Why was 2007-2010 peak

>so much normie slop
Fuck off.

>so much loser kino
Stay in.

>>715342179
Yes, those games are just normie slop and had no influence on game design or development at all

>>715342237
Yes, most of these games are normie slop and actively contributed to death of gaming.

>>715342105 (OP)
The last dead cat bounce before utter stagnation

>>715342105 (OP)
utterly ass raped by 96-2000 in terms of influence and fun factor.

>>715342279
>Advances in open-world sandboxes, enemy AI systems, multiplayer gaming and storytelling actively contributed to the death of gaming
You know, not everythings gotta be black and white man

>>715342105 (OP)
there are 2 good games and 0 great ones on this list

>>715342179
This.
I have never had a Ouija board in my house, and I NEVER WILL. There are just some things you should never mess with.

>>715342432
>open-world sandboxes
Yes. Death of gaming.

>>715342418
That was the golden age

>>715342504
It's not those games faul they got exploited and milked to death. It's not like the industry wasn't allowed to create any other new games. They just stopped doing it because they found a formula that worked and got greedy

>>715342105 (OP)
>90% console shootan
>actual garbage like SC2

>>715342237
The only innovative games on that list are Demon's Souls, Arkham Asylum and the Valve games. Everything else is polished but derivative slop.

>>715342418
Sure if you can handle janky shit. I would argue 2007-2010 was much more polished and playable.

>>715342432
>>Advances
RUMAO.

I can't wait to still be on /v/ a decade from now and see all sorts of posts praising shit like veilguard and doom the dark ages to the high heavens

I enjoyed games the most between 1996 and 2001. I can still to this day pick up games from that time I never played and consistently have a better time than playing even the game of the years of 2007 - 2010.

I think this is just a nostalgia thing for Gen Z. Meanwhile everyone of every generation enjoys games from 1996 - 2001

>>715342839
Barely any of those games are playable. The graphics literally look like dog shit and half the stories are told through text. The controls are clunky, the camera fights you at every turn, and most of the gameplay feels like a proof of concept rather than something genuinely fun.

heres the real peak.

>>715343409
This is also when music and movies peaked

>>715342105 (OP)
My final date is september 2011.

>>715342957
>I cant enjoy games unless a faggot voice actor reads the dialogue for me and the graphics are 4k 60fps

thank god Im not this fucking retarded

>>715343575
Lol, so predictable. Difficulty and inconvenience don’t necessarily mean something is intellectually superior. Text-based games are a fucking chore of lore dumps and exposition..

2007

>>715342105 (OP)
Between 2007 and 2010, the video game industry underwent a direct and transformative transitional phase from a landscape dominated by hobbyist studios and publishers producing content organically, often for demographics to which they themselves belonged, to an era increasingly shaped by external financial, and eventually political, interests.

What had once been a medium guided primarily by intrinsic passion and community rooted creativity gradually came under the influence of commercially-oriented professionals, many of whom had no substantive engagement with the medium itself. These individuals sales strategists, marketing experts, and financial overseers gained disproportionate influence within publishing houses, ushering in a corporate logic that privileged market expansion and monetization over artistic or experiential depth.

In parallel, and often as a consequence of this shift, doors were opened to ideologically motivated initiatives, whose implementation reflected less an organic evolution of the medium than the calculated insertion of activist frameworks, frequently grounded in opaque financial or sociopolitical interests.

The cumulative result was a dual erosion: both of the quality of the games produced and of the medium's essential spirit. Where once developers crafted games as expressions of daydreams, desires, and a kind of necessity born of joy and creative compulsion, we now encounter a professional class whose primary concern is the monthly paycheck individuals largely disengaged from the deeper impulses that once animated the medium.

In short, what unfolded was a structural and cultural reconfiguration across the industry one that redefined success almost exclusively in financial terms, thereby subordinating artistic ambition to the imperatives of corporate growth.

>>715343749
>my retarded zoomer "mind" is so fucking fried by the modern clown world I was born into that I dont have the attention span to read anything longer than a 4chan post

truly sad existence

>>715344226
>My nostalgia goggles blind me to the fact that most of the media I grew up with was just padded fluff, filling the gaps in my boring, pre-internet life.
Have you read a ’90s fantasy book lately? They're completely full of filler. Seriously, you could cut out like 70% of the content and nothing would change. Same goes for these games.

>>715343409
Peak was that weird liminal stretch between '06 and '09 when every dev still *thought* games were art but hadn’t been fully consumed by cinematic pipe dreams or Battle Pass brain rot yet. You got jank, ambition, and actual gameplay all in one. Now we get 90-minute cutscenes and 40 hours of mandatory crafting.

>>715342105 (OP)
2011 was the last good year though

>>715344503
>40 hours of mandatory crafting.
I seriously hate this

>>715342730
Lol

Trannies, faggots and niggers were not invented yet

>>715344495
>boring pre internet life
>the 12 year old thinks being terminally online and scrolling social media was more fun and fulfilling than going outside and hanging out with people or gaming on the couch with your buds or actually interacting in public spaces

lol, lmao. if I could destroy the internet for good I would do it in a heartbeat. sorry you missed out on the best time to be alive.

>>715342105 (OP)

>>715344503
>gen 7 was the peak of gaming fr fr deadass

do infants really believe this or am I getting trolled

>>715344825
System Shock sucks, GoldenEye sucks, Tomb Raider sucks, Donkey Kong 64 sucks, Diablo II sucks, Ultima Online sucks, Myst sucks, EverQuest sucks, Quake II sucks, StarCraft sucks, Banjo-Kazooie sucks, Riven sucks, Perfect Dark sucks, Descent sucks, Daggerfall sucks, Final Fantasy VIII sucks, Battletoads Arcade sucks, Zork Nemesis sucks.

>>715344631
I left Dune Awakening for a week and came back to my base taken and now I never want to play again.

>>715344979
youre right man open world slop, moviegames, space marines and waggling was so much better. you zoomtards really know your stuff

>>715345336
That doesn't describe 2007-2010, that describes today

>>715342730
>I would argue 2007-2010 was much more polished and playable.
*dumbed down and casualized for the retarded masses.

>>715345580
Better than the jank-slop of the 90s. Pic-related is apparently "peak gaming"

>>715345906
SS2 is one of the greatest games ever made, easily. It's only natural that philistines would be filtered.

>>715345960
>Oh my God, is that 4 panel interfaces, I'm gonna... I'm gonna CLICK AHHHHHHHH

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.

>>715346487
>Zillenial born in 2002
That's just a zoomer

>>715346109
The game wasn't made with cattle like you in mind.
>>715346487
Please let this post be ironic.

>>715346623
>The game wasn't made with cattle like you in mind.
Complexity alone isn't a virtue

>>715346623
I replayed Mass Effect 2 as every class. I don’t even want to finish System Shock 2 once. How is that a “better game”?

>>715346520
Millennials are generally defined as being born between 1981 and 1996 and Gen Z between 1997 and 2012. Zillennials tend to identify as roughly the middle of that timeline. Deborah Carr, a sociology professor at Boston University, told CNN they were born from roughly 1992 to 2002, making them about 22 to 32 today,

>>715346923
Why do younger generations struggle so much with developing a sense of identity that they need academics to invent terms for them...

>>715343409
>Banjo-Kazooie
blud thinks he's part of the team

This thread is it. The first time I legitimately don't know if it's bait or not. 2007 - 2010 is probably the worst time in gaming. Brown bloom linear shit that handheld you through forced tutorials.

Im disgusted by people that even are willing to entertain this idea that somehow this was the best era of gaming. Not the SNES highlights, not the PS1/N64. Not even the PS2 and PC golden age..... Nope.... Fucking early ps3/xbox360 era.

You niggers are fucked in the head or very good trolls.

>>715342105 (OP)
Where is NMH?

>>715347295
Maybe you just forgot to put in a tampon this morning

>>715346860
>How is that a “better game”?
Again it was made for high IQs, you wouldn't get it.

>>715347452
It was made for losers with no life lmao

>>715347505
Genuine low IQ cope.

>>715347623
Thinking the games you play makes you "high IQ" is the real cope

>>715347295
>2007 - 2010 is probably the worst time in gaming.
2012-2018 is worse.

>>715347676
Actual sub 100 IQ reading comprehension.

>>715347734
Maybe if you keep saying it, it'll become true

>>715347730
Disagree