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post 1698926653 03-08-2024, 02:07 PM
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what time did gaming change for the worse

i miss retro games

I miss super nes, n64, gamecube

I miss original xbox and xbox 360

ps one, ps two

when did gaming change

what happened to the fun games, the adventures, the fun nights with the boys

now its fornite graphics, lgbtq+, and cash grabs

when did this start to happen?
post 1698927433 03-08-2024, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted By FallOutBrah⏩
i miss retro games

I miss super nes, n64, gamecube

I miss original xbox and xbox 360

ps one, ps two

when did gaming change

what happened to the fun games, the adventures, the fun nights with the boys

now its fornite graphics, lgbtq+, and cash grabs

when did this start to happen?
Hot take: gaming hasn't changed that much, we're just getting older.
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post 1698927503 03-08-2024, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted By FallOutBrah⏩
i miss retro games

I miss super nes, n64, gamecube

I miss original xbox and xbox 360

ps one, ps two

when did gaming change

what happened to the fun games, the adventures, the fun nights with the boys

now its fornite graphics, lgbtq+, and cash grabs

when did this start to happen?
When it became popular and companies/shareholders realised how much money it was making. Everything changed after Skyrim.
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post 1698927753 03-08-2024, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Hot take: gaming hasn't changed that much, we're just getting older.
as an adult gaming feels like a chore that I barley game anymore, and when I do, its a retro game

as a kid and teenager and young adult, it was so much fun, its all I wanted to do
post 1698928323 03-08-2024, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted By FallOutBrah⏩
as an adult gaming feels like a chore that I barley game anymore, and when I do, its a retro game

as a kid and teenager and young adult, it was so much fun, its all I wanted to do
You have work, bills, and responsibility now.

Of course chit was amazing when you barely had any other obligations.

Many of us still find great experiences, both in single and multiplayer games, you just have to do a bit of looking and not rely on the hype machine.
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post 1698929273 03-08-2024, 03:29 PM
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When they stopped making new entries and focus on DLC, microtransactions, and remasters. Between the PS2 and PS3 generation it started to decline.
post 1698929723 03-08-2024, 03:42 PM
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When high speed internet became available easily to everyone, even through mobile

Combined with wildly exponential growth in revenue + popularity

Then covid came thru and gaming and game streaming saw another huge wave of growth


Now all the big companies that we know who made their bones on good classic games are owned by soulless greedy suits
post 1698929773 03-08-2024, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Hot take: gaming hasn't changed that much, we're just getting older.
With everything going on with controversies like the SBI situation this simply comes off as a joke of a take these days. It couldn't be more obvious how things have changed dramatically.
post 1698930083 03-08-2024, 03:55 PM
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The massive success of online play with COD was the beginning of the end IMO

Massive commercial success & the need to make everything both "safe" & big-budget ruins art (see the commercial music industry and Hollywood). Throw in diluted single player experiences in order to pander exclusively to onlinecels & the growth of micro-transactions...gameover, boyo.

That being said, games have gotten much better in the last 5 or so years. I hope that trend continues, but we're SOL if the micro-transaction & dlc-everything trend doesn't somehow die.
post 1698930123 03-08-2024, 03:56 PM
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It changed in 2012
post 1698934273 03-08-2024, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
With everything going on with controversies like the SBI situation this simply comes off as a joke of a take these days. It couldn't be more obvious how things have changed dramatically.
Dramatically? No.

Star Wars Jedi series. Great
Ghost of Tsushima. Great
Elden Ring. Great
Final Fantasy. Great
God of War. Great
TLOU. Great TLOU2. Good
Tales of Arise. Great
Resident Evil. Great
Halo. Great
Deaths Door. Great
HiFi Rush. Great
Starfield. Solid
Helldivers. Fun
Dragonquest. Great.

Sure thing bud, gaming sucks now.

We are just old so now that time is precious we nitpick more. As a teenager we played all kinds of broken ass games that we swore were good.
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post 1698937583 03-08-2024, 06:58 PM
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When microtransactions were introduced.

GTA5 was likely the first game where I felt that a game was designed towards NPC kids who love spending their parents money online.

Then LGBT and being PC became a trend thus dumbing down games even more to appeal to NPCs

Literally most games follows the same formula today:

- overpolished graphics with way too many saturated colours. Way too much going on. Charachters that look cartoonish

- story that has been written with the idea to fill PC checkboxes first

- Open world if not an FPS. This usually means waaay too many rehashed filler trash added to make the game feel ''bigger''

- Emulate Superhero movies with dumbjokes and releationships that don't make sense

- Game themes usually are: homosex futuristic world, Edo period Japan, zombie land, modernday but even more ghey
post 1698937933 03-08-2024, 07:06 PM
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End of the 360 gen.

2012 lol
post 1698939043 03-08-2024, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Dramatically? No.

Star Wars Jedi series. Great
Ghost of Tsushima. Great
Elden Ring. Great
Final Fantasy. Great
God of War. Great
TLOU. Great TLOU2. Good
Tales of Arise. Great
Resident Evil. Great
Halo. Great
Deaths Door. Great
HiFi Rush. Great
Starfield. Solid
Helldivers. Fun
Dragonquest. Great.

Sure thing bud, gaming sucks now.

We are just old so now that time is precious we nitpick more. As a teenager we played all kinds of broken ass games that we swore were good.
Sounds like you made a list for nerds. Like not everybody cares about these 2deep4u games with high metacritic scores given out by paid off journalists and bad faith users.
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post 1698939133 03-08-2024, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Dramatically? No.

Star Wars Jedi series. Great
Ghost of Tsushima. Great
Elden Ring. Great
Final Fantasy. Great
God of War. Great
TLOU. Great TLOU2. Good
Tales of Arise. Great
Resident Evil. Great
Halo. Great
Deaths Door. Great
HiFi Rush. Great
Starfield. Solid
Helldivers. Fun
Dragonquest. Great.

Sure thing bud, gaming sucks now.

We are just old so now that time is precious we nitpick more. As a teenager we played all kinds of broken ass games that we swore were good.
Oh wow you got some outlier list of mostly similar games that appeal to you personally. Well good for you I guess.
post 1698954213 03-09-2024, 05:06 AM
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When gaming companies decided to put their politics on video games. Nobody gives a fuk about politics in video games. People just want to play a good game.
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post 1698955863 03-09-2024, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
Oh wow you got some outlier list of mostly similar games that appeal to you personally. Well good for you I guess.
Outlier list? Mostly similar? Fuk me you're actually oxygen deprived, eh?

Triangle Strategy. Great
Fire Emblem. Great
Tactics Ogre. Great
Pentiment. Great
Immortality. Great
Tears of the Kingdom. Great
Forza Horizon 5. Great
Rise of The Ronin. Probably Great
Hellblade. Great
Redfall. Not Great.
****in Baldurs Gate 3. Great (how did I forget this one?)
Hentai Puzzle Game 16. Great
Overcooked 2. Great
Octopath Traveler 2. Great
Super Mario Wonder. Great
Squad. Great
Hell Let Loose. Great


Not to mention these don't even include indies. Sorry you were hanging all your hopes on Timesplitters for some reason.
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post 1698960043 03-09-2024, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Outlier list? Mostly similar? Fuk me you're actually oxygen deprived, eh?

Triangle Strategy. Great
Fire Emblem. Great
Tactics Ogre. Great
Pentiment. Great
Immortality. Great
Tears of the Kingdom. Great
Forza Horizon 5. Great
Rise of The Ronin. Probably Great
Hellblade. Great
Redfall. Not Great.
****in Baldurs Gate 3. Great (how did I forget this one?)
Hentai Puzzle Game 16. Great
Overcooked 2. Great
Octopath Traveler 2. Great
Super Mario Wonder. Great
Squad. Great
Hell Let Loose. Great


Not to mention these don't even include indies. Sorry you were hanging all your hopes on Timesplitters for some reason.
Oh wow, a double down on another outlier list of consooomer games that you personally like. Sorry, I've been gaming for years and have a far better and refined taste than you.
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Originally Posted By bongowongo⏩
Oh wow, a double down on another outlier list of consooomer games that you personally like. Sorry, I've been gaming for years and have a far better and refined taste than you.
The best part is these guys can't name any games from back then.

The only thing current day games are lacking (IMO) are TPS games. Unfortunately with how competitive gaming is now, I think TPS is likely a dying breed as KDR queens don't press the action in TPS games so they become camp fests. Then again, that started back in SOCOM 2 (If you played Enowapi, you already know) so maybe not exclusive to current day gamers.
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post 1698962313 03-09-2024, 09:21 AM
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What year was Battlefield 4 released?
It was straight downhill from that year onwards
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Originally Posted By FallOutBrah⏩
i miss retro games

I miss super nes, n64, gamecube

I miss original xbox and xbox 360

ps one, ps two

when did gaming change

what happened to the fun games, the adventures, the fun nights with the boys

now its fornite graphics, lgbtq+, and cash grabs

when did this start to happen?
The xbox 360 generation was the last great generation, after that it was all down hill
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Originally Posted By JayJ350⏩
Oh wow you got some outlier list of mostly similar games that appeal to you personally. Well good for you I guess.
This. The fact that he's calling Halo great is a clear indicator he has low standards. Halo's been dead since 2012 with Halo 4.
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Originally Posted By SirFapsAIot⏩
The xbox 360 generation was the last great generation, after that it was all down hill
Is that when you came out of the closet?
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Dramatically? No.

Star Wars Jedi series. Great
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First one was great, just finished the second one today. As soon as I was getting into the game and thought it was opening up..it ended. Thought..wtf is this chit?? Could not believe how short it was and I explored quite a bit, as much as was available that is. Pretty good game, just way too short and the girl he falls for sounds like a tranny from Yugoslavia. srs
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2012 it was all downhill.


After bakers decided not to bake that stupid gay cake it all changed.
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the rise of fortnite, overwatch, zoomer battle royals etc. was awful for MP FPS/shooters

Lack of decent GTA entries since V in 2012 (no EOD), but I dont really care about that

No RE game entries on the level of RE4/RE2

JRPG might not have the same quality anymore, hack n slash genre is kinda dying too which I used to like.

No old school dungeon Zelda


Those are just some things that IMO have started to suck, but there's also been a few great games in between this time
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There's still undoubtedly tons of games being released, many of which are great. But the culture in the industry for both developers and fans has never been worse.

Also pertinent to mention the limitations of earlier technology inspired innovations. And the hobby was much more niche. Gatekeeping used to be a process to weed out those who lacked talent or vision, but nowadays the gatekeeping is demographic / politically based. People with talent being usurped by politically motivated hacks happens much more frequently than the reverse situation.
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Originally Posted By CrimsonSteel⏩
There's still undoubtedly tons of games being released, many of which are great. But the culture in the industry for both developers and fans has never been worse.

Also pertinent to mention the limitations of earlier technology inspired innovations. And the hobby was much more niche. Gatekeeping used to be a process to weed out those who lacked talent or vision, but nowadays the gatekeeping is demographic / politically based. People with talent being usurped by politically motivated hacks happens much more frequently than the reverse situation.
There's hardly anything good or memorable being released. Besides Helldivers (looks like a solid 7.5/10 game) there's hardly been much released in a years. We barely even have any new games being posted on here anymore srs.
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Originally Posted By BearyManilowe⏩
Is that when you came out of the closet?
Oof. You were definitely the kid at the lunch table that killed every joke.
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Originally Posted By eod8989⏩
There's hardly anything good or memorable being released. Besides Helldivers (looks like a solid 7.5/10 game) there's hardly been much released in a years. We barely even have any new games being posted on here anymore srs.
Problem with Helldivers is how it looks a lot like a bunch of other popular/recent games.
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