'95 zoomer
wow people keep on coming up with such nice ways of saying "I'm 30 years old". I think this beats out "Yea, I've been around in the scene for a while haha"
My way of choice is to say "I feel old" when people mention something they enjoyed as a kid that came out when I was an adult. For example the phrases "my childhood Nintendo Switch" or "I couldn't vote when Trump was elected" make my back hurt.
That's different though, the people your age are so devoid of hope for the future that y'all aesthetics loop back around to early 2000s or even earlier because that's the last time technology was viewed in a good way for the future and y'all yearn for that
See: re-emergence of y2k culture, Sanrio, cassette tapes, etc.
In terms of videogames, this generation of games was one of the last to not have internet connectivity as a rule. Given the predatory practices the internet has enabled, I don’t think their resurgence is a coincidence.
melee is an incredibly deep game and has provided me with far more replay value than yugioh or purple heinz
I do not find the smash games after melee all that fun, Melee was something else and Sakurai watering down the gameplay for the sake of the casual gamer (despite the fact that Melee was mega popular with casual gamers already) makes me unreasonably upset.
the only boomer opinion I allow myself to have is getting kinda slightly mad about modern smash fans claiming it's basically the same as classic format, in-depth fighting games. I don't like melee but the mechanics and execution there are way closer than the others (which are admittedly very fun party games).
They do share the barest fundamentals like spacing, neutral/advantage, combo/trap/punish, especially early-to-mid stock before it transitions to more offstage stuff
Beyond that I think it's pretty widely accepted now that "platform fighter" is a distinct genre.
Which I think is cool! I just hate to see them compared and given recognition over more "traditional" genres because of popularity. It's honestly like comparing apples and oranges. The offstage mechanics are their own hugely exploitable portion of gameplay that aren't really reflected in the likes of Street Fighter or Tekken etc. and deserve recognition, but damn did I get salty about people trash talking SF in comparison to smash, or for derivative platform fighters like Multiversus 🤮 winning at TGA (tbh a pointless award but yk) over beloved series.
Yeah that probably just comes with the "nintendo nostalgia wankfest" territory unfortunately. If the genre was born out of an original IP like fuckin Brawlhalla or something, it'd still be a side thing to classic fighters instead of people trying to treat it like a competition or even a successor. Anyway fuck multiversus and respect to the classic fighters even if they aren't my thing.
Ultimate has finally backtracked far enough from the balloon-slapping physics of Brawl that I don't mind anymore. It's no Melee but it's at least a reliably fun party game again, which is all I ask of it.
They've done an awesome job with the cast and paying homage to all the different games, I just find the actual gameplay very unsatisfying
It's some times weird for me that I have video games sitting in a drawer that are older then 80% of this site.
Look at least I think all the age groups can agree that the GBA SP was a masterpiece of tech, look at that beautiful folding, backlit, rechargable marvel
I already have a more powerful handheld but the anbernic rg35xxsp is just so sexy
If you can't waveshine with Fox then are you even a zillennial?
I don't really relate to most of this stuff. Idk, I started Pokemon later during the DS Lite era.
I hate not being able to relate to anybody.
nah same - first pokemon I actually played any amount of was platinum
It was Pearl for me but, Platinum was way better. Emerald was great too.
oh shit oh fuck genz is now is feeling old
please just put me in an asylum and treat my dementia 👴👴👴👴👴
I always preferred Morrowind. That said Smash Bros Melee is an absolute classic. As someone getting close to mid 30
I can relate to most of it except "2005 was lit." The whole Bush years were trash. That's why everyone was upset and listening to Linkin Park/ System of a Down.
