises as you move through it are satisfying

>>376909629
Install CFW anon and you can have any background you want. plus free games

>>376909072
>sidebar 4 lyf

It could have been so much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y

>>376909448
>Hack 3DS
>Make my own theme

Worth it even just for that.

>>376908984
NOTHING WRONG WITH ME

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>>376906902
>before all the usernames were flooded with xX's and unnessisary capitalization

>>376909269
This scifi/cyberpunk aesthetic of early 00s vidya UIs will never be realized again. Chads will react too negatively.
>what the fuck is this spacey nerd shit? I just want to play some fucking Madden bro

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>>376907041
>Have PS4 Pro and 90Mbps internet
>PS4 Store still lags like fuck, everything is choppy and takes ages to load

>>376908703
>COULD WATCH NETFLIX WITH YOUR FRIENDS ONLINE

That feature was awful though, couldn't watch anything without being reminded I had no friends.

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>>376906902
>more than a decade later and most multiplayer games still don't have an online interface as serviceable as Halo 2/3

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>>376909651
>tfw pretty certain I spent $40 on avatar clothing
Never again

>>376909768
Wrong song nigger

>>376909782
That shit is what started the downfall of online gaming to me, it didn't really start happening until 2009 when MW2 came out.

>>376906338
The blades were max comfy.

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>>376906902
>>376906630
you are like a baby

watch this

>>376909970
CRAWLING

>>376910021
You weren't actually around in the mid-2000s when Myspace was at its peak, were you?

>>376906902
this but with the modern warfare 2
it's going to happen /v/

>>376907041
>demos and betas are permanently in your game library

So fucking annoying

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>>376906902
>>376907104
>/v/ nostalgic over babbies first online fps

>>376908703
360 also had a super comfy app where it had stuff like AVGN, GameTrailers, Pop-Fiction, etc all in a single thing. Was much comfier than watching it on PC. Then they removed it for some dumb reason.

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>>376910203
I don't remember it being that bad but then again I purposely avoided most social media until the late 2000's.
I've been posting here too long.

>>376910410
didn't gametrailers go out of buisness?

>>376910351
I didn't even have internet in my house until 2004

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>>376909926
>Avatar Props tho

Where the fuck are the avatars on the Bone anyways? The only time I see them are on gamerpics.

>>376910351
I suppose you were a world class player 13 years ago yeah?

>>376910689
They fucked the Avatars on the Bone, and you can only use certain clothes/props for gamerpics.

>>376909742
It feels weird barely anything drastic happened between Vista and 10 outside Ribbon and the Start Screen. That leap between XP and Vista was real huge when you compare it between Vista-to-7, 7-to-8 and 8-to-10.

>>376910689
I've been trying to figure that out too since trying out my friend's xbone, seems like a waste to hide them when they invested so much into avatar stuff and made a lot of money off of them.
Microsoft just can't get anything right.

>>376910351
>13 year old game
>babbies first FPS

>>376910497
They did but you can find them under the name Easy Allies now working out of Jones' garage. They do way too many fucking podcasts though and not enough actual shows.

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>>376906338
I always found the ps3 home menu so comfy. Ps4 feels so jumbled and cluttered I always have to look for like 5 minutes for what i wanna find.

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EVERYBODY STAND
THE FUCK
BACK

>>376910083
IN MY SKIN

>>376907104
>youll never get invited to custom games with race tracks scarab guns and needlers that shoot plasma nades

>>376910689
Avatar is on your profile settings etc. It also appears as an option when choosing your gamerpic.

>>376910886
>those stock-ass robot noises it would make periodically

Unf~

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-E_0uhPzaE

>>376910930
TIME MELTS AWAY IN THIS LIVING INFERNO

>>376910881
Yeah the PS3's menu looks so much nicer than the PS4, I miss that integration Sony had between the PS3 and PSP.

I really hate that they replaced those nice small shapes with those obnoxious microsoft boxes on the PS4 and that you can't make your own custom themes anymore.

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Its a fucking meme. Half the screenspace is taken up by nothing or Xbox Live ads

>>376911102
>you can't make your own custom themes anymore
Another reason for me to not buy a PS4.

>>376911102
ps3 home menu was simple and did what it had to do. Ps4 crams as much shit into one small space as it can

>>376911142
modern /v/ loves ads in their home menu

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>>376910886
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbI6I5adWQ

>>376911054
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiH5HUuJGw

The wii is such a comfy system, I'm still sad that Nintendo killed the online for it.
Playing Excite Truck and Warioware at my best friend's house a few months after launch was comfy as fuck.

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>>376911142
>Pay for Xbox Live
>The adverts for Xbox Live get replaced by other adverts

>>376911142
And yet it still looks nicer than anything made in the past 8 years

>>376907104
Google project cartographer.
plug in your pad and thank me in game.

>>376906902
>nostalgia
>for Halo
Fuck /v/ and fuck videogames.

>>376906630
>>376906902
>>376907437
>>376910886
>>376911254
>>376911379
why is it that this shit was so damn cool and neat, but the xbone and ps4 menu are like a slick, runny shit?

>>376909290
>>376909141
>>376908703
It wasn't Netflix, it was Microsoft that fucked it up because they "updated" their SDK for the 360 and for some reason this update broke Party and they didn't want to be bothered to fix it.

>>376911142
>The Xbox Live blade advertises Xbox Live

What next, does the game blade advertise the video game you just bought? How do they get away with this corporate shilling!?

>>376911564
Because exotic stuff aren't marketable anymore, everything needs to be sleek and pristine because reasons

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>>376911501
>stop liking what I don't

>>376911564
Because normies, not even kidding.
Everyone wanted their shit to look like their smartphone.

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>tfw most of my favorite online games were from Xbox OG

Fuck the guy that turned his devkit into a PC.

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>>376911564
Original Xbone dashboard was to bring it line with their single design vision like it was in Windows 8 at the time. It got so many complaints that they had to totally revamp it (since the original dash was a pain to do anything without issuing Kinect voice commands).

It's an improvement, but still doesn't feel as slick as some of the 360 dashes.

>>376911978
The most recent dash/guide is pretty good.

>>376911978
I want the minimalist fad to end. This looks so soulless.

>>376911564
>>376911686
>>376911818
You're literally complaining that one lame marketing trend have been overtaken by another lame marketing trend. The era of games being edgy and hardcore is gone, just like how that killed consoles being expensive toys.

>>376911887
Conker Live and Reloaded's multiplayer was so godly, it amazes me that they never ported it over to the 360 or the xbone.

>>376911501
Halo 2 came out 13 years ago, sperg.

>>376912074
I don't particularly like the way stuff looked circa 2007-2009 either, but the minimalism shit makes everything look the same these days.

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>>376912074
The previous dashboard was even worse, however it was at least functional. You could make your default homescreen the "pinned apps" tab. So I just pinned every app I ever used there in order of how often I used them.

>>376906630
I never played the OG xbox live, I didn't even know Xbox had online

>>376912047
Liar. It sucks. When I push the Xbox button I wan the home not a pop up menu

>>376912235
Why? You can access all of the home menu stuff from the guide anyway. The unfortunate loss was snapping, though.

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>>376912413
>trying to quickly snap an app without a kinect

>>376912228
I sometimes wonder if there are still people playing xbox live since its launch in 2002, I remember playing with a couple on Halo 3 years ago.

>>376912546

they shut the servers down a long time ago

>>376912546
What? The servers got shut down ages ago. Were you playing the PC version?

>>376912701
>Halo 3
>PC version

u wot m8

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>>376912546
Servers were switched off in 2010.

>>376912839
I'm assuming he was talking about Halo 1 and played it 3 years ago, since he's talking about the old Xbox Live.

>>376911054
I have a ton of memories involving Christmas and playing Umbrella Chronicles/RE4 when I see this menu.

>>376906338
fuck that was great

>>376912217
Holy shit I want this. Give me this dashboard Microsoft.

Fuck the current Xbone dashboard, where the fuck even is anything?

>>376912613
>>376912701
>>376912892
I mean playing Xbox Live since it was released on every platform to this day, sorry if that was worded weirdly.

>>376910021
Well when all good usernames are taken then people will do this.

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>>376913693
>Have 3 friends on Halo 2
>Called Bob Dole, Bob Do1e, and B0B DOLE
>They constantly narrate their actions and only refer to themselves in 3rd person

>>376910351
Sorry gramps.
Tell us about playing Populous with your college roommate over LAN or something.
Join right in.

>>376913693
I still manage to come up with original names on all my gaming accounts so I don't see why anyone else can't

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>>376910886
>could store mp3's on Hard Drive
>one of the radio stations in GTA:SA could be all of YOUR music

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>not one person posted the GC home menu

/v/ is fucking dead to me. This shit was so damn relaxing and simple yet a bit haunting, and when you put a disc in you'd get a little image and a description. Second only to the PS2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHJUJkbv-k

>>376914180
I really hate that they stopped doing this after 7th gen, can you even play CD's and save them on 8th gen consoles?

>tfw playing all of Nas's Illmatic during Crackdown

>>376913321
>hit the home button
>hit left on d-pad
>there's literally everything

I can go through that again, if you like.

>>376907041
>In a few years people will start getting nostalgic for fucking 2010s "culture" and stuff like PS4/WiiU/Xbone

I wonder how that's going to be spun.

>>376914307
I still have my gamecube hooked up just for that, shame that the main menu is laggy as fuck on Dolphin still.

>>376914341

I think you can rip CDs on the Xbox One, but no games make any use of that.

I think you can only play CDs on PS4 and that arrived in an update only a year ago.

>>376907041
I hate everything about the ps4's menu, the main menu, the app to access youtube, unable to remove apps, everything is organized in the worst possible way, can't order things my way, ps button menu is made worse from what it was a couple of months ago, literally everything from the dumpster fire that is the notifications menu, the settings menu, everything is hidden through multiple menus

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>>376914307
>No one posted the console that sold less than even the OG Xbox

I don't know why I still visit this piece of shit board, it's full of kids.

>>376914476
It'll get fixed eventually.

>>376914606
>being a consolewar faggot

Sorry you missed out on the comfy home menu anon.

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>>376914307
>>376906630
>>376907437


Jesus christ. Why do these menus have so much more character then what we have today?

What went wrong? No really, someone explain it to me.

>>376907437
look how simple that shit is and how effective it was compared to ps4's

>>376914794
After how the N64 did in Europe, I wasn't going to get hornswoggled again.

>>376914606
>i'm 6 years old and think summer hits are the best songs and best movies ever created by mankind

>>376914893
Everything has to be clean and neat, like social media websites.

>>376914606
>giving a shit about 6th gen sales
>having sales determine what older consoles you play
Imagine being this jaded, 6th gen was fantastic all around.

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>>376907437
>internal clock in my PS2 stopped and now the ring is just a single motionless light

>>376914937
That's weird. I'm from bongland and everyone I knew had an N64.

>>376907691
it was supposed to be used with the ps eye or what ever they called the motion sensor thing

>>376915205
Europe has been Sony turf since the PS1.
>388 games total
>85 Japan exclusive
>50 North America exclusive
>4 Europe exclusive

Compared to the PS1 having over 2400 games, no Nintendo censorship and meddling, games didn't have to have content gutted out to fit on the cartridge.

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>>376911887
>mfw he ripped all the parts out and laid them on carpet

>>376912093
Until that gamebreaking multiplayer glitch became common knowledge and the entire online population abandoned ship.

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>>376907104
>no more Assault Zanzibar
>no more Assault Headlong
>no more CTF Waterworks

>>376915428
I know all of this anon but in practice people in my area chose N64 over PS1.

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>>376912892
F

>>376910351
halo 1 came out 16 years ago

people who were born in 1998 are now 19 years old

>>376915634

>my anecdotal experience of my tiny circle of friends picking something must surely represent the buying habits of nearly 50 European nations

All my friends and classmates bought PS1's.

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>>376912892
I remember this. I wish I had known that staying online would have kept the servers up. I played on what was supposed to be the last night, and then went to bed thinking that multiplayer would be deactivated the next day.
Those boys were real heroes for holding on like they did.

>>376915559
I played the shit out of that game back in the day, are you talking about the pilot exploit to gain massive xp rank?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D5M3xkD7GU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc8GavznWCw

Probably my favorite ones

>>376916050
The glitch where you could get outside the level and still shoot players. Almost every map had this glitch and near the end, games just devolved into both teams rushing the point on the map where you could fall through.

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>Switch home screen is great
>PS4 home screen is good, I enjoy my koi fish
>Xbone home screen is a fucking confusing mess

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Early 2000s tech/culture actually feels really unique and interesting to me. It lasted for such a short time, and it was completely thrown out the window once smartphones and social media came on the scene. I wonder what things would be like now if they had been allowed to develop more organically.

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>>376912892
>14 guys held on to the last seconds of Halo 2 in a Halo Reach like last stand

Beautiful bastards.

>>376915790
>implying sales figures in different countries mattered when you was 10

My experience was different to yours. However GC's were and still are cheap as fuck so there's no real excuse not to have experienced it at least once since it's release.

>>376916135
Lmao I was a shitter who had mastered all of those. I would also do the sneaker disguise glitch where you can actually play as any class but look like/ have the hitboxes of a sneaker to the enemy team.

>>376916263
wii motherfucker!

>>376916135
>>376916312
>>376915559

such a shame the devs never fixed it or even gave us some DLC, with the excuse that they need their manhours to produce different games and possibly sequel.

Needless to say, never fucking happened.

>>376916371
Fair enough, it's just a shame you missed out on it dude.

>>376916263
Sales figures didn't matter, but remembering all the problems N64 Games had did. Games costing literally £10-20 more because of the cartridge didn't help.

>>376916225
Late 90s/Early 2000s web design is my favorite.

>>376916531
>Games costing literally £10-20 more because of the cartridge didn't help

Yeah that was pretty bullshit, I always bought second hand or borrowed from friends.

>>376913668
When I played 360 online several years ago, I would occasionally run into people who had very old account ages that would have run back into the OG Xbox days, but I'm not sure how many would still be playing today.

>>376916625
Site design back then felt a lot more optimized. There's so much bloated garbage in the background now every time you try to load a page, and it slows everything down.

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I don't care too much for the Vita's home screen, but I'm really fond of the music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2mvXaqpUxY

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>>376909007
>Head Of State

>flipping through shit on my 360 one day
>find a load of music on it
>it's all punk rock
>teenage me fucking loved punk rock
>have those songs playing no matter what game I was playing
>cruising around on test drive to this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxjxba2wge0
>turns out a bunch of other 360s had it as well

>>376916075
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLUn-YtI5rc

Forgot this ashley one.

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>meals for one

>>376907437
This one is good too

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>>376917560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw

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*Blocks your path*

>>376917813
>booted xp for the first time
>this plays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXzMBA9VU4

>>376911887
it was his he could do what he wanted with it

>>376918042
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>376918042
*wipe disc with banana peels*

>>376916225
Every websites nowadays are fucking slide shows with millions of useless javascript and css just for le sleek effects

>>376917560
>>376917813
>>376918083
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L51HFuFgOU4

>>376906338

Sad thing is, Xbox's menus will never be this good again, ever.

For two main reasons:

1. The current designers have a hard-on for Metro style interface, so it'll never stray too far from that design.

2. In that old blade interface there wasn't any ad space. Can't have a UI without jam packing it full of fucking ads, even if you pay for Xbox Gold.

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Get on my level faggots

>>376917560
Made this my wallpaper recently. Such a relaxing photo.

>>376910689
I had the taco that shit ice cream as my prop. Got a lot of laughs from friends

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>>376918681
I'm not ready for this nostalgia trip

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>>376918928

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>>376918083
>>376917813
>>376918681
>Still have an XP laptop from 2002
>Sometimes hook it up to my CRT TV, plug in a USB controller and just play ROMs and listen to late 90s/early '00s music on it

I find myself doing things like this more and more often now. Is this just autism or something else?

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>>376915608
>No CTF Waterworks


Anon... No. Pls.

>>376909878
To be fair, that's probably because the PS4 itself literally can't fucking handle downloads of any kind, at least in my experience it's not uncommon for a download to start and only be using a fifth of your actual speed

>>376919032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuY4FR-bmGY

PS3.

fuck me it reminds me of home. that's how comfy it was, so innovative, Japanese in a way, it was fucking GOOD

>>376914180
>>376914341
I'm pretty sure I'm one of five people in the world that would unironically burn music to disks to play and save on my 360, since I didn't have any flash drives or external HDDs to move shit

>>376919127
I do the same.

>>376915505
>>376911887
Hate him for ruining some sexy older hardware he could've made money off of, but if either of you think it would've helped with emulation like most people do, then I hate to break it to you but these devkits have had their HDDs scoured before, and none of them have ever helped advance the projects, so it's pretty safe to assume it literally wouldn't have helped anything.

He's still a fucking retard for making a shitty $300~ build in a case no one will recognize instead of selling it for $10K+
and just building a god-tier PC with thousands left to spend on other shit

>>376914893
Those menus catered to gamers.

Today´s menus cater to normies.

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>this thread

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>>376919809
>We're almost as far away from Windows 7's release, as 7 was from XP's release

>>376911054
God this takes me back. In the summer of 2008 I stayed with a friend for a week because my parents were out of town and I remember waking up at sunrise to fire up Double Dash and just hearing this shit

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>>376920257
Holy shit, is it already?

>>376914180
>>376914341
You wanna know what's bullshit?

NXE fucked streaming music from USB drives.

>pre nxe
>can stream an ungodly amount of music in a few seconds
>post nxe
>loading ten fucking songs takes 10 minutes because reasons

I was mad
I am still mad
I will forever remain mad

Fuck that update, fuck the avatars and fuck microshit.

>>376909742
That looks so fucking revolutionary

>>376920863
It's even worse on the Bone. You can't drag folders onto the "play to" application, so you have to add each individual song file to the playlist.

>>376920694
Win7 came out in 2009, XP in 2001.

>>376911065
I GET NO KICK FROM CHAMPAGNE

>>376912892
>Objective: Survive

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>>376906902
Why are you doing this to me

I want off this post 2007 ride

>>376921962
That Zone flash was one of my first exposures to rule 34 in the 2000s. I think the first was Zone's thing with Teen Titans and now I have a goth fetish.

T-Thanks.

>>376906338
The best menu for its time was an optional menu. Before having most of your library on the HD of the console itself was common, you just wanted that disc to start loading fucking ASAP.

>>376920257
>Microsoft will literally never make a decent OS again
>In 2020 when MS drops support many devs will cluelessly support 10 or onward

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>>376922785
Forgot my image.

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>>376922448
2006 felt like the last real year to me. 2007-now is one giant blur.

>>376918928
Did the same thing a couple days ago, actually.

>>376917560
I like that Windows XP just got an update for the first time in years because of that ransomware attack

>>376922448
>>376923194
I can deal with 2007-2011 and even 2012 to an extent but these last five years suck ass.

>>376918928
I like using different variations of it (like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park in the background)

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>>376923307
Windows POSReady 2009 is XP but supported to 2019, people have even been porting its security updates over to XP.

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>>376909007
>M-O-N-I-C-A

>>376919349
I must be the second one because I did that too until I got an iPod Classic in 2008

Fuck I wish Apple still made those, they had 160 GB worth of space (unlike iPhones for some reason) and had a nice interface.

>>376923373
>>376923194
It hasn't even begun. Buckle in, because 2020s are going to be even worse.

>>376907104
>>376906902

fuck. I'll never goof around in halo 2 custom maps with friends just chatting and glitching the game.

>>376911887
halo 2 was meh for me

>played splinter cell on the PS2 and loved it

>>376919809
I still use Windows 7 to this day, nothing can beat it for me.
I'll probably keep using it until 2020 as well at this rate even with the hacks going on, every modern UI looks like shit and I don't know how to use linux in the slightest.

>>376907041
Why did they get rid of the XMB?

>>376914307
Man I fucking loved this menu, glad you posted it

>>376923194
This. 2007 was such a shit year.

>birth of the smartphone with the first iPhone
>the year facebook went mainstream as opposed to just something for colleges
>the beginning of the subprime mortgage crisis (although a wider recession was avoided until 2008)
>the beginning of the 2008 election season, when Barack Obama first became a household name and the start of a more acrimonious political climate
>the virginia tech massacre, to date the biggest school shooting in US history
>Heath Ledger died
>The birth of sequelitis in hollywood, in part as a necessary response to the writer's strike that year, but began a long trend toward declining creativity with titles such as Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Carribean 3 being top grossers in 2007

Just such a shitty, garbage year. What I wouldn't give to go back to the late 90s or even the early 2000s.

>>376907104
I thought the collection on XBO had halo 2 and multiplayer?

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>>376917813
dont do this to me

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>>376924212
>2007
>Birth of the smartphone

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>>376919939
>1998
>the dreamcast came out almost 20 years ago
christ I really need to buy a new dreamcast one of these days but I have no idea how to tell if they're in good condition

>>376924212
Heath Ledger died in 08.
Smartphones are older than the iPhone, I think.
Sequelitis has been a Hollywood thing since the 90s atleast.

>>376924405
You know what I mean. The iPhone vastly popularized the concept of your mobile as an all-in one device for gaming and web browsing. Before 2007 people were still using flip phones for christ's sake. And the browsers were all terrible, with no flash player or mp4 support to speak of.

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>>376923373
Agreed, although I'm biased because my freshman year of college was 2011-2012 and was the last time I truly had fun.

2009 and 2010 were great for me but everything started going to shit around 2013.

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>>376918042
>hey anon. let's go play tekken 5
>sure!
>our faces when

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>>376924685

My phone in 2004 could already do all of that, just because normies started using it doesn't mean it was "born".

>>376907104
Good to know I'm not wasting my time making a Halo 2 multiplayer ripoff.

>>376924661
Sequelitis has gotten much worse just since 2010 than it ever was before. And even when hollywood did sequels in the aughts, they were up to a higher standard. Compare Nolan Batman, LOTR, Raimi Spiderman to the capeshit and scifi-shit we have today.

>>376924241
It does but the online multiplayer for MCC is fucked hard because 343i won't patch it like the lazy fucks they are.

Great now I've got this on repeat, it's sort of my early 2000's night theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjYPOAjH9s8

>>376911887
Is the og xbox still worth buying just for those games?

>>376924692
I can deal with 2013 to some degree, same with 2014. I think mainly because 2016 was such a shit year for me, probably worst of my life and I'm able to view year I originally thought were bad as better. Happened with 2011, I hated 2011 at first.
>>376924853
>the capeshit and scifi-shit we have today.
That's funny because the first good MCU films were in 2011 and 2012. The aughts had awful sequels, Alien Resurrection and Attack of the Clones come to mind.

>>376906338
The blades were shit you underage fuck

>>376925127
Alien Resurrection came out in 1997. And if you think Disney Starwars is better than the prequels you are only right by a hair. I actually think I prefered Attack of the Clones to Rogue One.

>>376925127
2016 was alright for me but mostly because I started getting my shit back on track, I think 2014 and 2015 were the worst years of my life though so that might have something to do with it.
I think it's mostly because I moved back home and gave up on my dreams for a long time, to the extent of pretty much becoming a NEET during 2015 and taking care of my dying dog back then. Fuck man I was not ready for college in the slightest.

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>>376910946
>>376906902

>tfw was funmodder
>never cheat
>fun mods always,
>race tracks, fun guns, terminal train that doesn't kill you, no barrier maps, king kong, donkey kong, flying hogs off host, special mods that work online in general, floating sniper towers on relic
>make my own mods too
>tfw made mods just for people to see their dreams happen

I took advantage of one existing modded map (floating sniper towers), and introduced a spin to it where people would spawn with just the plasma pistol which would fire laser barriers you could jump on. First one to the island won.

gonna miss it forever.


not even babbies first online fps, I started with starsiege tribes in 1998

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>>376912892
Nobody would ever do this with Halo 4 or Halo 5.

Video games simply have no soul nowadays.

>>376915759
you proved him right.

babies first fps.

>>376925450
>1997
My bad.
Haven't seen Rouge One but TFA was OK. I love how it was shot on film, it looks so good. One of John Boyega's cousins(?) lived in the same apartment as one of my cousins which is cool.
>>376925547
2015 was probably the best year in my life in retrospect until September started hanging out with some new friends I made at the start of the school year and it was cool.

>>376925547
Similar deal for me but its was 2013 instead
College can fucking suck

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>>376910351
>Muh Doom on a token ring network

Go to sleep gramps

>>376911172
But you can.

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>>376911054

God damn I loved the Wii's music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYOEyzBFYa4

>>376914307
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioWnoOjP9IA

>>376925450
>Forgetting all the crappy horror remakes and sequels of the 00s

>>376918503
>>376916985
You fucking joking or something? Have you forgot how bloated and complete dogshit websites were back then? I just love how clean and simple websites nowadays are, and back then they tried to make everything look realistic. There's a word for it, but I don't remember

>>376925657
Damn EFG it's been way too long my friend

>>376925801
Yeah I'm just bored with doing school work now, I'd rather just work full time and do voice acting work on the side if I can get into that.

>>376925703
Exactly, I can't think of one multiplayer game from the past 5 years I would want to see saved.

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>>376915170
>Always had the clock correct in my PS2 even with shit like daylight savings time back when I used to play it everyday
>Leave unplugged for years during the PS3 era
>When I plugged it back it's date was still correct down the to minute

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>>376920257
>San Andreas was set in 1992 and came out in 2004
>More time has passed since it's release date than the period it was set in

>>376916225
4chan didn't change much, aside from captchas and other web 2 features like auto-update

>>376906338
>>376906630

Back when the big brands actually catered to people who enjoy playing video games

>>376924764
Oh shit my brother had a phone with that OS (in the picture) on it

It was so incredibly bad

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>>376926467
>CJ would be 50 years old next year

>>376913693

>"good" usernames

the point of a username is that it's your online tag. when everyone is _XitZ_DANKX_ its fucking boring seeing that normie shit everywhere. there's nothing stopping you from making a unique name except your shitty imagination

>>376907104
Same shit, but with Quake on PC
God I miss 1996

>>376907104
You ever wonder why we're here?

"Something happened after 9/11, 2007, the attitude of the world is different now and all the magic is lost" -/v/ every nostalgia thread ever

>>376926713
Post more huge tits Marge

>>376910881
I like the little easter egg that no one knew of where if you physically swiped your entire controller in one direction really hard, the little particles in the background went in the corresponding direction

>>376906338
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9vhD9OlS4E

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>>376927062
True but I still like talking about it, I just like to hope there's a way we can get back on the path we set in the late 90's but I feel like the dotcom bubble bursting and the 2008 market crisis ruined a lot of things.

>>376925450
Then you have not seen one of those two films, at least not recently.

>>376927445
moar

>>376927445
That doesn't make any sense.

>>376928596
My brain doesn't work well on sundays

>>376907010
F L A T
D E S I G N

>>376907335
PSP XMB is perfect. One of the later firmware added some comic thing and other useless bullshit but you can just change the region in the recovery menu to debug and it's back to a clean XMB.

>>376919171
rest mode helps anon

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>>376913668

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>>376925703
>Video games simply have no soul nowadays.
What the fuck happened for things to get this bad?
I know it sure as shit isn't just rose-tinted goggles either, I can play games from about 15+ years ago that I have never played prior and can really feel the difference and really tell that the developers were passionate and not just pumping out a product.

>>376925657
Did you actually make that mod?
I remember playing it.

>>376914606
>MUH SALES

sonnyggers everyone

>>376929694
Developing costs a lot more nowadays and games have to appeal to as wide of an audience as possible to make profit. Also back in the day almost all games were released as finished products, and devs HAD to make sure things worked properly out of the box. They couldn't rely on shit like day-1 patches.

>>376929694
The rise of online gaming for consoles, DLC, and smaller third party developers collapsing and getting bought out by big companies like EA.

>>376929694
It doesn't help that this gen doesn't feel like some big leap in technology and games but instead a moderate upgrade to the PS3/360 era.

With the pro, scorpio, and swtich, it feels like this gen was a mistake and they wanted to force a new gen but didn't know exactly what do do new.

>>376907437
PPSSHHHAAARRRRRAAAAHHHOOOOOOOO

>>376930185
I feel the EDACT same way. There was no wow factor going from last gen to this gen. PS2 to PS3 literally blew my mind. I couldn't comprehend the new graphics and possibilities.

>>376910351
who is this cum commando

>>376930864
*exact
Woops.

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Simple, to the point, faster than the normal menu, and lets you load into your GC games without even touching a Wiimote. This is cheating considering you need to mod it in.

>>376930185
>>376930864
Precisely, there was nothing to be excited about for the next gen launch whereas the leap from 6th to 7th gen had the rise of HD gaming and the first real working motion control console.
People really take that leap for granted these days.

>>376930185
No kidding, this generation was a total joke.
There was only one or two games for each console I even gave a shit about, except maybe the Xboner which had none.
Definitely the worst console generation so far.

>>376931213
Couldn't have said it better

>>376911102
>>376911172
there's hundreds of custom themes, what are you talking about?
they're pretty good too

>>376931279
>Everything on Xbone being ported to PC
>Thin exclusives list getting thinner
>Xbone and PS4 are pretty much twins
>Both of them now have paid online
>Running games at blazing fast 20-30 fps out the gate
>Forcing everyone that bought your consoles to buy them again for a very small upgrade

>>376911380
nah it doesn't

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>No ones posted this yet
Why are the Wii U and Switch menus so damn boring? especially the Switch one. Every modern console just uses the Windows 8 tile look.

>>376917813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR0SHivjVnc

>mfw my Xfite profile still exists
>mfw xfire still exists

>>376931714
Nintendo menus since the 3ds start being shit then in a year or so end up being pretty cool.

Most nintendo OSs are half baked shit

>>376931667
I'm never falling for the console meme again.
What absolute anti-consumer cancer.

>>376932052
But it doesn't, it shut down last year.

>>376925124
THIS. PS1 was my jam

>>376923582
i feel it
>tfw delta force task force dagger
>shooting down the heli in the first mission so you ride it while it crashed

>>376919637
Why are normies so retarded?

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>>376932657

This is now a nostalgia thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asOdrj2-7kI

>>376919127
it's doing something you enjoy.

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>>376933120
ftfy

Most people use Android, not iOS

>>376917560
I use Bliss as the wallpaper for all my devices.

>>376932089
Why? They do exactly what they need to do without hogging system resources. They should have ads instead?

>>376907104
>>376907380
>>376911420
this, its fucking amazing. only problem is we need more people playing, and the MLG server needs to stop using motion tracker

>>376931714
But the Wii's UI was awful, you couldn't do anything without the sensor bar, couldn't navigate any menus or even start a fucking game with buttons or anything but a Wii remote. Want to play Smash but forgot your Wii remote? Tough shit faggot, can't start the game even though you've got four compatible controllers plugged into the console! No sensor bar? Hope you have some candles and a dark room!

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>tfw typing swear words into this guy's voice system

>>376934380
>No sensor bar? Hope you have some candles and a dark room!
Don't lose your shit then.

>>376934380
I always did find it weird that you couldn't just navigate the menus of the wii with a gamecube controller despite having the controller ports built right into it.

>>376934380
>need a dark room
> i dont know how inferred light works

>>376908116
sweet music

>>376914893
smartphones

>>376912217
I got my Xbone after they switched UIs, I would love this more than the fucking shit one they are using now.

The nostalgia in the thread is killing me. Why can't gaming go back to what it used to be?

What happened, was it ironically Xbox Live that brought us to this always connected, design-by-money approach to gaming that we have now?

>>376935627
This... PS2 and Xbox were just so amazing and now it's just not the same. Everything's too simple and boring and doesn't have the comfyness or usability. Fucking gaming is dying.

>>376935627
Online gaming for consoles was an inevitability but the introduction of paid lazy DLC and Day 1 patches made devs lazy.