It has now been a quarter century since Penny Arcade proclaimed that "videogames suck now".

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• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I was in high school I used to think that PA was really smart because of the lengthy monologuing. Today it just reads like lorem ipsum drivel to me and the punchlines are mostly contrarian edge lord shit.

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  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You just described Tycho/Jerry’s actual personality: “Thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is.”

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• 100@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  so if this was released june 2001, some notable games released within the previous 12 months (american releases):

  • diablo 2 (june 2000)
  • tony hawk pro skater 2 (september 2000)
  • pokemon g/s (october 2000)
  • zelda majoras mask (october 2000)
  • timesplitters (october 2000)
  • final fantasy 9 (november 2000)
  • counter strike (november 2000)
  • paper mario (february)
  • black and white (march)
  • zelda oracle of ages/seasons (may)

  and upcoming games same year:

  • sonic adventure 2 (june)
  • max payne (july)
  • devil may cry (august)
  • silent hill 2 (september)
  • gta 3 (october)
  • first xbox w/ halo (november)
  • burnout (november)
  • metal gear solid 2 (november)
  • smash bros melee (december)
  • final fantasy 10 (december)

  dont really see where the sucking is? and you could include at least two dozen more games here

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The “games suck now” people have always existed. The comic is just ridiculing them.

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lotta people here don’t seem to get the purpose of the third panel. They know they’re full of shit.

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  • boke@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. Either very few people actually reread this strip or their literacy is so low they didn’t realize the whole point of the strip is that “video games suck now” is a brain dead take.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Around this same time would have been the old flash cartoon, “The Decline of Gaming”, which accurately predicted the trend of all genres taking on RPG elements, perhaps even more than they thought possible. I’m not quite sure where this pessimism came from, as we were hot on the heels of all of the mega hits that came out in the late 90s, and everyone was quite aware of imminent releases of the early 2000s at this time, like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Final Fantasy X, and Metroid Prime.

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  • missingno@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy shit, forgot all about that one but just hearing the title took me way back. What a time capsule to look back on.

    Maybe some of those accents haven't aged so well though...

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a coincidence, that is about how long it’s been since Penny Arcade was relevant.

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So they predicted the right wing YouTuber who reviews movies and games and who drinks alcohol on screen. And their entire personality is being a whiny drunk bigoted bitch.

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• kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even the characters of PA have aged.

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• Tim_Bisley@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People think things suck in the present because they look to the past and feel things seemed better. Then in the future when things are actually worse, you realize that what was previously the present wasn’t actually that bad because you look at the current state of things and see it’s actually gotten even more shit than before. This is the downward slope of enshitifcation.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then you forget that everything that got worse was also replaced by something better.

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