Which era of games do you fw the most?

Zillenial born in 2002 here. 2005 to 2011 was the golden era, I don't know if it was the end of the world prediction, Obama winning reelection or Mass Effect 3 ending, but something changed in 2012.

>>714758370 (OP)
>fw
Grok, explain this new generational meme to me in 5 words or less.

>>714758891
2002 is 100% zoomer
1999 is zillennial core

>>714758979
fuck women

>>714758891
>anything after y2k
>zillenial
don't kid yourself

>>714758370 (OP)
FuckWad? Find Weird? FuckyWucky?

>>714758370 (OP)
>I firewall this era so hard
What?

>>714759209
Wait, I think I get it now. It's "fuck with", right? I think that's zoomie slang for "liking something". And because they're zoomers, they're not allowed to use tier 3 swear words, so of course they abbreviate it.

>>714759371
Relax Unc

>>714758370 (OP)
I was not allowed to buy any consoles as a kid no matter how much I had saved.
Best I could do is get hand downs from my then adult older brothers as there's a wide gap between their ages and mine.

Even this to this day I this mindset has fucked me over. Because I want to buy something(even if work related) and I just keep thinking and keep thinking about it, never actually buying it.

>>714759529
Anon, go out and buy it. Now.

>>714759529
yes anon, consoom product
Go out, treat yourself and consooom because it makes you feel good

>>714758370 (OP)
>Nintendogs, Book Worm and a bunch of licensed and/or shovelware garbage
Clearly you love the era, and didn't just buy a DS lot on ebay.

>>714758891
Bro you were 3, what the fuck do you know about that era

>>714759840
please dont shittalk nintendogs

>>714759529
Honestly now that I think about it, this is exactly the mindset my dad has.
He has this old ass laptop, keeps complaining that it's broken.
He knows refurbished, modern options are available.
He wants to get a new thing.
He doesn't do it. I don't know if he expects to get a laptop for free or something.

After years of dealing with broken ass phone he finally, put some money aside to buy a phone
I told him that if he wants to get a phone he should spend at least 300€ for something usable.
He got a piece of shit samsung phone that costs 150€ and can't handle opening the phone app on calls.

In comparison my older brothers both have either expensive phones or iphones(refurbished)
>>714759629
Yeah but I have no excuse for a new GPU other than the fact that I need it to run AI locally to help with work.
>>714759678
It does feel good for a moment but then it leaves.

>>714759885
Anon, there's a reason I singled out Nintendogs and Book Worm.

>>714758370 (OP)
SNES probably.

I was born in Yugoslavia in 1989 we didn't keep up with tech like the rest of the world so until 1997 I played the NES/SNES/Gamegear/Megadrive. Some rare kids PS1 but it looked incredibly obsolete compared to PCs with Voodoo 2s. So I never really got the PS1/N64 era as something spectacular because I moved from Doom2 to Quake 1 to Quake 2 to Half life and UT in the span of like 3 years. And given the controls and smoothness KB+M of Q2, UT and HL 1 all consoles look like gimped toys in comparison. Thats what the kids who didn't have the reflexes to play FPS played.

PS2 was okay. DS was the first handheld that I could say that I actually enjoyed.

GB and GBA felt like they were massive compromises, and battery costs were ridicilous or should I say my parents made it look ridicilous so I never got to play them properly outisde I was mostly stuck on AC adapters indoors and the fact that they didn't have backlight screens was also one reason.

DS I could actually play on the go in school, after school. At university in between classes.

Still I prefer the Sprites of the SNES the most. This is where I personally as a kid saw the most innovation.

Playing Mario on the NES and then a few years later getting to see World was amazing, then when Yoshis Island came out I was absolutely floored. That game felt like nothing I had ever seen before.

I remember I had it borrowed from some shop and I cried like a fucking bitch for a whole day when we had to give it back.

>>714759083
Zoomers start from 1995.
Their defining feature is they grew up online and have no memory of the 90s, or didnt experience them at all.

i miss handhelds being actually handheld, the psp was a fantastic little piece of equipment
the modern day "handhelds" are literal fucking bricks that you could use as an emergency weapon in a trench

The Playstation 2 era for sure.
The sheer amount of good games, different games, experimental games, was unmatched.

>>714760160
Blame smartphones for killing them.

>>714759924
> It does feel good for a moment but then it leaves.
That’s because you dont consoom enough, consoom more to keep that high up and once tolerance develops and it stops being enough, consoom some more

>>714758370 (OP)
mid 90s-mid 2010s. wide band, yes, but a lot of my most beloved games are in that. it covers a lot of the best SNES, N64, PS*, xbox, and handheld titles. my genuine opinion on gaming is that while there are still great devs, and still great games, enshittification forged its death grip on gaming in 2020. normie scumfucks got into it en masse, live service exploded, and a bunch of other shit.

>getting GAME vouchers for Christmas
>getting as many pre owned games as I could
>standing in the queue for ages which went around the shop with my dad
I miss it

>>714758370 (OP)
This thread is really revealing just how embarrassingly old this board has become.

>>714761059
>three years for alphies to be old enough to post on this board

>>714758370 (OP)
Now. Like, right now. I fuck with this era.
I can emulate whatever I want on practically any device I own. I have access to ginormous RPG's with bible length stories set in immersive worlds I would've never thought possible. I can play with friends anywhere in the world with pretty good latency and download gigabyte sized games in seconds. I can run anything on the highest specifications no problem except shitty Unreal Engine games. I can do anything and play anything.

>>714761307
I am going to thoroughly enjoy watching zoomers become the 30 y/o boomers they used to mock and have to deal with obnoxious gen a fags.
What is the difference between zoomers and gen a? They look the same to me.

>>714761616
High IQ take. It's only an issue for people that follow CURRENT THING or have an attention span so obliterated that they can't even enjoy what they have access to.

>>714762229
gen 8 is 2nd gen brain rot right out the womb

I always think it's weird that "fuck with" has become zoomer/gen alpha slang for liking something, when they are the generations that have the least sex in recorded history.

>>714762552
I just sounds retarded in general. Bad English and not funny. Zoomers have bad English anyway because they went to school with an education system designed around Tyrone and Shaneequa.

6th gen and Switch 1 gen, whatever that is.
GCN and Switch are my biggest physical collections.

>>714760160
Yeah, i just bought myself one of those chinesium portables to run emulators on because it actually fits in my pocket
The steam deck is cool and all but it's so fucking large, I just don't ever pull it out on the train or plane or whatever because it's too much hassle

>>714762684
>I just sounds retarded in general
Yeah, you really do

>>714758891
2002 is not zillenial

>>714762307
I know right. "Bwaaah I'd give anything to be in 2005 again!" like nigga why? So you can have shitty computers, shitty internet speed, massive differences in multi-platform games and zero community patches? Like these people seem to forget they can still play these same games right now. I can go on Steam and download Deus Ex in 40 seconds and play it within a minute. Same deal with HL2 or Thief or Resident Evil 4 or Morrowind and ALL on a nice giant crispy screen.

>>714762552
I think the same way whenever someone uses the phrase "killing it" to mean that they excelled at something. To me it just means they fucked up whatever they were doing, the complete opposite of what they mean.
Call me a boomer but all these new meanings just confuse the fuck outta me.

>>714761059
I'm 20, and I too find "fuck with" to be a retarded phrase.

>>714758370 (OP)
cartridges
I didn't play N64 that long as a kid because I got a PS2 a few years after it came out, but I always felt like cartridges were more sovlfvl than discs

>>714762845
They do almost scratch the itch
Im hoping someone makes a decent game framework for developing games on the small arm handhelds

Something like pico8 but ps2 specs

Millennials were young adults when the DS came out, they also got to see the progression from the Gameboy to the DS.

>>714758979
>>714759209
fuh wih

>>714761307
The 30 year old boomer memes were almost 10 years ago. In august 2026 i'll be 40 and still posting on this shithole.

>>714758370 (OP)
>license games
Believe me amigo, I would fucking whate this era so much too

>>714762552
I don't understand why 'fuck with' denotes enjoyment now when for decades it designated antagonism. The climactic finale of Scarface doesn't make sense now with Tony screaming about the assassins wanting to fuck with him.

>>714758370 (OP)
Probably ps2 era? It has more to do with location and other factors but for me that was the comfiest time.

>>714759883
Probably playing Teletubbies on the PS1.

>>714762229
>What is the difference between zoomers and gen a?
Gen Alpha is already incredibly racist

>>714758370 (OP)
Nintendo 2DS and 3DS + Wii was the goated era.

>>714758891
Being born in 2002 makes you 100% zoomer. Not zillenial by any metric.

>>714766030
>he cares about generational tiktok categorization lingo
it's either oldfag or newfag, tiktok overcomplicates everything

>>714758891
>born after 9/11
>thinks he's not zoomer filth

>>714758979
4chan millenoids type shit like i shiggy diggy but a 2 letter acronym causes a brain aneurysm

>>714766164
>random anime reaction image that has nothing to do with the tone of his post
You have to go back. Youre not fitting in.

zoomers pretend so hard but they'll never know gaming soul, you had to be there and you werent there and youll NEVER EVER EVER know what it was like, you will always have lived an INFERIOR SOULLESS period of gaming

I'd like to suggest the immediate implementation of a policy called Total Zoomer Death.

>>714758370 (OP)
I spend the majority of my time playing video games.
Most of my time has been spent playing current stuff. Not stuff from now but current at the time. 25+ years of being current. I never replay games, but I will play older stuff that is new to me. But it's not often that I play older games. There's a lot of stuff that I want to play and the stream of games is never ending it seems. Just this Steam Sale alone I found like 20 new games from sale threads that I'm interested in.

>>714762552
I think you are right. I've heard niggers say fucks with, and zoomer speak is downstream from nigger speak.

>>714766690
why do white zoomers and alphoomers want to be black so bad? is it just one giant generation of QoS tattoo wearers?

>>714766858
Zoomers were raised to be anti-white and venerate blacks, but young Gen A seems to be rebuking this

>>714766945
do zoomers just commit suicide after a certain point because they realize they'll never be black?

>>714766284
ywnbaw

>>714758370 (OP)
i fw the ps2 era heavy

>>714758891
>2005 to 2011 was the golden era,
7th gen is literally when everything wrong with gaming today began.

>>714761059
I fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: fw: this era so much

>>714766627
>Most of my time has been spent playing current stuff. Not stuff from now but current at the time.
Thanks for that lad. I was under the impression you were playing games from the future

>>714761059
What's so embarrassing about not talking like a nigger?

>>714759083
Zillenials are 96-99, anything that starts with a 20 is pure zoomer.

t. 1997

>>714767669
you're talking to a wannabe nigger zoomer who doesn't see the embarrassment in talking like a nigger

>>714765940
They said that about zoomers too. Anyone remember the "generation zyklon" meme?

>>714767445
This. We went from PS2 classics being released nonstop to brown-grey UE3 slop, CoD/GoW clones and Japanese companies outsourcing to the west and otherwise shitting the bed and making inferior sequels to PS2 games

>>714766284
Why do you expect people to know slang from places they don't go to?
Not everyone browses black twitter and tiktok

>>714766323
>posting images on an imageboard?!

>>714759139
If you say so

>>714766284
Laughed out loud

>>714758979
Fuzzy wuzzy

>>714768246
that's all zoomgroids do though, so they just assume everyone else does

>>714759209
firmware

>>714767519
re: re: re: re: re: re: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>714758891
>2005
Nigga how would you know you were only 3 years old

>>714758370 (OP)
lil bro missed the 't' in 'ftw' but thats ok, i understood

>>714760147
You're wrong. Gen Z as a generation should always have started at 2000. Anyone born before that still went to elementary school without a (smart)phone in their pocket. Some wouldn't have had a PC at home due to older retarded parents. Social media like Vine and Snapchat started becoming things when they were well into highschool and most weren't on Twitter until a few years after it launched either. It's an important distinction to make; the man born in 1997 had a vastly different (early) childhood from the childhood of a zoomer born just 5 or so years later.

>>714769864
Your formative memories start to form at the age of 3. If you have no memories from that period you simply have low iq.

>>714758891
You were too young to notice the biggest changes that started happening around 2006.

>Zillennial
No such fucking thing. You're just coping. You're either generation Y or generation Z. Fucking line-riding little RAT. You're a fucking ZOOMER.

>>714758370 (OP)
I wish we had actual handhelds again.
No, neither the Switch, nor my phone are actual handheld consoles.

>>714758979
It means "forward" ie you're copying an email you received and then sending it to someone else

>>714760340
>Plays five of them

>Thinks most are good

Diverse yes but quality was mid.

>>714758370 (OP)
I bcc Gamecube era.
I fw PC

>>714761059
I was too old to even own a DS. I've been here since I was 14 and am now 35 :)

>>714770981
There is definitely such a thing.
You late 'millenials' are just zoomer-lites.

Being born before 2001 is crazy.

>>714773057
>not BCC'ing PS2

>>714766284
Now this is a keyed post

>>714773275
Your mum is crazy (true)

>>714773168
>Late millennials
I was born in 1991

>>714758370 (OP)
For me, it was that early XB360 era of like Dudebros/Mountain Dew/Doritos or whatever. I just have so many memories of endless night hanging with the bros playing Halo 3/COD4 or whatever, eating shitty food and talking about which emo chick at school we wanted to fuck. I never knew it at the time, but it was unironically the peak of my life. No worries, no responsibilities, not a fucking care in the world beyond my next match. God I would give anything to go back and have one more night of it.

>>714758891
You're close but it actually started around 2006-2008 when a lot of companies started demanding that any internet content they were advertised on had to be corporate friendly. 2012 was just when the last holdouts finally died off and all that was left was the corporate approved social medias like facebook, youtube and instagram. In layman's terms, niche communities, standalone websites and a lot of chat services died because they couldn't afford to or just refused to moderate their content in ad-friendly ways. There were other factors but this was the single biggest reason things changed around then.

>>714767445
>>714767985
8th gen was where it really began. 7th gen had it's faults just like previous gens but 8th gen had only one good year and then just became a slow drip. The PS4 is probably the best legacy console I'll give it that.

>>714761059
I do enjoy now proud zoomer are in their illiteracy.

>>714773552
Late.

>another generational shitflinging thread devolves into semantics because many people seem to be too stupid to realize that not everyone is the same

>>714773856
Nah

>>714773580
Even playing the 360 now it's a blast and the Arcade is very underrated. They should have had physical releases or collections on discs like they did with Minecraft. Achievements and gamerscore were great too. The 360 was the gen most people bought games for since Blockbuster wasn't worth it and gamestop was selling them for $10 after a couple years.

I was born 1997
Am I a zillenial?

>>714773937
Generational shitflinging is still happening between actual boomers and the pre-war kids that aren't quite 'greatest generation'
We will forever be doomed it zoomer.

Gen Beta gonna have to wipe my Geriatric arse though. fucking betas.

>>714773937
If you're all so different then why do so many of you get this gay ass fucking haircut?

>>714774128
>so many of you
swing and a miss

and they do it because it's the trendy fad.
just like your generation had. and the next one will too.

Probably PS2 at this point, I've got so many PS2 RPGs left to play through

>>714774128

>>714774128
>>714774203
>>714774319
not a miss zoomoid troonoid i see a dozen of these faggots at the gym (repping a little more than the bar and videoing themselves on a tripod while doing it btw), literally carbon copy on the haircut lmao

>>714774457
Your reading comprehension is lacking.
I'm guessing 26 years old. A product of No Child Left Behind.

>>714774523
go back to twitch and dont forget to hang yourself on the way

will gen z ever grow out of using ebonics?

>>714774591
Oooh, sounds like I was right.

>>714758891
Zillennials are 95-98

>>714774626
no, they worship niggers, kneel at the altar of niggers, spend all day wishing they were niggers, and get all of their "culture" from nigger influencers. Zoomer "culture" is just diluted amerigroid culture.

>>714774626
That's probably our fault, it was a funny meme during the formative years of those zoomies.

>>714758979
>new

>>714774457
>>714774591
Without being a cunt, I'm >>714774319
My post was to draw ateention that we also had a generation haircut.
Sure it's not as stupid as the cabbage cut.
But need a remind you about FROSTED TIPS.

>>714774882
no one cares zoomer lover

>>714775082
fucking weird

>>714773552
That's crazy, unc.

>>714775310
>inherently read that as a bass beat
UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC UNC
'92 best year for Jungle BTW.

>>714758370 (OP)
God that’s a lot of shovelware

PS3 slim easy.
most reliable console
most diverse library ever
longest support ever
best UI and media capabilities
online without paywall

>>714759083
wrong

>>714775714
>>714759083

>>714775438
First actual generational difference in the thread.
X/Millennials see 'unc' as 'uunce' the onomatopoeian representation of an electronic drum beat/raves.
Zoomies and Alpha see it as 'Uncle'.

>>714758370 (OP)
I don't Frank West any era. Best version of Frank.

>>714758979
fucky-wucky

>>714758891
i wish there was a Geneva convention that when anyone begins a sentence online with "[X] here" a mobile decapitation squadron would be dispatched to their home address

>>714758891
>something changed in 2012
We shifted timelines. The Mayans were onto something. Well it's that or the occupy wall street movement and its long lasting consequences in retaliation.

>>714776204
HARAMBE

>>714765731
Using "I dig it" as a way to say you like something was also retarded. That's just how slang works.

>>714765731
ESL

>>714765731
They have a weird view on 'cop' too.
For an early millienial, 'copping' something wasn't good - 'copping' a fine, 'copping' detetention, a sickness, etc.

>>714775683
All 7th gen was abysmal, anon. Almost every game from that era was trying to punch above its hardware which resulted in tiny narrow boxy corridor levels with god awful performance, QTE ridden forced talk and walk segments, universal ugly art design with brown and bloom and full screen tent filters being incorporated everywhere, and every fucking game was either a shitty FPS chasing after Halo money or an Assassin’s Creed ripoff. This is ignoring shitty forced control gimmicks like motion controls and Kinect, the beginning of nickel and dime DLC, inflated day one patches, faulty unreliable hardware that RRoD or YLoD, and limited selection of games because development cost inflating sky high and projects taking long to work on because obtuse proprietary internals like the 8 core. God fuck 7th gen, worst fucking gen ever.

>>714776138
Femanon here. I was soaping up my supple, pouting breasts in the shower while I thought of a response to this. You're a fag.

>>714758891
If you clearly remember what you were doing on 9/11 you're a millennial.
If you don't you're a zoomer.
If you weren't born until after 9/11 you're definitely not a zennial.

>>714775683
The slim and every PS3 in general was garbage. The 360 had a better library and was alot more diverse.

>>714776652
Wrong. Try playing it again and then come back.

>>714776556
No, 'fucking with' someone was at least riling them up, at worst attacking them.
Now it's apparently used for 'i'm fucking with stacy, she's really good'?

>>714761307
as if they aren't already

>>714776859
>when it happened
It was night in Aus, no one really knew what had happened, we'd heard a plane had hit one of the WTC towers and it was a joke. Like how could some idiot in a small plane hit a giant building like that, was he trying to hit his boss ha ha ha.
Next morning, oh... fuck.
First time I cried about something half the world away.

>>714776859
No gave a shit about 9/11 in Europe Amerimutt.

>>714773552
Millennials start in like 1980 so 1991 is late millennial. If you're not in your 40s yet, you're a late millennial.

>>714760160
Gba micro was my nig

>>714777114
Nobody ever gave a shit about europe.

I was born in 98. My main childhood was composed of the late Gameboy sp to mid 2009 era DS/Wii. Early 2009 was when I got my 360, which that plus the Xbox one era to around 2017/2018. That's when I stopped really caring about gaming that much, besides playing a few indie games and maybe 2-3 big game releases a year.

>>714758891
>Zillenial
You're a fucking zoomer. There is no such thing as a "Zillenial". Cringe ass made up cope term.

>>714777125
>Still posting on 4chan in your 40s
I'd just kill myself at that point.

>>714776907
Maybe you're just old?

>>714758370 (OP)
Gen 4 and Gen 6. My family never bought me a PS1 or N64 so even though I grew up on the very tail end of Gen 4, to me it was longer than it actually was and Gen 5 didn't exist except when I went to friend's houses to play. Gen 6 to me is the apex of gaming, likely to never be topped.

>>714777440
bro I came here in 2003 and I will be here in 2033.

>>714777457
I thought that was obvious?

>>714777528
Kill yourself

>>714777528
2103 nigger.
Fuck moot
Fuck meximoot
Fuck gookmoot
bring back snax.

>>714776889
>The 360 had a better library and was alot more diverse
>retarded contrarian faggot that sucks Microsoft’s satanic industry ruining cock just because they’re not Sony

>>714777125
1980 is still gen x.

>>714777114
of course they did, ahmed, your people were dancing in the streets

>>714777746
I'm white 6'5 and I would beat you the shit out of you kike

>>714777814
>european
>white
And I have swamp land in Florida I want to sell you, Samir.

>>714777814
oh yeah?
Post wrist, height in front of a door frame, bank account statement, bookshelf with no quran, and your cock so I can get a good sniff

but you won't you lying faggot

>fw
bong sister?

>>714777685
The Arcade have alot of diverse games and multiplats were better on the 360. Cope

>>714758891
>the golden era was when I was 3 years old
Holy shit kys.

Also 2004 was EASILY the best or second best year of all time in gaming. Absolutely fucking insane lineup.

>>714776652
Nah, Gen 7 was fucking incredible.

>>714758891
29-year-old manfailure here, 2002 was the best year for video games. Every game I love came out in 2002. Soul Calibur 2, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Jet Set Radio Future. Coincidentally these 3 are all sequel games.

>>714777404
It just means early zoomer/late millennial, retard. Some zoomers are just reaching adulthood while others are pushing 30, so it's worth specifying.

>>714778835
>Souls
Opinion discarded.

>>714758370 (OP)
grew up on a sega genesis, n64, and gameboy. ive played enough and seen things get better and better every year.
the current era of gaming is the best. tons of smaller studios making passion projects, and huge studios making photo realistic worlds.

>>714779220
Absolutely mindraped