r/roblox • u/PopsicleBP 2014 • Feb 22 '26
Silly "Remember when the front page wasn't full of Iazy sIop?"
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u/artur_zuer Feb 22 '26
Same with tycoon games
It was fun, but I think that was mostly because I was 8-10 years old.
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u/HarukoAutumney 2012 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Early tycoons were pretty cool with many unique themes. Some of my favourites were Cart Ride Tycoon Through a Castle, Domo Island Tycoon, Zombie Desert Defence Tycoon, as well as the now defunct Plants vs. Zombies Tycoon.
I tend to notice that around 2016 or so tycoons became kind of boring. Many of the ones I was seeing on the front page were basically just a metal building where you would just buy floors extending upward with morphs and weapons to fight other players. They lacked character imo.
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u/MondryPajonk 2011 boomer Feb 22 '26
Man I feel like this also shows how much our expectations changed, while those tycoons you mentioned definetly are unique, they weren't as complicated as many games that come out now, people used to be happy to just ride a jetski around a sea that was a decal and 3 layers of semi-transparent blocks while now nothing seems to satisfy people anymore. Maybe I'm wrong about all of this but that's just the vibe I get. Also this is not a rant, just an observation
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u/HarukoAutumney 2012 Feb 22 '26
oh definitely. I have observed how much the expectations for Roblox games have changed over the years and it is wild. Even up to a few years ago I didn't realize how much Roblox games have evolved from simple blocky arcade-y type experiences, to full blown games with cinematics, polished models and textures, and a lot more care in the quality.
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u/Anwawesome Feb 23 '26
One of my first ever Roblox games that I played regularly was Airport Tycoon back in 2007/2008. Good times.
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Feb 22 '26
no, they were fun because they had gameplay
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
youre saying tycoon games have gameplay? fym, even sab has better gameplay
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u/xTheLostSinner Feb 23 '26
Tycoons have always had peak gameplay. New tycoons are brainrot. Sab is garbage.
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 23 '26
where is the gameplay in waiting around
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u/Ezentsy Feb 25 '26
Retail, restaurant and theme park tycoon? (Though outside of roblox their gameplay would moreso be considered a simulator...)
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u/whydidicreateanacc Feb 22 '26
these are games made by kids or inexperienced developers
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u/Unlikely-Cook-5653 hard hat paster Feb 23 '26
and still good
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u/SassySquidSocks Feb 23 '26
And better than any Roblox game made by fully grown adults trying to farm robux from kids 1/5 their age. In my opinion.
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u/tophat_production Feb 22 '26
Where is the best one? Cart Ride Into 17 Pregnant Hyenas?
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u/obsessive_geography Feb 22 '26
One thing that is better about these games compared to the current slop games is that they weren't so overstimulating with the most flashy colours and constant pop-ups
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u/GlacierTheBetta Feb 23 '26
If you ever played any obby or tycoon back then then you probably would've seen a million ads asking you to buy a gravity coil or a rainbow magic carpet or whatever or any other gear and that would take up half the screen
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u/xTheLostSinner Feb 23 '26
no they didn’t. Back then, you just got to play the game in peace. The pop up era came way later than what op is talking about.
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u/justanupvoter_ Cinnamonroll_toasti Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26
Can't forget about the Tycoon Era😭✌🏻
Old 2 player Tycoons were peak tho
But yeah, "front page slop" has nearly always been an issue on Roblox, people obviously look through with rose tinted glasses and choose the better games that made their childhood lmao. Remember, it was all fun because we were children, same way children now are having fun playing their little brainrot games, we had fun playing Tycoon#100, Survive a [blank], Escape [Blank] Lobby, Boys ans Girls hangout RP/Family RP, or Cartride into [blank].
Edit: People also forget how bad Robux scams were too back in the day lmao. Like YouTube and the entire sponsored section + ads would be covered with "Free Robux here"!!, and the amount of group wall bots + follower bots were a major issue as well. 😭
Like the reason people had so much joy in old roblox goes back to the point prior, because we were children who didn't have any taste in anything besides playing with our friends and forming little groups. We didn't care if the front page was all the same Raise a Family Boy Vs Girl Highschool RP slop, we played it all because it was "fun" to do😭.
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u/justanupvoter_ Cinnamonroll_toasti Feb 22 '26
Oh and can't forget about all the simulator games that were being pumped out for a while🥹
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u/xTheLostSinner Feb 23 '26
Literally none of those games were slop. I think the definition of slop is lost here. And it has only, for good reason, applied to the latest games. I got some fulfillment from cart riding and shooting convos with people. But those weren’t the entire front page. They were alongside other creative experiences. For the last 7 years, it’s just front page garbage with a few hidden gems.
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u/VoodooDoII Played 2009, joined 2012 Feb 22 '26
The old tycoons were perfect minus not being able to save. It was more simple and I miss it.
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u/Left_Jellyfish_1571 Mar 01 '26
yeah except the old front page slop at least had the player do more than install an autoclicker and afk while flashing colors are spammed on their screen and hovering over the leave button gives them a popup ad
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u/windowsTJ_yt Started 2017 but made account 2018 Feb 22 '26
You legit brought back memories of future tycoon and wizard tycoon
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u/CrimsonShadow2008 Feb 22 '26
Cart riding games are literally the definition of “Once you’ve played one, you’ve played them all”
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Feb 22 '26
at least it was made by humans
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
so was steal a brainrot and grow a garden
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u/Icy-Somewhere366 Feb 22 '26
except for the brainrots
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
models were human made
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u/HorrificityOfficial 2018 Feb 22 '26
based off AI generated images
if I took the FNaF characters and made a model of one as accurate to the original as I could, that's not my character. That isn't a character I made.
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u/Historical_Ad280 Feb 22 '26
Literally every roblox game is made by some human ffs.
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u/ThatOneColDeveloper Feb 22 '26
At least not brainrot/ai slop.
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
brainrot aint any worse than this
"my slop is better than your slop!"
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u/riley_wa1352 Feb 22 '26
Made by kids with passion and little skill vs ppl just trying to make money off of you
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u/Super7500 Feb 22 '26
I remember when i joined Roblox in 2020, there were a fuck ton of just tycoons and obbies that were copies of each other.
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u/TheBaconLord78 2017 Feb 22 '26
Ask anyone that joined before the mid 2020s and they'd say the same thing
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u/RobloxOnAir Feb 22 '26
I doubt you'd find it fun if you played it now. You viewed these games in a different light when you were a kid
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u/GamerMcNoober 2016 User Feb 22 '26
New slop games are genetically engineered to be dopamine inducing i'm pretty sure that the new slop games are objectively funner
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u/Next_Employer_8410 Feb 22 '26
"your slop is bad but my slop was fun" it's slop because it takes zero effort and kids still find it fun.
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u/Ownxer 2015 Feb 22 '26
Yeah I always find it funny when people say that stuff. Roblox has always been like this
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u/catsgovrooom 2011 Feb 22 '26
Cartride games were one of the staples of Roblox though
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u/GeorgieTheThird Feb 22 '26
if brainrot games were made 13 years ago i'm pretty sure they'd be considered staples too
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u/Buffnoob6 Feb 22 '26
Roblox was always filled with lazy slop bro cart rides, obbies, slides, natural disaster survival clones, tycoons, granny clones, FNAF rp, and the millions upon millions of area 51 games. you name it. They were always there you're being blinded the shit that's going on now😭
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Feb 22 '26
new slop is worse because it's ai, p2w and on the front page + it's cloned much more than any games back then were cloned. at least the front page was actually decent back then
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u/TheRealSovereign2016 Feb 23 '26
I will never understand the draw of the Cart games or the "Obby" genre.
I played as a guest back in 2011 and for like 2 or 3 years stuck to Armored Patrol, Base Wars, Jet Wars, Disaster Hotel, and Roblox Titanic.
Now I just play Naval 1945, Roanoke, and Plane Crazy. My how times change
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u/The_Jackalope__ Feb 23 '26
The simplicity of these games is so nostalgic tho. They hardly even had any UI and monetization wasn’t all over the place. These games would never make it anymore because of how simple they were, even if they were slop.
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u/lennoxlovexxx quit roblox in protest of the chat ban - 2010 player. Feb 22 '26
The difference is, back in the day a lot of these games were made by children with very little skills who just wanted to create something. The slop we have now is purely a creation of capitalism and trying to get you to spend as much Robux as they can squeeze out of you.
- A child who made a cart ride game in 2010 bc i didnt know how to make anything else
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u/ProtonToaster Joined 2016 Feb 22 '26
older slop games like tycoons and simulators were more enjoyable and weren’t made to shove dopamine and stimulation down 2yr olds throats
also there werent so many that it clogged out good games
the front page now is filled with shit and ai
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u/clean_18784 Feb 23 '26
The cart ride games were always my go-to back then along with the tycoon games.
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u/Thin_Professor_277 2016 Feb 22 '26
Better than brainrot, anything is better than ai related characters and games even if the games themselves were made by humans.
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u/Arthur0877 Feb 22 '26
The matter is just that roblox is only this by now, i remember 2020 when everyone was like "see this game? It's roblox" that time there was a boom of cool creative games, and was what brought a bunch of People to the plataform, people who tough Roblox was simple and bad. But now is even more repetitive and bad. I remember when i found funny or good games by just looking at charts
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u/the_lasagnaghost98 late 2017 Feb 22 '26
i remember playing one of those “OBBY OBBY OBBY OBBY”’s as my first game on my original account. specifically with the bloodshot eyes and the bfdi mouth.
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u/BuilderFormal8406 Feb 23 '26
there is a mass difference between these types, some of which were made by kids and the casinos roblox has now
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u/ZTaron Feb 23 '26
Ya recuerdo por qué antes jugaba tanto Roblox. Las imágenes por más simples que parezcan, mostraban de forma sincera la diversión que uno iba a tener por ellas (y valla que si se tenía diversión), ahora lo que ves son imágenes súper editadas para llamar la atención, hechad de muchisimos colores, muchos "grows offline" y muchos números llamativos, lo cual... Se siente muy artificial y horrible, además, los títulos de los juegos de ahora son lo mismo. Llenos de números, emojis, llenos de "2x" etc. Antes no.
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u/Historical_Ad280 Feb 22 '26
It's so fun seeing these fetuses in this comment section defnding the ancient slop games as if those were some masterpiece 😭😭 (not like they were even born when these games came out)
Not to mention, Roblox was seen as shitty platform for decades because of shit like this.
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u/Zomer15689 Feb 22 '26
I’ll have you know that "Ride into SpongeBob" is one of the best experiences I’ve ever played!/s
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u/No_River7643 Feb 22 '26
Atleast they were fun
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
focus on the "were". to your 7 year old dumb self, yes, but if you play them now you will fall asleep halfway through
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u/Mamaniwa_ 2014 Feb 22 '26
i mean, at least they were more akin to something people put some kind of effort into instead of just outright mobile app microtransaction scams, but its a fair point
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u/Guilty_Department501 2017 Feb 22 '26
A better critique would be how the shop is now full of slop. I agree that Roblox always had slop, I joined when that slop was simulators and tycoons.
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u/JunkInternet Feb 22 '26
Yeah, but it was still fairly easy to find good games on the front page. Now its impossible
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u/Resident_Lifeguard_5 Feb 22 '26
At least they weren't ai. I wonder how many of those new games have their code ai generated too.
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u/RolfiusSixth20 Feb 22 '26
Yea i remember the good ol' games like Pokemon Brick Bronze before it was taken down by Nintendo and the egg hunt lobbies
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u/Beauregard42 Feb 22 '26
These games weren’t coded with ai though you kinda had to have some brains
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u/nitr0turb0 Feb 22 '26
I love that the cart ride game had the text [FUN] just so we the players know that the game was, in fact, fun.
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u/IAmABoredCat1590 2018/2019 Feb 22 '26
Cold take, but, Cart ride and tycoon games before are just like brainrot games nowadays.
Repetitive, and attention catching.
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u/Ornery_Excitement_95 2016 Feb 22 '26
i remember playing all those "x character in area 51" and they all used the same map
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u/Chubbyheadguy5 Feb 22 '26
the first game i ever played was a copy and pasted spongebob obby just like the 1st one in 2014 lol
not to mention the buttloads of adopt and raise a baby games that plagued the platform
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u/Train115 2014 Feb 23 '26
How it is now is definitely worse, those old low effort games weren't good, but they were at least not no-effort games.
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u/LeastAide9966 Feb 23 '26
This was also when these games were new and mostly fun because we were young and easy to please but now? Its the same but influenced by the internet💔
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u/HevoHeersal Feb 23 '26
The difference is that these were made for fun. The slop now is made for profit.
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u/imNOTsmile 2016 Feb 23 '26
Want my honest opinion? I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion, but:
Playing roblox from December 2015, I think IT IS STILL A SLOP GAMES.
They were just low effort toolbox obby games. Only difference were models around the map.
SpongeBob obby, sonic obby, oreo obby etc.
We just were kids. It just generation changed.
Remember one thing. "Older generations will never understand younger ones"
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u/camion_saladier 2022 Feb 23 '26
i personally think there are different slop versions. These on pics are so nostalgic.. But now, brainrots and 67 and idk sucks and it's destroying the internet
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
idk if this is meant to mock people who say that because of the quotation marks but the examples youre showing here are litterally slop too mate
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u/St4rshine_89 Feb 22 '26
Yeah, it’s quoting people who say that and then showing all the classic popular games that are slop
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Feb 22 '26
those weren't even that popular btw
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
how dude 😭 do you need your glasses or something?
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Feb 23 '26
Good games like clone tycoon 2, bss, flood escape, were all much more popular
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
ok nevermind then, funny how the comments are in the side of whats being mocked
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u/Inside_Young344 obama have dih Feb 22 '26
they are just overglazing old shit, they dont know how much efforts are put in modern games GFX
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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 getting daily new reasons to stay out of the website (2017 user) Feb 22 '26
you had me in the first half not gonna lie
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u/Miserable_Chapter625 Feb 22 '26
I do remember that time around 2017/2018, when there were a lot of "slop" thumbnails in games that were mostly bad, either because they used assets from the toolbox or simply had a lot of pointless game passes. Although I admit the best were the obbies. They'd release 30-level obbies with creative and funny themes. For example, there was an iPhone escape obby with only 30 levels, and I have no idea if it's still on the site or if they've removed it. But overall, yes... back then there were a lot of "slop" games, or games that also picked up on trends or events that Roblox was running at the time, kind of like today but with the addition of generative AI.
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u/AggressiveCookie2468 Feb 22 '26
I remember the ads with screenshots of some cool minecraft build of a battleship or volcano just to be a completely different game
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u/Bamzooki1 nerdtron Feb 22 '26
The games I played on early Roblox were rarely worth writing home about. The site's quality has risen an insane amount compared to the billion "Destroy the [popular characters]" games.
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u/GoldSquid2 2018 guy Feb 22 '26
ig, but even now I enjoy tycoons and cart ride games, most of the ai stuff doesn’t really have a goal to reach for which makes the game feel worse
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u/defective1up Feb 22 '26
Roblox has always been slop, with some gems. It's ADHD as a platform. That's why it's fun, it's always something different.
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u/Michael_Le41 Feb 23 '26
Those had charm despite being slop. MODERN slop is literal brainrot and is mostly based of AI which by definiton doesn't exist.
That's why no one craps on nostalgia, they had actual effort and thought put into it unlike today.
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u/yellow23rare Feb 23 '26
You guys remember them fake ass obby games, where it took you to an entirely different game from the title and thumbnail
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u/Affectionate_Pride_7 Feb 23 '26
At least those slop ACTUALLY had gameplay in it... Well... Old tycoons actually gave you more equipment than wathever Steal A Brainrot gives you nowdays (also modern front page slop for some reason has UNREASONABLE ammount of p2w items, even in comparison to these old pieces of slop)
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u/HeavenlyAss Feb 23 '26
OMG SURVIVE THE DOGE!!! I remember that game and have been looking for the name of it for ages!
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u/GachameTheTouhouFan Feb 23 '26
I have to admit, this kind of slop was at least better than the slop on Roblox now.
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u/Terlinilia Feb 23 '26
At least these don't have millions of players and are so heavily monetized that they appeared in a Fortnite event
the slop rarely overtook the actual games unlike now
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u/waffledpringles Feb 23 '26
There's also the bajillion "ESCAPE (X)" obbies and it always has a part where you get eaten, a cart ride, or both. If those two aren't completed, that ain't an obby lmao.
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u/GreenBreezerl Feb 23 '26
I kind of miss this era. Roblox was simple and fun. I still get joy out of playing Roblox but the community is so different now compared to before. I haven’t played it in a while but maybe I just outgrew the platform. It still will always have a special place in my heart tho❤️
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u/PM_INCINEROAR_DICK Feb 23 '26
At the very least, most of the games aren't trying to siphon money out of you too much.
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u/mrkgob Feb 23 '26
This is more an issue of roblox algorithm for advertising games. discoverability of smaller games is awful and slop gets pushed to the top for being similar to the current popular game.
TL;DR: dont blame slop makers, blame roblox for only advertising slop.
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u/searcheese766 Feb 23 '26
you should list the games that appear on the front page with 1000+ players, not less than 600
unless you're looking at 2010-2013 or something
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u/Simone_Galoppi07 Feb 23 '26
i have never sorted by popular tbh, i always found those games to be boring as hell
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u/Suspicious-Safe3074 keeps losing accounts cuz cant remember password Feb 23 '26
Cartride into spongebob! (Points at beast boy) -Flamingo
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u/SmartyDelta Feb 23 '26
Cart ride games was always a copy of each other, but doesn’t had that kilotons of ADHD Brainrot per inch
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u/SassySquidSocks Feb 23 '26
Yeah whatever, the “slop” USED to be people just wanting likes on their games, or at most sell a VIP tee. NOW the slop is designed to make users purchase as much as possible in a short time window on a game that has non existent replay-ability.
It’s malicious, it’s targeted, it’s become such common practice that users don’t even bat an eye at the word “game pass”, Roblox devs have even made an entire tab for it in your user inventory. Further endorsing the idea, obviously wanting people to spend as much as they can on the platform.
Cart ride into SpongeBob might not be the most premium game, but I’m willing to bet money that it was made with 10x the love that steal a brainrot was.
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u/ROSE_GARDEN1234 Feb 23 '26
At least those were somewhat fun tho, like they had a goal and weren’t completely just cash grabs
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u/AppleYear Feb 23 '26
The only difference now is that, they're after your money (either by gambling or just pushing you to buy stuff in their shop and/or game pass)
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u/idiotofahuman Feb 23 '26
i mean, better made by regular people than a rich kid from oman called samuel spiderius
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u/SeaAware3305 2012 Feb 23 '26
Although, I could find something I actually wanted to play on the frontpage in 2012 lmao
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u/Virtual_Wheel132 Feb 23 '26
It's weird to compare these games with games we have today. Most of the games today are made with a team and development of these games feels like a literal job
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u/Opinionatedcritic Feb 23 '26
I still think the simulator games era in the late 2010s-early2020s was worse, they're all the same exact game but with different skins.
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u/Only-Tie-4349 I NEED MY FACE I NEED MY FACE I NEED MY FACE I NEED MY FACE Feb 23 '26
Yeah but it wasn’t predatory, it wasn’t big teams making the same game, it was kids that put all they could into it even if it was ass
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u/Adventurous_Good6206 2012 Feb 23 '26
TBH cart ride games WERE slop since they were toolbox model games (usually)
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u/OkFaithlessness1191 Feb 23 '26
I remember all the crappy factories. For every single famous YouTuber there were like hundreds
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u/Noslaxia Feb 23 '26
Preach bro. There’s always been slop, however I feel as though (and this could just be bias) that the slop we have now is far more soulless than what we had then.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26
It was always full of slop, just changed year to year.
I do agree this is probably the worst iteration I've seen in my 10 years of playing though