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Hayame_Zero posted...

I kind of already do the same stuff now as I did then. I just went to individual news sites and forums.

As for people saying stupid things, I remember arguing with people who complained about some of the design choices for Ocarina of Time leading up to its release, among other things. So many people have a lot of rose-colored glasses as far as that goes.

90s online video game discussions sounded wild since I can't even imagine complaining about what we ended up with for ocarina of time.

My family's first computer w/ good old prodigy internet wasn't until the spring of 2000, so I at least was around to see the zelda wind waker meltdowns about it being kiddie in real-time. Most online communities I took part in around that time was more often than not pretty good. There might be some slight bias here but I have never experienced a better community than phantasy star online's when it very first started up. (We did eventually started getting a player killer problem once the douches of the community started hopping on the gameshark/codebreaker bandwagon, but up until that point?......awesome). Quake 3 arena's, return to castle wolfenstein's, city of heroes and villains.....definitely miss that time period.

Halo 2's community was overall pretty crap though, lmao. To me this game's launch and the massive player numbers it pulled for it's time was the real start of the "video games really going mainstream and is no longer just populated by mainly enthusiasts" era.