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[Chuck Berry]

Do you think we get a Vegas 3? Frankly that theme was a risk for Ubisoft and they DOUBLED DOWN on Vegas.

I feel like The Division is basically the new R6Vegas

 

[simpatico]

I feel like The Division is basically the new R6Vegas

If only. I wish we got a new R6 Vegas. Something like Ready or Not with just a little more emphasis on single player, and just one small step toward the "arcade" side of the spectrum. A brand new R6 Vegas campaign is all I want.

 

[Chuck Berry]

If only. I wish we got a new R6 Vegas. Something like Ready or Not with just a little more emphasis on single player, and just one small step toward the "arcade" side of the spectrum. A brand new R6 Vegas campaign is all I want.

I take it Siege aint your bag?

 

[simpatico]

I take it Siege aint your bag?

Oh I think it's a fantastic idea for a game, I just don't PvP anymore. But if I did, that's what I would play. Looks terrific. I'd love to see them make a campaign for it or find a way to make it PvE.

 

[SHA]

They both run dvds, what do you expect? Perfect balance in all aspects, length, plot, gameplay, characters presentation, bosses, music, sequels, verity, number of exclusives and 3rd party games, games were sold out just for seeing the logo without even knowing what it is.

 

[MayauMiao]

Its the best era so much so I bought a used PS2 slim, plan to do some sort of retro corner in my man cave.

 

[Lethal01]

It’s not about making the most fun game possible, it’s about trying to make kratos kiss a man between the cheeks.

Sounds like fun to me, peak fun honestly.

 

[Kumomeme]

 

[solidus12]

PS2 was such a sexy console.

What other modern PlayStation console could play this?

 

[existensmaximum]

The Attitude era started way earlier than that. Mid 90's at least.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[saintjules]

 

[adamsapple]

Is that Tom Brady:?

 

[Longcat]

The PS double be ballin

 

[Kupfer]

BennyBlanco
Just bought Rogue Warrior for two bucks. The video you posted made me want to play this stupid fun.


Plus some more from that era:


Punisher, Manhunt, Soldier of Fortune I & II ... those were the days

I also had a ton of fun with the Army of Two and Kane & Lynch series.

We lack this kind of edgy AA games.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Even you can kill kids in a Star wars game... And that was awesome





Fuck Disney

 

[Fahdis]

Add Chad Daddy Warden and you have it all encapsulated in 1 person. The era that is. Make games ABAP again!

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Videogames are more expensive. If you're gambling with 100 million+ Eurodollars you don't want to take creative risks.

We still have indies who do what they want.

 

[BennyBlanco]

BennyBlanco
Just bought Rogue Warrior for two bucks. The video you posted made me want to play this stupid fun.


Plus some more from that era:


Punisher, Manhunt, Soldier of Fortune I & II ... those were the days

I also had a ton of fun with the Army of Two and Kane & Lynch series.

We lack this kind of edgy AA games.

Rogue Warrior is absolutely hilarious and worth playing just for Demo Dick’s one liners

RIP to the real guy. I bet his book is gold.

 

[Osaka_Boss]

What the Hell is atitude era... Not everyone here is American, y'know

 

[Puscifer]

Everything was edgy as fuck for no reason. Games were constantly using hilarious morality systems that let you be a giant asshole.

What if we made a game about roided up juice monkeys killing poorly designed monsters and the guns had fuckin chainsaws on them? What if we made a trilogy of space opera RPGs that let you be the virtuous savior of the galaxy or you let you be a weird genocidal psychopath? What if we made a fighting game and all the girls had giant tits? All of this was greenlit by major publishers at the time.

It ruled. Devs were simply making games as fun as possible and everything else was secondary. Games were for the nerds and nobody gave a shit.

We are now firmly in the PG era. It’s hard to even pinpoint when things changed but they definitely did. Maybe when the industry made the collective choice to run nearly everything out of California. Everything must be focus tested and ran through diversity consultants so as not to entertain or offend anyone. Every AAA game out of the west is boring and predictable schlock. Games like Helldivers and Palworld just being fun games to play and massively outselling AAA junk like Suicide Squad should be a wakeup call to publishers but they will take all the wrong lessons from it.

You could reasonably make the argument that games were disproportionately making 30 something white guy protags. Everyone looked like commander shepard for a while there. But the pendulum swung way too far in the other direction. That Insomniac video about how they’re “not making games for white people” and the Black Panther dev saying she wont hire whites is insane. I would bet my life savings that nobody back in the day sat down in a room and said “this game isn’t for black people” or “we don’t hire black people”.

Makes me sick to see how far the big publishers have fallen off. EA, Ubisoft, and Activision barely even make games anymore. MS and Sony are both absolutely steeped in this new age shit.

Bring back the attitude era. The industry is so boring now and rotten with grifters who don’t care about making fun videogames. Indies and a select few JP studios are carrying.

Far as I'm concerned, for better or worse, Manhunt 2 changed the industry. The self censorship from Rockstar was nuts and it bled over into other games.

Condemned 2 Toned Down to Avoid AO Rating - The Escapist

www.escapistmagazine.com

 

[Bloobs]

Yo, how the f did I miss Rogue Warrior? I want to play it now! Along with 50 Cent Blood on the Sand.

 

[Puscifer]

What the Hell is atitude era... Not everyone here is American, y'know

You had to be there honestly.

 

[Rudius]

Now it's the lame are of everything: all inoffensive, bland, superficial, soulless, regurgitated and all that

 

[Roman Empire]

Not related to the subject in question but the PS2/360 era was the best when it comes to horror games. I think some part of it is nostalgia at work but I genuinely think the genre went downhill hard the last decade+, at least in the AAA/AA landscape.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

That was awesome.

 

[Hypereides]

Developers need to bring back the 'tude into gaming again. It direly needs it.

There has to be some western AA studio out there that has the balls to be the "punk rockers" of games.

 

[Griffon]

The attitude era started with the Genesis in the 90s. The PS2/360 are the logical conclusion and the tail end of it.

Attitude era: 1991-2010

 

[Unknown?]

Shadow had guns, was crazy!

 

[thismeinteil]

The absence of AA or lower budget B-tier games has really hurt this the past 2 generations.

Probably won't see many of them. Doesn't help that the internet loves to shit on anything that doesn't look AAA.

 

[Humdinger]

Yeah, I miss the humor and edgy-ness of older games.

 

[YCoCg]

Kane & Lynch

I loved the style of 2, too bad it was short AF and people hated it back then, still the closest thing we've got a Michael Mann style game.

 

[Kupfer]

Rogue Warrior is absolutely hilarious and worth playing just for Demo Dick’s one liners

Absolutely. I just played a short session yesterday and the game is so stupid, these one liners and the b-movie setting, you feel like you're playing a Steven Seagal movie.
We'll see if it holds up over a few hours, but the $2 was well worth it

 

[Trilobit]

Young me when I learned you could punch competitors in my freshly bought snowboard game:

Edit: I just looked at the other examples in the thread and mine is a Teletubby game in comparison, but I'd never been much for violent games so this was pretty rad.

 

[fatmarco]

I loved the style of 2, too bad it was short AF and people hated it back then, still the closest thing we've got a Michael Mann style game.

I replayed 1 and 2 again recently.

I feel like 2 holds up really well. There's so much artistic intent and cool ideas within that game that hasn't been appreciated, and it's a tragedy it's been forgotten the way it has.

Just a great cold, mean and gritty experience.

 

[OrangeSun77]

rdr2 has its moments

 

[Bloobs]

Playing 50 cent for the first time. Shit is wild lol. Still looks good on Series X.