ITT: Zoomers ask boomers gaming related questions. (Damn we're filling these up fast edition)

Does anyone else remember the threads where people would rank every game in a series with a reaction image of a stickman?
For really good games there was a stick guy who said
>thank you god it's perfect
or something like that with a bunch of other stick figure reactions
Those were my favourite threads. I miss them.

It's quite possible, but I still believe the PS2 edged it out in the end.

It was real. multiplayer games seem fake now.

My jaw literally dropped when I played Quake Champions adn it just...dropped the server and went back to MM after a single map. It made me instantly realize that kids these days never get that experience of picking up a rival or ally in a game and keeping with them for hours on a server or something

everything about the world these days seems designed to drive people apart whilst providing the illusion of connectedness

Whats are some games we have all been conned into thinking were critically acclaimed when they first released?

No, but the DBZ porn is another story.
aerisdiesDOTcom was my first introduction to hentai, and it's still up with hardly any improvement to layout.

I did

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why do you delude yourself into thinking videogames were better in the 90s?

wow that used to be such a part of Zig Forums and its now totally gone...havent seen one in a couple years probably

i bet you could bring that back easily, but i always thought they were stupid and never made one.

I do miss 4am threads. With that said, it's 433 EST

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Can Chris Roberts ne trusted with 300+ million dollars?

I'm about to pass out and let it die anyway, this is the last one I'll personally be making.

They had style, which was unbelievably unique for the time, and perfect for a generation who's cartoons all came from the same animation studio

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Yes I do, if they Nintendo would've stuck with them I honestly believe gaming as a whole would be entirely different.

Was really special at the time and all these doubts about them only started after the Microsoft buyout. They tackled almost every genre so it was really hard to find anyone who didn't live at least one of their games.

No but my Mom has, and I've always used it as ammunition every time she's asked me about the questionable shit I've left on my screen. Then we laugh it off and and smoke a bowl, I love my momma.

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>that one DBZ doujinshi with animated panels of Android 18 fucking Goku while Krillin watched

What has been the closet the industry has been to a crash since the 80s?

Can't really think of any, but let me tell you, this little troll that popped up here recently about half-life not being beloved on release is the most hilarious revisionism of history i've ever seen. We ALL shit our pants for that game.

They did a lot to bring 3D stuff to people. They deserve their legacy.

Deus Ex. Many were at first complaining about the graphics and how jank it was.

overstated. They never really made anything special. People think Goldeneye was special and it just, wasn't. Quake was out.

Other stuff looked impressive because they could afford rendering farms bigger than the next guy. That's pretty much it.

Boomers what are your thoughts on the whole soul vs soulless debacle? Not for any particular game, just in general. Hand wave-y discrediting nonsense or real phenomenon?

Why do you accept loading times constantly interrupting your gameplay?

Sure I do. Sadly trends pass.

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I know they were basically their own general when I first started browsing and now you never see them
I also miss the
>what i expected what i got
threads. Those used to be hilarious
Yeah those. Man I miss stuff like that

it mainly has to do with the consoles. You don't see all this user avatar shit, online networks, "multimedia" features, or other shit bogging down consoles and their games before the ps3/wii/360 era. It was all about the games.

There was a time during the Wii era where I thought shit was going downhill.....Nintendo just didn't have a good leg in the door and the PS3/360 were full of glaring flaws that kept causing them to brick or be comically expensive. I kind of thought the market as a whole was going to collapse on itself during that for a while but everything sort of evened out in the end.

That's part of why I've been enjoying Mordhau a lot. All the new players going 2/34/3 forced alongside the experienced ones going 50/8/12. It's a lot of fun sussing out who the better players on the enemy team is and adjusting your playstyle accordingly, and seeing the same players around while slowly improving.

I guess it depends on the game, I played a lot of wc3 custom maps including Dota and I have to say a game like Dota is better off with matchmaking. It was hell trying to get proper matches and you used third party tools and websites to kind of force your own matchmaking.
But with games like shooters having no matchmaking was so much more fun, playing something like BF2 and just being able to join your favorite server and play for hours was so comfy.

What was the power of the cell?

I remember just getting the demo running was a chore.
Demos! Remember those?
I think I had at least five demo discs for every full game I owned.

Soul as always been subjective, and no one will ever be able to define it. In the old days we'd use the terms like "immersion" or "fun factor" to get at the same thing.

In the shithole of latinamerica everyone had a ps2. Ds was very niche in here, but my zoomer friend remembers that lots of his friends had ds in their school.

Did people give Nintendo shit for the Gamebay Advance having a life time of only 2 years?

The industry hasn't ever been close to a crash since the 80s one,it will not ever be and it cannot be. People who think in those terms don't understand economies, economics or commodities.

As a non-american, I never understood why people keep repeating this.

It's definitely a thing

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Games nowdays are pretty soulless. So many of them are designed by business committees with spreadsheets and sales goals in mind.

What allowed the PSP achieve success while the Vita failed?
Why couldnt PSP goodwill carry the vita?

Amazing.
I remember getting absolutely destroyed every single time and just spectating people to see what they were doing and how they were playing the game that I love so much.
Eventually getting good enough to dominate a lobby, or having a gregor teammate or on the other side of the game was amazing

their games weren't actually 3d though. Sega did the most to bring 3d to people. sega and id software.

I was 11 so time seemed to go so much slower, seemed like it lasted forever.

Deus Ex, FFVII (most FF fans thought it was a boring repeat of FFVI), Majora's Mask especially (Flew under everyone's radar)

I played the DE demo from the CD of a magazine back then. Then I finally played the whole thing last year. Unironically I think the first level was the best.

DS was way ahead in sales for most of the lifecycle. For several years DS had sold more than PS2, GCN, and Xbox combined

What allowed Sony to turn the PS3 fate around and eventually outsell the 360?

It's real but when people start these claims they don't really have an actual idea on why they claim the thing has soul and vice versa.

>Pre-matchmaking era
You used to have a list of servers to filter by number of players / ping / whatever and could see which map was currently being played, who was playing, how long was left before you joined a game. It would be the same regulars on each server all the time so you could look at the server list and see people you recognised then join up and fight them. This is without any friend list. That was the big difference. Adding someone as a friend or privately messaging them in today's games is too forward, like you're intruding on them and requiring them to acknowledge you somehow, then you have to actually talk to them and make them party with you if you want to play together. There was none of that in the 90s, you became acquiainted with people without ever having to talk to them or add them to a list, you just played naturally, you'd remember them and they'd remember you. Which means if you ever did want to, say, ask them to join your Quake clan, you had some history and it wasn't some complete rando psychopath messaging you out of nowhere.

This is why you could actually make friends and build community in early games, it was natural and not forced.

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>Do you think Rare was really that special, or is their legacy overstated?
From the Donkey Kong Country series, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark alone I had a high opinion of them.

Zoomers will never know what it's like to get your game news and cheat codes from magazines

Came Select?

I think around that same time you also had shit like the president of EA talking about using microtransactions to charge people for reloading in an FPS. Fucking dark days.

No, quite the opposite. We were begging for a lithium battery and a backlight from the day the GBA came out. Nintendo couldn't have released the SP soon enough.

>real phenomenon?

Absolutely real. Corporatism and profit motive as opposed to passion

You still see plenty of passion in games but Zig Forums ignores it or often, hilariously, hates it. See Celeste, one of the probably best outright gameplay games of all time, reviled by a bunch of people on Zig Forums who never played it because they tricked themselves into believing a stupid lie about it being about abortions or something.

How powerful did the Xbox 360s position seem at the start of the generation?
Im told it was outselling the flopping PS3 by a lot, did people think microsoft was gonna become the leading console manufacturare, how did people feel about that?

How apeshit did channers go over the original FFXIV release?

Nice handheld media player when not everyone had an iPod.

It was fucking great. We had way more control over the MP/lobbies and management. Matchmaking, and generally how most modern MPs work, restrict the user possibilities. Its difficult to cultivate a tight-knit long term community now imo.

I still have the template for them, though I think there were a few variations

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Are dungeon crawlers especifically made as torture sims?

Here's a fun piece of trivia from a boomer.

The GBA was the first time that a current-gen console was fully emulatable for pretty much its whole lifecycle. VisualBoyAdvance was awesome.

I was refering to the DS which came out like 3 years later

price and new SKUs that didn't have ventilation issues.

For me and most of my friends, it was after they got their second RRoD that they bought a PS3.

RRod?

The 7th generation is generally a mess. Nothing went as anticipated by any of the big 3.

It was very powerful because you could play halo 2 with xbox live and then halo 3 came out, so that was a very big deal

one time I sent a cheat code IN to a magazine and it got printed

I did this by just trying numerical combinations until I found a developer one.

I am also the only person on earth outside of development who ever saw full blood in mortal kombat on SNES. I had to use a game genie and an action replay at the same time. the action replay made the sweat hit the ground and the game genie turned the sweat red

How did I discover this action replay code? By sitting there randomly trying thousands of codes, of course

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Microsoft had a good reputation with Halo, was a good talking point for the company. Them essentially releasing the OG Xbox as a prototype for the 360 was the best idea.

I'm liking these threads but damn they are going way too fast

When you guys emulate, do you use scanlines/bilinear filtering or no? My question goes specifically to those of you who have a lot of experience playing on CRTs.

Pretty neat trivia. Do you know if that was the only time?

I see it as just nostalgia for older games because when people see an image of a game from their childhood they hear the music, remember the level, everything that comes with the game fills their head.
Soulless images are usually new game that no one has played yet so it's just an image.

Wait in the actual fuck, did nuGoW really rip off and simplified the nuAssCreed formula

You are probably one of those rpg fags that hates the N64. I can sense it. PC and LAN multiplayer wasn't the norm in the 90's.
Goldeneye got people togheter, you didn't need to carry a retarded and bulky computer, only a controller.

Rareware was fucking based, I couldn't believe what they achived in a limited cartidge and in a couple of years. Great artists, they got quality because there were teams in the company fighting to get the better game.
it was fucking weird at the time because they were british but understood the core of gaming wonderfully. Even more than the faggots of naughty dog.

ask me about gamewinners.com

What are some games that had a deep impact on the industry that people forget about?

Only to that specific character so long as her tits are round, and I never actually came to it. Only really used to get my dick started and move onto fapping to other stuff.

Heterogenous parallelism
One big boy master processor, and a handful of weaker slave processors.
Nowadays all common multicore processor are homogenous, each CPU core is equal to the other in compute power

It depends on the specific circumstance. Sometimes you can spot a cash in sequel and just know it was made without heart, and it applies. The vast majority of its use today is just mindless meming though.

"Fucking really?"

GBA games kept coming out for years after the DS release.

Ultima

I never cared about filters but it can't replicate CRTs legitimately.

RROD, paid online with ads and that the first 360 slim could fuck the discs.
Kills your console.
The Wing Commander series. I haven't touched them but made my research and they pioneered a lot of shit

No, and never did. And I'm someone who tracked down exotic commodore RGB monitors and bought custom made SCART cables back in the day in the 90s. Not today like I see people doing.

Regardless of what anyone tells you, it was always a quest for pixel perfection. We did not romanticize CRTs and their shortcomings. We wanted LCD. Badly.

who cares what was the norm? being a gamer was always about being on the new shit

The original Xbox 360 had a 100% failure rate, everyone got the red ring of death, making the system unusable. Microsoft would fix it even after warranty expired, but a lot of people would get it again after a few months.

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old Ys, Ultima, Sakura Wars, FFIII on Famicom

Here's a question for the zoomers
Do you look at stuff from the old times and hear what it was like and think it was cool and wish you had been there? Or do you think we're all lame for being nostalgic over the simpler times and the more primitive tech of our childhoods?

If you don't think the term makes sense, replace "soul" with "passion". It is definetely a thing.

I futz around with scanlines and filtering but I usually wind up turning it off. I like bright blocky pixels I guess.

I used to play "tournament/league" level in Quake 3 Fortress, which was a small mod with a community where most people knew each other. If I joined a server I'd get multiple spectators chasing me because I was known for having flag runner jumps that weren't widely used. At one point I stopped joining pubs with my actual name and used Unnamed Player. Some people still figured out who the unnamed player was. That's what a community feels like.

3.5 years, and at that time Nintendo were talking about their "third pillar" stuff, so the GBA got games for a while after.
Nintendo DS didn't really explode until the autumn of 2005. Before that there had been a game drought and that much of a reason to own it.

How did Assassins Creed become one gamings most famous franchises seemingly overnight when it first released?

I tried to play with friends in steam the other day. We tried everything, changing IP's,using software to create virtual LANS. It failed miserably and we all had great internet. We also tried emulators. Nothing.

90's were pure couch multiplayer bliss until it was late, there moments of reflection in there, take a rest, talking with your friend face to face once we were tired. On the internet you get kids yelling nigger to seem universally funny.

the 360 ran so hot it would sometimes partially loosen the solder on some chips and they would lose contact with the board. that's why baking worked sometimes to revive the 360 since it would remelt the solder and let the chip remake contact.

Go look up their whole catalog before the Microsoft buyout, a bunch of British blokes havin' a laugh tackled nearly every genre and made excellent games out of all of them. Even highly praised devs today like Platinum and Monolith Soft don't hold a candle their resume, those fuckers did everything.
>Platformers
>Beat em ups
>Fighting games
>FPS
>TPS
>Arcade
>Racing
>Vehicle combat
>Action
>Sports
>Game show
>Simulation

The first cover based shooter.

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HOW THE FUCK DO I BUNNYHOP

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