The people who were toddlers when Minecraft, Terraria, Skyrim and Dark Souls came out are adults

The people who were toddlers when Minecraft, Terraria, Skyrim and Dark Souls came out are adults

Now we have a whole generation of people who think these games were revolutionary and not just above average because they played them for a thousand hours because it was the only game mommy could afford

because they played them for a thousand hours because it was the only game mommy could afford

That's even more true for older games

It's wild how Anon Babble likes fucking Halo now

As opposed to boomeroids who think Sopranos was a good show?

They will just realize that games are in general flawed if not boring or shit.

CE campaign was cool.

Minecraft was revolutionary at its time.

stupida fucking game

You never had the makings of an e-sports athlete

dark souls 1 came out the same year I turned 18

I can't believe I stuck up for Nintendo, I feel like I've been stabbed in da haart

It's wild how Anon Babble likes fucking Halo now

Earlier Halo was never bad, the people who shat on it were mostly shitposters. It was the 343 shit that got everyone to realize the grass used to be greener.

All of those games are completely different ant not necessarily liked by the same people.

And this upsets you greatly...why?

those are good games and they should put them in their steam libraries and enjoy them instead of whatever the fuck is coming out now
also s3&k is the best game ever made because it was one of the very few games I could play or knew about as a kid, which just makes it better, simple as

All I know is that they can't be posted on our image baord club no mo'.

Same as you when you xboxtards came here with your gaylo, queers of bore, and CoD

Minecraft was revolutionary cause it ruined a generation of children
Skyrim was revolutionary cause it introduced paid mods and subsequently ruined videogames altogether
Dark Souls was revolutionary cause it destroyed videogame criticism and created a decade of all action games being a slow shitty rollslop

We used to make fun of retards like you here

The 12 year old spamming his new 'slop' buzzword is someone I take very seriously.

I’m 30 and Minecraft was revolutionary 100%.

What do oldfags like yourself consider revolutionary?

24's not old

What? Truly poor families usually have older games/consoles because they can't afford one of the newer ones. People born around 2010 would be playing the PS2.

minecraft and dark souls were revolutionary though, those two games is why we have so much craftslop and rollslop

I'm 21 but you can't deny that Skyrim and Minecraft had a chokehold on the gaming industry

More than Half Life?

my mom couldn't keep a job to save her life
we lived in public housing on welfare
i saved up my $5/week pocket money to buy a ps1/xbox + 2-4 games a year when i was a babby

Proving his point, lmao

who think these games were revolutionary and not just above average because they played them for a thousand hours because it was the only game mommy could afford

This is, without exaggeration, the VAST majority of ALL """revolutionary""" games released throughout history. While yes, every once in a blue moon there does come a game that shocks the market or at least a genre in a particular way that could be considered revolutionary, but most of the industry has instead been defined by incremental changes that a lot of g*mers just aren't properly aware of. This is a result of either
A) People who experienced the era, but only the limited lens of what they could afford to buy, had the hardware to play on, or even could just find in the shop
B) People who came after, who prioritize only the games that have continued prominence, which is often decided by whether the series survived rather than whether the game at the time was actually revolutionary

Halo was hated on principle, there was never any consideration of quality involved that 343 might shine a new light on

Anons talking fondly about any Halo is as baffling to oldfags as anons talking fondly about Dustborn, Veilguard, or the Saints Row reboot would seem to you

Did old Anon Babble really hate Halo? Why?

Because it was the height of dudebro console shooters (Remember shit like Haze, Fracture or Inversion?) and Halo was seen as the dark harbinger of the genre

think these games were revolutionary

nigger they are toys lmao, thers nothing revolutionary about them

It brought the wrong crowd into gaming, suddenly the normalfag dudebros who'd mock you for playing the SNES or PS1 era games and consoles were now being catered to as the new main target audience, just like the "woke/DEI" games are now catering to people who hate games while ignoring people who like games

I'd even say that bringing in normalfag dudebros into gaming is what started the big feminist backlash against it, because those were the types of men women actually cared about and wanted to engage with and control, whereas previously the only normalfag attention games got was from fundies thinking they're teaching kids to be satanists

Anon Babble loves quake and considers the peak of the genre but hates "zoomslop" fps that rely on movement, theres no winning with this niggers

I'm a newfag to Anon Babble but I suspect Halo being incredibly popular also triggered the contrarians to shit on it, same with Morrowind even today people are always going after it due to how beloved it is

brainlet

Very good point desu

the term "dudebro" says it all.
a bunch of virgins mad that the people who bullied them in high school were now entering their safespace hobby.

What are your thoughts on the gaming industry pivot to cater to women and minorities while demonizing men

I still can't get over the fact that there are unironic gacha threads on this board

im a big grumpy nigger i wanna play quake iii on dial up and my skin is very brown

they played them for a thousand hours because it was the only game mommy could afford

dont act like this wasn't the same for you and your three gameboy or ps1 games, faggot.

I was a piratechad so no it wasn't

Like 80% of Anon Babble is gacha shit my guy.
This is the new normal, Anon Babble is very brown and saarful, we just need to accept it.

Halo is dog shit always has been always will be

this is a zoomer board now, unc

Before anime gacha, there was a drought of anime harem/girl collection games beyond the low budget compile heart games. Gacha just made these anime games free, popular and with higher production values. This being an anime site just made it inevitable.

I played Terraria when TotalBiscuit streamed with some American, when some cringy poems by some on Terraria's dev team were duscovered. I maintain it is one of the best games made after 2010.

More than anything, this is what makes me feel old: young people calling their childhood games the best thing ever when they really weren't that impressive when I played them as they came out. Call me sheltered but that's just how it is. Though I do like Terraria myself as well as Dark Souls to a degree. I'm not grumpy about it though. Time never stops moving.

19whatever-1995 - boomer era of shit nobody remembers like Ultima, Pong, and Zork. Doom and Xcom are the only games with legacy from that period.
1996 - 2000 - pioneer era of flawed masterpieces and clunky games with sovl
2001 - 2006 - golden age of vidya where talented devs met sizeable budgets
2007 - 2015 - corporatisation era, all great ideas must be endlessly regurgitated and shoved back on the market
2016 - now - videogames are dead

We had friends and renting. Even if we owned less than ten games we would have played at least a hundred per generation

Because it was popular and Anon Babbleirgins had to suffer through highschool hearing all the other guys talk about it and organising to play with each other, while anon found shelter in the library playing his nintendo ds.

This is retarded. The "dudebro" crowd who played halo were 100% playing n64 or ps1 when they were younger.

Minecraft and Dark Souls were revolutionary, you'd have to be the biggest midwit on the planet to argue otherwise

What did they revolutionize?

You say that like it's a hot take but Halo slander has been the default here since Reach dropped. Still, calling it dogshit is just a cope. It carried console FPS for a decade and had more LAN nights than your Steam library has installed games. You don’t have to like it, but pretending it was never good is some revisionist history-tier nonsense.

There's more than one generation of dudebros

Dark Souls turned every single third person action game into

muh hard combat

muh losing money on death

muh emphasis on bosses

Nah, they just brought back concept that were explored in previous generations but were abandoned in lieu of making games more widely marketable. Sandbox games and challenging games have been a thing for a long time before minecraft and Dark Souls came around.

boomeroid

lmao I can only imagine a toddler saying something like that

a thousand hours because it was the only game mommy could afford

This is true if you grew up in like 1999, zoomers and Gen alpha literally grew up in an era where games were abundant and cheap

Like Tony you have the same problem. Accept your time is done old man.

Anon Babble doesn't like to admit it, but Halo was one of the Four Horsemen of normalfagging the internet and videogames.

can't be posted? HE'S GETTING BANNED

It carried console FPS for a decade

This may seem alien to you, but "console FPS" was inherently considered a bad thing. Like, "consolization" as a buzzword was thrown around for like a decade.

I’m not gonna pretend I haven’t blown my share of loads to gacha sluts, but fucking hell they’re like half the threads on the board now. It used to be the cancer killing gaming, when did perceptions shift?

Anon Babble literally always liked Dark Souls.

N64 games back then were $75+
and people today have an aneurysm whenever a new game comes out with that price

Nope, only when it came to PC with its cringe PREPARE TO DIE campaign, by then Anon Babble was already falling apart

nah. old games would not keep you playing the same shit for a billion hours like this slop

Halo killed FPS
Dota killed RTS
Mass Effect killed RPG
Dark Souls killed action games

Because Anon Babble doesn't buy consoles beside nintendobabbies. Same thing happened with Dragon's Dogma when it finally came out on PC.

And the Anon Babblegas did give Darks Souls the award for the best game of the 10's decade, so love for Dark Souls was still big in 2019 here.

2019.vidyagaemawards.com/winners

Minecraft basically invented the open world survival craft genre, Dark Souls was the first game to successfully mix survival horror, action and rpg elements (Demon's tried but failed because of the grass mechanic).

renting

We still have this. Its called Microsoft Game Pass :3

Minecraft

open world

survival

Dark Souls

first game to mix action and rpg

This negro is not serious

I turned 19. Where does the time go?

You're not wrong, but I was being more broad in my reference

Halo specifically brought in the wrong types of people to gaming

iPhones giving easy internet access to third worlders and retards

Social media bringing like-minded retards together who think their ideas are universal

Big gay corporations like Google and Amazon begin consolidating enormous amounts of power

Halo specifically brought in the wrong types of people to gaming

Nah, that was the entire Playstation brand.

that was the entire Playstation brand.

PS2 was still positioned as a general gaming platform, it wasn't until GTA was a huge hit and everyone started chasing serious ambitious games independently on the PS2 (best observed on the trajectory of the Jak series) that the PS3 pivoted into hardcore pandering to normalfags and moviegames under the PlayStation brand, however Halo on Xbox was already doing the damage before that

Young and old people are natural enemies. Like dudebros and gamers. Or gurlgamers and gamers. Or woketards and gamers. Or gamers and other gamers. Damn gamers, they ruined games!

not true. even as a poorfag br with pirated games i had friends to lend and borrow games.

Anon Babble was all over Dark Souls when it came out though. Skyrim was subject to endless threads shitting on it and calling Todd a liar.
You weren't there.

Anon Babble was all over Dark Souls when it came out though.

see

duuuuuude I'm le old and your shit sucks

Shut the fuck up grandpa. Is being an old fart your entire personality?

This is objectively true for games tho

It's wild how Anon Babble likes fucking Halo now

You think that's bad? Anon Babble likes Naruto now.

I've not checked Anon Babble in years, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were praising trash like Avengers Endgame at this point. Cuckchan is just an extension of Reddit at this point.

Fuck off, Anon Babble was among the early adopters of Demon's Souls and both of the first two Souls games spawned shitloads of OC. It's like trying to pretend Anon Babble didn't like FNAF or Undertale when they first came out either, then had to turn around and pretend to hate them once they caught on with normalfags.

Same thing happened with Dragon's Dogma when it finally came out on PC.

I bought Dragon's Dogma on day one and there were already threads about it on Anon Babble. The PC release certainly led to more threads, but it was already a popular niche game on Anon Babble.
Anon Babble used to be a collective of like-minded retards. Any small games I enjoyed usually meant there would be plenty of others here that also liked it. It was like magic.
Now it's the opposite.

Not really, Anon Babble was a staunchly PC board at the time, most games without a PC release just weren't talked about in any meaningful capacity

FNAF or Undertale when they first came out either

I don't remember seeing any FNAF threads ever, Undertale was circlejerked by tumblr astroturfers for a week before Anon Babble caught on and started shitting on them relentlessly because it was still in its "yiff in hell furfag" 40k larping phase

But they were revolutionary. Whether that's deserved or not is another thing entirely, though I'd put Skyrim there instead of Terraria.
After Minecraft came out, EVERY game wanted to be Minecraft
After Skyrim came out, EVERY game wanted to be Skyrim
And while we are thankfully past that now, even now, almost 15 years after Dark Souls released, we are STILL seeing EVERY game wanting to be Dark Souls. It is per definition revolutionary, even if you regard it as slop.

That's not what revolutionary means you fucking retard, that's just trendy

I played some quake and halo ce as a kid, I would say they both were fine, but CE campaign was a great experience.

Not him, 29, but yeah, Half Life 2 is kind of boring, and 1 was fine, but not that special. Minecraft was indeed something different. Yeah, there was Roblox and other shit, but not the same.
But when you think about it - it's just vidya legos, weird that it didn't get made earlier.

I'm not reading your blog.

You faggots don't bat an eye at Gachaslop

Yeah, a lot of slower generals died or moved to other boards due to gacha or weebshit onslaught.
Kind of, some game don't fit the timeline for me, but overall it's this trend.

Retard.
It changed game development as we know it. It's in many ways era defining
At some point it stops being a trend and starts being 'this is what video games are now'.
Stop trying to be a faggot

And still not fucking revolutionary retard

You're confusing being revolutionary with popularity.

Last (You) you're getting, but I suggest you pick up a dictionary before you start spouting big words like revolutionary when you clearly don't know what it means.
I thank whatever powers that be that I wasn't born a mouthbreathing Anon Babble contrarian every day I'm on here.

I guess the iPhone inflicting minimalist shit on the world for two decades was REVOLUTIONARY, no one else before was even capable of making black text on white backgrounds before Apple invented it and everyone rushed to adopt their newfound knowledge

Are you trying to pretend like smart phones weren't revolutionary?
Heads up. Revolutions are typically popular. They have to be, because they change the status quo. It is, by definition, an idea or concept that is so popular with the masses that it fundamentally changes something - like game development.
If game X releases and every subsequent game has to ask themselves 'how can I be more like X', then yes, it is revolutionary.

If game X releases and every subsequent game has to ask themselves 'how can I be more like X', then yes, it is revolutionary.

Only if it was not possible to do it before or no one else knew how to do it

3D games were revolutionary because they are the new standard for what games look and act like, shit like survival crafting or rollslop are trends because they will be tossed away the second something trendier comes along

Uh, those fanbases literally cannot be worse than the wow-cod-MGS-halo generation

Halo has always been slop

Is it really that different from boomers thinking Mario 64, Goldeneye 64 and Ocarina of Time revolutionized the industry?

So only technology can be revolutionary? Ideas can't? Was RTX revolutionary then? Real time ray tracing wasn't possible back then yet it by my account came and went, remaining only as a selling point for Nvidia. It didn't revolutionise anything, although it supposedly 'set a new standard'.
Seems like an arbitrary way to define revolutionary.

Dark Souls killed action games

Didn't really think about it that way but you might be right about that. Every action game tries to emulate Souls for some reason that is beyond my understanding.

Naruto is a gateway anime of the worst kind

u schedule ur first colonoscopy yet unc?

they were revolutionary, dont be delusional. maybe terraria is an exception

Tell me then Anon Babble, what was your 'golden period' of games from when you were younger?

Ideas can't?

Only if no one else thought of them before, the idea principles of Minecraft, Skyrim, and Dark Souls all existed way before them in various games but they just didn't happen to catch on, in Skyrim's example it's especially funny because it did nothing Morrowind and Oblivion didn't already do

I'm a gamecube loving chad cubie.

The actual golden era ~1994 - 2006

It made it even more accessible to the point where it gained mass appeal. Morrowind, by most accounts, is too clunky and complex. Just look at the average Anon Babbletard who "should" above average when it comes to gaming and even then you get weekly threads of them getting filtered by the combat or the quests. An idea isn't necessarily perfected the moment it first hits the scene. Just look at Starfox for the SNES. One of the first 3D games, sure. Revolutionary? Meh.

Oblivion plays exactly the same as Skyrim, Demons' Souls and Dark Souls are almost the same as well

Truthnuke: you can't shit on Halo if you think GoldenEye is a masterpiece

Demons Souls has a bunch of dumb ass mechanics that you need a strategy guide. World tendency, etc.. Dark Souls got rid of most of that shit. The only really obscure thing I can think of with Dark Souls are those items you can send to other players by dropping it and letting it become a monster - but I'm willing to bet next to no one even knows about that.
Oblivion was casualized a lot compared to Morrowind but Skyrim was a step further.

Damn how old are you fags 40+?

Out of all the games Anon Babble apparently likes that's the one you criticize.

The people who played the first game as a kid are now 30

Super Mario Bros still holds up to this day

I wanna think about it

Tony at his lowest point

Anon Babble agree with him and idolize him