What was pc gaming like in the 90's?
>>341376396
Yiff in hell, furfag.
complete shit, but there was this atmosphere/feeling like the start before a journey, you could see it on the horizon, the potential of our imaginations seemingly without limit of expansion. Things were getting better and better, graphically and game play-wise. Each release offered something new and groundbreaking. What I wont forget is the universal momentum that we all had as players, riding the crest of this high and beautiful wave.
So now, you can go search archives of magazines and old articles , and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark, that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.
>>341376396
boring
>>341377441
then the open world meme happened
Everything was an isometric rpg or a tech demo.
>>341376396
MODS
>>341376396
HIROOOOOOO
>>341376396
MOOOOOOOOT
>>341376396
>click on a cute furry
>it turns into gross 3dpd boobs
Tibia and Little Fighter 2.
That was my 90's.
This was a game with cutting edge graphics and you had to have a top of the line PC to play it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8CFun3nEw
>>341377774
>Myth
Not old enough.
>>341376396
MOOOOOOOOOOOOK
>>341376396
duke nukem 3d
quake
diablo 1
warcraft 2
c&c red alert
broken sword
monkey island
>>341376396
Was actually worth playing on pc since they had exclusives. Only problem was majority were on dial up or other shit connections so you feel like a god with dsl/cable and sub 100 pings as you shit on everyone. Blizzard was good then too and lan war2 was amazing. Shame pc gaming is now just half assed console ports that require twice the price of a console to play at console level and triple that to play at actual decent resolution and framerates. Oh and nu blizzard garbage is only exclusives. Even those are going console. Not only that but every game has like 10% of console userbase and no dedicated servers despite being on pc. So game dies within a month as hackers take over and most devs stop even supporting the pc version.
>>341378421
I'm older than that, but that game was fucking great. I still remember when text adventure games were hot shit.
>>341376396
Running games through dos.
I don't know how I figured all that shit out, probably my brother taught me. Now I can't remember shit.
>>341377441
>>341377648
I remember when after I played SS2 and Deus Ex I hoped more and more games would have RPG elements
Dream came true...
People complain that vidya is shit today but back in the 90s it was so easy to buy a fucking garbage game and they all cost way more. You had to wait for a fucking shitty magazine to tell you if it was a shit game or not.
Imagine seeing this shit and having no way to know it was a rip off, and it was $150 bucks.
>>341379721
I still have no idea what I did when I set the sound card up
I just tried all the IRQs and shit till it worked
>>341376396
HIROSHIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>341379721
Don't tell him about MUDDing. He'll fucking kill himself. I think that might be our generations version of walking 15 miles in the snow uphill both ways.
>>341376396
Riding bike and fucking around outside then sitting next to each other over NES playing pic related, bantzing about who is worse at games, exchanging punches to shoulder when faggot stole your life while mum was making feast for you both.
Today? Nobody's willing to travel longer than 10 minutes because everything is online and everyone plays Cuck Strike Go while getting anuerysm over voice chat. I bought two xbox controllers for my pc for games like double dragon or injustice or sonic racing...but nobody wants to play.
>>341376396
Pretty fucking awesome, tbqh
relevant
>>341376396
Lemmings was the shit.
Only 25 but I have fond memories of going to my friend's house who had windows 98 and some games. We stayed up all night playing Red Alert and watching the hilarious cut scenes between levels. I remember playing Dune after that and him saying his cousin let him borrow a new game called Starcraft but we never had time to play it.
We finally got our own brand new computer with Windows ME, and my dad brought me and my brother to a computer store to get some video games for our birthday. We got Age of Empires and Caesar II.
So yeah from what I can remember it was the golden age of RTS games on PC. I also used to play DOOM a lot but it was only a demo and had the first chapter.
>>341381919
I'm 23 and I remember the entire 90s.
This "Only 30 year olds can say they remember the 90s" needs to stop.
>>341378170
satisfied?
>>341382134
How was 1990?
>>341376396
it was amazing. back then, fmvs were rare and having one was considered great. i'll never forget these 2 games, Gabriel Knight 2 and Ripper (fucking 6 cds. fuck you). Point click story telling were awesome.
>>341376735
>human woman is somehow furry
Wow... so this is how /v/ is now...
>>341376735
>I didn't click the image
>>341376396
>What was pc gaming like in the 90's?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8J1LiSnl3Y
>>341377441
playstationcuck confirmed
90's was a glorious era for nintendo
Episode 2 when?
>>341383615
>playstationcuck confirmed
why did you said that? ...oh, it was for the
>Each release offered something new and groundbreaking
part, unlike nintendo that rehashes everything?
>>341376396
Can't speak for everyone else, but this was PC gaming for me in the 90s.
>>341383830
When it's done.
There were actually good computer games
>>341383830
Ask again next year.
>>341383615
the thread is about pc gaming you fucking retard, that guy is still wrong though, pc in the 90s was fucking blessed
>90's
>PC gaming was the most niche hobby of them all
>PC saw loads of exclusives that pushed the envelope
>so many noteworthy exclusives, they were shoddily ported to numerous consoles
>PC actually got multiplats as well
>now
>PC gaming is bigger than it ever was before
>much easier to get into now that price has dropped
>only worthwhile exclusives are toasterware garbage like FNAF or F2P scams like LoL
>PC only gets ports of console games, very few PC games get ported to consoles
>the games that do get ported to consoles are often done because PC is unsustainable
I really want to know what changed.
>>341384023
eventuallythose three-times-daily threads were always fun at first, until they became shitstorms of lolifags arguing with furries
>>341376396
It was prohibitively expensive to the great majority of gamers, and this is during a time when playing video games still came with stigma out there.
Some of the best cRPGs ever came out then. RTS was taking off at the end of the 90's and doom/duke nukem mods were exciting and fun.
I don't get the point and click adventure crap. I always thought those games were boring as shit.
>>341384496
I miss Myst, Gabriel Knight, Syndicate, Ripper, Alone in the Dark, 11th hour and the FMVs of Command and Conquer 2. Yuri was based. I loved them, I loved them all ;_;also Monthy Phython. it was hilaroius as fuck
>>341384825
>and the FMVs of Command and Conquer 2. Yuri was based.
Red Alert 2 was the 4th game of the series. Unless you count Sole Survivor. Then RA2 was the 5th game in the series.
>>341385273
well both of the RA2s, the first one and the one with Yuri. I love the FMVs
>>341376396
Shareware was pretty cool, you could play tons of games first episodes/parts for free and legit, and those usually were way longer than a demo.
Non-legit, I don't know about everywhere else, but something that took off over here was "pirate cd compilations", since CD-ROM allowed for 640MB (which was a god damn lot) people started making these compilations with SHITLOADS of games and/or software, including their cracks, a launcher menu/easy installer, etc so they could sell in flea markets for really cheap.
I can't remember buying any game legit back then, or before (when it was as easy as taping an audio cassette), but then again buying software wasn't as accessible as it is today, both price and distribution wise.That shit Gaben used to spout about piracy being a service problem? well he was kinda right.
>>341384825
That's another thing, too. PC ports to console often came quite a bit later, due to consoles not being strong enough and had to wait for next gen. Today, PC ports are either 1) broken on release, never to be fixed, or 2) released years after, with no improvements. Let's not forget how many PC games used to have native modding support, but many PC games nowadays, by virtue of being console ports, are locked down.
Oh, thank heaven for Bethesda, who are so kind as to let us fix their games for them.
>>341376396
The games were good, but hardware was expensive as fuck and piracy was rampant.
>>341376396
CHINESE MOOOOOOOOOOOT
Late 90s to mid 2000s was the golden age of neckbeard gaming
>>341386554
>how many PC games used to have native modding support
Actually not many did, it's just that they were overall simpler.
>>341386136
i remember my first pc gaming mag had a demo cd for ah64d longbow and i was elated since EGM2s and megafan didn't have those cds. I was like wow a free game! Neat!
I remember almost failing at my freshmen year when I got addicted to Homm3. I would sleep at 4am and go to my 8am class buzzed. good times
>>341388089
And they weren't locked down because of muh consoles.
If I had to pinpoint the "death of PC gaming", it would have to be sometime around 6th gen. Many PC devs abandoned PC to jump ship to the unstoppable PS2, and many multiplats were designed around PS2 specs. Some multiplats didn't come to PC at all, despite some of them (like TimeSplitters) benefiting immensely from the platform.
>>341388542
i think it was later than that, i think it was during the ps3 era where more and more games were getting ported over to consoles and vice versa. but yeah. ps2 had a lot of shovelware. i still loved it though
>>341389027
Nah, 6th gen was the best console generation, but the worst PC generation. 7th gen's first half was a continuation of it, but it slowly started focusing back to PC. Focusing, bear in mind, meaning "PC will get this game". Many PC ports will only look as good as the console version, maybe negligibly better, thanks to Sony and MS placing parity clauses on developers.
>>341389027
Nah, PS2 era was definitely the turning point. It's when companies that usually made PC only titles started to eye consoles. often xbox too. Bioware's Kotor, Interplay trying and dying because of BoS, Epic's Unreal 2 and Championship. Not to mention for example EA forcing companies that made for example RTS games to either branch out or die.
7th gen was the age of digital cucking. DLCs, microtransactions, season passes galore.
