Fewer women and minorities, and the ones that were there were actually worth a shit, like Alyx or AJ Johnson. It was great.
Inherently wrong. I was playing EverQuest at launch and it had more than its fair share of attention seeking prostitutes who played up the role to the guild simps (which there were plenty).
Oh come on babe you don’t have to pull the >I’m akchually a dude
Care here. We know you’re a prostitute. Just show us your breasts. You love attention!
> You love attention
Pretty clear who’s begging for attention here. (You)
12 months ago
Anonymous
I just want to see your breasts. At least link your Instathot account
12 months ago
Anonymous
Lonely and looking for someone to talk to, are you? Share the last 5 games you enjoyed playing. Maybe something from 2000 so you can stay on topic in the thread.
this, 2003-2006 was a good time
there was a drought after that, nothing really good until 2010 so most ppl played MMOs from 2005-ish onwards to fill time
There was really a tremendous amount of change. What would you like to know specifically?
This was more or less the social media effect and more specifically gaming related, it was the time of the wider exposure to normalgaydom for better or worse. There were lots of elements involved here, such as the arrival of "XBros" with the Xbox who were basically the frat bro stereotype who played Madden and FPS, their first online gaming experiences etc. Marketing changed from the kids-first focus of the 90s, but being a "hardcore" gamer was still somewhat geeky niche; the "loser virgin who spills his spaghetti talking to, cums in cargo shorts if given the chance to hoverhand" demographic was marketed to but somewhat negatively by the industry with stuff like booth babes and "fake Gamer GRRL" personas. Consoles were evolving and going online but there were a lot of solid games in the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era, and then of course the following PS3/X360/Wii was a significant iteration in all cases. PC gaming evolved in huge ways - at the start of the 2000s gaming PC hardware could be expensive and even a $3000 rig may not be able to push high settings on what would come in the near future. Dial up was still a commonality and broadband was expanding but it was mostly DSL and Cable; websites where they asked about your hardware and connection would often have a pulldown for your connection speed with the fabled ISDN/T1/T3 at the top, going all the way down to a 9600 or 14.4 modem! Some genres really took off around this time too, notably MMOs where people were looking for virtual worlds - and in the West, the vast majority of them had NO microtransactions or item mall shit at all if you paid for a subscription! EverQuest, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, Shadowbane Final Fantasy XI, WoW...and many more worked this way, especially early on. Cosmetics were an equal part of the game, as it should be! Out of room...
>Warcraft 3 and counter-strike still holds to this day
both are trash. cs is worse than cod. warcraft is worse than aoe. anyone who says otherwise doesnt play vidya
I think I’m having more fun gaming today then back then, but that’s not to say back then was bad- it was great! But my life is on easy mode today with more time for games than ever.
>PC games were pretty niche
Sorta true, most family PC rigs with 3Dfx Voodoo card/Riva TNT/ATI Rage Pro can play those games easily. >tech was upgrading at a phenomenal rate and it was almost impossible to keep up
I know right. picrelated.
I loved 3dfx for their business practices, but my god were their drivers fricking awful. I remember having to manually patch in hacked jerry-rigged fixes from the community because their team was so unbelievably incompetent.
>PC games were pretty niche, you really needed to be a self sufficient gen x or have someone in your family that could afford/required a pc
I dunno about that, everyone I knew had a PC and I mostly played on the PC.
Commercial PC game development was definitely struggling, though, because of piracy. Game devs tried adding a lot of inventive and absolutely dreadful DRM to their games. But then when services like Steam came out, it turned out that people not wanting to pay wasn't actually the problem, it was the lack of convenience in having to acquire a physical copy vs just downloading something.
> Even worse than now.
We’re in the middle of a great year of games right now. Stop drowning everyone in your negativity. Its a you problem. Go do something with your life so can get some perspective.
This year is great, and 2017 was also great, but don't pretend we weren't just in a 2-3 year drought of there being nothing to play since the PS5 and XSX launched.
Yea both of those are me. I’ve played half a dozen fun new games this year. Why do you hate video games? Do you have very narrow tastes? I enjoy all kinds of different styles and genres. Keeps things from getting stale. Sorry you think everything sucks. Must be a hard way to live. Go get some exercise, maybe your attitude will turn around.
>We’re in the middle of a great year of games right now
lmao nice bait anon
the only 2 decent games in the last 8 years have been Phasmo and Deep Rock
everything else has been pretty frickin trash
lemme guess, you liked Cyberpunk and Elden Ring lmao
I haven't kept up with the changes made to phasmo but heard it was harder even on lower difficulties. Since ghost ship got bought by a shit group they went to the shitty season model. I like the two bugs they added, I've only fought a corruptor once frickers are rare
>phasmo
yeah the changes are hard at first, main thing is you have to turn off your equipment when you hide now. Kinetic are unironically devs of the decade
they're adding 60 new items next month, completely overhauling the progression system with tiers of gear you unlock
>deep rock
eh i'd take that over straight up abandoning their 5 year old game. if it was an AAA development wouldve stopped 6 months in.
its still the best first person shooter in the last decade. 400 hours in it, will easily sink another 400 hours.
both games were great $15 pickups that i'll sink 1000 hours into each, in a time where most games are $100, buggy, contentless trash with no replay value.
fricking Starfield is $130.
$130 fricking dollars.
AAAs need to lay off the meth
t.there's not been a single game over $30 that ive bought in the last 12 years that's been worth the money
I haven't kept up with the changes made to phasmo but heard it was harder even on lower difficulties. Since ghost ship got bought by a shit group they went to the shitty season model. I like the two bugs they added, I've only fought a corruptor once frickers are rare
>2006-2010 >every game is a either a Gears clone or CoD clone >EVERYTHING is brown >massive ugly menus because they have to be readable on shitty TVs >everything is dumb >no indie games so your stuck with dumbed down sequel to your favorite game >load it up >it's brown
PS3/360 era was the most uninspired time in gaming.
it was a lot fricking worse. even if we did get good games, devs or pubs would generally ruin them for no good reason in the sequels. a lot of former pc centric titles would be stripped of features they had. there were definitely a lot fewer games coming out. Everything had shitty brown and bloom filters slapped onto it. japanese devs would put legit awful pc ports like Dark Souls that are still broken to this day. cant forget GFWL crap too.
Imagine actually looking forward to something from your favorite company. And not being disappointed when it drops.
Meanwhile, imagine an online community built around IRC and instant messaging apps. People you're acquainted with instead of a clusterfrick of total strangers.
the games were good but you were a way bigger loser if you played games at this time.
now you're still a loser but you can ascend all the way to failed normal gay and still play, back then if you played games you were probably deformed or mentally impaired.
Don't think about it, it's not supposed to make sense. This picture is made to evoke a vague nostalgia by bombarding you with popular products from specific era.
Like pic related does for 90s nostalgia.
Don't think.
Consoom.
Get nostalgic about consoomption.
Don't think about it, it's not supposed to make sense. This picture is made to evoke a vague nostalgia by bombarding you with popular products from specific era.
Like pic related does for 90s nostalgia.
Don't think.
Consoom.
Get nostalgic about consoomption.
A: = floppy
B: = floppy
C: = hard disk
D: = cd
i never had a computer with two floppy drives myself but B: was reserved for a second floppy
2 floppy drives were standard on older computers because hard drives were expensive and optional so you'd have your program running on the disk in A: and then save your data to the disk in B:. Through the 90's, it became less common but was still useful for things like directly copying from one floppy to another (affordable CD-R, Zip, and USB flash drives weren't until the end of the decade). On a computer good enough to run Half-Life 2, there was no real reason to have 2 floppy drives installed unless you wanted to give your friends a chuckle when they first saw your system, and 2 disc drives were a much more usual configuration.
my pentium II was >A: Floppy >C: 3gb hdd >D: 3gb hdd >E: 2gb hdd >F: 4x DVD burner
my E drive was mostly random file storage, so i could unplug it to plug in a 2nd DVD burner if i wanted so I could burn copies of discs directly instead of needing hdd space buffer
bought that PC for $30 and it lasted me the whole early-mid 00s.
2 floppy drives were standard on older computers because hard drives were expensive and optional so you'd have your program running on the disk in A: and then save your data to the disk in B:. Through the 90's, it became less common but was still useful for things like directly copying from one floppy to another (affordable CD-R, Zip, and USB flash drives weren't until the end of the decade). On a computer good enough to run Half-Life 2, there was no real reason to have 2 floppy drives installed unless you wanted to give your friends a chuckle when they first saw your system, and 2 disc drives were a much more usual configuration.
my pentium II was >A: Floppy >C: 3gb hdd >D: 3gb hdd >E: 2gb hdd >F: 4x DVD burner
my E drive was mostly random file storage, so i could unplug it to plug in a 2nd DVD burner if i wanted so I could burn copies of discs directly instead of needing hdd space buffer
bought that PC for $30 and it lasted me the whole early-mid 00s.
I'm like 90% sure that B: was originally for 5.25" drives. Either way, I've been using PCs since like 1995 and I've never seen a double floppy setup. In the 90s-00s it was always either one floppy or a CD+floppy setup. Schools, libraries, kids I was friends with, and myself too.
A lot better. The industry had gotten big enough for major money to be flowing in, but everything was still being made by talented enthusiasts. Even the bad games were decent. Graphical advancements felt legitimately ground breaking. Technically right before the 2000s, but I'll never forget being with my cousin in a Software Etc. and seeing a Dreamcast for the first time, it might as well have been a time machine. Those leaked shaky cam videos of New Mombassa and the G-Man tech demos. Just a crazy time where franchise-making new releases were coming out constantly, and everything was hype.
Then one day Capcom made Resident Evil 5, and people began to complain that a zombie game set in Africa featured black zombies, and that was the beginning of the end. It spread slowly at first, but it just got bigger and bigger until it consumed everything. The entire industry used to laugh at and mock someone like Jack Thompson, but now there's a Jack Thompson writing every video game in America.
I played Infantry Online til my eyes bled. I played it so much that I unintentionally taught myself to type playing it so much. Crazy for what it was >Free >100s of players on one map >multiple servers with different maps/modes >Bug Hunt, my favorite mode. Think isometric AvP. Required coordination by the marines, constant masses ambushes by the aliens, but it also allowed skilled players to wreck shit. >Bullets were slow, almost at bullet hell speed, so you could dodge them. >Game was jank so you had vision glitches where you could hide even if marines were looking at you >so most fights were just team fights with shit everywhere, but occasionally you could pop off and turn an entire fight yourself >same with marines, a good sarge (abusing double summon) could take objectives from a full team (15 rines vs 40+ skrall) >eventually got gud enough to knife fight aliens to death
Goddamnit I swear if I win the lottery Im resurrecting this fricking game. Its current zombie state isnt enough. Tp/ctgays can suck it. I want to see EOL, KR, NML, BH, ZZ, CM, CA, and gravball back. Isometric, but with modern engine
People have paid for and consumed entertainment for as long as humans, money, and entertainment have existed, but obese 4chins types have decided that consumption is some new evil. As far as I can tell, this is mainly rooted in poverty, with most 4chinners living on public assistance or parental allowance (even as adults), and becoming embittered towards people who can afford to eat out and see a movie. You can see this on every board.
>Capeshit fed cattle doesn't understand the difference between consoomption and enjoyment
hurry up and clap they are making another prodookt for you to consoom!
If you just got a job, you wouldn't need to be like this, and you could look back on the way you and most of the losers here behave and realize how ridiculous it all was. It isn't even hard. I work from home, make six figures, and have spent most of the day advocating for TND on /misc/ and getting paid to do it. I never finished my degree and I've never really tried that hard. There's no excuse for you to still be living where you're living, broke, eating the same shit you did when you were fifteen, constantly complaining on here that your fifteen year old computer can't run new games anymore because they're "unoptimized". You're a moron, so I know you'll just post a meme and act moronic, but on the off chance you won't: do better. You only get one life, and you're currently just a giant homosexual loser who can't afford anything. Is that how you want it to go?
i remember going to this LAN gaming center in town to play counter strike for hours. i remember seeing posters for the upcoming game called "World of Warcraft"
>no Black folk, no homosexuals, no trannies, entirely white/asian male dominated hobby >women didnt care about video games yet and video game developers were 95% male with a few of those nerdy homely glasses girls, so products were much, much better
Its more than that though, I mean the technology too. It's kind of hard to describe but for example the rise of GL video modes opposed to software rendering. Playing stuff like Quake 2 with colored lighting, it was awesome. Nowadays the big thing is resolution boosts, framerate, response time increases but I dont feel the same big advancements in technology.
Really bad and most people got through it by just playing WoW and ignoring everything else. In retrospect that might partially be why games were so bad then, because WoW devoured everything, that and normalgays becoming the target audience for games thanks to xbox garbage.
>normalgays becoming the target audience for games thanks to xbox garbage >seriously believing it was xbox's fault and not playstation
You weren't alive when any of this happened, and everyone can tell.
I'm 33 years old. PS2 wasn't responsible for things like halo or elder scrolls. Xbox is the worst thing that has ever happened to video games and it ruined everything.
Your step Dad might be 33, but you obviously aren't. The Gaystation was the homosexual dudebro console for people who actually played sports games, along with dumb shit techlets who legitimately thought the Emotion Engine was going to "unlock its full power in a few years". You were always the casual trash, and still are.
>Your step Dad might be 33, but you obviously aren't.
Want to see the gba player for my gamecube, i have boxes of gaming stuff from all the way back to the early 90s when i was a little kid sitting in my closet, might even have some vintage mcdonalds toys and stuff >The Gaystation was the homosexual dudebro console for people who actually played sports games
Sports games have never hurt anything, that has no effect on other games. This is insane revisionism. Pic related wasn't sony's fault, it wasn't because of madden or sim racers, it was because of the xbox making low quality braindead games for idiots.
No, I don't want to see your Dad's old gameboy. Halo was a great game that was universally beloved (except by HL2 cultists) that you've retroactively decided was bad because you grew up in an era when 343 was shitting the bed, and not the era when Halo was getting 11/10s, reviving LAN culture, and carrying a console on its back .
The PS2 was the console for low brows who listened to rap and said "bro" and all the rest of it. I legit can't believe there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2, Jesus. The Xbox barely moved 10 million units before the 360 was rushed out. Last (you), go ahead and post some more stupid shit, then borrow your Dad's gun and stick it in your mouth. "Bu-but a dorito commercial", you dumb homosexual.
12 months ago
Anonymous
You are literally proving him right by admitting you got into games with Halo. You are exactly the kind of homosexual he is talking about. How dumb are you?
12 months ago
Anonymous
>admitting you got into games with Halo
Where? Show me where I said that. I had an NES, an SNES, a Genesis, a Saturn, an N64, then an Xbox. Never "got into games with Halo". You're an illiterate homosexual that can't make heads or tails of simple sentences, so you were definitely the Playstation target audience, go draw a 420 on your trapper keeper and then make minimum wage serving me cheeseburgers "bro"
12 months ago
Anonymous
You didn't have shit or you wouldn't be saying the PS2 was more popular than the Xbox you moronic yuropoor. The PS2 was literally sold as a dvd player in third world countries, thats why the sales are so high. jfc how can anyone be so ignorant
12 months ago
Anonymous
You didn't go from NES to Halo, liar.
12 months ago
Anonymous
>there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2
It literally was in America, and this is an American website. Go away dumb tourist.
12 months ago
Anonymous
You're dumb as frick. I'm sure you'll tell yourself that you're just pretending, but spending your free time "just pretending" to be an illiterate homosexual is something you wouldn't do if you weren't a dumb frick.
12 months ago
Anonymous
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-officially-outsells-ps2-in-us/1100-6099369/#:~:text=In%20the%20time%20before%20E3,to%20200%2C000%20PS2s%20and%20100%2C000
You lose, lol
12 months ago
Anonymous
>McNealy told CBS Marketwatch that Microsoft's console sold 270,000 units during the month, compared to 200,000 PS2s and 100,000 Nintendo GameCubes.
"Xbox sold more units in a month, therefore it sold more totally!"
Get a refund from your inner city school Tyrese.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Here comes more squirming from the xdrone. How will he get out of this one?
12 months ago
Anonymous
>McNealy told CBS Marketwatch that Microsoft's console sold 270,000 units during the month, compared to 200,000 PS2s and 100,000 Nintendo GameCubes.
"Xbox sold more units in a month, therefore it sold more totally!"
Get a refund from your inner city school Tyrese.
What's more likely, they can use Google to find that link, but can't read or understand it, or they can use Google to find that link, CAN read and understand it, and are just "pretending" to be unaccomplished pavement apes so that you'll say something to them and they can have human interaction today?
Stop replying to dumb bullshit so people like this will stop posting dumb bullshit. They'll either find a better way to get attention or they'll kill themselves, and Ganker won't be as homosexual either way. STFU.
12 months ago
Anonymous
>I legit can't believe there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2
Most of the anons here don't even like video games, they spend all day on Ganker playing a game where the objective is attention and the meta is just being as outlandishly stupid as possible. Anons will put up 50 soijaks swearing that water is dry and fire is cold if that's what it takes for someone to pay attention. If they had jobs they'd be paying a streamer to say their name on twitch.
12 months ago
Anonymous
You got proven wrong and now you are going to dance around it.
12 months ago
Anonymous
Not the anon you're having a meltdown with, so no. You also haven't "proven" anything, so far you just post dumb shit so people will say "hey moron" and you can get a dopamine rush from someone acknowledging you. Here's a reply from a faceless stranger on the internet, hope it helps.
It was fun. People were nice with each others and everyone was exceited about new technologies and the progress of gaming. Games were more daring, there was a lot of variety and there was no DLC bullshit, there were expansions but they added hours of new content so it was worth the money.
Now is the same goyslop every fricking year. They sell you unfinished games as "early access" that they never fully release. There is DLC for every single fricking thing, gatcha shit everywhere, and they sell you "skins" for almost the price of the full game. Also most players are buttholes and they're annoying to play with.
12-20 fps and laggy for 90% of the playerbase. 30+ fps for like the few weird old guys that were into gaming and their children who played on their pcs.
xdrones are fricking unreal, literal rats. they should be permanently banned from this site. I have never seen a good xdrone post and I've been here for 17 years.
Daily reminder it’s not a coincidence that after 2010ish everything went super woke, BLM, lgbtq, reps vs dems, etc.
The elite and ~~*they*~~ got scared shitless when occupy wallstreet was gaining traction and people were trying to overthrow the elite. So the high ups got together and realized having us fight amongst each other we’ll always be divided and never rise up against them.
Pc gaming was a mixed bag. Smaller selection. If you had a specific issue it could take a whole day to figure out. Ps2/gc/Xbox we’re frickin sicc, so many good games in that gen
It was awful and you can see why it became awful in real time on Ganker as gen 6/7 kids become nostalgic for the garbage they played and this board gets worse and worse because of it.
World of Warcraft happened and the entire industry began to rot from the nefarious beating black heart of Blizzard Entertainment. Games As A Service came to the attention of all moneygrubbing publishers.
not my fault you only played COD goyslop. blaming the entire gen for your lack of taste.
besides, what's wrong with a console gen only focusing on some genres and not be a jack of all trades? the 5th gen was mostly JRPGs and platformers, the 4th gen was mostly side scrollers and JRPGs.
>not my fault you only played COD goyslop
no there fricking wasnt, it was orange box and thats it, and thats not even console stuff so its not part of the "gen"
PC was as close to dead as it ever got. No shelf space, Steam wasn't a thing yet, and people hated the frick out of it the first few years anyways. Everything was a really bad console port. Golden age of piracy, everyone had daemon tools, so nobody paid for shitty console ports, and only shitty console ports got made because nobody paid. Everyone thought Metal Gear Solid 2 was garbage instead of prophetic. Everyone thought Nintendo was going 3rd party because nine people had a Gamecube.
If you were in the know it was really frustrating, multiplatform games really started to take off after 2002, so everything had to be developed on the lowest common denominator. Xbox had way less power than the other consoles, so all of the sudden everyone else's games started looking worse. Everyone had a mostly unique library before that. Its why games are so unfinished now, trying to work on too much at once.
Look it up. Anything exclusive looked great, anything multiplat had to be downgraded for it. It didn't even have console parts it was literally just a PC.
PS2 had a much faster renderer than Xbox, by a lot. Look at literally any game that had to run on PS2 and Xbox and then a game that had to run on PS2 only, it was constant downgrade. PS2 was a custom gaming computer, Xbox was the cheapest computer Microsoft could get for $150.
You only have to play multiplatform games on the PS2, most of them are almost a scam. PS2 games look and run great when they were made exclusively for it. Xbox was a chain around the neck.
it was amazing. playing halo 2 with your friends,trading in games to try out new shit,getting called a Black person constantly for using a noob tube with one man army. id give it all up to experience it again
When gaming went corporate. Xbox charged for multiplayer and it was worse than what everyone already had for free, and drones slurped it up so they could play Halo. Microsoft bought out Sega so even if you had a Dreamcast you had to go get this other console just to play games you already bought the Dreamcast for. Microsoft had no idea how to ship a finished game so they just decided they would patch everything like they do with Windows so we got "consoles" that were really just PCs with a hard drive and unfinished games. They removed two levels from Splinter Cell after they were already done and sold it as an unlock on Xbox Live.
I fell for the AMD is good meme and used 6900 XT for two years. It was fricking miserable.
The only people saying AMD is good is people who only use it for the most normie AAAslop games on the market or are too blind to notice the issues. If you play any game that AMD didn't specifically release a game ready driver for, you WILL have a bad time and awful frametime spikes. It wasn't the case of the card being slow, this shit happened at 50% and 99% GPU usage just as often.
After upgrading to nvidia when RTX 40xx dropped all of those problems disappeared. I don't know how little you have to value your time and game experience if you are ok with dealing with AMD's nonsense to save $50-100 in mid-end and $200 in high end.
The rule of thumb is that if ATI Tray Tools supports it 100%, it's a decent GPU. Something fricky happened around the tropical lineup after the HD 6000s, and AMD (formerly ATI) just fricking lost their edge. Sad! But unironically, the 9800 and 4890 were some of the most insane values ever, and they actually kept up with Nvidia without any excessively bad driver issues. Yet
My 7950 just kept melting it's VRMs because Sapphire had shit yields and shipped it a lot more overvolted than most BIOSs, but this entire gen was a power hungry overvolted mess, that ASIC tester was made in response to just how cheap that gen felt, fricking 49%
That .Net driver revamp was bad, but ATT let you mitigate the bullshit that was early CCC, but AMD removed a bunch of API hooks and other shit that made it work. Same deal with Radeonpro and MPT
2000, I was 13-14 years old
PS1 >was obsessed with ff series
Gb >pohkeyman
PC >WINDOWS 95, our computer back then was a glorified email machine than could run Age of empires 2
the best
you have no idea how right you are
Fewer women and minorities, and the ones that were there were actually worth a shit, like Alyx or AJ Johnson. It was great.
> Fewer women and minorities
Who tf thinks like this when gaming comes up? God some of you are so moronic.
Show us your breasts!
Inherently wrong. I was playing EverQuest at launch and it had more than its fair share of attention seeking prostitutes who played up the role to the guild simps (which there were plenty).
>breasts
You’re more of a b***h than I’ll ever be, complaining about that shit. You wouldn’t like my hairy nips anyway.
Oh come on babe you don’t have to pull the
>I’m akchually a dude
Care here. We know you’re a prostitute. Just show us your breasts. You love attention!
> You love attention
Pretty clear who’s begging for attention here. (You)
I just want to see your breasts. At least link your Instathot account
Lonely and looking for someone to talk to, are you? Share the last 5 games you enjoyed playing. Maybe something from 2000 so you can stay on topic in the thread.
Simping has always existed anon.
The world began fifteen years ago when Ganker was born.
>minorities
>takes up 90% of the world's population
bold
When people say the 00s were good they mean the early 00s. The entire industry went to shit in the mid 00s and never recovered.
2004 and 2005 were good years for games though
this, 2003-2006 was a good time
there was a drought after that, nothing really good until 2010 so most ppl played MMOs from 2005-ish onwards to fill time
say thanks to Xbox.
Here comes the snoys.
um sweaty "early 00s" has been retconned to mean "the entire decade minus 2008-2009"
There was really a tremendous amount of change. What would you like to know specifically?
This was more or less the social media effect and more specifically gaming related, it was the time of the wider exposure to normalgaydom for better or worse. There were lots of elements involved here, such as the arrival of "XBros" with the Xbox who were basically the frat bro stereotype who played Madden and FPS, their first online gaming experiences etc. Marketing changed from the kids-first focus of the 90s, but being a "hardcore" gamer was still somewhat geeky niche; the "loser virgin who spills his spaghetti talking to, cums in cargo shorts if given the chance to hoverhand" demographic was marketed to but somewhat negatively by the industry with stuff like booth babes and "fake Gamer GRRL" personas. Consoles were evolving and going online but there were a lot of solid games in the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era, and then of course the following PS3/X360/Wii was a significant iteration in all cases. PC gaming evolved in huge ways - at the start of the 2000s gaming PC hardware could be expensive and even a $3000 rig may not be able to push high settings on what would come in the near future. Dial up was still a commonality and broadband was expanding but it was mostly DSL and Cable; websites where they asked about your hardware and connection would often have a pulldown for your connection speed with the fabled ISDN/T1/T3 at the top, going all the way down to a 9600 or 14.4 modem! Some genres really took off around this time too, notably MMOs where people were looking for virtual worlds - and in the West, the vast majority of them had NO microtransactions or item mall shit at all if you paid for a subscription! EverQuest, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, Shadowbane Final Fantasy XI, WoW...and many more worked this way, especially early on. Cosmetics were an equal part of the game, as it should be! Out of room...
Shit. Only old bitter homosexuals pretend those shit looking games were good
Warcraft 3 and counter-strike still holds to this day. People still play wow and that engine never updated in 20 years.
The engine was designed to be built on top of to be fair. It's a well made game considering all you realistically need to do in a conventional MMO.
>Warcraft 3 and counter-strike still holds to this day
both are trash. cs is worse than cod. warcraft is worse than aoe. anyone who says otherwise doesnt play vidya
was pretty great. wish i would have kept all my old game boxes. only have a couple left
I think I’m having more fun gaming today then back then, but that’s not to say back then was bad- it was great! But my life is on easy mode today with more time for games than ever.
PC games were pretty niche, you really needed to be a self sufficient gen x or have someone in your family that could afford/required a pc
tech was upgrading at a phenomenal rate and it was almost impossible to keep up
many memories of just launching games at sub 20fps such as farcry to just see how stunning it was resolution wise
also everyone was trading out genuinely good peripherals for gamer trash ala macro keyboards and wide lcds
Just great.
>PC games were pretty niche
Sorta true, most family PC rigs with 3Dfx Voodoo card/Riva TNT/ATI Rage Pro can play those games easily.
>tech was upgrading at a phenomenal rate and it was almost impossible to keep up
I know right. picrelated.
I loved 3dfx for their business practices, but my god were their drivers fricking awful. I remember having to manually patch in hacked jerry-rigged fixes from the community because their team was so unbelievably incompetent.
> but my god were their drivers fricking awful.
wut? Their glide drivers are superior, like the current nvidia driver. It just works.
Yeah, I agree. Glide drivers also had much less cpu overhead vs everyone else.
For me, it's the Amigamerlin driver
>PC games were pretty niche, you really needed to be a self sufficient gen x or have someone in your family that could afford/required a pc
I dunno about that, everyone I knew had a PC and I mostly played on the PC.
Commercial PC game development was definitely struggling, though, because of piracy. Game devs tried adding a lot of inventive and absolutely dreadful DRM to their games. But then when services like Steam came out, it turned out that people not wanting to pay wasn't actually the problem, it was the lack of convenience in having to acquire a physical copy vs just downloading something.
>2000-2005
Amazing, arguably the peak of vidya.
>2006-2010
Easily the shittiest gaming has ever been. Even worse than now.
> Even worse than now.
We’re in the middle of a great year of games right now. Stop drowning everyone in your negativity. Its a you problem. Go do something with your life so can get some perspective.
This year is great, and 2017 was also great, but don't pretend we weren't just in a 2-3 year drought of there being nothing to play since the PS5 and XSX launched.
>current year
>great game
Lol lmao even. Is this
you? When you gonna show us your breasts and ass?
Yea both of those are me. I’ve played half a dozen fun new games this year. Why do you hate video games? Do you have very narrow tastes? I enjoy all kinds of different styles and genres. Keeps things from getting stale. Sorry you think everything sucks. Must be a hard way to live. Go get some exercise, maybe your attitude will turn around.
If you want to not get ridiculed, type less like a woman.
>We’re in the middle of a great year of games right now
lmao nice bait anon
the only 2 decent games in the last 8 years have been Phasmo and Deep Rock
everything else has been pretty frickin trash
why are drg fans always complete morons
lemme guess, you liked Cyberpunk and Elden Ring lmao
>phasmo
yeah the changes are hard at first, main thing is you have to turn off your equipment when you hide now. Kinetic are unironically devs of the decade
they're adding 60 new items next month, completely overhauling the progression system with tiers of gear you unlock
>deep rock
eh i'd take that over straight up abandoning their 5 year old game. if it was an AAA development wouldve stopped 6 months in.
its still the best first person shooter in the last decade. 400 hours in it, will easily sink another 400 hours.
both games were great $15 pickups that i'll sink 1000 hours into each, in a time where most games are $100, buggy, contentless trash with no replay value.
fricking Starfield is $130.
$130 fricking dollars.
AAAs need to lay off the meth
t.there's not been a single game over $30 that ive bought in the last 12 years that's been worth the money
I haven't kept up with the changes made to phasmo but heard it was harder even on lower difficulties. Since ghost ship got bought by a shit group they went to the shitty season model. I like the two bugs they added, I've only fought a corruptor once frickers are rare
You're just a balding boomer homosexual dinosaur that doesn't even like games. Go find a new hobby
>Even worse than now
You gotta be shitting me. Gaming is pozzed and creatively bankrupt.
Forced cetitan.
>2006-2010
>every game is a either a Gears clone or CoD clone
>EVERYTHING is brown
>massive ugly menus because they have to be readable on shitty TVs
>everything is dumb
>no indie games so your stuck with dumbed down sequel to your favorite game
>load it up
>it's brown
PS3/360 era was the most uninspired time in gaming.
gen 8 was worse.
>too stupid to play any games besides COD goyslop
>blames the entire gen
and the PS1/N64 generation was shit because every game was shovelware licensed trash
it was a lot fricking worse. even if we did get good games, devs or pubs would generally ruin them for no good reason in the sequels. a lot of former pc centric titles would be stripped of features they had. there were definitely a lot fewer games coming out. Everything had shitty brown and bloom filters slapped onto it. japanese devs would put legit awful pc ports like Dark Souls that are still broken to this day. cant forget GFWL crap too.
Awesome
Was a lot of fun. Oh, and nostalgiacore pics suck. They never get the feeling right and OD on wall posters
Better.
Imagine actually looking forward to something from your favorite company. And not being disappointed when it drops.
Meanwhile, imagine an online community built around IRC and instant messaging apps. People you're acquainted with instead of a clusterfrick of total strangers.
the games were good but you were a way bigger loser if you played games at this time.
now you're still a loser but you can ascend all the way to failed normal gay and still play, back then if you played games you were probably deformed or mentally impaired.
Early/mid? It was the last time the industry actually cared about vidya.
Late? Dogshit especially if you were into western games.
>that floppy setup
what
Don't think about it, it's not supposed to make sense. This picture is made to evoke a vague nostalgia by bombarding you with popular products from specific era.
Like pic related does for 90s nostalgia.
Don't think.
Consoom.
Get nostalgic about consoomption.
im about to die from nostalgia
A: = floppy
B: = floppy
C: = hard disk
D: = cd
i never had a computer with two floppy drives myself but B: was reserved for a second floppy
2 floppy drives were standard on older computers because hard drives were expensive and optional so you'd have your program running on the disk in A: and then save your data to the disk in B:. Through the 90's, it became less common but was still useful for things like directly copying from one floppy to another (affordable CD-R, Zip, and USB flash drives weren't until the end of the decade). On a computer good enough to run Half-Life 2, there was no real reason to have 2 floppy drives installed unless you wanted to give your friends a chuckle when they first saw your system, and 2 disc drives were a much more usual configuration.
my pentium II was
>A: Floppy
>C: 3gb hdd
>D: 3gb hdd
>E: 2gb hdd
>F: 4x DVD burner
my E drive was mostly random file storage, so i could unplug it to plug in a 2nd DVD burner if i wanted so I could burn copies of discs directly instead of needing hdd space buffer
bought that PC for $30 and it lasted me the whole early-mid 00s.
I'm like 90% sure that B: was originally for 5.25" drives. Either way, I've been using PCs since like 1995 and I've never seen a double floppy setup. In the 90s-00s it was always either one floppy or a CD+floppy setup. Schools, libraries, kids I was friends with, and myself too.
before i had a PC i had an Amiga and that thing had 4 floppy drives, and you actually used all 4 regularly as well
it was a beast
A lot better. The industry had gotten big enough for major money to be flowing in, but everything was still being made by talented enthusiasts. Even the bad games were decent. Graphical advancements felt legitimately ground breaking. Technically right before the 2000s, but I'll never forget being with my cousin in a Software Etc. and seeing a Dreamcast for the first time, it might as well have been a time machine. Those leaked shaky cam videos of New Mombassa and the G-Man tech demos. Just a crazy time where franchise-making new releases were coming out constantly, and everything was hype.
Then one day Capcom made Resident Evil 5, and people began to complain that a zombie game set in Africa featured black zombies, and that was the beginning of the end. It spread slowly at first, but it just got bigger and bigger until it consumed everything. The entire industry used to laugh at and mock someone like Jack Thompson, but now there's a Jack Thompson writing every video game in America.
>and people began to complain that a zombie game set in Africa featured black zombies
I'm actually impressed that they focused their kvetching about the black zombies rather than Sheva's tribal outfit
>What was gaming like in the 2000s?
Fun
we would lynch redditors like OP for sport.
https://kotaku.com/man-spends-six-months-plotting-murder-of-counter-strike-5550609
we'd have a better world if there were more violent consequences for untoward behavior
I played Infantry Online til my eyes bled. I played it so much that I unintentionally taught myself to type playing it so much. Crazy for what it was
>Free
>100s of players on one map
>multiple servers with different maps/modes
>Bug Hunt, my favorite mode. Think isometric AvP. Required coordination by the marines, constant masses ambushes by the aliens, but it also allowed skilled players to wreck shit.
>Bullets were slow, almost at bullet hell speed, so you could dodge them.
>Game was jank so you had vision glitches where you could hide even if marines were looking at you
>so most fights were just team fights with shit everywhere, but occasionally you could pop off and turn an entire fight yourself
>same with marines, a good sarge (abusing double summon) could take objectives from a full team (15 rines vs 40+ skrall)
>eventually got gud enough to knife fight aliens to death
Goddamnit I swear if I win the lottery Im resurrecting this fricking game. Its current zombie state isnt enough. Tp/ctgays can suck it. I want to see EOL, KR, NML, BH, ZZ, CM, CA, and gravball back. Isometric, but with modern engine
People have paid for and consumed entertainment for as long as humans, money, and entertainment have existed, but obese 4chins types have decided that consumption is some new evil. As far as I can tell, this is mainly rooted in poverty, with most 4chinners living on public assistance or parental allowance (even as adults), and becoming embittered towards people who can afford to eat out and see a movie. You can see this on every board.
>Capeshit fed cattle doesn't understand the difference between consoomption and enjoyment
hurry up and clap they are making another prodookt for you to consoom!
If you just got a job, you wouldn't need to be like this, and you could look back on the way you and most of the losers here behave and realize how ridiculous it all was. It isn't even hard. I work from home, make six figures, and have spent most of the day advocating for TND on /misc/ and getting paid to do it. I never finished my degree and I've never really tried that hard. There's no excuse for you to still be living where you're living, broke, eating the same shit you did when you were fifteen, constantly complaining on here that your fifteen year old computer can't run new games anymore because they're "unoptimized". You're a moron, so I know you'll just post a meme and act moronic, but on the off chance you won't: do better. You only get one life, and you're currently just a giant homosexual loser who can't afford anything. Is that how you want it to go?
i remember going to this LAN gaming center in town to play counter strike for hours. i remember seeing posters for the upcoming game called "World of Warcraft"
I remember my special pokemon book I got from the back of nintendo power. I remember its smell.
Games with big instruction manuals with concept art and lore that you read in the car on the way home.
The latter half of the 00's was horrible for gaming and it literally never got any better.
the C&C box is wrong, it should be tiberian sun
Okay! Ya ya ya ya ya!
0/10 no starcraft
>no Black folk, no homosexuals, no trannies, entirely white/asian male dominated hobby
>women didnt care about video games yet and video game developers were 95% male with a few of those nerdy homely glasses girls, so products were much, much better
was nice
there were no trannies and gays. but dont act like women didnt infest every mmorpg with their attention-seeking bullshit.
Gaming was for nerds.
No it wasn't. It was incredibly mainstream by that point.
mostly offline and mostly without women
It was a hobby for nerds made by nerds. Now it's a hobby for minorities made by con artists.
It was made for people who actually like video games, by people who actually like video games.
Its weird 97-01 feels like a totally different time period to me from 2003+ even though its just a few years
everything changed when the sand nation attacked
Its more than that though, I mean the technology too. It's kind of hard to describe but for example the rise of GL video modes opposed to software rendering. Playing stuff like Quake 2 with colored lighting, it was awesome. Nowadays the big thing is resolution boosts, framerate, response time increases but I dont feel the same big advancements in technology.
i was just joking, im 40 so i was there as well. things moved very quickly back then.
Because it was.
9/11 changed everything.
Mostly for the worst.
Really bad and most people got through it by just playing WoW and ignoring everything else. In retrospect that might partially be why games were so bad then, because WoW devoured everything, that and normalgays becoming the target audience for games thanks to xbox garbage.
>normalgays becoming the target audience for games thanks to xbox garbage
>seriously believing it was xbox's fault and not playstation
You weren't alive when any of this happened, and everyone can tell.
I'm 33 years old. PS2 wasn't responsible for things like halo or elder scrolls. Xbox is the worst thing that has ever happened to video games and it ruined everything.
Your step Dad might be 33, but you obviously aren't. The Gaystation was the homosexual dudebro console for people who actually played sports games, along with dumb shit techlets who legitimately thought the Emotion Engine was going to "unlock its full power in a few years". You were always the casual trash, and still are.
>Your step Dad might be 33, but you obviously aren't.
Want to see the gba player for my gamecube, i have boxes of gaming stuff from all the way back to the early 90s when i was a little kid sitting in my closet, might even have some vintage mcdonalds toys and stuff
>The Gaystation was the homosexual dudebro console for people who actually played sports games
Sports games have never hurt anything, that has no effect on other games. This is insane revisionism. Pic related wasn't sony's fault, it wasn't because of madden or sim racers, it was because of the xbox making low quality braindead games for idiots.
No, I don't want to see your Dad's old gameboy. Halo was a great game that was universally beloved (except by HL2 cultists) that you've retroactively decided was bad because you grew up in an era when 343 was shitting the bed, and not the era when Halo was getting 11/10s, reviving LAN culture, and carrying a console on its back .
The PS2 was the console for low brows who listened to rap and said "bro" and all the rest of it. I legit can't believe there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2, Jesus. The Xbox barely moved 10 million units before the 360 was rushed out. Last (you), go ahead and post some more stupid shit, then borrow your Dad's gun and stick it in your mouth. "Bu-but a dorito commercial", you dumb homosexual.
You are literally proving him right by admitting you got into games with Halo. You are exactly the kind of homosexual he is talking about. How dumb are you?
>admitting you got into games with Halo
Where? Show me where I said that. I had an NES, an SNES, a Genesis, a Saturn, an N64, then an Xbox. Never "got into games with Halo". You're an illiterate homosexual that can't make heads or tails of simple sentences, so you were definitely the Playstation target audience, go draw a 420 on your trapper keeper and then make minimum wage serving me cheeseburgers "bro"
You didn't have shit or you wouldn't be saying the PS2 was more popular than the Xbox you moronic yuropoor. The PS2 was literally sold as a dvd player in third world countries, thats why the sales are so high. jfc how can anyone be so ignorant
You didn't go from NES to Halo, liar.
>there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2
It literally was in America, and this is an American website. Go away dumb tourist.
You're dumb as frick. I'm sure you'll tell yourself that you're just pretending, but spending your free time "just pretending" to be an illiterate homosexual is something you wouldn't do if you weren't a dumb frick.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-officially-outsells-ps2-in-us/1100-6099369/#:~:text=In%20the%20time%20before%20E3,to%20200%2C000%20PS2s%20and%20100%2C000
You lose, lol
>McNealy told CBS Marketwatch that Microsoft's console sold 270,000 units during the month, compared to 200,000 PS2s and 100,000 Nintendo GameCubes.
"Xbox sold more units in a month, therefore it sold more totally!"
Get a refund from your inner city school Tyrese.
Here comes more squirming from the xdrone. How will he get out of this one?
What's more likely, they can use Google to find that link, but can't read or understand it, or they can use Google to find that link, CAN read and understand it, and are just "pretending" to be unaccomplished pavement apes so that you'll say something to them and they can have human interaction today?
Stop replying to dumb bullshit so people like this will stop posting dumb bullshit. They'll either find a better way to get attention or they'll kill themselves, and Ganker won't be as homosexual either way. STFU.
>I legit can't believe there are homosexuals on Ganker trying to tell me that the xbox was more "mainstream" than PS2
Most of the anons here don't even like video games, they spend all day on Ganker playing a game where the objective is attention and the meta is just being as outlandishly stupid as possible. Anons will put up 50 soijaks swearing that water is dry and fire is cold if that's what it takes for someone to pay attention. If they had jobs they'd be paying a streamer to say their name on twitch.
You got proven wrong and now you are going to dance around it.
Not the anon you're having a meltdown with, so no. You also haven't "proven" anything, so far you just post dumb shit so people will say "hey moron" and you can get a dopamine rush from someone acknowledging you. Here's a reply from a faceless stranger on the internet, hope it helps.
>2023
>having possessions
>a house even
i can spot a wolf in sheepskin
I'm no furry.
If he didn't belong here he wouldn't have been dumb enough to buy a gamecube.
>morrowind on the xbox is what made gaming mainstream
Magical.
Like a Fairy Tale but real.
It didnt matter who you were, as long as you could game, you were in for a ride.
besides 2008 and 2009 the entire decade was awesome
1991-2007 were the golden years of gaming
It was fun. People were nice with each others and everyone was exceited about new technologies and the progress of gaming. Games were more daring, there was a lot of variety and there was no DLC bullshit, there were expansions but they added hours of new content so it was worth the money.
Now is the same goyslop every fricking year. They sell you unfinished games as "early access" that they never fully release. There is DLC for every single fricking thing, gatcha shit everywhere, and they sell you "skins" for almost the price of the full game. Also most players are buttholes and they're annoying to play with.
Golden Era: 1991-2007
Silver Era: 1985-1990 + 2008-2012
Shit Era: 2013-Present
12-20 fps and laggy for 90% of the playerbase. 30+ fps for like the few weird old guys that were into gaming and their children who played on their pcs.
so just like the PS/N64 gen
xdrones are fricking unreal, literal rats. they should be permanently banned from this site. I have never seen a good xdrone post and I've been here for 17 years.
Much much better
Daily reminder it’s not a coincidence that after 2010ish everything went super woke, BLM, lgbtq, reps vs dems, etc.
The elite and ~~*they*~~ got scared shitless when occupy wallstreet was gaining traction and people were trying to overthrow the elite. So the high ups got together and realized having us fight amongst each other we’ll always be divided and never rise up against them.
wokeness started with the french revolution or even earlier. you're not redpilled anough.
4th gen, 6th gen and early 7th gen were peak gaming
Made me want to kill Afghanis with a M2 Browning.
Gaming died when you needed to make an account just to play a game.
God I fricking hate nostalgia and everyone who jerks off about it.
nostalgia? those games are great even today.
Pc gaming was a mixed bag. Smaller selection. If you had a specific issue it could take a whole day to figure out. Ps2/gc/Xbox we’re frickin sicc, so many good games in that gen
I want to go back...
I want to go back so much, bros...
the transition from 3D to HD was the biggest leap in gaming, and not in a good way
2D->3D was merely graphical. 3D->HD was a change in graphics, attitude, direction, style, and culture for gaming.
3D->HD was a change in your age and becoming more jaded and harder to impress.
I was a kid in both the 6th and 7th gens
Okay. Were you in some kind of stasis, or did you age and see more games as you got older?
You are never going to force halo on Ganker.
It was awful and you can see why it became awful in real time on Ganker as gen 6/7 kids become nostalgic for the garbage they played and this board gets worse and worse because of it.
console games: 90s < 00s
PC games: 90s > 00s
NES and SNES games are far better than anything released in the 00s
NES frick no. SNES maybe. 4th gen was great.
you don't know very much about the nes then
Its the exact opposite.
World of Warcraft happened and the entire industry began to rot from the nefarious beating black heart of Blizzard Entertainment. Games As A Service came to the attention of all moneygrubbing publishers.
Arguably the worst era in video games started in 2006 with the Xbox 360.
7th gen wasn't bad until 2008 and even then a lot good games came out.
>even then a lot good games came out
wew lad
not my fault you only played COD goyslop. blaming the entire gen for your lack of taste.
besides, what's wrong with a console gen only focusing on some genres and not be a jack of all trades? the 5th gen was mostly JRPGs and platformers, the 4th gen was mostly side scrollers and JRPGs.
>not my fault you only played COD goyslop
no there fricking wasnt, it was orange box and thats it, and thats not even console stuff so its not part of the "gen"
what if i told you that even os's and pc specs were congruent to those generations.
Same as today, some good games but mostly bad games.
PC was as close to dead as it ever got. No shelf space, Steam wasn't a thing yet, and people hated the frick out of it the first few years anyways. Everything was a really bad console port. Golden age of piracy, everyone had daemon tools, so nobody paid for shitty console ports, and only shitty console ports got made because nobody paid. Everyone thought Metal Gear Solid 2 was garbage instead of prophetic. Everyone thought Nintendo was going 3rd party because nine people had a Gamecube.
If you were in the know it was really frustrating, multiplatform games really started to take off after 2002, so everything had to be developed on the lowest common denominator. Xbox had way less power than the other consoles, so all of the sudden everyone else's games started looking worse. Everyone had a mostly unique library before that. Its why games are so unfinished now, trying to work on too much at once.
>Xbox had way less power than the other consoles
bruh
Look it up. Anything exclusive looked great, anything multiplat had to be downgraded for it. It didn't even have console parts it was literally just a PC.
besides PC-Xbox games like Morrowind HL2 and Infinity War nothing was downgraded for the Xbox as much as it was for the PS2.
PS2 had a much faster renderer than Xbox, by a lot. Look at literally any game that had to run on PS2 and Xbox and then a game that had to run on PS2 only, it was constant downgrade. PS2 was a custom gaming computer, Xbox was the cheapest computer Microsoft could get for $150.
Xbox had a much faster CPU compared to PS2's shit RISC garbage but that's about it.
X360 and PS3 were the opposite.
PS2 was more powerful than Xbox
You only have to play multiplatform games on the PS2, most of them are almost a scam. PS2 games look and run great when they were made exclusively for it. Xbox was a chain around the neck.
>Xbox had way less power than the other consoles, so all of the sudden everyone else's games started looking worse.
it was amazing. playing halo 2 with your friends,trading in games to try out new shit,getting called a Black person constantly for using a noob tube with one man army. id give it all up to experience it again
it was great until COD4 released.
i honestly liked cod4 more than halo
When gaming went corporate. Xbox charged for multiplayer and it was worse than what everyone already had for free, and drones slurped it up so they could play Halo. Microsoft bought out Sega so even if you had a Dreamcast you had to go get this other console just to play games you already bought the Dreamcast for. Microsoft had no idea how to ship a finished game so they just decided they would patch everything like they do with Windows so we got "consoles" that were really just PCs with a hard drive and unfinished games. They removed two levels from Splinter Cell after they were already done and sold it as an unlock on Xbox Live.
I miss playing enemy territory, with my bros from high school
2007 was the last good year for gaming but also one of the 3 best (1998, 2004,2007)
In a way gaming went out with a bang.
>WARNING! Full-moron ATI VXD driver has made the system unstable, and also just crashed an UT game that took 5 mins to connect, frick you
Wow AMDbros..... the more things change........
I fell for the AMD is good meme and used 6900 XT for two years. It was fricking miserable.
The only people saying AMD is good is people who only use it for the most normie AAAslop games on the market or are too blind to notice the issues. If you play any game that AMD didn't specifically release a game ready driver for, you WILL have a bad time and awful frametime spikes. It wasn't the case of the card being slow, this shit happened at 50% and 99% GPU usage just as often.
After upgrading to nvidia when RTX 40xx dropped all of those problems disappeared. I don't know how little you have to value your time and game experience if you are ok with dealing with AMD's nonsense to save $50-100 in mid-end and $200 in high end.
The rule of thumb is that if ATI Tray Tools supports it 100%, it's a decent GPU. Something fricky happened around the tropical lineup after the HD 6000s, and AMD (formerly ATI) just fricking lost their edge. Sad! But unironically, the 9800 and 4890 were some of the most insane values ever, and they actually kept up with Nvidia without any excessively bad driver issues. Yet
My 7950 just kept melting it's VRMs because Sapphire had shit yields and shipped it a lot more overvolted than most BIOSs, but this entire gen was a power hungry overvolted mess, that ASIC tester was made in response to just how cheap that gen felt, fricking 49%
That .Net driver revamp was bad, but ATT let you mitigate the bullshit that was early CCC, but AMD removed a bunch of API hooks and other shit that made it work. Same deal with Radeonpro and MPT
You get older and you just watch the revisionism pile up
in the 2000s you got pre order bonuses for buying the standard copy of a game at launch without actually preordering and with no acciditional charges
they would also give you gadgets like making of dvd or the soundtrack etc. I remember getting an assassin's creed comic book
Well, we mostly actually played them for starters.
2000, I was 13-14 years old
PS1
>was obsessed with ff series
Gb
>pohkeyman
PC
>WINDOWS 95, our computer back then was a glorified email machine than could run Age of empires 2
I was happy