🌟 Internet Famous Karl Jobst / karljobst / FAQ_GOD / simthreat / approachhernow.com - Albino autist, Spergy speed runner, Pickup predator and Bitch of Mitchell

[Not 6 Foot]

Nerd culture becoming mainstream is what killed gaming, coupled with clickbait and racing to get the highest view count/most traffic. You can't even have a passing interest in any game you enjoy without constantly being bombarded with, "news articles," and videos telling you the fastest way to render the entire core mechanics of the game completely moot.

Funny enough, most of the methods used to do so are learned from speed runners and then slightly modified to make them more friendly to the general user.

 

[Aborted Drink Combo]

Nerd culture becoming mainstream is what killed gaming

I remember that there were only like 3 or 4 kids in my graduating class that had an Xbox or PS2. Most normal people thought video games were gay.

 

[Barry Williams]

I remember that there were only like 3 or 4 kids in my graduating class that had an Xbox or PS2. Most normal people thought video games were gay.

A lot of the mainstream "AAA" dog shit that gets released for the current generation(s) of consoles feels so alien to me compared to what a "video game" was 30+ years ago. They don't feel like they belong in the same category of media. They are, ostensibly, a "video game" but there is a very apparent disconnect with whatever the latest Assassin's Creed is and something like Yoshi's Island for example, and I'm not just talking about the tone or theme of the game. Even the latest Madden feels very foreign compared to the first games in that series, and those are all the same sport over and over again so you'd think they'd feel the same. They don't. None of them do. It's frustrating that I have such a hard time putting this into words because there's definitely something here.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

A lot of the mainstream "AAA" dog shit that gets released for the current generation(s) of consoles feels so alien to me compared to what a "video game" was 30+ years ago. They don't feel like they belong in the same category of media. They are, ostensibly, a "video game" but there is a very apparent disconnect with whatever the latest Assassin's Creed is and something like Yoshi's Island for example, and I'm not just talking about the tone or theme of the game. Even the latest Madden feels very foreign compared to the first games in that series, and those are all the same sport over and over again so you'd think they'd feel the same. They don't. None of them do. It's frustrating that I have such a hard time putting this into words because there's definitely something here.

I think that part of it is that video games are made to be performance pieces now.
When you played Half Life, it was designed to be played in your room, alone. Maybe with a buddy over. When you played Goldeneye, it was made for you and your friends on the couch.

Every video game made in the last 15 years, even the good ones, is designed with the idea that SOMEONE is going to be streaming it to a million people, or uploading Youtube videos about it, or making a fandom around it. It's unavoidable now that video games are designed as vehicles of online interaction and that bleeds into the gameplay and design, even if it's not a direct thought in the mind of the creator. There's plenty of other factors, but the "movie-fication" of every game now definitely feels like part of it.

 

[Unimaginative Username]

A lot of the mainstream "AAA" dog shit that gets released for the current generation(s) of consoles feels so alien to me compared to what a "video game" was 30+ years ago. They don't feel like they belong in the same category of media. They are, ostensibly, a "video game" but there is a very apparent disconnect with whatever the latest Assassin's Creed is and something like Yoshi's Island for example, and I'm not just talking about the tone or theme of the game. Even the latest Madden feels very foreign compared to the first games in that series, and those are all the same sport over and over again so you'd think they'd feel the same. They don't. None of them do. It's frustrating that I have such a hard time putting this into words because there's definitely something here.

It's because they've been gradually removing actual gameplay, for a variety of reasons. One is that the actual sale of the game is now of secondary importance, since microtransactions are the real moneymaker, so anything that might filter players has to be removed so that they keep playing long enough to buy the season pass and horse armor DLC, while the grind is simultaneously increased to encourage use of the pay-to-win features. The other is that budgets have increased to the point where the occasional failure of a game is a major disaster and not just the cost of doing business, so they've been bringing in various Hollywood people to do management and writing, since they ostensibly know how to handle these big-budget productions (despite the film industry being in terminal decline), so now most games railroad you through the campaign because movie people don't know how to handle a non-linear storyline.

 

[Son of Big Boss]

Personally i think old games feel different because most of them don't care to be a "cinematic experience".

There were no walking segments so characters could exposit the plot to the player, no yellow paint, no handholding, no player character telling you "hey do this to solve the puzzle" if you get stuck for more than 60 seconds.

Personally i miss the time when games would just let you play immediately, instead of having to sit through dozens of cutscenes and tutorial segments.

I blame Naughty Dog. After Uncharted and Last of Us, that's when every fucking game had to have this shit.

 

[Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo]

There were no walking segments so characters could exposit the plot to the player

God there's nothing I hate more than when they force you to walk slowly.

 

[Son of Big Boss]

God there's nothing I hate more than when they force you to walk slowly.

It wouldn't be so bad if you could skip the shit on subsequent playthroughs but very few games allow you to do that for some reason.
Some games are fucking un-replayable because of this.

 

[Sheriff Mike Chitwood]

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Got one of the pictures. I photographed it on a black surface to show that there's some weird clipping on the edges, like this was printed on a bigger sheet and then run through a paper cutter not quite straight since there's some white overhang in the top corners. It's a hair shy of 8 x 10, so I am guessing this was printed at 8.5 x 11 and then trimmed to fit, which is a weird thing to do because now it won't sit right in an actual frame of that size unless you mount it in there centered yourself. It's not printed on glossy photo paper, but it is on some kind of "pro-sumer" level paper with an appropriate nice quality printer. Both of the signatures are actually on there and aren't part of the print.

It's funny. I like it. I can definitely think of worse things to spend my money on. I'm planning on hanging it in my office at work.

lfg

 

[Pepper Jack]

lfg

 

[McSneaks]

I remember that there were only like 3 or 4 kids in my graduating class that had an Xbox or PS2. Most normal people thought video games were gay.

I mean...how many kids in your school did you personally know and go to their house? This was pre-social media constant internet connected/everyone knowing everything about everyone. Pretty much any guy I knew had one, even if they only had one Madden game or something. 0 girls did. But it wasn't some esoteric weird shit people hid under the bed.

It wasn't cool to constantly talk about videogames and wear gay t-shirts with crash bandicoot on them, and people weren't 24/7 playing candy crush. But the PS2 is literally the highest selling console of all time, gaming was already huge at that time.

There were no walking segments so characters could exposit the plot to the player, no yellow paint, no handholding, no player character telling you "hey do this to solve the puzzle" if you get stuck for more than 60 seconds.

Unless you're talking about like the SNES or something (where the only reason that stuff didn't exist is because there was no room and usually a straight line to go in)....no. Annoying character handholding you and not STFU was literally invented by the fairy in Ocarina of Time. EVERYONE knows about the fucking fairy whining at you every 15 seconds.

Metal Gear Solid 3 on the PS2 also had a boss fight that could take an hour as you inch as slowly as you can through grass. It also LITERALLY invented the "cinematic experience" with shit like Shadow of the Colossus. Wind Waker was also so boring that the remaster had to cut out half of it just to make it tolerable. I used to flip inputs on my TV while holding the joystick down because it took literally 20 minutes to cross the empty ocean. U niggas got weird nostalgiablinders on

 

[Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I mean...how many kids in your school did you personally know and go to their house? This was pre-social media constant internet connected/everyone knowing everything about everyone. Pretty much any guy I knew had one, even if they only had one Madden game or something. 0 girls did. But it wasn't some esoteric weird shit people hid under the bed.

Yeah you're still too young to relate to that statement. I assure you in the 80s not everybody had a Nintendo or Sega Master system. The kids who had Madden in your day just didn't have an video game console and they just played sportball outside. Liking video games was a very niche hobby and adoption rate for home console was only 30% at the end of the 80s.

 

[ANF]

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For a second there I thought the face on the lobster was Bill Clinton

 

[PoopyFarts]

Yeah you're still too young to relate to that statement. I assure you in the 80s not everybody had a Nintendo or Sega Master. The kids who had Madden in your day just didn't have an video game console and they just played sportball outside. Liking video games was a very niche hobby and adoption rate for home console was only 30% at the end of the 80s.

I am old enough to remember the 80s and a lot of the kids in my elementary school classes had an NES. We would talk about video games during lunch, recess, and on the bus ride home. Kids would bring their issues of Nintendo Power to school for us all to look at. Several kids, myself included, had a Gameboy or those Tiger handhelds that we would play on the bus.

Gaming was most definitely NOT some niche underground thing in the late 80s and early 90s. It may not have been as mainstream as it is now, but Nintendo was still everywhere back then. There were the games of course but you also had cartoon shows, cereal, clothing, fruit snacks, etc...

 

[Gas Snake]

Metal Gear Solid 3 on the PS2 also had a boss fight that could take an hour as you inch as slowly as you can through grass.

Did people actually do that? I thought everyone just slapped on thermals and retard rushed The End. You'll be done in less than five minutes.

 

[A Hot Potato]

I am old enough to remember the 80s and a lot of the kids in my elementary school classes had an NES. We would talk about video games during lunch, recess, and on the bus ride home. Kids would bring their issues of Nintendo Power to school for us all to look at. Several kids, myself included, had a Gameboy or those Tiger handhelds that we would play on the bus.

Gaming was most definitely NOT some niche underground thing in the late 80s and early 90s. It may not have been as mainstream as it is now, but Nintendo was still everywhere back then. There were the games of course but you also had cartoon shows, cereal, clothing, fruit snacks, etc...

Yeah what is he going on about, I wasn't around and yet I can tell you Atari was literally a multi billion dollar company before it shit the bed.

This is also discounting other markets, like in Japan where you had literal arcades made just to play Space Invaders. You know, the one from 1978?

Did people actually do that? I thought everyone just slapped on thermals and retard rushed The End. You'll be done in less than five minutes.

I thought people just turned off the game, switched the clock on the PS2, came back and the fucker was already dead lol

 

[Gas Snake]

I thought people just turned off the game, switched the clock on the PS2, came back and the fucker was already dead lol

I'm so glad I played MGS1-3 before I learned about gamefaq.

 

[Gas Snake]

Billy Mitchell is going to assemble the Scumbag Legion of Doom to crush the Retarded Justice League

At this rate, he'll be tweeting about Dr Disrespect by next week.

 

[Jose Beaner Luna]

Billy Mitchell is going to assemble the Scumbag Legion of Doom to crush the Retarded Justice League

We have Lex Jewthor and Gorilla Mitchell on the Dark side of the (autism) spectrum, on the other we have cuckman, flash jobst and jeet lantern, we need at least 3 more members for both teams so they can duke it out properly.

 

[Gas Snake]

We have Lex Jewthor and Gorilla Mitchell on the Dark side of the (autism) spectrum, on the other we have cuckman, flash jobst and jeet lantern, we need at least 3 more members for both teams so they can duke it out properly.

Don't forget Keemstarro, he and Mitchell already have brand deals together.