So /v/, did it happen to you?
For me the Let's Play culture did it.
mobile games and minecraft did it for me
i fucking hate children
Hasn't happened since I don't let /v/ influence me.
What is this image trying to convey?
I don't watch western shit.
>Let's Plays used to be about autists absolute destroying games while maybe sometimes having an interesting story to tell
>now it's all facecam jumpscare memefucks
What the fuck happened?
>>336436003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
Any competitive games released after Counter Strike
>>336436083
Amnesia and Slenderman happened.
>>336435678
Around the the mid 2000s when online became more prevalent and DLC became the norm. I don't know if it was because I'd gotten older, but so!ething changed and the magic and wonder was gone. I still love vidya, don't get me wrong, but it never be the same as when you were a kid renting games from Blockbuster and talking pure bullshit with your friends like how you caught a Blastoise in Pokemon Blue.
>>336435678
Let's Play did it to me too, I'm 22.
>>336435678
>wake up one morning
>suddenly 2D women do nothing for me
>only have an interest in 3DPD
It'll come out of nowhere when you least expect it.
The acceptance of online gaming, drm and digital distribution. Oh boy I get to pay MORE money for a digital game than I would a physical copy. And the whole culture of releasing day one updates that are over 100mb for physical games. Finish your fucking game before you sell it.
>>336437660
I'd say Amnesia looks pretty innocuous in the grand scheme at this point. Five Nights at Freddy's on the other hand...
I think around when MW2 came out is when I really started paying attention to how shitty the direction everything was going in truly was.
>singleplayer modes that are linear "experiences" and stories
>rampant DLC and locked on-disc content
>most sequels seemed to be getting more and more disappointing and further from what made the original games good
One of the first things I remember being really disgusted with was MM9. It was a great game, but all of the extra game modes and the special stage were locked behind a paywall. I couldn't understand why I'd have to pay for Protoman, who was essentially just Megaman from 4-6.
>>336435678
Minecraft did it for me.
I never really struggled with being out of touch, though. It was easy to accept that it had happened when I remembered that when I was a kid the Pokemon craze kicked off and parents then didn't have a fucking clue what was happening.
When I think kids are into some stupid shit now, I just remember that we had Pokemon.
Is this the thread where people in their mid 20s act old and out of touch and jaded?
>>336438836
Pokemon was at least a finished, competently-designed game though.
I remember playing Minecraft when it was first being posted on /v/ and thought it had potential. Then it kind of just stagnated, promises weren't delivered, and every "feature" was pretty much slapped in from whatever game was popular at the time. It seemed so soulless and without direction, yet people were lapping it up like it was the greatest fucking game ever made.
>>336435678
Streamers. I don't understand why you cucks fund these peoples lives
I miss big budget video games that were fine being video games and didn't try to be realistic or cinematic
>>336435678
When I started hearing memes I didn't understand because normies make their own now.
It used to be I knew every reference because they all came from 4chan but now I have to look shit up.
Just don't watch shitty LPers you faggots
>>336438836
But Pokemon was good
The first two seasons anyways
>>336436003
>didn't watch the best cartoon on TV
what is it like having shit taste
Yes.
I also finally got around to really watching Simpsons a few days ago. On season 2 now.
>>336438379
Pretty much this. PS2/Xbox era was the last good one.
>>336439013
This. I was so confused when all the nigger speak started getting spammed here.
>>336438997
What makes you think it's us?
Some people bag on DSP but he's the elephant in the room.
>>336439106
Season 3 is when it starts to get really good.
>>336438954
I can't dispute that. I just mean that Pokemon as a fad was absolutely baffling for adults at the time. It made no sense to them and kids were going absolutely crazy for it beyond belief.
When I remember that something I liked that much had the same effect on adults at the time, it's not hard for me to accept that I'm just not going to understand what kids like today.
>>336438997
Well I understand why they do it for girl streamers. The world will always have betas. But yeah, why you'd give a sweaty neckbeard money to play hearthstone is a complete mystery to me.
>>336439106
Simpson's goes down hill after the first Xmas special
>>336439143
Well I'm quite fond of it already so cool beans.I also enjoy seeing frames that I've often seen as reaction images.
>>336439231
The very first episode was a Christmas special.
>have kids
>they're in school
>they're becoming teenagers
>>336435678
When /v/ started unironically making Call of Duty threads.
>>336439238
Simpsons reactions are GOAT and some of my most used ones
I find it hard to play games that use every single button on the controller, even clicking sticks. I can play and beat them, but it takes me a while to adapt.
>>336439231
don't you mean second
because yes Marge be not Proud wasn't a very good episode
>>336439357
Hmmmm, Simpsons.
>>336435678
I'm sure it happened earlier, but The Last of Us is when I truly realized it.
>>336435678
it happens to everyone eventually
>>336439238
It's an amazing show up until about season 9 or 10, then it's a slow decline for the next 15 years
Yes and its looking at this board that reminds, I guess I'm just to old for all these shitty memes the kids are into this day
>>336439375
That's sad, and I didn't even think about it.
I was playing Marvel Heroes 2016 earlier, and my character's "rotation" needs to swap out his action bar, use a few skills, and then swap it back. I feel like I'm getting old because it takes a surprising amount of mental effort.
>>336435678
There's literally nothing wrong with watching a good let's play of a game you've already played or don't intend on playing ever.
I don't know guys. Maybe I was always jaded but I never thought videogames was a clique that belonged only to me, or that I experienced the golden age of it.
Back in the 80s I thought the base gameplay of most platformers were idiotic. Rewarding or demanding the player ignore his enemies just to beat the clock and move forward. My favorite games were always adventure games, but the meaning of the genre so divided that no one can agree what it means anymore, and just shove it on the end of another adequate descriptor.
I admit in the 90s I leaned closer to Doom clones than emerging 3D shooters, but I never shook my head and said "These kids today".
>>336439345
>I have a one-year oldgirl
What am I in for?
>>336435678
im not there yet, maybe another 10 years when im 30
>>336439152
this desu
accept that you can't keep up with some things, let yourself get old and just let yourself be swept up by change because there's literally no use in resisting what has been happening since the dawn of time itself
>>336435678
>For me the Let's Play culture did it.
>>336439045
>Just don't watch shitty LPers you faggots
Why the fuck does ANYONE want to sit at their computer (a thing that can play games) and watch someone else play a video game?
I've been around video games since Atari days, and watching other people is boring as fuck. I want to actually play the games myself.
>>336439475
>virtually watching someone experience something virtually
>>336439423
So I've heard
>>336439514
Not him, but there's some days where I'm just so unmotivated that I can't even bring myself to play anything. Throwing on some shitty stream or whatever is the next step up from literally doing nothing.
>>336439357
This. My Simpsons folder is second only in sizeto my porn folder
>>336439514
Probably for a similar reason people watch sports and athletics commentary
I can't pretend I like it but I can sort of understand it
>>336435678
It was either Let's Play or a bit before it. What the fuck happened to this generation? What joy do they derive from watching someone else play a game, while not even being that good at it?
>>336439736
Upload it somewhere pls
When 3D graphics went mainstream.
>>336439514
I had friends who would come over and I'd offer them to play and they'd go "nah I like watching"
I never understood it
>>336439238
How are you watching? I've also wanted to watch the Simpsons
>>336439678
There is this:
>>336439514
And it can be enjoyable. Certain games I may have no desire to personally slog through, but still want to see.
The Big Bang Theory.
My Dad started calling me "Sheldon" and I had no fucking idea what he was talking about. Then I heard "poorly coded Nintendo 64 emulator" and everything went downhill.
Having a Triforce somewhere on your clothing or person is now a fucking status symbol for attention. Stores that normally sell nothing game-related will sell something with Zelda slapped on it because hipsters eat that shit up like golden vegetarian-because-I'm-green pizza.
>>336439842
Got it on demand with xfinity. I hate streaming sites, low quality and all.
I can kind of relate to LP culture as I slightly partake in it (I usually have a video of a random review on my other monitor, or vsauce/whatever science/computer channel but I don't understand how a bunch of tryhards like PDP and motherfucking Markiplyer (however the fuck it's spelled) are popular. One day someone with REAL fucking talent and a REAL fucking budget will take over youtube
>>336440001
Nice I have xfinity
>>336439923
>My Dad started calling me "Sheldon"
holy fucking shit did I lol
>>336435678
no, I'm not a fucking idiot who has rose tinted glasses on.
Further we go, better we are off.
>>336440009
I like to tell myself that YouTube is just a boom that will eventually fade and Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Game Grumps, etc. will all be left poor. Well, probably not Pewdiepie if he's being smart with his money, which I honestly doubt. Charity donations or not, he'll get too full of himself and having a girlfriend will be his downfall.
I've heard that Arin is terrified of this bubble popping, hence Game Grumps having a shitload of spinoff channels. As soon as the YouTube teat dries up, Suzy will take all of his shit and bail.
>>336439514
The Let's Play core concept isn't even remotely new. People have been watching other people do things they don't wish to engage in themselves since the birth of culture itself. Theater, gladiatorial combat, sports, MST3K. LPs are just the latest iteration for a more recent medium.
When Anita made videogames into a vehicle for SJW values.
>>336439503
Paranoia the likes of which you've never imagined.
Everyone is out to get your little girl.
And she'll always be your little girl.
Watching Konami go to shit is very depressing.
It happened to me when unlockables became paid dlc.
>>336439102
>Simpsons
>the best cartoon on TV
>>336440156
>having a girlfriend will be his downfall.
he's always had that Spanish chick though
>>336435678
when every game publisher/dev thought that if they weren't doing CoD or GTA numbers they were a failure. Basically when games became normie shit.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>336440216
>Geniunely want to ask indie people why she's allowed to have a voice in gaming when she was proven, beyond a doubt, video fucking PROOF that her whole "I'm a gamer" pitch was a LIE
>Know that whiteknights would burn me because they keep wanting to get that Jewnose pussy
It's a terrible world we live in
>>336439825
>yfw those friends were a majority among people
>>336439501
>Rewarding or demanding the player ignore his enemies just to beat the clock and move forward.
Agreed. This is especially a problem with the first Mario.
>>336440156
that drawing is hilarious
>>336438587
I remember that day. You can sort my fap folder by date and watch the abrupt transition.
>>336440156
It's inevitable. The popularity of all things is inevitable. Theater attendance dropped when movies became widely accessible. Movie attendance dropped when the internet took off. TV ratings dropped when streaming services gathered steam. Shit, it's more apparent than anywhere with the music industry.
It'll always have some life of its own, but it can't stay relevant forever. Remember just how much history of progress humanity has already put behind it.
>>336440280
Eventually she'll start wanting things.
Then, those things won't be good enough. They'll be boring, and not the most recent thing that you need to have because you have a rich boyfriend.
Then she'll want a new house, or a car, or even a baby so Felix will feel required to stay with her, possibly even marry her.
Then, once the YouTube generation grows up and eventually another one DOESN'T follow, she'll divorce and leave him alone and lonely until he dies.
That's not "something that might happen," it's not "me being edgy," it's how women work.
>>336440156
have you seen pewdiepie lately? the guy is more based than ever
he really had gone full blown "i'm going to make what i want" mode
>>336440421
>Then she'll want a new house, or a car, or even a baby so Felix will feel required to stay with her, possibly even marry her.
my brothers going through this shit.
he married a girl who has a degree in spanish literature and works at sunglass hut. he is a pharmacist and they are already looking for a new house. shes going off and bragging to her friends about it. she even got jewelry once from him and said she didn't like it
fuckin princess syndrome
>>336438587
It switches from day to day for me.
>>336440421
sorry lads, my girlfriend just dumped me so I was a bit bitter when I made this post
>>336440421
youre retarded
>>336440417
>>336440156
shit I meant the popularity of all things is transient
>>336440417
>Movie attendance dropped
>Ticket and snack prices are higher than ever to make up for the loss of ticket sales
>No one goes to movies because of ticket prices or just piracy being so easy
It's like the movie industry is fucking itself in the ass and then wondering why it's happening while refusing to take that dick out of its ass.
>>336440471
>he really had gone full blown "i'm going to make what i want" mode
Isn't he a huge thing on YouTube Red? That thing YouTube makes you PAY for?
Yeah, "based" my fucking ass. It's all for show to make you think he's a cool guy now who isn't doing it for money.
>>336440338
Yeah, I figured it must not have been so unusual after all
>>336435678
When I realized I'm almost 30 and I'm lucky to have 10 hours in a week to play video games, never mind 10 hours a day
>>336440539
I worked in an independent arthouse cinema for six months and as much as I loved it the biggest lesson I learned is that I will never, ever buy cinema popcorn or fountain drinks ever again.
>>336440528
You cant fuckin type
>>336440521
I'm gay, so that doesn't work, m80.
>>336440634
Especially since the recipe for theater "butter" which is just yellow grease mixed with salt is online now and so cheap to make. Why would you bother?
When Halo made "Map Packs" acceptable and not a fucking laughing stock that destroyed companies for daring to put them out.
>>336435678
When grimdark 2serious games became the norm. I just want to play a nice adventure game. I want a cozy hometown. I want cozy taverns and merchants. I want cozy plains and cozy forests. And then I want to leave all that behind to go on a great adventure gathering a party as I go along through forgotten fortresses, underground passages, secret cities, and vast deserts. But no, rather give me more of the same kind of predictably bloody and needlessly violent nonsense we've seen for the past decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJpp-Uj3c64
>>336440647
You're retarded.
Retard.
hows that you fucking gronk
>>336440539
>>336440417
What reality do you guys live in where movies are not profitable?
>But Adjusted for Inflation Gone with the Wind earned more
Because they redistributed that one movie in active theaters for decades. Same with Star Wars.
>>336440471
he is actually pretty based now
>>336439514
why do people want to watch others cook or play golf, I can do that myself
Mid to late 360 gen when we finally saw the damage and direction a west dominated game industry was going towards.
Streaming, Let's Plays and E-Sports.
>>336435678
voice acting in video games. they started out short and terrible, now the quality is better, but the length has fucking quadrupled. just let me play my games
>>336440156
>ewdiepie, Markiplier, Game Grumps, etc. will all be left poor.
Pewdiepie and Markiplier will make more this year than you will in your entire life.
>>336440751
I feel you
I don't need a family friendly adventure but the whole edgy shit is getting old
I'd kill for a game with the Conan The Barbarian vibe - fun and campy but has serious parts
>>336440935
You alright there, bud?
>>336440801
Nobody said they weren't profitable. They said attendance went down, which it did.
>>336440751
This actually. I want a super cozy and relaxed adventure game, I just want to play as a guy going on an adventure and getting into crazy quests and becoming a legend. I don't need a super serious end of the world story line or the whole world to be fucked from the start like dark souls.
>>336438885
Yes
As a sports obsessed normie who plays obscure games, I was never and will never be with it
>>336440971
>I don't need a family friendly adventure but the whole edgy shit is getting old
Just the kind of classic hero against the dark. An epic journey. It seems it's only the Japanese who still try to pull out something like this, but I can't even remember anything they've done in the last couple of years that hasn't been over the top cuhrazy.
>>336440935
Someone's pretty mad.
>>336441024
I actually found Dark Souls world and Igavania to be quite cosy.
I found their worlds strangely peacefull.
>>336439514
Watching someone play a horror game is a lot like watching a really good horror movie. It's also really interesting to see how other people play through games, especially people with thorough knowledge of the game they are playing.
>>336440305
>only nintendo wanted to fund bayo 2 because the first did decent sales-wise, but not great
fuck this gay earth
>>336435678
HELLO JOE!
>>336441174
It was Dark Souls which made me think of wanting >>336440751, because everything in Dark Souls is so dark and horrible, there's never any truly uplifting or nice moments in it. Just more darkness.
>>336441207
iron helps us play
It was more the fact that most people I talk vidya with nowadays never played DOS games.
>>336438885
Yeah of course but if you actually think for a second you'll realize that people in their mid to late 20's are going to be the most jaded with video games.
These are the people who started playing games right it was really picking up and have played it their entire lives.
They have a right to be jaded. Guys in their mid 30s and 40s don't have nearly the same appreciation for video games.
when Mless turned to shit
MOBAs I guess, but I was never into online gaming anyway.
>>336441307
>tfw I still remember begging my dad to help me figure out how to run Virtua Soccer through MS-DOS
I know it's not the same but goddamn windows 95 was a trip for my young brain, I understood nothing
>>336435678
Minecraft and Roblox and all this almost-kinda-not-really-retro garbage with the insane culture around it did it for me. I still play tons of games, from shit I'm sure /v/ would hate me for, to classic CRPGs, to fighting games, I play most of the genres that exist. But I just can't really get that into these open world fuckaround games. They're aimless and basic, and oftentimes just buggy as shit. I don't know why kids love it so much, legos were better.
>>336441314
>Born in Dec' 85
I can confirm this.
>>336441272
Yeah, but the levels are really beautiful. Take the tower of Latria. For me, it felt like exploring a strange castle during a hot summer night.
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all
>>336441432
Lego is expensive
Bought a box with 2 cars for 20 dollars for my nephew last Monday. Bah.
Yes.
Final Fantasy 7 was the turning point for me, but anime becoming mainstream and birthing moeshits and retards really drove it home. Since the rise of the brony I've just resigned myself to inevitable sweet sweet death.
>>336435678
>Let's Player's/E-celebs being a surrogate friend to their viewers
>Mobile Games
>DLC
Yes it did.
Any of you guys know which episode has Marge standing on a table with her hair and clothing color inverted and Homer is sitting in a chair with muscles while a bunch of weird characters are in the background? I love that image and I can't remember which one it is.
>>336441517
There's been nothing that's really done that for me, mostly because everything is so empty. Anor Londo I liked when I saw it the first time you get there, and then as you walk down the stairs realizing it's huge. But then it quickly wears off because it's so empty and so quiet, and since that's pretty much what the whole game has been up to that point, it doesn't really do anything.
>>336441432
>emulating an NES game
>girlfriend's little sister asks me why it looks like Minecraft
I wish I could create a memorable, "retro" art style using fucking placeholder graphics.
>>336435678
Cliche as it may sound. I guess the whole gaming "culture" in general when normies and SJWs started infesting it.
More precisely somewhere around the time when being into video games is suddenly cool. You know, when the whole "such a nerd" schtick kicked in. I love video games, and still do, for the simple reasons; I just want to do some silly fun shit in a virtual world. I ain't got no friends when I was a kid so video games and the simple joy it provided was something I appreciated.
Some point there was people who have no social problems suddenly thinks it's cool to be a nerd. Just by wearing a mario or zelda shirt, now you are a nerd. Just because that girl posted a picture of her with a gameboy, now she's a nerd. At that time I didn't really minded it, video games were just getting attention by more audience that's all I thought.
And now, those people wants to restrain video games. Now everything that is video games gotta have a political agenda.
The worst part, is that THIS is the norm. And people like us are the devients for not seeing the problematic themes or whatever buzzword they want to throw in there. Sure you can ignore it, and that is no difficult task. But you can't deny that these are the times when that Simpsons line is happening exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE
>>336441561
I remember when all those special LEGO IKEA things started coming out, damn, that stuff is just sad.
May get some flak for thisespecially on here, but those stupid anime dating simulators. Any game with either a loli or huge titty monster 2D image with text at the bottom and I just don't understand at all.
>>336435678
I guess it has maybe, but it's not something I think about or care about whether it has or not. There have always been trends I never liked or cared for, but it's not enough to make me jaded because of them existing. There are things that I'd like to see more of, but like everything else, if I want it, I have to go do it myself which I plan to do.
>>336441704
yeah i remember growing up and keepin that you play games to yourself. you get hardcore made fun of it throughout middle school since kids are cunts but it dies down in highschool
now people are openly talkin about their favorite pewdiepie lets player around the age i was when i kept that to myself.
>>336441641
"$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
>>336441314
How blinded are you? Atari, Nintendo, practical home computing all became available to people who are now in their mid 30s. I've been playing video games since 1983 or so and all my friends have too.
>>336438885
Your 20s are the most difficult years of your life. Everyone talks about teenagers but high school is a joke and living with your parents is easy. In your 20s you really come to find who you are, your opinions and tastes change drastically, you learn more about life and the world than any other time period. It makes sense to become jaded with childhood hobbies in that period.
>>336441858
what shithole do you hail from
never at any point in my life was anyone made fun of for liking video games. not my friends, not other kids at school, nothing.
>>336441704
>>336435678
This is a diatribe. I won't try to hide my disappointment. This is just one oldfag's perspective.
I hate how terribly narcissistic the gaming community has become.
Everywhere I turn, some streamer is shoving their face into the bottom of their screen during gameplay. At the same time they generally have a twitter and youtube where they shove their face into more gameplay. If that isn't enough their real social life usually ends up bleeding into their online content via "update" videos that are just attention seeking vlogs disguised as meaningful content. Almost all of the big streamers and Let's Players have some kind of dumbass "Hey guys, I'm depressed. I'm taking a break from releasing videos. here is 30 minutes of me explaining why. also like and subscribe" or some such shit. Like it's fucking Days of Our Lives.
Gaming used to be about sitting in a dark corner at night and getting through those secret levels so you could tell your buddy about it the next day. Now gaming is all about flat-brim hats, expensive headsets, gaming chairs, twitch cleavage streams, recycled memes, and award shows with unenthusiastic celebrity hosts.
The swag generation won. I concede. I'm going to take up whittling or something.
>>336441929
every fuckin middleschool in america. you forgot how evil people in middleschool were?
>>336438587
>my face the exact opposite happened
>>336441658
It's partly this dead and silent atmosphere that make me like the Souls serie. It feel like you're some kind of explorer.
Maybe you should try Final Fantasy Crystal Chronice if living and breathing place are your thing. The ost is fantastic, the dungeon are pretty colorful and the towns are really nice. It's one of my favorite comfy game.
>>336441996
everyone in middle school played fps games
think im just younger than you are, so we had different experiences in middle school
>>336441884
Thanks, I knew it was a dream or Homer's recollection of something.
>>336440421
Nigga, she has a youtube channel with 6313081 subscribers. Her average viewer count per video is around 600000. She is making mad youtube dosh on her own.
When consoles started to promote that they could play DVD films
>>336441996
Yeah, and they all played vidya games.
>>336436096
>that dark side of the moon poster
It's cool to watch episodes years later and realize stuff like this
>>336441858
>>336441929
See, I personally don't mind people talking about video games. Or seeing other people discuss it. It's fine, do it in public, I don't really care.
It's just I want them to enjoy the games for what it is and maybe have some understanding for what they are. It's just so jarring when people nowadays treats video games like something with a harmful intention hiding within.
>>336440268
>contrarian weeb has shit taste
As expected.
>>336439503
Make sure to take her virginity, that way you'll never have to worry about it.
Better keep these things in the family.
I feel completely disconnected from /v/.
>SJW shit
>People talking about E-Celebs as if there was nothing wrong
>"Gamer Culture"
It feels like /v/ is much more into video games culture than actual videogames which makes me think that /v/ is made up of the same people that play videogames to be a called a "gamer" than to actually enjoy all kinds of videogames regardless of their origin or platform.
>>336441774
>but those stupid anime dating simulators
I totally understand being flustered by this. The trick to getting them is to stop seeing them as a 'dating sim game' and instead see them as essentially a 60+ hour long anime with an elaborate multi-linear storyline. This doesn't stop most of them from sucking, but when you look at them as super cost effective anime instead of a watered down game that exclusively simulates trying to get into lolipants their existence makes much more sense.
In all honesty, modern internet killed videogames.
>>336435815
I can also say it was this.
>>336440471
>>336440834
>pewdiepie
>based
>>336442784
Welcome to neo-v
It's only getting worse.
>>336442784
It's gotta be baitI hope
>>336442108
Not him but it's definitely age, when I was in middle school FPS weren't all that big yet.
>>336435678
When the games audience expanded in number while contracting in variety what types of games could be successful.
>>336441307
>just learning to read as a child
>older brother teaches me the DOS commands to start Doom and Wolfenstein>years later I'm spending hours throwing dollar bills at strippers in Duke 3D
What a time to be alive.
>>336442640
>calling yourself a gayhmur
The absolute worst.
>>336438587
>wake up one morning
>can only really get off to monster girl femdom now
Okay that's a lie, I can and will masturbate to pretty much anything despite being 22 in the exact same way I did when I was 12 so I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you man. That said monster girl femdom is the best.
>>336441774
I don't mind dating sims but keep that shit out of proper JRPGs.
>>336443437
People's tastes can change over time. I wouldn't say 2d chinese cartoons don't do anything for me, but I fapped to them so much as a teenager I guess I got burned out.
>>336438379
>caught a blastoise
>catching a fully evolved starter
>>336442784
>>336442875
>>336443030
Not even him, but
>don't watch any e-celebs whatsoever
>clicked on a Pewdiepie video the other day, I don't even fucking remember why
>never seen anything from the guy, but always assumed he was some obnoxious, screaming lolsorandumb fag
>he was comparing his current videos to his past ones, saying that he was pretty much what my assumption was and how he's moved on/matured
>whether his audience likes it or not, they've got to deal with it and he'll act/play however/whatever he wants
I know, I sound like a fag saying all this, but he sounded admirable and based.
>>336441202
>>336441202
i bought a wii u for bayonetta 2. haven't touched it since!
i might get smt x fe but i dont even know anymore.
>>336443665
>didn't get Xenoblade
why anon
>>336443635
reading comprehension, he said he was bullshitting e.g. that kid
>>336435815
>minecraft releases
>suddenly everyone calls enemies in every game "mobs"
>>336443627
There's such an incredible variation in artists' styles when it comes to 2D that I'm outright willing to call you a liar if you claim you can open sadpanda and not find one single work that makes your dick rock hard but whatever floats your boat famiglione.
>>336438814
MW2 MP was great tho
>>336443728
actually i should have. my wii u is on the other side of the world currently. maybe I will cop when i go back home.
>>336435678
mobile gaming. also anything post PS2 era got less and less interesting, surprisingly it's around that time i started to browse this god forbidden place
>>336443734
Anon, you're doing it again. Not everyone has the same tastes as you. It's not the end of the world. Some people like 2d. Others like 3d. And there are others that are turned on by floor tiles. There is no right or wrong here. Sit down and relax.
>>336439514
I don't have any friends (online or off) and it makes me feel like somebody's here talking to me.
>>336439514
>>336439759
I can understand WHY people watch LPers, I just dont unerstand HOW it can be a primary hobby. I can understand watching maybe speedruns and walkthoughs but some retard spazing out to jumpscares and bumbling around minecraft with commentary for hours wears thin fast
>>336443907
Talking to people on 4chan (yes, even /v/) is in all likelihood better than talking to people in real life because most people are incredibly stupid. The mere fact that everyone here has someone found 4chan and decided to stay already makes them preferable conversational partners to just about anyone you can meet at your random pub or college or whatever.
Eagerly awaiting those *tips fedora* (You)s now.
>>336439560
>>336439764
>if you don't experience things exactly the way I do you're doing it wrong
>>336439475
This. Watching someone else play something you've already played can give you a new perspective on it, and watching someone play something shitty or questionable can save you from torturing yourself. The SA Sonic 06 LP and Best Friends doing David Cage titles were all incredibly entertaining and I never would have touched them on my own based on their reputations.
how old are you, /v/?
almost 28 here; started on the NES and my earliest memories are of megaman and super mario bros. The best memories are RE2 and JRPGS on the ps1 in elementary school. It's been downhill ever since ps3/360/wii era for me and I don't know if it's because i'm an adult or if games are legitimately garbage now.
I think its the latter because I can go back to ps1 and 99% of the time its better than any AAA game coming out now. I don't believe that's nostalgia talking either.
>>336444173
Mother of god.
>>336444092
No, I'd say most people on /v/ are far dumber than most people I've met in real life. Your post is a prime example.
>>336444173
I'm 18 but my first console was a SNES.
Somehow I grew up like if I had been born 5 years earlier.
>>336444203
You must be incredibly masochistic to keep coming back here then.
>>336444256
We all are anon.
>>336444173
It's nostalgia, I started out with the NES too but readily admit some of the best games I've ever played have been 6th and 7th gen titles, and 8th gen has had plenty of gems too so far. Obviously there's tons of garbage to go with every gen too, but it's always been like that.
I've never felt like I was with it.
>>336443731
This has been happening since ultima
>>336435678
I was never "with it" to begin with. Your move grandpa.
>>336444303
Not really, I'm honest to myself about enjoying it here. Over the years I've come to realize that I don't hate myself enough to force myself to do anything I don't want to so if I really hated /v/ I simply would have left and not come back years ago. I love you dumb faggots and your shitposting, it's more entertaining than pretty much anything I can find on the internet.
>>336438587
Had the absolute opposite to me happen.
I can't even get it up with 3dpd women
>>336444430
Well yes, obviously I enjoy the place, otherwise I'd leave, but it's not because people here are smarter than the average normie. No, quite the opposite.
>>336444430
>I love you dumb faggots and your shitposting, it's more entertaining than pretty much anything I can find on the internet.
This. Only people I laugh this hard with is with two friends who also come here, or well one has all but stopped but he's been here since the beginning and the other comes and goes.
>>336444554
You're a fuckingtsundere, Anon.
>>336444620
I never said I didn't like the place. Try to pay attention my friend.
>>336441884
I love how Homer despises Flanders so much yet can only think to give him a baseball glove in his own fantasy.
>>336435678
When the 360 launched and everyone was ranting and raving how good CoD2 was when it was just a generic WW2 fps with janky controls, lazy campaign and barebones multiplayer.
>>336444724
Incidentally, it's on his right hand, he can't even remember he's left handed
>>336444731
>janky controls, lazy campaign
Nah, it's a solid campaign and the controls are good too.
>>336444724
>>336444764
holy kek
>>336444764
Uh... you always wear baseball gloves with your other hand.
Right handed peeps throw with their right, catch with their left, so they wear it on their left hand.
>>336444764
Well apparently he does because you catch with your non dominant hand so that your dominant hand can throw the ball
>>336444884
>>336444893
OhI don't play baseball
>>336444173
30 in two week
gaming sucks nowadays, i miss the days of amiga and team 17, ps2 was literaly the last good console and it's all downhill from here
>muh nostalgia
no fuck you, the talented people are all gone and they have been replaced by a cancerous mix of pretentious hipster, empty kickstarter promises and marketing people that are all about "cinematic trailers" and shit like that
>>336444942
OhMe neither, I just happened to know because it came up as a clue during an Ace Attorney case.
>>336444809
Infinite enemy spawners and invisible walls everywhere, so setpiece and epic!
>>336435678
I was never with it
I hate the games people claim to have liked 20 years ago.
I think lets plays get a bad rap because of the prevalence of live com retards going 'omg lool meme meme meme the guy did the thing so epik meme bro'. I havent watched a single good live com lp. However speedruns (a pseudo lp) and post commentaries that actually delve into the lore or mechanics or production and development of a game interest me greatly if its a game or series I enjoy. Like a movie commentary it gives insight and greater appreciation of the media. Live com is universally bad though; even post com 'lpers' I like have live coms that I cant stand.
>>336444554
I'd say it's hit and miss.
Most of the people I've met IRL they were stupid and I couldn't force myself to stay interested in them.
I've had very nice discussions on 4chan that I would have never expected to have IRL.
Though, on average and by first assumption, everyone is retarded and I act accordingly.
I'd say people are as stupid here as outside, but here on 4chan you're more likely to get into discussion and arguments on subjects more relevant to your interests and with more information and other stuff to back them up.
Also alternative views and opinions, especially if they're socially frowned upon (/pol/ /new/ etc).
On average, 4chan is more desirable than irl.
>>336444884
>>336444893
but that's wrong
t. professional baseball player
About two years ago, I was buying a new release every week. Slowly, I stopped and realized I was spending most of my gaming time replaying the same half dozen games. It's not that games now are inherently bad, I think I've just reached that point of what is new no longer enticing me and I'm simply content to replay forever.
>>336435678
It happened to me
>Lets play culture
>Vine
>Seeing franchises get reboots multiple times, each one worse than the last.
>Pewdiepie
>Undertale
>>336445017
It's only bad now because it was copied endlessly by poor imitators. It's still a fun campaign with good set pieces, and I'm not sure how anything about the controls could be janky.
>>336435678
I always felt alienated when it came to lots of things. I feel like I never was "with it" to begin with desu senpai.
>>336441704
This
I remember the tail end of middle school and fucking mw2 was all the rage and I had an an epiphany that all the prics I was around online saying shit like "get a life" "nerd" and fucked around way too much and didn't take it seriously, were the exact same people I was around at school. It was then I realized that they were infesting gaming, fast forward to the tale end of 9th grade and a guy I knew convinced me to abandon consoles alltogether and go to pc gaming, it was an incredible choice.
But now the normies are slowly starting to trickle into even that.
Its all a symptom of our general societal decline.
>>336445103
No, you're wrong. No one wears a baseball glove on the same hand they throw with. This isn't rocket science.
>>336445247
As long as he's not European, he should be fine.
>>336445247
that nigga's ass bigger than the girl's lmao
>>336445231
see a doctor
>>336445231
This.
I always was PC gamers through and through but all my friends in school had consoles so I ended buying a PS2 and an Xbox 360 to play with them.
When school was over I went back to PC gaming exclusively and it was so much better. But slowly and surely over the last 8 years it has been getting worse and worse. To the point where I can't tell if I'm playing with consoletards with a PC or something.
What I do now is I just stick around the communities of good dedicated players in the games I play and never interact with the rest of the plebs.
It made gaming a lot more enjoyable for me.
Yes. Around 2008 when consoles dominated the market.
>>336435678
Losing "it" only happens if you lose interest in new vidya altogether. Let's Players and people who watch them are a subculture, in the same way that people who play MOBAs are a subculture, or people who play FPS games, etc.
Just because you have an inherent disinterest in something doesn't add up to what you are attempting to imply.
If though, Let's Players and people who watched them somehow "ruined" video games for you altogether; then sure, you are no longer with it but as that just leads right back to my primary counter-point. You need to lose interest in new video games to truly be out of "it".
>>336435678
>MOBAs
>streaming
>YouTube gaming "celebs"
Wake me up
>>336440186
The problem is that tv sports or gladiators were usually professional. Most youtubers are fucking horrible at games. I think it is just a "being alone" thing. People watch them for the conversation, the quips, like when you watch a D-series flick with a bro. Youtubers provide that. A virtual "friend". They could be doing origami or potato peeling, most watchers would not care. They just want a friendly voice.
>>336441432
Legos are expensive shit man, especially if you have to mail order them. I'd rather just pay once on minecraft and build cities endlessly. minecraft being aimless is all that it's good for, when I literally have no mental energy to do anything, I'll build a couple buildings and think of interior decor.
>>336445430
I used to do this but now that everything is match making and there's no community servers anymore, it's hard to avoid the plebs and even harder to find a good community to play with.
video gaming news
and media did it for me to some extent it is good and bad too nowadays people who havent even played that game start criticizing it
same for comics too people hear things about on facebook and talk like they have read it all.
why people critisize something when they havent played/read/watched it themselves
>>336445430
>>336445231
>>336445798
Even through matchmaking most games allow you to play with friends and teamspeak will never die.
So long as you manage to find the underground communities of good players and stick with them you can have good players to play with that will make the experience bearable and will also make you improve.
I mostly play shooters and I don't have an issue when it comes to playing with and against good players. If you also don't want to do normal matchmaking to avoid the plebs yuo can always play ESL/ESEA, amateur leagues and private matches.
And then once you've honed your skills go back to normal pubs and become a pubstar.
post-irony killed me entirely, and a lack of interest in basically anything new vidya-wise dug my grave. why does everything have to be esports now?
when i was getting abused for picking my best hero in dota (winrate and comfort/skill wise) into good matchups purely because they weren't meta at the time i realised maybe this era of ESPORTS isn't for me.
i really have no idea what the fuck anyone is doing anymore.
>>336446026
>not muting retards
You've only got yourself to blame.
>>336446072
>game doesn't have an easy way to mute people
Fuck you Red Orchestra 2.
>>336435678
Let's Play.
I was still with it in the early days when it was about passion and everyone who wanted to become Youtube famous was told that hey're a piece of shit.
Now, whenever there's a new release, hundreds of assholes jump on it to churn out blind content as quickly as possible so they can ride the first wave the game makes and hopefully get a piece of the pie. It has become near impossible to find informative LPs that edit things down so I don't have to waste my time watching some faggot run in circles because they can't figure out how to progress.
In the same vein, streaming. The things people do to get ahead on Twitch are just pathetic, from obnoxious donation/subscription messages that destroy any value the stream might have had to pretending to be a cripple or spreading malicious rumours about their competition.
Also e-Sports. Just a bunch of kids being exploited by an industry. "Professional video game player" is the new "professional video game tester".
So basically fuck everything.
>>336446153
You can use a console command to mute people.
But yeah, it's a bother.
>>336446072
i used to play a lot oflone druidand had a few games where people on my team would chase my summon around to deny it for whatever reason.
flame if i fuck everything or anything up is usually justifiable, but when i realised people are willing to ruin games purely because i'm not copying whatever the pro players are doing it just deflated my interest in most vidya.
i've just been playing older singleplayer stuff now, but i still kinda wish esports and gachaboxes as microtransactions didn't make things so shitty.
>>336446181
;_; when will the vidya renaissance come to end these dark ages
>>336446258
Sorry to ask but what's your mmr? I never have issues like that in my bracket anymore.
I see a lot of people from /vg/ complain all the time about having to play with russians and toxic players, when they themselves are just as bad and toxic.
I honestly never have these issues in my bracket, only very rarely do I get people who do shitty stuff, and even then it isn't that big of an issue.
Also no matter what you do don't let it get under your skin, sometimes you play like shit and people flame you, that's part of the game. Just move on and win next game.
>>336446401
it was like 3.5k a long time ago, not like it's high or anything but i think it falls under "could be worse". i don't really expect every game to be perfect or have amazing players carrying me, it's just that esports infesting pubs as much as it does is something that stops the game being interesting, at least for me. i've been playing on/off since pre-release in dota 2 (back when beta invites were >$100) and the decline into esports is something i've experienced first hand, it's kinda weird. it's nice people can be set for life off being good at the game, though.
i don't particularly like the direction the game is going either (valve are kikes and the current comeback gold situation is bleh.), so it was pretty simple to just stop playing - but i do miss playing pretty frequently until i remember how the game is now.
i also realised everything else recent/popular enough to pub whenever is similarly esports/twitch focused and just went back to playing ancient shit i'd never got around to doing, it's nice.
>>336446181
Twitch depresses me sometimes. So many people think it's easy to just stream and entertain people and that they can make an easy living off it. Everyone has that one friend who is a streamer and desperately wants you to watch them.
>>336446181
You can literally ignore all of these things though, you are the one choosing to expose yourself to them.
>>336438587
Swap it up occasionally myself, but 2D is always more superior.
Video game related, I'm still with it, but I don't agree with exclusive preorder or dlc bullshit.
>>336446687
I'm only 4.5k, playing on EU West, and I very rarely run into shit like that. Mostly everyone is nice to me.
I hated the last patch when it was Invoker and Spectre 24/7, this patch seems a little more interesting and Slark is great and he's my favorite and most played hero so I'm pretty happy.
I just don't know, I build what I think is right, if someone flames me for my build (never happens anymore anyway) I just mute them and move on.
Just keep a positive attitude, and people will be nice.
Anyone in here tried going back and playing an old multiplayer game you thought would be dead, but miraculously you find out it's still active?
For me, it was Day of Defeat: Source. Been playing on avalanche, anzio and some custom maps for hours. This game's still got it.
>>336447009
There's a mod for Jedi Academy that still has some populated servers every now and then.
>>336446850
maybe if i start playing again, maybe things will be more interesting a few patches from now - i haven't played in six months or so and i don't see that changing too much. my absolute favorite hero hasn't been viable forever, but it makes me happy to see lone druid is good.
it's kinda sad to watch super high level pubs on streams and they're still full of people flaming and bitching at each other, that's what killed my motivation to try super hard originally because it really does look like your games don't improve much no matter the mmr.
i do miss being able to shit out a giant networth advantage with my pretty-great tier farming skills, though - that was probably the most fun thing, and it got progressively harder and more dangerous/game ruining to do as time went on.
thanks for listening, though.
>>336440268
For the love of God, please say pic unrelated.
>Love building shit in GMOD
>Looking up wiremod on YouTube
>GMod funny moments epic gameplay fun funny wiremod friends memes explosions funnymoments funmoments garry'smod garrys mod garys mod garry's
>prophunt
>murder
>ttt
>darkrp epic trolls
I just wanna build shit mane
>>336447173
I expect to get burnt out on Dota eventually as well. I'm going to hit the 3k hour mark this week.
>>336447324
i watched a lot of replays and stuff so my hours were super inflated, but i got to around 2k games or so
kinda wish i was still interested in it honestly, time fillers of that magnitude are pretty hard to come by.
