What was it like being a gamer in the mid 2000s?
What was it like being a gamer in the mid 2000s?
William Harris
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Joseph Russell
It was based
Sebastian Anderson
Downloading roms at the library for 1 hour a day, then playing them at home on the emulator
Jordan Richardson
Everyone was obsessed with Halo, but my parents wouldn't let me play it. To this day I have an inferiority complex in respect to other gamers because I feel like they're always playing games I don't get to play.
Ian Rodriguez
Comfy, and full of soul.
Samuel Edwards
it was pretty cool
Brayden Miller
ugh i hate myself for looking up the definition of “hooked nose” bc now every time i look at someone i classify their nose shape and i hate it
Blake Edwards
i used the in-browser java gbc emulator
probably 50 hrs in mario golf that way
Easton Russell
Shit. The graphics were crap, the controls were terrible and almost all games were either lazy sequels which were usually nothing more than a glorified map pack or a cheap and poorly made clone of a successful AAA game.
Ian Edwards
>TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
>DMC 3
>MGS 3
soul...
Bentley Hernandez
Buying pirated games.
Yeah... i live in shit third world country and didn't know better.
Now i pirated games myself.
Colton Myers
>>TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
xbox kino
>the rest
snoy shit
Jack Bailey
Gbc Mario golf is such a good game I really miss the camelot rpg games
Nicholas Ramirez
>>TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
>Not on ps
What
Joseph Edwards
Bringing a USB stick with epsxe and Wipeout 3 to school everyday.
Jack Ross
Tekken 5, Batman Begins and Spider-Man 2 are all quite good :)
Zig Forums should try Batman Begins. It's like a proto-Arkham game with a bigger focus on making enemies fear you, with the game rewarding the player for taking steps to make thugs uneasy/nervous by fucking with the environment around them by for example using a batarang to smash a window. It's quite good.
Lots of good things to say about Tekken 5 but Zig Forums is too retarded to into fighting games so why bother?
David Baker
>go to Game, parents waiting outside
>see a game I like, bring it out to show them and ask for it
>realise I just stole the game with no one noticing, go home
>visit shitty family owned game shop on holiday in Wales
>Age of Empires 3 just released but I don't have enough money
>See Empire Earth 2
>fuck it, its close enough
>bring the display case to the till, old guy goes and puts the discs in
>finally open the box when I'm home, old guy put Age of Empires 3 discs in the box
It was a better time
Ethan Adams
unironically, it was the best time to be a gamer.
Jose Perez
playing FFX at 2am on a 15 inch vcr/crt combo with headphones so I didn't get caught
Bentley Anderson
>dad lets me buy gta3 near launch
>he takes it to the cashier
>guy working there says "you know this game has drugs and prostitutes in it, right?"
>dad doesn't give a fuck but felt like he needed to be responsible in front of him
>180s and makes me put it back
Colton Ramirez
Shit compared to today.
Yeah renting a game over the weekend was "comfy" but I'd rather just pirate it and play as much as I want.
James Morris
Private lobbies did not exist. There was amazing trash talking and experiences in online games.
Robert Turner
It felt like there was a new game every week when you walked into the store. Now it's like a new game every three months for all consoles.
Landon Evans
yeah mid 2000s was the end of the golden age and the start of the shit that was the late 2000s
Owen Ortiz
luckily things got better and much less problematic in the 10's, one can only hope the cultural shift the 20's will bring will make everything even better!
Landon Ortiz
I would rather go back to having 3 map packs in 5 years than wait wait 8 years for 1 amazingly graphic intense game with 1/3 the content of the originals.
Eli Butler
Probably due to the relatively high level of quality across multiple genres. It used to be like that for music too. Every genre had excellent albums releasing all the time with great production value. Now it's a desert of indie bedroom hot garbage or top 40 cancer.
Adam Brooks
This. Entire new games came out sooner rather than them milking existing games for all they're worth with "games as a service".
E.g. Rainbow 6 siege still being milked to death 5 years later, people who played that when they were 13 are now legal adults (and allowed to post here jannies so don't try anything) who can vote, drive, buy a gun, whatever, but the game is still the same fucking piece of shit with mostly the same shitty maps and style of gameplay since then. Sure they might add a few new characters and an increasingly small amount of maps a year but people change, and technology isn't keeping up
Brandon Harris
>I was born in le wrong generation, nowadays music sucks :(
Wyatt Thomas
>People born in the year 2002 are able to post here and ask these questions.
I'm getting old and out of touch.
Camden Cruz
What currency is that in OP's pic?
Tyler Wright
More games meant tons of shit games and outright shovelware. It was also harder to gauge the quality of a game before buying it.
Brandon Evans
My dad did this with ninja garden 2
>About 14-15
>At gamesshit
>Had played ninja garden sigma before on ps3 really wanted to get 2
> Game is there because I couldn't find it anywhere else
>Bring my father to the store
> Ask him if can buy it
>Take it to clerk
> The clerk says that there is extreme amount of gore in this game
> Father asks if it's worse the gta. He usually asks that for some reason despite my mother letting us own san andreas,manhunt vice city, roadkill and twisted metal
>"You can't came the two because one is more violent"
>Refuses to let me buy it
>180 and Stomp out mad as fuck.