Thread 723131283

I miss this

What are you poor lol

Everyone gets old. Try and do it gracefully.

>>723131283 (OP)
name 5 recent games that do this

>>723131283 (OP)
The Simpsons is still on air

>>723131283 (OP)
Yeah and it sucked ass for tournaments. Good riddance

>>723131534
All gacha games do that.

>>723131567
Simpsons ended after season 9, the last 28 seasons don't count

>>723131631
gacha arent games

>>723131283 (OP)
You still unlock characters by playing. Most games only lock skins behind paying, and even then that varies pretty heavily.

mainstream gaming went to shit when zoomers became the main demographic for video games. younger generations will always be the target demographic for video games and corporations realized zoomers, and now gen alpha, are absolute cattle they can abuse to maximize their profits.

>thought I loved fighting games with unlockable characters
>mfw I download old games to play with my family on a whim only to learn 3/4ths of the cast are initially locked

>>723131594
This. Only casuals miss this shit because they'd play the game until unlocking everything and then forget about it

>>723131534
Sonic Racing Crossworlds (Super Sonic)
Elden Ring Nightreign (Revenant and Duchess)
Mario Kart World (NPC characters)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 (Birdman, Officer Dick, Michelangelo, some more I think I stopped playing)
Expedition 33 (you unlock party members as you progress)
Easy

>>723131718
I don't consider them game but we talking about zoomers here.

>>723131283 (OP)
Back in my day we had all characters from the start and didn't need to unlock them with a skinnerbox

>>723131467
I will not

>>723131283 (OP)
no back in your day you paid or more lives after a game over

>>723132210
You forgot your image.

>>723131467
It's crazy how every guy in that pic looks effay as fuck and i look like shit in everything i wear

>>723131778
Yes paying for items the way to go.

>>723131283 (OP)
funny because you unlock characters (and costumes) by playing in mario kart world

>>723131594
>muh esports
Truly a cancer upon videogames.

>>723132249
lmao this

arcades are a much bigger jewery than any modern practice and you people ate that shit up

>>723132334
It's because they're tall and lean. Picture looks like late 70s/early 80s, people were just healthier back then. Well, minus the smoking, anyway.

>>723132515
That's been a problem since way before esports were even a thing, dummy.

>>723132334
Have you tried not being a fat fuck?

>>723131467
>>723132334
I think it might actually be an ad for Jeans.

>>723132623
>>723132708
i'm not fat i can rock a size S shirt i just have chubby thighs

Its funny in a way that I don't remember his name but I remember some guy talking about what was going to be a new Ultima game. He talked about how in video games maybe you have to kill a dragon but youre too busy so you just pay some money to kill the dragon and everyone roasted the fuck out of him
How far we've fallen

>>723131594
paying for unlocks sucks even more ass for tournaments

>>723131283 (OP)

THERE AIN'T NO "BACK IN THE DAY" NIGGER!
It's just the street, and the game, and what happen here today.

>>723133242
I remember that
iirc it was a proposed remake of 4

>>723133231
You've been blessed. Make femboy porn for a few years, then retire.

>>723131283 (OP)
unlockable characters are just base roster characters made unlockable lol, they're not comparable to DLC or gacha who are explicitly not base roster characters

>>723133242
Times change.

>>723131594
>tournaments
>niche community thing that only impacts competitive multiplayer games
>that organizers couldn't bother setting up by trading save files apparently
>in an era where cheat codes and console commands were halfway expected
do you have a fetish for spouting retarded shit or what

>>723132738
Everything changed for me when my online internet friend whose name I can't even remember now introduced me to gelbooru when I was like 14.

>Ah hell nah unc is broke frfr :skull: :wiltedrose:
How did corpos do it? How did they so easily cultivate these type of people who'll freely shit on people who think you shouldn't have to pay for extra in a video game. Is it the current culture where if you aren't "iced out" you're broke?

>>723133510
>ye olde twitter
>phil fish as the "good guy"
they really do

>>723133518
Yeah anon, you try getting 24 gamecube memory cards with a fully unlocked Melee roster back in 2009 and tell me it's not a pain in the fucking ass

>>723131668
no it ended after season 11 episode 5, dummy.

>>723133642
Managed to wrangle the volatility of the current generation to be beneficial.
Doesn't help that the only thing kids know these days is gacha games, games with daily treadmills, battle passes, etc.

>>723133927
yeah because improving your melee local experience was clearly the intent of adding minibuys and inane progression systems to everything and anything
faggot

>>723133487
>unlockable characters are just base roster characters made unlockable lol, they're not comparable to DLC
doesheknow.jpg

>>723133510
checked to see what he's been up to lately and apparently adam boy is working on metaverse slop, incredible how these companies can burn so much money

>>723131594
So none of your retarded tournament organizers had a fucking memory card with a save file?

>>723133510
>Electricity goes out in neighbourhood
>Read the old testament by candle light
>The night is extrenely quiet and you just feel much better because you're not being bombarded by 240 devices around you with a wifi signal

>>723131283 (OP)
Funny how everyone will (rightfully) shit on this when it involves money but not when 90% of the game's content is locked behind dozens of hours of meta progression. I am so fucking tired of every multiplayer game out there giving you some treadmill or "long term goal" of a gorillion unlocks where you're forced to use a garbage version of what you want to equip over and over and over until you can pick what you actually want out of it.
But what's even worse is when this bleeds over into PvE games. There's no point in Helldivers or DRG or Darktide locking 90% of player power and choices behind needless grinding until you are given the actual intended gameplay hundreds of hours after you've started playing. And it's unbelievable that anyone defends this because "there'd be no point in playing otherwise" as if the game is somehow so bland to play you need an extrinsic motivation of a bar to fill up. You look at L4D and there's no experience or twenty granular stats or weapon mods to unlock, you boot up the game and you fucking play it and have fun.

>>723133927
It was called using a Gameshark, retard.

>>723131283 (OP)
It was fun to unlock every character in smash ultimate

>>723134923
cawadooty got a lot of players by offering extrinsic motivation to people with no intrinsic one
and in the current day and age of investor scamming """engagement""" is quite literally the only metric that matters

>>723131594
Everyone will be better off when you kys, especially you

>>723134569
Nah they did, anon is just a baiting retard. Besides, if they didn’t, these tournament-goers are actually, y’know, good at the game. So unlocking everything wouldn’t take that long.

>>723133927
>What is Action Replay
Also I guess buying character DLC for 200 bucks times 24 consoles is a better way to do it, right?

>>723131283 (OP)
I prefer the current model where games don't immediately get abandoned.

>>723134923
Yeah, you play it and have fun and are done in like 10 hours tops because you finished the game.
Meanwhile DRG can milk hundreds of hours dangling the carrot of a new thing in front of a player.
No, the gameplay is not engaging enough alone to keep player attention for nearly that amount of time.

lol

>>723131283 (OP)
You can still unlock characters just by playing. You even got some sense of pride and accomplishment out of it too.

And with a mighty cheer, the Gamers banished the AAA game studios.....because they were woke.
Now play your Gacha games

>>723135889
I'd like to but I'm out of resources.

>>723131283 (OP)
>Back in my day we unlocked characters by buying the same full price game twice

>>723134923
Modern games are progress bars simulators driven by video games yea, it's fucking awful.
Usually it's because they want to sell a way to make the progress bar faster or to abuse retards by forcing them to keep playing until they release new DLC so all their addicts will buy it. Or just to force them to keep the multiplayer alive because otherwise everyone would just quit.

And like you said, they're so addicted that the simple idea of playing for fun is alien and they get insanely angry when you point it out.

>>723133071
>an ad for Jeans.
Welcome to America.
Captcha: PARTS

>>723132334
Men used to not be afraid of other people thinking they're gay so they would wear tight pants and crop tops and showing off their man cleavage.

>>723131283 (OP)
>hidden characters that you could only unlock via cheat codes
>said cheat codes were only found in cheat books, magazines, or PSUnderground demo disks
Can't say I exactly miss that aspect of retro vidya, but it certainly gave those games a certain aura of mystique that you don't really see nowadays, especially given games today can just be entirely datamined weeks or even months before they're fully released.

>>723132738
>-transfemale
Blue image site user here
Even this doesn't catch it
"Tag what you see" + toxic pride culture means you have to manually catch trans flags and trans characters where the image is a "crop" by design to fool you/archive like a self obsessed trap but in an even more disgusting way

>to unlock this character you need to beat the game on hard mode with every other character, then start a new game and when you get to stage 8 you need to intentionally die which will actually take you to a new progression where you need to win in under 90 seconds without pressing the B button ever
Don't miss this

>>723132738
Back in my day futanari had vaginas!
futa means two in Japanese, like, two sets of genitalia

>>723138037
Name one (1) game
Hard mode: It isn't a fighting game

>>723131467
I'm not a ballerina

>>723131283 (OP)
That was always a retarded claim.
they only took the launch cast and locked it away behind some sort of feat.
And it wasnt a good thing either.
I dont want to mash for hours against the cpu to unlock some shit before I can use it when friends come over. This was one of those few objective improvements in modern times.

>>723131770
yeah its shit.

>>723138394
Any game worth a shit had cheat codes to let you unlock everything and those that didn't could be cracked open with a Game Shark or other cheat engine

Back in my day, we didn't have DLC, we just had expansion packs.
Minecraft was what truly normalized all this "early access" bullshit. To this day, I still adamantly refuse to pay money for an unfinished game.

>>723138052
two balls you say? got it

>>723138537
the majority of games absolutely did not have cheats like that and I shouldnt have to buy a game shark for all of my systems for this meme.
I had one for the gameboy to unlock mew and that was expensive enough (made the money back by selling mew)

>>723138052
>sites removing shemale tag so you literally can't look for actual futanari while filtering shemales or even specifically look for shemales while filtering futanari if you want
It's like they completely miss the fucking point of a tagging system

>>723131467
a world before fritos corn syrup preservatives was in every edible food and drink
but hey america lives it's freedumbs

>>723131283 (OP)
Same for skins.

>>723133432
nah i'm not built like that, just a tall guy with a natural 32 waist so i look like shit in whatever pants i wear

>>723134923
>You look at L4D and there's no experience or twenty granular stats or weapon mods to unlock, you boot up the game and you fucking play it and have fun.
So go play that.

>>723131283 (OP)
>Ohhh, copy protection, don't even get me started! Nowadays, you kids complain about your Denewgo or whatever it is, but back in my day, you had to have the manual for every game you had. It didn't matter if Uncle Willy made a copy of a game on floppy disk, if you didn't know what the sacred symbol was on page 14 and use the secret code key included in the box, you wouldn't be able to play unless you bruteforced it for days on end! Some games would even have you attempt to match up a fingerprint or an obtuse shape and every single time you got it wrong, you had to restart the game, wait several minutes for it to load, and then it'd give you a different thing to try and find! And after all that, the game STILL ran at low FPS like Denewgo does!

>>723131283 (OP)
Which is worse?
>$10 game and you get all 5 characters
>FREE game and you get 3 of them but the other two are $5 each

>>723139745
second is obviously superior in this example because it lets you try with no downside.
but its pretty much never like that in reality.

>>723131283 (OP)
Back in my day, OP wasn't a faggot.

>>723139745
Second is worse. First is better because I don't lose access to my characters when they shut the online service down and I can probably get the game on sale for $5 at some point if I'm patient.

>>723140436
if the service goes down just pirate it.
"ownership" of games is such a meme.

>>723139745
that depends on what you measure
the second point is not financially viable, as shareware and things like mobile ace attorney showed
between freemium stuff that is designed to milk non-payers via ads, gacha that exploits gambling addicts, and conventional buy-in, the second format doesn't feel like "a game i was playing for free that i am willing to support by buying shit" but "a game that charges an arm and a leg for barely anything, might as well stay ftp"

>>723131283 (OP)
Back in the back in the day you had to pay every time just to play once and you died in like 5 seconds if you haven't played 10 times before.

>>723131283 (OP)
You unlocked characters with your time. Money is cheaper than my time, I'll rather have what we have now.

>>723131718
All AAA games will either die or become gacha games.

Battle Passes are better than map packs

Only lying zoomers who werent born then will argue otherwise