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Does anyone else agree this was the year video games started getting good? The prior years was pixilated and chiptune music garbage. 1991 gave us Sonic, Street Fighter, Super Mario World, Castlevania, Fzero, Streets of Rage.

>> No.7784117

>>7784109
Dont get me wrong the NES era games are good but they look like pixalted garbage in 2021.

>> No.7784120

>>7784109
No, that was the Golden Age peak, anon, not to be confused with the actual peak in 1998.
The Golden Age of video games was arguably between 1978-1991 btw.

>> No.7784123

>pixilated and chiptune music garbage
Time for someone to be forced to play Atari VCS games exclusively for a year and learn that graphics and sound don't mean shit for games.

>> No.7784125

>>7784117
Get thee a CRT.

>> No.7784128

>>7784120
>1998
>actual peak
You mean the year the fucking storygame shit and style over substance shit gaming got into full swing with garbage like Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid?
No, fuck you.
Gaming started dying in the mid-90s and was basically dead by 2000.
/vr/ should be pre-1995 games/systems only.

>> No.7784131

>>7784123
>Time for someone to be forced to play Atari VCS games exclusively for a year
If you pay me I'll agree to be webcamed for a year just playing those games. Easiest money ever.

>> No.7784134

>>7784109
no

>> No.7784138

No, the NES was awesome zoomie zoom zoom.

>> No.7784139

>>7784125
I have doesn't change the fact games from 1991 onward still look great. Compare Sonic Mania to Sonic 1. They look about the same age even though they are 26 years apart.

>> No.7784142

>>7784128
Starcraft and Ocarina of Time came out in 1998. Your argument is invalid.

>> No.7784143
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7784143

>>7784128
Not playing Ocarina of Time, one of the best games ever made, or pic related (center).

>> No.7784146

>>7784143
*meant to greentext, oh well not fixing.

>> No.7784148

>>7784128
*pre-1994

>> No.7784151

>>7784128
Radiant Silvergun and F-Zero X came out in 1998. Your argument is invalid.

>> No.7784169

>>7784142
>starcraft
Anyone born before you kids were already sick and goddamn tired of the same old fucking repetitive, sameshit RTS we've been playing since C&C/Warcraft and Starcraft added ZERO fucking new shit to the formula except it was basically WARCRAFT INNN SPAAAACE.
>OoT
Garbage controls, garbage gameplay, tons of storyshit, linear as fuck, and boring.
>>7784143
>SWTrilogy
Holy god, that game was bad. Go play the original Star Wars arcade game (the vector graphics one). It was actually fun and had good controls and gameplay. What a concept.
>>7784151
>F0X
Added nothing significant over the SNES original.
>radiant silvergun
Galaga perfected shooters, everything else since has been a pale imitation.
RS was okay... I guess. Nothing to care about anything past 1995 about.

>> No.7784175
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7784175

>>7784169
>Added nothing significant over the SNES original.
They're obviously completely different games.
>Galaga perfected shooters, everything else since has been a pale imitation.
We've reached peak delusional boomer mode.

>> No.7784178

>>7784169
>Holy god, that game was bad
>t. cadet
Git gud and achieve ADMIRAL, scrubby.
Yes the original is great, but SWT is better in every way.

>> No.7784183

>>7784169
>linear as fuck
This is false. The rest is just subjective(albeit shit) opinion, but this one is false. The game is not linear at all.

>> No.7784184

Can we agree most people would rather play mario allstars than mario bros 1 2 or 3 on nes?

>> No.7784193

>>7784184
With the block fix for SMB/LL, yes.

>> No.7784194

>>7784175
>completely different
>pretty much the exact gameplay
Jesus, dumbest generation.
>delusional
I think it was obvious that part was a joke, given how I gave RS some praise afterwards. Also, boomers don't play videogames, dumbest generation. People older than you aren't automatically "boomers". GenX/Y did exist, you know.
>>7784183
>not linear at all
You didn't play it, then.
>>7784178
I'm sorry, I don't play games with trash gameplay and controls.

>> No.7784198

>>7784183
the game literally tells you what to do next at all times

>> No.7784202
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7784202

>>7784194
>pretty much the exact gameplay
>dumbest generation
You sure about that?

>> No.7784205

>>7784194
>I'm sorry, I can't figure out Supermodel or afford a cabinet
It's ok, man, just play some Super Mario Bros. 2 for instance or perhaps some Golden Axe.

>> No.7784210

>>7784184
Most people would play GTAV than any other GTA. Most people would play Mario Odyssey than Mario 64.
Most people will play the most modern version of something, what is your point?

>> No.7784215

>>7784128
you should kys australia

>> No.7784219

>>7784198
>>7784194
You can do most dungeons in any order you want. How is that linear?

>> No.7784221

>>7784109
Absolutely agree.

>> No.7784239

>>7784210
>Mario Odyssey than Mario 64.
Not true. Have you seen the amount of people bashing Odyssey for not being exactly like 64?

>> No.7784248

>>7784109
>1991
There are two kinds of games. Games before and after Street Fighter II World Warrior.

>> No.7784251

Revenge of Shinobi came out it '89

>> No.7784254

>>7784248
It wasn't even the first CPS game.

>> No.7784258

>>7784251
Because the faggot who made revenge was too incompetent to port the real shinobi. As he was tasked by management.

>> No.7784259
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7784259

>>7784139
That's because Sonic Mania was made to look like classic Sonic you fucking ignoramus. What the fuck even is your point here?

>> No.7784260

>>7784109
Yeah, I agree. IMO Zelda and Metroid truly hit their stride on the SNES. I also think Super Mario World is the culmination of all previous 2D Mario game design.

>> No.7784269

>>7784258
>As he was tasked by management.
[citation needed]

>> No.7784304

>>7784139
What a weird response. Look, for old games, use a CRT, for new ones, use a phone for all I care, that's the best advice.

>> No.7784317

>>7784269
Noriyoshi Ohba - interview

>> No.7784328

>>7784254
Name one good fighting game prior to street fighter 2...I’ll wait

>> No.7784340

>>7784304
>>7784259
Not a weird response pointing out how there are throwbacks to the 16-bit era but rarely to the Atari or 8-bit era.

>> No.7784376

>>7784340
>no 8 bit throwbacks
What planet do you live on? Indie games in the early to mid 2010s couldn’t stop the 8 bit dicksucking. 16 bit was late 2010 and 2020 is 5th gen and early 3D

>> No.7784437

>>7784376
>2020 is 5th gen and early 3D
Is it? What are some good ones?

>> No.7784440

>>7784437
Yooka Laylee

>> No.7784442

>>7784440
Oh gotcha. I was thinking more along the lines of Resident Evil or MGS type graphics.

>> No.7784491

>>7784442
It’s actually pretty bizarre that no indie developer has attempted to make an retro style survival horror game complete with tank controls, fixed camera angles and low poly characters.

>> No.7784493

>>7784109
No. Bump it back to 1986 then I'll agree.

>> No.7784510

>>7784328
Good defined by you is a fighting game. Gotcha.

>> No.7784568

>>7784109
Pong was when they started getting good, then the Famicom hit and video games rapidly peaked. 16-bit era was the beginning of a slow decline that suddenly dropped off a cliff with the Xbox 360 and PS3

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7784759

>>7784109
Street Fighter 2 basically killed development of other arcade genres for almost 5 years, because every arcade company had to cash in on the fighting game craze. Sonic was basically Sega declaring war on Nintendo, and making games specifically designed to compete with Nintendo's library. Before those events you had classic Konami brawlers, NeoGeo arcade platformers, pre-bullet hell shmups, gun games etc. Console games had gritty medieval, fantasy, ninja, cyberpunk games covering all genres, instead of endless mascots with attitudes. Games started getting good right after NES got old, and right before SF2 and Sonic narrowed game development

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7784770

>>7784109
80ies data east arcade games are better than most of your examples for good games.

>> No.7784934

>>7784128
Why does immersive storytelling trigger you so hard, anon? You realize you can have both story and gameplay at the same time, right?

>> No.7784937

>>7784934
>immersive storytelling
Amen. I've always hated Mario 3 and Sonic for not having deep stories. Trash games.

>> No.7784943

>>7784128
I have to lol when people shit on story games, fucking fags spamming fire on their shoot em ups

>> No.7784960

>>7784943
Name a single story game that rivals your generic Stephen King short story.

>> No.7785004

>>7784109
For consoleshit maybe.
Arcadechads had good games at least 10 years before that

>> No.7785016

>>7784128
based

>> No.7785049

>>7784109
No. Shut up.

>> No.7785132

>>7784109
Turtles in Time was also released in 1991

>> No.7785170

>>7784169
>Starcraft added zero

Factually incorrect.

>> No.7785184

>>7784169
>Ocarina of Time
>linear
point and laugh at this retarded cuck

>> No.7785191

>>7784128
>/vr/ should be pre-1995 games/systems only.
A certifiably based opinion.

>> No.7785220

>>7785184
Did you also fight Gannon as child Link like I did on my very first playthrough? So good how you can fight in an order you like...

>> No.7785230

>>7785220
You don't need any glitches or sequence breaks to play dungeons out of order, and after clearing deku tree you can go basically anywhere you want immediately. OoT is one of the most non-linear games in the series. You don't know anything about this game and you're a poser.

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7785231

>>7784109
>baby gets filtered
>"Can we just admit all old games are bad?? no, can we just agree that if i can't get into a game, it means all games from that time are objectively bad?? please validate my opinion and make me feel i don't just have baby palate for games"

>> No.7785242

>>7785230
>You don't need any glitches or sequence breaks to play dungeons out of order
I know, it's great. I didn't even bother with the Great Deku tree as I was free to go anywhere as my dog stepped on my N64 and I was able to leave the starting area immediately.
>You don't know anything about this game and you're a poser.
I know nobody on their first playthrough played it out of order to the level you're claiming.

>> No.7785249

>>7784109
No.

You sound as stupid as this guy. >>7760854

>> No.7785313

>>7785242
>more reddit sarcasm in place of an argument
You don't know anything about this game. The fucking game itself tells you that you have the choice of going to more than one dungeon at a time. Cope you retarded nigger.

>> No.7785341

>>7784125
>pixellated garbage
>hide it with a shit screen
>looks better
this is what CRTfags actually believe

>> No.7785438

>>7785249
I agree with him on that besides the secret of monkey island the games prior were not good.

>> No.7785453

>>7784109
they were good before this, but the jump in quality from good 8 bit games to good 16 bit games was massive

>> No.7785476

>>7784109
No but they definitely started getting better when the 16-Bit era started.

>> No.7785827

>>7785191
>>7785016
not fooling anyone auster, your amiga games still suck

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7785836

>>7785231
>>7785231
>>7785231
this

>> No.7785849

>>7785827
Why does the Amiga live rent free in some posters' heads?

>> No.7785857

>>7785849
retarded fanbase

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7786227

>>7785857
Can't be more insufferable and degenerate than Nintendo's fanbase.

>> No.7786264

It's when 2D started getting good. Then it died the next generation for shimmering or fuzzy 3D.

>> No.7786286

>>7786227
Ah yes, my favorite Nintendo game: Super Meat Boy.

>> No.7786614 [DELETED] 

>>7786286
Dude in the middle is playing with a Transcube controller. Cool deflection though, 'tendie.

>> No.7786641

>>7785341
It's literally never supposed to be pixelated, zoomie.

>> No.7786642

>>7784128
I agree with MGS but Half-Life was very much gameplay focused

>> No.7786789

>>7785313
>You don't know anything about this game.
Only bought it on launch. A mate from school ruined the ending for me revealing Sheik was actually a female to male trans Zelda. But do go on how you know more from watching AGDQ and all you favourite speed runners.

>> No.7786950

>>7785341
No CRTs are not shit, CRTs are magic. They have an ability which I have yet to understand, that ability is to take low quality images and make them look better.

>> No.7786987 [DELETED] 

>>7786642
Maybe if you look past the first half hour of the game being mostly shitty cutscenes and listening to NPCs talk.

>> No.7787468

>>7786987
maybe you kys

>> No.7787471

>>7787468
*should kys

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7787597

>>7784125
Get dee a MiSTer and use scanlines.

>> No.7787608

>>7787597
>using emulation
Haha good joke Anon but I prefer to play games the way they were intended not with horrible lag and graphic issues.

>> No.7787759

>>7784128
>hurr me only play beep boop shmup durr
take your meds schizo

>> No.7789167

>>7784120
>The Golden Age of video games was arguably between 1978-1991 btw.
Anybody who would argue that doesn't know shit. Golden age doesn't mean 'my favourite era'.

>> No.7789206

>>7785313
>sarcasm is reddit
rent free