>the gaming culture of the early 2000s is gone forever

The whole culture is gone forever

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Nothing can go as extreme and hardcore as this

>>384335612
>gaming culture is gone forever

Gaming is mainstream now. We lost. We were never accepted, we're now just the people who take gaming "a little too seriously".

>LOL XD HA HA N00B
good riddance

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>>384335612
>arcade culture is gone forever
>the early internet is gone forever
>gaming magazines are gone forever
>everything you loved is gone forever

>>384336289
>U MAD BRO? KEK

>gaming
>culture
loving every laugh

>>384336576
>arcade culture is gone forever
Not quite. It's changed, but that's still around.

>>384336289
Yeah, because git gud scrub rekt ez :^) and UGH SO TOXIC I CANT EVEN STOP BEING madeupbullshitPHOBIC is so much better.

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>>384336727
Arcade culture turned into speedrunning culture. And speedrunning culture turned into transexuals.

>>384336875
That's not what I mean. Arcade Culture exists in a new arcades, be them the semi-classic, but more cramped Japanese ones, or the the modern gaming zones that exist in various locations around Burgerland and Europe.

What niche could be equivalent to this nowdays?
What not as everyone nerd kids do nowdays?

>>384335612
Why are you trying to make me sad?

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>>384336576

>>384335612
Time constantly moves forward and shit changes. There's no point in lamenting it, considering there is nothing you can do to stop it.

>>384335612
>Not having a circle of 12 or something friends you LAN with every now and again
I feel pitty for people who can't experience this.

>>384335978
>LSD monitors

yeah no, we are talking about CRT times

>>384336576
Game Informer still exists, so magazines aren't gone quite yet

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>>384336576
>no more video stores

>>384337015
My best guess would be tabletop gaming/wargames because it's too complicated for normalfags to grasp

>>384337285
/tg/ is a bit of a mess these days because of normalfags.

>>384335612
Everything good is gone forever.

Except the love of a good woman. And sometimes I'm not even sure about that.

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>>384337241

>>384337380
What are the normalfags doing to my traditional games?

>>384336727
nah
every single arcade machine disappeared in my country after like 2005
>tfw will never play MK4 on an arcade with my bro ever again

>Tried to have a thread about early 2000s appreciation and how certain aspects of it were better
>Acknowledged that certain aspects of modern gaming are better, but it's fun to think about how things would be if certain facets were still commonplace
>A bunch of kids start flooding the thread with NUH UH NOSTALGIA OLDFAG!
>Realize that they don't get it because they weren't there.

Part of me is kind of glad that they don't get to experience it. But I'm still sad that:
>Gaming magazines are dead
>LAN parties are dead
>Blockbuster is dead
>Studios that were willing to take unique business ventures that result in "hidden gems" are dead
>video games that are just games and not cinematic cut-scene demonstration devices are dead
>JRPGs are dead
>MMOs are dead
>That one brief period where developers didn't give a fuck about who they offended so long as their vision was put out there is dead

I just contacted a guy on craigslist about buying a box of old gaming magazines he had in his attic. He says there are hundreds of them, and he just wants 16 bucks for it. Can't wait to see what's inside.

>>384335612
Eastern Europe still pretty much looks like this, though.

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>>384336289
>mfw I pwned the fuck out of you

>>384335704
yeah but we only really care about games though

>>384337394
you're not sure she's a she? well, she's whatever she claims she is shitlord.

>>384337645
You could always hunt one down to buy.

>>384337227
>Game Informer
Game Informer is only a shell of it's former self.

Gaming magazines used to be "punk rock", in that they were just written by some guys that had a passion for it. They didn't have thier hands in the pockets of the industry.

Take Tips & Tricks, for example.

>>384336576
how about you stop hinging your identity on superficial things? hmm?

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Remember the 0-10 scale Steam rating you had depending on the hours you played?

>>384337652
>LAN parties are dead
I don't think this is completely true
me and buddies from work just all set up our PCs in my house and played warcraft 3, CS and some playerknowns battlegrounds. was a lot of fun

Problem is that you guys talk about missing lan parties but never try to set one up

>>384336576
Read books and get into literature, the backlog is infinite and the culture is alive and well all around the world, shit's not going away anytime soon barring WW3 doesn't happen, and even then you can store more books than you'll ever read on any modern phone/tablet/computer/etc.

>>384337828
what in that post is even tangentially related to identity?

>>384337992

Reading is for nerds.

>>384337841
is there a way I can get my steam to look like this? like a skin or something?

>>384338039
Videogames are for autistic nerds.

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>>384337719
>can get blacklisted and banned for "racist" mansplaining
>industry infiltrated by people who hate games and overly guilty whites
>no creativity
>reboots, clones, and cash grabs everywhere
>fucking gambling as a game mechanic
>paying for mods will become a thing
>PC is a literal shovelware platform

I could go on

How did it come to this?

>>384335612
there's still lan parties
find your local computer oriented hobby meetups

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Favorite old memes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wnE4vF9CQ4

>>384338040
http://steamskins.org/old-flat-green-skin/

Don't know if its kept up to date to include the UI changes of the new steam though.

>>384338076

NO U

>>384335612
>Gaming culture of 2000s is dead
>3-4 years ago I was playing CS 1 in my classroom instead of doing school work with my classmates in HS.
Nah, you got another 3 more years until its gone.

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>>384338086
>How did it come to this?

ITT newfags pretending to be le ebin oldfags getting dem nostalgia feelz

>>384338118
thanks, that'll do

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>>384336289
Yes instead we now have

>KEK FUCKING BADDIE GET REKT KID
>FUCKING AUTISM CANCER RETARD FAGGOT BITCH NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER CUNT SPIC WETBACK ZIPPERHEAD LIBKEK REPUBLITARD TRUMPLARF HITLERY COCKSUCKER DONT MISGENDER ME

What

A

Fucking

Improvement

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>>384338086
>mansplaining and manspreading are things now

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>>384338086
Reminds me of an old Hunter S. Thompson quote.

>We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.

>So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -
that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

The peak is long gone and the wave has long since rolled back.

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>>384337209
>LSD monitors
Trippy

>>384338268
In a way I feel sorry for newfags, they never got to experience those days and they just wish they could've been there to ride the wave. I know I felt that way about early '90s gaming, I was there for the tail end of that phase and didn't get enough time to really enjoy it before it died out.

>>384338268
Not everyone here is underage or only just got into gaming in the 2010s, lurk more.

>>384335612
>implying me and my buddies don't pull up tables and chairs in the same room and play league into the wee hours in the morning

>>384336289
yeah and now we have lenny face keybinds and kek i le cuck you

>>384336875
>animal gore
go fuck yourself

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>you'll never get a playstation demo disc from playstation magazine anymore

>>384338276
hey i called people niggers online early 2000s don't be a faggot

>>384338453
>tfw you moved out of state from your gaming buds

>>384338546
I loved those. Lots of interesting games I'd never try otherwise like Intelligent Qube or Devil Dice.

>>384338546
>you will never ask your mum to pick one up for you when she goes shopping
>you will never eat food she brought back while playing those demos

Remember playing the shit out of the Okami demo

>>384335612
>tfw the MP5 will never appear in FPS games ever again

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>>384337841
an image like this shouldn't hurt this much

>>384338546
>you will never steal the demo discs out of the packaging at the supermarket and shove them down your pants for later use

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>Club Penguin just died this year
How long until Habbo dies? Who's playing it these days?

>>384337992
>reading culture
There is none bar places like /lit/ which arr overrun with marxist pseudointelectuals who argue and streiner post all day. You may as well browse /pol/

>>384338546
You'll never browse blockbuster shelves for games to play over the weekend with some friends.

>>384338596
yes but it's just flavor for the example

>>384338086
Remember all those faggots that kept saying just ignore things and they'll go away. /v/ should have taken note from /a/ and unleashed unspeakable levels of autism and hate instead.

It's not all gone
>fighting games are thriving even with Capcom fucking things up
>the only thing really threatening them is Smashfags forcing themselves in

>>384336875
I never actually thought I'd feel bad for a furry toy.

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>Tons of classic flashes were taken down for "racist" and "homophobic" content
How long until they shut down?

>>384338086
not buying it. things have hardly changed. you're just looking for a "cause" to be indignant about and self righteous. besides, if you truly think so little of these people, why do you give them so much attention? fuck these anita threads. just ignore it.

>>384339392
give some examples, this sounds unbelievable

>>384339392
Or maybe they were taken down for being shit.

>>384338546
FEELS THREAD? FEELS THREAD.

TIME TO CRY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SwQr1Xsg9E

>>384338016
well, see anon, when you get attached to things, they become a part of your identity, and when those things go away, you feel as though you've lost a part of this non existent identity. hence why you're so depressed about all this dumb shit not being around anymore.
you know what I don't miss? the video store never having what I want.

please someone invent a time machine, why is time so cruel

>>384339376
Fighting games were one of the major genres back in the 90s. Now they're niche games.

>>384339392
>http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/605243
maybe the low quality ones

>>384339313
That just gives them fodder to play victim. Zoe Quinn is now a respected voice in the industry. Naughty Dog said she inspired Nadine in Uncharted 4. Its all about making things as inoffensive as possible now. Look at TF2's humor and compare it to Overwatch.

>2000's nostalgia

Jesus Christ, have we already reached this point? I think I'm going to be sick at my stomach

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You're getting older.

All the things you loved are stuck in the past.

There's nothing you can do about it.

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>it's no longer 2004
>you won't come home from 8th grade on a warm May afternoon anticipating graduation, coasting through the rest of the year
>you won't boot up your family Pentium IV PC with a light post-school snack and log into Ragnarok online with your close friends who you will hang out with in person on weekends
>you won't ever anticipate something as momentous as Halo 2 ever again
>you won't ever feel the freedom and optimism that late childhood brought ever again

kill me

>>384339683
That time when picking an image to jerk off to was a commitment.

>>384339643
There's still several mainstream fighters and niche titles like Guilty Gear and Blazblue are more popular now than ever before, just because most normalfags prefer garbage like Overwatch and LoL doesn't mean the genre isn't succeeding.
>>384339728
How fucking new are you? That stuff was funny to us back then because the rest of the internet hadn't beaten it into the ground yet, that's not a difficult concept to grasp you retarded reddit fuck.

>>384339802
>IT'S NO LONGER 1999
>YOU WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE ULTIMA ONLINE WITH YOUR BUDDIES ON A PENTIUM PC EVER AGAIN
fuuuuuauuaaaarkkk

i miss ultima online

i miss UO so much

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>>384338695
that hurts

>>384339724
I'm nearly 30 and have fond memories of LAN parties back in 2001-2003. Are you saying 14 to 16 years isn't long enough to have legitimate nostalgia?

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>>384338105
I miss EFG

>>384335978
Why is the image gone?

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>You'll never host another game on the MSN Gaming Zone.

>>384339457
lol

good. fuck video games and fuck you. kill yourself.

>>384339987

Killing myself right now.

>>384338086
t.got banned for saying nigger in club penguin

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>>384339852
>it's wasn't popular yet so it's okay

lmaoing at ur life

>>384339643
I haven't played a fighting game since Tekken 3 came out.

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>Wild West Internet is over
>early 4chan culture is over
>90s are over
>everything sucks now

>>384339802
>boot up your family Pentium IV PC with a light post-school snack and log into Ragnarok online
I was 17 by that time. Those fucking memories. All sitting in Prontera doing nothing but chatting.

>>384339392
I'm surprised they haven't yet

>>384337408
Was that futa in the middle?

>>384337015
P&P, tabletop and wargames are still mostly normalfag free

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>>384339925
Do you really want another wave of "real 2000's kids remember this"? Like the 90's kid shit wasn't bad enough

Goodbye.

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>>384338105
george zimmer copypastas

What ya'll need to realize is that there is a whole demographic of people ABSOLUTELY NOSTALGIC for 2007-onward gaming.
Think about it this way, if you're 22 right now, then 2005 you were in 5th grade, prime gaming years.


In five years almost no one on /v/ will remember having an actual LAN party.


I work at a retro games store (sell from NES to Xbone/PS4) and once asked a kid (probably about 10) if he likes "old retro games." He said yeah, I asked which kind, he said "the first Borderlands is my favorite old game"

>>384340108
No, but nor do I care. Let the kids have their fun.

>>384339929
Fuck. Some anons had great imagination and made great things with this meme.

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>>384340232
>the first Borderlands is my favorite old game

>>384338105
Shit, didn't expect a LUEshi.

>>384337828
>how about you stop hinging your identity on superficial things
like nearly everyone does?

>>384339672

Yes but at least /a/ mostly seems like the same board as it was circa 2005.

You can't say nigger on /v/ without some paid shill telling you to go back to /pol/ with racism. Like nigger what? Where do you think you are?

>>384339392
Name one.

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>>384340456
/a/ has really changed in the past year or two.
Nothing but generals as far as the eye can see, and anything else usually doesn't get many posts.

>>384337964
The thing that makes people think LAN is dead is Starcraft 2 not including it, even when tournaments have been fucked by the lack of LAN

>>384338102
local computer oriented hobby meetups? what?

I still have a couple of hundred of pc gamer magazine demo discs stored in my closet. Should really look through them and find some good old stuff.

>>384340045
kys

>>384338443
Most of you are. Lurk moar.

>>384340524
Now that you mention it, there does seem to be an awful lot of threads for things I don't even think are airing in the current season like Symphogear & Precure.

>>384340524

I suppose in that regard but the board culture still seems intact to me. You mention anything related to real women there and no boy will they jump on you.

I agree with you about the generals though.

>>384340524
generals destroy any board except /vg/
/pol/
/a/
/tv/

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>Realise i've been browsing 4chan for over 10 years

>The 3chan golden years have been over for nearly that long

>Memes have degraded into normie culture and I can't get away with calling someone a nigger or a faggot on the internet anymore
>How the fuck has it come to this?

>Posting in a nostalgia thread.

>'No...it's the children who are wrong.'

>>384340618
cut em up and upload them somewhere if no one else has

stop the helicopter oppresion by microsoft
https://www.change.org/p/phil-spencer-add-attack-helicopter-as-a-gender-for-x-box-avatar-update-2017

>>384335612
who fucking cares, shut up faggot

>>384339529
>he doesn't remember how newgrounds works

>Have a bunch of old EGM magazines from 2008
>even posted it on craigslist for free
>no one wants it

I guess no one is quite nostalgic for that year yet

>>384340747
>>'No...it's the children who are wrong.'
I don't think that's a fair assesment, it's more like that now the internet is dominated by corporations like facebook and google so smaller websites aren't needed anymore

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>>384340232
>the first Borderlands is my favorite old game

>>384338546
>tfw I'll never get another copy of motherfucking Age of Empires for free out of a cereal box again

>>384340796
This ironic anti-SJW strawman stuff is cancer as well though.

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>>384336289

DUUUUUST IN THE WIIIIIIND

>>384340829
From what I remember the writing probably wasn't that great anyway, not that I had the brain power to judge it back then, though.

>>384339392
don't worry, all those real important "kill britney spears" flashes are still up.

>>384340456
>Where do you think you are?
I ask the same thing every time some newfag cries about degeneracy or anime on 4chan.

>>384339802
s-stop

>>384340989
I don't even remember AOE being in cereal boxes, just various board game vidya plus Lego Creator, Backyard Baseball, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, RollerCoaster Tycoon

>>384340232
So? If he's 10 now then Borderlands came out when he was like 2. What do you expect his definition of a "retro" game to be? I was 10 in '97 and it's not as if I knew much about games older than me at that time. Are we just mad at kids for being kids now?

>>384340456
Blame the retards who shit up every thread with their political agenda and won't allow anybody to discuss games they deem "SJW propaganda" because a black person/woman/etc. is in it.

>>384340232
IF YOU'RE 22 RIGHT NOW YOU'RE AN UNDERAGED FAGGOT
IF YOU'RE 22 RIGHT NOW YOU WERE UNDERAGED WHEN DARK SOULS CAME OUT

LEAVE YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS. LEAVE!!!!

>>384340335
>>384340963
Most young customers don't realize that Oblivion is Elder Scrolls IV. I've heard kids ask about Skyrim 2 coming out.
12 year olds playing GTA V were only 7 when GTA IV came out. They were 6 when Modern Warfare 1 came out.

They were 4 when the 360 launched.

>>384341195
>developers shove their political agendas in games
>people retaliate
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

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>You will never look for a 2v2 noobs or boobs BGH again on old battlenet.

>>384339392
why would they kill themselves faster

>>384341261
You care way too much about a stupid internet video games board.

>>384341275
Speaking of GTA, it's sad to see that 3 years after 3, we got two more GTAs that were both bigger games, while 4 years after V we just get DLC, DLC, and DLC.

>>384341183
>>384341261
Not what I'm saying at all. I'm just trying to get /v/ to realize that years have gone by, and the way that people define "golden years" will move with it. What many consider 'recent', a key gaming demographic considers 'retro'. Things are different, suck it the fuck up and move on.
OP called early 2000s the golden years. I'm sure many would argue it was actually the mid-90s, and I'm sure in ten years we'll see arguments that the days of Xbox Live on 360 were the golden years.

tl;dr fuck your opinion the world moves on

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>>384335612
>you will never play halo 3 big team battle on sandtrap ever again
why even live?

>>384335612
>the bullshitting me and my friends did is not happening and it's scary to me

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>>384341275

>>384340613
check up any meetups organizing site
programmers meetup? lan party
network security/hacking meetup? lan party
"maker" meetup? lan party, or drunk indoor go karting while waiting for things to finish 3d printing

any nerdy hobby with computers being a large part of them is going to have a meetup, and it's going to have a lan party after the meetup

>>384341425
there is no sacred place in this god fucking shithole the internet has become.

nowhere to escape into. nowhere without underaged faggots, normies, or both.

smartphones were a fucking mistake.

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>>384335612
old things are gone to be replaced with new things.
Be flexible and accept new things or else become irrelevant and get derezzed

>>384341425
I just want you to know that people like me understand what the fuck you're saying. Nostalgia shifts with the times.

The fact that people can't accept that is my biggest problem with /v/.

Someone will be nostalgic over a fucking ps4 game in no too long from now. Accept it.

I get what you're saying.

>>384340747
>mfw I also have been here since 2007
>remember trolling this board and seeing the candle jack posts

>>384341391
you sound just like a normalfag

>>384341295
>putting women and/or black people in prominent roles is a "political agenda"

I bet you'd complain about Metroid being SJW pandering if it came out today.

>>384341576
The iPad was an even bigger mistake, at least the iPhone didn't kill Flash and laptops

>>384338389
Being born earlier isn't an achievement. Just as those before you reminisced over older things they used to do, the future adults will reminisce over minecraft or some other shit. You're not alone in that "everything was good when I was young". Schtick. I'm tired of hearing the same things for thousands of years

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>>384341195
>Blame the retards who shit up every thread with their political agenda
Blame the writers who shit up every game and established media by inserting their ideological cancer into it

>>384341651
>said candlejack
>finished sentence
Fucking newfags, learn how it wor

>>384337227
Game Informer is one of the greatest blights on the video game industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pss0hJkmLBA

>>384341547
Oh ok I got it. Do you use any specific meetup sites? I figured everyone just uses Facebook to plan meetups (I'm not on Facebook)

>I don't care if it's cancer, because I had FUN reeeee shitlord FUN reeee diversity reee more female gamers reeee you must be fun at parties reeee toxic reeeee vitriol reeee madeuposexual reee you're too serious reeeee you're too elitist
modern gaming "culture" in a nutshell

>>384341657
A word without meaning.

>>384341812
you must be fun at parties

>>384341812
more like modern /v/ in a nutshell

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>>384341702
>I'm tired of hearing the same things for thousands of years

Oh shit guys I think we have a highlander in this thread.

Why did MMOs die?

Being born earlier isn't an achievement. Just get that.

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>>384341275

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I can't decide which I one I miss more: radical 90s culture or early 00s internet culture. Of course technology was clunky and slow back then, browsing internet was a chore, but I still miss all that. Not the technology, but the feeling of mystery and adventure.

Things really did change around 2007; modern military shooters became the standard, being a "nurrrrddd xD" was acceptable, social media changing communication forever etc.

>>384341702
>I'm tired of hearing the same things for thousands of years
why the flying fuck are you still on /v/?

>>384341845
I can't imagine you'd be much fun at parties either. Parroting old insults when you haven't got an argument doesn't really make for a fun time.

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Fuck normies.

>>384341963
Is it literally impossible for you people to reminisce and not talk shit about shit that came after your time?

At all?

>>384341730
So you are a retards who shit up every thread with his political agenda?

>>384341963
Thing really really changed in 2010
>ipad
>reddit
>mlp
>MW2 started various terrible trends in PC games

>>384341963
It's all because of the rise of the smartphone in around 2007, allowing all normalfags to easily access the internet.

>>384341956
>>384341702
Nobody is bragging about being born or cares about some disphit kids getting nostalgic over newer shit. The problem is when people try to participate in culture they don't understand and emulate the past rather than build toward a future.

>>384342032
>normie
Kill yourself, normalfag.

>>384342032
>it will never be 2007 again
why even live?

>>384341576
>normies
Just imagine an old ass man nearing 30 saying this. It's laughable. Please just kill yourself like your ilk always say they will, so I don't have to read your bullshit outside /r9k/.

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>>384341275
>Elder Scrolls VI: ObliVIon
>Skyrim 2

Which one will Todd do first?

>>384341702
>fucking your own grandchildren
just end it all already

>>384341275
A 12 year old now was 2 when MW1 came out.

>>384342060
>writers can shit up games with political agendas
>/v/ isn't allowed to talk about political agendas in those games

choose one.

>>384342071
I should also mention this is when TF2 became a microtransaction gambling fuckfest and Valve focused on that kind of shit from then on

>>384342032
>the cake is a lie is the first major meme where the origin is lost to most who use it

Is this a fuckin cringe thread? Who fuckin wrote this? Do they have no idea about the internet?

>>384335612
The culture in general is dead.

>>384341963
Around the mid 00s was the sweet spot.

>>384341804
meetup.com is a pretty good index, it doesn't have everything but it has a lot
you can search facebook probably without having an account, you won't need facebook to participate though

you're probably going to wind up directed to the meetup organizer's website which will have the meetup schedule, location, and all that
they're pretty much always really welcoming to outsiders

>>384342092

>>384340025

>>384342075
The people participating in culture they don't understand is you. The times have changed and you haven't. How fucking ironic.

>>384342048
There are many things I enjoy in modern times such as: HD videos, streaming, qt grills uploading pictures of themselves to instagram for me to fap etc.

It's not all shit, but it sure as hell is not what it used to be. I take IRC over spyware tier social media any day, any year.

>>384342075
Real nigga shit right here

>>384341963
>Things really did change around 2007

The year "everything changed" is relative to each person. You really can't see that it's you who changed? You got older, that's all.

>>384342092
>when a normie makes a wrong turn and ends up in 4chan instead of facebook

Fuck off.

>>384336289
>when you get pwn'd 15 years ago and still mad

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>>384337209
>LSD monitors

>>384342331
see
>>384342079

>>384342270
Yes it isn't what it used to be. The things you mentioned are improvements to everything we consume. Media. Young women showing themselves off in these improved resolutions. On fucking demand through streaming.

It sure is hell not what it used to be. Because it's FUCKING BETTER.

Improved speeds means I can consume tv shows and hot ass easier than I ever could before. What the fuck was better back then? Just admit it's a bunch of nostalgic bullshit.

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>>384342293
No, you are wrong. Internet literally changed in 2007. No, this is not old man rambling, it is the literal physical reality.

>>384341012
FUCK OFF

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>>384340456
>/a/ mostly seems like the same board as it was circa 2005
are you high?

>>384339802
>2004
>8th grade

You need to be 18 to post here

wait... FUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK

>>384342150
I choose: retards that get butthurt about video game not just having white guys in it go shitpost somewhere else.

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>>384338086
>Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
>Every night, I can feel my leg...
>and my arm... even my fingers.
>The body I've lost...
>the comrades I've lost...
>won't stop hurting...
>It's like they're all still there.
>You feel it, too, don't you?
>I'm gonna make them give back our past.

>>384342259
What's ironic is that you completely failed to understand what that post is saying. YOU are the one trying to fit in a culture you don't understand and excusing it with "Times have changed grandpa!" emptry rhetoric.

Modern 4chan is a perfect example. It used to be, if you weren't sure of how something worked with regards to 4chan culture (And yes, culture is more than 4AM threads and the like) you didn't post regarding it until you found out. Even anonymously, on the Internet, it was better to shut up and be thought a fool than to post something and remove all doubt. Furthermore. If people had no interest in a thread or didn't like its content, they didn't post. They ignored it and if necessary reported it. There was no hide function, no filtering for tripfags who annoyed you, nothing like that. The only "filter" was having enough fucking restraint to reply to a blatantly obvious troll.

Now? Why wait until you're on the same page as everyone else when you can either ask and have someone spoonfeed you, or you can look up everything you need to know about the subject on some "Internet Culture Shit Aggregator" like KYM, Encyclopedia Dramatica, etc. This board turned to shit precisely because it got too big and people tried to participate in culture they didn't understand and emulate the past rather than build toward a future.

>>384341434
We could organize a /v/ game. I never played Halo 3 but I can pick up a copy and join.

>>384341403
Multiplayer DLC, to boot, if I'm not mistaken. Can't even give us an actual expansion.

>>384342418
So you're saying you're the exception to the rule? Everytime a dude gets older he laments the past even if it was objectively worse.

Statements always include some version of "it was worst in this way BUT". Always a but. Give it up.

>>384342331
4chan will never be your home again. How does that make you feel, /r9k/? You still have wizardchan, so go fuck off there, loser.

30 now, i remember begin a kid and having a psx and buying a new game every friday and reading 2 different magazines. there was constant releases, good, original games, all different genres, stuff to get hyped for in between the huge franchises every year like tomb raider or final fantasy. Reading magazines actually made sense to have an idea what to get because there was so much stuff and so many hidden gems

nowadays it's a few AAA a year, a bunch of indie crap, that's it. People are happy playing the same multiplayer for a year until the next one comes out, single games dont exist anymore outside AAA or indie. I dont even see the point of having consoles anymore, I just play the few crpgs that come out here and there

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>>384338105

>>384342528
The. Times. Have. Changed.

Young people aren't wrong because they don't like what you like.

How is this a difficult concept to you?

>>384338695
fuck... all these feelings coming back...

>IT'S REALLY YOU WHO'S CHANGED THE INTERNET/VIDEO GAMES/4CHAN IS THE SAME AS ITS EVER BEEN YOU JUST GOT OLDER THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Do you honestly think you're convincing anyone of this blatant lie?

>>384342606
>reading comprehension

/v/, where people are proud of themselves for being an utter newfag.
Reminder that while being older isn't an accomplishment, the fact that I was jacking it to questionable porn when you were busy sucking your single mother's teats is.
>b-but it's BETTER now
How about I augment your asshole with a ketchup dispenser ? That's BETTER isn't it ?

>>384342565
>original games

Like the 400th racing game, the 214th platform game, the 135th fighting game that needed to be a little edgy?

Stop it.

>>384342546
I was here before you, and I will still be here after you have left. That is what separates me from normies like you.

>>384337841
When's that from? I remember the 0-10 thing (which you would lose as soon as your bi-weekly playtime diminished) but I think that homepage design pre-dated my time on Steam.

>>384342413
Try actually reading his post.

>>384342543
retard

>>384342640
And to you

>reading comprehension

Young people can't be wrong in their tastes. It's completely subjective. Let them be who they are. Trust me. Your parents thought you were a retard too.

And if you're trying to make some implication that you're not talking about subjective taste at all, then you've completely missed the point. So once again

>reading comprehension

>>384342641
>me being born earlier and experiencing this thing is a feat
How pathetic must you be to think this is an achievement you can hold over others?

>>384342606
Not. An. Argument.

You didn't even bother to read the posts you're responding to. You're just repeating the same "The Times Have Changed!" line ad naseum.
There is nothing wrong with 15 year olds lurking 4chan, I lurked for a long ass time when I was underageb&,

But there is a reason that "lurk moar" used to be a common phrase, it actually meant something. Boards used to actively encourage new members to just sit back and read a bunch of threads for a few weeks. See how things go, what the jokes are, what is and isn't received well.

Eventually we just stopped, because it was blatantly obvious that most boards cultures were already dead, and it was an echo chamber of "ME TOO-ME TOO-ME TOO-ME TOO- ME TOO" at that point, and your asinine responses trying to argue as if "young people" are somehow infallible and never wrong.

>>384342692
>new releases
>released may 2009

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>>384342631
>>384342641
This.
>can't use anything online anymore without zuckerjew tracing your every single move and selling the information for the highest bidding company
>IT'S BETTER BECUS IT'S NEW AND SHINY AND MODERN :DDDD

>>384342759
You didn't read
>>384342528
At all did you

>arcades in the Us are dying fast
>most americans on /v/ right now have never experienced the culture that was playing in arcades

Things have changed. Back then, 11 year olds trashtalking people in a arcade would have gotten punched and beat up. They would fix their mouths. Social interaction was actually normal because arcades are social places.

Nowadays with the dawn on the internet, 12 year old can talk trash wihout impunity. They grow up even more socially retarded than usual arcade anon since they all hang out on Steam with all the other degenerates. Look, I'm not sayin' Steam is bad but it has had a negative effect on children nowadays.

>>384342507
>my youth summed up in 1 image
Ouch

>>384337964
I'd imagine that LAN parties nowadays would be easier than ever since people can just bring a reasonably good laptop instead of lugging huge computer towers around.

I actually think they're not a thing anymore because it's so easy to play online with voice chat nowadays, though, and do so on more populated servers than you'd get with a few friends offline.

>>384342702
So the fact that I can on demand see some young russian pussy right now with no difficulty is not an improvement? You're either a retard or a faggot.

>>384342675
you clearly werent born during the psx era

syphon filter
colony wars
silent bomber
cool boarders
i could go on and on

>>384342771
>implying it's not
You're fucking jelly m8

>>384342168
?

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>>384341316
>Downloading patch failed!
Childhood was never being able to get SC BNet working and sticking to SP.

>>384342675
What a blatant fucking lie, not the guy but older gen consoles had so much more diverse and interesting racing games that it shits on the next gen racing games which are: "Realistic racing game" and "Realistic racing game with open world"

>>384342489
can you rephrase that?

>>384342759
>No u

lol

>>384342831
You said literally nothing was better back then

>>384342805
Whoops. My account is from 2007, so I suppose I just forgot it ever looked like that.

>>384342782
Get over it old man. We've heard your "it's the children who are wrong" bullshit for centuries.

>>384342676
Looooool I'm literally here everyday and I will never leave. Everytime your pathatic kind posts I will reprimand them and remind them of how much of a loser they are, and there is literally nothing you can do about it. Fuck off back to your containment board or wizardchan, retard.

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>>384342832
You forgot C-12, best PSX action game!

>>384342835

>you merely adopted the autism!
>i was born in it!

>>384342142
>MW1
>Not CoD4

>>384342807
You can thank our current Congress and President for repealing those ISP rules.

>>384342815
You didn't comprehend

>>384342831
>im-fucking-plying that seeing young russian pussy back then was hard
All you needed to do was search for it and it appeared. Now you google "young russian.." and google sends you to FBI homepage

>>384342892
Not an argument

>>384342835
I lowkey am jelly, fuck you

>>384342950
Just stop posting. Stop breathing too, while you're at it.

>>384341689
>flash is dead
im still mad as fuck about that desu

>>384341702
no, being born earlier isnt an achievement. we just want you FUCKING KIDS TO FIND YOUR OWN DAMN SITE

>>384342092
go back to facebook and reddit. if you have a problem with someone saying normie you're clearly too much of an underaged virgin faggot

>>384342675
>H-HEY GUYS. I'M GOING TO CRASH A PLACE WHERE LE OLD 30 YEAR OLDS HANG OUT, HAHA

>>384342832
If you could go on and on you would. I'm not disputing the playstation was a good system. But you're naming the shit that nerds latched onto. The playstation was a normie gateway and they played a lot of bullshit.

What made that system a success and continue on was not fucking colony wars.

>>384342892
>hurrr get over it old man young people are never wrong bullshit durr

Ironically you're just spewing the same bullshit rhetoric over and over. You're not even capable of reading what you're responding to so why even bother. Just fuck off and be retarded somewhere else.

>>384342954

And all you need to do now is to search for nudists or naturalists. Nothing's really changed.

>>384343017
Normie is facebook speak though.
Fuck off

>>384342878
No I literally didn't. Learn what the word literally means you fuckin newfag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgs9QUtWc3M

>tfw no 1.6 with the boys anymore

>>384342954
Wow you suck at the internet

>go to pc cafe after school to LAN with classmates
>1.6, GTA 1, carmageddon, Battlefield Vietnam

>>384342870
You need a bath.

>>384343017
There are literally people born after 2000 who have had sex before your incel ass, who the fuck cares what a loser like you thinks, about anything? Lmfao
>normie
Not helping your point if you use a facebook meme too idiot.

>>384343084

>>384342413
>what the fuck was better back then?

>>384342815
Of course he didn't. He just wants to keep jerking himself off to the same "Times have changed" line and deflecting after he got called out for it. He too stupid to address a single point in that post.

>>384343076
i aint going to stop saying normie because a bunch of fucking normie faggots are saying it now.

that's some real cultural appropriation

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>mfw trying to remember the times before I had steam

I miss the times when I had to buypirate games and it was me and me along playing the game. Nowadays playing a singleplayer game is a "community experience". When taking screenshots I no longer take them for my own amusement, but also for the amusement of my steam friends. It's kinda weird. Not that I really care what my steam friends think about my gaming habits, I just don't want to be a "burden" by spamming the feed with stupid shit. It's weird because it didn't use to be like this. It's weird how I even consider some steam shit as part of my gaming experience when it has literally nothing to do with the game I'm playing.

I used to hate steam, but now it's my most used computer program. As much as I love the dirt cheap games, I still feel kinda weird for buying them as digital copies from steam. Part of me is saying "yesss! cheap games!", but the other part is saying "what the fuck, I just paid 5 bucks for something that doesn't exist physically!".

>>384343184

Clearly you care enough about what people here think to argue over it.

>>384343198
Different person retard

>>384343184
>There are literally people born after 2000 who have had sex before your incel ass

that's funny, cause i lost my virginity in 2006 you little shitface

>who the fuck cares what a loser like you thinks, about anything?

are you mad that the only people who care what you underaged faggots think are you underaged faggots? you're at the age where literally the whole world fucking hates you.

good luck being cunts only to realize you were pathetic immature cunts when you get older

>>384343331
Then why are you replying to me?

>>384343101
I know lad, when I remember 1.6 it feels fairly recent but it was still around 10 years ago. I reached nationals at ranked when it was a thing, then dropped out of the FPS shooter hype altogether when they started to become too mainstream with call of doodie.
>>384343184
normie was actually used before the term "normalfag", it is a forum slang from 90s ,before you were born

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>>384340108
>TFW just turned 25 a couple days ago

>>384343214
You're not better because you were born earlier and you never will be. Neither will your bullshit father. Neither will your bullshit grandfather.

Just because you have nostalgia for something doesn't make it better.

>>384343241
>Nowadays playing a singleplayer game is a "community experience". When taking screenshots I no longer take them for my own amusement, but also for the amusement of my steam friends. It's kinda weird.

>I want to break free
>I want to break free
>I want to break free from your lies
>You're so self satisfied I don't need you
>I've got to break free
>God knows, God knows I want to break free

>>384343374
Why the fuck are you replying to me? I'm not the same person idiot.

>>384343350
>2006
>implying people born in 2000-2005 didn't get raped as kids
;_;

>>384337652
But everything you say is dead is still well and alive. You're just a stupid old idiot. I'm fucking 34 and I can tell how much of it has changed, but is still around. I still know of people who have LAN parties, gaming magazines are still around, offline and online, renting games is still around and kids still like to get some used games, we have a fuck ton of indies who take risks and make a lot of new hidden gems you don't know about just because you're too accustomed to 4ch telling you about everything, you never take the time to search for it yourself. MMOs, jRPGs, all of it is well and alive, same with games that aren't just cinematic experiences, while also being longer and better than most old titles people consider classics.

Only thing I can agree is that we need more devs who don't give a fuck about offending people - this thing went too far, too many people care about games while not playing them at all, but always being there to throw shit at anything that offends their opinions,

>>384343445
Fuck off

>>384343390
try 35 here, yes you are here forever

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>>384342759
>Young people can't be wrong in their tastes

>>384339660
>Gonzossm
Go figure

>>384343448
so that's why they're such insufferable cunts

>>384343241
Everybody hated Steam, but most people don't remember that.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33791921
>HALF LIFE 2 RELEASE WAS A DISASTER!!

P.S. I am one of the people who posted in this thread but I won't tell you which.

>>384343450
>Blockbuster is well and alive

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>>384338105
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HR4hp_-kSI

Everything was so fun and adventurous back then, now we know how and where to access at least 90% of what we want. My grandpa's computer might still have my old saved MSN emoticons somewhere, might check next time.

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>>384341702
>I'm tired of hearing the same things for thousands of years
>thousands of years

>>384343496
Just because you don't like it doesn't it make it wrong. You...get that right?

Do you know what the word wrong means?

It doesn't mean "what you personally don't like."

I mean you get that right? I'm kind of afraid I'm talking with a literal mental case here.

>>384343394
Unless you're a young person who has nostalgia, because young people can never be wrong about their tastes.

>>384342528
>If people had no interest in a thread or didn't like its content, they didn't post. They ignored it and if necessary reported it.
people would enter threads to post SAGE THIS SHIT SAGE GOES IN ALL FIELDS all the time

>>384341702
Go to bed Mozart

>>384343579
>Reddit spacing
>no arguments
wew

>>384343595
No they can never be wrong about what they like because it's completely subjective.

They can't be wrong about saying what they like, is what they like. I feel like you're not grasping what we're talking about here.

>>384343238
Of course you won't. Because you're a newfag

>>384343496
just looks like a bunch of youngsters - you might have brain cancer

>>384338102
b-but that involves l-leaving my r-room and t-talking to p-people!?

>>384343543
>13 pages of fixes listed! That is just not normal for the second day of a release.
It really was a better time.

>>384343450
prove that you are 34. Go on, prove it. Your ass must get jealous of your mouth, considering the shit you spew

>>384343350
What, a bunch of faggot boomers hate me bexause their shitty lives are almost over, and people like you, who are as quiet as a mouse irl? Fuck off. Once again, who cares what a faggot like you has to say? Nobody. Because you're a nobody.

>>384343618
>>Reddit spacing
Where the fuck did you fags came from? Fuck off and leave 4ch, how the fuck using spaces while writing is "reddit"? What's next? Grammar will be "tumblr"? Just fuck off or check how people were writing on 4ch in the past 10+ years

>>384343496
when was the last time you hung out outside with 9 of your mates, some of which include females?

>>384343671
>I feel like you're not grasping what we're talking about here.

The irony. It's like you have no self awareness at all.

>>384343721
Best proof you're going to get is that I have a 11 year old kid who's probably less mad than you, and he's fucking eleven

>>384343738
Every

sentence

does

not

need

to

be

its

own

paragraph

>>384339802

i had dreams man, now i remember that time i actually tied up a rope around my neck to see if it fit

>>384343759
You not liking young people's taste doesn't make their taste wrong. Stop using the word wrong incorrectly.

Just say: "I don't like what young people are doing."

That's much more honest.

Get that.

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>>384342168
>I can't understand coherent sentences!

>>384343579
Just because you like it doesn't it make it right. You...get that it works both ways right?

You do understand you ere the only one to bring up "wrong" right?
I mean you get that right? I'm afraid I'm talking with an actual, genuine mental case here.

>>384343837
>I am unaware the cake is a lie is not the first meme used when the origin wasn't known

That's pretty pathetic.

>>384343807
And you're using spaces between words to somehow make your point?

Paragraphs can be in different lines. Are you really so sad you're getting mad over such a meaningless thing? Like, actually really fucking mad enough to lose your time writing a post?

>>384340045
>4chan frames
i miss those, i remember i used to be able to fuck with the url to get them back but i haven't tried in a while

>>384343862
I...don't like it. Try and keep up.

You not not liking it doesn't make "wrong". Relax.

You literally brought up young people being wrong when posting a picture.

inb4 LEL DAT WAS NOT MEE

>>384343394
Again you've completely missed the point because you're inept at simple reading comprehension. You can't address what's actually being said to you, instead you just regurgitate the same talking points over and over again.

>hurr you're not better because you were born earlier
>hurr times have changed
>hurr nobody can be wrong only you are wrong for being old
>hurr durr nostalgia

like a broken record. Guess what? We've heard all this bullshit already, you're not convincing anyone.

>>384343874
Give me another instance, then.

>>384336875
>the eyes
You can see the pain.

>>384343942
You don't have to miss it. It literally still exists.

>>384343932
It shows where you come from, which I guess is a waste of time because it was obvious to everyone anyway.

>>384343952
Try to keep up. You've already fallen behind.

You liking it doesn't make it "right". Relax.

You literally said young people can never be wrong.

And yes that was not me.

>>384343957
You're not better for being born earlier. Admit that. You've failed to convince me.

Try again.

>>384343740
Saturday, and most of them were female. How is this relevant?

>>384343975
Dog help me find apples was posted on numerous boards where images couldn't even be posted. Most people had no idea what it meant.

But let me guess. You're going to be a little shit and either ask for another example or deny it.

>>384337652
>No more spit screen

>>384343728
You care enough to keep responding to it.

>>384342582
kajotokun is the grandfather of so many land mark things an it makes me so sad that so few will actually remember him

>>384344014
In after LEL DAT WAS NOT MEE

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>>384343563
"This was updated two days after I was born"

These people are here among us, in this very thread too

>>384342168
Is this even true? Who wouldn't know it's from Portal? It's not like it was an obscure game and "the cake is a lie" was part of its marketing for crying out loud.

>>384344050
>hurr you're not better for being born earlier admit it!!!!
>Guess what? We've heard all this bullshit already, you're not convincing anyone.
>you've failed to convince me.
like a broken record

You can't be convinced because you're an irrational cunt. And guess what? You're not better for being born later. And your taste is shit. How about you admit that.