I will have to check out some videos but at first sight BotW is the only one that really appeals to me. I made a thread last year asking about the best games of this decade and I have no interest for most of the suggestions so I feel out of touch.
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On the internet, "90s kid" nostalgia is phasing out. Gen Z nostalgia for 2007-2012 has taken over.
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I will have to check out some videos but at first sight BotW is the only one that really appeals to me. I made a thread last year asking about the best games of this decade and I have no interest for most of the suggestions so I feel out of touch.
If you like classic Zelda and Metroid, then you will probably like Monster Boy as well. It's a modern take on the Wonder Boy series but its puzzle design is more Zelda-ish than the old games.
The internet has made everything post-2006 feel the same and like it's all been part of a 5 year period.
And the only reason the early aughts feels distinct was because it was all this:
And the only reason the early aughts feels distinct was because it was all this:
I just wish to understand why all the recent games that are considered classics nowadays don't appeal to me in the slightest. I already kind of know though.
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Pfft, nostalgia for early-mid 00s songs is so 2014. Now, as I've shown in my posts, people now praise LATE 00s-early 10s music. Lol
You feel old?
Last of us was yesterday for me ffs, and I'm in my
twenties.
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But if the pics indicate anything they have a lot to be nostalgic for.
Eh. I personally see a marked difference between the things you're nostalgic for as a child and what you were nostalgic for when you were a teen.
As a teen, I remembered being somewhat nostalgic for Digimon since I was a small kid when I'd watched it compared to when I was a teen.
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We're just going through the passage time like all previous generations. Like it feels weird now seeing Zoomers say 2008-2014 was the "golden age of pop music". I mean that music like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Kesha, etc. used to be extremely hated, lol.
Because it wasn't part of your childhood and isn't inside the scope of your nostalgia filter. That's really it.
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I feel old, I only have nostalgia for regular penguins...
To be fair, it's mostly because pop music today is literally awful. There's a reason Pop Era is mostly dead. I'm not even a Zoomer, but I am on the edge of the two generations.
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Well I feel like this is an endless cycle because people were also saying the 2008-2014 stuff was also awful when it was new, now they say it's good, partially because of nostalgia. Years from now people will say 2019 pop was good.
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Yeah lol. On this article from 2009, it's talking about premature Millennial (then called Gen Y) nostalgia, which kinda mirrors the Gen Z nostalgia of 2019. And in the comments older readers were like "Oh god, these kids are nostalgic for Sum-41 and Britney Spears? Ugh such cancer", similar to how we feel now about Gen Z's nostalgia, lol. It's a mirroring, endless cycle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/fashion/23nostalgia.html
Pop ERA died (or moved to Discord) because ERA kept banning people for general sassiness (which is part of the Pop-community culture, but that goes over the mods' heads).
I think people who say "you can't be nostalgic for X because of Y reason" fundamentally misunderstand nostalgia. It's usually not just for the thing. It's often for the circumstances around the thing.
I get nostalgic for Pokémon Red not because it's a great game that's stood the rest of time. But because I remember going to Toys R Us the day it came out, and watching the employee having to crack open the shopping box because nobody knew what Pokémon was. I remember playing outside in the front yard on cool, crisp October afternoons. I remember trading Pokémon back and forth with my brother and sister to complete our Pokédex.
It's not just the game.
I did several video essays about nostalgia and the stories around particular video games. In this one, I didn't even play the game. But again, that's not necessarily how nostalgia works. The context is arguably more important than the actual thing.
I get nostalgic for Pokémon Red not because it's a great game that's stood the rest of time. But because I remember going to Toys R Us the day it came out, and watching the employee having to crack open the shopping box because nobody knew what Pokémon was. I remember playing outside in the front yard on cool, crisp October afternoons. I remember trading Pokémon back and forth with my brother and sister to complete our Pokédex.
It's not just the game.
I did several video essays about nostalgia and the stories around particular video games. In this one, I didn't even play the game. But again, that's not necessarily how nostalgia works. The context is arguably more important than the actual thing.
Oh man. I'm almost 40, and this has been so fucking weird to watch happen. I don't really get it much with my close friends who all are gamers, love sci-fi, etc. But man, it's all around me.
Recently, my sister was complaining about seeing children on the school bus and all of them were on their phones, adding a comment about how when we were kids, we'd all be laughing and talking and having fun. Yeah, no. She and I hated the bus. I'd have paid good money for the bullies that rode it to have been glued to a phone. It's like she just invented this fictional past out of thin air because "the kids these days."
Does anyone remember playing Runescape and Club Penguin in school computers while then coming home to watch Raven,Tracy Beaker,50/50,Basil Brush and Raven on CBBC. Those were those were the days...says the 21 year old
This. 80's nostalgia is not only still popular, but more popular than ever. Seems unlikely that 90's nostalgia has hit its stride quite yet.
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I'm talking about on the internet. Nostalgia moves faster on the internet. By 2010, everyone on the Internet was talking about being a "90s kid" constantly, but irl in 2019, there's only a few 90s nostalgia movies so far.
If you didn't watch High School Musical the Friday night it premiered, get the fuck off my internet and back to your crosswords and apple sauce. WE own the internet now, and we won't have our fill until 2029.
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Yeah, I relate to a lot of this stuff since it was there when I was still in high school but about to graduate. I have 3 more years until I feel old and ready to die.
Yeah it is kinda of weird.
There's literally nothing to feel bad about.
The generation before you thinks the same about the stuff you feel nostalgia about. And the younger generation absolutely feels the heart and the charm of the stuff they are or were into.
You're not supposed to understand.
Lmao I definitely watched it as it premiered. Didn't know this qualified me for something.
Its 2013, you finish work at 5:30, walk to the train, sit on it for and hour, then your wife picks you up,
you get to see your daughter for about 20 mins at dinner before she goes to bed at 7.
Feeling older by the day lol
you get to see your daughter for about 20 mins at dinner before she goes to bed at 7.
Feeling older by the day lol
I can understand that, I was born in 79 and feel more nostalgic for the late 80's and 90's than anything else.
You bumped an 8 month old topic to post 4 times in a row... you drunk?
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