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I just think football in its modern form is barbaric and should be outlawed.

At the time it blew my mind, but it's more than nostalgia.

It was my first FPS game to even play. But it wasn't just that, but the details, music, AI, level design, mission structure, weapon selection, immersion, stealth mechanics, multiplayer, movie tie in, variety of level themes, sound effects, destructible objects, dynamic damage to enemies, etc...

https://youtu.be/bCgLK2KxI9I

Going around an Aztec base shooting enemies with lasers with a militaristic tango theme. Nothing else was like it.

I love Halo series for the single player campaigns. Halo Infinite more than enough delivered on that front with it actually being the longest in series based on play time. For me it's a 10/10.

Hyper Dash is an amazing VR arena shooter

Splitgate is if you want Halo multiplayer but with portals

One of the best underrated games of all times. It really was one of the best uses of the Wiimote and at the time was innovative.

I've been lurking these forums since like 1999 and posting since 2002. Damn, these forums are freaking old, but have been my go to home so long. It's sad to see the popularity go down over the years. Mid-late 2000s E3 hype topics were so insane.

bsp77 posted...

It is also easy to think you are a free spirit overall when you are with the wrong person. And if you can't be yourself and if there are big lifestyle differences, this might be the wrong person.

So I literally just got engaged a couple hours ago. She is the first person I have ever felt I can truly be myself around, as I have been married before and also dated quite a few women. Our lifestyles aren't exactly the same as she is a big time introvert and I am not. However, she has no issue with me going out with friends without her if she isn't interested. We are together and live together, but are comfortable enough to also have our own lives.

That sounds like a dream situation. I think I just need to be more assertive too in terms of when I need my own time. It feels like I'm betraying her if I even just read text and text my own damn friends. Or afraid to just talk to them around her. A lot of this is being an introvert and keeping my life compartmentalized.
HovaRex posted...

Just remember: the grass only looks greener on the other side cause it's covered in bullshit.

Oh I know for sure. I met a lot of women when dating which was mid 2010s. Just in those few years it's probably now like an actual field of landmines.

This is why I wish Living Apart Together would latch on to become more accepted.

"Couples living apart together have an intimate relationship but live at separate addresses. It includes couples who wish to live together but are not yet able to, as well as couples who prefer to live apart, for various reasons."

It's like a endless puzzle in an arcade logic puzzle game. Like imagine if Myst just kept going. That's how my brain feels with relationships.
bsp77 posted...

So this is the crux of it. Is this because you can't completely be yourself around her, or do you want to go out and do whatever you want with whomever you want?

If the first, this is a relationship problem.

If the second, this is a you problem. Either you are having a hard time adjusting to a new life out of fear or something, or you just aren't ready to settle yet.

It's more of the first one, but kind of second one as well. Also, a lot of lifestyle choices going forward we don't see eye to eye with. But it's not like I want to break up and go on some dating romp with whoever and stuff. I've become more of a hermit and adjusting to someone new sounds anxiety inducing in itself.

I think I'm just a free spirit overall.

Something as simple as gaming with my buddy in evenings is hard when living with her. These past weeks my buddy and me have went through several games. Or just wanting to go take a walk when I want to or decide to eat whatever I feel. I can go play on my piano and make a song when I want. I'm saving money as well. Hell, deciding where to live eventually.

A lot of it may sound selfish, but it's just the whole ease of life becomes simpler when alone again. It's hard for me compromise so many things.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Sounds like if you don't, you might fall into spiting her for taking this feeling away from you once she gets back. I mean subconsciously, not to where you will purposely do stuff to spite her and be mean.

That's some really good advice and I can see maybe moments where I may have done actions like that. Not purposely mean, but maybe passively evasive or not entirely telling my feelings because of expected drama.

It's an overall mixed feeling and not because of her in many ways. I generally feel happy and comfortable around her, but it's like I lock a good part of me away in order to be around her.

With gf away for a few weeks I've been really feeling myself more. It's just that there's not really anything wrong in relationship or with her. I just feel like I can be happy again single. There's a feeling of freedom that anything can happen.

https://youtu.be/me19SUmWu2s

I swear this was from 2008

Lack of preservation for the future is my biggest concern, so games being only online is pretty damning when eventually their servers shutting down.

Titanfall < Titanfall 2
They added an entire solo campaign mode and it's on same quality of a Halo campaign

GTA2 < GTA3
Literally changed gaming

https://youtu.be/dOV5WXISM24

Millennial anthem equivalent

Here's my picks

1920s: Sweet Georgia Brown
1930s: Glenn Miller - In The Mood
1940s: Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
1950: Bill Haley & The Comets - Rock Around the Clock
1960s: Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda
1970s: Bee Gees - Night Fever
1980: Human League - Don't You Want Me
1990s: Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
200s: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
2010s: Skrillex - First of the Year (Equinox)
2020s: Dua Lipa - Levitating

What would be some key defining points of an isometric rpg?

You can throw Cris Tales in the pile too. The world design is very similar, it has the 3D world of 2D cutout, and battles are context sensitive.

At this point it's becoming its own subgenre. Paper RPGs?

Brostep, future bass, and trap edm from early 10s is quite different from present. All of them have splintered into various subgenres and fused. Early 10s Skrillex is already quiet nostalgic.

Chillwave influenced a lot of the bedroom pop sound. Stomp rock was at its hey day. Indie pop was in the mainstream. Electropop was at a peak. Hip-hop hadn't been entirely taken over by trap rap which itself has many subgenres now. Grime was still the urban UK sound and now it's all about UK drill. Reggaeton wad influencing moombahton. Witch house was underground but it did inspire

Overall, EDM of the early 10s was massive. The whole pop drop sound wasn't mainstream yet. Kpop was just becoming international.

Now there's a ton of genres that just wouldn't have existed just a decade ago.

I truly think early 10s music will get the nostalgic treatment probably in 2030s

I mean the 90s have been romanticized for awhile now. Lately the Y2k era is going through the phase. There's a whole genre/scene called neo-y2k right now. Hyperpop, surge, and hexd music uses a lot of y2k era sounds. Pop punk is getting big again.

It's most amazing imo. It's a perfect blend of a battle royale, 3D platformer, and arena fighting game. The actual platforming is smooth with all kind of objects to bounce on and verticality of a city environment. The fighting is super fun with great feedback. Then the battle royale element is good balance of enough working parts without being complicated.

The visuals are like Fortnite and Pixar had a baby. The actual map is super detailed with so many signs, storefronts, etc.. having a fighting theme. I can tell the developers put a lot of heart into this.

I hope it becomes a huge success because it really deserves it. I'm a huge battle royale fan that has played and at least won a match in every medium to big popular battle royale game. This is one of the best.

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Also, Zeldalikes need to be officially recognized like Metroidvania at this point.

Overall, action-adventure genre needs more subgenres. Shooters have a plethora of subgenres.

Pathfinder would be my term. It could be mixed and matched too.

2D Action Pathfinder
3D Pathfinder
Pathformer

YugiNoob posted...

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Daaaaaaaaaaamn

https://youtu.be/N9syRGE51HE

To remind everyone how butthurt he was over teenagers wearing masks. That's a man with the most fragile ego. You can see it in his body language and tone of voice.

Classic rock is a radio format and nothing else. Artists that have been featured on classic rock stations are from a wide variety of subgenres.

60s - hard rock, blues rock, roots rock, heavy metal, psychedelic rock, folk rock

70s - funk rock, power pop, soft rock, glam rock, AOR, pop rock, southern rock, progressive rock

80s - glam metal, big music (U2), new wave

That's from at least the time I was listening to classic rock station in the mid 00s. Now some have included stuff like

80s - college rock

90s - grunge, post-grunge, pop alternative

Basically a format adhering to what was mainstream at some point. Classic rock stations steer away from most punk, metal, alternative, emo, and indie subgenres. Also, they tend to play stuff post mid 60s so never rock n roll, surf rock, rockabilly, garage rock, etc... Also don't expect rock music from non-Anglosphere like tropicalia, samba rock, Jrock, Andean rock, Afrorock, krautrock, etc...

So yeah a radio format. I was no lie in the radio industry at some point.

Hope Pinocchio's nose doesn't get smashed by a mean military commander....

These all have a nostalgic cozy feeling

FFXIV - Gridania
https://youtu.be/VSKNntvdRJk

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Fonsa Myma Night
https://youtu.be/aP9by4Fqmdo

Naruto to Baruto: Shinobi Striker - Lobby
https://youtu.be/TX3oPHMEoB4

MC_BatCommander posted...

I love GTA 3's soundtrack, for a long time I thought it was original music because I never heard any of the songs anywhere else

Some of it is actually original. Head Radio station was music written for the game and just has fictional artists names.

https://youtu.be/vjamwACI2MI

Rockstar totally hit that early 00s radio friendly pop vibe with this song. If actually released for radio play I'm sure it would have been a big hit. Now 20 years later it feels like a perfect song that would fit into a 00s period nostalgic movie.

https://youtu.be/o7sQEU6gXE4

It really was absolutely stunning for its time. It was the first time such a huge library of certified classics came together for a soundtrack. Not only that, but the radio stations were designed in such an amazing realistic but satiric way to get you immersed. To top it off the formats perfectly fit with the location and sort of things you got involved with in game.

San Andreas was just as amazing in terms of the music involved, but a lot of the stations in that game had older non-90s music which took away the charm of Vice City which was pretty strictly 80s except for some of the Latin jazz music.

If Rockstar ever does the 90s again I hope they go all out. It needs to include actual 90s pop music station, eurodance, adult alternative, techno, trance, drum n bass, house, gangsta rap, grunge, alt metal, new jack swing, contempary r&b ballads, pop punk, neo-traditional country, pop rap, etc...

Mario's Missing in terms of a game you randomly see first time at a video rental place and bring home all excited. It was this bizarre feeling taking it home and knowing something was just off about it.

Yoshi's Story in terms of a game I was hyped about. I absolutely loved Yoshi's Island which I got at Xmas when I was 8 years old. So I looked forward to Yoshi's Story and had my mom rent it when it came out. I had only had N64 for half a year with Super Mario 64. Had rented other N64 games to that point and was full into 3D at that point.

Maybe part of dissapointment was Yoshi's Story felt passe because of the 2D gameplay, but honestly I think it was just how easy and short the game was. Rented it and finished it that very same day. It felt like a toddler version of Yoshi slap in the face to my 10 year old self.

Going back to today and it's not even a bad game. It's good in fact and super charming. It pales in comparison to Yoshi's Island which was a pinnacle 2D platformer though.

have been different?

Just imagine instead of 1983-1986 it was 1993-1996.

Kids gathered around playing SNES or Genesis
Arcade scenes probably around Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, TMNT
Tons of alternative rock and grunge music
Techno/trance driven soundtrack instead of synthwave
TV clips of Clinton speaking
Flannel EVERYWHERE
Bill Nye VHS tapes
Green/orange oozing slime instead of the darker toned 80s version
Tons of cinematographic references to stuff like Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Twister, Men In Black,

Bible Adventures

I mean it's been 16 years. When Wii came out 16 years before it was 1990 at the beginnings of the 16bit era which was no contest retro by 2006.

The 7th gen has every right to be considered retro especially when so many gameplay mechanics have evolved since then. There's been a ton of new genres, virtual reality, location based AR, decline of physical games, rise of indie games, and streaming becoming mainstream.

It's a whole different world of gaming. Seriously 2006 was a whole different world in general to 2022.

90s

I know there's many more other reasons especially like commuting, but the ability to go take a dump when you want is honestly soooo good.

Autonomy is so important in one's life and especially bodily autonomy. I can't imagine going to work in an office and having my regular poops without feeling rushed, grossed out, and like a partial invasion of privacy.

Best topic ever created perhaps

I just want to point out that "rock" in the broad sense long ago abandoned its early rock n roll roots which was the precursor subgenre built off rhythm & blues. By the late 60s you had garage rock, surf rock, rockabilly, merseybeat, psychedelic rock, folk rock, hard rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, etc..

Rock music has taken a lot of forms created by white people and to dismiss that is quite frankly an equally bad thing to do as much as dismissing black creators of genres.

Not to mention the huge main genres that are their own meta genres like metal, punk, alternative, and indie which are so detached from their original meaning.

It's one of my favorite location-based games.

I went through entire Doom series for first time this last year. Doom 3 feels like the odd one out and not in a good way. I can see how it was immersive for its time, but going through started to get tiresome.

Doom 64 rightfully should be considered the true Doom 3. That game blew my mind how well crafted the levels were.

Sub-ZeroMKA posted...

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Name please?

au_gold posted...

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Daaaamn who is that?

Probably playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas