Thread 717945102

Was 2007 the best year for gaming?

>>717945102 (OP)
It was the tail end of the golden age which began in the 80s and ended around 2011

>>717945102 (OP)
>Crysis
>Uncharted
These looked good but they weren't that good games. Crysis does play well but it's way too short.

CoD, Assassin's Creed & Halo were always normieslop, get that shit out of there.

>slap
i hope whoever made this dies.

>>717945102 (OP)
why does every zoomer meme feel soulless, like it was designed by committee or something?

That's literally when everything died. Absolutely fucking grim

stalker and the witcher are good, the rest is slop especially shit like halo

>>717945102 (OP)

Not even close. Better than current year though.
Best year for gaming is probably 1992 or 1998.

>>717945102 (OP)
1996
>Resident Evil
>Quake
>Tomb Raider
>Donkey Kong Country 2
>Diablo
>Super Mario 64
>Duke Nukem 3D
>Command & Conquer: Red Alert
>Metal Slug
>Crash Bandicoot
>Daggerfall
>Civilization II
>Street Fighter Alpha 2
>Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
>Killer Instinct Gold
>The Neverhood
>PaRappa the Rapper
>Master of Orion II
>Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
>Strife
>Heroes of Might and Magic II
>Twisted Metal

>>717945102 (OP)
I've played all of those games and most of it is garbage I'll never touch again, nor their sequels. Almost everything in there are like some fucking experimental tech demos.
There are games from the 90's and early 2000's that are leagues better than anything listed.
Jersey Devil, Sheep Dog 'n' Wolf, Medievil 1 & 2, Speed Freaks, Werewolf the Last Warrior, Syphon Filter, Driver 1 & 2, Shadow Gunner, Armored Core, Jumping Flash, Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, Tomba 1 & 2, Disney's Hercules, Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, Time Crisis, Crisis Beat, Dino Crisis, Silent Bomber, Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Rayman 1 & 2, SOTN, Crash Trilogy etc.

>>717948301
No, the world ended in 2012

>>717947918
isn't this literally just a twitter screenshot?

>>717945102 (OP)
>1/3rd of the titles are the orange box
best release ever

>>717945102 (OP)
2004 will still never be topped

>>717948550
i've only played re, super mario, and quake out of that list and im 30
ur gettin old unc

>>717949335
fixed, stop trying to bait the zooms into playing dogshit

>>717948784
Nice list of absolute fucking shit. MML is about the only one that's actually good

>>717945102 (OP)
yeah and no
best year was like 1998 or any year before 05 lol

>>717945102 (OP)
Halo 3 was the last hurrah of white civilization

>>717948550
Hey, that's my birth year.

Metal Slug, Crash Bandicoot, DKC2 are good. Diablo, RA1, RE1 are decent. Don't really care about the rest. Pretty weak year honestly.

>>717949335
There's a lot of good games there but their total runtime would be less than ONE playthrough of FF7R2 which is also a good game
>inb4 FF7R2 bad
Shhhh

>>717945102 (OP)
All of these games are shit besides Mahhryo, Team Fortress 2 and God Of War II
Portal is fine but it's a 40min tech demo so I wouldn't count it as a game.

>>717945102 (OP)
1/4

>>717949795
2/4

>>717949861
3/4

>>717949930
4/4

>>717949991
>>717949930
>>717949861
>>717949795
consensus: /v/ has shit taste

that 90's list especially is TERRIBLE.

The only games I played from that image were Mario galaxy and wow. And I don’t mean at the time I mean ever.

>>717945102 (OP)
>acting like anyone actually played redditcher before 3

>>717945102 (OP)
No because these were ass also some of these are from 2006

>>717945102 (OP)
1998 and 2001 mog any other year

1997, 2004, 2007, and 2011 were the best years for gaming

>>717950053
I'd like to see a revote since these were almost five years ago, but it's probably a pain in the ass to organize

I cleaned it

>>717945102 (OP)
2004

>>717952809
None of this stuff was relevant in 2007

>>717952849
>thing happens
>full effects are not felt until years later
WHAT LE FUCK????

>>717952932
Then the image shouldn't be titled the year the Internet went to shit if the Internet didn't go to shit that year.

>>717945284
What more do you expect from a tech demo?

>>717952559
literally the worst games in that image lol

>>717954518
Ok squeaker

>>717945102 (OP)

All shit and soulless

Golden era of gaming was between 1990 and 2006
Everything between 2006 and Dark souls 1 was shit

>>717953370
>Crysis
All they had to do was make more of the jungle areas for the game.
>Uncharted
Literally anything more than just Berzerk for the gameplay loop. The sequel is already a pretty good improvement and probably why someone put the first game on there as well.

>>717945102 (OP)
all of these games suck

>>717945102 (OP)
>Randian System Shock ripoff
>brown and bloom shooter
>Good game (1)
>PLEASE PAY MONEY TO PLAY THE ONLINE MODE SINCE MY SINGLE PLAYER IS HALF BAKED AND BORING SHIT THAT'S OVER IN A SINGLE AFTERNOON
>carpel tunnel simulator
>mr gay
>tech demo
>genuinely terrible gameplay and I'm surprised ND let this franchise exist
>literally does not have an ending
>Good Game (2)* (*killed the company)
>The beginning of the end
>Same shit as before
>episodic shit with no ending
>tricked everyone into believe space operas were boring as sin loredumps with no characters or EMOTIONS
>probably alright, I don't play metroid
>Good game (3)
>skateboarding games were always bad
>Crackdown was always bad
>unless you knew a guy that liked doing the mic and another who liked the drums, this game was functionally identical to GH
>Good game (4) but nobody here actually believes that because nobody here finished it
>nobody liked wow except wowfags

>>717957264
>it's subdued and the execution is not great which means it has no EMOTIONS
>also I dropped it before reaching the 20 minute mark so I only remember the loredumps
>I also have Alzheimer's so I completely forgot that is also has characters (which were dumping the lore in those 20 minutes but, you know, Alzheimer's)
Sad.

>>717945102 (OP)
jokes aside some of those games are pretty decent

>>717945284
Crysis is good just not a masterpiece or anything. Arguably it's historically significant, even.

>>717957586
>>it's subdued and the execution is not great which means it has no EMOTIONS
Most Bioware games lack emotions and the majority of their characters come off as sexually active robots.

>>717948550
1996-7 was the peak of 20th century media full stop.

>>717945102 (OP)
I prefer 2004, one of nintendos best years and it was before realism was taken too far.

>>717958201
The 21st century peaked very early on, the 2010s onwards has been a trainwreck.

>>717958084
What are your examples of that aspect done right?

>>717952559
>crackdown of all fucking things

>>717945102 (OP)
2007 felt like the longest year of my life
Not because it was bad, I just felt every agonizing hour of the wait for Halo 3 in my 12 year old bones. I treated that game like the second coming.

>>717945102 (OP)
>slap this hard
I hate zoomers more than you can possibly imagine

>>717945102 (OP)
Stalker is great, liked witcher when i was a kid and world of warcraft too
Rest of those games suck

>>717945487
ok unc

>>717945102 (OP)
i hate "slap" used like that but then i remember that it MUST be a reference for violence towards women. so it becomes a little cooler.

i mean what else do you slap. men? no you punch men. asses? well you don't really slap men's asses if you're normal, so again, against women.

touche zoomies, touche

>>717948550
meh
1998 mogs that hard

>>717959902
Cope, 2007 was kino

>>717945102 (OP)
Portal and TF2 are the only games on here that I've played, and I didn't like TF2.

>>717952559
>witcher 1 (the single player mmo) was released 2007
no way. and witcher 3 was 10 years ago... no wonder the company is completely different now

>>717949476
>t. todd howard

>>717945102 (OP)
It was the end of the golden age of the US and Japan and the beginning of the end that led us here. Now a new golden age will commence for the US and Japan.

Daily reminder that there are no legitimate reasons to dislike Halo or Bioshock.

>>717945102 (OP)
Mogged by eldenring

>>717961429
i cant remember the story of either of those games now

My mom talks like a "gamer" to relate to me since she started playing wow in 07 and I've just never had the heart to tell her all her lingo is specific to her terrible chatroom with dailies and I haven't played a game with vc since halo 3

>>717961429
Only the first Halo game is good just like only the first Star Wars movie is good. Understand?

>slap this hard
What kind of man communicates like this?

ITT

>>717945284
First half of Crysis on Delta if you actually use suit powers is pretty damn fun. If you just sit in camo all day playing it like a stealth shooter it's meh.

>Fall 2007
>Waking up in your freshmen college dorm room and ditching class to play Halo 3 online on your cutting edge 720p plasma TV
>Turning on your Sirius XM radio and hearing:
>"But enough of this palaver, let's get the show on the road!"
>*DOOOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEE DOOOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEE DOOOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEE DOOOOOO DEEEEEEEEEEE* *drum solo*
>"Good morning everyone. Got Patrice O'Neal in the studio, with Colin Quinn. Got a great show for you today. Col, you look tired man, what's up?"

>>717952559
Crackdown over halo 3? Why?

>>717962156
I remember skipping chemistry in college because it was too fucking cold outside, just played tf2 and then looked at the textbook later. Still got an A in class.

>>717950053
>offers no games in response
Thanks for shitting up another thread faggot!

>>717961429
There's a legitimate reason to dislike Halo after Halo CE just like there's a legitimate reason to dislike Gears of War.

>>717962076
Except everyone older than faggot zoomzooms agree that new shit is disgustingly bad. Cope some more numale.

>>717957740
It was significant because it was a game no one could run. Now every AAA game is like that

>>717961429
It's just tendies who got bulled by XCHADS at school and never recovered.

>>717962950
So you agree with him? What is he coping about?

>>717962950
What's the difference between a numale, a hipster and a sōyboy????

>>717963012
1950-2010 is when things were at least acceptable. Now it's just all terrible and nothing but remakes of "le nostalgia" games from when games were actually good.

>>717963121
Wow, what a unique and valuable opinion you have.

>>717945487
Those darn whipper snappers

>>717962076
I prefer classical music and a significant number of the books I've enjoyed most were written at least a decade before I was born. Movies and shows are much more spread out in time but quite a few are from after 2000.
Strawmen are always retarded, that much is true.

>>717949991
This one has to be bait.

>>717962076
Get better bait.

>>717963551
Everything you disagree with isn't bait.

>>717963596
Why? He caught your stupid ass with it.

>>717963551
fucking anti nintendo bigot

>>717945208
It ended in 2015 with games like Bloodborne, batman Arkham Knight, dying light, witcher 3, just cause 3.


Even mid games in 2015 included mgs5, splatoon,undertale, rocket legue, Mario Maker, fallout 4, rainbow six siege, until dawn, life is strange.

>>717945102 (OP)
It was the beginning of the end.
The 00s died that year, slop took over.

ayoooooo the unc years be slapping fr

>>717963121
>1950-2010
lmao i remember old /v/ saying gaming went to shit in the early 2000s and SNES was the best era

>>717963850
No you don't.

>we used to have so many outstanding games you couldn't afford to play them all each year
>they weren't just obscure hidden gems, most were very mainstream and the equivalent of AAA games at the time
>now we're lucky if there are even 3-5 good games in a year, regardless of team size or budget
>last year was so miserable that one of the best "games" of the year was DLC for a game that came out 2 years prior

Games were universally good until 2007, this is when the split happened with Microsoft being on the shit side while Sony was on the good side. 2015 was the last year of the good side of gaming before everything went to shit in terms of AAA starting in 2016 on up. Nintendo stepped in to save console gaming again in 2017 with the Switch while Valve was saving PC gaming and by 2022, Valve finally releases the Steam Deck. Now Nintendo and Valve are ready to bring a new golden age to gaming with the Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 while PlayStation and Xbox die in real time.

>>717945102 (OP)
>Slap this hard
Kys

>>717963937
Look up archives newfag, board back then did not take kindly to 2010 games

>>717963850
Anyone saying that was a contrarian. The early 2000s was loaded.

>>717964003
That isn't what you said, first of all. Second of all, you weren't there.

>>717945102 (OP)
shit game, shit game, normalfag game, shit game, shit game, tendie game, shit game
shit game, good game, meme game for retards, shit game, shit game, shit game, shit game
shit game, shit game, shit game, shit game, shit game, shit game, shit game.

Good year if you are a turd muncher, for sure.

>>717963961
It's so rigged bro I'm fucken a dude bro

>>717963703
Fallout 4 was absolute shite.

>>717963727
2007-2008 were peak 2000s, what are you talking about?

>>717964061
And then you get people like this retard.

>>717964043
Keep trying to lie to yourself champ, everyone was whining about 2006 onwards as the brown and grey era but now thats soul cause you were a kid back then!

>>717964297
No one hated Super Mario Galaxy or STALKER

>>717964297
>early 2000s
>everyone hated 2010
>everyone hated everything after 2006
Why can't you keep your story straight?

>>717964042
Aw yes the polar express everyone loved that back then, doom 3 too the board loved the reinvention to horror. And halo yeah old board didn't call it babbies first FPS

>>717962076
Culture and society has been dwindling since the 1920s at the very least. Every generation is correct in realizing that everything is much worse for the younger generation but wrong in believing everything peaked in their era. As far as video games goes it absolutely peaked around the 90s-00s

>>717964380
Is 2010 not after 2006? Hell you can go back farther and find other message boards complaining about their current state of games

>>717964412
1920-2012 was literally the golden age of culture and I'm not exaggerating. Aside from historical events of course but there are always bad stuff happening in the world.

>>717964496
Okay, but you weren't there either.
Obviously "old good new bad" has always been a thing. But the only thing I called out was you not being there. You made the rest up.

>>717945323
>We are now 10 year past that scene
Really makes one think.
Wonder how society will actually look in 2077 and how many posts there will be about how it is actually so much more boring than that 60 year old game predicted.

>>717964496
People have always whined about new stuff. When Spongebob came out in 1999 there were people complaining about it, but now the first three seasons of Spongebob are almost universally considered some of the best stuff ever made for TV.

>>717961429
halo is slow as shit and the second half of the campaign is the first half in reverse

>>717962076
wonder what art form people will think is peaking today? maybe the design of the in-game shops in always-online single player games?

>>717945102 (OP)
Stacked.

>>717964601
>But the only thing I called out was you not being there
Right im sure you somehow know my life, youre free to look up archives to see what they thought back then

>>717964840
I don't need to look up archives like you do.

>>717963961
saving this bro

>>717964840
You were watching Gordon the Garden Gnome on Tickle-U while we were discussing how awesome the state of vidya was.

>>717948550
>doesn't mention pokemon for some reason

>>717964893
You do since you got the false impression that 2010 era was beloved here, im guessing 2011 is when your life went downhill

>>717964968
Pokemon's heyday in the west started in 1998.

>>717964975
>You do since you got the false impression that 2010 era was beloved here
I literally never said that or even implied it.
As I said, you're making this up. This is the argument you cling to because I called you out.

>>717964958
Ok show the catalog looked like in 2010
spoiler alert: a lot of complaining about games at the time

I don't want to single out a best year, but it was definitely a good one.

>>717965047
See
>>717963121
Hard to follow a chain of replies?

>>717948550
Another excellent choice! 98 was pretty good as well.

>>717965138
I'm responsible for arguments I didn't make?
Interesting.

3 of my favorites that I still enjoy came out in 1998.

Metal Gear Solid
Resident Evil 2
Mega Man Legends

>>717945102 (OP)
>>717949335
You can really tell when these things are made retroactively by people who didn't even play the games at the time. The witcher and red dead revolver where considered insignificant, and still are pretty much bad games they're just revisited by completionists after their series got popular, through a change of formula mind you.

>>717965178
Then don't but in twat

>>717965305
>mixed up two different conversations
>can't keep his story straight
>makes up arguments
This is sad.

>>717964507
Culturally what did we produce from that time frame and why does it stand out historically?

>>717965397
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
The Beatles
Michael Jackson
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Lord of the Rings
Silent Hill 2

Fuck Halo 2 on up and fuck Gears of War bringing regenerative health to shooters and Gears bringing cover to third person shooter. These games ruined FPSs and TPSs for many years before the problem was fixed. I'll give Gears points to at least having proper boss fights compared to Halo which didn't get them until Infinite.

>>717965354
Story is straight, old /v/ hated the games of their era like you hate the current one. Nothing changed and youre just jaded old man

You just can't accept that

>>717960000
quints and not a single check in almost 2 hrs, 4chan has changed

>>717965549
>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
>Silent Hill 2
So 2 outdated games

>>717965661
that's quads and who gives a shit

>>717965646
>he repeats my own argument back to me
So fucking weird.

>>717965726
>who gives a shit
oldfags would have cared

>>717965661
Yeah, I wonder what caused anons to stop checking them on almost all boards. No, I actually know why.

>>717965726
>he cant make an argument at all, only thing said is nuh uh you weren't there
Lmao

>>717962959
lol

>>717962076
Music was clearly going to shit when I was growing up
Vidya was clearly going to shit after I left highschool

>>717966146
Hey my dad said the same thing! You must be in the same class

>>717965183
Mega Man Legends was 1997 in Japan

>>717945102 (OP)
oh yeah back when multiple fun games used to come out every year

>>717966319
came out in 1998 in the country that matters

>>717963961
remember when game franchises were a thing? there hasn't been a new one in 15+ years. every new IP is either a one-off game or gets a single sequel 5+ years later and dies off because people forgot about it by then

>>717964236
Log of shit devourer.

Which console that was available in 2007 would the gamer who hated the Wii, hated the Nintendo DS, hated PC gaming, hated Steam, and has the most anti-Nintendo and anti-PC console of all have had?

>>717967675
that only leaves you with the 360 or the psp. ps3 was a punchline at that point in time

>>717967675
Xbox 360 and PS3?

>>717967748
Reasons why the PSP (Playstation Portable) would have been the console of 2007 that the gamer who rejected Nintendo and refused to play on PC would have had?

>>717967675
The 360 smashed the ps3 early in its life, and I'd like to say it was the cell processor that nobody knew how to use (I just remember "the power of the cell"), and that hardly changed.

>>717948818
Truth nvke

>>717967934
For other reasons, the XBOX 360 would be the seventh generation console I'm looking for?

>>717968049
f you are looking for one now, get a PS3 ended up with a much larger library than 360 and is apparently pretty easy to hack according to a mate.

>>717968113
What games for Playstation 3 And XBOX 360 do you recommend?
>Games without fairies
>Games without magic
>Games without magical creatures
>Games that are completely anti-Nintendo
>Realistic games
>Games set in believable and realistic worlds
>Anti-Pokemon games
>Franchises and genres that are very unpopular on PC
>Games with anti-Nintendo aesthetics

>>717968259
>Games without fairies
I haven't seen this one in awhile, and honestly would of forgotten it completely without the first line.

>>717968363
I want to avoid at all costs any shit that reminds me of the damn Fairy type from Pokemon. I also want to avoid games with Pokemon's cute and anime aesthetic.

>>717947918
Because they're usually made with some easy access template app or website. 99.9% of zoomers are "app" dependent, they didn't live through the days where you use paint to slap image files together and they never turned that into after effects or photoshop usage skills.
The ones who CAN use those programs are incredible at them, but it was never a common skill for them like for some oldfags.

>>717947918
They started with the PlayStation and Xbox, the two soulless consoles aimed to destroy both console and PC gaming.

>>717964968
Pokemon was never good.