Thread 720102656

Post malls in games

saints row 2

>>720103037
Opened thread to post this. The SR2 mall is great.

The mall in dead rising would be so nice to walk around in if not for the zombies

Hey /v/ does your cunt have malls

>>720103020
Is this from an actual game?
>>720103106
The uploaded a port of it in VRChat without the zombies. Kinda reminds me of the Mall of America from the pure fucking size it takes up.

>>720103482
It's a stock asset

>>720102656 (OP)
Hypnagogia Boundless Dreams had a mall level in it. It wasn't too long but it was really aesthetically pleasing to the soul

The up-and-coming Sonic racing game has "Colorful Mall" as one of the locations.

Space Quest 4 had a space station mall, called Galaxy Galleria, with a zero-g skate-o-rama in the center of it.

VC was way more ambitious with interiors, a few didn't even use the interior dimension.

>>720103106
I feel the same way about the palace in Echo.

>>720102656 (OP)
Dead Rising

I want to go back in time.
Why is everything so much fucking worse?

Broken Reality has a kino looking mall. The sequel is taking forfucking ever though.

>>720103876
the jumpscares right at the end of that level always startle me
the ending cutscene is so messed up too

>>720103868
it's profitable ;^)

>>720103937
>all these company's dying, all these products flopping
I don't think so

>>720103868
You can go back you just have to dedicate yourself to making it a reality
>>720096115

>>720103601
those safety bumpers are huge, can you go off track?

>>720103978
How will that allow me to go back to 90s malls?

>>720103419
Yeah, Germany has a couple. There was one in the city where I studied. It was a nice place to go and waste some time when you had nothing better to do. Get some shopping dome, get some food, do some people watching. I kinda miss it.

>>720103868
"Infinite" growth thanks to capitalism!!

>>720104018
Oh I don't know. Mall culture is pretty much dead I don't think it'll ever come back. Although I do have a mall near me that gets people walking around in it.

>>720104018
you have to put wheels on your house and bring it to where the mall was. so the 90s bubble around your room can affect the local area.

>>720104106
>capitalism was at its height in the 90s/00s
>aka the golden era
>social programs and government linked investors like vanguard/blackstone pushing DEI over profits
>it's capitalism
???

>>720103915
I need that shit to come out already. It was such a fun little game.

>>720103540
This looks like ff8, it's not ff8 right

>>720102656 (OP)
fnaf security breach is shit, but the exploration is great

>>720104113
I went to a mall for the first time in 10+ years recently and it felt like I'd somehow been transported to a different country. It was just wall to wall packed (like elbowing through a crowd to get anywhere packed) with asians. Absolutely bizarre and terrifying experience.

>>720103868
>Why is everything so much fucking worse?
Online shopping and overall culture change got worse. Luckily my local mall is still doing very well, but I can't really recreate those christmas season and back to school shopping scenarios since the culture's changed and I'm in my 30s. I still link up with my mom and sisters to walk the mall and go shopping on occasion though, always drop by auntie annes and get a pretzel.

>>720104106
>>720104186
People that blame capitalism never look at the fact that the biggest corporations have been associated with politicians more than ever. They can't figure out that it's actually the opposite.

>>720104186
if were going to play fair, then is the (((government))) really the same thing as the government?

errmm zoomer here what the HECK is a mall??

>>720103971
profitable short tem
when line stops going up they all jump ship and find some other company to pillage

>>720104381
its a shitty tower defense that sucks ass and not in the way you hope

>>720104273
It's only terrifying because you never know when some flash mob of scientists and doctors are gonna come running through or a mentally ill mass shooting happens

>>720104368
Yes. It's the government's fault for being ((()))'d.

SoD2 had the absolute best mall section for me

All these post no Dead Rising 1 and 2 malls, fucking shameful.

>>720105082

>>720103106
>>720103865

>>720105082
Was too obvious

>>720105082
i thought 2 was a casino

Post more mall music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JqEo4XJ8FY

>>720105219
it's a full resort and casino.

>>720104186
>capitalism was at its height in the 90s/00s
Yes and it wasn't enough because there was more potential money to be made. This is how true capitalism works.

>>720104247
Pretty sure it's from Chrono Cross.

>>720103482
>Is this from an actual game?
it looks pretty similar to the THPS1 remake mall

>>720104381
A nigh extinct habitat for hot fuckable goths to simp for and their decently fuckable fat goth friends to consolation slam.

>>720104453
i suppose its their job to know who wants to infiltrate them.

>>720105705
It's thusly the job of infiltrators to bypass that though.

>>720104006
Knowing sonic games, you can but only unintentionally

>>720102656 (OP)
does bioshock count

>>720105082
dead rising 1 oozes with sovl

>>720105835
zing

>>720106075
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9ujgI05pI
VGH

>>720103868
Well the root cause is Jews. Literally every single thing that's bad about the current day can be solved by stripping Jews of their power.

>>720102656 (OP)
i've been wanting to make a game where you go around cleaning up an empty mall for ages, but i suck dick at modelling 3d environments

>>720106387
I don't see how doing that will get me a breedable femboy boyfriend but I'm open to learning

>>720103419
i got a mall like .5 miles up the road.
it's pretty fuckin dead these days though. I give it 3 years before closing for good.

>>720106669
i think the word youre looking for is girlfriend

>>720107146
It pains me how narrow-minded you are.

>>720103737
underrated game

Postal 2

>>720108024
>Now the flowers will grow...

>ctrl F
>no state of emergency
wtf

>>720103419
my local one just got demolished :(

>>720108120
You didn't really post the mall from it either though

>>720108298
mine got demolished last year, and now they're building retirement homes on top of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
dead rising
persona 5

malls are so fucking comfy

>>720108298
Mine is still alive but it's not nearly what it once was. I feel like malls are destined to evolve into only selling fandom clothes, funkos, and jewelry.

>>720103419
The mall I grew up going to is a fucking ghost town

>>720104281
With caramel dip, right?

>>720109214
Only around Christmas time and winter, adds to the festiveness. The cinnamon pretzels were BRETTY good with it. Summer and spring? Salted with cheese dip, sometimes mustard. Used to bring my PSP with Phantasy Star Nova on it and sit on the bench playing it with my sister while my mom and other sister went clothes shopping across the way.

Malls are so fucking gay now. My local mall just feels and looks so empty and pretty much everything is painted white and lit up with white fluorescent lights. There is no sense of abundance, grandiosity, or coziness, it's just a big empty box and all you want to do is just get what you need and go home as quickly as you can because spending time in there somehow makes your senses feel both depraved and overloaded at the same time. Even during Christmas all they really do is put a shitty tree in there and maybe a few other things but that's about it.
Whatever happened to having shit like fountains and literal jungles in there?

>>720110742
Malls used to be a fun place to go even if you didn't buy anything. Now they've been relegated to the place you only go if you need something and can't be fucked to wait two days for it to be delivered.

>>720102656 (OP)
worst mall in VC. the rampage there is hard because not enough gang members spawn in the mall, and the stunt jump on the roof needs you to fly off at a very specific angle and you're liable to lose your bike if you crash.

>>720110742
idk, the internet happened and now the malls became a moneysink because upkeep is too much. why hang with friends like the show 6teen when you can shitpost in discord generals all day long?

>>720103419
Poland
malls are still very popular and common, there are like 10 in my city

>>720103419
I live close to one that's still pretty active. There's also a school nearby so a lot of kids still hang out there. There used to be this massive kid zone that led to an outside area with karts but I'm pretty sure that's gone now.

>>720103482
pretty sure it's a map in gmod

>>720103419
I went to two malls as a kid. One got tore down after the Walmart that was basically propping it all up got relocated to a different part of town, causing it to die a slow and painful death.

The other one went through a billion renovations to make it soulless. It's located in the middle of a neighborhood so it was never going to die, but the Zellers turned Target that used to be there was kind of the centerpiece of the mall and once they went out of business there was just this gigantic multi-storey vacant store they couldn't figure out what to do with until they just went fuck it and renovated it into another entrance (that isn't even in a convenient spot for parking so hardly anyone uses it) with smaller stores around it. There also used to be a big water fountain in the main atrium but it got tore out and replaced with a starbucks, and there used to be an arcade but they replaced it with an H&M. Also most of the stores there are exclusively self-checkout now and I hate shopping there because of it.

whats a mall?

>>720103037
So much fucking fun.
God....I miss real games so much.....

>>720113975
it's a haunted place that gives you spooky liminal vibes

>>720110742
>My old mall used to have an entire amusement park inside
Nowadays you'd just have some VR slop or maybe an escape/smash room. I only ever bother with the mall for getting a bunch of Christmas shit nowadays. Aside from the overall sanded down experience there's some loss of soul I can't explain as well. That could just be nostalgia choking me out though.

>>720113975
Not much, what's amall with you?

I want a sandbox open world game like Abiotic Factor that takes place inside a giant empty mall

>>720103419
I do my groceries on the Coles inside a mall

I got lost in Saints Row 2's mall.

Only real ones remember the threads we used to have about You Are Here
and Pressure

>>720104186
I dont know why so many retards think pushing for higher profits leads to good outcomes, literally just open a history book or look at the world around you lil nigga.
We're in this mess because a modest profit isn't enough, it needs to keep going higher to please shareholders, that's why the quality of everything has declined massively.
We don't have good fridges that last a lifetime for example because it doesn't make as much money, you need to buy cheap shit made in china that is made to break after x years so you buy a new one. This also doesn't include stuff like washing machines or other shit being made digital, connecting to the internet, selling subscriptions, etc.
The 60s in america was actually the best time to be alive. The profit chasing wasn't as high and the government was actually heavily involved in the economy, even giving you money to buy a house if needed, with strong social programs to help out people that were later gutted.
Capitalism is inherently jewish and will literally take everything from you just to make an extra dollar of profit next quarter

>>720103419
australian shopping centres are still doing quite well, the supermarkets generally set up shop inside and we have backwards laws against walmart and target style shops so you have pharmacists, department stores etc all in them too

>>720103583
Never heard of this game before now, but after looking it up I am suddenly very interested and going to try it. Thanks bro.

If you like this vibe get on second life right now

>>720103419
Yes and they're thriving thanks to being near elevated rail

>>720115694
I go on SL pretty often. It's kinda neat going to very laggy shopping event sims and seeing the absolute ghoulish abominations strolling by who are likely played by 40+ year old single American mothers. All while I'm stood there as a little anime Catgirl feeling very out of place.

Know any good mall sims that are designed to emulate 90's or even 2000's Americana?

>>720115087
Not really.
They are money pits if you actually try and run a store in them. It's why all those fashion brands have gone bust, and Myer and David Jones have downscaled massively. Rent is way too high and the left wing governments hate small business and tax the shit out of it.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
State of Emergency
first level of WWZ

for me it's martcore

>no THPS

Fucking babbies.

>>720116113
God I love Splatoon. No other game makes me feel as warm and cozy inside as this anymore.

>>720103419
One opened here a few years ago, but a nice department store more or less got wiped out by the coof, and many of the shops in the mall are the same ones that moved out from the general area when it was being built.

>>720102656 (OP)
Man I fucking miss malls

>>720116254
i went to one to eat a food court and it was ghost town, just seniors walking around and sitting on benches

>>720104030
Ah yes.
Jimmy Gibbs Jr!

>>720102656 (OP)
If you're OK with realistic skating sim I highly recommend Session's abandoned mall DLC
Small map but I spent hours practicing tricks on same spot for hours

>>720103151
>Images you can hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsedpbamIKQ

>>720102656 (OP)
idk why more GTA haven't attempted integrating malls in open world, crashing into a mall with vehicle should be anyone's fantasy

>>720102656 (OP)
fuck your music you little faggot. you made my speakers turn on at 3 am. I hope you die soon.

>open thread
>hear music
Based Mods. Also has anyone ever played Mall Tycoon? Is it good?

>>720103419
There's too many of them.

>music playing
Good shit

luv me script blocker

I don't hear music

I kneel admins

>>720119085
That's because you're a dog, Luigi.

>>720119092
That dude looks like Review Brah on his way to pick up his next slop from Taco Bell

MODS =/= FAGS
...for now. Blessed thread.

>>720103865
>I’ve covered Black Friday, you know

>>720103419
yeah there are a lot of malls in Bucharest, one is within walking distance and two more are short bus rides away.
they first appeared in the mid 2000s and are still thriving. plenty of people shop online now but since the malls aren't hours away like US ones they haven't fallen out yet.

>>720116232
what is this

>>720116232
Looks like slavjank

>>720119253
a KFC in a mall food court

>>720118442
>FLOOAPLAN

I don't hear the music :(

>>720119282
what GAME is that

>>720119304
>LISANEEDSBRACES

>>720119375
That guy in the trenchcoat gives me some vibes

>>720103419
Plenty, one of em has a swanky beer place where you can find the expensive stuff in it.

>>720119445
He just reminds me of being 16 because I looked like that when I was a teenager

Thread theme:
https://youtu.be/jLs9AvzE5NA?si=2F6MlbfZPXSKMVQm

>>720119529
But we already have music in the background....

>>720103363
I can see one right outside my window.

>>720119187
Sup Romaniabro. Took a quick holiday in Bucharest in May because the weather was intolerably shit up here. It was a pleasant place to chill and enjoy the price level, not totally shittered up by mass tourism yet. I feel like exploring Romania more, do people elsewhere in the country know English as well as they do in Bucharest? Maybe gonna check out Brasov and Cluj-Napoca next.

>>720119594
Must be nice being in a walking distance from a mall

>>720119594
Must be hell being in a walking distance from a mall

>>720119668
>>720119640
MOOOOOOOT

>>720119685
Whomst?

>>720119668
Not really.

>>720119640
I've got a mall thats like a 10 minute walk from my house, but its always dead anyway so its not really a bother.
I used to pop in there to grab a bite to eat at the food court and just kinda chill when I was out on walks, but the foodcourt is empty and so are most of the stores now, so there's really not much of a reason to go inside.

>>720103419
4 malls within a 5 minute walk from my house

>>720119754
How's the mall exclusive food? That's probably be the only reason worth going to a mall if it's fairly cheap and tastes alright.

Sbarro is good fucking mall pizza

>>720119959
>How's the mall exclusive food?
There isn't any anymore, like I said its mostly empty these days.
There's like 4-5 stores still in there and they just sell weird shit like tiny wooden chairs

>>720119604
Brașov is great. Cluj is nice, but overpriced and crowded.
>>720119187
I fucking hate malls. Overpriced food. Shitty, boring stores (way too many clothing stores, not much else). Shittiest, most entitled people frequenting malls as well.
I'm biased because I did part time work in several malls, but fuck 'em. Way too many malls anyway for how small the city is.

Imagine if there were small towns placed across America and to live in those towns you have to live as if you would pre-2010.

What's the worst food court experiences you ever had?
For me it was that one time me and a best friend off mine decided to eat some sushi and while he was completely fine I on the other hand had some allergic reaction or some shit. Litterally spewing water not only outta my mouth but also my ass, rashes all over my body and a mix of sweating like a motherfucker and chills. And I've eaten sushi before with no problems.

>>720120296
>you have to live as if you would pre-2010.
I would move there in a heartbeat and never look back, even more so if we're talking about pre-2007 era

>>720103583
Shame he had to change the music for that level. The original was much better.
https://youtu.be/SCe-qWxLSeg

>>720115282
It's worth checking out. Interior worlds was another game by the dev i'd recommend.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2207970/Interior_Worlds/?curator_clanid=40705146

>>720110742
I don't understand this need to make new stores so gay and uniform. A toy store that I liked changed. Before, you followed a path. The store was organized in a U shape. You started with an open children's area with a huge fake tree 8-9 meters high where you could walk through the middle with monkey toys in the branches, etc. You continued under an arch, an open Lego area where you had a game table and freely accessible bricks in the center, board games, real-size statues of Batman, Pikachu, etc., warm colors. Now, since the rebranding, it's the equivalent of an Amazon warehouse, shitty colors, just straight, parallel rows where you can see the parking lot from the back.

>>720120385
The thing is we can live like that right now. The concept of those towns only sound appealing because you would have a sense of not feeling alone in living the same way.

>>720120713
>The thing is we can live like that right now.
So you're saying I can hang out with people again and they won't spend 90% of the time looking at their phones?

>>720120772
Yeah you just have to make friends who personally share your same interest in pre-2010 living.

>>720120870
>watching QVC because all the other channels are airing paid programming because its 3 AM.

>>720103868
mall extinction is entirely due to aspiring basketballers (and inadequate policing thereof) making malls undesirable places to go

>>720121091
Or experiencing this

>>720121171
Unless there is a fucking solar eclipse outside, I'd say its probably the former.

We can go back bros...

>>720121298
>We can go back bros...
TV is barely even a thing anymore..

>>720121465
You can always do something like vid-related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDW1wokbRiQ

>>720121465
TV is ZOG programming. So it is good that it's gone.

>>720104030
>duplicate file
based

>>720121845
TV was really great background noise while playing games on handhelds. Streaming shit just ain't the same as a 24/7 curated playlist with custom bumpers and shit.

>>720121845
The only thing I miss about TV was specifically staying up late at night circa 2005 watching Adult Swim, only to fall asleep then wake up still sometime after midnight to the end credits of Inuyasha or Boondocks. That's like my core comfort memory for some reason.

>>720122001
I miss when G4 Tech TV was good and you could just leave it on all day

>>720122330
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.
You should never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'

>>720102656 (OP)
why was their music playing for a sec, scared the shit out of me

>>720122601
Yeah, its the mall music from dead rising. Your browser is probably blocking the audio or something by default

>>720103419
pretty sure my city has like ten of them

Best thread on /v/ right now

>>720116153
>>720116626
haven't played anything but thug2 in which New Orleans was the best map, are the other th games worth trying out?v

>>720123303
You're welcome

>>720122928
how did he embed it?

>>720123514
mod magic, I dunno man

>>720114076
Oh shit never posted the pic

>>720123514
Regular users can't, the moderators just decide to have fun sometimes and do shit like this

>>720118597
I remember playing this and every time i'd reach a point where everything started losing money and no one would come in anymore.

>>720125882
>i'd reach a point where everything started losing money and no one would come in anymore.
How else would a Mall simulator end?

>>720102656 (OP)
lmao that scared the shit out of me

I used to play Mall Tycoon kinda often back in the day for some reason. I don't even care that much about malls

>>720103106
I remember fantasizing about some sort of Deadrising DLC where the mall is operational and you have to run the stores. Things like restocking the shelves and selling to customers

>>720122517
>An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.
You clearly never spent time on liveleak.

>>720103419
NM bumpkin here. Our mall keeps getting smaller and smaller

>>720106075
>dead rising 1 oozes with sovl
Because it was the only Dead Rising game made in Japan by Capcom, all the other ones were outsourced.

>>720116061
I get its the JSRF aesthetic but for a mall maybe blue with some stronger highlights would have worked better and a lot more corporate sponsoring for sure. Something closer to times square in the first game

decent enough

>Never go outside.
>Never even think about the mall for decades outside of the dozen or so times I went when I was a kid.
>WOW I MISS MALLS. I MISS THE SOUL. THE WEST IS FAILING
None of you actually care, but it sure is easy to pretend. Such a better time... Zoomers just don't get it...

>>720115087
I'm an Aussie cunt and the local mall I used to go to as a teenager 20-years-ago is nowhere near as good as it was back then. Back then there were actual bookstores and dedicated CD/DVD shops to browse, etc. Even JB Hi-Fi is way different now, selling toasters and kettles, etc. I guess the internet is to blame.

>>720103419
I'm pretty sure every country on Earth has malls. In Helsinki, basically every metro station or bus terminal is in the basement of a mall. It makes it convenient to just pick anything up on the commute home from work. And it ensures a base level of foot traffic so the mall doesn't suddenly die.
When I lived in Philadelphia for a while, every metro station (on the Market-Frankford line) dropped you off in the middle of the GHETTO. You exit the gate and you're just on the street under the El, surrounded by crack houses and junkies. "Oh, you need to make a transfer at Frankford terminal? Good luck and try not to get raped on the way." No wonder everybody has a car.

>>720123303
That's how you know its going to get 404'd randomly

>>720103419
I haven't been to my local mall since 2019 and have been visiting it recently. The outside looked so abandoned I was surprised as shit in my 3rd visit to see this damn place still open with a few stores. At first it was sad to walk around only a quarter of the mall and just reminisce of all the fun times I've had with friends in these stores long gone.

Now it's sorta become my happy place I go to whenever I'm feeling down. It's so quiet and eerie but in a good way. I could nap on the benches like a bum and no one will bother me
>>720119187
Must be nice to have a mall still thriving

>>720121091
Shit, I remember those dark days before Adult Swim.

>>720127670
>tfw didn't even have adult swim in my country when I was a kid
>by the time I got it the schedule was like 99% repeats all day

>>720126846
No crabs please.

>>720118442
>New Eden Mall
>It's a little taste ... of paradise

>>720102656 (OP)
Where's that music coming from? HAX!

>>720118442
now the question remains does that count as DORFic

all the proper answers have been given so there was a mall level at the end of some meme game someone shat out last year

>>720119278
Is that a bad thing?

>>720122330
>one busy escalator broken for well over a year
>giant clock in the mall also partially broken and doesn't work properly last i saw
>would spring to life every hour and play a tune and characters move about
Criminal.

>>720103419
I have a penis.

man i can't think of any, i just remember gta and left 4 dead, maybe i played a hl2 mod that had a mall

>>720120040
Hell yeah
That and Hot Dog on A Stick were my staple mall eats

There are a few in Zomboid with the grand Ohio one being the closest to DR in its magnitude

that scared the shit out of me

Somewhat related, but lately I've been on a nostalgia kick for the card game trend in the late 90's. Not for the games themselves, necessarily, but for the weird logic of the game worlds, where the CCG is a massively influential part of the social fabric and economy, having research centers and huge dedicated stores. It's an abstract nostalgia, but I always loved those games and wished I had something like that instead of a dank shithole where I had to listen to neckbeards whine about not being able to play Magic one day out of the week.

>>720103868
What is it with mutts and malls?
Did you goys really spent your youth hanging out at a corporate temple of consoomerism all day to slurp down goyslop? Wtf dude

>>720139350
>social center where you could hang out with friends and meet new people easily
>had dedicated shops for things kids like, so you could window shop and fantasize about things you want
>had a wide variety of food that was relatively inexpensive, so you were spoiled for choice
>usually had other things, like movie theaters and arcades, making it a central location for anything for what you might want to do
I don't understand what you don't understand. I know you're some eurofag trying to act superior, but you just seem retarded.

>>720139757
that guy is fucking retarded. malls exist in the civilized part of europe too but they are kind of suffering the same fate. if not for the giant "walmart" like stores attached to them, they would have died out long ago

>>720103419
UAE
Entire country is a mall

>>720103419
It's really popular with the kids here since the all-day arcade, hot topic, food court, and anime shops are all right next to each other

>clicked on the thread for dead rising
>jingle starts playing
based mods

>>720141201
>that framerate
I bet it is running on some monster cpu as well.

>>720141201
too bad the artstyle is shit

>>720103106
If you had that zombie repelant that they used at the end off the game it would be fun to walk around regardless.

>>720103915
I was a little bit blown away by this game. I wish it got as much fanfare as Hypnospace.

There's a mall level in Dredd vs Death that kinda reminded me of a mall in a dream I had.

>>720143617
by far the spookiest thing about this webm is how shaky that guy is while being so close to the ledge.

the Neon Overdrive and Nostalgic Entropy: Neo Retro wads for Doom have a lot of malls/arcades

>>720143693
to me the spookiest thing is that I can hear moistcritikal's voice droning on about some totally inane e-drama

>>720120040
i have good memories of going to the local mall with family and friends but the best memories i have are going alone
>short walk to mall after school for an impromptu visit
>show up to the food court
>grab a bottle of coke from a vending machine for $1.25 and a sbarro stromboli for $5
>this was saved money from skipping lunch at school so i'm extra hungry
>tastes so fucking good
>walk over to fye or gamestop to get the CD or game i had my eye on for a couple of weeks
>check out hot topic and spencer's to look at all their stupid shit
>might check out a new band cus i saw their name on a t-shirt
>have to just remember that cus i don't own a phone
>walk home wondering what the game or whatever i bought is going to be like
it was more peaceful times

>>720143617
>skipped the start and jumped right in the middle of the video
>this came up
>"nice work with the cable work, maybe remotes?"
>video advances and only after some real while realizes it's a fucking 3D animated video
Damn I'm getting old. I wonder if there are vids of boomers reacting to those.

>>720103419
Yeah, but it's too far from me to visit regularly. Last time I went I thought about how packed Malls use to be when I was a kid, especially around the holiday season.
The only thing I feel like compares to how a mall use to feel is going to a busy airport.

>>720120713
>The thing is we can live like that right now.
There didn't used to be browns where I live. Now there are a lot of them. I can never go back no matter how much I pretend.

>>720144812
I assumed it was blender just because obviously no way he had a whole old mall at his disposal, you can kind of tell when he goes into the offices and the fax machines and shit look like a video game

>>720131460
I do this

maybe mods aint so bad

>>720141201
I fuckin wish my computer could run this game

>>720145380
I thought it was him splicing obvious blender scenarios like the one you mentioned with a real abandoned mall. I was surprised that the entire thing was in blender.

The hacker known as 4chan hacked my speakers to play mall music

>>720145761
It's apparently based on the real Valley View mall in Dallas that was demolished in like 2017, so I imagine that helped the realism of it immensely

>>720146648
both the mall and the giant were from real life that Kane Pixels recreated, the giant for whatever reason was there for every step of the mall going downhill /demolished until it too was dismantled :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTw936FtnBc

>>720145541
no one can run this game. this webm is 4x speed

>>720102656 (OP)
The local mall used to be my Third Place. Now its gone...

>>720147559
>work from home
>tfw don't even have a second place
>just spend 99% of my time in my house with no one else around

>>720131460
God I love this stupid fucking game so much

>>720147757
Shit sucks

>>720102656 (OP)
>audio outside /wsg/
HOW???

>>720147928
Possessed by the ghost of moot

>>720103419
i have a mall near me, and a strip mall even closer. mall is less lively, but still full usually. the strip mall has more people than ever, because the food court got expanded into a much bigger one, with lots of cool local stuff in it.

>>720147928
It's mods being cool for a change

>>720147559
Find a good local public library if you're somewhere well off it's a chill place to just hang out and read magazines or whatever and pretend you're working on something and just play factorio or civ lol

I always liked these shopping outlets on the outskirts of Las Venturas

>malls are super common in my country and I really see no reason why they wouldn't be
>"Hey USA, why aren't you doing that anymore"
>"There were niggers"
Damn you, pattern recognition.

>>720148429
Not that anon, but I might start doing this just as an excuse to get out of my fuckin house once in a while. I wonder if there are any half decent coffee shops near the library here

>>720103419
The mall by me is still thriving and lively the problem is all the giant stand alone anchor stores are gone so it looks dead but really isn't the inside is fine

>>720148429
The library is my town is currently a gym because the roof of the gym got ripped off during a storm back in january, the local government decided brawn > brain

>>720106669
in canada, you can legally breed 16 year old femboys, provided you're not a position of power over them. the issue here is with lots of femboys at the mall near me, and me wanting to sink my cock into a sexy 19+ femboy, it's actually common to get hit on by a 16 year old femboy, and i don't know about you, but 16 is waaaay the fuck too young.

>>720148509
Yeah it really helped me from being stir crazy after I got laid off and there's no impulse urges to consoom unlike a Barnes and Noble Starbucks or what have you

>>720103419
not for much longer, my local mall is so dead it doesn't even have a food court anymore. they were hoping that spirit of halloween would rent out the old sears, but they ended up setting up in the now defunct old toys r us that was nearby the mall.
i consider the death of the mall to be a great american tragedy. people bemoan the loss of third places, but that's what the mall once was

>>720103419
Nearest one near me got torn down and turned into apartments, it took a 20 minute drive on the interstate to get to anyways. Never really got to go to malls when I was young but going to a living one now I don't know how kids would be able to spend time there, there's only luxury stores or services which a teen wouldn't really need anyways (barber, manicures, spa, that sort of stuff).

>>720103419
>local mall got knocked down to make space for new apartments
Feels bad, man

>>720148632
is it a public gym? If so that's pretty based provided you live in a white area

>>720149609
>is it a public gym?
Yes

>>720148632
>where do you work out?
>at the library

>>720102656 (OP)
I can't find a good picture and I don't have time to boot up Killing Floor but I always liked the mall custom level in KF1.
https://youtu.be/DY6cUU5yor4
Here's a random video I haven't watched about the mall.

:(

>>720148654
What the hell is a "femboy" even? Some call twinks that, others flamboyant fags, some old giga bloke in skirts and thighs, ones straight up trannies with hormone grown tits.
Post a example for me, I'm genuinely curious what do you mean by femboy

>>720151904
A guy considered fuckable by an average straight man.

>>720149695
jej

>>720151904
NTA but it started off as rightthink/censorship for trap

MML

>>720105789
I thought I had a webm of this but it turned out to be a different part of the game, so you'll just have to imagine it moving.

>>720148443
I remember the first time discovering this area and hanging out there for ages buying clothes and shit.
>>720152968
Probably my favourite area of Vice City.

>>720102656 (OP)
Dafuq were those French commandos about

>>720151494
Did you know GAME is now in Sports Direct shops? Prices and selection is as shit as ever.
Only spotted it because I was being nosy. Local Sports Direct moved to the unit next to the old one but with 3 floors, and there on the top floor is a GAME stuffed in the corner.

Both are shit enough for each other really.

>>720152968
north point mall always felt a bit dead because the limited memory meant they couldn't render much of a bustling mall, especially not peds past the ped limit, so groups of people were despawning and spawning right in front of you, it felt weird.

the place doesn't even have a proper modeled roof, it's just a black texture to prevent you seeing into the void

https://noclip.website/#GrandTheftAutoViceCity/4;ShareData=AA7(~8^*C$9t6B;Ub9=~V*z6HQ]8BDUkyLVUjG&{VlS_i9yE:+Ti$;S8]VVYVt

>>720103419
I went on a little road trip and went to almost all the malls in my state. Some of them are still doing really well, even one of the dead malls I went to doubled as a community center. There's one about 40 minutes from me that has a Round 1 and recently got gashapon machines, I like that one. There was this Radio Shack in one of the dead malls I visited.

>>720110742
Malls were always shit, and I'm glad they're gone. Absolute normie tier activity

San Andreas had a lot of small malls

>>720154587
good memories

abiotic factor has one at the end of the game

>>720155091
Yeh it's pretty sweet

>>720155229
I really wish it actual spoilers here. wasn't Fragments. Like Fragments is cool idea, but man I wanted to explore a mall and find new shit to collect for my base.

why is this thread playing extremely loud music

>>720103419
Shopping malls are one of the few things I miss from my homeland.

>>720103419
i hated living in that city but the mall was pretty sweet. they had burger king

>>720154718
it's a kid / parent thing.
99% people on 4chan wouldn't go into a mall even if they got a $100 gift card for a store and it was in walking distance away from them (they would rather trade it for cash).
and the internet has ruined malls for teenagers. why go to a mall with your girlfriend when you could just play fortnight/five nights at freddies/roblox and watch youtube/streamers play fortnight/five nights at freddies/roblox? what are you, a normie?

Cheeky mods.
God I missed this tune. I should boot up DR (the original, fuck remake faggots) and play it again for Halloween. I need to finish SH3 this year too, and that coincidentally has a mall too.

>>720102656 (OP)
Music scared the crap out of me
Also I had a crash landing and subsequent shoot out here just the other week.

>>720132776
Depends on wether it's the fun kind of jank or the bad kind

>get home from work
>thread's still up
Guess I'll open that bottle of Johnny Walker Green Label I still have and get comfy with a glass or two, cheers lads.
Also Postal 4 mall.

I like malls but there's never any opportunity for them to be comfy because there's always a million people walking around in them

>>720160661
>there's never any opportunity for them to be comfy because there's always a million people walking around in them
I'm kinda jealous, the only Malls that are still open near me are almost always completely empty

>>720103419
The office i work in is attached the to the saddest most depressing mall youve ever seen.

Sweden represent. Shopping was the world's first interior shopping mall, and it's in a little town in northern sweden.

>>720161091
that looks scary

>>720103419
They had this big mall in the city near the port that with time it became less and less popular, so they made a new one and pretend that the old one doesn't exist, there was a lot of stores there, nowdays you only go there for the MediaMarkt, I wonder if they'll repeat it in 10 years again

>>720161514
its not as spooky if you colourize it

>>720161091
no cap this liminal space be bussin fr fr

>>720162731
fuck meant to respond to >>720161514

>>720102656 (OP)
Are there any Florida malls with an opened roof like that?

>>720103037
Oh my god the memories, me and my best friend playing this shit online coop.
There was a mission here and we kept fucking it up some how. It's been so long

>>720103651
That map was really ERROR, I always liked to ERROR in it with my ERROR

The sheer variety of stores in old malls of the late 90s and early 2000s was great. Dead rising 1 is always a fun game to play for this reason. The economy was so good that there could be all sorts of weird stores and some redundant ones that were essentially the same niche like 2 or 3 collectible shops in 1 mall or 2 or 3 stores with swords and armor and crap in them. After you went to one you could go to the next. Great memories with my dad since he and I loved knights and medieval stuff. One mall we went to I believe had 2 gamestops for example which was bizarre but entertaining because they had different inventories. Every mall had something like. KB toys of course and sometimes would also have a Lego store as well plus maybe a target or something with its own respective tou section. So basically an abundance of choice.


we had a movie theater that had a small arcade with like 5 or 10 games in it but then we also had an arcade in the mall as well. so if you were willing to put in the time and footwork to see what was offered around the mall there was a lot in different places that overlapped which was great.

I have a younger brother and some of my favorite memories from when we were growing up was me going with him to the mall and me using my money to find things for him that would make him happy. There was so much to find back then it was impossible not to. He still has some of that stuff today. Good memories of him in the shopping cart and me coming back and handing him something I got him from KB and him freaking out.

>>720119640
Back in 2005 when halo 2 was at its peak relevance I remember walking to our small mall from my HS in hopes that target would have starwars figures and that hot topic would have the halo 2 figures in stock and I would walk like 10 or 15 minutes there and then I would walk home from the mall and that would take like 30 minutes or 40. I had an iPod for music which was all the entertainment I needed for the trip.


We lived in a small town of like 50k people maybe 60k so it was relaxing and there weren’t a ridiculous amount of cars driving around so it was a calm and relaxing experience I remember fondly. this is still my gold standard for how peaceful a town can be. We later moved somewhere with like 250k people in it and I immediately had anxiety and I stopped walking anywhere because everything was like an hour and a half walk away with 1000 cars zipping around.

>>720103037
The SR2 mall is fucking huge too isn't it? I remember spending literally hours dicking around in there when I first discovered it.

>>720163468
wat gaem

>>720120040
For me and my family it was some Asian place where we would get rice chicken and brocolli bowls with some egg rolls and a Snapple.


for it to be vidya related I remember one memory of my dad taking my
Brother and I to the mall and we went to GameStop to buy ninja gaiden for Xbox. We went to Burger King in the mall and then we walked to the Barnes and nobles store and we all ate our Burger King at the table while my brother played with his new toy and I started looking at the ninja gaiden manual eager to experience the game. Dad passed last year but he had a picture saved on his computer he took from that moment of my brother looking at his toy he had taken with his early 2000s flip phone.

We also later in the mid 2000s started getting Charlie’s sandwhiches from the mall and those are good and I love the fries no idea if it’s as good today or not

>>720120162
>worked at a mall
When? If you were working at a mall in the early 2000s it would have been a totally different vibe and experience in every way possible.


The idea of all stores being clothing stores in a mall is a new thing it wasn’t like that before. even smaller malls used to have random fringe stores in them so there was something for everyone in many malls. today I imagine so many stores in malls struggle that unless it’s something that is super safe it’s just deemed to risky to try.

>>720120296
>have smart phone in public
>fined
yeah sign me up

>>720120605
No idea what this game is but this general vibe would be really fun in an online game for something like a retro FPS game like quake 3 arena or counter strike or unreal tournament or something. Some guys on YouTube to air soft in long abandoned malls so this would just be a videogamey version of that. Peak atmosphere and ambience. Love the song. Was it a copyright issue?

>check on mall I haven't went to in four years
>most of the stores were just shitty overpriced clothing and shoes
>the old sears section is being turned into a technical school
>nobody there but boomers, their grandchildren and some rando females
>the toy story I grabbed my second 501st battle pack was missing (I later learned on google maps they're going to return in october to a different part of the mall C:)
>some more empty lots here and there
>a random arab somehow has a bootleg toy kiosk in the middle of a mall in rural Appalachia
>there was not a single thing on any of the food court's menus that were under ten dollars
I get it was like a random tuesday afternoon right after school started again but sheesh

>>720120697
I think the theory for this phenomenon is that when you eventually sell a store it’s cheaper if it has a generic layout and on the inside and outside. in the last a pizza hut looked like a pizza hut and a taco bell looked like a tacobell and a McDonald’s looked like a McDonalds, but when they sell these they need to spend money to change it later or else it looks like a McDonald’s building that now sells shoes or whatever. Obviously this is just money saving shit that eliminates the soul from everything. I assume this applies to the inside of stores as well since this conversation people have is usually about the outside appearance.

>>720163538
That's nice, my sister would do things like that for me. Randomly getting some little Pokemon piece of shit from an older sibling is one of those memories you carry forever.

>>720103868
Unironically the Internet is the cause of it, next being smart phones.
Crazy that meme quote of the world you grew up in doesn't exist anymore is true. For fuck sake I want 90s era cars and trucks back.

>>720120713
Kino image.. I like the joyride halo 1 spartan on the left I had that exact one. during the 2000s I had a desk like this and have been considering trying to find one again. I’m sick of the minimalist glass and metal shit we have had everywhere for the last decade plus.


That image almost makes me feel like I’m in my friends old room from HS. my friends and I during middle school and high school would go to his house almost every Friday and weekend to chill as a group. that old computer would have had RuneScape on it, newgrounds, or some music getting downloaded. 5 feet of screen was a tv that we would have been playing resident evil 4 metal gear solid 2 or other games on.

Is there a law or is it just some unspoken rule that perfume and makeup stores in malls always have to be concentrated into a single area of the mall that inevitably smells like some kind of floral industrial spills?

>>720163538
>The economy was so good that there could be all sorts of weird stores
>>720164824
>even smaller malls used to have random fringe stores in them so there was something for everyone in many malls.
The mall where I grew up used to have a geology store in it that sold shit like geodes and polished minerals. It was actually pretty cool as a kid and the guy running it was super into it. I'm pretty sure I still have some of the rocks I bought from there. Sadly it was pretty much THE first place to go once that mall started dying, it was there for the longest time but I doubt it ever made any money.

>>720122001
Yeah I remember during sleepovers in HS we would crash and wake up in the middle of the night to random shit on adult swim playing usually lupin the third or maybe Captain Planet if it was super early

The closest mall for me would be the Rathauspassagen in Halberstadt, germany. Takes me around 45 minutes to an hour to drive there, depending on the traffic.

love dis map

>>720165627
I think a lot of those sorts of stores were ran by people who just loved the thing the store was centered around. in 2003 there was a knight store in my shopping complex by my Safeway which wasn’t even a novelty store but just a store dedicated to anything tangentially related to knights. That guy probably was just obsessed with medieval faires and books and stories about that shit. another year or two later it vanished but then our mall mysteriously had a knight store so I figure he moved it there. my dad got an electronic Excalibur chess set there. it stuck out to me because it wasn’t a novelty shop with medieval stuff it was just strictly medieval and knight themed. I don’t think there is any chance that could succeed or stay afloat today and I think these were just guys passionate about whatever topic they centered their store around and I respect it and miss it more than you can imagine. Peak soul.

>>720165514
Oh yeah I have a bunch of memories sadly as I get older I don’t remember them all. Funny Pokémon one tou reminded me of…
We moved in 07 and my mom invited the neighbor kids over and one of them stole my brothers Pokémon cards (he got them back later somehow) I felt really bad for him. I was in HS at the time and he was in grade school. I have him my birthday money to buy as many pack of Pokémon cards as he could like 20. The sad thing that makes it funny? he got like 5 duplicates of a holographic garchomp so it was a total monkey paw moment. We still laugh about it today because it was terrible luck. I think the neighbors parents figured out those weren’t there cards and made them give them back to my little brother but the story is still funny years later.

>>720165550
I absolutely hate the modern aesthetic cars have today. So many of them look like gaming mouses. Or some kind of featureless wall-e vehicle. It’s actually gross and depressing because youre forced to look at them all every time you go out.

>>720167032
This. Also try changing a car's fucking lightbulb nowadays. You can't unless you happen to have your own fucking workshop.

>>720165181
Yeah I can sort of relate to this, right before covid happened I stopped in my old hometown I hadn’t been to in over a decade and the mall was pretty depressing. It wasn’t the fact there weren’t many people there it was the fact that half of the stores were empty so I just walked around semi reminiscing on times with my family while also realizing how much things have changed since the 2000s. It was kind of surreal and I spent a couple hours there taking it all in before leaving. I’m glad I went because I’m moving out of the state soon and won’t be able to do it again is my guess but it was a meloncholy experience.

It's not a mall, but the music is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHS1sOSdX4g

>>720163538
for a while my city had 2 subways 2 starbucks and 2 gamestops all operating within a block of each other, and the mall was only responsible for the duplicate gamestop. the other two could easily exist inside of other businesses but none of these lasted because it made no economic sense.

>>720147648
Absurdly based. This would feel totally different and suck today because you would be too self aware of the fact someone would be recording all of you guys to upload online for you to concentrate on the game. smart phones need to go.

>>720167590
I think that the fact these things were ever possible for a brief moment in time despite not making sense on paper is a good indicator of how much more stable the economy was back then where not everythinf needed to be minmaxed to be viable or survive. Just my gut feeling.

>>720139757
>I know you're some eurofag trying to act superior, but you just seem retarded.

Ist mostly because Malls around here aren't that:
>social center where you could hang out with friends and meet new people easily

The average mall in Europe is filled with people hurrying to a specific shop to get something and then leaving. Rural kids hang out in the woods, city kids in the street or actual social spaces. You'd be crazy if you wanted to use a mall to hang out here, thats all.
Malls never reall took off here, they are jsut a large building that agglomerates all the shops thatt normally would be dispersed in the streets around it.

>>720147757
This is probably the future for many people, in 10 years or 20 as more jobs get replaced by ai and automation I would not be surprised if more and more people in different countries get placed on some kind of monthly allowance fund.


However perhaps (and this is thinking optimistically which almost never is realistic) in 30 years maybe our countries can get their shit together and become so efficient, that excess money is spent making areas for people to go to to spend their time recreationally. Arcades, malls, more libraries, paintball and air soft, more gyms, things of that nature.

>>720168168
Not sure what you and that dude are talking about havent read all the posts but here in America I can say during the late 90s and the entire 2000s malls were 100 percent a social area tou could not only make friends at but a common place to go with your friends and do things with It was absolutely a social thing in many cases . This wss a product of the times I think.

Hell I remember some girl randomly giving me her number there once I didn’t even talk to. If people today are just trying to get in and out of a mall ASAP it’s probably because everyone and everythinf has gotten weird since like 2012

>>720103037
finally a reason to post this

>>720131137
I’m on my phone my computer is broken Whats are you guys hearing kek

>>720168561
Dead Rising Mall music

>>720168168
In America, malls basically replaced the idea of the town square, since everything is so spread out that a lot of us grew up only seeing such things in movies. The purpose is ultimately the same, and it should be obvious from the way we talk about it that our mall experience was different from yours. That dumb cunt was either being obtuse or is just retarded.

>>720167032
Is it emission standards? Even when a company says the want to make a nostalgiatrip car they're still all bulges and glossy curves.
They weren't even really "boxy" just had a lot of flair.
I understand that there are many practical drawbacks to these designs, but no one goes "fuck it we'll do it anyway it looks cool"

>>720167314
i think this is the biggest reason why visiting malls is so depressing. you become fully aware of how much time has passed and how the world has changed, the impermanence of it all.
every time you come back, there's always less than last time, never more. but you can still remember when it was packed full of stores and crowds
>>720147757
we're becoming a society of hermits, what's worse is that the internet, the last place people still somewhat interact with people, is that we're not even going to be interacting with humans in 10 to 20 years, the internet will be fully saturated by bots by then and we'll all be completely isolated and truly alone. like how we're nostalgic for those final years of physical places, gen alpha will be nostalgic for those final fleeting years of virtual places when you could still talk and be heard by another human being even if only digitally.

>>720169967
>like how we're nostalgic for those final years of physical places, gen alpha will be nostalgic for those final fleeting years of virtual places when you could still talk and be heard by another human being even if only digitally.
Honestly, if anything this just inspires me to enjoy it more while we can. I used to think TV would be around forever as well, shit changes, I should really stop moping about the shit I didn't appreciate enough 10 years ago and start appreciating what I still have while I still have it

>>720169967
>when you could still talk and be heard by another human being even if only digitally.
Decades ago we dreamed for an age of such extravagant abundance that every man would have a kingdom of his own.
Such hubris.

>>720169967
We are entering a dark age of the human spirit that no philosopher and no knower of man could have even foreseen. Lord help us all

>>720103419
I'm from Syracuse, our only attraction is our shitty mall

>>720170476
>My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see I was right.

>>720103419
I actually live by an incredibly active mall.

>>720169778
Car companies got way too fucking greedy by overconplicating their fucking cars. Like I mentioned earlier in this post>>720167220 you can't even change a fuckiing bulb without having to take the entire front part off for example. Today cars are build in way that you have to pay someone for some the simpliest things. Expect changing tires, I still to that on my own including that I have the right amount of air pressure on each tire. The sensors in my fucking Ford Fiesta can go and fuck themself.

>>720170861
Anon thats not a mall its a ferris wheel

>>720154587
holy fuck, core memories unlocked

>>720170889
It's the Irvine Spectrum Center. It's where all the Blizzard employees go to have lunch.

>>720169778
I think some of it people claim to be crash safety stuff where certain geometry is optimized to be the safest or something like that and because we live in an increasingly minmaxed society where everythinf is about numbers and saving money that’s part of why all cars look the same and if they don’t have any “details” anywhere it’s just stupid shit like I mentioned earlier where it looks like a RAZR mouse. The actual shape of the car still looks like dogshit they just add. Bunch of dumb shit on top of a boring shape so it again looks like a gaming mouse.

>>720170882
>>720171012
its universal nature of it that stuns me.
You can say a similar thing about videgames, but sometimes, once and a while, a good game comes out anyway.
Barrier to entry and consolidation might explain the car problem. But it seems so fatalistic.

>>720170736
From the UK here but once had a long distance relationship with a girl from upstate New York. When I went over to see her once she took me to that mall, I remember her saying something about them trying to make it the biggest mall in America, or something like that.
Small world.

>amazon :( smartphones :( antisocial :(
This isn't Facebook. You're allowed to say it

>>720171197
Righto then I'll go first.
FUCKING
JEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWS

>>720103419
I'm pretty much a half hour away from two. One's pretty much dead; there was a vidya store there which was the only reason why I went there at all, once it closed I stopped caring; the other has a FUCKING GAMESTOP

>>720169967
Nothing will ever compare to the atmosphere and hype of being in a mall with your family during Christmas shopping season in the early 2000s. if I had known how fast everythinf was going to disappear I would have savored it much more. There was just something magical to it and I hate when midwits water it down to just being younger. it was literally a different era in history where the culture was completely different and the attitude of the average person was much more friendly and relaxed than today.


economy was booming, people were optimistic and happy. surplus of choice. optimism of what the future would hold. No smart phones. Small amount of the population wss online. No brainrotted on edge divided population. Social media was in a much simpler innocent form even if you used it. people thought things were just going to continue getting better and better. Being around a shit load of people during Christmas who were happier was a great experience in a place with a thousand cool things to discover and find. Today even if a mall did exist that was the exact same until we fix people and make them less shitty it still wouldn’t be the exact same because now you would be surrounded by a bunch of brainrotted internet mindfucked people. Yes I realize that sounds rather dramatic and extreme but it’s the truth regardless. It was unironically a more happy optimistic prosperous time in addition to people being more naive and less aware of 10000000 things in the world making them jaded and more on guard against their fellow citizen.

FOOLISH /V/!!

You can post the Mall.

BUT YOU CAN'T POST THEM ALL!

>>720103419
Leaf and my city has two some what active ones. As with the times the food courts are the most active part, mostly because people are less materialistic and it's cheap with no tipping. The anchor store the Bay such down, but obviously it wasn't much of an anchor cause fuck all people shopped there. In my opinion a grocery store would do better in its place, as I said people mostly just eat now.

>>720171061
With videogames I think it’s what people have already explained on here a bajillion times that games shifted gradually from a thing made by a couple dudes to something requiring 50 people to something requiring like 200-500 or more people and essentially turned into some massive investment project. So the same sort of risk aversion people would have towards opening new businesses and stores is comparable to how today companies are not willing to risk the tens of millions of dollars that are investing into something that might be too experimental and might flop.


Im sure there are other variables as well but that’s a big one. A game today xan carry the same investment risk as opening up a new store in town. Never should have ended up like that.

>>720103868
Careful with statements like that, you'll trigger that "it's just childhood memories, everything is fine!" cult.

What's the song playing?

>>720171880
Mall Music 3 from dead rising.

>>720171739
Yes. I suppose the difference really is just that while that is true both of cars and videogames, the diffference is a few dudes can get together and make a videogame and everyone can enjoy it. You just can't do that with cars.

>>720171197
>>720171234
My theory is with all the noticing happing the genocides in Ukraine & Gaza are big land grabs before they ease off. They know Holocaust 2 is within the realm of possibility so they going to get their living space then take it easy till the heat is off.

I haven't been to a mall since probably the late 2000s or early 2010s. Even by then they were starting to feel like a novelty, with Amazon, Walmart, and other online retailers they've basically been priced and convenienced out of existence.

>>720172437
>try to poke around in thrift shops recently like I did when I was a teenager
>literally everything in the store is priced via the average sale prices on ebay
Why the FUCK would I even bother going to a thrift store if I could have just stayed home and bought cooler shit on ebay, likely for better prices?

>>720122001
>>720165828
passing out and waking up to random bumpers or the credits to shit like Robot Chicken... fuuuuuck bros..

idk why sometime in the late 2000s america suddenly declared a jihad on ornamentation and anything but boring minimalism with 7000k LED lighting
2008 vs

It's strange to me that malls are dying everywhere but my mall that's been around since I was a kid 30 years ago still gets busy as fuck on weekends and the shitty retro game store that no one buys anything at is still around

>>720172558
Exactly. I like to hit the thrift stores, surplus places etc in my area but the shit in them is always way overpriced, or its just full of actual garbage just there to take up space. Shit's depressing in a way.

>>720172749
now

My gut feeling is the death of malls is due to high rents first and foremost destroying the disposable incomes of people who would otherwise go out shopping while also making physical retail a non starter + nonstop financial gangbang on the working class since the 2000s

This coupled with E-Commerce going from a novelty to normal in less than a decade ended the mall era

>>720172404
Well, Ukraine I think is just plain-old geopolitics. US sphere of influence expanding across western europe into eastern europe and russia responding in kind. When an effective vassal state gets overthrown and the new government does a total 180 and starts cozying up with a nation state that leads a military alliance whose mission statement is to curb stomp you into the ground you'd be pretty dumb to just sit there and watch it happen.
Gaza is pretty par for the course. I think that attack in october was a false flag. Given the sophistication of the mossad's intelligence network I refuse to believe that they were just just caught completely off guard and unable to respond, and it being a mere coincidence that they were able to so effectively capitalize on it. It looks like a move straight out of the israeli handbook.
So it was planned, and if you ask why they did it, why not? They might have decided that was an opportune time with the pearl clutchers already tiring themselves out in ukraine, but ultimately they had already been slowly carrying out that colonization/conquering of palestine for decades hence so maybe they just saw an opportunity to get it done a bit faster. Given their recent "fuck it we're just going to annex gaza" I think even they were surprised at how limp wristed the international response was. Here in australia we've been reasonably immune to the american trend of treating jews like a protected class but recently that seems to have changed with some really bizarre events taking place. It seems like a far cry from the "holomodor 2: electric boogaloo".

>>720114983
>I dont know why so many retards think pushing for higher profits leads to good outcomes
It does for the people who make decisions and write laws

Pic related, "The Fountainhead," the yacht eddie lampert bought with the money he made destroying sears

>>720120040
The only Sbarro's I've seen in the last like thirteen years is the one at the mexico city airport.
Are they a regional thing?

>>720172558
Yeah I’m hoping these places go out of business soon in thr next few years. I would compare it to McDonald’s where McDonald’s and similar fast food chains had the selling point of being cheap food you could buy when you didn’t have time to make food. today you are almost paying low end or mid end restaurant prices for the volume of food tou get from tacobell or McDonald’s and now people are saying “oh we don’t know what’s happening people are buying fast food anymore” and it’s because it priced itself out of its niche that it was useful for. same applies to thrift stores where they are charging you so much there is no reason to go because there is a better selection online with better prices and deals to be found for USED items.

>>720173902
>same applies to thrift stores where they are charging you so much there is no reason to go because there is a better selection online with better prices and deals to be found for USED items.
Honestly, I've caught some of these stores charging more than it would cost to buy the thing NEW.
I frequently find clothes straight from walmart that cost more used than they would new if I actually went to walmart.

>>720174025
>>720173902
What pisses me off the most is when its donation stores doing this shit. You literally didn't pay a fucking thing for anything in your store, why are you charging as much as possible?

>>720174025
I went in one awhile ago that was selling the $550 OLED Steam Deck 500GB for like $700 lol. You could just buy the 1TB model brand new for that price.

>>720156285
damn that's a kino mall. very european

>>720174070
I suspect it’s the same issue that Walmart or target or any chain has where it’s ran like a business and there are shareholders who have invested into it who expect yearly profits so they start slowly fucking everythinf up year after year. I have never looked into or researched those donation chains but I suspect for many of them that’s the root cause. Goodwill for example has an online bidding storefront which shocked me because it seems counter to the perceived point of the store.

>>720174553
goodwill swipes everything of value that gets donated to list on their online auction house instead of putting them in the stores
they potentially make more money off of bidding wars over the fixed price that could be haggled inside their stores

i recently went to 4 different goodwills in a day looking for any niche hobby stuff and every one of them was mostly landfill-tier material. outdated electronics, broken stuff, things missing pieces, etc. absolutely nothing appealing. i went with an open mind ready to walk out with anything, but i walked out of all 4 having bought nothing.

>>720175053
Yeah it’s dogshit. Just another symptom of the times we live in. it’s like how people say many yars sales you go to, people are asking for a long for stuff because they have looked it up on eBay. Yeah I understand wanting to get some money but some people try to price match eBay. I can’t fault them 100% because I suspect part of it is the average American hurting for money in our economy but no the less it’s just another symptom of the times we live in.


I think what would be really cool would be some kind of thing like VR chat you can fuck around in with your IRL friends but it would be themed like a mall and it would be online so you could run into other olayers and people as well. It wouldn’t be the same in anyway at all but I think it would be fun to do every now and then. It would also be cool if you could hold and rotate items and buy them through Amazon or something and have them delivered to your house. But you would need some kind of ways to fuck around as well like the ability to climb things or throw objects or ride a skateboard. If you go to a digital store with fake lightsabers you need to be able to fight your friends with them and make a mess in the aisle.

>>720103151
ahhh paradise mall... home...

>>720103419
Puerto Rico and yep, they're surprisingly active still.

>>720126926
Part of the reason why people don’t go outside much anymore is increasingly every few years there is nowhere to go. Take the 90s for example you and the family or you and your buds would go to blockbuster for some movies or games. that’s gone. Now you can just stream. or download game on your console or pc. Malls are increasingly barren so you are better off just going on eBay or Amazon. Why go to the music store when you can buy your albums online digitally or order them physically? chicken or the egg situation because some people like those stores and prefer going. but with less business they go away.

>>720175157
Same. There was a big mall opening in my childhood, at the time the biggest one in our town and the neighbouring ones, too. It was always a special treat to go there. We would get icecream, visit the MickeyD's, play at the arcade, and just generally stroll around the place.

I still see it often in my dreams, the way it was, in the 80s and early 90s. And I wonder why there are some many "backrooms" type of games, yet none of them take place in malls?

>>720120713
I genuinely miss the era when the internet was just a box in your home you could disconnect from whenever you wanted.

I'm just here to say I love these threads and I love you fags who post in them.

>Had a smaller mall in my hometown
>I liked it but I really loved the much larger mall in our capitol city
>Finally move to said capital city cause of a job
>Gaming stores gone
>Hobby shops gone
>Book and magazine stores gone
>Arcade is just ticket machine stuff instead of the old time-out I loved
>Every store is just clothing, accessories, crocs or other random shit
>Even the tiny little kiosks suck dick now
I still remember when I saw that special GameCube with the DVD player on it, wish I had been a rich kid and bought it.

>>720103419
I live two blocks down from a big mall, one of the most expensive ones in the city.

>>720156285
Argentina has a lot of malls and big galleries.
It's like if it can't be a big city if it doesn't have them.

>tangentially related arcade thread got deleted

>>720178525
Unironically better times—- you could walk into a GameStop or an eb games at the mall with 20.00 and had an abundance of choice of used games you had never heard of

>>720178637
Was that around the mid or late 2000s? I remember in the early 2000s visiting sanfransisco with my family and there was a cool place called the Sony metreon. It was like 4 stories tall and it had a movie theater on the top if I remember but had a mall on one level with a few hobby shops hot topic Japanese collectible stuff etc and a big ass arcade and the bottom levels I think were places to buy Sony shit. It was the sort of place I would have gone to every week if I lived there. By the mid 2000s most of the stores were gone and they sold it sometime after that to some other group. I wasn’t even a Sony fan I liked the GameCube and Xbox more but it was just an amazing place and desu if I had gone enough they probably would have convinced me to become a sonytard

>>720104113
One mall in my city was on the verge of closing entirely until they let local businesses use space, same with the food court and also as an event center. There are a few big stores still in it like 5 below but it’s pretty cool. Shitty thing is the art house theater closed because of covid but the arcades are still open. More people actually go there to hang out now so I’d say letting locals use the space would solve dying malls.

base mod

you know, the mods are pretty alright. they could do some deviously evil shit like sneak screamer audio into horror threads at random but they don't.

>>720180094
I was lurking a gangstalking thread on /x/ once and the mods secretly added an hour long video with random door knocking sounds every few minutes, and I thought that was pretty funny

>>720103868
I'm from Dubai and all malls here are very active and full of people especially during the weekends.
I disdain the thought of it because it's really consoomer-core, but I'm curious to know what's so nostalgic about it?
Everything that's mentioned here >>720139757 except arcades still exist. What's going on over there?
On the other hand, I do feel nostalgic for the older layouts of malls. There used to be seating and soulful design like plants and skyroofs, but now that's all gone.

>>720140474
هههههههه

>>720178760
>>tangentially related arcade thread got deleted
But why

>>720106339
for me? its
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcxPd7v4KY

>>720103868
I'm afraid it's only because you were seeing the past through the eyes of a child :( we have to move forward I'm sorry

>>720167712
There's something insanely unsettling to me about large crowds of people where they're all holding up their smartphones and recording whatever is in front of them. Literal mindless zombies.

IS MY FRICKING COMPUTER HACKED???

>>720172749
>>720173029
>The mall we always used to go to had a fountain right in front of the food court
>Really helped to bring it all together
>Eventually they replaced the food court with some... juice bar or something
>Then that went out, and now it's just empty

Liminal spaces make me want to poop

>>720104103
>europe
>mall
why do you guys even need a mall? I thought they were for places challenged with transportation

>>720185037
Turns out that it's also just good for a bunch of businesses staying in business since everyone already knows where to go looking when everything is at the mall.

>>720185037
>for places challenged with transportation
I think the main difference is that european malls were in the center of towns, easily accessible. While americans usually drove to their malls.

So the mall concept is the same, people just arrive there differently.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

It's the cutest post-apoc game where everyone died and cute pokemon like creatures took over the remnants of human civilization

>>720164504
VR Chat

>be me
>early 2000s
>go with dad to big impressive mall
>we sit down and take a break
>big elaborate water fountain in the middle of the downstairs intersection like a giant roundabout
>dad gives me some random coins and tells me to throw them in and make a wish
>do that
>notice many coins other people have thrown in
>no one stole them
>see them all as peoples wishes
>years later
>malls are gone and dead
>mind blown that we had an economy so fucking good people could throw pocket change into some giant fountain and no one climbed it stealing all of it

>>720185037
Not them but one of the advantages of an indoor mall is that if the weather is fucked up it’s a nice place to hang out no matter what country youre in, malls in America are supposedly still popular in the Midwest for this reason I’ve heard

>>720186194
I liked the brand name version better

From my experience my town has a whole of plazas so people go to their nearest one instead of going to the mall.

>>720103419
Do you mean malls like in OP, or just a line of stores lined up but not inside a building? Because where I live I have a lot of the latter and 2 of the former, one of which is the largest in the country.

>>720168184
Nah man, there's no way they'd ever put people on some universal income. If we lose our job to automatization, they'll just let us starve. By now I know how it works.

>>720178525
>>720177654
Bros. I’m so glad to have experience 90s internet. It was magical. I remember even late 2000s internet when I was being a fake normalfag and going out to bars and clubs with people I barely knew and got along with, and just wanting to come home and vidya instead. Everyone’s sad that it’s gone, but I’m just glad to have experienced one of the most kino eras in movie/vidya/music before everything went to shit.

The local mall in my town will be demolished in the next ten years. I can already see it. Every year, they close down a whole area of the mall and the actual accessible area gets smaller and smaller. There’s also less and less people which is weird because our town has been growing quite steadily. I like to visit the food court to eat at the shitty local joints there every other weekend. I know I can’t save the mall single-handedly but I’ll hate myself a lot more if I don’t at least try to. Man, I’m gonna miss malls when they’re gone

>>720169967
>we're becoming a society of hermits, what's worse is that the internet, the last place people still somewhat interact with people, is that we're not even going to be interacting with humans in 10 to 20 years, the internet will be fully saturated by bots by then and we'll all be completely isolated and truly alone. like how we're nostalgic for those final years of physical places, gen alpha will be nostalgic for those final fleeting years of virtual places when you could still talk and be heard by another human being even if only digitally.

Something will replace it. People have a desire for interaction and communication. They'll find some venue for it.

But it is a shame about the internet. For an outsider it was one if the few places for ke to find like minded people. Then it became gentrified and centralized by social media. And now it's turning into some dead, posthuman wasteland altogether. Really thought we had a good thing going there, up until the mid 10's

>>720103419
Too many to count, but they all look exactly the same. They are all in dense population area so no dead mall like in the US, except when the land is designed for new condo or something like that.

ugh, what about smaller shops?

>>720104381
you know amazon? well, just imagine every amazon seller has a physical place where they sell their stuff there

Did any of you guys ever read the book snow crash? I don’t remember s lot about it it was just okay but the general premise was that many people were poor and lived and interacted primarily in cyberspace in a vr environment. I can see things becoming like this in the next decade or two where people have fewer and fewer fun places to go and just interact with their friends in cyberspaces like vr chat or something like that. Something like a much more advanced second life. I can imagine the mindset being well where is there to go? May as well just go somewhere fun together in this virtual environment we talk to eachother in every day anyway.

>>720189164
it's called RP Servers (formerly MMO)

>>720103419
Yes because its a desert climate and you’ll melt if you go out in Summer unless you decide to go to the beach, otherwise, its gotta be a mall
>>720108120
WAS MY JAM

>>720104381
go to a Costco sometime, kid

>>720112548
>6teen
oh yeah, about that show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th_-odJs3ck

>>720118597
It had zombies, right? Cool line of games, ski resort tycoon was the best

>>720189164
We already have those. It’s call roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc.

Holy basedddd, which mod gave this thread auto music?

>>720172749
it's psychological warfare
when you're surrounded by beautiful, colorful architecture and warm cozy lighting, you feel at home, at ease
when you're surrounded by featureless, bland monotone blocks and angles and cold, sterile lighting, you feel uneasy, unable to relax, constant fight or flight.
It's deliberate.
Places like malls and food places used to be designed to be warm and inviting to make you comfortable and at home while you were there, even the places people worked were like this
now everywhere is designed induce persistent tension and thus fatigue
it is all very deliberate psychological engineering designed to contribute to the total level of designed misery you exist with on a day to day basis

i can't hear the music the hell are you talking about

>>720190157
Does this gay little liminal kid bring up """demographic changes""" (browns) or not

>>720104381
A nigger nest.

>>720190310
This
The browns they built bus stops in the ghetto for specifically to bring them to the 'nice' areas of town just enhance this feeling.

where is that shit coming from

>>720106669
you are an agent of jewry

>>720154243
Good ol' early 2000s game development I'd say. Things are finally looking okay enough but shit is still really hard to make so you had to make do with what you got.

>>720190310
Why would the interior designers for these places want to make people miserable?

>>720115282
No prob anon. He also has a prequel to it, free if you wanna check it out
https://youtu.be/GtZAxm_M5qY?si=qwWd0C7LPVh49cDI
They're both real nice to play with the lights out late at night on a cold day

>>720193725
So you buy and leave instead of hanging around. Something like that.

>>720190157
>AIslop

>>720193862
it's just a photoshop though.

>>720103106
The mall in Dead Rising is based on Park Meadows, an actual mall in Colorado that is indeed quite nice

PlayStation.... Home....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjA4evwBO4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5VfjMhOTQw