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Which part of the 2000s was better for gaming?

>> No.7120848

Soul vs soulless

>> No.7120852

>>7120848
>Scene girls
>Soulless

>> No.7120859 [DELETED] 

>>7120848
nigger vs tongue my anus

>> No.7120862

>>7120842
a soon as the iphone came out and consoles had internet integrated in the systems the internet died more retards could join the internet

>> No.7120863

GameCube era

>> No.7120883

>>7120842
both were complete shit

>> No.7120893

>>7120842
Hmm, what was worse? PS2 shovelware or Wii shovelware?

>> No.7120921 [DELETED] 

>>7120842
both sucked

>> No.7121029

>>7120921
That's what she said

>> No.7121168

>>7120852
The only part I disagree with. Scene girls existed in the early 2000s too, they were cuter then anyway.

>> No.7121170

>>7121168
What are the visual differences between early and late 2000s scene girls?

>> No.7121183

>>7121170
Colors weren't as loud, for one. It was more about cute girls with cute haircuts in form fitting flannel shirts with dark eye makeup than it was about teasing their hair up and wearing 50 neon bracelets.
It was a special time.

>> No.7121187

Year 2000 was the peak. Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate 2, among many others (FF9), came out that year. Late 2000s were the lowest point of gaming I've ever seen, when triple A garbage and mobile shovelware completely took over the industry. I got much more into old games at this time because shit was so terrible. We've only just begun to recover in the last few years with a strong independent scene.

>> No.7121236

>>7120842
That even a question? 00-04

>> No.7121239

>>7120842
Early.
I'd say 90s to early 2000s was the peak as far as actual design goes.
Once AA+ games had to start selling 500k+ (roughly 97~) the mid-tier developers started dying off and everyone started chasing the lowest common denominator for the numbers.
We saw the result of that in the mid to late 2000s and of course shit like social media and post-Java phone games.

That's not to say there's no good shit later on but the middle market clearly took a huge downturn until recently.

>> No.7121775

>>7120842
As much as I think the PS3 and 360 made up the worst console generation, a lot of really good PS2 games came out between 05 and 09

>> No.7121783

>>7120842
2000-2004 was the best time.

>> No.7121982

I had to think about it, but the earlier 00s were more soul. The latter half of the 00s is where things started to go downhill and it was hard to accept for a long time.

>> No.7122328

>>7120842
>early 2000's
Soulful culture, not much different from the late 90's, people were flawed but not so bad, some music on the radio was still decent.
>late 2000's
Same dogshit culture of narcissism and self-importance that have made 2010's-present day miserable, and everyone's just a cunt, and all music on the radio is irredeemable, unlistenable shit made for tasteless, toothless dogs.

>> No.7122352

>>7120842
2000-2007. After 07 the vibe changed and became lame (social media).

>> No.7122365

Didn't Malcolm in the Middle end around 2004?

>> No.7122954

>>7122365
2006

>> No.7122998

You could be in 2007 and play a 2002 game.

>> No.7123002

Once we got to Amiga 500 we were sorted for games forever.

>> No.7123043

>>7120842
I had to act like an adult by the late 2000s. Early 2000s wins by default.

>> No.7123052

>>7120842
I'd say the early 2000s had much more memorable stuff than most of what the mid-to-late 2000s had to offer, not to mention other huge issues that anons like >>7121187 and >>7121239 already talked about in terms of influence and overall quality.
>>7120893
With PS2 shovelware you at least get to always use physical buttons (which means that the game's more responsive / controls slightly better), with Wii shovelware you're almost always gonna deal with poorly-implemented motion controls.

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7123343

>2000-2004
>DBZ
lol americans

>> No.7123483

>>7120842
2000-2004 easily

>> No.7124647

>>7121183
>50 neon bracelets.
Protip, those were to cover the self-harm scars.

>> No.7124684

>>7123334
>tfw no qt y2k mall goth gf

>> No.7124708

>>7120842
God I miss the early 00s so much

>> No.7124719

>>7120842
>EA bought out Maxis in 1997.
>Microsoft buys out Micropose in 1999.
>Lucasfilm Games division was reorganized into LucasArts in 1990.
2000 was already in a death spiral before it even started.

>> No.7124758

>>7122328
Only boomers listen to music on the radio anon

>> No.7124759

>>7124719
LucasArts had a fantastic run in the 90s tho

>> No.7125835

>>7123343
>Spanish filename
>Catalan product

>> No.7126867

>>7124708
What in particular?

>> No.7126930

>>7124719
>Microsoft buys out Micropose in 1999
No, that was Hasbro Interactive/Infogrammes.

>> No.7127069

>>7122352
This is true. My friends and I referred to 2008 to 200HATE because the world was becoming a world of shit

>> No.7127076

>>7124758
Stupid fucking zoomer

>> No.7127079

>>7127076
He's not wrong kek, most people (even boomers) have their phone linked to car or at bare minimum CD's

>> No.7127084

early 2000s was absolute fucking peak

>> No.7127109

>>7122352
/thread.

>> No.7127115

>>7120842
You are already perfectly aware.
Some of those TV shows for late 00s seem off though

>> No.7127118

>>7120842
80s > 90s > 00-04 > 05-09 = everything after

>> No.7127140

Pluto is a fucking planet /v/irgins.
Whoever thinks that its some faggot dwarf planet or planetoid can suck my shit. Fuckers.

>> No.7127148

>>7127140
Um sweetie, the science man on tv said no

>> No.7127220

>>7127079
Yeah you're right. In the era we are larping about but in the mid 90s everyone was recording songs of the radio with tapes

>> No.7127245

>>7127148
I bet you fucking love science.

>> No.7127273

>>7127245
I love fucking science.

I call your mom science

>> No.7127306

>>7127273
Me too.
I call your dad my lab partner.

>> No.7127641

>>7127118
80s is the worst fucking decade ever, it had a lot of the same shit that is present now with everybody wanting to be gigachads and megastacys and being fucking narcisists. Music was shit in terms of composition and specially production ("we arena now guys, let's put ridiculous ammounts of reverb on the snare drum so idiots think we always play for 500k people") man fuck the 80s

>> No.7127667

Tough call. videogame wise I'd have to give it to 00-04, re: other aspects of life I have a lot of good memories of the late 2000s but that's probably nostalgia goggles because i graduated high school in 09

>> No.7127884

>>7127140
Its orbit and size is far different from the other 8. If you include Pluto you may as well include Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea, thus making 13 planets.

>> No.7127914 [DELETED] 

>>7127641
lol, nice parroted opinion from a zoomer who was never alive back then.
I bet you also think the 80s aesthetic actually looked like that faux 80s aesthetic these vaporwave/futurefunk guys push.

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I remember Millennials were sad when CN's golden age (1997-2004) ended and the Zoomer era started with stuff like Camp Lazlo and Ben 10.

>> No.7127989 [DELETED] 

>>7127980
A lot of the Zoomer shows were still good, but post-04 CN wasn't as "magic" to Millennials, maybe because they weren't kids anymore.

>> No.7128025 [DELETED] 

>>7127980
Who gives a fuck

>> No.7128039

>>7127641
90s was literally just a gay version of the 80s.

>> No.7128041

>>7128039
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties

>> No.7128108

>>7123334
It was a different time.

>> No.7128120

>>7124758
just wait until youre old enough to drive champ. btw you have to be 18 to use this site.

>> No.7128132 [DELETED] 

>>7127148
>science nigger said so
nye and tyson both support trannies despite the inability to change x and y chromosomes so what does that tell you?

>> No.7128138

>>7120842
late 2000s was literally worse than what we have now somehow. early 2000s arguably was one of the best periods for gaming.

>> No.7128169

The difference between early/mid/late 90s is much bigger than early/mid/late 2000s. In 2009, you could get away with listening to 2000 songs and dressing in 2000 fashion and it wouldn't have seemed that long ago.

You couldn't get away with dressing like 1990 and listening to 1990 music in 1999 without it seeming long ago. Each third of the 90s was like a compressed decade in and of itself, from neon 80s leftover (early 90s) to rustic grunge angst (mid 90s) to Y2K chrome bling (late 90s).

>> No.7128272

05-09

>> No.7128281

the early 2000s but i'm not going to act like nothing good came out in the second half either

>> No.7128365

>>7124708
Me too anon, I feel like everything was miles better than today. I hear this said so much so surely its not just me..

>> No.7129485

>>7120842
2000-2004 for real gaming and real life, but the latter for quantity since no one was downloading 40 gig romsets with a 56k or worse modem beforehand.

>> No.7129550

>>7123334
>i want the school shooter fade

>> No.7129589

>>7120842
Some great games from both, but I felt like an absolute incel trainwreck during the first half and had a fat, shitty girlfriend for the second. I do not look back fondly on those years.

>> No.7129653
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7129653

2000S GAMING NOSTALGIA THREAD?
HAHAHAHA.

IF YOU LOOK BACK FONDLY ON ANY ASPECT OF N*GGERIZED POST-INTERNET POP CULTURE, FULL OF TRANNIES AND RAP "MUSIC", THEN I DONT KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU MAN.

REMINDER: PS3 HAD NO GAMES
REMINDER: WII WAGGLAN
REMINDER: 360 BROWNAN BLOOMAN
REMINDER: CASUALS
REMINDER: EMO KIDS AND SCENE GIRLS WERE THE GAYEST SHIT EVER TO THAT POINT.

6TH GEN BLOWED CHUNKS TOO. OCARINA OF TIME AND FF7 WILL ALWAYS REIGN SUPREME, "BRAH." SORRY NOT SORRY.


IN ONLY A YEAR OR SO WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING THREADS ABOUT HOW THE 2010S WERE A SOULFUL DECADE. "GOD I MISS THE PS4 AND WIIU. MUH NOSTALGIC FEELS."


AND YOU'RE GONNA SIT DOWN AND TAKE IT IN THE ASS LIKE A GOOD WHITE BOY, WONT YOU?

>> No.7129684

>>7129653
00-07 were good. plenty of nostalgia to be had.

>> No.7129697

>>7129653
goddamn nigga shut the fuck up lol

>> No.7129928

>>7129653
You're only hating on the 2nd half of the 2000s. What about the first half?

>> No.7130458

>>7127914
stay mad fag, 80s are fucking trash and normie taste

>> No.7131983

>>7129697
>lol

We post images here.

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>>7120842
the mid-2000s, particularly 2004 and 2005.

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>>7132170
>All that shovelware
There are great games there though

>> No.7132304

>>7129653
spot on

>> No.7132482

>>7120842
I feel weird, I mean I prefer 2000 than 2005, but for some reason I love 2000 only because I know there are (going to be) better things and is just something in transition. Like, in the future we might had a console, music player, internet and a phone in our pockets! But for now have these gadgets.

>> No.7132492

Early 2000's easily, culture was more edgier in general too. 2006 onward had some good stuff, but there was just as much bad, and a lot of the shitty stuff we have now like social media and centralization and everything being too offensive or needing all soul removed really started or took off around that time.

>> No.7133706

>>7129589
Was the oral sex good?

>> No.7133934

>>7132170
cringe

>> No.7134076

>>7120842
worst decade in gaming, ever

>> No.7134115

>>7134076
nah, the '10s was far worse.

>> No.7135054

>>7134115
Are you sure?

>> No.7135529

>>7135054
The indie scene wasn't as big in the 2000s, but there were far less predatory business practices rampant in the industry today.

>> No.7136787

>>7133934
How come?

>> No.7137285

>>7120842
depends on what you were into at the time. i think by either late 6th gen or early 7th gen each console kinda developed it's own core audience and filled it's niche.

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>>7120852
whats up with this recent obsession over scene girls? regrets from not getting laid back then? that's like chasing over an arthoe, most of them were pretty pose-y
t. scene music connoiseur

>> No.7137358

>>7120842
I remember wanting to fuck the mom and the daughter on The Middle.

>> No.7137361

>>7120842
so is the middle actually a sequel to malcolm in the middle or are you trying to make a funny joke OP?

>>7120848
>brave and the bold
>soulless
pick one.

>> No.7137381

>>7120848
Second one has SOULja boy though

>> No.7137391

>>7137381
Are you enjoying his gameing console?

>> No.7138206

>>7137391
>gameing

>> No.7139358

>>7137358
Both at the same time?

>> No.7139953

>>7139358
Yea

>> No.7139958

>>7138206
gayming

>> No.7140843

>>7139958
Nothing wrong with being gay.

>> No.7141868

>>7120862
Commas are your friend.

>> No.7141921

>>7141868
commies need to be KOS

>> No.7142176 [DELETED] 

>>7120842
Zoomer thread

>> No.7142413

>>7122328
>early 2000's
>Soulful culture
>some music on the radio was still decent.
No.

>> No.7142439

>>7140843
It's wrong. It's not normal, but it's not inherently wrong. That is unless you encourage it publicly.

>> No.7143628

>>7142439
>That is unless you encourage it publicly.

>> No.7143654

>>7120842
>Outkast
>PS2
>Gamecube
>Ed Edd and Eddy
>Malcolm in the Middle
2000-2004

>> No.7143679

Only one half is actually retro

>> No.7143717

>>7120842
>4:3
am I the only one who had a 16:9 tv in early 2000?

>> No.7143732

all looks shit to me. got back into gaming in the late 00s so I'll say that.

>> No.7143802

>>7143717
>parents had big as silver trinitron in 2000s
>they eventually threw that shit out when they got a fucking memorex lcd around 2009 or so
I'm still sad we never kept it.

>> No.7144836

>>7143732
>got back into gaming in the late 00s so I'll say that.

You have no place here.

>> No.7144949

>>7120842
Early to mid 2000s. I think the cut off for me is 2008-2009 roughly when things started getting awful
There was still cool stuff coming out in 2006-2007 and people were less cynical and retarded. Trying to be a moral preacher was laughed at back then. Now things are different,
Of course, it's still true that 2007 already started the death spiral, I can't deny that.

>> No.7145226

I stopped playing games nearly as much around 2005, so my answer is biased, but the early 2000s. The late 2000s multiplayer and online gaming scene was probably better though.

>> No.7146150

>>7123002
Amiga 500 had games?

>> No.7146367

>>7120848
They are both soulless.

>> No.7146421

The early 00s are one of the most fascinating periods for console gaming, since it's the era when technology hit the point where technical limitations only mattered if you really wanted to go overboard with physics or graphics. Beyond that, pretty much anything was fair game. And it really showed. They threw fucking everything at the wall just because they could. It's likely the very last "new frontier" age of video games, unless VR becomes cheap enough to be more than a novelty.

>> No.7147193

>>7146367
Are you sure?

>> No.7147213

>>7120842
Good riddance to nu metal
But damn do I miss the pre smartphone world. It's so vastly different, and zoomers will never know what it was like.

>> No.7147246

>>7120842
I'll take the 2000s than what we have now. I miss the 2000s in general to be honest.

>> No.7147297

>>7124647
Do you have one over your self inflicted wound that will never make you a woman?

>> No.7147326

Early 00’s

>no online updates & patches
>no smart phones
>no redd*t or tw*tter
>no paying to use your own internet you already paid for

>> No.7147741

>>7128138
>>7144949
>>7145226
>>7121775

I would say with the early 2000's it was pretty amazing getting stuff like smash bros and the anticipation of nintendo going with discs and stuff like gran turismo and gta 3 even halo - 4 player splitscreen. I got granturismo 4 with the steering which felt high end and also simpsons road rage, around the time of gran turismo 4 and after vice city then resident evil 4 gaming started to feel pretty stale though, guitar hero got pretty popular for a short time then I no longer cared what the next big game would be.

Second half started pretty nuts. The 360 was launched and was ok but people swore - they SWORE - that "yeah its ok but playstation 2 has been popular and mainstream for so long, no way will the 360 succeed". So it was pretty exciting to see if it would actually knock over sony when Nintendo couldn't. Then it was released, took awhile to get graphics much better than ps2 but eventually there was no disputing.
The wii hype was also nuts, the first year or so had some pretty inovative titles and felt pretty amazing to start. Wasn't long before that waggle was not really used that much. Didn't stop people from proclaming that this is the blue ocean strategy, "games are not for you anymore sweetie". A few good games came out like gta 4 but the second half of the 2000s was pretty uninteresting really apart from a few, I don't think there is really that much nostalgie to want to go back to that period because new games are just the same but better.

Xbox live arcade did make it acceptable to release 2d and more uncommon games back without everyone proclaming them as outdated relics though but that was more early.

But yeah, the late 2000's was just companies trying to copy the wii, I remember at one e3 that mainly had some rapper singing and then it was kinnect then wii music. (I had some fun with kinnect). Evetually everyone realized the wii wasn't going to happen again and then pretended this phaze didn't happen.

>> No.7149036

>>7147741
>granturismo

>> No.7149529

>>7120842
...2000-2002 was good
as was 2007-2009
the middle didnt give me anything

>> No.7150395

>>7129653
i remember thinking that i won't be nostalgic for the 2000s back then. kinda true, with all the war and cynicism, the patriot act, emos, thug culture and all that shit. the thing is that those problems seem really innocent compared to now, so we're nostalgic for a stale spam sandwich because all we have now is a shit sandwich.

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>>7120842
7th gen (specifically, the period from 2006-2013) was the worst for mainstream AAA trends.

>every realistic game is suddenly downright monochrome, even if previous games had color (MGS4, Twilight Princess, Fallout 3, Gears of War, Call of Duty, etc.)
I blame Resident Evil 4 and Shadow of the Colossus, both came out at the tail end of Gen 6
>"we want the Call of Duty audience" is in full effect, most games are dumbed down like crazy for babies
>PS3/360 games chase the corridor simulator + "cool" setpiece every five minutes experience, the concept of level design literally doesn't exist anymore (new Thief and Resident Evil games were a joke)
>every game is a first-person or third-person shooter
>Wii installments of long-running series are really dumbed down mechanically (Brawl, Skyward Sword, etc.) to appeal to the Wii Sports crowd
Long running series that had their series go to shit in the 7th gen:
Final Fantasy (XIII)
Resident Evil (6)
The Legend of Zelda (Skyward Sword)
Metroid (Other M)
Devil May Cry (DmC)
Metal Gear Solid (MGS4)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic '06)
Thief (Thi4f)
Animal Crossing (City Folk)
Many trends from gen 7 persisted into early gen 8 games too, you can see 7th gen trends in The Order 1886 and Knack for example. Both absolute garbage.

What saved Gen 7 was handhelds. The DS saw tons of creative and original games, several of the which can be called amongst the greatest games of all time (Ghost Trick, TWEWY, Elite Beat Agents etc), and while many series were going to shit on consoles, long-running franchises' DS installments were great (Pokémon, Castlevania, Megami Tensei etc)

The popularity of Demon's/Dark Souls played a huge role in trends changing. Suddenly every Youtuber critic faggot was on about "good level design", "non-linearity", "enemy utilization", "game feel" etc. and developers started to realize too. There's a reason for the "it's like x meets Dark Souls" meme; every "serious" dev wanted to be compared to DaS.

>> No.7151589

>>7150780
The 7th gen was at least something new and felt like a change from the 6th gen, unlike the 6th gen which was just the 5th gen with better graphics

>> No.7152718

>>7137334
i miss when girls who were attention whores would at least dress up and try to have some sort of personality. Now they just shill their tits on twitch, onlyfans and instagram.

>> No.7152748

>>7120842
The only game I liked from the early 2000's was Battlefield 1942

>> No.7152749

>>7120842
Early 2000 of course. On pc it was continue of the best era of it, early ps2 had a number of nice stuff.

>> No.7152769

Morrowin
Arx Fatalis
Jedi Outcast
Warcraft 3
Mafia 1
Dungeon siege
Ratchet and Clank 1
GTA 3
NOLF 2
Serious Sam
The Thing
Emperor Rise of the Middle kingdom
Wizardry 8
...
Iron storm
Might and magic 9... well last two is questionable but still

2002, what a year! Of course the early 00s!

>> No.7153035

2000-2004 was peak for me.

>> No.7154245

>>7120848
This

>> No.7154264

>>7120842
The first half.
The second half was basically the same deal as today, just with lower bandwith.

>> No.7156075

>>7121187
It wasn't so bad if you were a DS fan

>> No.7156126

>>7150780
Souls games were positive in that it reminded developers that video game players wanted fucking video games, not movies.

>> No.7156590

>>7120848
>Soul vs slightly less soul
FTFY