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>>930747395 (OP) #
Simple. Cozy. Pure.

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INCOMING KINO DUMP

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>>930747395 (OP) #
Pure fun. Simple as that.

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>>930747783 #
YES

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>>930747815 #
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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IYKYK

>>930747395 (OP) #
>a game released in 2010
>still using a CRT

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Fuck man I feel like a boomer saying this, shit was peak

>>930747933 #
Must have been before the switch from Analog to Digital.

>>930747395 (OP) #
This room smells like 20% furniture polish, 20% carpet cleaner, 45% console fan exhaust, 10% plastic, and 5% aluminum from soda cans, and it's so fucking nostalgic. I wish I still had my entertainment center but my apartment doesn't have the space

>>930747395 (OP) #
This doesn't look retro or anything, it just looks like a normal set up for me
fuck I'm old

>>930747395 (OP) #
You wrote cheat codes down in a notebook. Had to beg your mom for a new controller because you killed the vibration in the fucking thing from playing so much. I spent an entire summer playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band with my two cousins.

>>930748149 #
I remember when Roblox was just obbys and tycoons, and the disaster hotel.

>>930748216 #
Yessir, I also liked the paintball map and "the crossroads"

>>930748216 #
Lumber tycoon, paintball arena, left for dead

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Sword fight on The Heights

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>>930748271 #
You're making me sad anons
I want to go back

>>930748298 #
yesss that's the one, I always fucked people up with the ice dagger and that one obsidian sword haha

>>930748319 #
Bro. Tell me about it. Looking up these images is making me depressed haha.

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>>930748331 #
I wanna go back too

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>>930748341 #
our childhoods trained us well for the future ahead, all of these memories and experiences mattered

carry them

>>930748149 #
i miss when roblox was simple like that >>930747395 (OP) #
pretty much exactly like that but we had a rear projection tv that allowed for the duck hunt blaster to work.

If you were able to be a kid again, how old would you want to be?

>>930747395 (OP) #
internet was either dialup or just stupidly expensive until the mid-late 00s.
it was basically just a continuation of the 90s except 3D graphics was doubling in quality every year.
Lan parties were still a thing.
Pirated media/games was shared around constantly on burnt DVDs.

I miss it. It was a good time.
Everything is so shitty now.

>>930748216 #
god i miss the disaster hotel but did you ever play the 2012 board?

>>930748379 #
I know anon. We were meant to be here and now, and though we love the past, we can't go back. The pictures, sounds, and aesthetics from then still feel like a warm hug when I encounter them, though.

>>930748438 #
Saw it in the featured section I think but I can't remember playing it, it's been so long

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>>930748407 #
12. the day before middle school starts, in September of 2012. I would have mopped the floor with everyone with what I know now and I would have been the top kid in the entire area making friends with kids from all the other schools, having a diamond solid network for a perfect rest of my life.

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>>930748407 #
Probably around 11. It was when the Internet was coming "alive" in like 2009. I was on here browsing 4chan lol. Be watching Edd's world, newgrounds flash hentai from that zone person, YouTube vids, flash games, Nintendo DS, psp, etc.

>>930748496 #
it was actually a pretty fun disaster survival map. which actually took some skill and just a small amount of luck to survive before the earthquake eats everything.

>>930748407 #
With current memories? Probably 14-15 or so. I absolutely hated my middle school, but moved to a different city for high school so I'd restart at freshman year. I'd rather live through 4 more years of high school than 1 more of middle.

>>930748149 #
I remember thinking I was so cool for having BlockBuilder5000, JJ5x5, Anaminus and Fleshkjerta on my friends list. Even made me want to make my own videos

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>>930748544 #
Anon you're making me hurt

>>930748615 #
i was one of the weird ones who had 1x1x1x1 on thier friends list before they got banned for hacking.

>>930748623 #
Aw yeah, dude was my sexual awakening. Still remember browsing newgrounds, discovering adults only games and boom, buckets

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>>930748626 #
we're all gonna make it.

>>930748651 #
Lmfao! Holy shit I had forgotten about that name. I remember spamming ambassador links to get free tix every week. I did all 50 links, they honored the free tix all the way up until they removed them. When I last logged in I had like 150,000 tix

>>930748411 #
Amen. It feels so corporate and soulless. It felt like games were by gamers then, not huge faceless corporate types out to make shit loads of money.

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Used to play this game for hours.

Thx for the thread OP, it was real. I love you guys, stay safe bros.

>>930748734 #
i had lifetime builders club because my late mother was based. But then I lost it because I think the email i used for the account was penis@penis.com

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I love you all
you are good people

Your fortune: Good Luck

>>930748765 #
I remember I lifetime obc so bad, crazy to think for 500 bucks you'd basically have premium for life these days. My account was hacked a couple years back, all my limited gear and hats gone after the retard got it banned. C'est la vie

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>>930747395 (OP) #
Great gently progressing to mediocre.

>>930748908 #
well i actually got it twice because my first account was banned lol.

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ASMR nostalgia

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Local multiplayer meant a lot back then. Sitting shoulder to shoulder with someone during a co-op campaign, or even better, during a 1v1 where you're literally going to beat the shit out of each other if you lose.

PC gaming was amazing because you couldn't be a technologically illiterate faggot if you wanted to game before 2009.

PSN was still free so you could legit just buy the game and connect to online multiplayer for free. Xbox was king of the console wars due to Halo and COD. Nothing better than chilling with the boys until 1am, then we all went home and hopped in an Xbox party until 3am. Some nights as recent as 2011 we'd have Netflix watch parties where they'd show your avatar in a movie theater.

>>930747395 (OP) #
Lobbies were louder.

>>930749938 #
I remember staying at my friends house the weekend after MW2 released, and playing all the way through the campaign without stopping, then played CoD4 and Need for Speed. We lived off of mostly dr pepper and goldfish for 2 days straight, and only left for the restroom or pizza. It was so glorious

SmackDown vs. Raw 2006 (Batista and Cena on the cover). My buddy and I did a ladder match and beat each other's characters bright red (max damage). Combine both wrestlers dragging ass at best with a complete inability to position the ladder correctly, we played for over 3 hours before finally pausing the game and grabbing nachos down the street.

who else used to scream "i did your mom last night" at the opposing team" as an attempt to just fuck with them while in the lobby.

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>>930747395 (OP) #
>using composite on a 360

holy millenials fucking lmao

>>930750645 #
i was using svideo on a 360 for a good 2 years

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>>930747395 (OP) #
Depended a lot on what console (or PC) you had, but what was generally and universally the case was:
>more polygons
>you actually got the full game when you bought it
>online gaming for the consoles was still very much in its infancy, drastically improved through games like Halo and CoD
>Handhelds were relevant and significantly separate from consoles/PC
>Nintendo produced more than just Mario-Zelda-Pokemon games
>remakes weren't as common
>if you wanted more out of a game, you actually had to get gud or use cheat codes/debug menus

>>930751077 #
as someone who used to develop cheats using the usbgecko and would share them on bbs sites it was a fun time.

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>>930751312 #
I may have used them for games like Animal Crossing; not sure how else I'd have gotten the Nintendo furniture set.

before online multiplayer became the norm, very fun. games concentrated more on the single player experience and less on soulless online grinding for e-bucks and skins. Only a few games got the multiplayer aspect right. Not like current games where even single player games require a connection.

>>930751510 #
oh yea I had remote inv access to animal crossing.

>>930747395 (OP) #
There was an unfortunate push for 3D polygon 'advanced' graphics. The gameplay/story/etc. usually was last on the list of important features. They also seemed obsessed that there should never be any 2D sidescrolling, so it was just high graphic vomit that is dated way worse than even early NES games.

N64 had a few great games, but was largely shit and the rest wasn't much better other than a few hidden gems.
Got pulled into playing some Halo years later by someone saying it was the greatest game ever. It was okay. The controls were rubish and any computer first person shooter was far better as was old shit like goldeneye.

Enjoyed CS and CS:S. CS:GO was an abomination unto the lord and that was when i stopped playing videogames. Might try CS2 someday hoping it is better.

>>930753807 #
as an old source engine nerd cs:go is pure cancer.

stick with CS:S

>>930754058 #
I ran CS 1. and early CS:S servers. never popular, but it was fun to tinker around and play at LAN parties.
Played sparing CS:S up to a few years ago, but the servers just slowly dropped off to unplayability. Been a few years, so maybe it made a resurgence?

Well, the first three HALO games, COD4:MW, and COD World at War, were all released in the 2000 -2009 time period, as were L4D 1 and 2. If you're in to FPS's, it was the fucking Golden Years. Linkin Park was in their glory years, so you had good music to listen to, too. The Lord of the Rings movies were out there, as well as the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy and the first X-men movies.

Short version, the 2K's were fucking awesome.

>>930748552 #
>It was when the Internet was coming "alive" in like 2009
Stfu newfag

>>930754317 #
Eh, played a few of those and they were all rubbish. Unreal and CS were far superior. Even goldeneye as a console FPS was way better.

>>930754317 #
l4d2 was peak hell we even had a map that was a full recreation of disney world florida.

>>930747395 (OP) #
Worse than it was in the 80s and 90s. 2000s gaming was utter trash. It's getting a lot better again with the return of indies and big players that hire designers/devs who know what they're doing.

>>930755399 #
I just hope they reopen themselves to modding/posting thier engines publicly if they make their own custom engine.

>>930747480 #
it had a video game???? fuccckkkkkk

>>930757150 #
yep and it was wild

Maybe it was due to my young age and ignorance of game development, but I remember feeling like games were much more mysterious and expansive than they really were. I remember reading through discussion threads on random forums about people discovering secrets in games, discussing theories about how to find more secrets, or over-analysing tiny details they found in games.

I think data-mining has kinda killed that these days. Everything is debunked immediately and thoroughly documented online. There's definitely value to that, but I have always felt like something was lost along the way.

it was fun
even small studios released some gems and a lot of developers were always trying new stuff
companies like blizzard were making actual good games like starcraft
UT-UT2k3-4k were all super fun and had so many mods you could change the games into some crazy bullshit
morrowind and other crazy rpgs were coming out and were incredibly text heavy but that made them incredibly immersive due to immense characterization and world building

>>930755399 #
I played so much war craft 3, command and conquer, and the generation of games that followed N64. Playstation and Xbox release some pretty fun titles. The era was legit if you were into the types of games - why did it suck to you?

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More fun

>>930748076 #
Now this takes me back!

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>>930748918 #
Exactly my thoughts. I remember feeling that there was such a rapid and creative development in the video game world that I could not wait to see where it would go. Then it kind of just got stuck on loop midway through the 00's and we're still rehashing the same old ideas from that time. Same with film. Something back then went terribly wrong in the world, causing everyone to stop taking risks. And no it wasn't the fucking towers.

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>>930747395 (OP) #
>TESIII; Morrowind is an experience.
>A lot of hours in Guitar Hero.
>So much Tekken 3.
>All the cheat codes in GTA 3 and Vice City.
>Ratchet & Clank 1, 2 & 3 was so much fun.
>Battlefield 4 was fucking great, but BF 1942, that is an absolute classic.
>Sucks that the Spyro games took a real downturn in 2000 and got even worse after Year of the Dragon.
>I recall The Sims 2 being very popular among kids my age in... I wanna say 2004?
Oh childhood...

>>930747395 (OP) #
on average better games, but always worse graphics

>>930759484 #
Feels like it had to have started when game publishers realized how much money the could squeeze out of players the more popular online connectivity and purchases got. They start pressing studios to churn out games faster because; "we will just patch it later".
Publishers really start gobble the shareholder cocks, gets scared to be to inventive and wants to play it safe.
Thank fuck there are smaller studios and indie studios around to take some risks and moving shot forward by testing out fun ideas. Just imagine the even more homogenous sludge gaming would be if someone didn't test the waters.

>>930747395 (OP) #
The best really. Not being nostalgic, triple A actually put out complete games that weren't afraid to take risks. You had a variety of stuff, the vintage prices weren't inflated out the ass, and legacy hardware wasn't so shitty to use because the current tech still let you do it reliably. None of that faggot ass micro transaction shit either. Graphics are better, but games are broken and really gay now. You have to go indie.

>>930754205 #
>I ran CS 1. and early CS:S servers.
>never popular
Man, everybody and their mom played CS 1.6 right up until about the BF3 era here in Sweden.
I miss the old server browser, no matchmaking bullshit.

Fucking loved this game

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>>930762800 #
Fucking fuck...

Paradise.

>>930764313 #
I see.

>>930747395 (OP) #
I spent new years of the millennium playing NFL Blitz because my girlfriend (who I was supposed to go out with that night) had broken up with me the day after christmas. I remember starting playing at like 7pm when the pizza arrived and then heard fireworks like 10 minutes later only to realize it was after midnight. I played until 5am when my mom got up and turned it off, then returned it to blockbuster while I was asleep. I spent the next 2 days playing The Sims on my computer

>>930759980 #
Teams were a lot smaller. Risk was a lot less. Everything was more exciting. The gaming industry still felt kind of illegitimate and not quite real business. The MBAs and marketing people hadnt discovered it yet.

>>930748407 #
12, infinite horniness, ability to binge anime with 100s of eps, and my great grandfather was still alive

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>>930767333 #
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>>930747395 (OP) #
It saw the last great generation

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>>930747395 (OP) #
first of all, the 360 didn't come out until 2005. OG xbox was fucking garbage with an oversized controller, only thing it was good for was hacking it to turn it into a media box, every game on it was shit, and PS 2 was far superior.

MMOs were actually good and BF 1942, once wow came, it's like how indians ruined the internet, same result. sorry not sorry if you were a zoomer shit who first only played wow but it ruined mmos and made all of them dumber and shittier.

Guitar Hero was fun for the first few iterations, especially after they got the rights to use the original songs. Activision ran it into the ground though.

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>>930769832 #
at least the OG xbox era was decent compared to what xbox and microsoft is now

>>930770920 #
I abandoned xbox when they did that mass banning on halloween 2008 iirc, I played borderlands 2 a few days before it's official release and they sent out an update that banned you from xbox live. I had a few games I had purchased and once they did that shit, I said fuck xbox. I wasn't even a huge pirate but it pissed me off.

bump

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>>930774106 #
that's trash service towards the consumer base tbh and of course nothing was refunded most likely

>>930774106 #
What I was pissed about the most was that basically every single origin XBOX game was pulled from the shelves, when the 360 came out

>>930774212 #
Ok Dale

>>930747395 (OP) #
Comfy beyond comprehension

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sovl

>>930747957 #
Same. I wish I was like 5-ish years older so I would've gotten a better taste of gaming at it's peak, but wishes and fishes and all that.

>>930778021 #
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY REAL NAME

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>>930748407 #
Whatever age I was on the first day of high school (2003). I'd know exactly who to befriend, who to avoid, what classes to focus on, what family members to ignore, and the seriousness of the politics of the time. I'd also fucking stay in AFJROTC the whole four years and build up my ribbon rack.

>>930747395 (OP) #
Well, they couldn't reach into your console or computer and delete your games or put more clothes on the characters, for one....

>>930747395 (OP) #
They didn't shoehorn niggers and trannies into everything.

>>930781642 #
>AFJROTC
Why did you leave?

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>>930781728 #
Simply put: I was a terrible student and did NOT want to be in the military, something I made sure both my parents and eventual recruiter knew (parents made me sign up for the DEP in the summer before 12th Grade anyway, even though I dropped out of AFJROTC in the 10th Grade). I never wanted to be in to begin with, and that's all my parents cared about: having me in there. Not doing Color Guard, no Drill Team, no volunteer work, just make sure I wore the uniform every Wednesday like the others and tell everyone (their friends, coworkers, and other family members) that they have a son who's in the AFJROTC, and eventually Air Force itself (from which I was kicked out during Basic Training).

As you'd imagine, all of my other grades were absolute trash, too. But, they didn't care; as long as I'm in the AFJROTC and will graduate on-time, even if that meant summer school two summers in a row AND some BS "class" which just gave me credits at the end.

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>>930781693 #
>or put more clothes on the characters
The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall was the first time I saw a naked woman. I was about 11.

>>930781961 #
Did you start masturbating when you saw her?

>>930766760 #
It made for more distinguished titles and originality.

>>930747988 #
I remember using an old CRT TV even past 2010.

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>>930782154 #
I didn't really know how to masturbate, so I was just like
>huh...nice.

>>930782204 #
had one up until 2012 myself was still playing star wars obi wan on it

>>930782243 #
So what are you into now?

>>930782243 #
>I didn't really know how to masturbate
How did you learn then?

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>>930782291 #
dickgirs, mostly.

>>930782304 #
initially rubbing my penis against random things, but I think I learned to simply use my hand at some point in 7th or 8th Grades. Dick was like a Katamari with the way I'd rub it on nearly anything.

Which, btw OP, that's another series you should look into: Katamari Damacy

>>930767333 #
I used to jack add to this stupid shit

>>930782431 #
>dickgirs
Huh. Do you want to fuck a dickgirl or get fucked by one?

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>>930782554 #
Both, though I've only done one of those...twice in Korea, once in the U.S. in a very rough neighborhood. Never again until I'm back out.

>>930782499 #
Why

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The decade started with tragic news

>>930782499 #
Lara croft in that xbox tomb raider game was sexy too

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>>930782928 #
Quite litrully the worst thing to happen that year.

>>930782707 #
Dude in the year 2000 you would steal porn mags. Ravage your dick to your sisters Victoria secret mags. Stare at the wiggly lines on the scrambled pay channels that had porn, and if you just messed with the wire just right you saw it for a few seconds on and off.

>>930782931 #
You are correct the original concept has way better potential than whoever that ugly whore is Hollywood used

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>the future of the past

Which console from the 2000s would have been owned by a kid who hated Nintendo, hated Pokémon, hated the Gamecube (and hated the Wii too), hated the Game Boy Advance, hated Pokémon, and had the most anti-Nintendo console of all?

for me, I dont remember my life revolving around gaming like it is now. It was much more casual. I remember my room mate would just be like "hey man, wanna get some kills in?" then we would take turns playing call of duty 2 or 3 multiplayer. good times.

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>>930784748 #
Xbox, hands down. Probably Dreamcast, but that checked out too early.
>Sega was for the cool kids
>Xbox was for when those kids became teens

>>930781961 #
OoT was my sexual awakening... I think

those fucking wallmasters in the forest temple would scare me so bad.... and I felt constantly under threat like I was being hunted and was going to be taken away to a dark place where bad things happen

ofc at my age, i didnt understand why that'd make my sex tingle

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>>930784748 #
sega was actively antagonizing the nintendo fanbase in the 90s but there was a general attitude of "nintendo is for babies" from both sony and xbox fanboys.
you would have been an annoying squeaker in socom lobbies on the sony side or in halo lobbies on the xbox side.

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>>930784969 #
>OoT was my sexual awakening
Oh ok. Yeah, those Great Fairies were really something, being almost entirely nude and all.
>wallmasters...possibly taking me to a dark place where bad things happen.
Oh...well, that ended differently than I expected.

>>930785146 #
>Oh...well, that ended differently than I expected.
yeah, sorry anon lol

guess it's different for boys/girls

>>930784846 #
And what games for the original XBOX would the kid who hated Pokemon and only wanted anti-Nintendo games have had?

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>>930786164 #
Halos 1 & 2, Azurik, uh...friggin...Splinter Cell. I WAS the Nintendo-kid, so my knowledge of early-Xbox games is rather limited. Oh, and Morrowind; my friends loved that one.

>>930786322 #
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33jb7P1FqQU [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjC8L1NWJ_I [Open]

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>>930786921 #
Well, there you go. I'm going to go play Minecraft on Switch. Did you know they added a 'deep dark' biome WAAAYYY underground? You have to be careful though, because it could spawn a "Warden" if you make too much noise on certain blocks.

>>930747395 (OP) #
pure kino
I genuinely believe some of the best games ever made came out between the years 2000 and 2012

>>930786164 #
Halo

>>930751077 #
>土夢月心夢
>BARGAIN CENTRE
huh

>>930787174 #
Halo Is Based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2QeJuMkpg&pp=ygURaGFsbyBndWl0YXIgdGhlbWU%3D [Open]

>>930747395 (OP) #
Peak, but I am too sleepy to elaborate. To sum it all up.
>cod4 comes out
>get the idea to plug in Ethernet first time
>wow get my ass beat by strangers multiplayer no split screen
>they give away a whole ass DLC for free because micro transactions did not exist
I could get into ps2/ps1 and sega era. And gameboy but i gtg to bed. Goodnight anon.

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>>930787215 #
used to be based. the most based of all, then 343 industries took a golden goose of a franchise out in the back yard and shot it in the back of the head.

>>930747395 (OP) #
The FPS lobbies were a lot smaller & you got to know players by their gamer tag. At least here in Australia. I was on COD Modern Warfare 24/7 maxing on free-for-all & they were great days. Smoking & chugging on soft drinks during 10 hour marathons was a blast. There was plenty of trash talk but it was more of the "fuck off" variety and nothing too toxic.

>>930747395 (OP) #
This is a legendary thread.
Cheers, OP!

>>930787431 #
This the Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 1 game? That game was epic

>>930787431 #
The FPS lobbies were simple & well laid out, not shops in disguise.

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>>930747395 (OP) #
Call of Duty & Battlefield Bad Company 2 for the win anons!!!

>>930787859 #
spider man 2 sam raimi

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>>930747395 (OP) #
Sorry fucked the pic up on previous post

>>930788157 #
I see

>>930790208 #
We all see

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>>930748149 #
sit down n00bs
a real bl0xor is in this bitch

>>930784748 #
Kek

>>930748190 #
Yea, when you get in. After you played for 10 hours it will smell like sweat, farts the extra cheese you had on your pizza and energydrinks. I have experience with this.
>>930747647 #
Was a good title, but very brutal.
>>930747783 #
IDK why I played this, it sucks, but it had a lot if active players.
>>930754205 #
Recently the old versions got more popular. Started to play the first Counter Strike since the 2 was released and it replaced CS:GO

>>930769446 #
I owned a gamecube, actually it is still somewhere but the last time I used it was when I was living with my gf together. She liked to play Super Mario Sunshine, its a lot of fun. Sometimes we played Mario Kart angainst each other. She was the best gf I ever had, food and movies in bed. Get high, play video games. Save money, go to parties. Today I'm dead broke, drink almost every second night, no social skills, woman don't talk to me anymore, my dream job turned out to be a dead end. I'm still a gamer dude.

>>930747395 (OP) #
the youth of today won't know the immense joy we felt going to our local video game store and picking up a game that we've been wanting for months. or getting it as a gift.

now a days with digital downloading and piracy it isn't nearly as exciting.

>>930747395 (OP) #
pretty rad, less microtransactions and live service and more unique gameplay.

>>930747395 (OP) #
REAL.

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>>930758872 #

I felt this too as a kid. Like as a kid when I played the game, if there was a mountain in the background of a stage of a 3D sidescroller, I'd wonder to myself what's on that mountain, what's on the other side of the mountain. I really felt the world of the games. But as I aged at some point I started to just see the game mechanics, the systems, and that mountain in the background was just a sprite slapped on the screen that didn't mean anything.

>>930783485 #
Feel the urge to watch the 2001 Lara Croft movie with Angelina Jolie now. Probably going to download the demo for Tomb Raider: Shadows later. Just for the nostalgia.

>>930790997 #
I was an 08 fag u lil pussy. I was there when they introduced shirts and pants

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>>930747712 #
Why in the FUCK would you play RTS with a fucking controller?? Those ports sucked.

>>930795839 #
I was there when they introduced HATS

>>930795956 #
I WAS THERE WHEN THEY HAD WARS BETWEEN ROBLOX AND BLOCKWORLD

>>930795956 #
>>930795995 #
Get a room

>>930792196 #
>Recently the old versions got more popular. Started to play the first Counter Strike since the 2 was released and it replaced CS:GO
1.0 is legit played en masse?
damn tell me where i need to join that
Even if its up to 1.6.
I heard the problem is that steam wants to connect you to skill related matches instead of servers, so you get sent to random fuckland instead of hanging out with your favorite server

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>>930748407 #
My childhood was genuinely awful, and the only thing I miss is vidya nostalgia, but I can realistically do most of it now as a happy NEET because none of these games stopped existing. The only things I no longer have access to are pre-SBMM/EOMM multiplayer games such as Halo and Battlefield.

>>930796200 #
Many servers have bots if you connect, you can play with them. Usually on good days, at least 4 "real" players connect on these servers. But I had sessions I'd find an office game, and we played at least 3 maps with full teams. So yes, there is a number of active players.

>>930796552 #
>bots
i used filter that to off
no interest in that. if it is dead its dead, i can understand that

>>930748407 #
I'd say be 13 again. I would do a few things differently in high school, taken different classes and done a different after-school club. I would focus on getting a job earlier, drive earlier, and gone about college completely differently. I would have taken up dogecoin when it was cheap and cashed out after it hit it's peak. I'd be pretty much set for life and everything would be on easy mode. I'd also get in on some vidya that I know is good but I can't get in this late on.

>>930748760 #
You stay safe too anon. It can be a dark world out there.

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>>930796627 #
>if its dead its dead
Bro, your problem is that you're used to 254.002 servers online and 568.253 players currently in game. It never was like this before, but the people in game are bored, you know. My friends on steam who play Counter Strike 2, play two maps, then switch to another game and then go back to Counter Strike 2 - every day.

No one has patience to wait for a server to fill. Back in my time when gamer gate happend, playing with team and do scouting for good players to make a match was necessary. It took the whole day until we could finally play our game.

>>930747395 (OP) #
Fun, most good games usually had a unique artstyle, not like today where you can hardly differentiate between trailers.
The Gamez were simpler, on the one hand the stories weren't that good, but atleast you weren't being preached too. JRPGs actually tried to have good combat systems and characters since they couldn't rely on big titty waifus to move titles yet.

It was cool.

>>930747957 #
If we use the COD:BO to date the picture to 2010 that was still at the time when LCD TV's were pricey and people were still holding onto their CRTs. Bought my first flat screen in 2012/2013 and was still like $600 for a 42" Vizio. Wish I still had the 29" CRT i threw out when I got the Vizio.

Wild thing is now that CRT screen in the pic is worth more than a 55" LCD in 2025.

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>>930788287 #
Seeing those cd/dvd spindles and that kind of computer desk is like a sad hit in the gut.
Internet used to be so much fun.
I remember when my dad got an actual letter from our ISP because my computer was in a botnet lol. Different times...

>>930795908 #
NTA but Red Alert on PS actually supported mouse and keyboard... Not that anyone had them, but still lol.
RA2 and AoE2 really were peak RTS.

>>930802979 #
>LCD TV's were pricey
I bought my first LG 32" full HD LCD TV in 2010 for less than 500$. It was far from the greatest, but it still works. Try buying a TV for 500$ today that will last more than 5 years.

>>930747395 (OP) #
games used to actually ship finished

>>930795956 #
tfw you could only wear one hat
tfw one day it was 3 hats
and today it’s like 12 hats or something

Muncher

Juggle

don’t page 10 bump a thread over and over, the discussion has been had, it was fun and now it’s over
The thread will fade away and in the future when people want to talk about this again they will
trying to keep it alive just opens up a dead thread to people to respond to posters who will not be there to respond back

>same thread for 3 days

wow this site is fucking dead

>>930814332 #
How do you revive it then

>>930814332 #
>Dead
Nigger most threads are porn and big go back to wanking it newfag

Dubs and you suicide

>>930788287 #
Nice Xbox skin. FEAR was awesome

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>>930747395 (OP) #
>hooking up my PS2 and playing ATV Offroad Fury at my grandpappy's house
Fuck I wanna go back /b/ros...

>>930747647 #
Never played too much of the first one, but Prototype 2 was one of my favourite vidya. Having a green island that was mostly zombie free save a few here and there, a yellow island that was mid way through collapsing where zombie hordes would attack safe zones out of nowhere and a red island that was full on post-apocalypse was so fucking rad. Made it feel like 3 different games in 1. I spent so many hours posing as a Blacklight soldier on the yellow and red islands rolling around with a squad of fellow Blacklights tearing up zombies. If you dig Prototype you should give Resident Evil: Raccoon City a try. A lot of the "official" reviewers didn't like it because it was too different from the rest of the series, but being able to play as a squadron of S.T.A.R.'s made it my personal favourite entry in the series.

>>930748010 #
This was the only game we were allowed to play in school kek

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it is so sad that these days the younguns get RSI from jacking it to onlyfans whores, we did things a little differently in my day

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>me and the fellas just out tryin' to bag some prize bucks
the pure joy

bump

thread, don't die, I want more of this content

>>930825334 #
Bump

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>Well, back in my day, when we were hungry, me and the boys would grab our spears and bows and arrows and hunt for meat. Usually we would trap small game such as rabbits and rodents and birds and fish, or a pig if we were lucky. If we were really lucky, we would encounter huge beasts such as mammoths and bison, and it took the whole team to bring one down with the risk of getting seriously hurt. But it was enough to feed a family for a few months. And when we wanted to cook something, we had to rub two sticks together to start the fire.

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Damn, thread's still up.

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Why does this thread keep getting made multiple times per day?

>>930827133 #
This thread has been up since Friday (or Saturday depending on your timezone).

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Last of the Mohican

>>930827266 #
Thursday for me

>>930827266 #
Dubs of truth. /b/ needs proper discourse for once. OP asked a good question.

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>>930827266 #
Kruge?

>>930747912 #
So many playable characters in this bitch.