What's the vidya equivalent?

What's the vidya equivalent?

Elden Ring aka normieslop

skyrim

whatever you played when you were 12

we are so old that if someone makes a frag movie/montage with link park nowdays no one will make fun of it, just say they would rather have some dogshit nigger rap instead.

I miss frag movies, so much.

half-life 1 and especially 2 for some reason gives me heavy hybrid theory type of feeling. to a lesser extent id say halo 2 and 3.

warcraft 3 dota

both are now a shadow of their former self, violated for the money

Dirge of Cerberus

First series entry is safe but blows up in immense popularity

Second entry is a refinement of the first

Third entry and beyond gets experimental on the core ideas sometimes good, sometimes bad

Last entry by the original team plays it way too safe (to modern standards) and as a result is not a good product

Entry after an original team member left is back to "good safe" but doesn't feel the same

Remaster of the first game is best entry

What gayme?

short

eternally re-listenable

basically perfect; entire album sounds consistent from start to finish

I'm going with DOJ for this one.

Halo 2

GTA3

roughly same age

first studio album vs first 3D GTA

iconic

Halo 2

Deus Ex

Overrated crap for normies? Any gta game I guess

bing bing wahoo

Jak 2

game you loved when you were 12, then hated when you became a 'mature' teenager, then started loving again as an adult

I can't think of one personally

now name the vidya equivalent of this one

They should have never stopped with Nu-Metal. Remember the time they tried to sound like U2?

You mean Minutes? I liked Shadow of the Day and songs like Given Up, No More Sorrow and even something like Little Things Give You Away aren't U2-ish.

Whatever album Shadow Of The Day was on. I think it was Minutes To Midnight.

Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you outta the frame
And puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can't run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won't last

I am not the fortune and the fame
Nor the same person telling you to forfeit the game
I came in the ring like a dog on a chain
And I found out the underbelly's sicker than it seems
And it seems ugly, but it can get worse
Cause even a blueprint is a gift and a curse
Cause once you got a theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first
And I'm not a robot
I'm not a monkey
I will not dance even if the beat's funky
Opposite of lazy, far from a punk
Ya'll ought to stop talking, start tryin' to catch up motherfucker
And all the people say

It's amazing that even back during the release of a Thousand Suns they felt constrained by their fan base.

game you loved when you were 12, then hated when you became a 'mature' teenager, then started loving again as an adult

That's an easy one.

Expedition 33

The World Ends With You. Linkin Park would fit in perfectly with the soundtrack.

game you loved when you were 12, then hated when you became a 'mature' teenager, then started loving again as an adult

Pokemon.
Nintendo stuff in general. I liked them as a kid, thought they were for babies during the Wii/360/PS3 era and came back around to them with the Switch.

dark side playthrough in Kotor and JA

Chester died 8 years ago

something that should only appeal to moody 14 year olds but manages to get surprising mainstream sucess and then a bunch of people who say "this is the only good thing they ever made" a decade later? kingdom hearts 1

meteora is KH2

So does that make Minutes to Midnight BBS?

Tonal and mechanical shift in the series that is used as the base moving forward

KH2 is far and away objectively better than 1 though, Meteora and Hybrid Theory are both in the same ballpark

not an entirely new idea but was the first one to make it big and define the genre

even as it ages the core is so well put together it's just as good as ever, at most you can say "I'm just not into it anymore"

There were attempts to copy the idea but they all fell flat and are largely forgotten

Halo 1 could also fit though only really if you don't consider PC games.

Scientologists killed Chester, replaced him with their hellspawn, and groomed one of his children into a draft dodger tranny.

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GTA:SA

TWEWY is the Stereo Type A of vidya. People will always associate Cibo Matto with Jet Set Radio but that's not the album Birthday Cake is on.

game gets a sequel so good that the later entries are complete dogshit in comparison

Pic rel or Shadow the Hedgehog

Solway Firth was a good song.

Draft dodging zog warfare

That part is based though.

We Are Not Your Kind is not too bad, but yeah, Iowa blows all of their other albums out of the water. People=Shit, Disasterpiece, Left Behind, Heretic Anthem, The Shape and the title track make it into my regular rotation of songs to listen to.

That part is based though.

If you don't gatekeep draft dodging then you don't gatekeep video games neither. Don't cry if you get shit games in the future.

Incredible first album

Second being even better

similar enough age

Ratchet and Clank

Minutes to Midnight

I fucking hated this album on release and still do.

Great first game

Great second game

Divisive Third game

Fourth game that takes what worked about the Third and focused on that

Series goes off the rails afterwards

Until being revived in a different tone

You know you might be onto something...

hey guys is this an emily thread

eternal reminder that he was killed by the jewish pedo elite for working on a documentary about child sex trafficking

Personally? Utter dogshit MMOs made in XtremeWorlds that I couldn't stop playing.
Take me back, bros.