/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10236758
on the one hand, they definitely feel nostalgic. the "era" of those is truly gone.comics got appropriated by narcissistic gay artists from twitter, and largely the medium has been replaced by meme format. at their best, webcomics were a fresh stream of raw creativity, a crazy medium made by nerds for nerds.
but on the other hand… most of them were crap. yeah. half of them got popular because they were new and they were about vidya, and aged about as well as Nostalgia Critic and Smosh. at their worst they gave us Loss, and plain unfunny crap drawn by people whose idea of "hilarious" was somewhere between Futurama and Garfield. half of the humor was the 2000s schtick "but he makes le funny face". and just like today, those faggot artists often were quite narcissistic and opinionated. pic related.
as much as I miss some of them—sorry, 90% of them were simply bad and aged like shit too.

>>9889187
Honestly, I blame the Genesis for bringing in normalfags who hated games to play all those dumb jock SPAWRTS games, they were unironically the genesis (heh) of how bad things would get. That VG Cats comic from 2008 said it best but both it and Penny Arcade before it blame the PS1 and Sony's ads for it on MTV when SEGA did it first.