Anyone else feel like younger generations didn't do enough to reject slop?

I remember in the 00s most online vidya spaces would mock you for talking about Call of Duty or Gears of War positively, /v/ was especially critical to mainstream garbage

Meanwhile in the last ~10 years there's been very little pushback to anything really, new COD equivalent series, predatory game design, rehashes it's just accepted as a part of life by everyone

who cares

>>715389579
Perfect example

Yes and it's just the natural result of people young enough who have never seen it any better in their life time.

the only solution is to literally kill low iqs on detection, anon. i really don't know what you're crying about, this shit exists in all mediums. maybe you can get daddy government to ban gacha games or something but it only treats a symptom, that people by and large are retarded fucking animals.

>>715389458 (OP)
Halo and CoD were good though, at least during the 6th and 7th console generations.

A new generation of kids became the new demographic, and they seem fine playing the same shit over and over again, as evidenced by Fortnite.

>>715390261
Uh-oh, 40 year old virgin melties, coming up.

Its really weird to me how somehow even on 4chan I'm the only one who remember Bobby Kotick for taking a huge fat shit on my hobby. Makes me feel out of place.

>>715390261
They really weren’t anything amazing if you weren’t 12 or raised only on consoles. Goldeneye 007 was considered amazing for its time when it quite frankly wasn’t, consoleplebs were just happy to have a FPS made for a console in mind.

2009 /v/ would be calling this shit creatively bankrupt franchise milking, it's 2025 /v/'s favorite series (and reddit's, and twitter's, and discord's..)

>>715391064
This is true, back in the day series would get slammed for not innovating enough between entries. These days people are desperate enough for good big budget games so they don’t care. From is one of the few developers that still can be relied upon to usually deliver a good if not amazing product. Lack of trust is endemic to current AAA products.

>>715389458 (OP)
FPS stands for first person slop. There are no good games in this gay abomination of a genre.

>>715391692
>From is one of the few developers that still can be relied upon to usually deliver a good if not amazing product.
Because they keep repeating the same one over and over again, everyone liked COD2 back then too, but when they remade it again for the sixth time and sold it as a brand new game people started calling them out for it

No such thing has happened with Fromsoft yet and they're on their NINTH rehash of Demon's Souls

>>715389458 (OP)
Video games ARE slop anon
Its legit one of the worst things you can do with your time

>>715389458 (OP)

>>715391064
>>715391692
2009 /v/ fucking loved Demon's Souls

>>715389458 (OP)
>most online vidya spaces would mock you for talking about Call of Duty
And yet faggots like you still played it

>>715389458 (OP)
How old is that image? The last time I played CoD I could count the amount of "campers" on one hand. Those games are almost entirely populated with ADHD riddled zoomers powersliding around all over the place.

>>715392017
And it loved COD2, while still calling out COD:MW, MW2, BLOPS, MW3..

>>715391064
These games constantly get shit on here too. You are literally doing it right now. Dumbass.

>>715392175
Camping complaints always came from kids or low IQ dumb asses

>>715389458 (OP)
>reject slop
autists are insignificant, usually penniless minority, why would anyone give a shit about what you say
it's only recently with browning of the internet destitute 3rd world normies that can't afford COD have joined your ranks to whine enough to shit up /v/
>it's just accepted as a part of life by everyone
whachu gonna do about it, shit up /v/ even more?

>>715389458 (OP)
The irony of this image is that only 40 year old divorced dads play halo, and COD is now a hyper fast twitch shooter where camping is almost impossible.

>>715392302
You know how fucking no one talks about COD on /v/ or has it in their 3x3s or recommends it ever for any reason? That's how it's always been, it was a complete non-presence unless people were shitting on the latest controversy or Bobby Kotick

Compare that to the near-constant presence and praising of From as the savior of games and shouting down of any dissenters as haters of games, it's nowhere near the same

>>715389458 (OP)
But it was rejected if favor of Fortnite and Minecraft. Halo and COD are no longer the biggest gaming communities. The only reason people still play them is because there's hasnt been any good games to sink long hours in aside from your fantasy rollslops #312357

>>715392645
>praising of From as the savior of games
I've never seen this. All I see are people who only like DeS/DaS, or DS2 vs DS3 threads (where both sides are retards arguing over which turd is shinier). Nobody here gives a shit about Sekiro, Bloodborne was just console war shitposting, and Elden Ring is already forgotten.

>>715389458 (OP)
Camping is a valid strategy... what's wrong with it?

>>715389458 (OP)
hyperexposure to marketing and mass marketed material to the degree that they think it's good, which by definition it cannot be
whereas what's actually going on is that they literally don't have a sense of taste (it's also why they often inherently reject even trying genres that are niche)
it's why they dismiss any criticism of a thing with very simple descriptors like it's fun when you should be able to criticize things even if you enjoy them

>>715389631
If 2 decades of reheated shit isn't enough to repel normies and force them to play something of substance nothing will.
Most people are barely sentient anyway.

>>715391921
>No such thing has happened with Fromsoft yet and they're on their NINTH rehash of Demon's Souls
And it hasn't happened because the state of the modern games industry is one where everything has just been getting more and more shit. So in that context releasing the same good game nine times is something to be praised.

>>715392760
Sekiro and ER won the /v/GA GOTY of their years, how many COD games were ever even nominated for that?

>>715389458 (OP)
You have to understand, anon. Young people have been conditioned to be the perfect consumer. They question nothing and have fully tied consumption to virtue

>>715389458 (OP)
>Meanwhile in the last ~10 years there's been very little pushback to anything really, new COD equivalent series, predatory game design
Pretty sure most people here openly detest Fortnite. But if you mean in general, normies will be normies. The majority of people have been mindless, unquestioning consumers for as long as things have been advertised and sold. Peoples attitudes haven't changed, companies have just gotten greedier.

They were raised on dogshit and became acclimated to it. They won't ever develop taste. Our only hope is that AAA bites the dust, the next generation is raised on good games releasing in the aftermath and becomes even more hardcore in their hatred of garbage.

>>715389458 (OP)
Multiplayer Arena FPS games are the opposite of slop to be honest with you
>No cinematics
>No walking/talking sections
>No tutorials besides campaign
>No 20 minutes long horse rides to reach to fun
>No yellow paint pointing out where to shoot
>Pure gameplay in a condensed 15 minute long match
Why am I supposed to hate multiplayer FPS games again when most other singleplayer games are boring movies that wants me to waste my time to have fun? Not saying all SP games are bad, but MP FPS is honestly a better option nowadays.

>>715393078
If you take popularity contests seriously then I dunno what to tell you. Not everyone participates in those and some were botted to hell.

>>715393350
Soul poor games

>>715393335
>pic
That shit was so bizarre and hard for me to believe. People didn't even raise an eyebrow. Hell, some people were even excited to buy it.

>>715389979
if everyone was high iq then no one would feed in vidya so this is for the good of gamers everywhere

>>715393530
I agree most MP FPS games are soulless. Most of their soul was in their campaigns but even campaigns became formulaic and generic past PS360 era. They are still fun to play though. Battlefield 6 is practically only game I'm excited about.

>>715389458 (OP)
modern warfare 1 was actually an interesting game and the halo hate was unjustified

>cod thread turns into a tendie meltdown from not having Fromsoft games on their system
You guys really need a containment board.

>>715392337
>we abysmal dogshit slop consumers are wyte lol
?

People who have been voting with their wallet for over 25 years have realized there is no point in activism. The medium is dead.

>>715393368
Like I said here >>715392645 if you criticize From on /v/ these days you get shit like >>715393781 in response, even though I criticized the Nintendo From game here >>715391921

This image answers so much about so many problems posited on /v/ these days that it should just be pinned to the top of the board permanently

People age. Those kids 10 years ago are now past 18 and bring their experiences with them. Can't gatekeep a population replacing you without moderation.

>>715389458 (OP)
This is what all games have turned into now.

>>715392017
No reading comprehension.

>>715394072
Rangebanning the third world + restricting mobile posting would dramatically improve board quality.

>>715393972
You need to understand that their was a sctizo group causing shit in Souls threads for years, which have tainted any criticism of the franchise.

I can distinctly remember reading a post sometime in the late 2000's that was something like "/v/ will actually be dead when we start having nostalgia threads for Gaylo"

he was right

>>715393870
not white, dumb faggot, just not poor

>>715393335
As much as I hate gaming journalists now, there was a time they reported and helped push back on this shit. Like Capcom's on-disc DLC fiasco during the 7th gen.
Then they became useless, both to the publishers bribing them for scores and gamers wanting a proper voice. Combined with younger generations raised on smartphone gaming knowing nothing but MTX, watching ads and several layers of bullshit to try and convince them to pay money for convenience, and it's no surprise we're at where we are now.
Entire generations growing up, conditioned to MTX.

>>715394072
>>715394173
Can 3rd worlders even afford $70 + Battle pass+ tip? I agree banning them would improve things but I'm not sure if they're specifically responsible for this problem.

>>715394173
Which is why they will never do it.

>>715389458 (OP)
Zoomers have been conditioned to accept slop as the norm.
See gachas.

>>715389458 (OP)
I know FPS oldfags have a hateboner for Halo but I don't. I don't see it on the same level as CoD either. Also it had three good games in a trilogy and that was it.

>>715389458 (OP)
Yeah. Zoomers unironically love FOMO. One of the biggest reasons why Fortnite is one of the biggest preparators of FOMO is that their is vocal subsect of aging zoomies that have invested their 20's only playing Fortnite that throw an autistic fit at the slightest idea of older skins being brought back.

It's so bad, actual, literal Chinese gachas are more generous with their battle passes and FOMO shit and bring old shit back more then fucking Fortnite.

>>715389458 (OP)
i gave up when people accepted cosmetic microtransactions. in a few short years we went from horse armor being a major controversy that shook the game community to being something corporate cocksuckers would defend
>this game is okay actually, the microtransactions(price of an entire fucking game) are only cosmetic. at least it doesn't affect gameplay.

>>715394401
>Can 3rd worlders even afford $70 + Battle pass+ tip?
No, which is why they spam gacha threads instead.

>>715394554
It's not because Halo is bad per say, but because it brought console shooters into the mainstream and from then on all mainstream shooters had to be simple enough to be intuitively with a controller.

>>715394661
I gave up with the 7th gen when games were being simplified and dumbed down for the (then) current consoles in an attempt to appeal to a wider audience of people that don't actually like videogames. Going from high mobility shooters with vertical heavy stages to console shooters running at 30fps where you can't even fucking jump was disgusting.

>>715390667
The most similar thing to Halo the PC had prior was Unreal, which Halo blew out of the water in terms of presentation. CoD was an evolution of Medal of Honor which improved on it in basically every way, and finally captured the full war movie experience in a video game, then did it again a dozen times. And both series had great multiplayer modes, which did something the previous kings of multiplayer shooters, Unreal and Quake, hadn't done.

>>715394887
Fair enough but I played Halo CE on PC and that game's community did all the typical PC game shit back then like fucking around with modded maps, weapons, game modes, etc. And then Halo 3 brought these staples to consoles as best it could with Forge mode and it was great fun. Even up to CoD we still had dedicated servers and modded game modes on PC.
Really it was MW2 that fucked everything up when it forced its matchmaking lobbies into the entire multiplayer gaming space.

Does it really matter? Everyone who cares about this topic is never going to reproduce so its not like their opinions matter.

>>715395176
>up to CoD4*

>>715389458 (OP)
younger generations have been fucked by more tolerance BS psyops than you ever were
no shit they won't dog on you for liking trash

>>715389458 (OP)
I don’t play any of these “games” with a gun bobbing up and down. I know some of you fags don’t play anything else but it’s weird. Do you know how many Indians develop these “games”?

>>715394887
>had to be simple enough
they didn't HAVE to be but devs and publishers will take the path of least resistance and ape features in other games to pull in new customers
there's a reason why people remember halo and cod, its because the devs knew what they were doing when they implemented health regen, sprint, checkpoints, etc etc and all served those games well.

Nobody remembers the cod or halo killers for a reason they were all poorly designed

>>715389458 (OP)
It's shifted so badly I'd rather see kids be 1337 cod gamers again instead of masturbation zombies addicted to gacha slop

>>715389458 (OP)
There is absolutely nothing we could have done, no gate keeping or anything could have stopped the normies and their word of mouth from taking over videogames, especially the shooters

>>715389458 (OP)
Older generations didn't do enough. To be fair what could have been done? The reason why we're in the current industry situation is not because we didn't bully people enough it's because there were millions playing and funding this slop.

>>715397680
>and their word of mouth from taking over videogames, especially the shooters
you can have the best of both worlds in current year though
you have your boomer shooters, doom wads, and everything in between. We've left the dark ages of only doom clones or cod clones. While there are trends (battle royale and extraction nonsense) we have the most variety to be played at this moment.

>>715398179
Having a wider variety of slop isn’t a good thing. Give me a variety of GOOD games, more doesn’t matter if it all sucks

>>715398324
>more doesn’t matter if it all sucks
anon do you actually PLAY games? There are gems out there even if you hate AAA. I mostly play games a decade or two old and I still find enjoyment in more modern titles.
Don't be so negative and go and try new things, branch out of your genre norms perhaps. Its even easier now with piracy. play a game even if it looks just remotely interesting, you might find you like it more than you would've thought

>>715392179
There's a difference from releasing a game every single year for 22 years versus releasing 7 games over 16 years. Also no one complained when Mega Man did it.