What was gaming really like in the 2000s?
online gaming still had n-word functionality
>>12897970We had great games and every new title got progressively better looking and added brand new features no games had prior, and so did new consoles. Communities were real and didn't ban you if you offended some precious little snowflake, and different consoles actually had different hardware and strengths to them instead of just being an umpteenth PC box. Portable gaming was huge and also benefited from all the above. Online play was optional and everything came with great single player content, console games worked out of the box instead of requiring to be always-on and downloading 100GB of patches every month.The great studios from the 90s were mostly still alive and churning out new titles, and most great game series was still getting revolutionary new titles.It was all around better. Nowadays, the last time a game impressed me graphically was 15 years ago, and every decent new title in a big series is some kind of fanmade expy that sometimes gets lucky enough that the IP holder allows them to name it a new entry.
>>12897970Nothing like this AI slop for sure.
People really are going to use AI with VR headsets to completely simulate bygone eras because the present sucks ass.
>>12897970For single player games it's not a lot different to now really, other than graphics I guess. You're still sitting in front of a screen with a controller or kb+m.
>>12897970Ask grok
>>12897970a big blur of World of Warcraft
>>12897970there were websites that were just cheat code databases
it was basically like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJncWndUB8
>>12897970It was exciting at the beginning, we were finally seeing the future of gaming beginning with the Dreamcast. But after the Dreamcast died because of piracy, things went downhill from there. Microsoft entering the console wars was quite unexpected and unwelcomed. PS2 was overrated as fuck. As for Gamecube, what was Nintendo thinking not including a DVD player? 6th gen was a disasterous wave of bullshit. But after the Dreamcast, I ended up owning a PS2 because I knew all the games I would want to play would end up on that console. I ended up selling my PS2 for a Gamecube and Xbox instead, despite my hatred for Microsoft, I wanted custom soundtracks for my games. I also wanted to play the RE Remake on Gamecube. Best decision I've ever made and it was the first time I played Splinter Cell on Xbox and became a huge fan of that game series.
>>12897970No need for AI when a lot of footage exists from the era, especially midnight launches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkTD0I1ROM
>>12898212Halo 3 NYC midnight launch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaXYMihM1Y>you are here for the experience. my father went to woodstock. This is our woodstock
people online were chill and normalfags started invading the hobby
PS2 launch and footage of online resellers scalping PS2 on old web pageshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gltXb8M1zR4&list=PLk8960I0Jg7fQ1FeI5TSGNPGoEZpRRQxJ
>>12897970>What was gaming really like in the 2000s?Playing new games and enjoying one here or there while longing for the retro era because 2D gaming had soul instead of slop
>>12897970>Dood spiky hair and baggy pants lmao
>>12899149This was peak turn of the century dude.
>>12897973>>12898181Thanks for training my AI
>>12898160I wanted a rick roll, you let me down
>>12897974Something vaguely creepy about seeing an AI recreation of things you lived through, presenting itself as the real thing.>>12898212This is much better.
>>12899514>Something vaguely creepy about seeing an AI recreation of things you lived through, presenting itself as the real thing.because it's a cruel pastiche. it's like a museum diorama made from someone far in the future that only had written descriptions of the highlights of the time and they decided to shove everything into one setting. look, the xbox! look, the PS2! look CRTs! look, half-eaten domino's pizza! look pacsun! all shoved and blended together that to people who actually lived through it looks like an uncanny valley slurry of shit. also because it's replicating consumer-grade HD digital video which obviously didn't exist then (or at the very least wasn't widely available)
>>12897970I could tell this was AI from the thumbnail because there was a random black person who famously didnt exist until 2013
>>12897970>im datamining againPC gaming centers/LAN shops/net cafes/whatucallthem were a big deal until home broadband nets made them irrelevent.
>>12897970I start getting suspicious from the first few seconds, but I closed it when I saw a LAN party of MacBooks. Gaming on Macs just broke any sense of realism.
>>12897970Play videogames from back then and let me know how it was.
>>12899175I was a gamer dork so I didn't do that.>>12899720In Turdworldia. Thankfully in Western society we didn't need to
>>12899923...to do that since we had computers plenty powerful enough for it at home thanks to upper middle class parents. That is, if you were white. Also first time we got broadband at my house was in 2000. Got it early and damn was that a bragging right at school.
>>12899926fucked up they didn't let upper middle class black people buy computers back then
>>12897970>spoonfeed me
>>12897970It was fucking magical brother...1985-early 2000s in general gaming or otherwise.. was magic... https://files.catbox.moe/196o4n.webm / https://litter.catbox.moe/87etzg71ppeoktkx.webmno other moment in my life has ever compared or measured up.
>>12897970>that webmPure unfiltered ai goy slop
>>12897970Nothing will ever be as magical as going to a my aunt's house for a family reunion and experiencing The Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past and Super Mario World and the magic that was the Super Nintendo all at once for the first time in my life.. it was like consciousness expanding as a kid that had only ever played on a soulless green monochrome gameboy screen up to that point.
>>12899149Glad we switched to broccoli hair and cock and ball torture tight jeans.
>>12899941>upper class black peopleNiggers who played b-ball or rappers. Blacks were super rare in PC Gaming, maybe that one token character who was a unicorn.
>>12898181Piracy killed the Dreamcast? That's the line pirates fear. They could rewrite history, but the truth holds fast. Piracy killed the Dreamcast.
>>12901127I remember going to my cousins' house and seeing Super Mario World for the first time. They just opened the door to Vanilla Dome and the music and atmosphere absolutely washed over me.I've played the game many times since then but I've never been able to recapture that feeling.
>>12897970That AI generated "2000s" guy has the mannerisms of a zoomer.
>>12898216You americans used to be pretty cool.
>>12897970is this real footage?
>>12897970It certainly wasn't retro.
>>12902189I'd say it was retro
>>12898181In hindsight, GameCube/Xbox was an amazing combo and you really didn’t miss out on that much by not having a PS2. Especially if you aren’t a JRPG fan.
so deprived of socializing that you interact with a bot threadgood job retards!
>>12902895Which threads aren’t bot threads?
>>12902895>so deprived of socializing that you interact with a bot threadactually yes :(
>>12898160girl at 1:26 FOGs all the other mid chicks in this video
>>12898181>Dreamcast died because of piracyIncorrect, the reason the Dreamcast died was way way more complex and had a lot to do with Microsoft. As it's well know MS really wanted to collab with Sega and got shafted in large part due to Bill Gates smelling like rotten cheese on account of his obsessive milk drinking and lack of hygiene. Anyways so Gates retaliated to make sure the Dreamcast would get as little market share as possible and actually paid for every single MS employee to buy a PS2 on launch and once the Xbox launched they activated a kill switch for SegaNet that they in part helped develop although not directly. This caused massive issues and any Dreamcast owner who used it late in it's life can confirm the servers were iffy at best. This being Sega's main source of income from the DC at this point crippled them and they had to just cut it before it got worse and this action probably saved the company from bankruptcy. The Xbox would then release and steal practically all but the most dedicated Casters (this is what Dreamcast fans called themselves). To reiterate piracy had nothing to do with the DCs death because the only money Sega ever made was through SegaNet, something unavailable to pirates.
>>12898181One of the best posts I've ever read on this board
>>12901340Were you quoting a song?>>12902882You're right, I'm not a fan of JRPG. And yes the Gamecube and Xbox were a perfect combo.>>12903182False. Piracy killed the Dreamcast, by driving away third party support and causing Sega to lose money since Sega was banking on Software sales to keep them afloat. They couldn't afford piracy and was left with no choice but to shut down production of the Sega Dreamcast. >>12903279Thank you.
>>12897970AI and you still had to slip the black guy in.
>>12903635Cope. Third party devs largely abandoned the N64 in favor of PlayStation during the fifth gen and Nintendo still managed to get by on the strength of their first party titles. What’s Sega’s excuse?
>>12903662Third Parties didn't abandoned the N64, it had a pretty healthy third party support due to lack of piracy and moderate success. Whereas Sega was losing support because of widespread piracy.
>>12897970Women didn’t hate men yet for dumb fake reasonslife ws still happier
>>12903794Sega’s own first party games should’ve been enough to keep the Dreamcast going, but let’s face it, they just weren’t very good outside of shallow arcade stuff.
>>12898181>the future of gaming beginning with the Dreamcast
>>12904071I’m going to assume he meant 3D gaming. I will give the Dreamcast credit for being the console that fully bridged the gap between arcade and home console 3D graphics.
>>12898181>Dreamcast died because of piracypic related was all that needed for dreamcast to fall offmikami was a coverup for sony having intense gay sex at sony with mikamislut was working for them the whole timefirst he ruined sega dreamcast and then they went for the big onenintendowith that crapcom 5 bullshitthey got fucked over for goodbased gay sex at sony with mikamipassionate sweaty gang bang
>>12904073i'm going to assume you're both ass2ass faggots
>>12904078Sony partially owns the rights to Resident Evil, at least in movie form. All the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies were released under the Sony-owned Screen Gems label.
>>12904079Where’s the lie? Up until the Dreamcast, arcade boards had superior GPUs compared to what we got at home.
>>12904081In fact, the Dreamcast version of SoulCalibur was a big visual upgrade over the arcade counterpart.
>>12904080sony owns mikami ass that's exactly what i said yesresident evil belonged to playstation periodnintendo fucked upthey should tried bringing final fantasy back instead and all the other shitnow that would have been all other story for the 2000sa proper 1990s revivalagain late 1990s ruined everythingalso fuck pokemon shit
>>12904081i don't get it why do you fags always neglect pcshall we talk about shit like quake 3 idk
>>12904085Nintendo had absolutely zero chance of getting Final Fantasy back, zero. The PlayStation brand was way too dominant in Japan and Europe. Why the fuck would Square opt for Nintendo when Sony had an install base of 100 million potential Final Fantasy customers?
>>12904089>Nintendo had absolutely zero chance of getting Final Fantasy back, zero.well i guessafter all i said late 1990s ruined everythingbut at least i can fantasize and shitfuckaroundchat on 4chan with you about it tho
>>12904087Because we’re talking about consoles and even if you include PC, consumer level 3D graphics accelerator cards only came around in the late 90s, same as the Dreamcast.
>>12904092>same as the DreamcastTHEREFORE...
>>12904093Go ahead, complete your thought.
>>12904095
>>12904096In other words you have nothing. The Dreamcast hardware was damn impressive for 1999 and generally looked just as good as PC games unless you had a top tier gaming rig.
>>12904098>a top tier gaming rigwhich then would be le actual "future of gaming"which btw i pretty much had back then jokes on youaltho it really wasn't gayming as you called in today reddit meme culture 2008+
>>12904102Good for you, but most people didn’t. The Dreamcast offered impressive 3D performance at a price of only $200 at launch.
>>12904096ASS TEH ASS
>>12904737Terrible movie.
