What was gaming like in 2006 (10 years ago)?
Pretty okay. The new consoles launched with junk, but the PS2 had a great library.
Don't you remember it yourself?
same but without microtransactions
also Half Life is 20 years old, not 10
>>336293426
It was near the end of the golden age (ending in 2007 when next gen / HD became a thing)
>>336293636
No, I'm new to this hobby.
![footmen-frenzy[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mBznRiJ.jpg "footmen-frenzy[1].jpg")
The custom maps were endless and dota had yet to take over.
it was the blissful culmination of the industry's 20+ years of experience with pseudo- and full-3D games
then the diminishing returns started to kick in as originality all but dried up
>>336293426
Beginning of the end times of gaming
>>336294130
My word, you're right. So much shite... I certainly don't miss that aspect
Not that you would know OP, considering you probably weren't born yet.
It was pretty normal in a good way. The 360 had been out for a year and the hype was building up for the PS3. The last gen was also still being supported heavily by a shit ton of games. Also a lot of movie games for whatever reason. Playing Oblivion for the first time is still a good memory.
>>336293812
>>336293426
it was... weird. Especially in a hindsight.
7th console gen was brand new, and launched with pretty shit games. HD TVs weren't quite as common just yet, which resulted problems with some games, like the Dead Rising.
It was sort of a calm-before-storm sort of year; Nothing too major happened, and for a while things still worked like in the past. Previous year we got FEAR, BF2, GTA:SA, Fable, Psychonauts, SW: KOTOR 2, SC:Chaos Theory, etc. In the 2006 itself, we did get BF 2142, TES:Oblivion, Zelda:TP and NWN2 though, and some sleeper hits like Prey and Red Orchestra, but that's about it. Next year dropped the bomb with motherfucking Crysis, STALKER, TF2 / whole Orange Box, Bioshock, CoD4, ... etc
All in all, it wasn't really THAT different at that point anymore, but not all the blocks of the modern (shitty) trends were quite in place yet. Meanwhile, I recently got to read this 2009's gaming magazine in a library, and it felt like it could've been printed last month: the main articles were (already) all about AssCreed, GTA(4), Far Cry (2), Cowadooteh, Uncharted, etc.
half life 2 had been out for 2 years
it was beautiful
>>336293918
I miss this so much.
>>336295426
>Meanwhile, I recently got to read this 2009's gaming magazine in a library, and it felt like it could've been printed last month: the main articles were (already) all about AssCreed, GTA(4), Far Cry (2), Cowadooteh, Uncharted, etc.
It's very sad how it feels like the entire industry hasn't moved a fucking inch in over half a decade.
It's absolutely mindbogging that the old jokes about "Call of Duty 12" or "Halo 7" are close to coming true.
The beggining of the Xbox 360 and PS3 era and the beggining of the end.
>>336296117
my thoughts exactly, though it's starting to be almost a decade in my books.
It's just mind boggling how /v/ already made THIS kind of images back in 2009, and nothing's really changed. Is it any wonder then, that teens these days don't even know WTF "Doom" is?
The beginning of the end. Rehashed dime-a-dozen shooters were just getting popular.
>>336296117
yet we are ok with Mega Man 10 and Mario 20
>>336295426
back in the early 2000s i kept buying ps2 magazines and ps1 alike even tho i had nether
played all my games at my friends houses
on pc it was heroes 3 and on ps1 it was quake 2 with a multitap shit was more than cash
best gaming experience of my fucking life
we also played pokemon card and yu gi oh games and went to the local "tournaments"
i was fucking poor as shit but we had more fun than when i got some money turned chad or got a job
feels terrible, nowdays i play only fucking dota2 and emulate ps1 games
>>336296117
Yeah its so sad sequels for games that sell are made. No its truly shocking. Totally.
>>336293426
>Half-Life 1 was 18 years ago
>>336296442
>Rehashed dime-a-dozen shooters were just getting popular
You're off by about a decade there. You're probably too young to remember the hordes of shitty Doom clones that were rightfully left back in the 90's.
>>336296729
>Solid Snake first destroyed metal gear REX 18 years ago
>>336296430
>fast forward 2 years...
>>336296710
>back in the early 2000s i kept buying ps2 magazines and ps1 alike even tho i had nether
I was more into those multi-system magazines myself (Gamemaster, Super Power...etc), so I got pretty wide info package each month. I used to stare those multi-page reviews in awe, read through those full walkthroughs of games like Resident Evil 2 and imagine going through the events in my head long before actually playing it myself, and just being mindblown with each E3 special article during late 90s-mid 00s.
Those days are now long gone. 2005 was the last great year in gayming, with 2007 being a nasty tease of good things that never became a norm.
>>336297067
>Prey 2
>>336297067
>>336297293
>Prey 2
Fuck whoever was responsible for its cancellation. The game was looking good despite it not having anything to do with the first one
I was a lot less jaded back then, and I think I had a lot less reason to be.
Sure, there's still plenty of good devs and promising titles out there today, but back then the basic videogame framework was more recognizable without all the cinematic fluff of what we have now.
There seems to have been a shift from "look how fucking bombastically awesome this is" to "look how cool and mature this is."
And anything that markets itself in the way of the former is riding on the population's pining for that.
I'm mostly talking about of my ass, but I think it's most easily summed up as: video games were more clearly "games" back then, but they've moved closer to "interactive experiences."
That doesn't mean such experiences can't be great games, but it was easier back then to just see something out of a magazine and think "damn that looks fun. I want to play it."
>>336293426
For me,the future of videogames never seemed brighter than in 2006.I remember reading about BiA 3 right after e3 that year and being absolutely amazed by the massive graphical improvment over previous games.
>>336296940
You don't understand. This life is hell and I'm still here. I want to die.
>>336297796
are we still here just to suffer?
>>336297489
>I'm mostly talking about of my ass, but I think it's most easily summed up as: video games were more clearly "games" back then, but they've moved closer to "interactive experiences."
Not only that, but the consoles themselves were just gaming machines, and weren't trying to be all-in-one multimedia centers. Basically, the game industry was still content to exist in its own niche.
>>336295426
>PC gaming
Pc "gaming" has always been less relevant than console gaming.Consoles always had better,more memorable and above all,more important games.
It looked like /r/gaming
>>336298216
Don't try to meme off on me, you memster. I'm being serious.
>>336293426
Halo 2
>>336299161
I'm sorry
>>336298381
like anybody is going to take this bait...
>>336299309
Ok, apology accepted.
>>336299463
>someone posts something that is truthful and i disagree with it
>bait
2006 was the literal end of the "Golden Era" in video games.
Bad
>>336299659
It wasn't truthful though ;^)
It was fun arguing with people back then.
>>336293426
More creativity, more developers to choose from. Indie hadn't really broken in like it has but what was offered wasn't bad
>>336299758
I always thought it was 2007 or 2008 where everything really went downhill.
>>336299758
Indeed it was. Everything that sucks about gaming now, started with the 7th generation.
>>336295426
>metal gear rising enlarged that much
Who's the faggot that made this pic
>>336299982
And the middle market still existed. It wasn't just AAA or indie.
>>336300301
Indeed.
There was shovelware to be sure, but at least there was a market.
>>336300473
Shovelware was a small price to pay.
>>336300165
I need to find my old copypasta of all the shit that happened in 2007. Here's what I can think of at the top of my head
> COD 4
> Asscreed
> Twitter (late 2006)
> Tumblr
> Big Bang Theory
> Chanology started late 2007
There's way more stuff, but I can't think of them right now.
>>336300739
Portal came out, then the whole
>THE CAKE IS A LIE XDDDD
thing happened
>>336300739
>>Big Bang Theory
wtf is this shit?nobody even knew about that crappy show back in 2007,it got picked up by a reddit wave of early 2010s who popularised it
>>336293426
Pretty comfy. Hundreds of new titles to pick from every week.
>>336301386
wat
>>336293426
PC still had triple A exclusives, and it was still a relevant platform
>>336301102
>THE CAKE IS A LIE
Why did people latch onto this shit? It wasn't even funny to begin with. I never understood that.
>>336301520
It was the beginning of the influx of the casuals. They tried to fit in
>its a my generation was better when I was a kid/young teen thread
like clockwork
>>336301824
Underage detected
>>336299846
A fuckload more people remember Crash, Spyro, Mario, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Road Rash, Bayonetta, Resident Evil and a whole lot more console releases than "JC Denton", "Rincewind" and the rest of their gay lovers, cakeboy.
>>336301892
More like oldfag detected. Underage faggots like yourself wouldn't understand due to your lack of experience.
>>336302612
Well then you would know that gaming saw alot more memorable releaes back then you fucking dunce
>>336301354
You realize that most people who watch shitty sitcoms probably don't make their viewing decisions based on internet forum boards, right?
>>336302978
Fucking this. I'm tired of college aged or younger dipshits not realizing how much better games were before 2000. Fuck, I enjoy replaying games from that time period far more then the trash that gets released today.
>>336305072
Minority,but the vast majority of people heard about BBT on reddit or from friends
>>336294125
Pretty much this, OP. The past ten years is where we've seen the development costs of games skyrocket in the pursuit of MUH GRAFIKZ, and as such they've succumbed to samefagging (which has always existed, keep in mind, just not as bad as now).
>>336302978
>my childhood was more memorable
uh...ok?
>>336300739
Halo 3 happened, and 2007 was when you could actually walk into a store and buy a Wii.
>>336293812
Did you join for political reasons? LikeAnita?
Were "memes" as cancerous then as they are today in online vidya?
That's weird. I started HalfLife 1 for the first time, and beat that level yesterday.
>>336295426
>No mention of stronghold.
Which hand did you post that with.
>>336293426
it was really good, and it seemed like there was nowhere to go but up at the time.
>>336297480
Bullshit it should have been a direct sequel to the first. The first game was fucking epic.
>The story of Prey 2 was to focus on U.S. Marshal Killian Samuels, who starts the game on a passenger flight which suddenly crashes onto the Sphere (the crash is shown in the original Prey). At the end of a short battle with some aliens he is knocked unconscious, after which the plot jumps forward several years. Samuels is now a bounty hunter on the alien world Exodus.
im glad it got canceled it sounded gay as fuck.
>>336307793
"memes" were just a SA/4chan/YTMND thing back in 2006. They hadn't even caught on with social media yet, so no, there weren't any in vidya, and if there were, they were way more subtle.
>>336307793
/v/ was pretty shitty back in 2006 and 2007 with it's epic memes but at least 4chan was more fun back then unlike what it's like now
>>336293426
I was playan guild wars and wow
good shit
>>336300739
I think I have it.
Let me look.
>>336295426
half-life 2 and doom 3 killed AAA games
half-life 2 wasn't necessarily terrible, but it spawned so many copycat trends that spread like a fucking cancer, and doom 3 also being a shitty cinematic corridor shooter didn't help either.
>>336296430
>nothing's really changed
nah nigga, modern warfare has been left in the dust and now futuristic is the new trend
>>336293426
Can't remember much about the year itself. I was playing a shit ton of CS:S, BF2, Soldat, and DAoC. Good times.
>>336308359
this
> company of heroes
>Stalker
>some other titles im forgetting
>maybe mass Effect
>>336300739
>>336308834
Is this it?
>>336307793
Someone post the counter strike DDR
>>336309072
>tfw I graduated in 07
>tfw my year will forever be known as the one where everything started going to shit
>>336306961
Games released now by far lack originality, creativity, constantly hold your hands and assume you have he IQ of a potato, require next to no thinking or coordination, and are the equivalent of interactive movies with their >muh 2048p 256 fps Cinematic Experience™.
Games before roughly 2000 were the exact opposite of that.
>>336301354
Nah, TBBT was already big in 2008.
>>336308615
I remember at the end of one of the Halo games that Bald guy from Bungie but "Hey guys whats going on in this thread
Some of those memes were pretty good. Hated it when trollface came through
>>336308615
I thought it was kinda cool to get a nod back then.
>>336297489
>video games were more clearly "games" back then, but they've moved closer to "interactive experiences."
This.
>>336308662
As a loner in highschool it was pretty boring when the site went down for that long ass amount of time I don't seem to remember.
>>336293730
>pepe, stopwatch, zoom-blur, jpeg
This thread reminds me I've been in this shithole for far too long.
>>336293426
That pic is from 98 or 99? not 2006...
What meme was more casual:
Arrow to the knee
Or
Cake is a lie
>>336293730
>Half Life is 20 years old
Thank god this won't be true for a couple of more years.
>>336310049
11 long years.
I've wasted so much of my life on this site.
>>336307359
Halo 3 didn't cause anything besides an abundance of faggots complaining about how Halo 3 ruined gaming
>>336295426
>98 - 00
Fuuuuuck.
>>336297489
thread
>>336293426
A lot less women.
They wouldn't touch gaming. Now it's commonplace to see them everywhere.
better
HAHA not really. In 2006 we were all convinced that FFvs13 would come out in 2009 at the very latest.
>>336310168
Kill urself
>star wars battlefront online on the ps2
>ssx trick + ssx 3
I didn't ask for these feels
I started college in 2006 so I was pretty broke and I remember when the PS3 got announced thinking fuck that's expensive I guess I'm done with vidya
thankfully the PS2 was still getting good games
>>336310876
>SSX Tricky
goddamnit I wanna go back
>>336309232
>my childhood was unique and special guiz
give it a rest faggot
>>336311046
1998 boy mad he was born too late for the golden age of video games
>started browsing the internet on my own with AOL at age 13 back in the dial up days
>kids born in 2003 are now 13
>>336309232
you're just remembering the good
>>336311193
he at least got to be a kid during the early to mid 2000's, which I'd say was the 2nd golden age.
>>336311046
>>336311409
>I-It's just nostalgia!
It's not when I replay them all the time post-90's dipshits.
>Full Auto
>Flatout 2
>Saints Row
>Driver Parallel Lines
pretty fucking good
>>336293426
Oblivion was the shit, did you see that deer?
PS3 will play games in 4D
Half life 3 in a few yrs
FFXII was quite a change. Are they remaking VII?
HOLY FUCK THE WII OMG ITS A SWORD ITS A GUN ITS THE FUTURE
>>336311672
I'm 29 mate, I'm telling you it wasn't all roses
>>336311846
>Haha I'm actually 29!
Sure you are.
>>336293426
>was able to fly back to Korea just after TBC launched
>spent the entire year living as a neet in an internet cafe playing WoW with my friends
>paid for my time by placing bets on cames like cartrider, warrock, and djmax
>if that was going slow I would go to the casinos for a while or hit up the bars to beat up on drunk airmen at darts or pool
>became pretty good friends with a few of the guys that worked at the cafe so they usually would just turn off my timer when they were on shift
>was shacked up with a russian girl I knew from highschool
Great year.
Hmm let's see. MMORPGs were rampant to the point that there were new one every month; hardly anyone ran Crysis properly to the point that 'I can run Crysis in max options' was something of brag; starcraft 1 matches were taken seriously as were counterstrike; 6th gen consoles were on its way out and a lot of games were priced to be dumped; GPX2 and GP32 were relevant; people just started to crack emulations on PSP and homebrews on DS; PS3 'hadno games' at least not yet; XBox360 was doing pretty good despite not really having any real game either; massive LAN parties were on its way out and being replaced with just online matches.
So, a little of good and a little of bad.
"internet cafe" was a thing outside of Asia in 2000s
>>336293812
better.
It was shit but it was way less shit than it is now. Like hell, I remember people saying that 6th gen was the worst it had ever been.
>>336293918
imagine if tower defense mods got popular instead of dota
holy fuck lol
>>336297489
This
>>336313605
They did get popular, there were a fuck ton of tower defense shovelwares. It's just that DOTA got way more popular than those.
>>336293426
the beginning of the end of the rts and the ww2 shooter
activision hadn't yet revealed it's final form
a simpler time, honestly a lot of the modern cancers we see today didn't manifest until a year or two later
>>336298381
Are you kidding me? Deus Ex, Thief and Doom are some of the most important games in the history of this industry. What about Ultima? System shock? Quake? Half-life? Fallout 1&2? What do the consoles have? Final Fantasy? Mario?
Ayyy
It was shit but acceptably so owing to the limitations of the time.
>>336313738
yea, but i mean like, instead of mobas we'd have tower defense games today, it's unthinkable
>>336307793
Social media itself was far less widespread and relevant.
>>336313896Tower defense games are shit and the only thing that made them fun were the novelty of it
>>336313896
There are plenty of tower defense games today, what are you talking about.
>>336293426
It was begging of the end.
Just look at the games that came out.
Oblivion brought us DLC and consolefication. Everyone laughed at horse armor, but look where are we now.
Rainbow Six Vegas showed us the change in shooters. From hardcore tactical game to arcade tacticool.
Splinter Cell expanded on multiplayer ideas, but the game itself wasn't half as good as Chaos Theory was.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey was great, but a consolefied casual version of the classic adventure games.
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter shared the same fate as rainbow six. Now it was all tacticool.
Gothic 3? What a trainwreck of a game.
We still thought everything is going to be fine, that no one will buy silly overpriced DLC, and stupid tacticool FPS. How wrong we were...
People are having fun. But not anymore.
>>336296117
>we're up to halo 6 now
FUCK
>>336296430
We've budged a little
Now it's just mobas and shitty open world asscreed wannabes.
>>336314038
GOD you guys are too fuckin serious stop clenching your assholes and have fun, i ws just asking what it would be like to have tower defense tournaments in esports rather than dota/league
>>336296117
Final Fantasy fucking FIFTEEN
and thats not even counting spinoffs
>>336314320
Go watch Clash Royale tournaments and stop asking stupid questions.
>>336293426
for me it was, oblivion, saints row 1, need for speed most wanted.
Vice City, Okami, FF 12, Twilight Princess, i think katamari had been out a while, shadow of the colossus.
Man... I could tear up thinking about it. Didn't buy a ps3 until 2009 because nothing seemed like a real "game" until i picked up bayonetta.
>>336315245
ehhh nevermind. i was off on my times.
>>336314320
At least your thread is getting replies, whenever I make them maybe one person will reply.
When did you learn how to copypaste the cracked exe and what was the game?
>GTA III in 2005. Felt fucking amazing. Second game was Aliens vs. Predator 2
I think games were the best in the 90's, but that's when I was a kid/early teen so I think that's the main thing.
It's cliche to say it, I know, but that doesn't mean it rings any less true today.
if I was a kid today I imagine I'd be all over Minecraft and possibly LoL and I'd reminisce about it in 15 years.
Pretty cool familia. I remember playing the ever loving fuck out of some Dead Rising 1 and Halo 2 multiplayer every day, with some cool PS2 games mixed in, like Rogue Galaxy.
>tfw only started gaming recently
I can't imagine what it was like to actively game in the early-mid 2000's, thinking that games like Deus Ex and Half Life were the foundations future games would build and improve upon... only to get what we have now instead
>>336296430
fuck, I remember when this was a new image
I've been here too long
>>336300165
2007-2008 is literally when EVERYTHING went downhill. Vidyas, society, comic books, movies, TV, politics, the world in general.
It was such a bad time.
>>336316946
but muh iphone and muh social media
>>336317039
It's probably because of the iphone, it allowed normies to infect everything.
>>336293426
>What was gaming like in 2006 (10 years ago)?
Everyone was laughing at Sony's E3 and talking about how it was dead on arrival and Sony was doomed.
Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable
>>336316946
No, it went downhill around 2000. You'd know that if you were born in the 90's.
>>336314179
Ghost Recon Online was fun as fuck to play, until cheaters took it over and Ubi introduced p2w system that shat all over anyone not willing to spend at least 20 bucks on the game for base weapons and armor that would become completely obsolete later.
>>336297489
>There seems to have been a shift from "look how fucking bombastically awesome this is" to "look how cool and mature this is."
This is due to two synergistic factors:
1. Publisher's desire for vidya to be accepted as a legitimate pastime like movies and books so as to increase their mass appeal due to less social stigma
2. Developers' and reviewers' desire for vidya to be recognized as "art" (they always have been) or rather that they be "artsy". This is to boost the egos of said developers and reviewers to make them convince themselves that they made the right life choices and aren't just working in a kid's hobby.
>>336313802
I havent played any of these only mario.
>>336317812
Then go and play them. Those games are incredible and most of them have aged very well.
>>336317436
I've literally never heard anyone ever claim that game development is a kid's hobby.
>>336317259
GRO was p2w from the day 1. You had to buy fucking grenades before every game. Also it had nothing to do with old GR games.
>it went downhill around 2000.
If you go full fucking elitist you can say that things went to shit around 2003, but 2000? Most of today's classics came out between 99 and 02.
>>336317259
Shit went downhill when AOL, Juno, and Prodigy internet services got big
The internet being readily available to everyone fucked up everything
>>336318212
>>GRO was p2w from the day 1. You had to buy fucking grenades before every game
Grenades weren't necessary when I was playing in the beta, skill and team work was enough to counter nade fags.
>>Most of today's classics came out between 99 and 02
>Being this young
Valkyrie profile 2 was released. It was tri-ace ' s last decent game.
2007 was literally the last year PC got something interesting I wanted to play.
>>336296723
Fucking underage b&. Games are meant to be in trilogies at MAXIMUM. Fucking cod shouldn't have 12+ entries, they're just milking a stale formula.
You are the cancer killing video games.
>>336318694
>Grenades weren't necessary
Doesn't change the fact that you had to buy them with in game currency or real money.
> skill and team work was enough
Until you were against guy who bought top tier weapon.
>Being this young
>27 is young
kk gramps.
Jerking yourself off about early 90s games is fun and all, until you try to actually play them today. Anything more complex than a fucking mario is a mess.
I was pretty much only playing Guild Wars and CS:S
>>336319501
>Doesn't change the fact that you had to buy them with in game currency or real money
They never were a necessity until very recently. I was playing in the beta before it was released up until a few years ago, and not once did I ever buy any of them.
>Until you were against guy who bought top tier weapon
Kek yeah funny thing about that, I had and kept onto a beta weapon that was actually almost as good as the "best" weapon that were released when the game went live. Thing was sexy as fuck. It was a Soviet sub machine gun with wooden stock, and sniping scope with mad range on top. Fucker fired like crazy and had deadly accuracy. To be honest I never understood why Ubi didn't remove the gun from my inventory when the game went live.
>until you try to actually play them today
Hmm yes funny thing about that too. I still play them today and they're neither a mess and offer far more enjoyment and gameplay then modern AAA shitfests for the most part.
>>336319897
> until very recently
I wouldn't know, since I stopped playing around 2013
> I had and kept onto a beta weapon
Cool story. How long you had to grind to get it?
> I still play them today
Sure nice to be stuck in a past, gramps.
>>336297796
>>336299161
>>336316001
Were there still whiny fags trying to force their loneliness into every conversation back in 2006?
What is this meme nowadays where everyone over 26 is considered "old"? People are living to like, 110+ nowadays. 27 doesn't seem that old to me.
The industry peaked in 2001 and then committed suicide around 2010.
>>336320884
When I mean "recently" I mean like a few years anyway.
>Cool story. How long you had to grind to get it?
Hardly any grinding. The beta was actually fun to play and didn't require immense grinding.
>Sure nice to be stuck in a past, gramps
Whatever, I'm not spoiled by shiny modern graphics.
>>336321239
why are people in their 20s considered children?
in the past you'd be 12 and become a man.
>>336293426
Bad.
>>336293918
I miss long nights on custom maps on Warcraft/starcraft broodwars. Holy shit.
>>336321454
whoops, wrong image
still, pretty fucking terrible.
>>336321414
in the past your parents were dead by the age of 30.
so there's that.
>>336321414
Because in the past those 12 year olds acted a lot smarter and mature.
