Why was there so much edge in the 2000s? From the games being about brooding, angry sociopaths killing monsters or in bleak dystopias to the music.

I miss when everything was allowed to be edgy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKddLtjpUo.

anime becoming edgier in the 90s had a trickle down effect to video games in the 2000s

>>713704739 (OP)
I'll take edge over this new age millennial/faggot acceptance writing we're plagued with.

>>713705318
video games were always edgy

The early 2000's were an extension of the 90's, which were a reaction to the overly happy commerical 80's, which were a reaction to the depressing 70's, which was a reaction to the jolly 60's...etc etc and so on

The iphone generation and gen a will never experience 2000's edge in it's raw, unashamed prime.

I will always be le sad Jak and Daxter never got a sequel like Ratchet and Clank did.

everything was edgy back then

>late 2000s
>official WoW band consisting of Blizzard employees releases an in-game song that's literally a giant joke about raping women to some edgy metal

Modern devs would never.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdEYVy6BF0w

Same reason why every game is a sanitized piece of shit made for 40 year old dads.
80s Millennials, the biggest demographic were in their teens ewrly adulthood.

>>713706220
God this really showcases how bad they emasculated Warcraft.

Anyone else hears long division in this track?
it's bugs me everytime
https://youtu.be/BnxbSWyoM9g

>>713705468
what was depressing about the 70's? I just remember good ol' classic rock and comfy shows like dukes of hazard, three's company, sanford and son, and m*a*s*h.

I just want a game like Jak 1. That world was so alive.

I fucking love edge.
Give me more chuuni edgy cringekino

>>713704739 (OP)
2000’s was just an edgy time

>>713706452
70s had a lot of economic crisis panic moments and was peak serial killer decade

>>713706440
What did you mean by this

ITT people born in 2010 pretend they know anything about anything

Edge in media was a trend that began with the success of Watchmen in the late 80's. Comics were stagnant and losing popularity and Watchmen did gangbusters. Rather than look at this and say "wow, comics can be really well-written self-contained stories with strong themes and symbolism and moral ambiguity and people actually like those things," comic execs said "WOW THIS IS DARK AND VIOLENT LETS DO THAT"
And so they did.

What started as a trend in comics in the late 80's and early 90's (pic related) then expanded into a whole smorgasbord of "teen-targeted" media, with the prevailing thought being the best way to get boys to buy your shit was to add guns, blood, and titties.

>>713706552
I miss proper chuuni games. Everything is so self aware or tongue in cheek about it now

>>713707226
Thanks for the explanation that nobody asked for since nobody said or even implied shit wasn't edgy before the 2000s.

>>713704739 (OP)
it was nothing, people would post cartel execution video with chainsaws, faggots bleeding to death after a glass jar broke in their ass, and worse
world in general was a lot less sanitized

>>713704739 (OP)
the thing about 2000s edge is that i was corny as hell but genuine, they really thought they were being cool and because of that authenticity we did find it cool back then and now, 20+ years alter, it is endearing because of the hard contrast with the irony filled media of today

>>713707334
Anon asked why shit was edgy in the 2000's
I explained why the edgy wave started.
It lasted until the mid 2000's.
That is to say, I answered OP's question you stupid faggot.

>>713705784
newgrounds is cringe slop doe.

>>713707145
I keep hearing Long Divition - love will tear us apart in some parts

>>713704739 (OP)
That was what society was like. School was full of people enjoying being rude and counter to everything. It was cool to be a celebrity and be "not like everybody else".
>>713705318
>It was because of anime
Sheltered weeb.
Everything was because it was the golden age of capitalism, which is the idea that each individual deserves his own riches if he wants to work for it. Today is the opposite. Everything is opposed to capitalism now, so governments have tried to normalize speaking against it, and the MeToo movement has stigmatized the idea of the celebrity unless it's a woman of course.

>>713705874
get ready for jak's NEW MAIN CHARACTER, XER NAME IS KOX AND, LIKE XER NAME SUGGEST, XHE HAS A BIG ONE
XER MASCOT IS A NON BINARY MASCOT UNICORN SQUIRREL CALLED ROXANNE THAT TOTALLY DOES NOT GET MOLESTED BY COX AT NIGHT
jak and dax, meet COX AND ROX ON A NEW ADVENTURE TO DEFEAT THE EVUL CHUDIARCHY

>>713707548
Do you mean joy division?

I miss it, we'll never get another claymore or berserk. Pop culture sucks donkey dicks now

>>713707226
>Edge in media was a trend that began with the success of Watchmen in the late 80's.
I’m entirely willing to believe this is Alan Moore himself, given what a massive god complex that hack has in thinking he’s the progenitor of everything modern pulp and “nerdy” while constantly shitting on everything that came after (including many of his own works).

>I HATE YOU MOM!!!!!!

>>713708241
I
STAND ALONE

>>713707226
>with the prevailing thought being the best way to get boys to buy your shit was to add guns, blood, and titties.
You're gonna tell me they were far off?

>>713707792
Yes, goddamnit, mathrot

GTA 3 was released and mogged every other game at the time and made them all look like baby shit

>>713704739 (OP)
>Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald?
I honestly love this game more than I probably should. Enough to the point where I made this one of my final college projects

>>713704739 (OP)
Jak 2 remake when?

>>713708652
>Where's that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald?
I honestly love this game more than I probably should. Enough to the point where I made this one of my final college projects

I miss 2000s edge.

>>713708756
Fuck it, not deleting and reposting it a third time but I meant to respond to OP
>>713704739 (OP)

>>713704739 (OP)
XTREMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE was selling like hotcakes and rock music was still cool to young people

>>713708537
Not entirely, but they obviously went way too hard with it which is why it eventually fell out of favor.

>>713704739 (OP)
Because game developers had the minds of children back then. Thankfully games, and their creators, have grown up.

>>713706452
peak oil happened in the 70s, europe had a lot of protests and labour disputes, america had a lot of cities becoming grimy as hell

>>713706552
You should play Tales of Beseria

>>713704739 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrOB9vLzksc&list=RDOrOB9vLzksc&start_radio=1
thread theme

>>713708913
whre's the macarron?

>>713708913
Yea grown up to be trannys and faggots obsessed with irony.

>>713704739 (OP)
People that whine about "edge" are fucking faggots. yes we get it you're just so above it all in your gay little milquetoast life listening to tasteful Radiohead and vaping strawberry-onions tobacco while painting your nails some "ironic" color and calling everything "wild." A Very Mature Spin and Synthesis of whatever countercultures you themeparked so as not to make people TOO uncomfortable, you have it all figured out with a bunch of other posers propping you and each other up. Well played

>>713705120
TP dark link cutscenes were so weak. It felt like them trying to recapture the dark themes of Majoras Mask without realizing what made Majoras Mask actually work. MM was unintentionally dark as fuck, where TP they are trying to be, and it shows. I don't know how to properly explain it but anons who played them both will know what I'm talking about.

>>713708589
Fuck up nerd
It does sound similar, yes. Now I can't unhear it.

>>713704739 (OP)
I miss 2000s edge cause it was sincere. You didn’t have someone break the fourth wall to tell you a character feeling angst or grief was some meta joke. Serious moments weren’t undercut with quips or irony poisoning, it was simplistically cool for the sake of it and it didn’t care what setting or character it applied to. You would never your Starkillers, Shadow 2006, Jak or the accompanying rock music to promote their trailers. Even stuff like Evancescence is making me realize how good we had it and I hated that song when I first heard it in Daredevil. We really need the pendulum to swing back to those days.

>>713708943
>>713706886
shit. how did things turn around for the better during the 80s then? I was too young at the time to even take notice.

>>713704739 (OP)
Jak 2/3 isn't the right choice for a picture. Even after Jak & Daxter, they were more humor than edge.

>>713707903
time is a circle. we will get another clone

>>713714843
No its just trends change completely. Disco has not come back, westerns don’t exist anymore, romantic comedies or comedy movies period got turned into modern capeshit movies, pulp is completely fucking dead and so on. The newest trend is insincerity, the kind of self-aware, quirky jabs at a narrative or the audience. The kind of stuff you find in Forspoken, Veilguard or the average Marvel flick.

>>713704739 (OP)
Picsreel came out. The game where you can pick up hookers, fuck them, then kill the hooker to get your money back.

>>713706552
>Give me more chuuni edgy cringekino
Last Defense Academy came out a few months ago.

9/11

>>713717621
So what you're saying is we need another event to rival 9/11?

>>713706220
>doggy style sex = rape

based chudcel

>>713704739 (OP)
numetal

>>713706220
>all the dudes who grew up on Heavy Metal, Warhammer, Predator, 80's metal got replaced by bluehairs, faggots and browns

>>713710754
>MM was unintentionally dark as fuck
it's clearly intentional, you're just retarded

>>713713281
Jak's first spoken words are literally a threat that he was going to kill the main villain. Sure, they still had humor but the edge was right there from the start as soon as they open the time portal and monsters come flooding in. Tonally it's worlds apart from the original which starts off more like a kids' adventure movie and Samos' narration and Jak and Daxter having their little misadventure.

>>713704739 (OP)
I remember having a vivid memory of going to my older cousins house and he was playing Jak 2's opening with Jak being tortured and then turning into a monster man

>>713704739 (OP)
Can you fags even explain wat edgy even means because I've seen it used on everything beyond Bing Bing wahoo man

https://youtu.be/aQ3wZbpCmfw?t=863

>RAPE HER
>HAHAHAHAH

Crazy how quickly the world can change.

>>713705784
name a better anime battle
https://youtu.be/_98n03yTzjQ?t=159

>>713704739 (OP)
Honestly, it's better than all of the gooner shit nowadays. Sure, there was some of it at that time as well but wasn't as prevalent.

>>713704739 (OP)
Kids back then were desperate to grow up.
Adults today are desperate to go back to their childhood.

>>713726636
You just described the entire human race. You didn't have to save that image of a balding emasculated man either.

I respect Jak 2 for making me mad enough to want to finish it instead of ragequitting. Fighting a dying PS2 helped with the frustration of getting to a new area and the area wouldn't load properly, forcing me to redo the level all over again.