How did an Internet Flash from 2004 manage to predict the current state of video games so accurately?
>>321640975
What began as a joke, became reality.
People would've laughed at us a decade ago, if we'd go back and tell them how the gaming industry turned out by the 2015
>old snake
>dmc sucking
>zelda being irrelevant
>gta going for boring realism
>Konami, Capcom, and Squeenix go evil
it's like poetry
>>321641171
>A billion different Mario spinoffs like Mario Tennis
>>321641171
>Konami, Capcom, and Squeenix go evil
nigga it's video games not a soap opera ha ha nigga's acting like shit's a comic book character ha ha ha
>>321641171
>>321641250
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
They didn't predict DLC, or always online DRM, or F2P, or crowdfunding, or early access.
>>321641520
Nobody could've, it came out of nowhere and struck hard, like the fucking Black Plague.
Everything else? Spot on. It's frightening how Newgrounds is so much like a Mayan calendar.
>>321640975
What was this called? Its been too long for me
>>321641932
>>321641163
>>321640975
Can someone link this video people keep talking about? I feel rather left out not browsing Newgrounds as much back in the day and missing out on this apparently prophetic video.
>>321640975
because it was predictable.
>>321642085
The Decline of Video Gaming
>>321641334
But its okay when its EA? Dont be a faggot
>>321642164
Oh. well I feel stupid. Could of sworn it went under a different name
>>321641932
>It's frightening how Newgrounds is so much like a Mayan calendar.
It ends abruptly and scares a bunch of idiots who read too much into it?
>>321642229
What's ok when it's EA?
>>321641520
if you went back in time and tried to tell people that in the future video games would release unfinished with paid dlc to round out the experience, or that people would pay to play an unfinished product you'd be laughed at.
>>321642431
Don't forget people paying to fund a game that doesn't even exist yet.
>>321642254
>tfw the world ended 3 years ago
>>321642498
did MN9 EVER fucking release?
>>321642653
>tidal wave hit
>tornadoes scoured the Earth
>hellfire everwhere
>power went out for like a week
>tire got a nail in it
>no good vidya
It was a pretty crazy year.
>>321642653
>The world ended
>My wife is still alive
Fuck me
>>321642883
nobody cares
>>321642254
>>321642653
You guys know the Mayan calendar did not marked the apocalypse right?
The mayan myths work like the TES lore, one world ends and another begins, 2012 marked the end of the world of the man of flesh to be replaced with a new world by men made of another material.
Before the man of flesh was the world of the man of corn.
>>321642254
lol masterstroke
>>321640975
>devils of our lives
>>321642789
No. Make sure you but the announced sequel though
>>321641334
ha ha ha baka desu senpai bruh 100
>>321640975
>no let's plays/crappy indie games
THEY DIDN'T PREDICT NUFFIN
>>321642910
I can see the calender title now.The man of oestrogen.
>>321640975
What was the Flash video called?
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>>321643341
>>321643375
The Decline of Video Games 1, 2, and 3. Dim, Dan, and JT were the shit.
>>321640975
Have you guys ever heard about Self-Fulfilling Prophecies? If you treat someone like shit because you think he/she is shit - that person is going to act just they way you think because he/she got treated like shit in the first place
Back then, when this video was made, EVERYONE was screaming "MUH INNOVATIONS!" all the fucking time - even when companies made proper sequels and yes, sequels and "rehashes" was a thing they complained about in these flashes
And would you know, now we can't even get a proper Final Fantasy VII Remake and everyone goes funding Kickstarter-projects that looks like "the games I used to like!/ the sequel I never got!" etc
Seriously, one of the very few reasons to why we don't have turnbased JRPGs anymore is because all game-journalists went together and bashed the shit out of Hironobou Sakaguchis Lost Odyssey and demanded Final Fantasy-games to stop being turnbased.
We caused the decline of videogaming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LGQ9NSDZbU
>>321641334
It at least happened to the two latter for a while but they've gotten over themselves ever since. On the other hand Konami practically turned into a Kaiji antagonist this year.
>>321643548
you make it sound like game-journalists caused the decline of videogaming
>>321643548
>We caused the decline of videogaming.
WE didn't cause SHIT. You JUST said yourself the reason we no longer have certain games is faggot games journalists bashing them for not being innovative enough.
Have a little sit down. Have a think. Who, exactly, has sway over the entire tone of the industry? Who exactly acts as the bridge between the consumer and the producer?
The same people you fucking blamed to begin with. Don't try to invoke "we did this u gais muh feels" over this shit, you colossal faggot.
We didn't do shit, and you fucking know it.
>>321643590
if they just had said MGSIV instead of MGSV...
>>321641250
that part was already true by that time, they just played it up to eleven to make a joke. It was probably the single safest 'prediction' and it still isn't quite as bad as "Mario Accounting 11" or whatever.
The things they did get right despite seemingly all odds at the time are hilarious and frightening.
>>321644028
>Who, exactly, has sway over the entire tone of the industry?
The consumer
>>321644028
>>321643960
Hey man, we were part of it.
We bought into the whole muh innovations crap. What are game journos other than self-entitled gamers that goes even further in their self-entitlement and becomes shithead critics like Yahtzee
>>321644190
Well the thing is
>Good games got shit scores because they were more of the same.
>Companies followed this and tried to change, to innovate
>Except the ones that made Call of Duty, they kept at it, they knew they had their fans
>New innovative games doesn't sell as much as old classics
>Call of Duty sells alot because they never steered away
>Companies now think everyone wants Call of Duty-games and therefore makes that kind of games
If you ask the average Resident Evil fan on /v/, they often think RE3 is a good game, but journalists back then complained about it being stale. So Capcom let a whole other company make Code Veronica, hoping they would innovate the game. They didn't and then they fucking changed the formula completely with RE4.
>>321643548
Consumers ultimately control where the market goes, since we are the ones funding the companies.
It's the main reason i boycott publishers/devs, despite my friends thinking this is weird.
Vote with your wallets
>>321642896
apparently you do
>>321644564
>vote with your wallets
I buy the games I want to play
I ignore the ones I don't want to play
fewer and fewer games I want to play are being released.
Is that my fault?
>>321643213
Bingo.
>>321643590
>Tomb Raider
>RPG
Holy fuck, I forgot about that segment. I never would have thought Tomb Raider would go the way it has.
>>321644028
But general people had that opinion too... like the ones that made the Decline of Videogaming flashes.
>>321644853
Not entirely, after all you are 1 of many.
Though i could say that you aren't doing enough to promote your type of games
But that really isn't realistic or fair
>>321644853
No, there are obviously a lot more gamers today and they are into genres that other companies want into know, thinking they can get a piece of that pie.
But they voted with their wallets, so did you - you can always take a step further and recommend the games you love to everyone you know.
What ever happened to those guys?
>>321640975
...they are doing nothing but complain about sequels and old formulas
And now everyone wants those back...
>>321645234
>Where are they now?
>Super Flash Bros are now making games for a living. They have made a game for Adult Swim called "Phantom Pharaoh's Treasure Trap", Detective Grimore, and a new game that came out two weeks ago (as of writing this) called Haunt the House: Terror Town, which is on the Humble Bundle Store for $5. Get it for PC, and if your in the UK, any Playstation device, including the Vita.
>Egoraptor later made the Awesome Cartoons, and then became a lazy asshole and did Game Grumps. (Sorry, but GameGrumps isn't funny.)
>I have no idea what happened to Double-Helix: as of 2008, he said he is studying computer animation, and that he hates his Mac.
>Also, the VGDC dude, Randy Solem, Passed Away.
>>321645307
Yeah, because that's not a common thing among mankind. Never appreciating the good things we have until they are gone.
>>321645370
2 spooky
>>321645357
>>Also, the VGDC dude, Randy Solem, Passed Away.
I heard about that. So sad. I used to spend hours waiting for his flashes to load as a young lad.
>>321645370
>/v/ will be split in to different camps and the moment you disagree with any of the caps, you will be declared a member of the opposing camp
Wow, he predicted SJWs vs anti-SJWs so perfectly...
or PC vs PS4
>>321645357
>>Egoraptor later made the Awesome Cartoons, and then became a lazy asshole and did Game Grumps. (Sorry, but GameGrumps isn't funny.)
They kinda used to, but the latest episode I watched when full Markiplier-tier shit. They aren't even trying anymore because they know their fans eats everything up now.
>>321644853
You're not the audience they seek anymore, that is why.
>>321643625
>tfw no Madhouse anime adaption of MGSV's development
I would watch that so hard.
>>321645701
went* full Markiplier-tier shit*
I can't remember which one but either Dim or Dan spends a lot of time shit posting anonymously on /v/
So doomed?
>>321646907
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. If you keep spinning the roulette wheel you're bound to be right, so it's pointless ever posting images like that or saying that someone made a prediction 20 years ago that came true, because you have to ignore countless other wrong predictions to find the right ones. It's so dumb it's unreal.
The poster claiming the N5 is literally another Gamecube gets me.
Because the Wii pretty much was a GC hardware-wise.
>>321641171
>>old snake
You know MGS4 was already a known entity at this point right, hence the joke of him being even older?
>tfw watching paint dry literally is more fun than most games
>>321647869
the video is from 2004
metal gear solid 4 first trailer was shown on 2005
JUST ADMIT TIME TRAVELER EXIST ALREADY
>>321643213
Looking at what murricans are putting into their food, I think its the man of corn again
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/158631
>>321640975
>Kids today, am I right?
>>321640975
Because like all large industries, someone in marketing found out that the company would make more money if they appealed to the largest audience possibly: people who don't normally consider themselves gamers.
>>321642910
twitter meme man?
it would explain the continued decline of web culture.
>>321647869
One thing I should note is it was well known that Snake was suffering from accelerated aging, coupled with how Solidus looked in MGS2 and most MGS fans were already speculating there would be a game where Snake is old.
>>321640975
It didn't. This video is bullshit.
>>321641171
>Zelda being irrelevant
Yeah nah
>>321645370
>Gaming will be overrun by people who don't even play games
This is the worst.
>>321649493
>gamespot
>game of the year
I think you missed the point
>>321645672
Nah, console wars have always been a thing. That prediction was true back then. Just look at the end of his post, it just screams buttmad sonyfag.
>>321650380
He was right though. PS3 sold as much if not more than the 360.
Wii was just a glorified toy.
>>321645370
>2010
>PS3 still had no games
kekkeroni
>>321641171
>Zelda being irrelevant
Spin offs arent real Zelda games, save for Link Between Worlds
It's a fucking nuke everytime a console Zelda hits
>>321649591
Gamespot is Anti-Nintendo %99 of the time
The fact that it got GOTY is the point
>>321649493
>anyone EVER caring about 2D zelda
Sorry we're talking about the actually important ones.
>>321644853
>anon's first lesson in democracy
The lesson to be learned here is that voting doesn't solve anything. You must resort to action if you want to be heard.
Arson is a sureFIRE way to make sure that your message is heard.
>>321649493
>liking a rehash
Not even shitposting. It was originally going to be a remake, but they made it a squeakquel. Saying that game is good is just like saying Resident Evil: Revelations was a return to form.
>>321650485
Everyone was saying their console was going to be the best back then though. He may have been right for the rest but his words were no different to any other sonyfag at the time for the ending.
>narrated by Egoraptor
>putting "the computer at Dim's house" and stuff in the credits
>listing their favorite bands
>listing who is best at SSBM
Holy fuck I want these times back, things were so much better back then. Where did the fun and creativity of the internet go?
>>321650502
I think the handheld Zeldas have been more consistent in quality than the more recent 3D games. They've gotten kind of messy.
>>321651279
The recent Zeldas suffer from a ton of bloat. Hopefully ALBW influences the progress of the series, since that really cut all the unnecessary fat and brought it back to basics.
>>321648350
Holy shit, it's like I returned to 90s when 2D seemed outdated.
>>321651032
>Where did the fun and creativity of the internet go?
The same place that the fun and creativity of gaming went.
E T E R N A L
S E P T E M B E R
>>321649493
>2013
>>321648350
Pics like this make me wish bait posts existed outside of 4chan. It's infuriating to believe that there are people who unironically think like that.
>>321642883
Kek
>>321651481
what?
>>321645672
I think it's more /v/ vs Reddit.
>>321648350
does this guy not understand that dragon's crown will stand the test of time because artstyle is beautiful while the other games on his list already look bad just a few years after their release. whack games arent even lasting a season before they go out of style.
>>321640975
These guys were great. Their poking fun at games was really tasteful and accurate, with little fluff to attract appeal to those who couldn't get the references.
I would say I wanted more of them, but I know eventually they'd just lose what they had.
They really did see the way the game industry would lose speed in terms of creativity in the top franchises. They missed a few things, but overall, painfully true.
Did anyone else watch these when they were younger and only knew the games for PS1 or N64, and got to know about how cool some games are through these parodies?
>>321651989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
tl:dr retards flood into a new place so fast that they overwhelm the community that already exists. They don't bother learning the rules or basic etiquette and destroy the niche userbase that made the place special in the first place. Remember when it was common to tell the newfags on this website to "lurk moar"?I bet you don't.
>>321650838
>Console wars garbage being deleted
If only
>>321651032
>Where did the fun and creativity of the internet go?
Pic related was almost 10 years ago. Since then, the Internet has changed, definitely for the worse
I don't want to sound like a "Get off my lawn" old man, but social media, smartphones and Google helped kill it. No one cares about making Flash games when you can make a phone game and charge people for it. No one cares about making Internet animations when it takes months and makes you less money than someone who shoves out 3 or 4 Youtube reaction videos a day.
The Internet has little creativity left. Most of the content creators from the old days have either moved on to an actual career outside the Internet, have become irrelevant, have sold out, or have simply died. All we have left are Let's Plays, Reacts and stupid forced memes now. That's it.
>>321652805
Whats lurk moar? Before that, who is this moot fella you guys always mention?
>>321650502
>It's a fucking nuke everytime a console Zelda hits
Yeah, you could call the last console Zeldas that.
>>321652887
Oh, but it does gets deleted. It's just janitors are more strict with some sides than others.
>>321652976
This guy gets it, and because of social media you need to be really fucking careful with subjective opinions, if you're a popular youtuber and go around talking shit about other people or their works i can guarantee you there is going to be a shitstorm, internet entertainment became television at this point
>>321652976
> The Internet has little creativity left
I'd say it relatively lessened, but in absolute values it remained the same - the Internet just grew into the enormous sizes.
>>321653318
They should just fucking remove those threads already, after "SICs vs SJWs" shit they are the biggest cancer on /v/
>>321653451
But then we won't be getting any more Nintendo and Sony threads anymore.
>>321652887
The big difference is that we never get public bans anymore. Janitors either delete threads, send them to /trash/ or autosage threads and nobody is made an example of anymore.
>>321652805
To be fair, we are currently living the bait era when people pretend to be newfags to ruse each other because they think that's trolling (which isn't), people are just too scared of telling some retard to lurk more and he end up being a rusemaster, which is dumb
>>321653510
Good, brand loyalty is fucking cancer and is another issue with the industry, people who seriously believe their precious companies have any moral codes and are "the good guys" are underage faggots who should fuck off from this board already
>>321652976
I miss the star system, the like/dislike system can eat a dick.
>>321652976
Ten years ago it was people like me who were bitching about new people like you ruining everything, and how much better the internet was in the early 90's. Which it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuVz8PS5VBI
>talk about piece of media
>give no hint as to what said media might be called or how to find it
at least give a title OP
>>321653904
>dislike option is worthless
>>321653904
We still can't access all time most viewed videos anymore right?
>>321654158
>being this fucking new
Go step on a lego, underage faggot
>Born too late to explore the world
>Born too early to explore the universe
>Born just in time for the golden age of the Internet which is already over
Why go on?
>>321654590
>Born too early to explore the universe
You can't be sure about that, remember Earth could end up being the Africa of the universe
>>321654546
im 29 faggot
>>321653694
Brand/platform loyalty is exclusively a Japanese invention, and Japanese developers enforce this to a T. Every Japanese game, aside from purchased titles like Bayonetta 2 or Scalebound, show up on Sony consoles, sometimes even being exclusive. This impenetrable Japanese support is the key reason why console wars even happen, I guarantee if you Jap games were multi, none of this shit would ever happen.
Back in the day, it was common for competing console makers to make games for rival systems. Atari made games for the Colecovision, Coleco made games for Atari systems. Hell, even Sega made games for the Famicom.
>>321654735
>remember Earth could end up being the Africa of the universe
So you're saying we'll never manage to leave this rock?
>You will never again be underageb& and posting on 2006 era 4chan
If you honestly think they predicted the future you're a fucking retard. It's a parody video related to problems the industry already had.
>>321654881
No, i mean a planet that has shitloads of resources and that is populated by different tribes, and the only reason why it never reached its true potential was because people where too busy fighting each other over stupid shit, maybe we will find another species living out there that can help us with our problems, make humanity finally work together and get shit done, you never know
>>321655023
>joke
>your head
>>321654807
They literally mentioned the fucking link on the thread, fucking read before saying stupid shit like that
>I am 29
Boo fucking hoo
>>321655123What was the joke?
>>321655023
As nice as that sounds I find it to be too much wishful thinking. If we can't get it together on our own then we don't deserve to get off this rock.
>>321655264Africa.
>>321654590
Don't be sad lad
Waifu age could be upon us soon
Not to mention pic related
>>321655271
You never know man, humanity is only fucking stupid when it comes to dealing with the unknown and the unpredictable, otherwise we can cooperate very well, and when you consider how much we evolved socially and technologically speaking on the last decades, i don't think its imposible
>>321652887
DELICIOUS POST
>>321655329
>>321641520
gabe predicted kickstarer in 2009, though
http://www.destructoid.com/valve-let-players-fund-videogame-development-140597.phtml
>>321655342
>Not european
>live in country filled with commies
>will not participate on the greatest kekab removing since the crusades
>>321655580
You can always join us against the Muds
>>321644914
>My boobs feel BIGGER now!
They got one part wrong.
>>321655580
The French Foreign Legion is always open to new recruits.
I assume there are other similar organizations across Europe.
>>321650590
When Nintendo isnt a real threat, no point in being anti Nintendo
>>321656416
>France
>those niggers
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. What the fuck did France do to their country?
>>321656890
What part of FOREIGN legion dont you understand
>>321656890
c'mon now, at least some blacks aren't into nigger culture, so gene pool aside they can be allies
>>321656890
Normally I'd join in on ragging on France with you, but that is literally the FOREIGN legion.
>>321656890
black people != niggers.
>>321650712
>Martian Queen
My fucking dick anon, don't do this
>>321657175
this guy gets it
I LOVE YOU REBEEEEECAAAAAAA
>>321640975
>Lets just assume the worst that can happen
>>321658894
/v/ in a nutshell
>>321641171
>dmc sucking
Not to mention they predicted post-dmc1 dante dealing with multiple chicks. They just picked lucia instead of lady.
Alright looks like they were nostradamus.
>>321654219
i want an indication of the ammount of dislikes on every comment
>>321649573
>Hating on Thomas Is Alone
how fucking dare you, comic.
>>321654014
I don't know how the fuck I guesed it was an offpring song by the thumbnail when I never heard this song before. Nice song btw
>>321640975
better question: how did Freakazoid from 1995 manage to predict current state of the internet?
>>321650485
>Wii was just a glorified toy.
So were the PS3 and Xbox360.
>>321663909
The only reason moms bought the wii was because you waggle a stick and a cartoon representation of you does the same
It's a novelty thing you don't get with the PS3/360
>>321645370
Damn....
>>321645370
Fake
>>321652976
There is tons of new content, the problem is that it just doesn't spread around like it used to. Everything has become a circlejerk.
>>321652976
>Ronaldinho
Remember when he was a thing?
>>321640975
fuck you OP, now I have to go and rewatch 3 videos that I stopped finding funny five years ago
>>321648705
How stupid could they have been? Nobody who plays CoD regularly gives a fuck about story or dialogue.
>>321664054
>It's a novelty thing you don't get with the PS3/360
Still a toy. You play with the controllers. You play with a toy.
>>321640975
wow, i haven't seen this is forever
Because the industry was already going that way back in 04.
YAY A GREEN ONE
>>321662741
It's a decent puzzler but the story's a little pretentious and was of course eaten up by the gaming press.
>>321660663
yes. A whole couple years before the game was even confirmed (via MGS3:S extra videos, that was done with MGS3's models and such). MGS3 wasn't even out yet.
you're just cherry picking
there are plenty of inaccuracies if you want to get technical.
looking at the overall picture, it's very easy to extrapolate from current trends and assume what's going to happen, you're bound to get at least some of it right, and that's exactly what they did. add in a couple uncanny coincidences and that's all it is
