/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9741013]

>pioneers the worst aesthetic ever, causing immense damage to internet culture
>warps an entire generation's perception of how the 80's looked

[Anonymous No.9741017]

how did the 80s actually look? (was born in 1990)

[Anonymous No.9741046]

>internet culture

[Anonymous No.9741048]

Isn't that just Miami? (in the 80's)

[Anonymous No.9741058]

>worst aesthetic ever

[Anonymous No.9741067]

You're overblowing it retard

[Anonymous No.9741071]

Uhhh video games aren't that important, anon.

[Anonymous No.9741087]

>>9741013
only as much as the films and tv shows it was parodying did

[Anonymous No.9741095]

>>9741013
>worst aesthetic ever
You need therapy immediately

[Anonymous No.9741127]

>>9741013
driver 3 miami aesthetic is 100x better. but if you want real 80s miami you should play driver 1

[Anonymous No.9741138]

>>9741013
Op is a faggot

[Anonymous No.9741330]

>>9741013
agreed, there is nothing more boring and bland than Muh 80's
the 80's fucking sucked

[Anonymous No.9741396]

>is worse than gta3 in every way besides motorcycles

[Anonymous No.9741424]

>>9741013
What makes a person so sad they have to come on herr and make such an obvious bait thread?

[Anonymous No.9741450]

>>9741017
Like a higher poly version of Vice City, but with more crime, more brown, and more of those weird old gold couches from the 60s and 70s.

[Anonymous No.9741464]

>>9741013
>pioneers the worst aesthetic
Dude, Miami Vice was a hit show in the 80’s and the aesthetic is reproduced 1:1. Being a zoomer doesn’t excuse you from doing basic research.

[Anonymous No.9741545]

>>9741013
What a shit take holy fuck. Dilate you fucking autistic retarded piece of shit. Go back to grinding on Gta online before Rockstar wipes your character for having such a shitty opinion.

[Anonymous No.9741551]

>>9741330
Neon lights and 80's music is cool though. Basically, 80's music videos, and movies were good, and that's what "the 80's" is to people, not you being buggered by your uncle in rural Albania.

[Anonymous No.9741554]

>>9741017
The whole neon pink/Blue aesthetics are not really what most of 80s looked like.
Watch sitcoms like Alf to see how the 80s were.
And I agree with OP, GTA 3 also opened the gates for all these samey sandbox games.

[Anonymous No.9741557]

>>9741554
Does anyone actually think the entire world was lit in neon pink in the 80's?

[Anonymous No.9741558]

>>9741554
was Alf set in Miami Florida?

[Anonymous No.9741610]

>>9741554
>The whole neon pink/Blue aesthetics are not really what most of 80s looked like.
Well, VC doesn't look like that either. The second island in particular is a (comfy) shithole

[Anonymous No.9741634]

>>9741017
it looked like a game called vice city

[Anonymous No.9741658]

>>9741634
Well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxfF3MhDDr8

[Anonymous No.9741675]

>>9741013
It's the best GTA of that era and my personal favourite of all time. San Andreas felt clunky and slow in comparison, GTAIII was Vice City's beta.

[Anonymous No.9741678]

>>9741634
>t.zoomer
what a retard

[Anonymous No.9741693]

>>9741013
>immense damage to internet culture
dog everyone was nostalgic for the late 70s/early 80s in the 2000s you retard of course they were gonna romanticized the 80s

thats why almost every retro game compilation released during that time had a licensed soundtrack of 80s songs like the activision collection or namco museum and why atari was collectable at the time.

[Anonymous No.9741713]

>>9741554
>>9741557
there was a lot more neon and stuff in film in the 80s than there were in previous decades, with films like star wars and tron and blade runner which were hugely influential. I looked up a while ago out of curiosity where the 80s neon grid thing came from and apparently it started appearing in media like commercials and magazines etc a lot after star wars and that trench run scene which had a computerised wireframe animation. Clothing started becoming high contrast flat neon-esque colors too which you don't really much see anymore. These days there's such a use of all kinds of colors i think it all just blends together, instead of having bright colors but less of them like in the 80s. But yeah it wasn't exactly everywhere, but it was noticeable

[Anonymous No.9741717]

>>9741678
i'm 40

[Anonymous No.9741828]

>>9741017
everything was blurry mess, you couldn't see shit. just like in ps2 games.
(was born in december 1989)

[Anonymous No.9742037]

>>9741048
miami looks nothing like it in driver series. maybe because driver 1 takes place in late 70s and driv3r in early 90s?

[Anonymous No.9742050]

I drive(r)

[Anonymous No.9742053]

>>9741557
It's kind of funny how some people think everyone in the 1950s wore suits and fedoras, or that everyone in the 60s was a hippy. I've already met zoomers who talk about the 00s with a certain longing, thinking it was all cute y2k tech / design philosophy and Kylie Minogue's Fever album and not the iraq war, nu metal and fratboy shit.

[Anonymous No.9742061]

>>9742050
i robot

[Anonymous No.9742063]

>>9741557
remember when everything was grayscale anon? good times.

[Anonymous No.9742069]

>>9742053
My point was that no, no one does think that, though.
And nu-metal was cool.

[Anonymous No.9742094]

>>9741675
San Andreas feels slow and clunky conpared to VC? Are you fucking retarded? I swear people on this board just pull shit out of their ass because they played a game 15 years ago and argue straight from memory.

[Anonymous No.9742097]

>>9742094
It's filled with tutorials up the ass

[Anonymous No.9742098]

>>9742094
he played on pc. gta3 and vice city were shit ports, player character rotated along with mouse and there were no recoil.

[Anonymous No.9742102]

>>9742094
Why are you getting so angry about 20 year old video games? Do you have some sort of disability? Yes it's a slower game. CJ animates slower, moves slower and is not as responsive.

[Anonymous No.9742105]

>>9742098
Actually my first playthrough of all the games was on PS2, and later I revisited them on PC. I don't know how anybody could prefer the clunkfest of the console versions but more power to you.

[Anonymous No.9742137]

>>9741450
My grandma has those couches. Forty years on and they're still comfy as fuck, they've never sunk. How do they do that?

[Anonymous No.9742274]

>>9741675
>GTAIII was Vice City's beta
Wrong. VC was a total conversion mod for III (and it ran like one, too.)

[Anonymous No.9742278]

>>9741013
You're out of touch baby

[Anonymous No.9742285]

>>9742102
Why are you so retarded about 20 year old games?
>Yes it's a slower game. CJ animates slower, moves slower and is not as responsive.
Increase his stats retard. Also targeting enemies was improved objectivity. SA was an improvement mechanically, you just haven't played them in 20 years.

[Anonymous No.9742293]

Unreasonable neon isn't brown and bloom (OP), therefore it can't be the worst

[Anonymous No.9742451]

I thought this thread would be about the ugly as fuck character models in GTA games. I remember thinking the art style on the covers was cool but couldn't get into how ugly and greasy things looked in the game. this was when cel-shading was getting big too and I always wanted to see a GTA game like that.

[Anonymous No.9742457]

>>9742274
>VC was a total conversion mod for III
No shit. It was still the better game.

[Anonymous No.9742469]

>>9742285
>Increase his stats retard
He's still slower. Much slower.
> Also targeting enemies was improved objectivity
If you're a console tard I guess so. On PC, no. You need to hold right click to get the reticle up with a lot of weapons which is really shit. Also if CJ is facing towards the screen and the reticle is behind him and you shoot he shoots in no direction like a retard.
>SA was an improvement mechanically
In a lot of ways yes but it still felt slower and shittier to play.
>you just haven't played them in 20 years
But I'm playing through it right now: >>>/wsg/5006359

It's just all round a slower clunkier game on PC, even the guns shoot slower. The missions and map seem better but gameplay wise it's just not as good. Back in the day a friend and I used to take turns on going on killing sprees in Vice City for fun. We also had San Andreas installed and played that, too, but 95% of the time we were in VC. The guns just felt so much better to shoot and Tommy was much faster.

[Anonymous No.9742550]

>>9742451
gta ain't pleasant

[Anonymous No.9742606]

>>9742451
Still miles better than the remaster

[Anonymous No.9742718]

>>9741330
Based. 80's/early 90's aesthetics are ugly as hell. I don't miss those ugly geometric patterns on everything and ugly garbage like neon colours.

[Anonymous No.9742730]

>>9742469
It's not clunkier, just because the game seems slower isn't "clunky", you're just trying too hard to sound like a failed game journo or youtube essayist.
>SA was an improvement mechanically
>In a lot of ways yes
Thanks for preemptive accepted concession.
>The guns just felt so much better to shoot
You're just being a nostalgiatard, the aiming in SA is better than the jerry rigged, PS1 tier aiming in 3 and VC which everyone hated back in the day and why it was tossed out.

No, SA isn't "clunky", you just have a different preference because VC serms right to you.

[Anonymous No.9742735]

>>9741013
Filtered

[Anonymous No.9742741]

>>9741013
Still better than Minecraft.

[Anonymous No.9742750]

It’s all based on Miami Vice, hence the name Vice City.

[Anonymous No.9742973]

>>9741013
>game directly based on 80s film and tv "pioneers" an aesthetic that already existed
you're beyond retarded.

[Anonymous No.9743015]

how come we never got a 70s GTA game?

[Anonymous No.9743073]

>>9742137
It will be a mystery for the ages, like Roman concrete and the Bronze Age Collapse. Centuries from now, all that will be left of our civilisation will be one of those couches and a Game Boy.

[Anonymous No.9743089]

>>9743015
we did

>captcha: S0 RAW

[Anonymous No.9743107]

>>9743089
groovy baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCDPBUCIQSY

[Anonymous No.9743119]

>>9743089
That was set in '69.

[Anonymous No.9743140]

>>9742457
sure, if you like mostly useless new features and double the jank

[Anonymous No.9743180]

>>9743140
>le jank
stop embarrasing yourself and delete your post

[Anonymous No.9743282]

>>9742730
It is clunkier and slower on PC. You can't even move backwards and shoot certain weapons like uzis or pistols at the same time because CJ ends up facing the camera instead of shooting forwards. That includes strafing while moving backwards (all of which are of course standard TPS mechanics), webm related. If that's not clunk Idk what is. CJ moves slower (yes, even when "maxed out", and those RPG elements also suck btw), he doesn't sprint nearly as fast, he's less responsive owing to his more elaborate animation system, the weapons' fire rates are generally slower, ADS times are slower and you need to hold RMB just to bring up the crosshair. The game also encourages you to crouch and shoot with a lot of guns because it improves accuracy (yes even with the weapons maxed out) = clunk. Even just taking CJ into and out of crouch animation is more slow clunky shit. I implore anyone itt to go on killing sprees in Vice City and San Andreas PC versions back to back and see which one feels more responsive and faster. Though this is /vr/ and no offence but you guys suck at games so your opinions are worthless regardless, which is why I shouldn't even be responding rn but I made the mistake of visiting again unfortunately.

Other shit in SA that sucks too is that the weapons also sound like shit despite it being the newer game, while VC guns sounded damn good, especially the M4. Even SA's death animations aren't as satisfying with all the enemies dropping the same boring way no matter where they've been shot. Anyway agree to disagree, last (You) from me as this is a total waste of time and I'm sure you're doing this simultaneously in 20 different threads EVERY DAY. Carpe diem anon.

[Anonymous No.9743317]

>>9741013
This is one of the most retarded made up bullshit threads ive seen in years congratulations op

[Anonymous No.9743645]

>>9742061
VCS was wild

[Anonymous No.9743787]

>>9741013
More retarded zoomer contrarianism.
GTA peaked with Vice City.
It's been nothing but a downward spiral ever since.

[Anonymous No.9744178]

>>9741087
everyone forgot about them by the time vice city came out.
the game warmed the new generation for teh 80s style for sure. it opened the gates for drive, hotline miami and therefore fucking synthwave (incidentally, there's a kavinsky track in gta 4).

[Anonymous No.9744220]

>>9743787
the only good gta is gtav
all the other ones are shit

[Anonymous No.9744368]

>>9743787
>GTA peaked with Vice City.
Oh please. SA is a million times better. Vice City's missions take 1 minute at most to complete and the entire second half of the game is just driving around collecting money so you can do another 1 minute mission. The story goes nowhere and the shooting is dogshit.

[Anonymous No.9744381]

>zoomer thinks Vice City pioneered the Miami Vice 80s aesthetic
Shut this board down NOW

[Anonymous No.9744383]

>>9742469
Nigger you're not supposed to play any GTA game with mouse and keyboard. Use a Playstation controller with auto-aim, the way it was designed. No wonder you think it's clinky lmfao retard

[Anonymous No.9744390]

>>9743282
You're genuinely retarded. SA was never designed for MKB shooting. Use auto aim, and you'll see how fast and smooth the shooting is.

[Anonymous No.9744459]

>>9744368
>Vice City's missions take 1 minute at most to complete
and that's why it's good, SA is a slog for niggerloving niggers

[Anonymous No.9744490]

>Vice city is the sole reason for 80s aesthetics becoming popular and not the fact that they were once popular in the 80s
>Fails to realize that the 2000s was the decade for 80s nostalgia because the people who were kids/teens/young adults during the time were now much older and now the ones in charge of influencing pop culture thus propagating the glamorized vision of the 80s they remembered.
I think the biggest example of something like this besides Vice City would be like, Family Guy

[Anonymous No.9744640]

I wish zoomies didn't post here

[Anonymous No.9744875]

>>9744459
Wow so edgy youre so cool

[Anonymous No.9744908]

>>9743180
deluded

[Anonymous No.9745002]

>>9744459
SA sucked because the story had schizophrenia it didn't know what it wanted to be past the Country Backwoods.

[Anonymous No.9745008]

Okay, let's start at the end(?), GTA III is the only game that "really" happened 1:1, in real-time.
Vice City Stories is Lance's recollection of his brother and his adventures when the two first arrived in Vice City, maybe it's survivor's guilt, but Lance puts Vic on a pedestal, hence why Vic practically babysits Lance the whole game.
Vice City is a movie by Tommy Vercetti showing his rise to power, more or less, decide for yourself what mission threads are in the movie and what had to be taken out for time.
San Andreas, okay you're gonna have to just keep up with me on this because this is REALLY autistic, Carl is a small-time criminal from LS, goes to LC, and comes back to LS, everything up until the Desert actually happens, Carl DID buy the air field, but the only mission that really happens is N.O.E where you have to drop supplies off on the other side of the map, everything else is a dehydration hallucination because Carl's too stupid to hydrate while watching flight videos and spy movies, The Truth missions are Carl and the Truth tripping out on Peyote in the desert, talking while Truth tells Carl about all the stuff he knows, the game picks back up with reality when Woozie calls Carl and tells him about Las Venturas, the two become partners Carl saves Madd Dogg and that's how CJ became a success, Toreno was grateful for CJ not only taking down the Loco Syndicate and delivering those supplies, and Sweet is miraculously let go.
LCS is another game that happened in real-time but it's not 1:1, some parts are more embellished, and could be chalked up to dreams and Tony leaving the TV on after a hard day.
Manhunt is a MSNBC documentary/news story, spliced in with snuff films because some high schooler wanted to be edgy, taped over, as we all know a Children's Show about a robochef.
Bully is Jimmy's story about Bullworth, some things like busting people out of asylums never happened, but to spark interest to the audience is sprinkled throughout the story.

[Anonymous No.9746489]

>>9744383
>ps2 auto aim controls
>anything but clunky and slow as balls
Yeah no. Not going back to that console trash ever. I can't believe tards here still play that trash even all these years later and even fanboy about it.

[Anonymous No.9746907]

>>9741013
Only a zoomer would hold this opinion. The game is designed to look like Scarface, a far more influential piece of media.

[Anonymous No.9746913]

I don't even recall Vice City having that much neon. Most of it just looks like a GTA game. Grey concrete slums.

[Anonymous No.9747185]

>>9741013
But anon, they just copied Miami Vice?

[Anonymous No.9747603]

>>9747185
Realistically, he's under 20 and has never heard of Miami Vice.

[Anonymous No.9747621]

>>9744178
Synthwave has always existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JiuLRg1vk

[Anonymous No.9748079]

>>9742451
Chinatown Wars for PSP is cel-shaded and is a 45 degree top down isometric view. Halfway between the original 2D GTA topdown and the full 3D view of the 3D universe games.
It's a good game. Worth a playthrough once.

[Anonymous No.9748081]

>>9742550
that's just how el Burro looks.

[Anonymous No.9748084]

>>9743089
that was the 60s.

[Anonymous No.9748112]

>>9741013
>>pioneers the worst aesthetic ever, causing immense damage to internet culture
>>warps an entire generation's perception of how the 80's looked
1. You're retarded.
2. It's supposed to be a combination between Miami Vice and Scarface. You might as well shit on that movie and that TV show. But you've never seen them because you're under 30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw135y5IL7c

[Anonymous No.9748119]

>>9743015
The 70s aesthetic is depression and suicide. We got something close though with pic related

[Anonymous No.9748125]

>the first synthwave track came out a year after Vice City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEQCASaxHgU

[Anonymous No.9748130]

>>9748125
>>9747621

[Anonymous No.9748145]

>>9747621
>Synthwave has always existed.
Medieval raves must have been lit

[Anonymous No.9748414]

>>9748145
>Medieval raves must have been lit
They almost certainly would have been, probably with a rush light or something else cheap like that.

[Anonymous No.9748508]

>>9748414
or a series of many large candelabras

[Anonymous No.9748514]

>>9741017
Watch the Burbs.
Jus like that.

[Anonymous No.9748536]

>>9742451
>I remember thinking the art style on the covers was cool but couldn't get into how ugly and greasy things looked in the game
it represents the 80s well then

[Anonymous No.9748556]

whenever Miami Vice wasn't playing the popular hit songs of the day they were playing synth music courtesy of Jan Hammer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5v-xeA1w98

[Anonymous No.9748568]

>Pink and blue neon vaporwave gridline with palm trees

Where the fuck did this even come from? I was born in 89 and I don't remember seeing anything like this until, like, sometime in the 2010s. If it was around before then it sure wasn't touted as the primary aesthetic of the 80s. Maybe I'm blind.

[Anonymous No.9748696]

>>9741017
Watch early episodes of Roseanne. Most people lived in shitty homes with tons of left over furniture and decorations from the 70s (the worst era in terms of aesthetics). Or see McFly's house at the start of Back to the Future, just your typically poorly lit over-cluttered suburban dump.

[Anonymous No.9748726]

>>9748568
>Pink and blue neon vaporwave gridline with palm trees
it was an outlier. that wasnt even the most enduring style of the 80s, which I would say was that saved by the bell squiggly lines design that showed up everywhere for a couple of years. most of popular culture liked hair metal, pop music like michael jackson or phil collins, new wave/early goth, rap like run dmc, adult contemporary like whitney houston or michael bolton, maybe even heavy metal, or something similar in those lanes. you look at an 80s movie and you can see how people dressed and what places looked like. vaporwave is some weird reinterpretation of the 80s that nobody really lived. the sound isnt right either. same with synthwave. a lot of vaporwave is based on a weird new age-ism abstract style of art that was fringe but visible at the same time, it just wasnt ubiquitous.

[Anonymous No.9748737]

>>9741017
>how did the 80s actually look? (was born in 1990)
>>9748696
>Watch early episodes of Roseanne. Most people lived in shitty homes with tons of left over furniture and decorations from the 70s (the worst era in terms of aesthetics).
yeah thats true. even a lot of shows Id watch, moves on tv, or clothes people had looked like a hold over from the 70s. I havent been able to tolerate the 70s until recently where I could let go of my hate lol. Id say that out of all the retro shows Ive seen, stranger things captures the 80s pretty well without changing anything. from what they did for fun, the clothes, how the school looked etc. but for the best results, just watch the low budget 80s comedies and dramas. those did nothing to add or take away from the 80s-ness of it all. sitcoms were full of shit and typically had well lit homes that were large and families with lots of money. like anon said, rosanne looked like a majority of america. you can see why atari and then nintendo caught on like they did.

[Anonymous No.9748745]

>>9748145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dviEWs_VIG4

[Anonymous No.9748782]

>>9747621
>Synthwave has always existed.
the 80s actually sounded like the casey casum top 40 charts. nobody was listening to the terminator movie soundtrack or whatever john carpenter was doing on their tape deck. synthwave is a strange take on the 80s by remaking all the shit that no one listened to and acting like that represents the 80s really well

[Anonymous No.9748824]

>>9748119
it was probably better at representing the 70s than what gta could do. the warriors was more about the gang culture of new york at the time. they took the subway and didnt use cars that much and brawled a lot over jackets and turd. also, we didn't need to give it the gta formula where you drive everywhere and have goofy caricatures of people to get a point across.

[Anonymous No.9748828]

>>9748119
it was probably better at representing the 70s than what gta could do. the warriors was more about the gang culture of new york at the time. they took the subway and didnt use cars that much and brawled a lot over jackets and turf. also, we didn't need to give it the gta formula where you drive everywhere and have goofy caricatures of people to get a point across.

[Anonymous No.9748854]

>>9748782
I'm not debating if it was popular, I'm just asying it was already there. Pretending a music genre is newer than it really is just because pretentions faggots like to circlejerk about 80s neon is disingenuous.

[Anonymous No.9748941]

>>9741013
OP has obviously never piloted a flying boat tank across the map causing death and mayhem

[Anonymous No.9748949]

>>9741396
This is very, extremely true

[Anonymous No.9748952]

I love living in Arkansas

[Anonymous No.9748957]

>>9748941
Loved doing that as a kid. Now I like no cheat codes and piloting the dodo all around liberty city. It takes a minute to get the controls right, but it’s extremely satisfying

[Anonymous No.9748960]

>>9748952

[Anonymous No.9749103]

>>9748568
It's a melding of unrelated period touchstones—the sports cars and palm trees of Miami Vice, the neon low-poly 3D of Tron, the cyan/magenta CGA palette—into a more-eighties-than-the-eighties hyper-pastiche.

You can object to the revisionism, but I prefer to say that everything is a remix and this particular remix fuckin' slaps.

[Anonymous No.9749135]

OP doesn't realize that GTA has always been a bunch of British dude's exaggerated takes on American culture, as well as ripping scenes directly from movies they liked for set pieces.

Doesn't really matter now, anyway, VI is going to kill the franchise. Hope that ESG money was worth it, guys.

[Anonymous No.9749401]

>>9748125
I hated those shoes being everywhere.

[Anonymous No.9749420]

>>9749135
They already made all that money before this point. So why not?

[Anonymous No.9749421]

>>9741013
>Pioneered worst aesthetic
It’s Miami Vice on PS2, idiot.
Miami Vice, which premiered in the 80’s, is representative of a specific part of the USA during a certain period in time that has had long lasting influence because it does indeed please the eye. I think you’re a dumb zoomcuck.
>warps generation’s perception of the 1980’s
Then so does Miami Vice.
Furthermore, most millennials, even those born in the early 90’s, were culturally close enough to know it wasn’t all neon pink and palm trees lol. You had family photos to show you what the 80’s looked like for your average person.
What has done the absolute most harm is vaporwave/synthwave etc. This is how most zoomers (you) are exposed to the 1980’s, therefore you are getting a millennial reddit tranny’s version of the 1980s.

[Anonymous No.9749445]

>>9749421
Synthwave is just cool on it's own. Find me one person who thinks the 80's was actually all neon wireframes and palm trees. You're inventing people to be angry at. It just happens that neon wireframes and palm trees are significantly cooler than Alf.

[Anonymous No.9749447]

This is what GTA Vice City looks like.

[Anonymous No.9749464]

>>9741013
>try gtavc today because was bored and just beat a game
>thread of it pops up on the front page of /vr/

i got tired of it within one day. the gameplay is tiring to me because i played the shit out of when iwas young and the story has too much filler. gtasa had a shitload of filler and i 100%ed it like two months ago so coming into this i was really hoping it wasnt the same but then again its a gta game but since i didnt pay that much attention to the story when i was young i was hoping i was wrong. enjoy my run on sentence

[Anonymous No.9749490]

>>9749464
The GTA games legitimately were never very good. No one remembers these games fondly because of the mission design or the writing or anything. It was just the novelty of it all.
I don't quite get people who hold these games up as being among the greatest. They're not. They're games you would just kind of fuck around in, like Postal 2. Though honestly, Postal 2 might be a better game than any GTA.

[Anonymous No.9749503]

>>9749445
>wireframes are cooler than alf
lol good one you had me going there for a minute.

Vice City was actually part of the first major wave of “80’s nostalgia” that shockingly has not let up. The hair metal band “The Darkness” became popular soon after. It had a boom in the early 2000’s, a boom in the late 2000’s, and a boom in the 2010’s. It’s just that good of a decade. At this point it’s safe to assume 80’s nostalgia is never going away as the USA (and Europe/Japan) are culturally stagnant and live in the large shadow it casts. It stands as the apex point of western capitalism/cultural hegemony before it started collapsing in the 90’s.

I’m dating a 20 year old zoomette who thought the 80’s was literally synthwave/stranger things/vaporwave.
So much has been lost in translation to the youth and I wasn’t even quite yet alive in the 80’s, just completely brought up on it. I feed her copious amounts of fast food and fuck her huge fat ass while we watch John Hughes movies so she knows now.

Also the post-2015 synthwave boom is a lot of try-hard garbage made by cuckolds who love John Carpenter’s music but do not understand what made it work. In a word: over-production, but not all of it is bad of course.

t. 31 year old boomer

[Anonymous No.9749551]

>>9747603
impossible, youtube if full full of fan music videos set to it.
to be annoyed of the aesthetic one have to encounter it at least.

[Anonymous No.9749578]

>>9749490
Reminded me of a video about Bully I watched yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85L3jSDwosg

Rockstar games are about atmosphere, not whether they're actually any good.

[Anonymous No.9749590]

>>9748568
you meant to say synthwave or retrowave. vaporwave is white and pastel with occasioanal sunsets or washedoutness.

[Anonymous No.9749593]

>>9749578
I suspect Bully is a significantly better game than any of the GTAs though. It seems a lot more lovingly crafted.

[Anonymous No.9749605]

>>9749590
Vaporwave is basically anything that induces a sense of melancholy and nostalgia for consumerist comforts of a time gone by.
Basically /vr/ would be vaporwave, if /vr/ was a slightly hipstery music scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoYxTQw8cB0

Synthwave is John Carpenter soundtracks mixed with dance music.

[Anonymous No.9749607]

>>9749593
I should have timestamped the bit I was talking about, my mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85L3jSDwosg&t=1430s

[Anonymous No.9749617]

Vice city had the only memorable map in the 3D era, SA was totally soulless in comparison while III was just grey

[Anonymous No.9749891]

>>9749617
GTA3 is the most sovl of all the 3D GTAs.
Only a fool does not know this.

[Anonymous No.9749908]

>>9749617
>while III was just grey
which captured the early 2000s urban aesthetic really well

[Anonymous No.9749913]

>>9749891
>>9749908
I didn't say it was soulless or didn't capture the atmosphere, just that it wasn't as memorable as Vice City's map

[Anonymous No.9749935]

>>9744390
See >>9746489 and >>9742105

Lol console trash SA is a billion times clunkier and slower than PC SA. Calling that shit smooth is fucking hilarious. I was comparing PC versions of VC and SA, it goes without saying that both are infinitely better than shitty console versions.

To reiterate, I can't believe people fanboy so hard about these games, especially the console versions. I mean I'm just gonna replay SA this one time on PC and then it's goodbye for another ten years minimum. You have fun arguing in these threads for the rest of your life though.

>>9742098
>no recoil
The recoil is the same on PC, just you don't have auto aim anymore. On VC when you locked on and shot you'd get the same stream of bullets you get on VC PC when you free aim fire. You only got recoil when you went into first person view, which exists in both versions.

Now to pre-empt the predictable posts claiming I'm too "casual" for console controls or that I'm saying console controls are hard, no. I can assure you I'm 100x better than you at every version of GTA, PC or console, and every other video game we both play for that matter, as well as everything else in life including cock size, attractiveness of spouse and wealth. Why anyone would wanna play GTA 6th gen console versions their entire life Idk but fair enough, it's your life and you do you.

[Anonymous No.9750326]

>>9749551
He literally claims in OP that vice city "pioneered" that aesthetic anon

[Anonymous No.9750387]

The only cool thing about the 80s was the quality of cocaine

[Anonymous No.9750395]

>>9749607
Bully is my favorite Rockstar game. It's not the best open world or the best of their games, but it's got a very comfy feel and aesthetic. Especially once you get out into the town.

Shame the story is hilariously schizophrenic though.

[Anonymous No.9750408]

>>9741013
>>warps an entire generation's perception of how the 80's looked
maybe the 80s didn't look like that in bumfuck nowhere but the game emulates very well the aesthetic of 80s Miami which was the coolest shit ever at the time.

[Anonymous No.9750418]

>>9750395
I didn't realise it at the time but Complete Mayhem is absolute nonsense in the context of everything. MrHammers addresses it in the video.

[Anonymous No.9750420]

>>9749935
The only way the console version is smoother than this is if you can't use a mouse. Which tbf you probably can't.

[Anonymous No.9750696]

>>9745002
I liked it for those reasons.

[Anonymous No.9750767]

>>9741013
are you retarded

[Anonymous No.9751240]

>>9749891
Yeah, but it fucking shits the bed story-wise the second you get to Shoreside Vale.

[Anonymous No.9751269]

>>9751240
the story goes to shit from the first cutscene
it's all about fast cars and drive-bys

[Anonymous No.9751273]

>>9751269
I wish they kept the faction shit if I'm being honest.

[Anonymous No.9751280]

>>9751269
That's just being overly pessimistic.

>>9751273
Somehow never played GTA 2 despite having played the first one.

[Anonymous No.9751289]

>>9751280
GTA 2 is pretty good, I played the first, but got filtered hard by the mission system.
2 I dunno, the faction system, and the looming Zaibatsu corporation, fast-paced crazy, after playing it I really wished we got it on the 3D engine they could've done way more with it, hell the GTA 3 Design Doc is literally 'What Could've Been' the design doc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUI0moGiNuw

[Anonymous No.9752526]

>>9746907
Scarface and Miami Vice are the obvious aesthetic influences.

[Anonymous No.9752842]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0vt3KkoKU
I wonder what this source code means for mods.
Hope R* goes bankrupt so people can post the Source Code openly and freely.

[Anonymous No.9753197]

>>9752842
cool, now find the mission they removed from III due to 9/11

[Anonymous No.9753693]

>>9752842
>Hope R* goes bankrupt
Unfortunately that's unlikely to happen.
Rockstar can bring out literally any kind of slop and it's guaranteed to sell well; much in the same vein as Nintendo. Just look at how successful the GTA trilogy was.

[Anonymous No.9753696]

>>9753693
With all the money gta online brings them and the next online will probably bring them too they can afford so many failures before they're at risk of bankruptcy too.

[Anonymous No.9753707]

>>9753693
>Just look at how successful the GTA trilogy was.
I still remember watching the Definitive Edition trailer and thinking "what in the actual name of fuck does this look like"

[Anonymous No.9754721]

>>9753197
based

[Anonymous No.9754774]

>>9741013
>causing immense damage to internet culture
You're revolting, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.9754813]

>>9752842
we could have had a weird movie level where tommy has to do mission stuff as scripted, going point to point, and in the end youd star in an in-game movie. thats all I got from it.

[Anonymous No.9754817]

>>9754813
it seemed like a way to make in-game movies? like the "mission" itself is a demo.

[Anonymous No.9754849]

>>9749420
I mean if all they're going to do is churn out is shit like GTA5 and Max Payne 3, then yeah, please tank the series.

[Anonymous No.9754935]

>>9741013
>>9741017
>the 80s were 40 years
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[Anonymous No.9754943]

>>9741013
>worst aesthetic ever

[Anonymous No.9755071]

>>9741013
I rather go back to 2000's

[Anonymous No.9755131]

>>9755071
I rather go back to any time before 2007. Further back the better. Actual boomers have no idea how good they had it, none. Maybe they do and they just keep their heads down now because they fucking destroyed their country so irreparably bad.

[Anonymous No.9755610]

>>9755131
>Actual boomers have no idea how good they had it, none.
The problem is they knew exactly how good they had it, it's why so many of them spent all their time partying and spending and enjoying the moment, not caring about the future.

[Anonymous No.9756804]

>>9749503
>The hair metal band “The Darkness” became popular soon after.
literally fucking who

[Anonymous No.9757025]

>>9756804
Good job confirming for everyone that you're a zoomie.

[Anonymous No.9757452]

>>9756804
Yeah you fucking blew it faggot zoomcuck double nigger, called yourself right out.
It was impossible to escape that song in 2003/2004, and it was so authentically 80’s that I bet it could fool you into thinking it was.

[Anonymous No.9757495]

>>9749490
I went back to replay gta vc stories yesterday after a few years, and I realized I dont even want to play the story anymore. I liked the game a lot but I dont care for how it plays out these days. I enjoyed driving around and eventually pissing off the cops so I can try to escape having high wanted levels. that thrill of driving like a madman in a city feels dynamic and fun. but at one point I was cruising, turned the music off, and I didnt want to play anymore. it got boring af. then I put the music back on and I enjoyed it again. made me realize how much of this game is really flash and atmosphere. half of the game is really in the music you listen to while youre driving, and the other half is playing through its story mode for the first time to see what crazy shit the writers put in the game. after that I find gta games to be lacking in anything but driving and listening to tunes.

[Anonymous No.9757746]

>>9748737
>Id say that out of all the retro shows Ive seen, stranger things captures the 80s pretty well without changing anything. from what they did for fun, the clothes, how the school looked etc.
>shitflix
>falling for the "muh 80s" show that half the scenes are MEMBER THE 80S I MEMBER CASSETTE TAPES ARCADES LMAO

[Anonymous No.9757756]

>>9751273
>>9751280
>>9751289
gta2 is actually my fav
when will we get a 3d retro-futurist version...

[Anonymous No.9758968]

>>9757756
it was retro futurist, dawg

[Anonymous No.9759209]

>>9757746
I watched season 1 and when they werent fighting monsters (90% of the show) it was a lot like the 80s. Im 45 you fucking retard, get a life and have sex

[Anonymous No.9759213]

I think the OP is a little bit of a homosexual fAggot

[Anonymous No.9759219]

>>9742053
>'ve already met zoomers who talk about the 00s with a certain longing, thinking it was all cute y2k tech / design philosophy and Kylie Minogue's Fever album and not the iraq war, nu metal and fratboy shit.
holy fuck that pisses me off to no end, especially as how they lead you to believe that people really did like shovelware JARPIGS and VNs or that wipeout was popular after the ps1, or that dreamcast didn't fail horrendously
like 50% of that "aesthetic" is pushed by (unironic, not the /pol/brain boogeyman) trannies and the other 50% by wypipo suburban soundclown rappers
t. zoomer that grew up on ps1 and ps2

[Anonymous No.9759237]

>>9748696
>70s (the worst era)
it pioneered punk rock that still got played up to the 00s in VGM
theres also david bowie, pop-rock acts like blondie, black sabbath, etc. 50s and 60s is much more boring and distant to modern sensibilities imo

[Anonymous No.9759586]

>>9759219
why do you think you know better than them?

[Anonymous No.9759621]

>>9759586
You must be a zoomer.

[Anonymous No.9759685]

>>9759586
He doesn't, he's just coping.

t. 35 year old boomer

[Anonymous No.9760370]

>Erm sweetie, you DO REALISE that all the subcultures we associate with different decades weren't applicable to everyone RIGHT?
Do anons really think this is what people mean when they associate the 60s with hippies or the 00s with Hello Kitty tamagotchi's? People being boring, plain motherfuckers does indeed exist in every decade, but that's why we recognise what subcultures did exist for a given decade as notable, not claiming that EVERYONE was a Disco goer in the 70s or wearing baggy jeans in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.9760380]

Why did 92 idiots reply to this thread?

[Anonymous No.9760389]

>>9760380
For the same reason you did I'd imagine.

[Anonymous No.9760391]

>>9741017
Watch 80s episodes of Letterman. Most lights in the big cities were yellow halogens. Lots of grey concrete and glass. Brown and beige wall to wall carpets. Not very much neon. Even rich powerful megacorps didn't usually make their offices as lavish and "artistique" as they are today. It was actually kind of a minor dark age in between the fading art deco/exceptionalism styles of the past and the retro futurism reenvisioning and brutalism that would come a decade or two later. OCP's headquarters in Robocop was a vision of what offices might look like in the future.

[Anonymous No.9760392]

>>9760389
My meta-reply is only to call out idiots for falling for this bait, so that they'll HOPEFULLY learn to do better in the future and not contribute to this garbage. Sadly, few NPCs on this board ever learn.

Stop giving your attention and energy to time burglars.

[Anonymous No.9760395]

>>9741557
Depends what you mean by "anyone". Real people? Probably not. Content creators and hot topic trendsters trying to capitalize on nostalgia? Yeah.

Utterly retarded to complain about Vice City though, I can't imagine what a sad little turd of a human you'd have to be to do that.

[Anonymous No.9760525]

>>9759586
cause me and my brother actually grew up around the games and music they pastiche around, I guarantee you at least half of them are secondaries, at least thats my experience when I ask around, especially in the case of rappers who just look for something exotic to make themselves an "aesthetic"

[Anonymous No.9760535]

>>9760392
>I didn't reply
>It was a meta reply
Lmao retard

[Anonymous No.9760573]

>>9760395
>Content creators and hot topic trendsters trying to capitalize on nostalgia? Yeah.
They don't think it either. They just understand an appealing aesthetic more than the guy in this thread moaning that everything doesn't look like his living room with it's discoloured furniture from the 70's.
I DON'T WANT TO PLAY A VIDEO GAME ABOUT YOUR CAT PISS STINK LIVING ROOM.

[Anonymous No.9760613]

>>9742102
It doesn't matter how old it is. People saying retarded shit need to be called out. Now go back kid.
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.9760692]

>>9741013
1980s Miami was just The Golden Girls.

[Anonymous No.9760781]

>>9760692
This is the only correct post in the thread, just like the 1990s was only The Drew Carey Show.

[Anonymous No.9760872]

>>9747621
The Terminator soundtrack is techno/industrial though. Here's an actual "synthwave" music from 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DomH4NGJxk

[Anonymous No.9761228]

>>9749503
>Vice City was actually part of the first major wave of “80’s nostalgia” that shockingly has not let up

Lol. 80s nostalgia was a thing since the 80s ended basically. It's like, the 80s were such a weird aesthetic anomaly that as soon as they were over people started pining over them for that.

>It’s just that good of a decade

Eh, it's more how unique and iconic it is, in that it's fun to copy/remember/revive shit from it because of how it contrasts against other time periods. It seriously can't compete against either the 70s or 90s in terms of cultural substance.

[Anonymous No.9761241]

>>9759219
>>9760525
The festishisation of VHS tapes is another thing that gets me. Like, they were just the way you watched and recorded things, they generally weren't fuzzy looking unless they were worn down and people just watched whatever tapes they had in as decent quality as they could.

[Anonymous No.9762154]

>>9761241
this.

[Anonymous No.9762351]

>>9741013
>pioneers the worst aesthetic ever, causing immense damage to internet culture
How the fuck is it Vice City's fault that pretentious fags latched onto old designer nonsense which actually existed in the era it's depicting?

>warps an entire generation's perception of how the 80's looked
Now who's got a warped perception? It pretty much gets urban Miami during the 1980s, in that shit overall looks vaguely similar to how it did in the 70s and 90s, but all the neon signs and that extravagant and wild designer shit shows up in upscale commercial districts and rich people's places, ergo where you may expect to have seen it IRL. Add some of the characters and pedestrians (but not all of them) rocking some of the more distinct fashion associated with the era, because it actually existed, and it's not a very egregious depiction.

There's a lot of retarded interpretations and depictions of the 1980s and the fashion at the time, but Vice City is reasonably grounded in its aesthetics.

>>9741017
Mostly like the 1990s, but there were some different fashion trends and advertising trends. Lots of the 1970s lingered.

>>9741048
Yes, urban Miami, to be exact, you don't go out into suburbs and into normal people's homes, you don't go out into the Everglades.

>>9741087
That too. It's very much based on the visuals and themes of Miami Vice, Magnum P.I, and Scarface, along with some A-Team, and Knight Rider. There's a a fair bit of Carlito's Way, too, which is from 1993, and takes place in 1975, but if you've seen that movie and played Vice City, you'll see it. Very underrated movie.

[Anonymous No.9762402]

>>9762154
old youtube videos look worse than vhs. I had a friend who thought people were watching tv and vhs on their tv which looked like 240p youtube videos, jagged edges and all. thought that until hd things looked like that. he was a retard and isnt my friend anymore

[Anonymous No.9762407]

>>9762154
old youtube videos look worse than vhs. I had a friend who thought people were watching tv and vhs and it looked like 240p youtube videos, jagged edges and all. thought that until hd things looked like that. he was a retard and isnt my friend anymore

[Anonymous No.9762413]

>>9741557
Generally not, but you can actually find people who think art and design in the 1980s was widely defined by what you now see in Vaporwave memes, when in reality that stuff was a fairly small part of it. Shallow fixations and all that.

I think a small amount of it comes from stuff like Far Cry : Blood Dragon, presumably people who have only caught glances of that game, because it's so fucking put on and tongue in cheek that I have no idea how anyone would take that shit at face value. You also had the Moonbeam City series, which leans heavy as fuck on the neon, and imitated the style of painter Patrick Nagel for its characters (which is an odd mix).
There's been some other stuff like that, and apparently there's the odd kid who came away with these works as their perception of the era, but ignorant fucks aren't really new.

>>9741610
Yeah, lots of mundane industry and housing, some of it being shitty slums.

>>9761241
That's actually one of the things which actually irk me, particularly since my opinion of VHS is good riddance. The image and audio of tapes getting all crusted up from heavy use or damage is one of the bad parts, and why disc media was a fucking godsend to me.

[Anonymous No.9762502]

>>9757746
And bring back Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana there was U2 and Blondie. And music still on MTV

[Anonymous No.9762558]

>>9749490
>No one remembers these games fondly because of the mission design or the writing or anything.
If you say so.

>>9749503
>The hair metal band “The Darkness” became popular soon after.
I remember them, but I would describe their popularity as modest and brief.

>At this point it’s safe to assume 80’s nostalgia is never going away
Its influences are probably going to be lasting, yeah, like the boomer fascination with the American frontier era. Striking period in terms of art and media.

>as the USA (and Europe/Japan) are culturally stagnant and live in the large shadow it casts. It stands as the apex point of western capitalism/cultural hegemony before it started collapsing in the 90’s.
lmao

>I’m dating a 20 year old zoomette who thought the 80’s was literally synthwave/stranger things/vaporwave.
>So much has been lost in translation to the youth and I wasn’t even quite yet alive in the 80’s, just completely brought up on it. I feed her copious amounts of fast food and fuck her huge fat ass while we watch John Hughes movies so she knows now.
>t. 31 year old boomer
What a weird larp, you're just a hair older than me, and neither of us were fucking around to experience the 1980s ourselves, at most your dad nutted you on New Years Eve 1989. You have any idea how many people who are twenty years our senior who act like they have a good picture of 1950s America, yet don't?

You can certainly find some zoomers who think the 1980s just looked like a giant vaporwave meme and that 2010s VHS filters is how all video looked like back then, but it doesn't take much cultural osmosis to exposed things which looked like real life from 1980s media, that shit is all over social media, find anyone who talks even just a bit about film and TV from the era, or some random clip on Twitter, whatever.

[Anonymous No.9763157]

>>9744383
>auto-aim
you didn't beat the game

[Anonymous No.9763182]

>>9761241
Yeah, I'm pretty glad VHS isn't a thing you have to worry about now. If anything, I feel nostalgia for early DVD era, where way more effort was being put into menu design, and DVD extras. Remember games on DVDs? That happened, occasionally.

[Anonymous No.9763197]

>>9763182
DVD has restrictive DRM. VHS didn't.

[Anonymous No.9763201]

>>9762558
If they were twenty years our senior, that would make them born in the early 70s. Since we are talking about the immediate decade preceding our birth, the comparison would be someone twenty years our senior having a picture of the 1960s, not the 1950s, disingenuous mathlet. Someone born in 1970 can have a pretty solid idea of what the 1960’s were like because it was the previous decade lol. They might have a more difficult time understanding what the 50’s were like.
If you were born in the early 90’s, like you claim you are, and like I am, than that means you grew up 80’s television, music, movies and more. Your parents probably still had a car manufactured in the 1980s when you were young. My mother literally had a red ‘85 Camaro for example, it was the first car I ever rode in. They probably played lots of music they liked growing up, and guess what decade that is coming out of and being spread to their children? A lot of television in the 1990s were reruns of the 80’s. Every tape your parents bought you that wasn’t Jurassic Park or Power Rangers was probably Star Wars or Transformers or Indiana Jones. You think 1990 happened and suddenly the building blocks of the world around you completely transformed?
90’s kids, early 90’s, were absolutely soaked in 80’s media and therefore can have a good understanding of what it was like sans the first hand experience. We had cutlery, decorations, curtains and more in my home from the 60’s let alone the fucking 80’s. If you were full enough of child to not have the ability to absorb the era immediately preceding you, that means you’re a brainless normalfaggot lol.

The Darkness’ popularity was brief, but that doesn’t matter, it solidified that the 80’s were back.

Your ”lmao” at 1980’s being the peak of western consumer culture is worthless like the rest of your opinions, try making an argument worth a fuck next time.

Only a permavirgin thinks someone having sex is a larp.

[Anonymous No.9763205]

>>9763201
Dull enough of a child*
>phonefaggot

[Anonymous No.9763207]

>>9763201
>re young. My mother literally had a red ‘85 Camaro for example, it was the first car I ever rode in. They probably played lots of music they liked growing up, and guess what decade that is coming out of and being spread to their children? A lot of television in the 1990s were reruns of the 80’s. Every tape your parents bought you that wasn’t Jurassic Park or Power Rangers was probably Star Wars or Transformers or Indiana Jones. You think 1990 happened and suddenly the building blocks of the world around you completely transformed?
I'm born 1999, but I wouldn't say I have a solid idea of what the 90s were like. Maybe it's because 9/11 changed culture so drastically even 2002 felt different from 1999.

[Anonymous No.9763213]

>>9763207
Post broadband world changed how life is experienced. Your earliest conscious memories are from a world that was right in the middle of fully transforming technologically and socially for the worse so yes that could have something to do with it. Post 2001 is an innocence lost era but it’s not completely over until 2007.
You could also be teetering on normalfag, who knows.

[Anonymous No.9763214]

The best gta games are the ones that take place during an significant cultural era, like 80s miami in vice city, and 90s compton.

what the next era they should make a gta taking place in?

maybe the 60s flowers children, undercover cop style serpico

[Anonymous No.9763216]

>>9763213
>socially for the worse
why?

[Anonymous No.9763221]

>>9763214
It’s too risky for modern day. The bulk of GTA’s profits are from mouth breathers who buy GTAbux, and if you do a based period piece game you can’t sell those same mouth breathers flying 2020’s audis. They would also despise a soundtrack that doesn’t have rap music.

I agree though, I think 60’s or 70’s undercover cop story in GTA’s version of Chicago would be ultrakino. Big bulky and badass muscle cars ramming a pimp’s gaudy Cadillac off the road with a funky soundtrack. It’s too kino for this dark timeline we live in.

[Anonymous No.9763227]

>>9763221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRx8N7mJU9g

[Anonymous No.9763230]

>>9763213
You're right. The 00s was a time after 9/11 and before the financial crash. I don't consider 2000 and 2009 to be culturally the 00s.

I do remember VHS tapes, VCDs, CRTs, Plasmas, floppy drives (barely), Windows XP and OS X Cheetah, and I even had a PS1 I got alongside a PS2. Those were simpler times I wish I could go back to. The music and movies were shit though (but still better than now).

[Anonymous No.9763236]

>>9763216
Mass social conditioning was being ramped up as the decades progressed, and by the 2000’s multiple generations had been socially altered by these programs. Just as well, huge demographic shifts funded by multiple special interest groups changed the face of the west permanently. You have very little, if any memories of the world when it was “normal” (it never was, but it was different). Without even making it political, the environment you have been in your entire life, and what you see now, was either unthinkable in 1999 or some people’s worst fears.

[Anonymous No.9763248]

>>9763227
Based movie, a classic. Would be the perfect inspiration for a 60’s GTA but you’re gonna get girlboss prideflag-era “video game” instead.

[Anonymous No.9763250]

>>9763236
breh

[Anonymous No.9763834]

>>9741557
no, it's just what is considered the peak aesthetics of the era. were disco balls everywhere in the 70s? Or art deco in the 20s? It's better that remembering the 80s as the Reagan years as my boomer parents talked about to absurdity.

>>9741554
early Roseanne seasons always seem to hit me hard as 80s. They intentionally make everything look drab because they're supposed to be broke. seemed more close to real life. you could say the same for the later seasons in the 90s

[Anonymous No.9765052]

>>9763236
>what you see now, was either unthinkable in 1999 or some people’s worst fears.
I used to think the doom and gloomers from the 90s were exaggerating with their tales of a thought controlled future where technology influenced people. I thought society wouldnt be so dumb.

[Anonymous No.9765179]

>>9765052
>I thought society wouldn't be so dumb.

I wish it wasn't the case, but normies are addicted to conforming to groups to an incredibly level and actively ignore everything demanding hypocrisy from them for this sake.

[Anonymous No.9765306]

>>9765052
The people who run the show say the “nation” are animals meant to be controlled and serve like animals. You are in many further phases of thought control than you were 20 years ago. The next 5-10 years are going to be pivotal as the social conditioning experiment is about to hit a breaking point. Too many people know something is deeply wrong, and too many injustices are happening too quickly. The acceleration will either lead to our liberation or extermination.

Pay attention to who publishes our history books, because those who fail to learn their history are doomed to repeat it, and the people rewriting history want to make sure you do not have the information tools to defend yourself.

Anyways yeah, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a great game.

[Anonymous No.9765327]

>>9744368
>Vice City's missions take 1 minute at most to complete
Spoken like a faggot who never played the game.

[Anonymous No.9766007]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave
>The genre developed in the mid-to late 2000s through French house producers, as well as younger artists who were inspired by the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Citation not needed.

[Anonymous No.9766113]

>>9766007
I see way more Terminator and John Carpenter influence. Literally anyone can edit Wikipedia.
I don't know who these "French house producers" are either. Isn't synthwave entirely an online DIY phenemenon?
This is synthwave as I understand it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NoYyNKSXQ

[Anonymous No.9766139]

>>9766113

>I don't know who these "French house producers" are either.

How tf do you listen to synthwave and not know who Kavinsky is

[Anonymous No.9766141]

>>9766139
Oh, I don't care about that girl stuff.

[Anonymous No.9766162]

>>9742094
Replayed all 3 recently.

Can confirm it is you who is the retard, sweaty.

[Anonymous No.9766190]

>>9766007
they reference articles talking about vice city influence later on the page.

[Anonymous No.9766207]

Are old GTA games playable today?

[Anonymous No.9766219]

>>9766207
No, stick with tranny adventure, it has cool retro style graphics