Thread 718596383

At what age and point in history did you realize you were no longer the intended, target audience for video-games anymore?

>>718596383 (OP)
I am though, just not AAA but I never was because that shit is for dorks.

fippy bippy

>>718596383 (OP)
there are still games made for me.

>>718596383 (OP)
When I was born. I looked straight at my mama on the hospital bed and said to her "I am no longer the intended, target audience for video-games."

I don't really identify with a "demographic" or "audience". I like some games made today and don't like others. Same now as it was before.

>>718596383 (OP)
It is only in the modern day that indie devs have started catering to my incredibly autistic niches

>>718596383 (OP)
the only target audience for "video-games" in the broad general is people willing to spend money, which has never been me

around 2010

>>718596383 (OP)
Why does the new KOTH lack any tact? I knew it was gonna have more left leaning messaging, but the writers still knew how to be subtle, witty and create something that was still funny to people that were apolitical or didn't share the same political beliefs.

>>718596383 (OP)
When they started making slop like:
Assassin's Creed 1
Mass Effect 2
Bioshock 1
Borderlands 1
Resident Evil 6
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Ninja Gaiden 3 Vanilla (lol,lmao even, what a fucking disaster)
GTA IV
Final Fantasy 13
Far Cry 4
Dead Rising 2
and many, many other piece of shit abominations of the 360/PS3 era

the only time you were the target audience is when you werent a gamer
the idea has always been to get more and more customers
that means trying to attact more and more people by appealing to more and more generalized markets
it was over before it even began

>>718597650
serialized + lazy animation

>>718596383 (OP)
>Instead of 98% of main characters being straight. Men, it's only 85%! This is LITERALLY white genocide.

>>718596383 (OP)
I'm the intended target audience of good games

>>718596383 (OP)
I'm still enjoying games. See the thing is when you were a kid you didn't have all these preconceived notions about how things have to be, you just enjoyed things for what they were. You can still enjoy videogames just as much as you used to, but you'll have to learn how to be more open to new experiences to do that.

>>718596383 (OP)
Wait a thread about ME? Omg guys let's all post about OURSELVES and when they stopped making games for US duuuude we're like a collective of counter culture resistance brooo hyuh fr fr bussin bussin no cap this board just GETS me on god ahh fr fr we all fit in don't we guys?

dude "dad games" is a whole genre now. games stopped being for kids a long time ago. they will make games for you when you're elderly

Watching a video game show and hating and nitpicking how terrible every trailer or teaser they show is. I am excited for no games.

>>718598092
>dude "dad games" is a whole genre now.
yeah maybe if youre a faggot redditor

>>718597650
If your talking about the Red Pill episode its because it was written by a Velma writer.

>>718596383 (OP)
Meanwhile average gamer:
-racist
-anti-semite
-misogynist
-dislikes faggots

>>718598249
Is any of this supposed to be bad?

>>718596383 (OP)
when i was 28. i've been playing less and less AAA games every year since then and now mostly just emulate old stuff, play indies and play some porn games on steam.

>>718598498
No, but not a single gaming company is pandering to them.
Point being, there is no "target audience", Neo.

2010, when the only games coming out were CoDs of War clones. Everything is better now, gaming was saved!

>>718597087
this
imagine thinking you were ever the target audience for Concord or Dustborn, even blacks would say "I'd rather be a glowie plant than a Dustborn fan"

>2007
Target audience for video games: gamers
>2025
Target audience for video games: oddly jewish financial firms, U.S. intelligence agencies, political thinktanks, domestic propaganda departments

>>718597650
What exactly did you think was tactless?

>>718596383 (OP)
Sometime between 2012 and 2015.

>>718596383 (OP)
The moment they started to appeal to a "wider demographic"

Video Games were made for bored adults in the business and military sector before they became profitable to children. If you're not the target audience, you're playing trash like Fortnite and Roblox. You also made this thread specifically to post King of the Hill instead of talk about video games, so go fuck yourself.

>>718598574
>modern gaming companies dont use the term customers, fans, or audience in a truthful way. they instead rely on the term "consumer". it fits better at what they are trying to accomplish in this industry and helps alleviate any stockholder concern. customers complain and have rights consumers only mindlessly consume and protect their brands. much like the average nigg, Neo.

>>718596383 (OP)
15 years old when cover shooters and RPGs became hot shit in the 360 generation

>>718596383 (OP)
vidya didnt outgrow you, you outgrew vidya

>>718598875
nah, videogames degrew because they are being developed by lazy childish Californians now

>>718596383 (OP)
Who is the target audience for Gary Grigbys War in the East 2?

The murder of Joanna Dark was when I knew the gaming crash was imminent and inevitable

>>718596383 (OP)
I've never been the intended, target audience for any media.

>>718599231
I have no idea what this is and I play video games every single day, new ones too

>>718596383 (OP)
No one is the target audience for vidya games anymore because they're made for some imaginary modern audience

>>718599231
good news is that game got canned

>>718599375
>>718599138

>>718597650
>people really thought a woke reboot of a 90s sitcom show with writers from Velma or other bad shows was going to be watchable
I stopped halfway through, between the Connie/Bobbie NTR story arc and Hank being bombarded by multicultural brainrot I could not take anymore. Then you had the animators saying “it doesn’t look good because we lost the technology to make it good!” I hope it gets cancelled like Animaniacs, Tiny Toons and Futuramas reboots.

>>718596383 (OP)
sometime during obama admin. Maybe 2012ish

When Nicki Minaj was added to call of duty and mother fuckers actual bought it

>>718596383 (OP)
Never, I will consume tendie games until I die.

>>718599412
the bad news is that the IP is still owned by people who don't care about it.

>>718596383 (OP)
as long as I have disposable income I am always the intended target audience unless they are completely retarded.

>>718597368
I don't identify as identifying

>>718599425
It's not ntr if Robert and Connie aren't dating and haven't seen each other in years

>>718598654
can confirm this and op is a nigger

>>718596383 (OP)
>Still a gullible idiot
I'm the right target audience, but I'm the wrong market.
Video game publishers aren't looking at video game buyers, they're looking at investors, advertisers and governments who can provide the exponential, inflation secured funds that a small niche fanbase can't.

>>718599425
How do you just lose technology? Disneys Atlantis was less retarded than this.

>>718597650
Was a literal faggot crossdresser acceptance episode subtle to you?

>>718596383 (OP)
I just finished this last night. honestly i was pleasantly suprised, especially after all the bitching here. If you opinion on this was not
>its sucks, simply is not funny
Or
>its decent, on par with later seasons koth
Then you did not watch the show and just wanted to rage bait with out of context screenshots

Definitely a good reminder today when i hopped in cohhcarnages stream for that new vampire masquerade game. Shit was a fever dream. Horrible experience.

>>718599778
No idea but we’ll reach a point where later generations wont know how to do anything.

>>718596383 (OP)
19 when I started college. games are made for midwits.

23

>>718600304
That's a cop out, its not that the tools don't exist anymore, tis that nobody bothered to teach the newer animators how to use them since methods like hand drawn have become part of a hobbyists domain.

>>718599675
Might as well be when you forcibly pair him with a whore. Her dating chane would have been fine, the enm makes her radioactive. I have no fucking idea why they would think anyone would want Connie and Bobbie back k together after something like that. Unless they plan to retcon it that Connie didn't do shit then she is fucked as a character.

>>718596383 (OP)
Would say around the ps3 era, just an onslaught of movie-games and extreme hand-holding to appeal to a general audience with 10 iq

I don't think i've bought a brand new game in 20 years, and never pre-ordered shit, none of their scummy tactics work on me cause i'm stingy and patient as fuck
the nostalgia-bait slop is especially disgusting and I wish they would leave the classics alone, in the past when they were good

>>718597650
What are you talking about little bro? It has great reviews and people can't stop talking about it. It got a 10/10 from IGN

>>718596383 (OP)
Recently with the System Shock 2 Remaster
>never played SS2 before
>download and start playing
>played it twice back to back and debating a third time
>was more fun, immersive, and had better refined mechanics
Older games were simply better and I cannot get into new games at all.

>>718596383 (OP)
In 2003 or so. I was 20. With the release of the Xbox the game industry started catering to western college dudebros.

>>718598656
Which is why they bash China games all the time, amd i remember the pearl clutching outrage against Atomic Heart too right before release, when that game was much ado about nothing.

>>718596383 (OP)
2011 when I was 10 and started using 4chan
Kirby's Epic Yarn and Pokemon Black are the first games I remember dropping halfway through

>>718601298
Don't forget, China is going to collapse any day now.

>>718600606
On the job training is so bad now that even blue collar trades jobs are asking for a 2 year degree.

I got turned on by the vegan girl taking a shit. I have a new fetish now.

>>718596383 (OP)
When I was told the PS1 was this ebin super hot thing and I thought 3D games were meh and famicom games were better.

>>718599502
She was only reason to launch the game

>>718599778
>>718600304
Guilty Gear Xrd was made with Softimage. Softimage was acquired by Autodesk and discontinued a few years later.
Graphical design software is constantly at the mercy of companies like Adobe and Autodesk.
In a lot of cases the explanation really is as simple as "the tools are no longer available".

>>718597650
Truth time, most people online are just saying this because of the Good Hank episode. That episode, while it ends with Hank using a less than ideal explanation of "the lesson", was still a good watch.
Best episode of the season however was Bobby Gets Grilled, I felt that was as close to a classic King of the Hill episode as you're ever going to get and I think it contends for a lot of other good episodes from the original run.

>>718599502
>>718602627
this
why the actual niggersneed you'd ever want to boot up modern CoD is beyond me because without the coom appeal what is even left?

>>718596383 (OP)
When 360 is being considered retro, yeah, these zoomers who mis-use speech such as retro/vintage and old tech/modern tech, we lost it all man. If the console is 20 years old or older then yeah, its a retro console, retro meant anything before 2000s release, non HD-Graphics back in the day.

>>718597087
I don't think AAA is the target audience for anyone honestly

>>718596383 (OP)
When the developers told me themselves. Aside from Obsidian, every developer that told me that is out of the industry now.

If these games aren't for me then who are they for?
https://youtu.be/-Pg9Kft2vUg
https://youtu.be/zHeJBfqf9d4
https://youtu.be/S7yVXR54wlM
https://youtu.be/IKtdt83xAvA
Feels like I have a pretty go variety of upcoming games to play. What do people even want?

>>718596383 (OP)
Seeing the pivot to popularizing open world slop design. Yeah, the increasingly linear and cinematic design of games at the tail-end of Gen 7 sucked, but at least those were deliberately crafted experiences. I'm so sick of repetitive "junk food" sandbox gameplay.

In particular: seeing what Nintendo did with Tears of the Kingdom, especially with Aonuma's comments about it, actually fucking broke me. It's totally unrecognizable as a Zelda game.

>>718596383 (OP)
when everyone started getting fired for making shit games

>>718603294
>pretty go
*good

>>718602890
Technically the Xbox and 360 were retro consoles when they came out, since consoles had been left behind by home PCs sometime in the late 90s and early 2000s, so they were retro in the sense that they were trying to maintain an older trend, even if that older trend wasn't really that old.
By extension all modern consoles are retro, despite being completely new.
Only indie PC games pretending to be late 90s and early 2000s PC games are really modern.

>>718603485
That's post-modern you cuck. Modern was 2000-2010s.

>>718602890
360 launched 20 years ago this November
So, soon?

>>718596383 (OP)
after pic related

>>718596383 (OP)
>At what age and point in history did you realize you were no longer the intended, target audience for video-games anymore?
that's a stupid thing to say. games are not made for everyone, but you can make the case that some games lose sight of who they are made for, like with dragon age the new one for obvious reasons, or yakuza 7 & 8 because they turned into turn-based RPGs as opposed to the classic brawler gameplay. if your response to this is "that's what i'm saying" then fucking say that next time instead of this "boo hoo not every game is advertised towards me" bullshit

>>718596383 (OP)
Korean games still cater to me like it always did 20 years ago.

>>718596383 (OP)
>At what age and point in history did you realize you were no longer the intended, target audience for video-games anymore?

There is no age limit. It all comes down to salary cap.

>>718597794
>he thinks it will stop there
These people don't want accurate demographics. They want revenge for "everyone in fiction being a straight white male for most of human history"

>>718596383 (OP)
Sometime years ago when gachashit became an accepted way to play games and not just a retard money trap.

>>718600606
>nobody bothered to teach the newer animators how to use them since methods like hand drawn have become part of a hobbyists domain.
richard williams lamented this in some memoir i can never fucking find; it was an anecdote about how he gave a talk at some school of art and was hounded by the students for any help on how to animate because their professors weren't actually teaching them anything useful

2013 probably

>>718596383 (OP)
when people started paying a fee to connect their consoles to the internet that they already paid for.

>>718603752
Yes, here's who/what to blame:
> Fromslop. (Destroyed creativity.)
> Gachaslop. (Destroyed profitability.)
> Live Service Slop. (Destroyed fun.)
> Skill Based Matchmaking. (Negated rewards for skill of owning scrubs in a casual lobby.)
> Hackers/Cheaters not being banned and opposing voices silenced.
The solution would've been simple SBMM for ranked and casual side of things wouldn't have such thing.

>>718600912
>remaster
Yikes.

>At what age and point in history did you realize you were no longer the intended, target audience for film anymore?
??? Video games (and film) are gigantic. If >>718596383 (OP) has ever crossed your mind, then your like a man child or something. Try playing some games that have a bit more going for them than "bing bing wahoo" or "360 no scopes" or "42% to roll a super rare golden collectible".

>>718604597
Every single person I've seen that complains about from soft plays bethesdashit

It was 2012-2014, but it was more like a forceful push.

>>718596383 (OP)
Sometime during the height of casual and waggle games around 2010ish

>>718603294
>What do people even want?
They want a game that is basically 100% cutscenes where you play a straight laced white male who spouts marvel quips while rescuing bimbos that are 10 years too old to be attractive. That's literally it.

>intelligent qt asian girl next door grew up to be a ran through college skank
Why did Mike Judge opt for such brutal realism here?

>>718596383 (OP)
You fat fucks keep trying to separate yourself from these mysterious group games are allegedly made for now, but you helped shape what vidya currently is. All the culture wars and the trolling and the comments on the videos. All the boycotts and the useless, sperging campaigns, and the death threats - all of it led to where we are now, just as much as the trannies and their campaigns against all that. You all made it happen. ALL OF YOU. Take some responsibility, you dumb faggots.

2011 when I turned 20

>>718605185
I read the whole thing twice

>>718596383 (OP)
Fallout 4 E3 reveal showing the removal of skills.

>>718596383 (OP)
past 15 pretty much, video games is a childrens hobby

>>718605104
I hate the Bobby and Connie storyline in the new show.

>>718600606
I sincerely do not get companies being hostile towards training people and instead wanting plug and play employees
>inb4 they save more money
But do they? By all accounts they seem to waste more money when they could hire an out of college grad at a more discounted rate and actually teach him from the ground up how to perform based on their standard. Hiring these 40 somethings who are stuck in their ways to only work marginally better than a college graduate or offshoring to India to have them sham the job at below the minimum quality standard is retarded and I can't imagine at least a few prominent executives haven't sounded the alarm on this practice.

>>718605104
Surprised she didn't end up on facialabuse desu lad

>>718605104
It's implied the poly thing was Chane's idea to fuck side bitches and Connie fell for it out of cope.

>>718596383 (OP)
Back when Dragon Age Inquisition came out, in 2014 I think? I was 22 at that point.

>>718597087
AAA doesn’t have a target audience, otherwise it’d be good

>>718604917
Nta but there are way too many souls clones. Even Onimusha and Silent Hill F looks like one.

>>718599425
>Animaniacs reboot
I did not even know that was a thing until you posted that

>>718605827
And now I see retards with "nostalgia" how inquisition was good and the newest DA is woke. I'm feeling it lads, my inner boomer manifesting

>>718596383 (OP)
2014 when the retardpocalypse went into full swing

>>718605326
why are you here then

>>718606151
>Inquisition was good
Was it really? I feel like there's been some mild revisionist history with Inquisition sure it was a step forward better than DA2 but the characters were so much worse and the story was super forgettable. I can at least remember DA2s story.

>>718602656
But how do you lose software? Just like, install it again? Lmao???

>>718596383 (OP)
Who looks at games like that?

I have literally never been the target audience for any game ever made, and that's the fun part.

>>718605683
Connie said she doesn't even like Chane that much. It was clearly her idea. She's meant to be a typical college SJW. They even reinforced it with the joke where she says "slutshaming is the worst thing you can do to a woman". Is /v/ taking her words as if it's something the writers themselves believe, so they think the show is """"""woke"""""" now? They're clearly making fun of her. I know the term "media literacy" is thrown around here a lot but clearly there are a lot of literal retards that post here.

>>718596383 (OP)
When I was eighteen and they announced Fallout 4 was going to have voice acting for the player character.

>>718606294
It wasn't, it was borderline MMO shit with terrible writing and character designs. It also had mobile tier "send this person out and he/she will return X hours later with a reward" garbage

>>718605457
>I sincerely do not get companies being hostile towards training people and instead wanting plug and play employees
It's a two way street and you're not seeing the other side.
The reality is that employers are sick of revolving door employees that just use their workplace as a stopgap and see no point in training unless someone shows a legitimate interest in working for them.

>>718605683
Oh fuck, i dont even want to know about this. Theres no way im watching the new shit now

>>718599425
The most deserved reboot cancellation was Clone High

>>718597087
This desu. I'm having a great time playing fun games and ignoring trAAAsh.

>>718606690
Maybe companies would retain more employees by offering decent benefits and a decent wage. I get you want to curtail ladder climbing but the direction of the lowest bidder for the job is much worse.

>>718598656
this also add in dumbfuck zoomers and millenials mind controlled by social media and people who view streamers a form of religion

>>718606823
That shit was fucking awful, holy shit. Even Animaniacs had one or two shorts that didn't have politics inserted into it that were just fun little modern cartoon pieces that looked like they could have come out of the old show. NuClone HIgh was made by people who didn't understand the original at all and was blatantly unfunny. Just watch this instead and pretend it was the ending to the original series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-yi_W-n6U

>>718596383 (OP)
I never was

>>718606690
I'd stick around more than 5 years somewhere if they actually rewarded hard work instead of laying off half the workforce anytime they aren't making infinity money
fucking boomer faggot

>>718597225
/thread

Dread Delusion came out in 2024 and Wuchang came out in 2025. It would seem that I am still the target audience of many a developer.

>>718606145
They also revived Tiny Toons.

>>718596383 (OP)
BOGGLE?

>>718607679
just looked at it, horrible

>>718607370
>new clones actually in the style of the original
neat

>>718606595
Then don't pair her off with Bobby then. Unless they plan to break em off later that shit ain't working.

>>718600787
>10/10 from IGN
lmao

>>718606823
All reboots should be cancelled for being unoriginal dogshit

>>718596383 (OP)
there are still games out there that target you, you're just not looking for them

Makes sense. Games appealed to me the most when I was 14. I am no longer 14 therefore no longer the core target. I'm sure a 14 year old rn is thinking its the golden age just like I did in my time.

Its always a young man's world

>>718602627
The asian chick is hotter than this niggertriss

>>718596383 (OP)
This is who 95% of new games and virtually all AAA games pander to now.

>>718608659
post more saucy pictures of quirk chungus

>>718602074
Good thing Trump just signed a massive bill incentivizing on the job training

Who am I kidding its probably all just for tech bro AI shit

>>718596383 (OP)
never
stop only playing AAA slop games

>>718596383 (OP)
I spend 10x more money on video games as an adult than when I was a kid/in-college and it's only on shit like Stellar Blade etc. Not only that but if a game is actually woke I use eBay. I have always been the target audience, they tried to change it, but WE'RE COMING BACK BOYS GAMERS RISE UP

>when I was a kid I played every kind of genre and enjoy most of them
>still do as an adult
>except now im about to hit 10k hours in rimworld so i dont actually do other games lately
holy fuck this game is literal heroine

>>718596383 (OP)
7 years ago

>>718608659
>American Hours
>Posting cuckoldery

wtf is wrong with you yanks.

>>718606823
Clone high was fucking dogshit and the reboot was even worse

>>718596383 (OP)
I still play some newer games, but my output of games played and beat is now 90% pre-2010 games and the rest is newer stuff. The only new game I’ve played this year was Silent Hill 2 remake. If I had to say a year when I felt like I was no longer the target audience, I’d say probably 2018 or so. I remember loving E3 up to that point, and since then and up until it was killed off, nearly the whole conference was shit that didn’t appeal to me in the least.

>>718596383 (OP)
Looking at the games I play it's mostly 6th gen and below so I guess somewhere around 7th gen
There's still stuff I like but I'm not much of a fan of the trends that started during that generation and beyond

In retrospect, the Mayans were actually right. Everything in media died in 2012, thanks to the jews.

>>718597794
here's your (You)

>>718596383 (OP)
When they started putting out movie games, ugly women, FPS trash, FOTM slop, friend slop, and when i started to hate western games.

>>718596383 (OP)
Millennials are the target audience because they are more likely to have income than gen z or alpha. Some even may have children that are interested in gaming.

Whenever F2P GaaS shit started to become the standard. I just want to pay $60 and have a complete experience. Maybe an expansion or notably sized DLC after the fact for a fraction of the original game's price.

>>718597650
I'm convinced people who think this never watched the original run and just saw some Hank clips on Youtube and think he's "based right wing dad" because he wants a tap and die and WD40.

They gloss over
>Peggy's tranny friend
>Hank hating George Bush
>Hank eating organic
>Dale's gay dad

>>718596383 (OP)
Probably when GamerGate happened, but I'm not saying how old I was, dataminer-sama.

>>718606823
same writer btw

>>718597650
It's the only reason it got a reboot.

HELLO MY NAME IS HANK HILL
I LIKE MY STEAKS WELL-DONE
I ENJOY SOCCER
I SAY WE'RE ALL-GENDERED
MY SON IS IN AN OPEN-RELATIONSHIP
I HATE DONALD TRUMP AND I'M WITH HER
AND I THINK YOU SHOULD COME ON OVER AND FUCK ME IN THE ASS
I'LL LET YOU FUCK IT HARDER IF YOU COME ON OVER HERE

>>718596383 (OP)
when The Last of Us came out, and the trend of cinematic gameplay and unnecessary graphical fidelity took over. To this day, I haven't enjoyed any game past 2016.

>>718613330
>I am drowning in your lies!!!

>Then swim to me Juan Pedro!

>>718597087
fpbp

>>718606339
computers get updated with new shit that conveniently makes the old shit unusable

>>718596383 (OP)
When mass immigration went to pot, obviously.

>>718614089
Kek, so classic

>>718613995
That started with Uncharted in 2007 thoughever.

>>718614336
You can probably run Softimage on your computer right now. It's more like rights issues prevent you from using it commercially.

>>718596383 (OP)
Around the time overwatch crates and shop mounts became a thing. ~2012-2016

>>718613746
Hes only said 2 of those 8 things anon

>>718614840
you could but it probably wouldn't work the same because whatever system they had Render shit before was changed and now the program doesn't output the same results as it used to or certain functions could cause the program to crash because it is looking for an Old driver that doesn't exist anymore

>>718613330
I hate it when people are disingenuous like this. Hank didn't like Bush because of a fucking handshake. It was a joke. Lighthearted political jabs like that are extinct now because everyone takes politics way too seriously.

>>718596383 (OP)
Let's be real these retards making games do not know what they are doing, People as grow older have MORE disposable income not less, the industry makes games nobody want to play and is a big ass money laundering scheme propped up by dumb investors and 10 years of free venture capitalist money, the industry itself will continue to shrink as the free loans dry up.

>>718606690
If you want someone to stick around you've gotta give them a reason to. No one wants to be a loyal to a company they know will lay them off the nanosecond that line isn't going up

>>718596383 (OP)
When microtransactions became a thing. Then I started playing autism games and found out I am the target audience, I just need to not play slop

>>718613330
Keep in mind though that the standard is "tv characters".

>>718605104
>only available love interest is fucking chane

set up for failure

>>718600606
I concur. It's not that they don't have the tools, they don't have the supplies, the people, the classes, the financing, or even the fucking will from anybody to go all in.

>>718596383 (OP)
>y-you're not the target audience
ah the typical marketer cuck copout for when their game sucks

>>718613330
1. He was a crossdresser/drag queen and seemed mostly “straight” besides that. His sexuality was never explored beyond that.
2. Cause of his handshake. Hank doesnt just like every Republican or Texan he comes across as 13 seasons of the show make evident.
3. Wanting good food is a political alignment now?
4. He was visibly uncomfortable with that. Also it doesn't natter what he thinks but what Dale thinks. Dale accepts his dad.

None if these are the equivalent of Hank smiling at a cookie being changed so it doesnt offend Samoans, like Samoans would give a shit.