there should be a /v/ for people who are 30+ but aren't such incorrigible disingenous faggots they genuinely attempt to insist the golden age of video games was the SNES era

>>713764494 (OP)
so what is the golden age of video games

I love games to this day but if you were gonna convince me the golden era of vidya isn't today, I'd definitely believe you that it was the SNES era instead.

It certainly wasn't the fucking PS1/N64 era or the PS3/XBOX 360 era, that's for sure. Maaaaybe you could argue it was the PS2 era.

>>713764878
The best is yet to cum

>>713764954
the true golden age was the era of zork and ultima obviously

>>713764494 (OP)
/vr/ is a thing.

>>713764494 (OP)
Was the early twilight of the modern era. Magic hour, yeahh

>>713764494 (OP)
Does that mean you want a /v/ for Millennials only? I never had a SNES, and the only time I played SNES games was with an emulator. You should just ask for that kind of thread instead of complaining like a woman.

>>713765880
but i am a woman

>>713764494 (OP)
>the golden age of video games was the SNES era
It was though.

>>713764494 (OP)
I'd argue 5th to 6th gen was the best time period, peaking in 98 and again in 04 but thats not to say there wasn't a LOT of great games in other periods.

>>713767217
ok smart guy name one SNES game

>there should be a /v/ for people who are 30+
Couldn't agree more. The quality of the board would increase exponentially if we gatekept it so nobody born after December 31, 1989 were allowed to post.
> but aren't such incorrigible disingenous faggots they genuinely attempt to insist the golden age of video games was the SNES era
If you're going to pretend that games like LttP, DKC2 (all of the DKC 3 games, really), Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Super Castlevania, Mario RPG, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, etc. are not better than 85% of all modern games, you're shitposting.

>>713764494 (OP)
No. What you really want is a White only /v/ without all the brown zoomers.

>>713767821
yeah actually that sounds great

>>713767768
Modern? Yes. 2000s era though? No.

>>713767858
>>713767821
How would you even do that?

>>713764494 (OP)
this game would be perfect if you could actually ride the trams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayED_uwlG4

>>713767880
no there should specifically be a /v/ for late 90s/00s era games and attitude and you need to call it /vX/ with a capital X for XTREEEEM

>>713764878
>what is the golden age of video games
1995 - 2005, if you want a neat 10-year period
1995 - 2007, if want to get pedantic about it
1995 - 2011/13, if you want to stretch it

The golden age starts with Doom and is then completely over, dead and buried by the time we get to 2014.

The golden age was pretty much the entirety of the 90's (and I don't care how much you like the PS2, or Halo).
Nothing has ever matched the sense of progress and excitement, the variety, the artistic creativity, the sheer fun factor, or the actual maturity of titles aimed at adult players. Nothing has matched the vibes of gaming scenes run by enthusiasts instead of corporate faggots, or someone's feminist hag of a girlfriend.

The Super Nintendo is pretty good. Whatever. The actual Nintendo games published on the thing are kind of overrated, and I don't care for Square RPGs. The GC and GBA was Nintendo's actual best era for game development.

>>713764878
>>713768785
1993* I mean. No idea why the fuck I typed '95 lol
Anyways, you get the point. Starts with Doom, ends around CoD4/Skyrim/GTA V.

>>713764878
ps2 and ps3

>>713768974
lets see, gta V came out in 2013
was there really nothing else as notable after that?

drawing a blank here

>>713769083
GTAV fucking sucks. Hitman World of Assassination is 50 times a better game. And that's just naming one.

>>713768968
>Nothing has ever matched the sense of progress and excitement, the variety, the artistic creativity, the sheer fun factor, or the actual maturity of titles aimed at adult players.
That was still very much present in the 2000s. There was a steady pace of advancement in tech, design philosophies, newly-established conventions, etc etc that survived until the mid-2000s.
>(and I don't care how much you like the PS2, or Halo)
Counterpoint: no matter how great the 90s were, Deus Ex is a 2000 game and it's easily one of the most important games of all time.

>>713764494 (OP)
as a 30+ gamer DS was objectively the greatest era. DS had so many fun and unique games combined with access to the entire GBA catalog.

>>713769231
2000 was the last year of the 90's.

>>713769320
Yeah, obviously the modern era is superior because you can play games from the older eras. Did you figure that one out yourself, or did chatgpt help you?

I want an entire internet with zoomers or alphas

>>713769591
Roblox is that way

>>713769083
>was there really nothing else as notable after that?
>drawing a blank here
Not really. And most of the notable of the mid/late 2010s are indie games. Look at FNAF, Stardew Valley, Undertale, Hollow Knight, etc.
But even if they're culturally relevant games (and of good or even great quality) they don't come anywhere close to the status of the stuff that was regularly pumped in the 90s and the 2000s.
The only real landmark achievement in the video game industry in the late 2010s was RDR2, which was the second biggest entertainment launch of all time, across all mediums (behind GTA V). It definitely left a cultural impact and will probably go down as a really important game in history, but it goes to show how completely fucking dry the AAA scene is – i.e it's completely fucking dead in the water until Rockstar does something.
Eveyone knows this already, but it's a bleak era for vydia.

>>713764878
2025. This is the best gaming year of all time

>>713767483
Just throwing it out there, but another thing that people shouldn't forget about the late 90s and the 2000s is just how important and influential Flash games were and how it shaped the entirety of the indie scene that's around today.

32
Sixth gen is my favorite

>>713769506
you're a faggot, did you figure that out yourself or was it your dad's dick in your asshole that taught you?

>>713770960
Why do you guys mald so hard when someone teases you for using ChatGPT?

>>713769591
I want an entire internet without them.

The golden age of video games was early to mid 90's strategy games on the PC.

>>713771103
RTSlop era was shit in the same way the brown & bloom modern-military shooter era was shit

>>713771025
why are you tilted about being reminded about your dad's cock in your ass? is it because it was big and hurt you or because it was small and failed to satisfy you? I'm genuinely curious.

>>713771168
RTS became popular in the late nineties you dumb fuck. Don't speak to me ever again.

>literally decades of text-based games, interactive fiction, MUDs
>LLMs come out, the holy grail for text-based vydia with infinite potential
>is actually dogshit useless tech with zero impact on the industry
Whatever happened there

>>713764878
PS1-2 era

>>713764494 (OP)
37 here. Peak was PS2/GameCube/Xbox.

>>713771445
turns out muds were only relevant because there wasn't anything better at the time, a modern mud is dumb, selling a game without graphics is pointless when we can easily add them in current year, the soul was the fact those games were cutting edge at the time so there was nothing better so you had to adapt to its shit gameplay

>>713771782
Not just talking about text games, though. Why has nobody tried to integrate LLMs (and maybe voice cloning) for infinite content into a game yet?
Is there really not a single model out there with good memory and that doesn't speak like corporate HR?

>>713771445
LLMs are pretty useless for MUDs, at least for quality MUDs. They can write passages, not novels. You're not going to have plot lines develop to something with consistent themes because an LLM can't remember what it said previously.

>>713771957
Fortnite tried with that AI Darth Vader NPC but they kept having to lobotomize it because people made him say mildly offensive things about IRL shit

>>713772097
>>713772187
>You're not going to have plot lines develop to something with consistent themes because an LLM can't remember what it said previously
Honestly, there's way worse core issues than that. One thing I always noticed with LLMs is that they're incapable of writing a bad outcome for the player. You won't ever find an empty chest without loot, or have a character betray you/have a secret agenda.
It's a retarded yes-man machine where even the models oriented toward text adventures are completely stupid and devoid of any dramatic tension.

>>713771445
>>713772097
>>713772482
Guaranteed there's one or two people who have already worked out how to design something quality now with LLMs, but they're not about to tell people because this is a temporary moat that works heavily in their favor as a creator.

>>713772482
That can easily be fixed by changing the training parameters. If you train an LLM on 4chan it will call you a faggot more often than on Reddit. The inability to be consistent, however, is a fundamental feature of the model. It's not built for that.

>>713767768
>are not better than 85% of all modern games
They're better than 99% of all games, period

>>713764494 (OP)
you can go on reddit and find a space grandpa

>>713773220
the proper term is "unc"

>>713773520
yeah if you're a nigger

>>713764494 (OP)
>Reddit Dogs

>>713772482
I've considered this when working my personal gaming projects and I think it wouldn't be too difficult to make a program that generates interesting and varied stories on a conceptual level and also deals with keeping track of events and outcomes, and then feeds that information to an LLM to generate the narrative fluff.

>>713773660
and you are

>>713774957
My skin is #FEE3D4, what's yours boy?

>>713775108
FFF

>>713764878
NES era