r/videogames • u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 Nintendo • Aug 23 '26

Image / Video It seriously feels like we lost something from the 2000s era of gaming

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u/Kasta4 Aug 23 '26

Man Sea of Thieves is a whole vibe. Sometimes I log on just to sail around and take in the ambience.

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u/Animalmotherrrr Aug 23 '26

Sailing the seas with your bros faded af

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u/--Spaci-- Aug 23 '26

Stylized art styles are always SO much better than realism slop we get today. WoW vanilla was literally released before I was born and the art still holds up in 2026

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Aug 23 '26

> slop

It feels like people are just overusing this word now.

Something not being to your preferences doesn’t make it slop.

Reminds me of the phase when Reddit would call everything cringe.

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u/--Spaci-- Aug 23 '26

why are you angry at the word slop

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Aug 23 '26

Because it’s word slop with no real meaning.

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u/--Spaci-- Aug 23 '26

Slop means today on this date low effort, low quality content. Would you call the average ue5 asset flip anything but slop?

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u/MyKneesAshy Aug 23 '26

What’s an example of good quality

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u/--Spaci-- Aug 23 '26

high effort content, meaning something older like skyrim has a stylized realism approach while of course being a very high effort high quality game. A modern high quality game would be say bannerlord it went for a semi realism approach, kingdom come deliverance 2, red dead 2.

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u/Genericdude03 Aug 23 '26

Reality is low quality?💔

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u/Some1TouchaMySpagett Aug 25 '26

Not for nothing, one could easily argue that it is.

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u/Logical-Pair-89 Aug 27 '26

Reality is kinda the worst, dog. 

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u/--Spaci-- Aug 23 '26

High reading comprehension 💯💯

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u/YodaFragget Aug 23 '26

Some guys dont like sloppy and some guys would second that

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u/HillbillyTechno Aug 30 '26

I’ll take the sloppy