The golden age of gaming.

I'm so fucking sick of nigger speak. Also those years were the slop age of gaming.

Remember in the early 2010s when all of these games were $1 during summer sales and everyone had em? Wonder why we don't see those discounts with older games anymore

>>716277049 (OP)
>call of duty/assassins creed/halo/uncharted/masseffect/gears/gow player pretends to have standards

>>716277049 (OP)
Only 3 of those games are good can /v/ guess which ones?

The golden age was 1997 to 2002

>>716277049 (OP)
The first goyslop era. Get some fuckin taste please.

>>716277049 (OP)
For multiplayer games. The best era was GCN/PS2.

>>716277127
>"I'm so fucking sick of nigger speak"
>uses the term "slop" unironically

>>716277180
Galaxy 2
Halo 3
HL2 EP2

>>716277365
Retard

>>716277049 (OP)
THE MOST NORMIEST TASTE IVE EVER SEEN

>>716277049 (OP)
the truth hurts, doesn't it /v/?

2007 was the last year where almost every new game felt original.

Assassin's Creed - brand new, original. Created a massive franchise that continues to this day.
Mass Effect - brand new, original, created a franchise.
Uncharted Drakes Fortune - had 3 highly successful sequels
Crysis - the most graphically impressive game of its time.
Bioshock - considered one of the greatest all time games.
Stalker - Another original game that created a cult following.

What is in common between all of these games? None of them were sequels, all of them were original ideas.

Even when you talk about other games from 2007 you had Halo 3, one of the biggest most hyped games of all time, CoD4, back when CoD was still respected and not just some massive slop franchise, SM Galaxy, possibly the best 3D Mario game rivaling 64, Prime 3, I think the witcher game out in 2007 too.

>>716277049 (OP)
wow, I actually beat all of those
I guess it was a good time to play vidya

>>716277295
>>716277350
here come the oldfags with their low poly / pixel grpahics

>>716277180
Demon's Souls
Demon's Souls
Demon's Souls

>>716278089
>franchise slop
Nah it was mid, cuh.

>>716277169
Cause of the refund policy, you can sell cheap if they couldn't refund at the time

>>716277049 (OP)
I hate white kids using nigger terms

>>716278536
bruh fr no cap 2007 wuz str8 bussin, bet on it senpai u got no drip, str8 delulu.

2007 has dat rizz, lit af and u lowkey cringe af. shit slaps

Truly the start of actual normieslop. There was no such thing as a "mainstream game for adults" before most of this absolute garbage.

>>716277049 (OP)
Nobody played witcher 1

>>716278420
Everything in the OP is dumbed down for normalgroids.

>>716277049 (OP)
Wow, that's a long list of 7/10 games

>>716278715
>>716278859
>making a game accessible is le... bad
Why? Are you unable to have fun with the games in the OP?
>>716278959
>contrarianism
All of those games were highly acclaimed

>>716279132
You're better off talking to a brick wall. You aren't going to get anything more complex than popular bad.

>>716279132
>Are you unable to have fun with the games in the OP?
Yeah. They're all boring casualized trash from the nadir of gaming when everything was trying to appeal to nongamers, with the one exception of Demon's Souls which I played hundreds of hours of over a decade ago.

>>716277049 (OP)
Probably my least favorite era of video games. Portal and Persona 4 were the only standouts.

>>716277365
slop is popularised from "goyslop" from /pol/tards thougheverbeit

>>716279480
>They're all boring casualized trash from the nadir of gaming when everything was trying to appeal to nongamers
Again, why is that bad thing? Why is only a certain type of video game allowed to exist?

>>716279697
>Why is only a certain type of video game allowed to exist?
This is the question every gamer was asking back then, you know as every single game was simplified and streamlined for retards.

peak era was ps2 times
>t. zoomer

>>716279948
It felt like the last era of games where they didn't maliciously beg for more and more of your money after you bought a game. It's a weird feeling playing them now and thinking "This is a 100% completed product."

>>716277180
demons souls
MGS4
dragon age origins

>>716277049 (OP)
>mgs 4
>starcraft 2
Both were huge let downs.

>All that slop
>All the actual good games aren't listed
1993 alone rapes this shit list

>>716280527
>there are people on this board who have only played mainstream braindead slop like this

Most zoomers on /v/ didnt play any of those games OP. they were like 3 years old when they came out

>>716280631
Yep, what's worse is that they're around my age in their mid late 20s while bitching about zoomers 24/7.

>>716280771
Good, they're mostly dumbed down AAA trash
zoomers have better stuff to play like Stardew Valley.

>>716280771
Gen Z is people born between 1997 and 2012. I was born in 1999 and played almost every game in the OP, although some time later.

All these generational labels are bullshit anyway. What do I, as a zoomer who grew up in a post-Soviet shithole commie block with T-34 statues on the streets, have in common with some kid born 5 years after the iPhone? Very little.

too much western shit in here

>>716277049 (OP)
Did younger millennials win bigly? I am 1994 born and played most of these on launch and they were formative for me. I still remember playing Me2 and FNV on launch. Pure unadulterated kino

>>716277049 (OP)
>worst period in gaming history
>underage faggots are trying to astroturf it was “the golden age”

>>716281212
There's this loud vocal minority of 7th Gen, usually 360 faggots who think their generation was the peak and that nothing else matters besides maybe early 8th Gen games until around 2015.

You have faggots like that unironically nostalgic for Destiny and Ride to Hell: Retribution

>>716277049 (OP)
FUCK this era
i grew up in the 6th gen of gaming thinking it was all it could ever be, and it was all i could ever want.
the release of the nintendo DS and the PS3 destroyed all that and marked the end of my childhood

>>716281308
1995 here, played most of those
Most of them were shit and dumbed down versions of better games from previous decades.

>>716277049 (OP)
Literally the worst era in video game history since 1983

>>716277180
>the
>witcher
>one

>>716277180
The Orange Box
Left 4 Dead
Demon Souls

>>716281814
You named 5 games. I think the orange box is the correct answer.

>>716277049 (OP)
Ah yes, the era of a million console FPS…
Kino!!!

>>716281967
i only played a small handful of those back then

>>716277049 (OP)
Out of all of those, I only like the Valve games. MGS4 and Mario Galaxy are good, but previous entries in those franchises are much better.

>>716277049 (OP)
This is exactly the time when I dipped out of playing new games. Now all I do is emulate and I've never been happier.

>>716281897
It counts as one to me. It's the first game I ever bought after building my first PC. Still got it on my shelf.

Actually 7 games if you count these as separate games.
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 2

>>716277049 (OP)
brown & bloom was not good

Zoomers didn't have a golden age

>>716282347
forgot pic

>>716282231
Pretty much, all I played was style over substance with the majority of those pieces of shit so I started finding new niches and playing older games.

Literally nothing but marketing, and dumbed down gameplay to appeal to retards, many of which still populate this board.

>>716277049 (OP)
>Demon's Souls
Only notable game right there

>>716282231
I got memed into buying the following bundles during a Steam Sale

Bioshock
Mass Effect
The Witcher
Dead Space

They sucked and I didn't bother playing thru the entire bundle except Dead Space, it was okay.

Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 I emulated and never finished. CoD MW 1 & 2 I bought when they came out, never bought another CoD because of too many hackers.

You made the right choice.

>>716282347
That’s 6, retard. Are you genuinely this stupid?

>>716282028
They were almost all utter dogshit made for absolute retards, you didn’t miss much

>>716283692
1. Half Life 2
2. Half Life 2: Episode 1
3. Half Life 2: Episode 2
4. Portal 1
5. Team Fortress 2
6. Left 4 Dead
7. Demon Soul's

>4 year span
You were in high school

>>716277049 (OP)
I think this retard meant to say 3rd-6th generation of gaming. 7th gen sucked.

>>716277049 (OP)
Jesus how times really got shitty as hell. Most games here or maybe even all of them are at least good.

>>716277049 (OP)
>Bingbingwahoo and Comsoleshooterslop
Actual nigger

>>716279132
Games were massively oversimplified just so that they could keep on pumping up the console audience with their weak processing power and dual analog inputs. There's a reason that so many genres like immersive sims, stealth games, etc. just died in the 2000s and it's due to these restrictions.
Ultimately the only playable version of a game being on PC didn't matter if the consoletards would simply continue to eat up the worst versions, so after 2007, they just stopped developing the best versions of games and uniformly made every game the worst version.
>>716279595
>/pol/tards
>Not being 102% African with a 2% margin of error

>>716277350
This console was just a Guardian Heroes machine for me. Played the hell out of that game. Even got the remaster for Xbox. Between the two versions of the game I've been it dozens of times. Real shame that sequel on GBA was so garbage in comparison.

>>716278859
>driving mech around at 10fps using a couple attacks is le uber hardcore deep game
lmao shut the fuck up retard

>>716279697
God I'm getting such insane deja vu. Been having this same retarded argument with people online for 20+ years. I should kill myself.

>>716281529
It's sad how right before that we were playing games like Resident Evil 4, THPS, Sly 2, Kingdom Hearts, Thousand Year Door, Wario Land 4, whatever else you wanna list, and thinking "wow, the future is now, imagine how many great games like this I'll get to play every year for the rest of my life!"

>>716277049 (OP)
I don't think so but it was a LOT better than it is now. Multiplayer gaming was a lot more fun.

>>716277049 (OP)
Funny how 7th gen kick started so much cancer in the industry that fags wants to call this shit retro
I'm begging to think they want to replace actual retro gaming discussions with their slop to show they were "peak" or has a "legacy"

>>716287718
Right now is way better than 7th gen. We still have the same cancer we had back then but people are making more niche shit now. Love it or hate it not every game now is annual mass-marketed slop as was the case in 7th gen.

>>716278089
/v/ actually likes asscreed now huh

>>716277180
Halo 3
Mass Effect
Bad Company 2

>>716278514
>>716280403
>>716281814
>Shit Souls
>Anything but mediocre
nu/v/ was a mistake

>>716277049 (OP)
No 2004-2007 was the golden age

>>716292614
>nu/v/
/v/ has loved Demon's Souls (2009) since its release, you retarded spook.

>>716277049 (OP)
cod4, codmw2, uncharted, gtaiv, fallout 3, ac2 and red dead redemption are GOATED

>>716294348
the face of neo/v/

>>716294910
i'm older than you, smarter than you, and more sexier than you
cope

>>716277049 (OP)
5 years ago
>gaming went to shit in 2007
now
>omg 2007 was golden era of videogames
zoomers are fucking hilarious

>>716278089
>2007 was the last year where almost every new game felt original.
>bioshock - a dumbed down version of system shock
>mass effect - a dumbed down KOTOR
>crysis - a tech demo
>assassins creed - a REALLY dumbed down open world prince of persia.

honestly i like a lot of games that came out around this time, but there was also so so much slop. unlike the gens after it however i can think of at least 5 good games from it.

>>716279595
It came from /ck/ you tourist.

>>716277049 (OP)
This era SUCKED ass, one of the worst overall gaming eras.
Golden Age was 91 to roughly 2001.

>>716277049 (OP)
there are 6 good games in that grid. there were lots more very, very good games in that period that are up there with the absolute best, but only 6 games in that grid can remotely be called "good".

>>716277049 (OP)
Bump