Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I announce this is the tropical thread
Also post nice water in general

>zoomers are nostalgic for le frutiger aero
Grim

>>714262916 (OP)
Starfy is an underrated case of this

Zoomers ran this one into the ground in record time

I don't get it, why pretend to be nostalgic for something you haven't lived through, why try to impose your own ideas of what it was like on the people who did

>>714263339
Fully half of the zoomers did live through the tropical beach aesthetic, retard, they were being born as early as '97.

>>714263339
Why do you stupid fucks think zoomers were all born in 2010 or something

>>714263539
>>714263689
If the oldest zoomers were ~5 years old when the trend started dying out, I wouldn't say their experience with the trend at 2, 3, 4 years old was meaningful enough to stake a claim on it

>>714263803

>>714263847
They would have been playing it through the mid to late 00s after those games came out, which means they can lay claim to having lived through the trend. Unlike today, trends back then didn't get old in a matter of months.

>>714263414
kino

>Frutiger Aero (also known as Web 2.0 Gloss) is a design aesthetic that spanned from roughly late 2004 to 2013 and peaked around 2007 to 2012
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero

How the fuck was it 'dying out' when zoomers were kids? It was a major feature the whole time. This very thread is posting games mostly from the PS2, which didn't really stop being everyone's main console until 2009 when the PS3 finally got some good games.

>>714264237
>aesthetics.fandom.com

>>714263193
>It's been 17 years since the 5th game

OP here. If you anons arguing in the thread could keep at it that would be great, I don't have enough material to keep the thread going just by myself

>>714263339
>I don't get it, why pretend to be nostalgic for something you haven't lived through
>Guys is like the hecking 80's!!!!!!
Aren't zoomers allowed to have nostalgia for something they couldn't experience? And this is from a 30 years old dude

>>714263981
I would say it's the opposite, 9/11 turned the American zeitgeist on its head and the decade that started with colorful and whimsical mascot platformers ended with countless brown modern military shooters, whereas smartphones and mass adoption of the internet turned trends into eternal stagnating sludge and now even stuff from the early 2010s feels relevant today

There's an incredible difference in culture between the hopeful optimistic early 00s and the jaded and cynical late 00s, music like Sum 41, NSYNC, Britney Spears feels like it's from a different dimension compared to Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Coldplay etc, meanwhile the most popular cartoons in 2025 are Adventure Time, Gumball, Phineas and Ferb, all stuff from the 2010s, and shows like Regular Show and Steven Universe are getting revivals as well

>>714263339
Why do you think zoomers are nostalgic for shit that existed when they were 3 years old. Who the fuck remembers anything from that age?

>>714262916 (OP)
Mario sunshine is the only game here that is solely set in a tropical beach setting. The other games have different biomes, including a tropical beach setting. Zoomers are retarded. You could just as easily say "WHY DID SO MANY EARLY 2000S GAMES HAVE DESERT/SNOWY AESTHETIC!?!??!?"

>>714264461
I would prefer if the period remained an authentic memory of the people who lived through it rather than being mangled into a generic consumerist trend to be packaged and sold to people that either didn't live through it or weren't old enough to remember it, like Stranger Things is for the 80s

It's like living in a comfy sea side town and wanting it to stay that way instead of being turned into a busy soulless tourist attraction

>>714264668
That's my point

>>714264668
>he was a late bloomer
I got flashbanged with the curse of self awareness well before my 4th birthday honestly.

>>714262916 (OP)
Because of water physics you massive retard.

https://youtu.be/y1g8cmlklIw?t=67

>water
The good life.

>>714263689
Because 4chan is the perfect place for autistic retard losers.

>>714265041
Including hardware then being finally marginally capable of specular highlights, dynamic shadows, and sunshafts. Tropic locale was just the perfect setting to play with. Open terrain, fewer needed textures, simplified models(i.e huts).

I can only think of Rime and Genshin Impact getting closer to the aesthetic

>>714262916 (OP)
Because tropical stuff was trendy in the very late 90's into early 2000's

Imagine not living within driving distance of a beach

>>714265480
>>714265615
These look like dogshit

>>714265657
>posting Halo in a tropical thread

>>714265615
Who is this qtpie brown boi?

https://youtu.be/HIprJ8eWiMY

>>714265241
good stuff

>>714265695

It's still a thing. This has never not been a appealing aesthetic to people. A tropical beach being the ideal destination for relaxation predates most popculture. Of course you're going to see it in video games.

>>714263339
OP doesn't say anything about zoomers or nostalgia. did you pull that out of your ass?

>>714264910
Looks more like what people think the 80's looks like compared to reality. Checker pattern and those neon colours weren't 90's. A "90's" style room would have mixed dark metallic colours, plastic and fabric. For one there's no blow up furniture which was big in the 90's.

h2ooooooooooooooyeah!

>>714265241
Maybe we'll get an Outrun 3 next year...

>>714265818
The OP pic is a zoomer meme

>>714263084
>>714263339
it's amazing how millenial faggots will always find something to whine about

>>714265698
the first good post I have ever seen this trip fag make

>>714263414
>>714263795
Reinstalling

>>714265873
ahahah you're a funny guy anon.

>>714263959
Simpler times, nostalgia, etc.

>>714263162
Comfy
> TFW you will never play kh 1 for the first time.

>>714262916 (OP)
They wanted to show off water graphics.

Fun fact: 100% of humans who have drank water HAVE DIED.

>>714266276
>>714266361
I hate how modern games look, the old game looks so appealing.

>>714266178
but that's wrong

>>714264592
>smartphones and mass adoption of the internet turned trends into eternal stagnating sludge and now even stuff from the early 2010s feels relevant today
No, you have that backward. There are SO MANY trends on the internet, atomized into little pockets of people who happen to follow certain things on various platforms, and it all moves SO FAST that old things still feel relevant due to a complete lack of stability in how trends work due to social media and streaming platforms.

>>714266178
I drank water once and I haven't died, wtf?

>>714266487
Not yet you haven't but you will. BE AFRAID.

>>714266186
Started playing this recently, when can I get to wherever that is? I started at Bastok and holy hell is the outside region a shithole.

>>714265848
That example is more of an early 90's aesthetic, but it's still 90's. The aesthetic from 1990 to 1994 is very different from 1995 to 1999.

nice water

>>714265683
CE:A comes closer to the palette, but's not actually tropical, the island has temperate foliage.

>>714266714
Disgusting, everything looks fake and plastic, why can't indiefags into aesthetics

>>714266832
>why can't indiefags into aesthetics
most of them don't play video games
all they know is normalfag shit

>>714266748
nice, water

>>714266582
Mhaura -> Buburimu Peninsula -> Bibiki Bay -> Manaclipper -> Purgonorgo Isle

>>714262916 (OP)
Optimo-Futurism or something.... The sea is really something. It's neat how you can paint it with sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhILzP60STQ

Even robots know how important water is.

>>714266379
Game?

>>714263084
>>714264237
>fruity nigger
made up term by zoomers, never existed before 2023.

>>714263339
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "impose your own idea on the poeple who did" but I'm not even sure it's "nostalgia" we're talking about. Things can resonate with people in some manner without a direct experience, but even then, as the world has gone one things which zoomers have grown up with, seen and experienced, align a lot more with what once was than what is now, we are in decline.
I find it gayer to make "nostalgia" a thing of gatekeeping, or gatekeeping enjoying old things FAR, FAR, gayer than whatever you are talking about, but then again, I don't know what you're talking about.

Booty Bay....home

>>714262916 (OP)
Frutiger Aero was the promised future

>>714263847
I was born in 2005, and I experienced things that were released before my generation. You DO realize that people aren't just doomed to consume things released in the days of their experience right? Forgive me but this just seems really faggy to me.

>>714262916 (OP)

>>714263084
>>714263339
Hey if they can bring back the color blue in media during these grim ass ue5 times, they can have it. Better than the other dumb shit they fixate on.

>>714267468
I WANT THE FUTURE I WAS PROMISED DAMMIT

there was still hope in the world

>>714262916 (OP)
it's because direct x 8 (2000) and direct x 9 (2002) added and improved shader models that could do water that looked great at the time.

>>714267481
You DO realize that experiencing something outside of its zeitgeist doesn't make you an authority on the zeitgeist itself, or allow you to make claims about what the time was like

It's no different than the underage retards who see 50s/60s nostalgia and start making claims like "ackshually no one was happy back then it was all cope they were all on drugs and beating their wives and etc", I'm not saying that was or wasn't the case, I'm saying I don't want to hear someone who wasn't alive back then making claims about the period unless they can be verified as an unbiased historian expert

>>714263084
>frutiger aero
What was this aesthetic known as before it was given this name?

>>714266594
I was born in 87 and that top room screams 1988-89 yuppie. 90's early neon was pink, green, yellow and orange plus a lot of primary red, yellow, and blue. The back wall has pastels on it which is 100% 80s and not 90's. It even has an arcade machine when a 90's room should have console as that was the decade when everyone was throwing out a gaming console to try and cut in on Nintendo and SEGA's owning of the market. An early 90's room would have the colours in this image.

>>714268129
FFS forgot the image

>>714268101
Contemporary

>>714267872
>You DO realize that experiencing something outside of its zeitgeist doesn't make you an authority on the zeitgeist itself
Yeah I never said that, nor implied that, WHATSOEVER.
>or allow you to make claims about what the time was like
Not based on direct experience, no, but knowledge can be derived from more than just direct expereince. I don't need direct experience of a thing to know it was a Hell of a lot better, or to yearn for it.
>It's no different than the underage retards who see 50s/60s nostalgia and start making claims like "ackshually no one was happy back then it was all cope they were all on drugs and beating their wives and etc", I'm not saying that was or wasn't the case, I'm saying I don't want to hear someone who wasn't alive back then making claims about the period unless they can be verified as an unbiased historian expert
I totally agree and see where you are coming from there, but I think people like that are literally just inventing copes to pretend the past wasn't leagues ahead of modernity. That's a whole other issue.
>>>/wsg/5913605

>>714268101
It didn't have a name, it wasn't called an "aesthetic." It's just what some shit looked like at the time.

>>714268101
>>714268231
I'd say "iMac" style since everyone wanted to copy its mixed solid greyish white and transparent coloured plastic look in a round and safe design. Eventually everyone agreed that metallic blue and grey/clean plastic was the way to go.

Reminder that generational bickering is a divide and conquer tactic pushed by (((them)))

Even though we have nostalgic threads like this and i see 90s and 2000s stuff in youtube shorts, i ask myself a certain questions i know that alot of you guys ask yourselves,"why did things turn out like this?" "Were we meant to be fuck-ups?" "Will things really get better as normal people told us as some of us sink deeper into our misery?" I just dont know anymore.

THE SOVL

>>714268129
People forget theres a disconnect and lag between "media popular" and "shit that was actually popular"
TV and advertising was always behind the times, usually only catching up after everybody's moved on to some other new fad, often highly exaggerated and coming off as lame and forced.

Still is to this day too which is funny.

>>714268519
nah the old imac style we called it was still shooting for hyper minimalistic but with single color streaks. Those like transparent plastic shell monitors with every peripheral under the sun matching it
"aero" works because that's exactly what microsoft advertised it as, no idea where the fuck this "frutiger" shit came from

>>714262916 (OP)
During summer time I like to walk around my local forests at noon while listening to the Crysis soundtrack and think about just how perfect they got the outdoor photorealism in so many locations.

This just boils down to
>muh transparency
and water is the easiest way to do that without having to worry about reflections like glass would.

>>714268336
In this specific case the problem is zoomers reducing the entire era to "water and frutiger aero" and filling every thread or mention of the era with nothing but that, overwriting the actual nostalgia, when 00s summer threads on /v/ used to have a variety of zeitgiest appropriate games and aesthetics, anons reminiscing about the times, posting ads, promos, shows, music etc that remind them of the era, having intimate and direct insights about the era and so on

It was unthinkable to post Far Cry 3 or some bland indie game in these threads up until ~2020, but completely understandable to post Jet Set Radio or Pikmin even though on the surface they have nothing in common with the "beach era"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SBKj5ofGVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBC7o9K2P6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBoqE35_4z8 (I just like the pic and remix)

>>714268101
Windows Vista

>>714262916 (OP)
nice water

>>714268912
I see where you are coming from now.

[old man yells at cloud]

>>714263339
Gen Z's 1995-2009. Do the math.

>>714269006
We failed Vista

>>714269298
>Gen Z's 1995-2009
>Born November 1994
Fuck bros just made it

millennials ruin another cool style like they usually do

>>714269418
Millennial fuck.

>>714264429
Pinnacle Rocks is a fucking valley and stream, not a tropical beach you absolute dildo.

>>714269787
>Also post nice water in general

>>714265113
I never liked how the crotch part looks

>>714262916 (OP)
Why do I love these 3 games so much? Also Destiny Islands from Kingdom Hearts 1

>>714266361
giving me bf3 vibbirinos

>>714268101
Aero
And as 30yo i always loved that estetic

>>714266379
>>714267251
>Wuhu Island is the island where various Wii and Nintendo 3DS series games take place. The first game where Wuhu Island appeared was Wii Fit.
>>714266748
anno 1404 had some really nice water

>>714270147
more vibbrinos

>>714270293
vibbin

>>714267839
>Europa
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2214880/Europa/
Thanks

>>714262916 (OP)
the reason is simple, it was to show off graphics

>>714263339
The responses prove your point. And another anon summed it up perfectly in a previous thread, giving this aesthetic a name only gives the marketers and shills lurking this site a reason to monetize and corporatize it.

Has Wave Race: Blue Storm already been posted?

>>714270380
itty bitty vibbirino

>>714270632
Another meme is "soul", I've started seeing normgroids use it on social media.

>>714262916 (OP)
It was pre-global warming times.
White people working on those games in gray cubicles in AC-controlled offices in temperate climate countries dreamt about living in tropical paradises.
Until it started getting hot and they discovered living in such conditions isn't so great after all.

>>714268101
I don't think we called it anything. It was just seen as "sustainable futurism." If that makes sense. I see the appeal now but at the time I thought it was cheesey corporate art because it was everywhere. Zoomers kept the good aspects of the aesthetic just like we kept the cool stuff from 80s futurism.

>>714262916 (OP)
Because water graphics were the raytracing of that era and everybody wanted to show off. No better way to do that than a tropical beach

>>714263959
infinitely more soulful than >>714263803

>>714264461
such an ugly, ugly cast

>>714262916 (OP)
It was a way to showcase next gen graphics without straining the hardware too much.

Theme for this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-BRT926koA&ab_channel=EdwinOfficialVEVO

>>714268101

>>714264372
Fuck me PSO has to be one of the prettiest games of all time to this day. Absolutely gorgeous.

>>714273106
>Some day kids will have nostalgia for flat art

>>714273106
Lumping in the Wii, 3DS, Wii U, Xbox, PS3 and early Samsung Galaxies into the same era as Vista is some terminal zoomer shit

>>714263339
Shut up Nintendoler

Beaches are fun and sexy.
You are neither

Why did it take /v/ so long to admit that Sunshine was always kino?

>>714274896
sunshine has good atmosphere, but it sucks to 100%

>>714275003
>it sucks to 100%
So just... don't?

>>714262916 (OP)
>games with beach levels: exist
>zoomers: omg the early 2000s were OBSESSED with beaches! So much better than those scary liminal space suburbs of today! Save me frutiger aero from my self diagnosed mental illness!
Lol. Games today have beach settings.

Why is gen z so painfully uncool? Usually it’s the other way around and the older generation becomes the uncool one.

>>714271963
What the fuck you just made that up lol. Tropical climates have always been hot.

>>714273106
Where did all these gay names come from? Especially "Memphis Design" and "Frutiger Aero," seriously what the fuck is that about and why did zoomers start calling them that?

What was that PS2 jrpg where one of the characters attacked with a volleyball

>>714275719
it has been posted dozens of time in this very thread

>>714275382
But North America, Europe and Japan weren't.
So, thoughts of office drones looking at postcards of tropical beaches changed from:
>someday I'll move there
to
>I'm so glad I live in a country where those hell-like temperatures last only for a few weeks

>>714263084
>>714263339
>>714264780
>>714267316
>>714275208
>zoomers
>zoomers
>zoomers
>zoomers
>zoomers

>>714275719
FfX, grand wizard wakka.

>>714276119

>>714273106
Google's clipart people is by far the most egregious thing

>>714262916 (OP)
Staying above the water is for pussies.

Stop idolizing this setting, irl tropics are all shitholes infested with browns. We need more snow kino if anything

>>714276019
yeah hot summers didn't exist in the US until 2020

i think it was just a japan thing

>>714266792
Halo CE's version of The Silent Cartographer was so ass, the thing that made the original mission so cool was being able to look out across the water and -not be able to see where the ocean ends-, and just take in the sheer sense of scale that implies, to be on an artificial ring world that's so massive that it's possible to have a proper ocean on it that's big enough to vanish over the "horizon". Adding a bunch of islands and clouds in the distance for detail just ruins it.

>>714263357
>>714263414
Is this PSO?

>>714276390
word

>>714266792
halo was supposed to look like washington state but that's not nearly grey enough

>>714275179
>erm, just don't do everything the game has to offer????
Why the fuck would I not 100% a game I paid money for? I want to see everything the guys at Nintendo put together for their lunchbox console, both the good AND the bad, so I can judge for myself if the game is any good. What, do you think if I just pretend the 240+ blue coins, the timed red coin missions, the lilypad and pachinko machine levels, the slow ass board ride TO said lilypad level, the watermelon festival, yoshi being hydrophobic and on a timer, the nothingburger jpg you get for actually completing the game (something you're telling me I shouldn't do, mind you.) If you have to "ignore" multiple aspects of your so-called "kino" then it's not kino. It's a 7/10 at most, and only cubebabbies would pretend it's anything more.

>>714276697
The ring was only ever about the size of north america.

>>714276698
Yes

>>714262916 (OP)
Ps2 could finally render water

>>714267665
You and me both, sister.
The 90s were full of so much hope about how technology was about to make everyone's lives better and now everything is just shit.
feelsbadman

>>714276697
>Halo CE's
Do you mean Anniversary's version?

>People ITT having mental breakdowns over tropical beaches in vidya of all things.
Have we reached peak derangement yet?

>>714277212
Who exactly is having a mental breakdown?

>>714276881
There's a reason that 100% completion is not required for beating the game. If you find a particular challenge/level annoying and not fun, just skip it and move on. Why torture yourself with optional content you're not even enjoying? Someone else might like a level that you hate, which is the point of having all that variety and then letting you pick which 70% or whatever you actually want to do on your way to the end of the game.

>>714277047
A time when technology made our lives better without us being almost completely dependent on it

>>714266714
The game looks "okay" it's a paradise world made by someone who isn't allowed to have any new ideas. The aspect that kills the game is the writing. Everyone in the game sounds like they're on anti-depressants (and I remember a character literally is.) The H.R. department seems to have a gun to the writer's head, and if anyone says anything that's not fake-smile-happy they get they brains blown out. I played it for 30 minutes and uninstalled it because the game was more propaganda than game.

>>714276026
Remember the rule of /v/: whenever someone says zoomer they actually mean millennial when talking about negative things since actual zoomers are too young to have affected anything.

>>714276390
>not posting aquanaut's holiday
ngmi

>>714277635
wow, how about you curb the toxic comments huh anon?

HOLD YOUR COLOUR AGAINST THE WAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL

>>714277976
That is going into my wallpaper slideshow.

>>714277976
I still use this. Can't be beat (blissfags need not interject).

>>714278179
>blissfags need not interject
For me it's Full Moon over Red Dunes

>>714262916 (OP)
Japan was obsessed with Hawaii & California at the time.

>>714275409
Thank you for posting this, as much as I like World and even Wilds they don't match the absolute fucking soul that radiated from the first 3 generations.

>>714262940
>>714263162
Man...I remember when games could be bright and colorful without overloading them with pink and purple

>>714275409
Brutal.

>>714278358
Now we're talking.

>>714262916 (OP)
Good currency exchange rate for Japan.

Why do modern games hate color?

>>714273106
>>>/fa/

>>714268101
>What was this aesthetic known as before it was given this name?
I feel like it used to be called something with bubbles or waves in it.

>>714275579
>Especially "Memphis Design" and "Frutiger Aero,"
I don't know about the latter, but the former is related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group

>>714264461
>>714263339

Because it shouldn't be about nostalgia. It's just different design and art.

>>714273106
Why in the flying fuck has flat been around for so long? Every era before it had a lifespan but this shit is lingering around forever like a turd floating in the bowl.

>>714264910
Top is more late 80s and very early 90s.

What I finding interdasting is the focus on game biomes/environments that heavily exclude colours the human eye is actually good at seeing. Now while some elements of why are obvious (i.e computationally expensive) one element I suspect curbing things is how most people are using screens that can't do colours well. Note no screen technology i'm away of can do the full spectrum anyway (and without fucking around attempting to do so with RGB would put a whole shitload of red outside perception range). We these beaches and oceans but you'd think forests and fields would be a greater focus.

>>714273656
Cry harder, spaz

>>714279212
Do not worry top minds at Apple have heard the complaints and are bringing back Fruitygay Aero back!

>>714279340
Thanks Matt.

>>714268610
Wouldn't have been so bad if they upped the encounter variety.

>>714263357
>>714263414
>>714276941
>no one ever posts this area at night time

>>714279681
Impressive
Very nice

>>714278769
ive never even realized why "colorful" games look so bad now
thanks anon

>Ctrl+f
>dead
>0/0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Icnb0KYro
new computer, no screenshots.

>>714279126
An artist must first experience life to then encapsulate it. That's what all great artists advise. The devs from back then most definitely vacationed in Okinawa, and knew what a tropical beach looked like and the feelings it evoked. Devs now are either urbanite Californians, stuck in a smog ridden shithole, or outsourced Indians, also stuck in a smog ridden shithole, but somehow extremely worse.

>>714262916 (OP)
>>714262940
>>714263162
>>714263357
>>714263414
>>714263795
>>714264751

I loved this looks so much, but after Skyrim all they make is nordicslop that looks cold and dreary, like the Witcher 3 and God of War, Valheim etc. If I wanted to see that, I'd just go outside

PSE BURST

I can't get over Dreamsettler being cancelled. Maybe it would've had a tropical beach related content because Y2K nostalgia but we'll never know.

>>714265113
I always liked how the crotch part looks

>>714265113
I never had strong feeling about how the crotch part looks

>>714263339
You don't have to have nostalgia for an aesthetic to see how superior it is to the slop that companies have been shitting out these past 15 years

>>714279494
going to switch to iphone for this

>>714266178
Not actually fact though.

>>714264461
It is not nostalgia, it is appreciation.

>>714280369
Wish people made webms of this area, it was nice. I don't think you can even do it now because NGS fucked the graphics.

>>714266178
That wouldn't even be true if you said it the other way around.

>>714262916 (OP)
Can any of you fags actually prove things used to be better or are you all just talking out your ass?

>>714267251
Lost.

As in, you just...

>>714281000
If that was a real Xbox, she'd be dragged to the bottom of the ocean like a mafia disposal

>>714265915
We are the last members of the golden age. We have something to protect. Zoomers are fine with corrupting everything and tossing it away when they get bored, the same way they instantly consume and forget whatever slop the algorithm feeds them. You people are barely human.

>>714279291
You dumb fuck. Top is now. Just look at the flatpanel.

>>714281153
certainly, what criteria for 'better' would you like proof of?

>>714281153
We prove it by living through that time, living through this time, and collectively agreeing the former was better in terms of personal satisfaction. Not difficult.

>>714281000
paperweight

sovl

>>714281153
youre a faggot

>>714262916 (OP)
Sea of Thieves has the best video game water of all time.

>>714263339
Schizo post?

>>714263084
>>714263339

>>714281153
I'm sick of underage retards on here speaking out of turn. Fuck off already, 4chan is a site for people who experienced the world before the brainrot began.

>>714264910
You can say the same with the 80s, every electronic was trying to look like wood.

>>714268613
So is racism

A lot of you are just posting pictures with water or a beach. Not necessarily the tropical beach aesthetic

>>714284180
If you point it out you get >>714282478 and >>714282831

>>714281153
Yes actually. When the gamecube debuted it was only $200 compared to the switch 2 which is $450. Alot of things besides games have went up. Also, before smartphones and the popularity of the internet, meeting people was more natural and you could make a proper connection. Its really bizzare and uncanny how things have changed in the past 25 years. Then again, you probably werent born in the late 80s/early 90s to experience any of it so it makes sense why you want to ask such a redundant question.

>>714280390
Feels bad.

>>714263084
I'm 31 so I am a millennial and this thread was made for me tho

>>714279126
Many graphics devs are autistic, so vibrant colors overstimulate them and make them uncomfortable, so they fade the colors, remove contrast and throw a monochrome filter over it, and they truly think that makes it look good.

>>714263339
This nigger is salty he never played nintendo games while on vacation Hawaii in 2004. LMAOing at ur life bud.

>>714265994
>>714266054
>>714266060
what game are those beaches from anons???

>>714268101
Aero Glass literally was the design name

>>714287539
We may never know.

>>714272515
I need to go back to the day my mind was pure enough to play this game on a summer afternoon

>>714281153
>academic shitheads will spend the next years trying to "debunk" that the world was actually better before
grim

>>714284180
sugma

>>714268613
It's probably just bots driving it to farm engagement

>>714263339
Because they have no identities of their own. All their "meaning" in life is derived from internet consensus--not opinions that they arrive to on their own, mind you--but things that are dictated to them through group consensus and "algorithms." Think reddit upvotes and popular repeating things like the OP sentiment.

TLDR zoomoids have no identity of their own thanks to the sterilized digital world they grew up in, so they have to pretend to feel nostalgic for things they never experienced, because it's a the closest they'll ever come to finding meaning in their lives.

>>714262916 (OP)

>>714262916 (OP)
probably to show off ocean water simulations that were starting to look good.
sort of like how every graphics overhaul mod from the early 10s would make the world look like a janitor freshly mopped every floor so they could show off the lighting and reflections.

>>714288009
Yeah it was a lot better before people starting tacking on words like "grim" or "banger" to all of their posts for no reason

>>714263339
>it's another thread where retarded millennials can't comprehend a child growing up with media that came out before they were born

>>714285887
how come so many autistcore games like sonic have extremely vibrant, high contrast colour palettes?

>When you walk away, you don't hear me say please o babyyy don't go!

>>714262916 (OP)
Kotor 1’s last planet had that aesthetic too.

>want to play chrono cross again for the aesthetic
>battle system is super janky in the remake

>>714291756
see >>714267872 and >>714268912

>>714262916 (OP)
It's funny to realize that the beach aesthetic games makes millenials getting angry over zoomers

>>714262916 (OP)

>>714296271
>makes millenials getting angry over zoomers
It's like two retards, I'm just glad some of you kids have taste.

As a millenial I can kind of understand the "you kids just wouldn't get it" idea. Zoomers aren't going to ever get the same experience we did.
But I don't hold it against them for going back to the things we enjoyed in the moment.
And at the same time, most of my favorite movies, music, books, artworks, and so on came out decades or even centuries before I was born.
The tension only comes from the fact that millenials remember living through and are nostalgic for what younger generations are actively interested in and seeking out in the same way I listened to old 80's rock or watched Schwarzenegger movies.

Splatoon is the current best series carrying the Frutiger Areo torch btw.
Half the aesthetic is just a Japanese artistic sensibility btw.

What are some good non-tourist-trap holiday destinations where I can just chill out on beautiful beaches like these, maybe do some sea kayaking along the coast. It's just occurred to me I don't think I have ever seen /trv/ crossposting.

>>714298584
I went to a place in Turkey with my family for most summers when I was a kid (my dads wife was Turkish). The place we always went was a seaside place but it wasn't touristy at all, I was very nice, some natural hotsprings up in the mountains near by too I'm not sure we would've found it if not for his wife we never once met anyone there who was also a tourist.

>>714262916 (OP)
gamecube prototype was called the dolphin

>>714300000
tubular digits my friend

>>714301464
game?

>>714262916 (OP)
Here is why
Most of this push came from japan
Japan was MacOS land from the end of the MSX popularity until the middle of the PS3 era
Apple rolled out the AQUA design language on the first Mac OS X, and devs had to use this UI for years till Apple retired it when the Intel Macs started to come out in the late 2000s
This UI influenced the vibe and feel of many early 2000s games and graphic design in general.

>>714268336
>I think people like that are literally just inventing copes to pretend the past wasn't leagues ahead of modernity
What else can they do, it's painful knowing for a fact that life was better at the end of the 20th century than it has been for the last 25 years. Sometimes cope is necessary to keep going.

The sea is pretty cool

>>714267175
such comfy games

>>714266582
Gustaberg visually sucks and is a total bitch to navigate, but makes up for it with one of the best tracks in the game

>>714303962
Perhaps, but I'm talking about people, typically mentally ill and of a left wing bent, trying to paint it as bad so that they can pretend non mentally ill nationalist White America was somehow worse.

why do sunny shores send /v/ into a rage

>>714262916 (OP)
because there was hope
captch related

>>714263339
but I did grow up playing Sonic Adventure and Mario Sunshine and Kingdom Hearts albeit

Kryta, my beloved.

>>714305104
Hard to see them from a basement.

>>714265657
>he doesn't live within walking distance of a beach
KWAB

oh my fauci, all this flipping wholesome NOSTALGIA is making my tiny white cocklet spurt!

>>714265915
>it's amazing how millennial faggots will always find something to whine about
It's amazing how zoomer faggots will always find a way to suck corporate cock and support everything they do even though modern super corps are the most ruthlessly greedy they've ever been in history.
Literally had a zoomer passionately lecture me about how mods are heckin evil and should be illegal because they deny corpos potential theoretical profit that could be made from DLC and micro-transactions. They'd be the ultimate slaves if they weren't to lazy and incompetent to actually do work.

>>714306878
At that point why not just let them? It’s them who are getting fucked over at the end of the day, what do you gain from trying to educate them?

>>714263017
>Aqua Aqua
Is... is that... A fucking Wetrix sequel?

>>714276796
>he fell for the "WA is gray and dead" psy-op
I guess I should be happy it keeps the retards away

>>714282249
I agree it’s a shame the game is boring

Sonic 06 had nice ocean areas

>zoomers have never been to a beach and don't know how to swim because their useless parents just gave them phone and tablet
No wonder they don't understand the appeal of the blue sea and sand between your toes

>>714306562
Kek

>>714265994
Pretty sure that pic is from World of Warcraft. No idea where though
>>714287539

>>714262916 (OP)
Don't worry Rockstar is bringing it back

>>714263084
There is literally a millennial documentary gushing over fucking Lisa Frank prints you disingenuous little shit

>>714308130
>Four part
Jesus Christ

>>714307234
i lived there for a long time poo head
only thing this image is missing is needles lmao

>>714265615
BEHOLD

>>714308406
yes it is very dangerous with needles everywhere and junkies and DEI and always rain, please stay away sir it's too violent and crime-ridden, it's too dangerous for anyone except the most hardened soldiers

>>714262916 (OP)
Far Cry Instincts Predator's water looked so good Ubisoft made a video to shill it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g9LC1ikgINA

>>714308019
looks like the Echo Isles off of Durotar

>>714267416
needs like several times more greenery.

How's that despotic tax rate treatin' ya Washcucks? Heard it's going up again, LMAO.

>>714309985
>No income tax
yes it's dreadful here, please never make the mistake of living here

>>714287539
>>714308019
>>714309573
>looks like the Echo Isles off of Durotar
Yep

>>714302234
Talos Principle 2

Man the 2016 one really shat on R&C.

new hardware made it easier to do cool water

>>714312452
So kino

>beaches around the world are now just jeet litterboxes

>>714312697
>first you can’t shit on the street
>now you can’t shit on the beach
where exactly are they supposed to go then? huh asshole??

>>714312653
Probably my most played game on the PS2 by far.

>>714263339
I grew up with all these games you stupid millennial faggot, you realize that the oldest zoomers are pushing 30 now right? You realize the year 2000 was a quarter of a century ago right? I do remember this era in fact and I have plenty of nostalgia for games and consoles "before my time" as if you had to have been born in the 90s to own a fucking super nintendo or something. God you people are the fucking worst. Balding middle aged cunt.

>>714300000
impressive
Gamecube confirmed for most /frutigerAreo/ console

>>714313159
>Probably my most played game on the PS2 by far.
Same, my favourite in the OG trilogy. Great music too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGXcddME7Kg

>>714313372
fr fr no cap
unc really thought he cooked with that one :skull:

>>714303175
It has more to do with Japan being a pacific island than Mac marketing.

>>714313624
I hope to never be that one unc that yells at "kids" that chances are, aren't even that much younger than them, for existing and enjoying shit that they "claim" for their generation as if it fucking matters

>>714313372
see >>714293519

>>714263339
The number of things this board says zoomers definitely didn't "grow up with" is hilarious.
Like, I've seen you fuckers say we never used DVDs and CRTs.

>>714313596
>Steel Drum remix of the first planet, Veldin
Kino.
Also liked the otherr version when in the sewers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HusUf80usOs

>>714314229
Grow up with =/= live through

>>714314229
nta
and a millenial
it's pretty funny to me that Zoomers are in their late 20s now and this board still acts like gen Z are children.

>>714314226
Don't care nigger, go yell at some clouds you geriatric fuck

Up Your Arsenal>>>>>Literal feces>>>>Going Commando>>>>Ratchet & Clank

>>714314587

All beach areas should have a steel drum soundtrack accompanying them.

>>714312697
I hate it

>>714314450
I guess you could say:
LIVE AND LEARN

>>714262916 (OP)
00s tropical settings are peak

>>714314450
this is a really pathetic hill to die on

>>714263084
>tropical beaches are immediately associated with a corporate art style
Grim.

>>714297682
Holy crap I forgot this game existed, I used to play it back in college in 2003. I really wanted it to be as good as the THPS games but it really wasn't.

Is anyone actually stupid enough to think this was the entire aesthetic of the era? If they are they're not important.

I'm glad other zoomies grew up with or are looking back fondly on something I enjoyed. I don't know why that makes some of you faggots seethe so much, it's way better than ignorant tiktok kids dismissing everything from the past.

>>714314928
I am suddenly an environmentalist.

>>714262916 (OP)
>Why did so many games of a period of 5 years do this
>Mentions 3 games

Stupid twitter thread

>>714263339
Zoomers can tell that they're growing up in a literal hellscape despite it being all they know and that they never got to experience an actually decent internet so they instinctively try to parasitize off anything they can find

>>714319317
The Internet went to shit in the 2010s. 2000s Internet was still fun with Newgrounds and early Youtube

>>714262916 (OP)
Most fashion was centered around Summer/beach fun if you look at the outfits of the times. It makes sense that games would take advantage of that too.

>>714319317
>growing up
I’m pushing 30 dude

>>714264910
That flatscreen on the wall is so 90's

>>714314450
DVDs and CRTs were popular throughout the 2000s and many zoomers were kids back then.

>>714262916 (OP)
>>714278769
>3D comes into vogue
>every game is 3D
>water effects come into vogue
>every game has tons of water
>dust transparencies and bloom come into vogue
>every game adopts dust transparencies and bloom
>dense foliage and snow come into vogue
>every game adopts dense foliage or snow
>particle effects come into vogue
>???

>>714263339
>why pretend to be nostalgic for something you haven't lived through
anon, have you looked outside?
if i were a zoomer i wouldn't want to grow up in this current period either

>>714267872
>nostalgic for liver destroying soft serve vaguely milk based cold beverages

>>714320413
I'll be turning 28 in three weeks
I'm fucking terrified

>>714264657
>/v/ermin will act nostalgic for the game nobody played based on the anime nobody watched

>>714321536
unc

>>714321831
I am indeed a literal uncle, yes

>>714321760
>anon will make up strawmen in his head to get angry about

Reminder
>Baby Boomers
1946 - 1964 (61 - 79)
>Gen X
1965 - 1980 (45 - 60)
>Millennials
1981 - 96 (29 - 44)
>Zoomers
1997 - 2012 (13 - 28)
>Gen Alpha
2013 - 2027~ (0 - 12)

Here's some fun facts:
>Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Trump are all EARLY baby boomers born in 1946, while Obama is a late baby boomer born in 1961
>President Biden is the first Silent Generation president since H.W.
>JD Vance is the first millennial Vice President
>The MAJORITY of zoomers can post on 4chan, as those born in 2007 are now turning 18

>the majority of zoomers did not, in fact, grow up with the most cutting edge hardware contrary to sentiments on /v/, as they would've been children during the economic crisis of 2008, wherein even the oldest zoomers would've only been 11 years old

>>714322453
So which generation has custody of Skibidi toilet?

>>714322539
Gen Bussin

>>714322539
Late Zoomers / early Gen Alpha. It blew up a couple years ago among the 8-12 range which fits both demographics.
Basically that group's FNAF or Slenderman.

Riven captures this aesthetic phenomenally imo

>>714322713

>>714264910
>giant flat screen
>modern minimalist shelving
>trans flags everywhere
who the fuck's vision of the 90s is this?

>>714322760

>>714278769
>>714279849
I don't know why modern devs refuse to use natural color schemes anymore.
Greens, blues and whites. Land, Sea and Sky. The natural colors of the world around us will always portray the world at it's most beautiful.

>>714263084
I'd argue it's more Y2K.
Frutiger came later.

>>714323413
I love how the retards who use this both haven't seen any Hitchcock and also don't know what he is actually saying.

>>714264317
Is that Phantasy star

SEGA had some nice colours going on

>>714265915
Makes sense. Millenials were the last ones who had a real chance at having a normal life. So the ones that were too dumb to make it before it became impossible are eternally salty.

>>714323982
Yes

>>714324229
Based. Which one? Played the Universe demo on 360 as a kid. Picked it back up a few months ago on PC with the clementine servers. Im a bit above level 100 and stopped grinding. Kinda getting an itch again.

>>714323570
>When I was a kid family would bring me on a roadtrip to the beach in an RV every summer
>Would always pack the gamecube and PS2
>tfw played a bunch of these games on a little TV while still in direct view and earshot of the ocean
good times

loved this area in BL2, the dried lakebed/ocean setting is such a cool idea that i wish more games had

>>714262916 (OP)

>>714324196
Eh, not really. The recession ruined everything.

>>714262916 (OP)
It's crazy living in a time where you witnessed everything losing its color and became replaced by minimalism.
It really was different back then

>>714306375
>his house isn't directly in the water

I would honestly kms

>>714307234
I wish I lived in WA

>>714265113
I'm partial to how the crotch looks.

>>714268912
So the retards bitching about zoomers are just autistic nostalfags, got it.

>>714269298
implying people born in 1995 and people born in 2009 share any gene at all

>>714268613
Nah man, jews dont need to push this one, people are simply retarded.

>>714333690
You're in an autistic nostalgiafag thread

>>714322453
A zoomer born in 2000 lived a completely different childhood compared to a zoomer born in 2010 yet the absolute mongoloids that plague /v/ think they are the same. The whole concept of generations is so fucking retarded its insane.

>>714333842
Yeah, about videogames with a tropical beach aesthetic of the 2000s, not 'b-b-b-zoomer' generational warfare stupidity.

>>714279212
>>714279494
Um acktually, the new style is being called Glass.

>>714334312
>tropical beach aesthetic of the 2000s
And only 1/3 of the games posted actually reflect that aesthetic of that era, courtesy of zoomers who think having any water whatsoever qualifies a game to be part of the era's aesthetic

>>714292493
I can still hear the drums.

>>714334489
>Autistic nostalfaggot bitching
Yeah, should have known. Have fun bro.

>>714335092
You're in a thread about the tropical beach aesthetic of the 2000s

>>714263339
They were born into a world of stagnation and decline, I would want someone else's optimistic childhood too if that were me.

>>714263339
Only called out zoomers got mad at this

>>714335725
It's true though, the world was genuinely better then.

>>714307007
NTA but corpos and normalfags need loud angery pushback or they'll assume everything they do is A-OK.

>>714267645
RF5 Hina is better

>>714269006
aka Windows: We Stole It From OSX Tiger Edition

>>714323814
okay smart guy, what is he actually trying to say?

So why the fuck ARE games all dark and nasty now? Like why not make the games bright and colorful and exciting?

Earthbound is so loved because most of the settings were in modern towns and it felt good to go around.

>>714336913
Dodge Souls

>>714323814
That’s not Hitchcock.

>Oh cool a bea-
>ZOOOMER ZOOOMER OOOOOMER
Millennials online are so unbearable it's insane. It's like their entire identity has been constructed by whatever was on their TV or game system when they were a kid. This is why it's such an affront to them when you tell them you share an experience with them, it's like their goysumer personality is being exposed as just what it is, media consumption, leaving them with nothing else. They didn't even create the fucking media, that's what's even funnier, the only thing they create are $22.99 burger restaurants and artisanal bowties and shit

>>714337496
Called out zoomer seething

>>714337496
Just a reminder that millenials is the generation where emo and edgy suicide jokes was at its height
If not that then they just trooned out as you're seeing today

>>714337767
none of this is emo you stupid faggot fuck

>>714262916 (OP)
Frutiger Era

>>714263084
Frutiger is a millenial thing you dummy, zoomers were like 5 then

>>714337821
Oh sorry, I'm not from your era. Is this better, millenial?

>>714337828
No one called it that, stop using retarded zoomer terms

>>714337918
>zoomers were like 5 then
Then why are they in this thread telling everyone what the era was like

Why do millennials act like the second something comes out it just vanishes from existence? They act like you can't just buy used games, used clothes, hand-me-downs, garage sales, I watched my brother play this game now I'm playing it, etc. Imagine if some eight year old kid said his favorite game was breath of the wild and I snapped and freaked out at him and called him a liar. That would be crazy but a lot less insane than thinking zoomers never have experienced "frutiger aero" or whatever the fuck you want to call it any form like a video game or piece of media

>>714338421
see >>714267872 and >>714268912

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWwGKT5jU-4

>>714338421

>>714338602
I'm not reading two entire conversations to glean the context of two posts, if you want to vocalize something do it yourself

>>714338807
Of course zoomers are scared of paragraphs. Why am I not surprised

why do the beach threads get certain anons all worked up? it's just screenshots from games with beaches and tropical features, there's no need for all this generational warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSerMa3BXAA

>zoomer likes new thing
>/v/ seethes at them for being too stupid and ignorant to appreciate older stuff
>zoomer likes old thing
>/v/ seethes at them for obsessing over something they didn't "live through"
I honestly don't know what you guys want at this point.

nice

>>714308853
copium

>>714339261
who cares what you like, I don't want to remember good old things through your livestock eyes

>>714339261
Zoomers who like old stuff

>>714338421
It doesn't vanish but the contemporary feelings will probably not be felt by later generations(it's possible to feel them but unlikely). Some things that were really cool aren't timeless and the idea that games don't age that some people peddle is total nonsense.
Just simple environmental factors matter a lot, zoomers have been on the internet for basically their entire lives so they have like.. billions of impressions pounded into their brains whereas us old timers were entering 3D worlds fresh when they were brand new things -- new worlds to explore and figure out the fundamentals of. I remember when basically every single game played differently with totally different controls and that definitely made the "new game" experience that much more stimulating for us. Whereas zoomers probably just think it's retarded how badly games control(as I do as well, in retrospect).

>>714339039
gottem

>>714267872
>It's no different than the underage retards who see 50s/60s nostalgia and start making claims like "ackshually no one was happy back then it was all cope they were all on drugs and beating their wives and etc",
I hate these people so much because they don't even understand that time period let alone the periods before then. They're totally ahistorical and are drowning in propaganda.

>>714337921
Kino

>>714334143
They both had iPads as kids

>>714334143
2010 onwards are gen alpha

>>714343119
True, Gen Beta started this year.

>>714339120
Because people here are joyless losers

>>714264668
zoomzooms just all were MKUltra'd into consciousness at like age 5, probably has something to do with like childhood trauma or something. I was born in 04 and my childhood was mostly the DSi which came out in 08.

>>714343460
Most people's memories start at 4.

>>714343282
>the generation of betas are all vaxxed babies who will be full of cancer and infertile
betabros....

>>714275003
Flawed kino.

>>714343731
Vaccinating has been normal for decades

>>714262940
Crazy how we have games nowadays that have the same amount of graphical fidelity as these 2000's still renders. Man, I love technology.

>>714335174
>Autistic nostalfaggot bitching

>>714343949
uh huh

>>714327508
Looks like shit

>>714344259
Why the fuck do you think polio isn't a thing anymore

>>714344410
it does still exist and it's from well poisoning
and just wait until you learn that you can't make a vaccine for covid

>>714280062
Of all retarded projections, this has got to be one of the absolute dumbest ones. You think modern game devs have never been on a fucking tropical vacation?