Thread 724851569

Bros...

>>724851569 (OP)
Does venting help or just make you angrier?

Modern UI "design" is the definition of soulless slop.

>2005
>a dashboard was quirky and has SOVL
>2025
>its all just tiled squares

>>724851569 (OP)
why don't you include steam in your image?

>>724851839
Because steam is not a home console you fucking retard

>>724851867
They have a ui

>>724851920
Okay and? Still not a home console fucking retard

>>724851983
So this thread exists to only talk shit about home consoles?

>>724852015
Yes you fucking retard it's about how they used to have SOUL

>>724851569 (OP)
PATHETIC, all of them.
hold my beer of soul

>>724852101
steam used to have soul too
modern steam is only slightly better than consoles because it has to be

>>724852148
never liked skittles
too touch focused
who touches their fucking handheld screen

>>724851569 (OP)
Xbox's menu screen was pretty ugly with those stupid folde4rs on the sides.

Where did the sovl go?

https://youtu.be/XQsAju3gyKI?si=IHJXsxFU_HymfN1P

https://youtu.be/V2ph5bvNBbo?si=Ys6yxtTHoxiVGolx

https://youtu.be/KTrioimu1ns?si=LP09CzckhB2deU7P

https://youtu.be/jy8LiPJaNgk?si=FaJcEZsklww1yWsU

>>724851569 (OP)
I can't take it much longer, bros...
We NEED to go back

>>724851867
>>724851983
We don't sign our posts here

>>724852443
https://youtu.be/TkXTXWhPuj4?si=zG2GbJIEha8caXIx

>>724852540
You don't like signatures?

>>724852416
How the FUCK did Nintendo go from these mega soulful Wii musics and DS/3DS menu musics to absolutely ZERO media ANYTHING on the switch 1 & 2
Is it piracy that unironically broke them up so fucking much they fear anything multimedia on their fucking Switches now?

Guys when will the kino times return?

>>724852101
because steam never had soul, steam wasn't the gamespy arcade. Steam is what introduced steam keys to physical games. Before I bought a game, installed it and played the game, but on 2009 when I bought race on and arma 2, both IIRC (race on might've had) didn't have install files on their DVDs, and you had to activate them on steam to play. that was so long ago and nobody cried because pc gamers were already braindead

>>724852742
A world without soul will eventually cease to exist. I hope that answers your question

>>724852742
never, but in 10 years people will be nostalgic for the 10s, probably use it being just before AI as the main draw point.

>>724852742
NEVER.
The 2030+ era will a collage of AI garbage on smartphones and Meta (and competitor) glasses AR crap replacing VR

>>724852742
perfection.
also i miss those colorful monitors mang

>>724851569 (OP)
You just made this thread. And it actually did pretty well, had some actual conversation. Why make it again as soon as it's archived? And make it even more low effort than the last one? Why are you such a woman??

>>724853185
>You just made this thread
No I didn't

it really do be like that

>>724853063
Same

>>724853281
>consoles wars meant something
Yeah dude... it sure meant SOMETHING alright... meant you had to buy a whole buncha consoles to play all the fucking gaymes.
It SUCKED. Cant believe i bought an xbox, gamecube AND a ps2 to play games scattered across that bullshit.
Thank fuck most games are now simply on Steam.. and Nintendo is dogshit so can be easily disregarded

>>724852742
Never

Apologize

>>724852742
You can literally just hack Windows into Aero/Y2K or use Linux with Aero/Y2K theme. VLC has WMP skin (but Windows still has legacy WMP), Audacious has winamp skin support. You can go back whenever you feel like.

>>724853281
You mother fucker are baiting my feels
>it's 2002 or 2003, xbox is arriving to my country soon
>there's an event being held at some event center, some game related stuff, but mostly to showcase the upcoming xbox
>I'm in some room with 100-200 people where we're shown some xbox related stuff, and they ask "does anyone wanna have a go with the console?"
>I raise my hand, and I get to play some NHL 2002 against some other kid, on a console I've never played before. Naturally since I didn't play much hockey games and was bad, I lost chance for "free hot dog"
>go talk with caretaker, ask to buy a pc game. see normality and genewars, end up going with genewars because it's bullfrog game
>tfw bullfrog hasn't existed for 2 decades now
>tfw you'll never play a new console at an event and walk away with a classy PC game on your way out
It truly is over, there's no recovering from this

>>724853394
Uhuh whatever you say.

>>724853297
AAiiieEEE!! take me baaaack!!
It reminds me of pic rel, good ol times as a kid in summer

>>724853529
why is everything getting more desaturated over time
when did vivid colors become a bad thing

>>724853681
meant for >>724853471

>>724853529
Wtf is your pic supposed to mean ? what are (you) trying to say? coz i aint reading all dat garbage.
Shitty games made by shitty/woke devs got nothing to do with console wars retard. You can simply AVOID shitty games nowadays and play everything you wanna play on PC

Wtf Ryan Gosling is a zoomer?

>>724851569 (OP)
>the dashboard was good
Fuck off zoomer. Piss filters, muddy browns and bloom, washed out greys and near monochromatic looking games were cancerous ugly looking shit and this was the worst time in gaming. This picture fixes a visual tragedy too. If that's even possible.

>>724853297
It's the transparency I loved too

>>724853789
>Soul vs Soulless

>>724853852
this. The oblivion remaster was also victim of this

>>724853681
Are you serious dude? did you just conveniantly forget about the 360 era where a SHITLOAD of games had that brown filter all over the place?
In comparison games today are much more vivid than the crap we had on the PS3/360 era,
Anyway, theres always Reshade, use it and abuse it if you want super vivid stuff

>>724853852
Ah yes the 'soul' of looking like every other game on the market. Looks great! what an amazing era for aesthetics. Yes, artistic direction.

*Bomberman Hero - Redial starts playing*

>>724853880
>did you just conveniantly forget about the 360 era where a SHITLOAD of games had that brown filter all over the place?
No because I replied to a gen 5/6 image. 360 era was dogshit and I don't miss it.

>>724853493
>that song
based

>>724853789
This image refuse to load for anyone else?

Yup... there younger generations just don't get what it was all about....they don't understand ARTISTIC VISION

>>724854030
Blame call of duty and the dudebro audience for this shit.

>>724853973
Ok yeah fair enough, i agree. But yeah use some Reshade to make games more vivid if you miss the older colors. Made me enjoy many games much more with it on

>>724854012
yeah the bottom half is all white for me...maybe that anon made up open malware disguised as an image that loads "forever" lol

>>724852626
Funny how around 2010, these signatures turned into mental illnesses and later into genders and sexual fetishes.

>>724853486
Aero is and forever will be lame and gay, and I say this as someone who's still on 7. Fuck M$ for purposely gimping the classic theme to force you to use Aero or else, and fuck you.

>>724852540
We try to understand the proper usage of a phrase before using it here

>>724854259
Whats so bad about Aero, and tell me without being assblasted for whatever reason.
You dont like its design? ( cause that would be subjective) , unless the functionality or responsiveness with Aero sucked..?

>>724854095
Yep, dudebro and call of duty are the cancer of gaming. Me? I'm all about amulets & armor

>>724854137
online gaming just isn't the same

I miss it, and I think the worst part is knowing you can never go back.

>>724854396
delete this

>>724853281
Should've been gatekeeping vidya, but nooo. Retards encouraged the cancer to come in because they didn't want to be seen as "weird" or "dorky" for liking video games.

>>724854396
Keep this posted.
For me it's GBC baby.

>>724854145

are you pretending people didn't have
>Furry Fan
>Yaoi Fan
>Yuri Fan
>BDSM Fan
in their sigs? stop pretending lgbt shit is new.

>>724851569 (OP)
The blades were so kino, I can't believe they got rid of them because they wanted to add more ads.

>>724851674
scientists have discovered that venting does not actually help, and makes things worse.

>>724854559
Everything until DS really.
You can really notice how retarded the designs become after that and it never recovers.
Just adding new Pokemon for the sake of adding new ones.

Can y'all stfu already!?! Dumb fucking goys, let it go

>>724854396
Gen 3 was the last good one.

Had they simply delayed gen 4 and combined gen 4 and gen 5 into a single game it would of been amazing.

>>724852148
So good https://youtu.be/f2mvXaqpUxY

>>724854757
We've lost something along the way... a parasite sucked out our life force.

>>724851569 (OP)
I honestly liked it when Xbox updated the dashboard

>>724854757
Fucking kill yourself kike

>>724852443
This is how I feel too anon.

>>724854809
damn picrel was really all the good stuff. everything sorta started going downhill after these two gens

>>724854396
>started with Gen 3 (JP version of Ruby and EN version of Sapphire), later on got Emerald as well
>absolutely loved it, but also saw a friend playing Gen 2 on his GBC
>eventually emulate Crystal and it's also super fun, Unown Ruins were something else
>somehow never played Gen 1 (even though I absolutely loved anime - watched it up until Orange Islands)
>Gen 4 felt waaaaay too slow for me - I did finish Diamond but dropped it during postgame, and I didn't even finish Platinum as I got bored by trying to catch Giratina
>never played mainline Pokemon games after that
In hindsight Gen 4 did me a favour because I doubt I'd enjoy any Pokemon game after that.

>>724855098
the new games are great what are you talking about anon

>>724855142
>the new games are great
We agree to disagree on this topic

>>724854932
>Fucking kill yourself kike
Shut. up. You cant do nothing about us.
Keep sending those money to us, goym.
You cant do nothing, we are too powerful.

You will never get your "good times" back, slave. We even took your foreskin!

>>724854809
Are you forgetting the limited edition ps4 pro? it's not like this idea died. That is kind of reaching in some regard. You can hate new UIs and new games, but I don't understand your case here.

>>724851569 (OP)
ah yes, the brown shooter console with borderline criminal failure rates that introduced paid online, console DRM and dashboard ads, the 1k console in today's money with no fucking games and the kiddie / grandma gimmick waggleslop machine
truly the golden age

>>724851569 (OP)
I blame phones for how trash UIs are in everything. Not just games, but PC and touch screens where you order food. Just everything sucks.

>>724854809
I wonder if it's the idea of wanting to be taken "seriously". As in, the console of the times were an evolution of toys and they wanted to appear more playful and fun with a lot of bright colors. But now, it has to be serious and boring.

>>724855292
PS4 pro is a joke, same as ps5 or ps5 pro

>>724852742
You'll be nostalgic for flat when the next horrible trend comes out.

>>724856843
i really wont.

>>724851569 (OP)
It's always bizarre to me how these companies forgot they make ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS
Like nignog make the product entertaining, what the fuck do you think you're achieving by sterilizing everything

>>724856941
buh anon if they dont sterilize everything how will they ever appeal to NORMALFAGGOTNIGGERS

Don't worry, there is a non 0 chance that we will experience the same life again.

>>724852239
>who touches their fucking handheld screen
the majority of the population

>>724853459
Those memes are really kino

>>724853493
>or use Linux with Aero/Y2K theme
I'm still waiting for someone to make a windows 2k theme for Linux.

>>724853819
Transparent plastic was cool

>>724854396
You can really see the drop off starting with gen 5

>>724852148
worst aspect of the vita, PSP had the best interface

>>724852626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4BzudoFf8w

>>724851569 (OP)
I remember my mind being blown when I went round to my friends house and he showed me how to use an emulator to play pokemon on my pc

>>724852626
You aren't emo if you didn't make
>to hell with you and all your friends
your xbox motto.

>>724852291
I remember thinking this felt soulless and boring at the time. If only I knew how bad things were going to get.

>>724857927
You aren't a gamer if you didn't send racial and homophobic slurs over xbox live

>>724858020
Oh I did all of the fucking time. You were either a jew or a nigger if you were on the winning team and I wasn't.

>>724851569 (OP)
>Dark theme is... le dark?

>>724851569 (OP)
Soul is never coming back

>>724858281
I literally looked like a male version of that when I was 16.

>>724858309
>male version?

>>724851569 (OP)
Damn I forgot about that little big planet background

>>724852291
this might sound really autistic but i liked how the xmb clock turned into a radar when loading things. is there a way to emulate the xmb on pc? my ps3 fat broke a long time ago and i just wanna watch it spin again lmao

>>724858314
Body dysmoprhia is a hell of a mental illness

>>724854652
one of the most sovlful manuals of all time...

>>724858418
Yeah this was..... I was 16 or 17 so it'd be 2009? I was 17 when mw2 came out and it was around that era.

>>724858532
I kinda understand now why you boomers want to go back in time.

>>724852148
This was such a huge step down from the XMB

Why do we continue to exist in the nightmare we're in

>>724851707
Win8 won

>>724858314
>Wholesome to Whore
We live in a broken world

>>724858703
ewww why is it peeling own skin

>>724858769
You didn't regularly molt as a child?

>>724858616
>>724858616
Yeah emo chicks, myspace, wc3 custom maps, cs 1.6. every big game felt like it had a huge mod scene and custom map scene. So the value you'd get from ONE game easily X10 anything you'd get today. No dlc existed for the most part just big expansion packs. No gay ass leveling systems.

That of course changes in that era. It all started with Xbox 360 era of games. But before that was a golden age. Shit just how people behaved, people actually interacted. Fuckin MMOs felt like MMOs

>>724858837
kill every person on tiktok

>>724858837
bisexual tranny? what?

some people just are born without soul

>>724858985
>Indian
....blud thought we were gonna side with him

>>724858985
holy fucking based

Apple deserves credit for getting away from minimalist crap

>>724853063
>>724853297
It's time to buy a new phone

>>724851569 (OP)
>Hire women
>Everything goes to shit
Tale as old as time

>>724859034
To be fair they kinda invented or at least popularized it so apple doing it isn't much of a
>oh wow, look how soulless apple is now
Granted they don't do cool shit like their transparent colored macs anymore but still.

>>724859030
>Indian

>>724858703
Man

>>724858985
I really wish there was a button to literally kill everyone that uses Tiktok, I would also add Twitter since I've never even used but the type of people are those you would want to die.

>>724859186
can we spare the sexy kpop idols

>>724859237
the kpop dies first.

>>724859186
twitter is especially bad because it is FULL of indians.

>>724859083
ok

>>724852367
>no audio webms you can hear

>>724859237
No, gook lovers will be the first in line.

>>724859253
>>724859290
no... this can't be.....

>>724851569 (OP)
nortubel tier meme

>>724858418
My gf did not like this image

>>724859290
>This is what white men live for.

>>724859290
Every bitch that looks like that muskrat doll has a white boyfriend at my University. Toronto baybay.

>>724859276
Do they still make regular cellphones with regular fucking buttons like these old Motorola flip phones? Does Motorola even exist or it went the way of Nokia?

>>724852148
i hated this ui. felt too childish/phone like.

>>724859347
>AAHHHH THEY BECAME ATTRACTIVE STRAIGHT WHITE PEOPLE SAVE ME NIGGERMAN

>>724854396
Bump

If you know you know

>>724856375
base ps5 is fine for the performance/price. Both pro models are meh with the ps5 pro being seeming even more pointless.

>>724860458
even better, the fangames were sometimes better than the originals

>>724860494
my favorite is this image.
doesnt use any terminology to try and sway you, simply shows you how it was then and how it is now.

>>724860742
Honestly if you grew up during 95-2005 you basically won at life. Everything from games, movies, TV, music etc was so fucking good that even now all we seem to get is remakes/sequels to all the IP's in that decade.

>>724852443
maybe if you get into heaven we can ask to relive our past life, like a VR or something. could ask for orgy nonstop orgasm I mean there is no life after afterlife, just heaven and hell so do a good deeds always.

>>724859290
this is my ideal woman

>>724860848
i was born in 2002 and my parents only allowed me online in 2015
i am left longing for an internet i never got to truly experience.
at least i grew up with ocarina of time and the Simpsons movie.

>>724854570
Disingenuous post.

>>724858985
We need edits of this good lord.

>>724852367
Xbox and Gamecube have the best intros.
Dreamcast has the best name.
PS2 has the Emotion Engine which I like but it's not part of the product unless you're a faggot.

>>724858616
Faggot.

>>724851569 (OP)
UIs of the past used to made to give a deliberate unique identity and give the user an artistic experience
now theyre just being created with intent to ease navigation and purchase flow for the lowest common denominator
thats why everything is tile based shlock
artistry is dead in AAA after the 7th gen when the investors and c-suites seized all creative control

>>724851569 (OP)
Modern UI is a literal demoralization ritual. Big tech is literally demonic and delights in making everything lame and gay

>>724858281
>>724858314
fucking hell man
the plastic op shit is getting obscene
ive seen so many good looking women who destroyed their natural beauty through it
same shit with the abundance of tats some have

>>724861082
>only allowed me online in 2015
thank god my mom was completely tech illiterate and had no idea what the internet was like

>>724852367
>the generation where every console wasted 10s of your life with pointless boot-up animations
Meanwhile I'd already be 10s into a level in Duck Tales 2 on my NES.

>>724861947
my parents were too but in the wrong way of thinking that it was this evil horrible place because of what the news told them.

>>724851707
just you wait until the scourge of 45° rotated squares becomes omnipresent

>>724862090
I'm glad the virtual mouse cursor bullshit never really panned out that some games were trying to push of that era.

>>724856843
i always loved flat shit when it implied a bigger focus on cool shapes or interesting composition, but globohomo artstyle is just a cost cutting measure

>>724857767
lol i had that cd player / radio combo

>>724854396
I like the 3DS a lot but man some sequels on it nosedived the overall quality of some franchises.

>>724857649
https://www.pling.com/p/2138468/ global theme for KDE

>>724852291
and it still feels fresh
this is the kind of foresight developers and the industry used to have
those people have either left or been ousted by now

>>724853529
developers back then actually had way more say in how the game went about and didnt think their audience was made entirely up off dumbasses incapable of learning something new
that changed once the suits descended upon those current legacy studios we supported and veered off in the direction of making gaming accessible to everyone and everything
meaning they went out their way to dumb down game experiences and remove mechanics - turning them into the most hollow experiences possible so they could to please the dumbasses
those same dumbasses have been ruling gaming journalism for ten years or more - smashing and burying games that tried to be the way they used to be
thinking about modern day AAA can get frustrating at times
thank fuck some AA and indies dodge that shit

Instead of just thinking about the past and its nostalgia. Why don't we just make new things to be nostalgic for? Not very hard if you ask me

>>724863224
I wish it had a prober dark mode.

>>724864568
>i want to go back
>goes back
>NOOOO WHERE ARE MY MODERN CONVENIENCES
everytime

everything fucking looks the same. everything fucking plays the same.