When did video games officially die for you?
for me it was mass effect Andromeda
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When did video games officially die for you? for me it was mass effect Andromeda
When did video games officially die for you?
for me it was mass effect Andromeda
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for me it was transport tycoon 2
shiiiiet they made tt2? i still play openTTD from time to time.
Tetris
it forces you to mix all the colors.. foul degeneracy
NES very late 80.
for me it was fortnight, when i found out that there were federal agents playing on the other end of the spectrum.
sex with hitler 2
Diablo 3
Yeah
Good answer. But really, it's was when the PS2 came out. There's nothing like the og psx catalog for quality and never will be again. The Sony ident intro load up screen was magical too.
yes, around here the fall of games began. There are still good games and i think vr is the shit, but i have no faith in trippel developers and i am so sick and tired of woke and women in video games.
say what you want, but women and feminism destroyed video games and the culture around it. i hate the whole nerd thing nowadays being some childish shit for fat losers that are into Rick and Morty and reddit. i don't want to associate with losers like that, and I am super nerd number 1 loving Warhammer, computers, roleplaying games and shit, but I ain't no fricking loser. Video games were cool when they were designed by and for adult men.
Other than a couple indie games I don't think I've genuinely enjoyed a game since Doom(2016)
And that game was dogshit you tasteless man baby
shut your fricking mouth doom 2016 was excellent
Doom was worse than the doom from 25 years before. Sad
should have got the dakar rally game for free the other day. im enjoying it, aside of crashing once or twice per 8 hour sesh. also super meatboy is free right now
Tommy the Gallic mommy is a legit horny biohole that is built for MOGGING, BTFOing, and soft sensual cuddles and tender Eskimo kissies. Based
just play old shit man, i'm talking CRPGs from 1998-2001
more of a booger man fan myself
The Last of Us 2 gameplay trailer reveal
elaborate.
shamed to admit i sunk 100 hours into stardew valley
Deus ex is the only correct answer. You all failed the test
why? because some of us aren’t try hard gays? im gonna buy starfield and cyberpunk just to annoy you(then refund them and not tell you)
You aren't a true gaymer if your favorite game isn't deus ex kys zoom zoom
ET for the 2600. Finished in maybe an hour, felt so disappointed.
Everything went to shit after pong, nugay
it went to shit after Zork
Raiders of the lost Ark on 2600.
I swear to God it was 40 years before I found out there was a manual and you were supposed to use both controllers.
Uncharted 4.
It got ruined by Cuckmann's sheboon femdom fantasy.
that shit was so unbearable and out of place. But what made me really hate the medium is everyone shoving homosexuals and troons down our throats and being smug about it. lets be honest outside Ganker /misc/ left8sts own the internet and if you dare to disagree with their arrogant liberal worldview they report you and you get banned. In order to reclaim videogames we hqve to reclaim steam forums and other places where leftists rule
at this point youre gonna be fighting leftists IRL in minecraft, for the last canned beans at the store. with machetes
democrat israelitebags own shit
frick those ugly midgets
>In order to reclaim videogames
do you think videogames are a good thing?
Some time between BioShock and Fortnite
Patch 3.2 of WoW, august 4 2009 is when games officially died for me
Trial of the crusader was the canary in the coalmine
elaborate? non autistically pls
From around about 2009 onwards, corporate meddling and shareholder investment began to gain more and more influence over the design process.
Two major shifts happened from this point on:
1) games started to switch to heavier monitization and in app purchases, as well as pay to win services and the mobile industry ramping up - get rich quick, low effort/production cost micro transaction/gambling games changed the market share rapidly
2) remaining traditional games studios sold out to corporate investment and the original wave of passion developers responsible for the progress of gaming between 1990 and 2005 "cashed out". Corporate investment came with shareholder meddling, who all wanted in on the micro transaction gold rush. Later on (after occupy wall street), corporate investment money came with the requirement to insert to certain political ideologies. More of the old guard left due to this corruption, while only the sociopaths and politically aligned remained.
Sounds about right
what in your estimation is a worthwhile rpg-mmo today?
there are none, the mmo bit is mmo in silence now. at least for me. i find it annoying to even play online games where i dont know the people, like rocket racing, somi stick to single player games. not sure why, i used to be very social and personable(while on heroin playing wow)
Relatable. I used to run a guild in WoW classic when I was like 14. Had literal engineers emailing me asking me for tips on how to tank better and gear properly; still have the emails.
WoW classic was pretty fun until they introduced double fricking XP.
But that entire experience was basically solo. No one was grouping, no one was running instances for fun or just chilling. It was all "quest to Max level" in solitude. It's joever. Middle age is here. And then death. Lord have mercy.
Remnant 2 is pretty gud though, as is Vermintide 2.
>a worthwhile rpg-mmo today?
AHAHAHHAAHAHahahahHAHAhahahaahaHAhahahah
Some private servers for the original late 90s-very early 2000s (pre-WoW) MMOs are okay, but they're small communities and can run the gamut from technically savvy historical archivers to truly sad disabled men who have nothing except a very old game in their life.
No one made an MMO after WoW worth playing. WoW itself was not my cup of tea, but its definitely the end of that genre.
The main difference is, before WoW, gold farming/botting/etc was very limited outside of Korean MMOs (Lineage, Mu, Ragnarok, etc)
After WoW, the secondary trade market was the "point" of the genre. If the game doesn't directly sell P2W features, it facilitates a secondary trade market and generates it's revenue through that.
As such, only private servers that enforce 1-boxing are even in the same universe that MMOs were originally intended to fill. All commercial games are money laundering operations with 20+ bots to human ratio at best.
You're right, I've got young kids and reading your post makes it just not worth the effort in even explaining video games to them at all. It's a thematic box not even worth opening. It's a real shame, cus I had such a great time at lan parties and tournaments and sleep over s etc as a kid. I really resent how they killed gaming.
I wrote a long reply but sent it to the void.
I love games, I hate to hear you say that -- but yes, in it's current state, I agree with your decision. We desperately need platforms or laws to end microtransactions full stop. The medium is pretty much fricked until that happens.
>microtransactions
Plenty of games released without them.
the problem is the talent drain and the way it distracts the big publishers
while we do still get great games if you know where to look, the golden goose is the microtransaction live service games that prints billions per year
as long as that goose exists, it will eat up an inordinate amount of art, code, and design talent that should be making things that aren't garbage.
Many live services have flopped like suicide squad or skull and bones. There have actually been an insane excess of games released to the point it's impossible to feasibly play them all. Last of us devs scrapped the live service too.
>Many live services have flopped like suicide squad or skull and bones. There have actually been an insane excess of games released to the point it's impossible to feasibly play them all. Last of us devs scrapped the live service too.
Precisely the point, those teams were forced by the existence of the goose to pursue that model to failure. The risk:reward was deemed worth it by execs on behalf of Ubisoft shareholders, a public game company with a fiduciary duty to chase golden geese.
If MTX was illegal, they'd be making a new Rayman or something.
>The risk:reward was deemed worth it by execs on behalf of Ubisoft shareholders, a public game company with a fiduciary duty to chase golden geese.
Unfortunately the only way to fix this sort of behavior is to figure out a way to make the shareholders who push this sort of self-destructive behavior to further their own greed go down with the ship when it inevitable destroys the company.
Yup, the occasional hotline miami every couple of years doesn't undo the paradigm. Can go back to like 1992-2001 and check the best selling games, and they're experientially something else.
As a kid I was doing tekken, deus ex, morrowind, syndicate, theme park, final fantasy tactics, 6/7, soul blade, doom, quake, jagged alliance, ridge racer / type I, wipeout / 2097, resident evil, fricking parappa the rapper, GTA OG, crash bandicoot, metal gear solid, diddykongracing, killer instinct, red alert 2, goldeneye, pilotwings, kulaworld, silent hill, splintercell, tonyhawks skate boarding, halo, diabolo ii:lod, unreal tournamentI could go on and on.
What is it now? Destiny, star citizen, aurora, GTA 6, some re-remade wow release? Id call it a joke how bad it got but it's not funny, an art form created by predominantly white and Japanese men with passion went extinct.
Rayman and legacy of kain soul reaver, bushido blade, tenchu and armoured core were worth adding a extra post for.
which, btw, if GTA6 doesn't sell an absurd amount of units and DLC clothing, it will be the last game ever produced of "AAA" quality.
that shit costs as much as a fricking real life bridge to build. if it's anything short of a world-changing success, there will be absolutely no business case for making another billion dollar video game, probably ever.
>What is it now?
There's a mod that upgrade the graphics and gameplay of X-Wing Alliance. It looks absolutely amazing and is pretty much the original but with more ship models and upgraded 21st century graphics and effects. There's a mod to convert the game into Tie Fighter, and while the upgraded XWA plays fine on my Windows 7 Machine, the Tie Fighter mod requires Windows 10 or better for some reason.
So now I'm actually considering getting a new gaming computer and saw an inexpensive one with like a 500 GB hard drive. That might hold three, maybe four modern games at one time. Bethesda's Nigs in Space requires 130 gigabytes FFS.
>plot tiwst, the engine is accurate
>people will be literal shizo goblins in the future
>Some private servers for the original late 90s-very early 2000s (pre-WoW) MMOs are okay, but they're small communities and can run the gamut from technically savvy historical archivers to truly sad disabled men who have nothing except a very old game in their life.
Perfect description of Return of Reckoning. Those places are void of anything positive.
Raising a family and being successful IRL out of spite for how corrupt everything became is the best RPG-MMO feeling rn
There's been a few good games that have come out recently, but MMOs have had their time and our time is better spent achieving goals IRL
Captcha: H0RD
FFXIV, WoW might have shot itself in the foot over the years but there are other mmo's still going strong.
This man knows.
Celestial steed launch was also around then iirc. Didn't expect it to be such a hit that would center all games around shitty cosmetics for 15 years.
Pitfall by Activision. Sears catalog said there were tigers and me and my brother played the holy living frick out of that game from beginning to end and there were no tigers
I'm in San Diego. Get rid of that ugly buzzard puke flag. I'm American
Andromeda still hurts. I'm a Mass Effect lorehomosexual and was so hyped for this. The potential was insane. But the release was so fricking horrible that it made me begin to realize just how low the quality had gotten with gaming in general. If even Mass Effect was trash now, what won't be?
SO. same.
I was incredibly hyped for the game. first and only pre order i ever made. took time off work. i think it was a thurs so i did thurs fri. Went out and bought some booze and a chicken and some snacks.
downloaded everything and started playing and withing 30 mins i was saying out loud "ok this is some kind of flash back pre game warm up thing" nope.
I was so frickin rocked by how bad it was. i went about 30% and just said no more.
>Went out and bought some booze and a chicken and some snacks.
>and a chicken
It’s same issue Dragon Age had when they replaced the Warden with other characters barely anyone cares for but made worse.
DS1 came out in 2011? So around then I guess.
Occasional indie stuff is good, but as far as major releases go that’s pretty much it.
Halo3 was alright for 2007
And Skyrim (2012) is a nice mod platform to compete with New Vegas. However NV is still better crafted despite being unfinished.
PoE gets a special mention I guess, but the shear weight of the bloated mechanics in that game have it tail spiraling for the trash heap.
Are major title games released post 2019 even fun to play anymore? They look boring as hell.
BioWare was already dead by this point and the writing was on the wall by the end of ME3.
In fact, most of the _improvements_ between ME1 and ME2 were simply ports of other shooter mechanics into the game. Upon review it becomes obvious that even BioWare didn’t understand what they had with ME1. It could have been a series to define its own genre a la Dark Souls and port KotOR gameplay into next gen gaming, but the ball was fumbled and the studio relaxed into fun but uncaptivating mechanics and storytelling.
Yes I am saying you should have known better. But you can at least still listen to old codex entries to get your lore fix.
you fricking deserve it
after 3, you should have been schooled plenty already
ME2 had some early red flags, like the dragon age crossover shit. but yeah 3 was unforgivable. so much stupid shit. oh they built a giant deathstar weapon in about a week? its okay dudes, they found ancient alien schematics that make it easier to build, its simple....yet complex. like legos.
you get to the citadel where theres a 'refugee crisis', how topical, and theres like....5 people standing in a hallway. the hospital you go to isnt even full. oh but dont worry shepard we managed to get into a part of the citadel thats now so bad yet, so you dont get to see any of the chaos happening on the rest of the citadel that might have been interesting and offering some cool gameplay opportunities. like massacring refugees.
also ME2 has what, like 15 companions? all with totally original and unique interesting background and lore. I loved almost every character in ME2, even the shitty DLC ones like kasumi who is easily the worst one. ME3 had like 5 companions, 3 of which were recycled from old games, and 1 you dont even get till the end of the game. such an embarrassing shitshow. glad I pirated it
>like the dragon age crossover shit
Wait what? Did miss something while playing it? Explain anon.
just stupid shit like this. no actual lore crossover. but im not wearing this gay shit bioware get this off my ship
Kek
Oh ya, I see what you mean. It was pretty fricking stupid.
The first red flags weren't gay exclusive armours but rather "we're making it gritty and edgy", "for wider audiences" and the rest of the now typical list. I have followed the development at the forums and realized it's going to be nothing more than a mediocre cover shooter with alien poon. I have only played it once, despite it having some decent parts.
my life was spiraling out of control because i had no direction and had utterly failed to launch; I became an adult, and I was still just sitting there playing videogames. I imagined looking at myself through an outside perspective and seeing this man child loser just playing his bing bing wahoos while life was passing him by. then "life passing him by" turned into shirking responsibilities. shirking responsibilities turned into not being there for the people he loved. apathy turned into disgust, then sorrow, then anger
the man I saw was a man who had nothing, less than nothing even, with a whole world of potential and possibility dancing around him, and instead he chose to he a pathetic censorious tumour, a parasite on this world. never able to truly express himself through action, never able to truly love. never to truly live.
anyway , for a long time, whenever I tried to play videogames, I would see that man every time, and suddenly the magic was gone. the immersion gone. nothing really clicked at all when I could see that man out of the corner of my eye. everything just started to feel hollow. so hollow.
Relatable, except I just keep gooming. Is it fear? Is it self loathing? Personally, I think I tried many ventures and just failed at everything, and eventually when you never catch a dub, you just wear down. I tell my friends with kids who made it to never let them play vidya, or only very sparingly.
so now what do you do? take on responsibility and work hard?
I slowed down on playing videogames, then my graphics card burned out and I couldn't afford to replace it anyway. I spent a couple years reading a boat load of literature instead, eventually I found the direction that was missing from my life this entire time. while this was all happening i could feel my health declining dramatically from my lifestyle. lots of sitting around, drinking alchohol, junk food etc. more and more social isolation over time as i started to feel worse and worse and couldn't keep up with other people. by 2020 i stopped seeing friends i previously saw weekly more than maybe once or twice a year. by 2023, not at all,
following new years of 2023 I had dramatically cut back on my alcohol consumption as even having a few beers was starting to have a catastrophic effect on me, and started working other bad habits like that, I was starting to work more and more hours and making more money than I have in my entire adult life, things were really looking up and i was genuinely so optimistic for a bit there
then a few months into 2023 everything came crashing down. the health problems i was experiencing kicked into overdrive. I randomly started having explosive watery diarrhea every single day for months at a time, heart palpitations, dizziness constant extreme fatigue, disorientation. this, I think combined with my years of social isolation, turned into EXTREME anxiety as i began to fear losing consciousness due to the debilitating physical symptoms, then began to fear the fear itself since my anxiety itself started making me feel woozy and stuff on its own. now anxiety and general disorientation is slowly turning into some kind of psychosis. im basically just waiting to become homeless and die now, or become actually schizophrenic
Same thing happened to me. Anxiety was making me feel like I was about to die of a heart attack at any minute. Went to the doctor, got a clean bill of health and some happy pills which just made me feel even worse. Alcohol and being a shut in for long periods of time give you debilitating anxiety.
the debilitating anxiety is from the dumb shit you do wile drunk, its also from alcohol itself. it hurts every cell in your body. do you think anxiety comes from nowhere? alcoholics cure anxiety with alcohol, then they wake up hungover and think they have done the worst thing in the world. have you ever met someone that became a good friend, then they do something moronic and shameful? ever seen yourself not give a frick about what they did or forget about it fast? dont give to much of a frick about shit you did drunk, they forget it easily aswell. if you are particularly sensitive to alcohol you need to know that it amplifies anxiety when you become sober again. if you said something stupid its not a big thing. you still shouldnt drink. it only hurts
no such thing as alcoholic
its all bs
put all those frickers in factory work
its a social problem, diet and being active can help alot with the anxiety and low mood. same as porn, have someone in your life that you relate too, hard to find if you have none.
put them in factory work
they already do, wich makes alcoholics drink even more.
get em productive
exercsie
it builds esteem
ban booz and israelites
dont have to ban booz, people can still drink it. some can not, the people that can do it, go for it. those who drink every day cant do it. same as kids who can play nice and those who can not, those who cannot needs yelling at, unless they are mad at they figured out the jooz
well, look at teh bright sight. based on the quality of LEAF posters, I assume 90% of canadians are like that.
maybe you shouldn't of voted for MUH WEED guy.
the first thread was somehow a wakeup call and then the second one suppose to be a redemption. But it had even worse ending. wtf man ? Are you ok now ?
force a smile. even forced, it lightens your immediate mood. do a big, Joker-y, Black Hole Sun video one. smile like Steve from Blue's Clues or that hot baby teacher Ms Rachel. then mimic the diaphragmatic contractions of a hearty belly laugh. it will create endorphins that mimic the real thing, like seeing a limp Hilary Clinton thrown into a SUV
now you have to realize "real life" is just a more elaborate bing bing wahoo and your accomplishments in it are worth just as much as the video game ones.
That's blackpill nihilism talking.
Youre in denial.
Besides. I never said you should cease enjoying real life. Or games for that matter.
>real life is a game
Yea
>and it’s just as pointless
Nope, my accomplishments are long lasting and directly effect the world that exists and can’t just be turned off and erased by pushing a button.
homosexual
Same. It the year after I graduated high school back in the Nintendo 64 era. Outside of a Call of Duty phase back in 2006ish, which was cool because I could play huge matches of 40 people with my sister in a neighboring state and my cousin in another neighboring state playing. That was fun as an adult and was novel at the time. But outside of that two or so years where we all played Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2, I haven't enjoyed video games since graduating high school 26 years ago.
bing bing wahoo is turning into tranime
>with a whole world of potential and possibility dancing around him
this never existed for me. my simulation is eternal suffering
Best game ever:
https://archive.org/details/blacklivessplatter
gta5 is where it ended for me. A complete letdown in every way compared to its predecessor. Albeit, I did like that they reintroduced flyable planes, however the mechanics turned out to lack the soul needed to make them anything short of repetitive after a few minutes of flying.
This. GTA 5 feels cheap and the game engine sucks mega wiener compared to IV. It was truly normified for the masses. Early GTA Online was super fun but they cancelled the planned story DLC to turn Online into a grindfest israeli trap to sell shark cards
My eyes are tired!!! Lol
Still waiting for the Quarian ark dlc and the cliff hanger ending. When can I expect a sequel to ME Andromeda??? Lol
Kenshi has been fun.
Pubg Mobile still rocks
Dragon Age Inquisition
This.
But officially offficially was very recently with the disaster of "Starshitfield"
What's wrong with Starfield? Haven't played this one. I only play older games from time to time, classics such as Heroes III, FFVII and Persona 3/4. From the top of my head.
It is souless...
I was hoping for some Skyrim fallout vibe and all you get is a soules woke game...
But play it, it is not that bad.. but it lacks replayability because its souless..
Look at this for details... >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4vVxkbduMs
A lot earlier, but far cry new dawn with the two black chicks, Borderlands 3 and Fallout 76 for other reasons than being woke.
>Fallout 76
i actually had a lot of fun with fallout 76 in the begining.
I could actually rp as a raider and trick little homosexuals into coming to me by attacking their base or trying to take their work bench and killing them fortheir scrap loot over and over and listening to them scream and piss and shit on coms. it was glorious. then they sanitized it and i left. fo766 in the early days with all the bugs ad sht was legit fun. legit wild west shit and it will never return.
if only it would run smooth. so much stutter in that game and i have a decent pc with a 3060ti. so much stuttering i gave ip.
Checked.
Online gaming died when Valve refused to clean out the cheaters in Counterstrike. Counterstrike made me a proto incel in 2001. I would rather play with my clan than get a girlfriend. And there were girls who would come play video games just to get married lol my friend married the one with a mustache.
There are too many cheaters now or the game is easily zerged by Chinamen. I had a blast playing RDR 2 online and it was better than any mmo I played and only like $5 for a playstation online fee. It is really a shame R* did not release Mexico for it.
Frick off Randy. This political because they pushing their agenda on people playing the games.
Frick off bobandy
You had a blast playing red dead online? OP onion discarded
R* mission timers balanced classes better than Blizzard or any other mmo developer has ever done. Also PVP was handled better than WoW with creating optional risk rewards. At it's core RDR 2 online was superior to the mmo, it just did not get the attention of GTA 5 online received. Every other argument for other games is its unbalanced and non sensical but magic fills in the rough spots while developers play favorites.
Dark souls 1 tbh. Just knew a massive drove of dress code atheists would come and squeeze poop packets to help "modernize" gaming. Good on them i really didnt start hating homosexuals until games were outsourced and pajeets payed to fake review
I haven't played any modern game aside from a couple of Switch games in over a decade.
Just bought a 4070, can't wait to see what modern marvels I can now get to experience.
Battlefront 3 being canceled but in reality halo 2. Halo 1 was a modern marvel but halo 2 had unforgivable graphics issues.
Video games and culture in general all died around 2013-2014.
There are very few things made after then that I like.
In 2024, watching any movie or playing any game is an exercise in pure rage. Every single fricking thing has forced woke and diversity.
Toe Jam and Earl 2
Dragon Age 2
I hate that DA2 needed maybe 6 more months of time to polish. The Legacy dlc proved that the core of the game was salvageable.
dragon age was always cucked. one of the lead writers for the games story was a gay british man. he looks like this. tell me you respect any wisdom that comes from this human pug dog's mouth.
I didn't say it was high art. I said it was fun and the first DLC showed the whole of DA2 was not doomed to failure. Think of his based the Arishok was, and his they'd never ever let you negotiate pace with him today.
They haven't, because I'm not an oversensitive homosexual who throws a tantrum when he sees something he doesn't like.
thanks for the bump contrarian zoomer homosexual baguettenog
How bad is it? Last game I played was Battlefield 1, thinking about buying a PS5 and getting back into it. Haven't kept up with gaming news at all since Battlefield V was released.
i was thinking PS5 as well after buying every sony system. I opted for a decent gaming pc instead.
when i accidentally deleted over 1k hours of terraria
Terraria sucks.
After Unreal Tournament
elaborate?
True. UT99 has never been surpassed.
Xonotic was pretty good, despite the drama (and it was forked anyway), but as my joints weren't that great already and the number of people playing was tiny, I didn't even try getting gud again.
In total honesty, when Sega exited and killed the DC. I’ve continued playing ever since but that was the end of me caring about new games, or following what was coming next. I was disillusioned
Diablo 3
Andromeda for me too
>Land on planet
>I'm gonna kill some fricking aliens
>NPC approaches you to tell you all about xirs gender transition
>It is completely irrelevant to the story and there's no way to skip the sex change operation monologue
>Alt+F4
Never played another videogame after this
Fallout 4 was kinda the deathknell in my view. The first game I looked forward to that was genuinely just disappointing
The year of the E3 that had a fricking terrible Bethesda showcase demonstrating how fricking awful Fallout 76 was and that they were "fixing it".
When the industry ate it up like it was some kind of amazing quality product, I knew it was all over. Nothing but shit from here on out. Only morons play video games now. So only moronic games are being made.
If it wasn't for autistic modders and deranged independent developers, I wouldn't play video games at all.
I hate this planet.
I would also like to point out that the industry is so fricking hellish and dystopian that this amazing mod will likely never be finished because of corporate supremacy running the planet.
GTA: America should be the fricking standard but instead they just keep rehashing the same 3 cities and adding even more left-wing worship instead of satirizing Black folk properly like OBJECTIVE 1: STEAL THAT BIKE
R type and or jump man
Then you fans showed up
This was one of the worst titles in history of any franchise
when i realised that i chased nothing, for the gain of nothing. not saying not to play games but it shouldnt be the main thing.
Nobody should play games for longer than maybe an hour a day. And they should just play solitaire or crib or something, maybe a crossword puzzle. Then move on back to their life. Video games are truly cancerous, up there with porn and tv for levels of mind rot induction. If wouldn't trade playing Red Alert with my dad until 5 am, but I'd make myself never play any game alone. Either with a friend in the room or nothing at a. Doesn't matter now, boat is missed. Everything else fricking sucks anyway, so might as well play Scythe 2 and Eviternity again.
the good old Lans with 2 or 3 friends was fun, but the same 2-3 friends were out and playing around, jumping from shit, exploding bottles filled with stuff we found out made gas/ pressure hard enough for the bottle to break in a loud fashion. games changed people, it was fine you did it with a few friends some weekends. but when you hit 20+ and still sit at home talking on discord i find it wrong. if you get those same buddies home and play thats something different. i gave up on both, still talk to the old mates tho
What do you do that is so holy and perfect, homosexual?
Final Fantasy 7. You shouldn't have an opinion if you don't understand what I just said.
It never truly died, there are a few gems here and there.
However the average quality started to decline a lot since early 2000's, especially the design aspect of large studios.
It is getting more and more hollow and soulless.
When the 360 lost the blades UI and started catering to kinect
and the PS3 movie games started to rise.
ITT homosexual GAYMERS
For me it was when they let women work on the developers. Women just ruin everything they touch, they also did the same with cinema, TV series and many other stuff. Letting them vote was a mistake
This is it. Women can't enjoy life because they are soulless animals and just want to ruin men entertainment and hobbies to make them as miserable as they are
When they cancelled Titanfall 3.
Never. I simply play the pile of older games I have left or simply filter out/mod out the propaganda.
After Kingdom Come?
I 100% Snowrunner also.
snowrunner is brilliant. im finishing up michigan before moving on. some of these deliveries take fricking ages. also, i wish it had cruise control like mudrunner. thats my only complaint, really.
Yes, just use Auto Hotkey script for cruise control.
This yenta ALONE created more antisemites than than any nazi, Wignat or jihadi could've or intended to on his own.
myth 2
baldurs gate 1
I play still
i might try n fighure out how to mod and make new levels
starcraft 1 was kinda cool
Battlefield 4. I was already hugely disappointed at bf3, but this game made me abandon modern gaming completely.
After PS2. The derivative improvement cannot mask the missing creativity.
Once velocity of money collapsed with the monetary base going up parabolically so between 2008-2012
Hard to make a long term project under those conditions unless it's a technological deflationary one.
Skyrim was the last good game. So 2011
>for me it was mass effect Andromeda
Not the end of Mass Effect 3?
That Tomb Raider 2013 game.
>Kill at least 30 guys with a bow or an axe or a machine gun to get through the map up to this point
>Have to kill one guy in a cut scene
>Start crying in the cut scene over having to kill somebody.
I turned it off. It was bad enough that they limited where and how you could use your equipment, and where and how you could climb, but what the frick.
ME3 Multiplayer made up for a lot of the other issues with the game. There was no way to end that series right, and it really should never have been a series that carried on after 1.
>There was no way to end that series right
Total reaper victory.
That's what happens no matter how you slice it. Even the "good" ending ends with the relays all destroyed and the alliance destroyed and everybody stranded on whatever planet they happened to be close to and no intergalactic civilization left.
2023
World of Warcraft, thats the starting point it became for normies who fled their shitty israelitelywood movies and wanted a interactive movie.
Video games only die for people who for some reason must play new bad game.
why do the people cheat online? and how to stop it?
im just trying to play GTA online. I am quite good. the frickers cant kill me. but they cheat and then im dead. WTFFFFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Ps5. Will not buy it
A combination of full workdays and walking my dog leaving me an hour or two of recreation a day kinda lowered my vidya libido. But it was the war that turned it off. I tried to force myself to play small stuff, but found it hard. I preferred to just sit and watch a show or movie in my free time.
Since I got laid off and I have more time now, I consciously chose to get back to gaming. It's nice.
Idk ultrakill is pretty good.
On sale on steam btw.
After Ultima On Line
What? You don't like modern games with black kangs and quans? Are you racist or something?
diablo 3 is when I began to have questions, but really going back and playing dragon age :origins, I can see the rot was much older
>why did you kill that family of innocent children and women?
>AAAAYYOOOO WHITE BOY HUMAN b***h, ITS MUH CULTCHA N SHIET, THEY CALLED ME A QUBlack person
>uhh, okay. let me unlock those shackles for you...
>b***h ASS CRACKA. DONT YALL NEVER PATRONIZE ME AGAIN
>You have lost 5 influence with Sten
fricking dumb qunari Black folk. I wish the roleplaying game gave me an option to kill every quBlack person I see
If i recall Sten eventually reveals what really happened. He's still a fricking Black person, but he was PTSD about watching his crew get slaughtered and lost his ceremonial sword and blamed the family that took him in. An action he is deeply contrite about. I thought DA:O and DA:A were fricking great. Ogrhen going from your fun drunk buddy in college to your alcoholic mess of a friend post graduation was a great arc. And you can help him fix his life
DR:o was incredible sten being the weakest character notwithstanding (yes including quinn)
Portal in 2007. Then the feminists and the cultural marxists started to infiltrate and subvert the industry and it went to shit in 2012 and 2013.
as much as I like portal, I have not known a single person that liked it who wasnt a homosexual. lots of annoying women too. women love portal 2 for some unholy reason. probably the 'humor'
did you just call yourself a homosexual?
I feel like a homosexual for ever having liked it and thus being associated with these annoying c**ts, yes
nah it's a good game. don't let them take it from you.
>"OMG, the cake is a lie, amirite <3 <3 <3"
I liked it because it was Portal 1 but MORE.
I didn't like the puzzle level design. An entire chamber of rusting broken dark walls, and one patch of white wall, brightly lit. Gee, I wonder where I'm supposed to put a portal... Even in the chambers with plenty white walls, the places you need to put your portals on have a differently tiled texture. It felt very scripted, and that's not to mention the actually scripted portals and very linear pathing.
why cant women israelites n gays stay the frick outa games n shit they dont care about
and israelites stay uta white country?
FRICK!!
Never, because games aren’t a homogeneous mass. There are good and bad developers.
last games I played
>red ded redemption 2 (did not finish)
>cyberpunk (finished only one time and only one final mission)
>baldurs gate 3 (finished 1 time)
thats it.. all the games I played in last 5 years.
2010s after a decade of disappointments even from games that started out so good.
MMORPGs being the largest offender in that regard. They rely on player activity for income but can't be assed to let a poor-gay sell his gold or sword. Naturally, the binding bandwagon lead to other bandwagons which is why I suspect it was the same team behind the scenes moving the gaming industry which is wrong because they didn't even play games.
When I hit 37 and realized my life is over and went nowhere. No family of my own, no house, no job, no future, nothing.
>When I hit 37 and realized my life is over and went nowhere. No family of my own, no house, no job, no future, nothing.
when my bro hit 30, he wanted to buy a gaming computer. I told him: you're too old for this shit, after work yoy would want simple to sit on the couch and chug some beer, you're not twenty anymore to play till 1am. Get it over
Recently, he admitted, I was right
being an alcoholic isn't a better alternative than gaming
That's not what he's saying. Unfortunately he's too moronic to be able to express that sentiment via the written word.
>No family of my own, no house, no job, no future, nothing.
bruh, that sounds like wins to me... literally 0 obligations. you can do wahtever the frick you want now.
got pattaya beach thailand and let a hot troony frick your ass for 10$
7th gen was the beginning of the end
>first signs of liberal sexual puritans crying about jiggling breasts
>microtransactions
>online becoming more of a focus
>casual normie audience becoming the main target demographic
With AAA studio games? Sims 4
If they did, they were bad. Balance passes proved that much.
>It's overpowered
>Power creep
>It's the only class with that
Etc.
Bad players and teams behind the scenes "advising" because the tops of these moronic companies can't be assed to played the product they're over.
The Wii killed my interest in games until just a couple years ago when I got a Switch. There is still lots of good stuff out there you just have to stick with Japanese games or indie if you buy any thing Western.
GTA+ was the line for me. I don't play many titles. GTA was my jam. Now they've gone woke and greedy. I'm out. I can't imagine it gets any better from here. I'll probably see what's up with GTA6, but even then, I'll be waiting for reviews before I buy.
GTA6 has a budget north of 1 billion dollars. When marketing is added, it'll probably be closer to 2. There will be no negative reviews. They will buy every review from the biggest gaming portals down to 13 year olds on tik tok. No one will go unpaid. Now is the time to start a GTA fan channel and reach out to rockstar, get your contract sured up.
That means nothing when we have Ganker and twitter.
When I never got Half-Life 2: Episode Three
>muh Half-Life 3
No, I mean EPISODE THREE.
good. did you read some of the development news on it? the last I heard of it, in 2009, they were trying to make an 'accessible' game with features for colorblind and deaf people. and that was fricking it. more than 10 years of dead silence. that was long before the heavy wokism of the modern vidya industry. they were out of ideas years ago. and that asian negress is annoying
Final Fantasy IX. It was a massive letdown after the ABSOLUTE PERFECTION that was FF VIII. FF VIII was THE very pinnacle, the creamiest of the crops, the absolute of the mount Olympus, and the third in the official Holy Trinity of VI-VII-VIII (Ivalice is it's own thing, so FFT, Vagrant Story, and FF XII are counted separately). Things never got better since after FF VIII, as FF VIII was the highest point not just of the franchise in general, but Square as the developer and company in overall, so when they reached that point, they could only fall down from there (and boy-oh-boy falling down they did, starting with FF IX, which was a very big disappointment and complete mistake on each and every accord and field imaginable), with corridor intestine and boring-ass non-story that was FF X, then Fecal Fartassy X-2, and other crap after that.
And FF IX marked a downturn and falling down the hill not just for Square and SquE, but the industry as a whole, as Fart Cry released next, which solidified the beginning of the "dark ages" period of the entire video gaming industry's and gaming commune's existence. We are still suffering in these dark ages even today, despite SquE itself being able to crawl out back from the shithole it gotten itself into recently, with Star Ocean SS HDR and "FF VII-2 Disc 2: Rebirth".
As a Square historian, you're allowed to dislike games but this opinion is factually incorrect.
>memeflaggot
Discarded. Seethe, cope, and dilate, shiteater. FF IX is not the worst video game or the worst FF entry ever, but it's genuinely the direct point at which Square lost it's touch with reality and gaming commune, it is the point of the beginning of the dark ages for the whole industry.
Filtered. Gitgut.
>Doesn't recognise the Union Jack
I knew some Slavs were moronic but you had to open your mouth and confirm the suspicion.
I know what union jack is, dumbass. I'm telling you Britshits are memeflaggots. You're anglosuxxon parasitic invasive species on that island. Only Irish/Welsh and Scots are actual true legitimate English, their flags are not meme. GTFO.
You're insane. I can understand preferring ffVIII over IX, but IX is an objectively good, and in fact better game.
Mechanically, IX worked so much better, with superior mini games, a better character system (junction system was fricky), and plenty of small little improvements like the ATS or whatever it was called.
The characters were far more fleshed out, even if they were more cartoony. Looking back the FFVIII characters were ok at times, but we're as blank as their character sheet. Even the main villain is just utterly forgettable. You compare that to IX, which had a cast of interesting characters, with great interactions, and importantly growth.
In a very objective sense, IX was one of the best.
>IX is an objectively good, and in fact better game
0/10, you must tryhard way more than just that, shiteater.
ff9 had the best story out of all the games cant i like the mechanics in ff5 much better and the music in ff8 was the best although everything else sucked
>a fricking LEAF
Discarded.
its a vpn jjust like yours buddy
I'm a legitimate ETERNALLY GLORIOUS RUSSIAN, you proxy cuckhole.
>story
Plotgays get the rope. Go watch TV for god's sake. Or better yet read a book.
Story has no place in an interactive medium.
Know who likes stories? 4 year olds at kindy.
the only reason to ever even touch a final fantasy game is their story , why would you play them for anything else its all crap gameplay compared to almost any other game
Maybe you're playing the wrong games?
Super mario bros 2
(@-@)
Ms. Pac-Man
When DLC became mainstream and multiplayer an online premium service
Recently. There was no particular game, but gaming in general tanked for me. I'm a big fan of fighting games to the point where I was involved in tournaments but now I can't bring myself to play anything, even with all the new releases recently. I am looking forward to a few upcoming games, whether I do actually get around to them is a different story.
>I was involved in tournaments
Which game?
Multiple, my favorite games are GG+R, MBAACC, and DBFZ. But I play pretty much all of them. It could be burnout I guess.
I liked Detroit:Become Human even if it’s a bit woke, it was not in the way of the story at least
Before that the last good game I played was mass effect 2 and some driving sims. I’m not much of a gamer anymore but hopefully AI will help create assets and kickstart a second indie gaming revolution
I still play chivalry 2. it's good.
I think I stopped giving a shit about anything besides niche games after elder scrolls online.
good choice for me it was dragon age 2 , ruined a franchise i thought id love in its prime 3 wasn't even that bad but dear god dragon age 2 was a steaming pile of shit
oh man i forgot about that :< what a shitty path for elderscrolls to take
It could be because I got older but I thought things seemed shittier after the PS2 generation. I tried Skyrim and it seemed like shit compared to Morrowind. Also even though it was PS2 I thought FFXII was worse than X which was in turn worse than IX.
Main game I've liked since then is Mount and Blade.
It was when they brought out the mechanical turk for me.
checkers
"durr wut if chess but all piece same?"
pandering to casuals became the business model and it never changed
With the Wii. I have NO desire to jump around like a fricking monkey in order to play games. I'm playing video games because I DON'T want to go outside or exercise.
After Nintendo decided to create that moronic console I went to Xbox. There were a few good games on there but I just want to sit down and play a fricking game. I don't want to have to spend an hour watching cut scenes about the characters. I DON'T CARE why my character has to fight the aliens. I don't care about his fricking childhood. I just want to have some fun. I also don't want to have to memorize a bunch of moronic combos.
Modern games are fricking exhausting. It takes a fricking hour to go through a moronic tutorial so you can learn the controls while you're constantly interrupted by cut scenes. At the end of the hour I'm out of time and by the time I come back to the game a few weeks/months later I've forgotten the controls and have to do the tutorial again.
I miss the good old days when you could fire up a game and start playing in 30 seconds. No cut scenes, no tutorials, no memorizing combos and controls, and NO FRICKING UPDATES! Games aren't fun anymore.
There was nothing wrong with Andromeda. It wasn’t great either but it’s a good game. Reddit gays tanked it before it even came out because of the stupid face bullshit. Oh if you screencap and zoom in on a background character they have a weird face. Actually playing the game you pass them in less than a second and can’t see anything.
>There was nothing wrong with Andromeda.
So much nothing wrong that it has received this: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=44329
When X-Wing Alliance wouldn't run smoothly on my 486.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_Alliance
Only Western games are dead. Indie and Asian games are still kicking.
Halo 3 when i realized israelites hire groups of people to harass people online and cheat their way to the top through any means, they did this long before H3 in many other games though
the injection of Black folk, trannies and quippy Marvel snark everywhere sealed it for me
last game i play is Battlefield 4, and that is infected with glows that sign on specifically when i do to ruin my experience
Micheal K. Williams RIP the guy who played Omar in The Wire (which i have never watched a single episode of) is based in the Bf4 campaign though. last game i ever played the campaign of, one of only a few based Black folk besides Keith David involved in a vidya far as i know
i will dust off Dragon Warrior 4 on my NES now because of this thread
Been dead to me for a good 15 years or so now. Music too. Man, movies too now that I think about it. 2009 was the last good year as far as I'm concerned.
Since the release of Noita in 2019. I have only played that and Enter The Gungeon for the last 5 years. I haven't turned on my PC in about 18 months though. I kinda grew out of vidya when I turned 19 after spending my entire childhood and teen years doing nothing else. I was rank #26 on rainbow six Vegas 2, I had 6 lvl 80 toons on WoW, I always went max prestige on every CoD. Then when I turned 19 it was like
the moment they start moderating chat.
twilight princess
The Wind Waker had some soul but was rushed and fetch quest-y in places (collecting triforce shards), but overall was an entertaining experience, one i hold dear.
TP was just a fricking sad nightmare though. all that badass e3 2004 screaming, the dark moody trailer of e3 2005, all the hype, only for Nintendo to delay it for waggle sword frick to sell Wiis. all over the place. poor dungeon designs, shitty backtracking., you can soft lock yourself in the city in the sky dungeon 7. most fun i had was the marble madness minigame in lake hylia fishing spot. Midna is a gay midget. totally forgettable characters. derivative and uninspired.
cool that TP is how people broke the wii for modding though
>sky dungeon
this is were i got stuck i think dont think i ever finished it. thought Mindna was great though , and yea windwaker felt like a demo more then a full game
me too, until i picked i back up 2 years later, looked up what was going on and realize i had soft locked myself like 10 million other people. shitty nintendo. had to restart the whole game, just wanted to see the ending "Midna turns humanoid again and is hot" even though i already saw the picture online. God i am a homosexual. around that time is i when i decided "i am 19, i am going to get a fricking gf, and have sex", and i did. chad sex haver 2007-2013 RIP. now i am about to be 36 and life is over
im mids 20s and im still a virgin so you did better then me congrats
Midna was still the best part of game, despite being annoying as frick and her story making no sense. Manifest a Midna tulpa gf and frick her in the astral realm
iv had incredibly vivid dreams about someone who maybe ill meet after i die , i think my chances in this life are null though
both OoT and MM shit on that game and have the best dungeons of any Zelda besides Link's Awakening
i hate that they remade that, both in color and in 2019 with that ugly ass cartoon 3d shit.
greyscale, played on the Super Gameboy for SNES was soul and i pretend the others aren't real
i still have a sealed copy of the gamecube version of TP in my closet, along with a NES and Dragon Warrior 3 and 4, might just play that today. resist the urge to engage in the sadomasochism that is Battlefield 4
I remember going to a Goodwill just a few months after Andromeda came out, and they had boxes full of Mass Effect Andromeda for like 5$ or something. I knew the game was bad and had horrible sales, but that really put it in perspective.
I'll never forget the time I found painkiller, AVP2 and some tank game whose name is long forgotten (but it was fun as all hell, it had hover-tanks and WW2 tanks and you could fight on the moon and use nukes) in a bargain bin somewhere. this was before yahtzee reviewed painkiller and everyone knew about it. those were the days when not every unpopular game was so because it was shit, sometimes it was just the way of the world. now if a game is in a bargain bin you can be guaranteed its because its shit. because even triple A games are shit now
Helldivers 2 is pretty good. you should play it FOR DEMOCRACY!!!
When Sarkeesian showed up. That's when I knew that the israelites had their eyes set on the medium.
its time to make videogames based again
>your face, your ass - what's the difference?
>EAT SHIT AND DIE
RIP duke
never, vido game is like a pass time, tool to cope with anxiety or boredom
late 1980s. This is a mostly gen Y forum, but we X are old enough to remember the 80s arcade coin-ops. In 1989 it was already clear that the creativity went down the sink.
Some games for 8-bit computers were also interesting. A lot of creativity forced by minimalism. Video games went down the sink the very moment the business stopped being a cottage industry.
wait til you realize the whole "Nintendo revived the industry" is a fully glow-backed effort, they saw the potential for money and doing glow shit. look at sheer OCCULTISM of Mario and Zelda games, and tell me Miyamoto is not a Mason, a crypto-mason, or at least a crypto-adjacent shabbos mason
Super Metroid is the greatest game of all time though, if not for one, super-nerd flaw that only I know about
elden ring dlc drops in less then a month
>my face is tired
Literally as soon as I quit smoking weed in 2016 I stopped playing video games. I haven't played one since 2016
Idk halo reach for me. Grew up on halo and counter strike and when i played reach it was meh. Luckily the Steam Deck plays any good game from that era and even modern one's.
Also its hard to just sit and play vidya for more tgan 30min-hour knowing how the world is kek
Mass Effect 2 and Halo 4
idk but it feels like it's been all downhill since 2001
Slightly earlier. See
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DEI is a deep rot that infects every part of a company
A pregnant naked negress killing ebil nazis in Wolfenstein.
Im a retro gamer, but I dont mean sega or prince of persia, I mean first few Rainbow Six titles, 2002 Mafia etc., stuff I played as a teen. My newest title I played was 2018 Hitman 2.
Video games never died for me, they've just gotten better.
kek are you the walmart anon? Absolutely based poster
>kek are you the walmart anon?
Yes.
>Absolutely based poster
Thanks.
Ok? No one forced you down the walmart-to-prison pipeline.
I wont go to prison. thanks for all the free shit!
>I wont go to prison
Why not? We never expect to get busted until it happens.
I shoplift from walmart
i've seen your collection of Gundam shit or whatever, pretty crazy
I also shoplift gunplas
I wish I could but the MG boxes are too big.
Anything beyond text-based games are too pozzed for me.
The Bioshock / Crysis era with Frostpunk as an exception.
Console scalping. Couldn't even get a graphics card, wanted the industry to burn, wanted to torture CEOs left and right, still do.
anger is attachment , let it go
when i grew up.
I noticed the cracks started showing really bad during the PS2 era. Journalists were openly shitting on japanese games for being "too gamey" and not focusing on story. There was a major market shit away from fun action titles and on to cinematic slop.
And the ps2 library was filling up with western garbage, lots of it licensed.
I think the final nail in the coffin was 2007 when uncharted came out, and everyone who up to that point hated video games, lost their minds and instantly started playing games because "bro it's just like playing a movie".
These days i mostly emulate, on a CRT at the original resolution. Stuff from generations 3 to 6 inclusive. I have a modded ps4 and switch so i can dip my toe into the water of modern stuff now and then, but most of it is tiresome, insipid, and trying way too hard to be retro while missing the point of what made those games so special in the first place.
what the frick do you mean
i still religiously play quake, age of empires and command and conquer
you cannot take those games away from me and they haven't changed a bit
Gta 5
When I decided I was a boring person for spending all day inside playing videogames and wanted to instead be social.
Also Gamergate I guess.
being social is a big game of one-upmanship and a limited hangout club, a crab-in-the-bucket, stab-each-other-in-the-back social ladder-climbing game, where alphas control the quality of what goes down, and betas are their regulatory goons who keep you in "your lane". betas are more than happy to get leftover scraps from chad and are even more vicious at boxing you out of access to pussy. betas will conspire on some woman shit to frick you over, chad just does it naturally. acting out of line or being unique is punished with more ostracization (even more than was already there if you are a freak like me)
being a loser like me who started to understand and get a little success of how to act only attracts bigger fish to snipe what little prey you manage to catch
being social should be fun, but it is another paranoia-inducing animal competition, and i am a failed organism. the point of ALL social activity is the securing of pussy, and it a very tight market
FRICK THIS UNIVERSE
this is all because brotherhood and men having each other's backs was destroyed by the way
Verification not required.
I agree with op
Used to be a big fan of mass effect trilogy and I had a bad feeling about andromeda, I must have played 1h of it before deleting it
It was a huge pile of dog shit and I felt like every character was a redditor with pink hair including aliens
For me basically everything after Skyrim.
I had 2 stages of gaming in my life:
The kid stage long ago (C64, NES)
The adult stage after I saw a game movie (God of War I) and thought:
Wait? This is what games look like today?
Skyrim was pretty much peak for me, everything was there, the game, the memes, the jokes.
Since then I could not really find another hour-hog like that, Witcher 3 - more realistic but linear, Red Dead Redemption - pretty much the same, Bioshock - Shooters are just too boring, ...
I prefer to unwind with some F-Zero on SNES emulator.
I have a confession. I never played mass effect 3 or Andromed's story mode. I only played the multiplayer....and I loved it. I really felt like I was nearly alone out there. All by myself against hordes of aliens. I loved it. I had a Ghostbusting laser gun and a harpoon gun. Noone knew how to use it and I could just see people seething in game as I racked up.
I know it was uninspired dogshit. I know the player counts, etc. But goddamn, how I loved that game mode.
the me3 multiplayer was so good i played that shit with my friends ing HS so hard . i think a lot were like you and dident even bother with the story
Was gears of War mp anything like it? Or di you know of any others that were similar? I would Google it, but you know how that prostitute shit works. It Prob would try and recommend going to see Madam web
no it was very different from any other multuplayer iv seen besides maybe nazi zombies in cod (but not even close). it was a team of up to 4 players surviveing waves of enemys while trying to complete objectives. it was fun because their was like 60 charecters to level up (and you can prestige) and just as many guns to unlock (and then they can also be leveled up). the harder difficulty's were very rewarding but actually very hard you needed people who knew what they were doing to pull them off.
it was sort of like payday mixed with cod nazi zombies but aliens in space
Mass effect 3's ending.
Lol Andromeda.
New flash pal! EA was the harbinger of the ruin. Waaaaay before.
Five year process. 2013's BioShock Infinite killed the notion of hype for me in a way that it never returned. ("hype" as is in "a game's release is an important future date to look forward to". Following news and trailers, reading threads on Ganker and the like, taking time off work to play it on release day, etc.) 2018's God of War, although I didn't play it until 2020, killed the idea of gaming for me permanently. (as in, "thinking of gaming as a special sub-culture I'm a part of" now it's clearly mainstream to the point that games "are just a thing that exist" for me)
I have some hope for the indie industry. AAA is done for.
Back when I turned like 17 or something, I’m not a child minded fool that’s distracted by pretty pictures
i only play the ones i like simple as. the badf i delete the first 30 mins