Is gaming better now or 20 years ago?
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Don't ask if gaming has improved; ask if the internet has improved.
20 years ago, though it was already on the decline since 3D was the first horseman of the gamingpolcalypse.
20 years ago for sure given most of the variety didn't come solely from Nintendo and capcom did more than just MH, Resi and SF
Yes it is. 20 years ago we didn't have Nier Automata, Persona 5, Dark Souls series, Yakuza and many other masterpieces.
Gaming peaked between 2001 and 2005.
Agree
The game industry and the motivations/attitudes of creators and publishers were better 20 years ago.
However, the accessibility of gaming is easier now than it ever has been. And I don't mean casualization, I mean the tools we have to play games now. There's more controllers than ever, emulation has come a long way and games are preserved better now than they ever were. Finding a game you like and playing it has never been more simple.
Yes.
I get to play a bunch of good new games while also having the option to play the good games that came out 20 years ago.
This. I'd say 2005 exactly.
some aspect of gaming have gotten better, but the core values of game design plateaued a long time ago.
quality and innovation doesn't occur on the level it did 20 years ago.
This 100%
R.I.P gaming industry.
>Can play every game released since 1970
>Can play new releases
>Tons of mods, patches and fixes for old games
How can it get worse? The only thing we're losing are games as a service, and those have never been good to begin with
Are you going to ignore 2007 and 2008?
For a player? Is way better now
For the industry? It's fucking terrible
20 years ago, except for the widespread availability of emulators and piracy now to experience the games of 20 years ago for free
There hasn't been a single good video game released since 2002.
it was best 10 years ago, 2007-2012 is the golden age. but if you really have to ask between 2000 and 2020 I'd say 2020
3 out of 4 of those things are absolute boring dog shit though
No, that was the start of the decline. It marked politics entry into gaming, movie games became the norm, games stopped being made for fun and instead to push agendas.
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obviously now because you can still play the old stuff along with the new stuff
2007-2012 was truly the peak
Based Yakuzachad
In your opinion. In my opinion they are great! Much better than Baldur's Gate, Doom and other old stinky games!
piracy was way more of a deal back then compared to now, at the time everybody used to pirate console games.
Are you not old enough to remember CD containers full of blank disks?
You have guessed correctly
Now I can select any game from the past 50 years or whatever and play it in HD with tons of fixes and 20 years ago it was Glover on my N64 or i didnt play video games that day. You decide.
>guessed
it was the only answer
you cant deny theres been major improvements in graphics and shit but man gameplay has rarely evolved. or maybe we are just becoming numb to half assed changes or over saturation of the market?
Think about all the times you would go and get a game with what little money you had and play it. you didnt care if it controlled like shit, it was about the journey. but now you can pick up games that far surpass that of your childhood favorites for less than a buck. But even so i feel like gaming has stagnated to a point of just copying what works and selling to the lowest common denominator with very little improvements or advancements.
Gaming in the 90s and early 2000s was a fucking shitshow of new ideas pushing things forward and halfassed clones of new ideas. i feel like some games havnt even caught up to genre redefining titles from 2004
God no.
>DLC
>Stadia
>Gacha
>online-only singleplayer
>horrible DRM
>E3 bullshots
>Patreon and Kickstarter
>horribad reviewers that dictate and bulli developers
all that shit just off the top of my head
based
You're not allowed to play old games anymore?
i'm old enough but too rural. i only ever really got burned games from my family.
the upside is that now you've got the entire internet for choice, not just what people near you have available. if i want to play an obscure japanese educational game about crossing the road, it's online as a ROM. nobody would've cared to have that back then and emulation was less developed in any case.
that can be a downside too since you can spend more time organising a ROM collection than actually playing games though.
exactly youtube.com
Gaming was great in the 90s and peaked in the early 2000s. It was ok before and it went to shit after.
Of course there are exceptions, but PS2 and Wii ruined gaming by expanding it to normies.
Now because we have access to almost all of the games twenty years ago in addition to all of the games now. If you want to be a nostalgiafag you could just play the old games. If you want to be a normal person you can play a mix of newer and older games based on your preference.
Age of Empires 2: HD Edition
Shut up pussy
>had a FW900 20 years ago
>monitors are just now catching up to its color reproduction capability
>How can it get worse?
we lose two things; hope and multiplayer
There are a few things I love about modern games. I love Euro Truck Simulator, and I love how emulators are the best they've ever been. I like that the Initial D arcade games are playable on PC. I like osu
I fucking hate everything else. I hate discord. I hate launchers. I hate microtransactions. I hate loot boxes. I hate twitch. I hate Yas Forums. I hate "gamers". I hate politics. I hate PBR or TAA or whatever the fuck it is that makes new games all look like the same blurry shit. I hate just about every game that is currently active
I would happily trade the few things I like about modern vidya, in exchange for killing off all the shit I hate, and being able to play Burnout 3 multiplayer again. Easiest decision I would ever make.
On one hand, I feel like the design philosophy of the mid 90's to mid 2000's was the best. Not much in the way of dlc where they charge extra for something that should have been in the game to begin with, but the games had enough storage to have plenty of actual content instead of relying on the difficulty of a game to make the amount of playtime worth the price. At the same time though, you can easily play games from the past as well as newer games released today, so playing games today is actually better.
I've been playing those old games since they were released, and just because they're still available to play now doesn't mean that gaming now is better than it was 20 years ago because I'd still be playing games released years ago, when gaming in general wasn't shit.
Technically better now, even if I tend to enjoy older games more. The thing is, I could have never imagined we would have things like Melee Netplay, OoT Randomizer, AI upscaled FF7, Mother 3 translated, etc. There are still some games that have come out that have been worth playing, and the fact that if you do own consoles, so many have been hacked both in software and hardware that it's easier than ever to have complete collections at your disposal.
based and gamingpilled
Retards, it's obviously better now. We have more games and more options for playing them. It's just not as much better as it should be.
This.
game developers had more freedom 20 years ago which resulted in more artist driven games. also due to hardware upgrades we were more frequently blown away by better and better graphics which is something we almost never see these days.
2001 and 2005 games bore me to death sometimes, I know they got very complex and emotional but I will always love more 8-bit games and the 5th gen consoles.
That was the peak of online gaming but not of original games.
Gaming is a nigger and I'm pulling the trigger
indie games exists: We got gems like Obra Dinn, Fuggtorio, Zachtronics, many indies take an old formula and make it polished and renewed
Also middle market developers and publishers like Piranha bytes, ninja theory, paradox, Devolver digital still exist
If you only play AAA for broad audiences you have only yourself to blame
I'll never understand the appeal of those led lights, they look so unnecessary ugly.
Consoles have always been garbage.
there were indie games 20 years ago as well
Modern scene is more alive than ever, the tools are advanced, a tiny team can do things that required hundreds a decade ago
damn OW was such a fine game
ana was such satisfying hero and rewarding to play with
fuck jeff and their hero design
OLED?
This man gets it.
burn in and lag, microLED
The internet is definitely worse.