Current Events > I've been watching younger people getting nostalgic over 2000's gaming

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https://youtu.be/d_0Ccnjbs8w?si=ZZe0HaHB4gbIoOco

There is something kind of nice about this. My video suggestions started giving me a bunch of younger people talking about PS2 and DS games. They are usually girls who played shovelware or casual games. As a teen, I would have never touched them, but watching them bringing context into the games, like we did with kind of bad games like SNES and Genesis trash is kind of neat.

And they arent trying to be deep or analytical like some youtubers.

I didnt ever think Id find this fun. It does make me feel old, but it also makes me feel like we took things so seriously, and just seeing them having fun with the stuff we called crap, feels freeing.

https://youtu.be/2zNiH1YPvv8?si=8gm1PWXsb3fYAl4-

Here is the one that I saw that opened up my algorithm to this.

If you're open minded, you'll see that there's no actually true good era. People in every generation thinks their shit is good and the newer gen is shit/doomed. Also, kids are able to have fun with anything. It's not necessarily the product that's amazing, it's their experience that is.

Its like how people act like the Star Wars prequels are this amazing piece of cinema, because they were really little (or not even born o_O) when those movies came out.

Which is refreshing after having heard nothing but people bitching about them like they were the worst thing mankind ever did for like fifteen years.

Master_Kazuya posted...

If you're open minded, you'll see that there's no actually true good era. People in every generation thinks their shit is good and the newer gen is shit/doomed. Also, kids are able to have fun with anything. It's not necessarily the product that's amazing, it's their experience that is.

I'd say more that there was no bad era, you can find legit classics from basically every year of gaming for at least the last 40 years. Nostalgia will bias people in favour of the stuff they grew up with and people will forget the chaff that came out in the past. I do think the overall quality of games has risen though, considering our ideas of 7/10 games is something like an Ubisoft open world. Concord was a disaster, but probably would have been pretty solid 10 years ago.

I do think there are good and bad years of gaming though. For example, 2007 gave us Modern Warfare, Halo 3, the entire Orange Box, Bioshock, Rock Band, Assassins Creed, Mass Effect and Uncharted. That's one of the best years ever in gaming. Compare that to 1983 (yeah I know easy target) which basically killed gaming in North America for a couple of years.

Master_Kazuya posted...

If you're open minded, you'll see that there's no actually true good era. People in every generation thinks their shit is good and the newer gen is shit/doomed. Also, kids are able to have fun with anything. It's not necessarily the product that's amazing, it's their experience that is.

nope, the 90s were the legitimate golden age of video games. it has nothing to do with nostalgia.

that being said, there are plenty of amazing games coming out these days too, not saying only the 90s had good games.

But there is also a lot more trash tier , gacha grade, item shop, in game purchases , overpriced dlc, and a bunch of other crap we never had to deal with in the 90s.

It's almost like games are being produced in factories at this point, just trying to roll out as many as possible regardless of bugs, glitches, or even game being fully completed.

ZaruenKosai posted...

nope, the 90s were the legitimate golden age of video games. it has nothing to do with nostalgia.

Whenever someone talks about a "golden age," it's always about nostalgia.

Anyhow, nostalgia is weird, doesn't matter what era. My friends have been getting really nostalgic about stuff and I just don't get it.

Everyone likes the PS2 era. The graphics were kinda awful on a lot of titles but the games were just damned fun, and they weren't afraid to experiment with weird shit. That's why this is happening, and I love it too.

Meanwhile we're on the third consecutive generation of "Remaster? Remaster."

vigorm0rtis posted...

Whenever someone talks about a "golden age," it's always about nostalgia.

Yes , but I explained why it has nothing to do with nostalgia.

Games released these days (well for the last 10-15 years, I do see a positive shift in the Video Game industry lately) basically feel like their coming out of a factory to be mass created. ( not the physical copies, but the actual ideas to create games). Most games are also a lot more formulaic these days too.

I am not saying that the 90s only, had good games, or that there are no good games today.

What I am saying is that when it comes to advances and innovation, the 90s were it.... Maybe early 2000s too, but around 2006-2008, development and innovation really started to stagnate. it wasnt until I think the end of the 2010s, that I felt video games started to make a comeback, and I do think there is another golden age about to take place.

(or has it already started?) I think this is the case, as I have been seeing some very crazy games come out that I would consider some of the best games I ever played. It feels like the video game industry is either about to blow up ( in a good way,) or has already started blowing up again. I cant say for sure, and I will give it a few more years. but I do believe we are about to or just entered a new golden age for video games.

I know what nostalgia is , there are games that i played in 2015 that im nostalgic over.

I am not the only one that would classify the 90s or early 2000s as the golden age of gaming. It is an opinion, the majority of gamers seem to hold.

Golden Age

the period when a specified art, skill, or activity is at its peak.

like i said, it has nothing to do with nostalgia..

Before it was Quality over Quantity.
Now it is quantity over quality.

or at least it was for a while.

Like I said, I do believe we are about to or have just entered another golden age of video games..

I see this happen in the music world very often and I often find myself saying oh, this is why it was left by the wayside compared to the industry giants

At varying levels, those industry giants were very good. Frank Zappa for example didnt consider bands like Yes or Rush as progressive rock.. but I sure as hell do. They distilled the formula down, made it accessible, and added their own unique take on it. There are more obscure progressive bands that didnt reach the notoriety of these other bands, but they often lack the barebones means to be as interesting as both the hardcore section and the distilled section of that particular style of music.

Nothing wrong with providing a section of music nobody knows about with discussion, it just seems like pushing content in hope that it tracks at some level to make views. How could I really deny that? Its a prog rock song from an obscure band I never heard of. Im just not going to be convinced it was any better simply because it goes back.

I have yet to find someone really Mr. Rogers the thing in the sense that they are doing it for the person who already knows these things. Who wants to connect something unknown to you because they know who you are and they see that enjoyment factor dwindle down in your life and care about it.

Which is sort of the leg work youre doing there as a person for yourself, TC. Finding the ins and outs of something you really enjoy already with the knowledge and experience of your times. More people need to do that tbh so they dont lose sight of where theyve been without relinquishing autonomy to nostalgic nerds /s

Have our cake and eat it too lol