>Tfw you were born just at the right time to enjoy the golden age of video games, Before they got dumbed down
>Tfw if you were born just a few years later (say, 1995+) You'd be a shitter who grew up on trash like Minecraft, ASSFAGGOTS, CoD, nu-WoW, etc.
It's a bittersweet feel lads
>>345010693
Bro I was born in 1995 and I gre up with games like Nightfire. More like 2000+
>1988
Every day I'm grateful I'm not growing up with shit like League of Legends and Love Live.
I was born in 1995, there's absolutely nothing stopping me from playing games from before that point and enjoying them. Your age doesn't determine your taste in video games.
>>345010693
Maki-chan would never associate herself with pepe
>>345012620
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>>345010693
how long until things improve again anon?
>>345013319
until virtual reality lets us unite with our waifus
>You get to experience the resurgence of Melee.
Feels good mang.
Fuck Nu video games
>>345013319
Never for you. You're too jaded and you've set your standards so high that you'll never be able to play a recent game without the nagging feeling that it's shit because it's new.
>>345013319
Never. In 10 years, people will be making this exact thread but with them reminiscing about minecraft.
>>345013319
never
>>345010693
if you were born after 1995, it means you have instant internet access to literally any game in existence, as well as countless youtube tutorials and how-to's, sounds like a waste to be born any earlier IMO
>>345013490
they arn't shit because they are new though, they are shit because culture bias and retarded devs.
I was born in 1997 and I still enjoyed all the games you call "the golden age", but I also get to play the games that came out after that and all the ones coming out today because I'm not a little nostalgia baby manchild who can't see how things can change for the better.
>>345010693
>too old for the MOBA craze
>too old for the MMO craze
>too old for the competitive online shooter craze
Dodged a few bullets there. Multiplayer focused game design is cancer.
>>345010693
>People born from 1995 on
>subjected to nu-wow
1995 reporting in, started in late vanilla, became our guild's top DPS in Wrath. My dad got me into some good genres before 2005.
>>345013663
What's your favorite mid 90's game brah
>>345013757
WoTLK is nu
>>345010693
>Video games will die in your lifetime
>>345013663
>entertainment quality is objective and people who disagree with me are childish
Hmm
It's not bittersweet at all, it just sucks.
I grew up on great games. I see kids these days growing up on for the most part not-so-great games. That fucking sucks.
I want them to experience the same quality I did. I don't give a damn about some superficial "bittersweet" feeling of superiority.
>>345010693
>Maki
>Nostalgiafag
>>345013764
it's cliche but probably doom. I'd say SOTN but that doesn't count as mid 90s does it. also super metroid obviously.
>>345013905
>I make up what people say even if they don't say it
a lot of people, especially here, don't just disregard new games because they played them and criticized them to know they are bad, people ignore them simply out of principle because "new game bad ooga booga"
>>345013819
>WoTLK is nu
>said I started in vanilla
Get the fuck out of here. I played WoW same as everyone else before LFG came out.
Yes, it's not the same now, but holy fuck are you blinded by nostalgia if you didn't think most of Wrath was still good content.
When did the golden age end?
>>345010693
I was born in 94 and grew up with a Sega Genesis.
The fuck you on about?
>>345014419
Around PS3/Wii/360
>>345013732
How fucking old are you? Ultima online came out in 1998 and if you were too old for that baxk then then youre way too fucking old to be on /v/ in 2016.
>>345014550
>implying 2015/16 isn't the video game revival after the dead period of 2011-2014 (not that good games didn't always come out, just a lot of crap those years)
>>345012981
>every skyrim kid wont play oblivion because it's 'too """""""old""""""'
>>345013505
What would be the casual, dumbed down for kids version of minecraft?
>>345014813
Yeah I'm not seeing it.
>>345014889
>and they're better off for it because oblivion was gutter trash except for le brotherhood questline.
>>345010693
1987-1994 was probably the best time since you're not that old yet.>tfw Jan 98Atleast I don't shitpost toads on Taiwanese photobucket.
I was born I 1985, been great so far, just started to go to an arcade club that's opened near by, all the retro cabs, shooters and driving games and also pinball, and on free play, what a time to be alive! it's fucking awesome, if you live in the north of uk or don't mind travelling you should check it out.
>>345013205
What?
>>345014178
Voice of reason.
>>345014550
Some of the best games of all time came ouyt that generation and people born in 95-00 were subject to them. GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption, Oblivion, Fallout 3/New Vegas, Batman Arkham Asylum/city/origins. And even this gen as young adults we grt games like Arkham Knight.
>>345012620
>Nightfire
Literally proto COD. Linear levels, set pieces and hand holding.
Say what you want about Goldeneye but at least it wasn't any of those things.
>"Only 90's kids" fag detected
>>345016234
>Best bond game
>proto-CoD
Play Legends and come back to me. That uses the CoD engine and even that feels like bond. Nightfire wad the most Bond game of all time.
>linear levels
Have you played it? It has oprn levels. Play Nightshift, and all the others as well.
Goldeneye was a worse version of Nightfire.
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>>345010693
i was born in 1986. a lot of people in my age group were really into MMOs in, like 2005.
>>345016730
As were kids during that time, we actually grew up with them.
I continue on with my days, with the hope that one day moe jpop idol animes will become a thing of past. Knowing that we live in the Current Year, I have to wonder what happened along the way that got anime to this point.
>>345016636
>Have you played it? It has oprn levels. Play Nightshift, and all the others as well.
lmao, there's nothing open about the levels in nightfire. I bet you regard it as open because it's not a literal straight corridor, well neither is COD.
Even in Night Shift you go from one area to another separated by loading screen as you complete your objectives in the same order every time.
Compare that to Goldeneye where you're dropped in a level, you can go everywhere without load screens and you're free to go back and forth at your leisure, and you can complete the objectives in any order you wish.
Nightfire only feels more like Bond because it's filled with gimmicky Brosnan era gadgets and a couple of voice actors from the movies. It's literally a gameplay-free "roller coaster ride".
>>345016876
we grew up with Mario/Sonic knockoffs like Bubsy, Croc, whatever.
>>345016730
same and I've never played a MMO
>>345010693
...he says it, posting a picture featuring a redditfrog and a girl from lovelive.
>>345010693
You guys are no different than hipsters who feel like they're better than everyone else because they own a collection of vinyls from super-obscure bands.
>born 1989
>parents divorce in 2007
>dad remarries with a younger woman several years later
>I'm over 15 years older than my step-brothers
>my PS2 is older than my step-brothers and still works, whereas they've gone through at least four 360's
>they spend their days playing CoD and Minecraft
>recently got Skyrim for their birthdays and all they do is blindly follow quests and never explore anything or go off of the main roads
>neither of them knew what a Gameboy was until I told them about it one day
>they didn't know SEGA made consoles
>I had to explain to them what a game cartridge is because they had never seen one
>constantly complain when anything is even remotely challenging and only ever play games on the easiest difficulty
>firmly believe that the little shits are beyond redemption
>one day they find my collection of old PC games and were surprised at all of the copyright dates from before they were born on the CD cases
>they find the manuals for games like StarCraft and Homeworld and are utterly fucking fascinated
>they ask me to install some of the old games and show them how they're played
>completely shock and amaze them with the concept of cheat codes
>not even a week later they're begging me to install some of the games on the family computer so they can play them too
>the following day I watch as they giggle like idiots while abusing cheats and spamming siege tanks on StarCraft
>tfw they constantly ask to watch me play my older games
I guess kids these days just need more exposure to the simpler things.
>tfw 1995
>grew up with SNES, N64, and GC before getting into emulation in 4th grade
>decent luck with garage sales and flea markets when looking for vidya
>ended up finding even more games to try out from Screwattack and AVGN videos
It was shit trying to talk to anyone at school about it because they were all over GTA and Halo at the time, but damn was it great not having to rely on birthdays and Christmas for games.
>>345017473
When I had a gamecube I grew up with actual Sonic, custom robo, sphinx, geist, nightfire, phantasy star online. Better games.
>>345018929
Adding on, games in the 00s were better than 90s. Was born in 95. But even though I didn't play your games, I understand your nostalgia
People born today are better off. They have much better access to the past and future.
Like we're better off now than those born in the 30's. I'm more glad to have access to the golden age of Hollywood and beyond than just living it.
>>345014912
Tetris.
>>345016215
please be b8
>>345019536
you don't have access to all the multiplayer games, and the online community that existed back then though.
also, Playing old games now is far different from living it back then. You don't have the game culture surrounding those games because they were new then.
>>345019536
Fucking this. They won't necessarily have the same experience as us but how the fuck people fault them for that? No one blames people born in the 70s for not experiencing the industrial revolution.
>>345016215
Some of those, like Arkham Knight, are not that great. The rest are exceptions. A few good games does not mean video games have returned to their former glory.
>>345010693
>1995+
Literally shitter.
You should be already playing vidya in force in '95+.
>>345019853
Go play a 2d game and enjoy the inferior gameplay and nonexistent story. If not simple and bad story. So Oblivion isn't part of your "superior" games anymore now that we played it? Hypocritical.
>>345010693
Born '96 and played on a famicom, oblivious to the developements of the video game industry until 2004-5, GTA 3 and NFS Underground. I've played most recent games, but emulating consoles on PC shows just how much I've been missing out on. The most important thing is to have fun.Which is really fucking hard nowadays.
>>345020019
And what glory is that? 00s games completely destroy 90s games.
>the golden age of video games
I sincerely doubt a frogposter was born before the 70s.
>>345014419
2007
>>345020653
Nothing to do with pre-00s games and everything to do with pre-7th gen games.
>>345020968
I was just arguing with OP, who was sayinbhg people born in between 95-2000 didn't get to experience the “golden age of games” . We grew up with them as as teens we still had amazing games during 7th gen. We grew up with 6th gen. And honestly games now are fucking awesome as well, I dunno what you were saying enough Arkham Knight, looks like the best Batman game of all time, Mad Max, etc. Deus ex mankind divided
>tfw you got to spend your adolescent years in in the early 00s
>Halo
>Toonami
>Console gen 6
>Tony Hawk games
>Hillenberg-era Spongebob
>Vanilla WoW & Warcraft 3 TFT
>Golden age of couch gaming (Halo, Mario Kart DD, SSBM, etc.)
>Newgrounds
>The Matrix
>Pokemon at its peak
>'Social media' was just Myspace and a couple even smaller sites
>Left vs Right culture war was mostly confined to old people and 'War on Terror' stuff
>Pirates of the Caribbean
>Harry Potter
>all the other personal things- biking around the suburbs with buddies, pizza parties, etc
Hell, looking back even school was more fun than anything now. Every day is another somber reminder that I'll never be as happy as I was then. I could have a trillion dollars and my own nation and I still wouldn't be as happy.
Where did it all wrong?Oh wait I actually know, it was when the internet and the mainstream fully merged around 2007-09
>>345021609
Mad Max was fun but it was just another typical open world game. Arkham Knight is just Arkham City with a shitty Batmobile it shoves down your throat far too much, and on top of that, it's just another typical open world game. And I don't care how a game looks, I care how it is. Mad Max was far better than Arkham Knight, FAR better. I bought AK for 12 bucks because Amazon fucked up with their pricing for about 20 minutes and I still regretted it. Like I said, Mad Max was fun, but a few good games in a generation does not mean video games have been saved or whatever.
>>345010693
But I was born right in time for the PS2-era, aka the platinum era of games
Also, no one is too young for the PC era, aka the diamond era of games, going strong since the dawn of video games
Born in98.
I played wow pre-patch 3.2 if that means anything.
95, Been playin CS professionally since 2008 ama
>dota 2
>dumbed down
>>345010693
>us 90s kids! xD
Literally commit sudoku
>>345023761
Dota 2 is basically the same as DotA All Stars, and that's like from 2002, maybe even earlier.
>there are people on this board that think mobas are for the younger generation
>these same people forget what WC3 custom games looked like for years
It was 50% dota, 20% TD, 10% life of a peasant, 10% board game remakes, and 10% RP custom maps.
Dota kept WC3 relevant until League hit critical mass.
