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[jigglet]

Mine: I fucking love snaking in Mario Kart. I thought it was a really fun mechanic with a moderately high skill ceiling, ala bunny hopping in FPS games. I loved the tactical nature of it, being able to use it as a way to pivot off really tight turns. However snaking is just a PITA when it comes to online mulitplayer so I totally get why it had to go. I play Mario Kart as a solo game; campaign, against CPU etc so it suits me but not the broader public. You can't design a multiplayer game these days that totally ignores online. So as much as I hated seeing it go, I understand it.

What are your boomer thoughts that just haven't survived the modern era?

 

[Kikorin]

I thought mobile gaming would have always been niche and ftp with microtransitions would have flopped all together.

I thought Nintendo would have never developed games on mobile (not that I'm against it, it just seemed impossible to me back in the days).

 

[nush]

Define boomer.

 

[Fahdis]

• Boomer Birth Years: 1946 to 1964

WE are mostly millenials.

 

[Fart Knight]

 

[Kupfer]

Not a boomer but me in the 2000's : "Damn, I fucking love all these dedicated servers!"

Fuck MM and especially SBMM

 

[Cherrypepsi]

I was probably among the Top 500 UT players in EU in the early 2000s and I had the opinion that modern games FPS are too slow and take no skill, until I tried overwatch and got my ass kicked by kids in ranked.

 

[Yoboman]

When I was your age I had 3 cars, two houses and 7 kids. It cost $75

 

[Tschumi]

I am not a baby boomer. That would mean i was born in the 1950s. Anyway, for myself... I thought operation flashpoint was a better realistic shooter than cs. I preferred unreal tournament to quake. I preferred Wolfenstein to Doom... and rise of the triad to either... I prefer thief 3 to 1 or 2... i liked deus ex invisible war.. I preferred MGS 2 to splinter cell... I was fucking supreme at ssx3... I would rather play vanilla wow than went other wow.. uhh can't think of much else..

 

[jigglet]

• Boomer Birth Years: 1946 to 1964

WE are mostly millenials.

By that strict definition, I'm a millennial too. However, I define "boomer" as anyone that didn't play Fortnite as their literal first game.

 

[MrTentakel]

Nobody is stupid enough to buy horse armor for 2.50

 

[kanjobazooie]

I thought 3D games would fully replace 2D games.

 

[Fredrik]

It’s absolutely crucial to know DOS commands and know how to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

 

[Soodanim]

By that strict definition, I'm a millennial too. However, I define "boomer" as anyone that didn't play Fortnite as their literal first game.

Oh jiggles, you and your crazy mind are up to your old tricks again

 

[DZ_b_EZ]

"This Video Game Land! Physical copies have been here...and they gon' ALLLWAYS BE HERE!!!"

*Begins to laugh as he burns alive*

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

I never thought I would go exclusively digital. I remember thinking it was stupid and will never catch on. I now haven't bought a disk game in 5 years.

 

[rofif]

By that strict definition, I'm a millennial too. However, I define "boomer" as anyone that didn't play Fortnite as their literal first game.

man... I am 1989 and my first game was Another World.
But imagine kids today - the only experience they know is fortnite, fnaf and gamepass. Gaming WILL DIE as we know it...

 

[Teslerum]

By that strict definition, I'm a millennial too. However, I define "boomer" as anyone that didn't play Fortnite as their literal first game.

...

I'm not sure 10-13 year old kids log onto forums nowadays.

 

[cormack12]

I thought games would look ultra realistic but still retain all their fun.

 

[KiNeMz]

Neogaf is a cool place

 

[Swift_Star]

Nobody is stupid enough to buy horse armor for 2.50

That’s a good one. Now we are buying skins left and right. Specially in f2p games.

 

[gradient]

Nobody is stupid enough to buy horse armor for 2.50

Not going to lie. This one still hurts.

The thin end of the wedge defined in gaming history.

 

[Interfectum]

man... I am 1989 and my first game was Another World.
But imagine kids today - the only experience they know is fortnite, fnaf and gamepass. Gaming WILL DIE as we know it...

You are forgetting Nintendo. They are the light in the darkness, until they go full evil.

 

[jigglet]

You are forgetting Nintendo. They are the light in the darkness, until they go full evil.

They did go full evil. They released the Wii U.

 

[Fredrik]

I thought games would look ultra realistic but still retain all their fun.

Yeah… A few AAA devs are still focusing on fun but most has clearly lost their ways. Something to think about when wishing for Nintendo to release a beastly powerful console.

 

[NXGamer]

Sorry OP, you and I bet almost 99% of members here are not boomers. I am old and even I just miss the period that "baby boomers" came from. The mid 50s to mid 60s, most are "millennials" here or I think Gen X, Z. All these crap labels are pointless though and the header made no sense.

For me, that gaming would remain physical and passionate about its aims with teams being funded to make games they love.

Not become the investment, capital driven, step through to other things with an increasing loss of focus on what games are and not what they can be used for.

 

[jigglet]

Sorry OP, you and I bet almost 99% of members here are not boomers.

I didn't say boomers though. I said "boomers".

 

[NXGamer]

I didn't say boomers though. I said "boomers".

Is that not the same thing, except you are quoting to mock them or it?

 

[jigglet]

Is that not the same thing, except you are quoting to mock them or it?

It's figurative, that's what the quotes mean. As in, old(er).

 

[NXGamer]

It's figurative, that's what the quotes mean. As in, old(er).

Then just say older?

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

OP doesn't think there are lots of members who are literally in their 70's.

The term boomer is also just used to refer to feeling or appearing old or out of touch

 

[jigglet]

Then just say older?

I assume english isn't your first language. Speaking figuratively or sarcastically is a huge part of the language. Whenever you see quotes it means it's not literal.

E.g. I have a "crazy" idea.

 

[NXGamer]

OP doesn't think there are lots of members who are literally in their 70's.

The term boomer is also just used to refer to feeling or appearing old or out of touch

But the term is being mis-used then, and I am not a fan of it anyway. Boomer means a child of that era, such as a 60s or 70s child. You cannot say that when you were born in the 80s or 90s.

Again, I am old so the term has relevance beyond what it may now be used as a catch-all term for older (what ever constitutes old, which again will likely be different for all).

 

[jigglet]

But the term is being mis-used then

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/what-are-your-boomer-thoughts-that-just-havent-survived-the-modern-era.1629670/reply?quote=265534050

 

[Neff]

Manual saves are good
Limited saves are good
Lives are good
Having to do part of a level again because you fucked up is, in a way, good
Handholding is bad
Free to play is bad
Microtransactions and the entire business model and game design mandate propping it up are fucking awful

 

[nani17]

that i hate the retarded word boomer.

 

[NXGamer]

I assume english isn't your first language. Speaking figuratively or sarcastically is a huge part of the language. Whenever you see quotes it means it's not literal.

E.g. I have a "crazy" idea.

No, I am and you are using it wrong. You cannot absorb a defined name for a period into a pseudonym or figurative possessive. The term "crazy" as a figurative quote is again subjective so can be used, but saying "boomer" which has a defined period is incorrect or confusing.

 

[jigglet]

that i hate the retarded word boomer.

Agreed, I hate myself for using it lol

 

[stranno]

Not a boomer thought, but mobile gaming replacing at least consoles, maybe even PCs, back in 2008.

Not only it hasn't happened, nowadays mobile games are like 100 times worse than the mobile games published in 2008.

 

[Vaelka]

Video games are not movies.
Video games are meant to be fun.
Game developers and publishers have more integrity than Hollywood.

 

[jigglet]

No, I am and you are using it wrong. You cannot absorb a defined name for a period into a pseudonym or figurative possessive. The term "crazy" as a figurative quote is again subjective so can be used, but saying "boomer" which has a defined period is incorrect or confusing.

What could putting "boomer" in quotes possibly have meant, then? I'd like to hear some plausible theories on what else I could have been trying to say.

 

[recursive]

What could putting "boomer" in quotes possibly have meant, then? I'd like to hear some plausible theories on what else I could have been trying to say.

I think what he is saying is boomer is already a defined term and the use of quotes to overload the definition doesn't work.

Sort of nitpicky considering I am sure your intentions were to connect to the ok boomer internet slang.

 

[LazyParrot]

People here arguing that OP is misusing the word boomer is the most boomer thing I’ve seen in a while.

 

[jigglet]

I think what he is saying is boomer is already a defined term

Sure, so talking figuratively only works with undefined terms. What's an undefined term though?

 

[NXGamer]

What could putting "boomer" in quotes possibly have meant, then? I'd like to hear some plausible theories on what else I could have been trying to say.

That was my point of asking, you can quote something, such as collective term of people like this, i.e. If we listen to "experts" then they say..... It could be a figurative or literal term such as, I was literally "wading" through mud as a description of a metaphor made reality. It can even be a sarcastic quote such as, You really bring the "laughter" don't you!

This is why the English language is classed as so difficult, because it has so many rules and defined descriptions, re-use of the same word, sarcasm etc etc. It is like the use of adjectives and the possessive change or enhance nouns It can all get "semantical", by definition, and like almost everything, stems from Latin anyway.

 

[NXGamer]

People here arguing that OP is misusing the word boomer is the most boomer thing I’ve seen in a while.

So says the "Dead Parrot" ;-)

 

[Deerock71]

• Boomer Birth Years: 1946 to 1964

WE are mostly millenials.

Is there honest to God any Boomers on this board? I'M not even a Boomer.

 

[recursive]

Sure, so talking figuratively only works with undefined terms. What's an undefined term though?

By term I meant year of birth in a thread about old people thoughts.

Anyway, enjoy your thread bruv.

 

[NXGamer]

I think what he is saying is boomer is already a defined term and the use of quotes to overload the definition doesn't work.

Sort of nitpicky considering I am sure your intentions were to connect to the ok boomer internet slang.

Agreed, I was not trying to be nitpicky, and was not my intention. Ignore me OP, and continue on.

I liked the thread idea, if that makes you "happy" ;-)

 

[Haggard]

"financing games by hoping that people are dumb enough to pay for cosmetic nonsense can`t work."