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Everyone seems to tacitly agree that vidya's best days are behind it. Do you agree?
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1998 is objectively the best year for video games, with the surrounding years also being quite good
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>people have nostalgia because they can't deal with the real world
Shocker
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>>336875237
This
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>>336874862
tv's best days are behind it
music's best days are behind it
film's best days are behind it
literature's best days are behind it

What I believe is that there are hundreds of great games I haven't played, whether they be games already released or games to be released.

So fuck it. Even if all the great games came out 20 years ago, I still haven't played all of 'em, so they're new to me.
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>"mature stories"

lulz, yup, those neveeeeer existed before HALO and GEARS OF WAR. everything was kiddy japanese shit instead of BURLY MANLY AMERICAN MARINE SAVES WORLD BY ROOTY TOOTY SHOOTY TERRORISTS
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>>336874862

Seeing as how I voted for 1990s, yes. Gaming will never be that good again and it's only going to get worse as time goes on.
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In terms of technological advancements: id say 90s for PC, 00s for consoles.
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>>336875237
SHUT UP ANON
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First gen 3D was fucking terrible. That shit does not hold up what so ever. Late 90's / early 2000's was the worst time ever for games. Got soooo much better afterwards and the end of 2D era had many polished masterpieces.
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>>336874862
>Unironically using "mature stories"
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>>336875741
i think 1990s 2d more than makes up for early 3d
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If a I was born in 1995, is that a le 90s kid or an 00s kid?
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>>336874862
>people actually voted for the 70's

oh shit yeah pong's where it's at
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>>336875004
good taste
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>>336876516
Considering you were five by 2000, I'd say 00s.

Good taste by the way.
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>>336874862
>Mature stories

What is this this even referring to? The 00s was the decade of fucking nothing games, mindless FPSs and sports games and the death of anything with a story that wasn't a Tom Clancy novel.
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>>336874862
The best years of video games were whenever you were age 5 - 18
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>>336876202
It varies. A lot of SNES games look bad. Very few SNES games look good.
Very few devs still used 2D when we got to PSX. I can only think of Alundra, SOTN, and Wild Arms. Even Alundra 2 ditched the 2D, and the game sucked ass because of it.
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>>336874862
How do you bring back the best days?
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>>336874862
many people think their earliest gaming moment through their early 20s was 'best ever.'

you'll see young adults in 2050 touting the late 2030s through 2040s being 'best ever.'

nostalgia is what it is.
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>>336877682
You are retarded, >>336877483 has is closer, but generally the rule of thumb is "Things were better when I was 12". This is an older thing than vidya.
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>>336876051
Yeah no shit.

>Mature Stories
>"Muh sex muh grit"
>Meanwhile games like Chrono Trigger, king's quest, and Majora's Mask have been out for a good while

The bast decade and a half has proven little but this Medium refuses to actually mature itself. If people keep think that Maturity equals blood and tits, then we'll never grow out of giggling every time Kratos fucks a whore.
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>>336874862
Unless you have a crystal ball, the past will always be better.
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97-2006 was the best 10 year span of video games. If you must, this would make 00s the best decade since there are more great years of the 00s in this time period.
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>>336878010
That's 11 years.

94-2004 was better.
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>>336877827
>Chrono Trigger
>mature
It was literally an anime.
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>>336878078
It's ten years...

1 97
2 98
3 99
4 00
5 01
6 02
7 03
8 04
9 05
10 06

>94-2004 was better.
You might be right. For some reason I was confusing 04 with 05.
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>>336877827
Exactly, and don't forget the "cinematic" aspect too. Symphony of the Night is about an outcast on a mission to murder his father to save a race who killed his mother and tried to kill him. It even looks fantastic too, but it doesn't look like the Last of Us or Bioshock Infinite so it can't have a serious story or be mature. It also puts the story in the background, keeping it as a driving motivation but never gets intrusive, which is in opposition to how it works now.
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I feel like 95-05 had the best run
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>>336878078
What comes out in 05 that makes it bad? I'm on board with the 2007 meme as the end of video games. Galaxy is probably the last game before it all went to shit
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>>336874862
Sixth gen/ start of seventh gen is the best. The description for 2000s is highly misrepresented for the decade as a whole.
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>>336874862
Video games have only been getting better with time, generally speaking. I genuinely believe that video games these past few years have been amazing. I'd argue that the 3DS nowadays is the second coming of the PS2, just as an example.
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>>336875237
What does the real world have to do with video games?
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>>336878242
By 04 you've got Half Life 2, VtMB, Rome Total War and even WoW. Gaming really took a nosedive after that.
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vidya at its best was 98 - 2004. After that it all comes tumbling down
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>>336875735
I'd say the reverse. 90% of PC games during the 90s looked like shit on a plate with ugly prerendered garbage everywhere in games like Diablo II and Starcraft while consoles had great sprite art going on until it was destroyed by the 3D demon
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>>336878728
dmc3 came out in 05
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>>336878523
Absolutely nothing of worth really came out after that, maybe one or two games per year. Its when all of the money started to go to "cinematic experiences", we lost loads of studios and entire genres just disappeared.

The fact that Nintendo made another Mario game after it is fucking irrelevant.
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>>336878728
2005 had RE4, Civ IV, and SOTC
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>>336878091
Can't be an anime unless at least one person says "karada ugokanai"
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well polygons have hit a point of diminishing returns.

it used to be that back when 3D capability was new, doubling the poly count would have huge impact, and now you can quadruple or quintuple that shit and it hardly affects anything.

the difference between gaming generations is smaller than ever before, the biggest hope we have going forward is that games may eventually look like the cutscenes from PS2 games or some shit.
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>>336878748
OoT ran at 20 fps. If it came out today it would be lambasted by /v/.
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>>336878860
Civ IV was just a tighter Civ game with better graphics, RE4 and SoTC were good though. PC Gaming died a death before consoles did but the change had taken place by 04.
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>>336877447

I felt that the 90s dug deepest in story and themes if anything.
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>>336878091
More game that are actually anime where?
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>>336878956
>games may eventually look like the cutscenes from PS2 games or some shit.
...You don't remember PS2 cutscenes too well. We're already past that.
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The current year is always the best year for video games. You know, because old ones are still here and you get more all the time.
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>>336879032
I agree 100%, it's why I thought it was such a strange comment
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>>336879065
Nearly every JRPG
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>>336879106
As games get older you become less able to enjoy them as if they were new. With some exceptions.
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>>336878987
There is literally nothing wrong with 20 fps
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>>336879162
I still don't really believe it was 20 fps. It looks like 30. Are all the tech wizards and framerate estimators lying?
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>>336879089
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHjtg7cZqY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im5tc4fcg5w
I wish I could play a game that actually looked like this
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>>336879162
I never noticed how choppy it was until you told me it was 20 FPS.
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>>336877447
You're only thinking of 2006-2009, 2000-2005 was a spectacular time for gaming
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>>336879256
No, it's actually is 20fps.

The thing is that it's a stable 20 fps. What your eye really notices the most is not the constant framerate but the inconsistencies.

OoT is actually has the responsiveness of a 60 fps game. It internally renders at 60 fps but only shows every third frame to the player.
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>>336879293
It exists. It's called Star Ocean 5. Btw it sucks.
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>>336879154
Your standards simply get higher, but once in a while I still find games that fill me with childlike glee.
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>>336879395
The stories weren't any more "mature" than the previous five years though, the well was drying up to almost nothing by the middle of that decade.
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>>336879408
>It internally renders at 60 fps but only shows every third frame to the player.
Does that actually help performance?
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I agree. The 2010s was the decade of pandering to the masses. And Pandora's box has been opened - there's no going back. Games will continue to be dumbed down because that generates more sales. Gimmicks will be prioritized over fun. Pandering will take precedent over decent storytelling. Congratulations, most of the game industry is now network tv. Safe. Predictable. Boring.
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>>336879428
>Implying
Potato-chan would like a word

And I'll believe it's terrible when I play it. It probably won't be better than 2 or a Tales game but it should still be fun
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>>336877447
Don't pay too much attention to the idiot who did the expansionary blurbs for Gamefaqs, he has no idea what he is talking about
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>>336879498
Congrats for making the dumbest post in the entire thread.
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>>336879162
If I can find it, I remember someone hacking the game to perform 30 fps.
Cool that the 3DS version came with 30fps standard.
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>>336879557
That's the art style you have an issue with. Not the technical quality of the graphics.
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>>336879498
>Pandering will take precedent over decent storytelling

This part the most.

everyone is settled in to their trenches that is their target audiences. It does make everything overly similar.
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>>336879582
And your counter evidence is?

Let me remind you that half of the industry is betting the bank on casual VR games
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There isn't a definitive great decade.
Every decade has its complete shit and every decade has its gems.
And the 90's had PLENTY of shit.
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>>336879681
What are the gems of 2010-2015?
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>>336879681
Yeah, oldfags in here are projecting their nostalgia too much. Games were shit and they're much better now.
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>>336879669
Why does the industry always do the wrong thing?

>>336879681
The shit doesn't count because you can just not buy the shit. What counts is the heights, the best games.
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>>336879482
Yes. N64 has essentially three chips: CPU, RSP (polygon calculations) and RDP (polygon drawing/screen output).

CPU and RSP are able to do their jobs at 60 fps but RDP in OoT is hit really hard and can only do its job at 20 fps. So even though CPU and RSP keep working, you can only *see* the results on the screen every third frame of this work. But the CPU is still reading input from the controller all the time, etc.
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>>336879669
What you are describing is exactly the way the INDUSTRY has always worked, because it's an INDUSTRY. People have said this exact same shit in literally every single gaming generation since the first, it's amazing.
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>>336879681

90s shit collection was fun though

And a lot of 2010s supposed gems aren't.
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holy shit n64/ps1 are such overrated pieces of trash
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>>336879759
It was a lot less of a formalized industry in the 70s, 80s and 90s
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>>336879730
>decade
>2010-15
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>>336879759
Funny, I don't recall people complaining about casualization of the market in the SNES era. Please link me to some proof.
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>>336878660
>I'd argue that the 3DS nowadays is the second coming of the PS2, just as an example.

No, 3DS is just for manchilds who crave for nostalgia.
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>>336879816
>Can't respond with half a decade's worth of gems
I'm sorry we haven't gotten to 2020 yet anon. It's a shame about those games too
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>>336879737
The industry hasn't always done the wrong thing. But ever since the industry became big business it has done nothing but the safe thing.
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>>336879737
>Why does the industry always do the wrong thing?
But they don't? If they did, they would be dead by now.
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>>336879804

>One of the best gens ever

Too bad Saturn could not be bothered to keep up outside Japan.
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>>336879823
Thats because you are an underage b&.

People were whining how everything was about pretty graphics and gameplay was actually moving backwards, due to Nintendo and Sega infantilising the entire market with dumb action games that had pretty sprites.
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>>336878660
>I'd argue that the 3DS nowadays is the second coming of the PS2, just as an example.


quantity and span of genres offered on 3DS doesn't even come near PS2.

The closest thing 3DS is, is actually the WiiU, interestingly enough.
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>>336880005
>I'll take things that didn't really happen for $1000 Alex
Unlike you, I was actually old enough to remember those times. And every was loving the tech advancements. Not to mention many, many Sega/SNES games that had rather high skill ceilings (higher than their previous counterparts)
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>>336878987
of course it would be lambasted today because not only the 20 fps but the graphics too. OoT gets somewhat a free pass because it came out when we were still pioneering 3d titles.
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>>336879929
Wrong is whatever I don't like.
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Seriously though someone make a list of the "gems" of 2010-present, The Current Decade please
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>>336880208
So what don't you like? Maybe I can pander to you and make the big bucks.
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>>336880194
With normalized graphics for this era obviously
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>>336874862
Well, it's just like how the 80s was the arguably the best time for fun awesome movies.
They had the technology to tell stories like Jurassic Park, Alien and Back to the Future in ways they couldn't before. Now everything after the really big ones feel like they're copying it.

That's my own feelings toward movies at least.
As for video games, 3d technology was a shitstorm of companies trying to make the best
game to come out on top when their opponents failed to progress.
The best ideas have sort of been done. Then some ideas were polished and done better or worse in the 2000s.
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>>336880194
OoT's graphics were pretty good for the time though. The only (non-flight sim) game engine out at the time capable of rendering these kinds of draw distances was Unreal.
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>>336880285
it's called OoT3d and it runs at 30fps
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>>336880270
This picture embodies a great deal of what I don't like.
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Yes. Maybe in several decades once westerners get out of gaming we will return
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>>336880319
>As for video games, 3d technology was a shitstorm of companies trying to make the best
>game to come out on top when their opponents failed to progress.
Corporations ruined everything really.
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>>336880351
I'm talking normalized graphics for this era but still 20 fps. And OoT3D's graphics are far below standard graphics for modern games. Anything on the 3DS looks like hot horseshit really. It's a handheld.
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>>336880254
Spec Ops
Bastion
Metal Gear HD Collection
Dota 2

The fact that those are the best I can come up with is terrifying to me
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>>336880117
You were a child then right? Also guessing you are American, not the best perspective on things. The NES and SNES eras were when gaming became super popular childrens' toys and that was controversial as hell to plenty of people. Exactly the same shit that people say now they said back then, about games being dumbed down. It wasn't about difficulty, it was about the endless slew of rehashes and how everything became about graphics.
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>>336880486
What? This generation is all about graphics, there's no way the previous generation was too.
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>>336880486
>NES/SNES
>Endless slew of rehashes
Do tell about all the rehashes that came out of the Atari/Colecovision era
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>>336880441
You could achieve really good graphics if your target was only 20 fps.

OoT was originally going to be 30 fps by the way. But they found the scope of the game (huge map sizes by '98 standards) was too taxing on the system.
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>>336880551
It was always about graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0KTjpaG3cg
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>>336880486
>People actually wanted shitty Atari 2600 graphics over SNES level graphics
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>>336880562
>implying those weren't also the eras of Atari

>>336880551
Imagine what it was like then fucking 3D became available for the first time.
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>>336880472
>Spec Ops
Ok
>Bastion
I liked it but I feel dirty for liking it, I think it's my indie reflex
>MGSHD
You can't count HD collections or remakes anon, those are PS2 games
>Dota 2
Also questionable if it should even be elligable
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>>336880719
>the 90s were the era of Atari
Your shitposting has gone too far
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>>336880719
Some of us don't have to imagine.
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>>336880706
Hey I'm not defending them, I'm just saying this shit has happened every time, it's hilarious to see kids now saying the exact same things and thinking their gen is totally unique.
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>>336880472
Witcher 3
Xcum 2
The entire Dark Souls trilogy (and Bloodborne I guess)
Hearthstone
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>>336879889
Not even close.
>Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons
>Kid Icarus Uprising
>Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon
>Etrian Mystery Dungeon
>Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
>Etrian Odyssey Untold 2: The Fafnir Knight
>Etrian Odyssey IV
>7th Dragon III: Code VFD
>Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright
>Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
>Animal Crossing: New Leaf
>Liberation Maiden
>The Starship Damrey
>Protect Me Knight 2
>Yokai Watch
>The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
>Bravely Default
>Bravely Second
>Rune Factory 4
>Story of Seasons
>Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance
>Fire Emblem Awakening
>Fire Emblem Fates
>Final Fantasy Explorers
>Monster Hunter IV Ultimate
>Monster Hunter x
>Monster Hunter Stories
>Persona Q
>Project x Zone
>Project x Zone 2
>Unchained Blades
>Shin Megami Tensei IV
>Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final
>Super Smash Bros. 4
>Pokemon X/Y
>Pokemon OR/AS
>Dragon Quest VII: Warriors of Eden
>Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
>Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
>Devil Survivor Overclocked
>Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
>Star Fox 64 3D
>Xenoblade Chronicles 3D
>Cave Story 3D
>Hyrule Warriors Legends
>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
>The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
That doesn't seem varied to you? Especially in comparison to the Wii U? You wouldn't say that that's a comparable library to the PS2?
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>>336880472
Dota 2 is a remake of Dota 1 which was a remake of Aeons of Strife - a Starcraft 1 map.

It all began in the 90s anyway.
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>>336880807
I think there's a level of objective polish that can be seen in certain eras. For example, mature 2D on the SNES and Genesis were far more polished than the janky early 3D of PS1 and N64
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>>336880849
Most of those are rehashes, nostalgia pandering, enhanced ports of older games, or remakes of older games.

For example, even if Bravely Default is a new IP it's still just nostalgia pandering for old FFs.

Etrian is a hilarious rehash series that just refuses to die.

ALBW is the definition of nostalgia pandering.

Monster Hunter: another series that just rehashes over and over and somehow people keep buying.

Same for Pokemon

Then we've got the 3D port quadruplets, SF64, XBC, OoT, MM
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>>336880790
American detected
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>>336880921
>Objective polish
No. Stop. It's literally you being bias for your gen.

I've also just learned that "mature" is my trigger word
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>>336881164
aka "I was too poor to buy anything other than an 80s era system that brought about the crash of an entire industry"
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>>336881167
But what is my gen? Protip: I prefer PS1 era due to more JRPGs, which don't suffer as much due to the polish issue because many of them used polygonal characters on prerendered 2D bgs.

;)
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>>336881161
Jesus christ this post is disgusting, even for bait. If Bravely Default and Etrian Odyssey are rehashes then there have been no new games for about 20 years. Fuck off
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>>336881238
>the crash of an entire industry"

Again, dumb American kid who everything he knows about video game history he learnt from wikipedia.
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>>336881285
But there have. Just not on 3DS. And Etrian at its core is nostalgia pandering for old dungeon crawlers where you drew your own maps. I mean this shit is transparent as hell, they even talked about it when 1 came out.
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>>336880849
Half of your list is rpgs man. I like the 3DS but its not nearly as varied as the PS2.
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>>336881329
>worldwide revenue went from 3.2B to 100M in two years
>there was no crash
Jesus christ, you went full retard
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>>336881432
>People spent 3.2 billion dollars on Atari games

I really doubt that
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>>336874862
Video games were always better back in the good ol' days. Don't you agree?
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>>336881432
>entire industry
>going full Strawman

Getting more and more desperate there, Chad.
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>>336881238
How did you guys feel about crashing the industry? Why did you let it happen and not save it?
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all times are best times for video games. they exist. thats all i care about.

end.
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>>336874862
Of course it was 90s
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>>336881396
That doesn't make it a rehash. EO is inspired by classic first person dungeon crawlers and shit like Ultima, but it's got a totally unique identity and does things very differently and in it's own way. To say it's nostalgia pandering, rehashing, or a rip off is insulting. Is every 3D platformer a Mario 64 clone? Is every FPS a Doom clone?
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>>336880719
What are you even blabbering about? Atari was neck deep into irrelevancy by the time SNES released. And no, just because your soviet craphole only had knockoff 2600s in early 90s doesn't make Atari relevant.
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>>336874862

>Most "gamers" were born in the 90's or played 90's games because it's all they heard about or could afford.

NO SHIT!
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>>336881479
They actually did. You're forgetting the fact that 1.) Atari was pretty much the only game in town and 2.) arcades were fucking huge in terms of revenue
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>>336881527
>the Kazakhstan games industry in the 1980s was strong! Strong I say!
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>>336881421
Ah, fair enough. I still find comparing it to the Wii U's library even in terms of variety is a little much, but I guess that's fair. It really is more of an RPG machine than anything.
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>>336874862
Oh, maybe everyone should stop making games then, since no one likes them anymore and everyone is just playing the games from the 90s.
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>>336881603
>3D platformer a Mario 64 clone?
Yes, if they gate off their shit with collectables. Some go on a different paradigm and are copying other types of 3D platformers.

>Is every FPS a Doom clone?
No, some are different enough, mainly when you get into the slowgame ones like a lot of military fps or cover based fps, which Doom never was
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>>336881764
Nah, they should just make more games like the 90s had. This is why indie games are thriving, because many of them copy 90s games.
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>>336881624
Are you retarded? Most kids born in the 90s would have started with 2000s games. The kids that played in the 90s were born in the 80s.

There's a reason why those kids that call themselves 90s kids are retarded; because you're not a kid of a decade if you were born in it.
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>>336880808
>I was born after 1995: the post
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>>336881880
the sad part is this is kinda true
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>>336881580
https://youtu.be/AlQXil1SZSw?t=13s

Matsuba
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>>336877827
>Chrono Nigger
>Good story

Shut the fuck up
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The main problem nowadays is that everything is segregated into AAA and indie with almost no middleground. The former is stale as fuck and the latter usually shows a glaring lack of resources.

Look what happens when an actually promising mid-budget game arrives, like Serious Sam or recently Stellaris. People collectively cream their pants.
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>>336882191
What's a good story then?
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>>336882203
>Serious Sam or recently Stellaris. People collectively cream their pants.
I didn't.
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Being a graphicsfag prevents me from playing early 3D games now.

2D games are fine, I still go back and play SNES games pretty frequently. More recent 3D games are also fine, anything past around 2002, especially if it's stylized.

But N64/PS1-era 3D completely turns me off of a game.
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>>336882520
It's the polygons, isn't it.
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Bean counters all, you can't go wrong.
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>>336875476
It was around the turn of the century the series like silent hill started resonating with the community, also you start getting shooters like half life and its clones taking prominence over the run, gun and quip shooters of the 90s. You sound like ghazifag desu
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>>336879753
Neat
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>>336874862
>Do you agree?
Have you played anything made in the last 15 years?
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>>336885535
No.
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>>336880769
Why feel bad for liking Bastion? It's a great game in every regard, maybe a bit short but visuals, gameplay, story, and music are all amazing.

Supergiant games is a pretty good dev, they don't rush shit and they clearly put a lot of effort into making a product they stand by.
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>>336879735
>Games were shit and they're much better now.
You're a Michael Bay fan, aren't you?
Just a guess.
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>>336886154
I-it's not like I hate him or anything!
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>>336879681
>There isn't a definitive great decade.
>Every decade has its complete shit and every decade has its gems.
>And the 90's had PLENTY of shit.

No one is saying one decade has good games and another doesn't; that's a stupid argument that can be disproven in a single post, which is probably why that's the argument you arranged for yourself to face. Sorry, but people are simply acknowledging the good games of yesterday were better than the good games of today, and they were of greater quantity as well. We certainly had a large and lively industry the further we go back, unlike today:

>Nintendo is teetering on the shitter
>Sony basically has nothing to offer but the best console choice for multiplats
>Xbox probably won't make it to next gen
>Konami is dead
>Capcom is dead
>Rare is dead
>Valve all but stopped making games
I guess it's just nostalgia to pretend these things were ever good at any point in time, right? I mean, people can't possibly be right in thinking any of these things were once reasons to be excited.

>>336879795
This anon gets it.
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>>336874862
Japan's left it's economic bubble and is going through a recession and most of the games collective fanbases have moved to mobile. Meanwhile the majority of actual talent who basically pioneered everything in vidya has lost their studios to corporate sell outs or just grew too old for the industry itself.

You're damn right it's best days are behind them, but there's still plenty of quality to be had. It's just harder to find since shovel-ware is comparatively at an all time high.
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>>336887682
Shovelware really is a big problem. Steam releases up to 200 games a month (check all recent releases, I'm not making this up). That's 6 games per day, more than any one person is able to play. How can we be expected to find an occasional good game in there?
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>>336874862
At least consoles had games.
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Do people actually think gaming was anything but worse than it is right now as a whole compared to back then? It was 90% shitty shovel-ware, a hand full of actual gems, and then an ocean of games trying to imitate the gems of the generation.
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>>336888012
Don't forget mercilessly downgraded arcade ports.
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>>336887412
>Capcom is dead
[citation needed] hyperbolic statements need not apply
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>>336874862
The novelty of video games has worn off for people who have been playing video games for more than 10 years, so of course they're going to remember whatever time period they first started playing as being way better. Nothing will ever impress me the way playing World of Warcraft for the first time back in 05 impressed me... even if a newer game is legit better, I've already had that experience of being blown away by a video game and can't really have it again unless it's something really revolutionary
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>All those casuals saying the 90s

The 80s were the best. CDs and 3D graphics fucking ruined everything.
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>>336888468
Sprite games were at an all time high in early/mid 90s.
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>>336889005
And? A lot of them were just casualized versions of 8-bit games. 8-bit era also had more experimentation in general.
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>>336889119
Yeah, experimentation on all those various ways to move right in a sidescrolling perspective.
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>>336889443
As opposed to all that experimentation on various ways to move in 3 dimensions.

You know what I meant, you cocknozzle.
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>>336889640
I had an NES and I honestly don't remember much variety outside of several Contra levels and all those Kunio-kun games..

Most of the games were safe, unimaginitive platformers and if not, it'd likely be a Double Dragon style thing. There was also North&South I suppose, but it was complete ass.
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>>336879730

Dark Souls, Bayonetta, RDR, etc. I'm sure someone will respond with a smug faced image and the games I listed in greentext.
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>>336878078
I'd say 1995-2005 to squeeze in another few of my favourite games, but it doesnt really matter.

Mid 90s to mid 00s is the best era for gaming.
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>>336877238
What about text based games like Zork?
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