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Accurate (it’s a bit older than 16 years though)
The NES has been considered an antique since 2015 (30 years for an object to be considered an antique).
Linkin Park is old enough to be classic rock.
100 years is the legal definition of an antique. 20-99 years is vintage.
“Classic rock” is a nearly-meaningless term.
Always has been. It’s about as specific a genre as “oldies.” Just nostalgia-bait.
The local oldies station summer concert features Vanilla Ice, Tone Loc, Tag Team and some other 90s bands, so now I kind of want to buy a walker and some tennis balls since my childhood is considered oldies.
Weird. Old games sell better than new ones. I wonder why that could be?
Don’t think that’s actually true, though. Edit: top selling games of 2023. Pretty sure the idea that “old games were higher quality” is a example of a cognitive bias, too. I say this as someone that’s been gaming since the 80s.
I think it’s like old songs, you remember the good ones, discuss them with people, and preserve them. The crap from then is mostly forgotten, so it only appears that they were all great.
Games people say they want: new IPs, platformers, indy games, local multiplayer.
Games people actually pay for: franchise games, annualized games, live service shooters, online multiplayer.
The people who are vocal and discuss games on the internet are a small fraction of the population that actually buys games. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for that stuff. Gaming market is bigger than it’s ever been. Direct delivery makes it incredibly easy for small indie devs to get their games out there. But that’s not the stuff that’s making the most money
Those are new games, right? Okay I actually looked. That article is probably bullshit.
They’re only counting triple-A games and they’re including sports games. Who the hell is actually buying sports games? It’s the same game every year with nothing new really.
I don’t believe that games like Elden ring, mario kart or Jedi survivor aren’t on the top of every chart either.
I just kinds skimmed the article, did they count steam sales? mom-and-pop game stores that sell older games?
Agreed. I loved and still love Megaman X. Just replayed it recently and it’s remarkably short. I recall it costing near $70 when we got it. People would be rioting if such a short linear game came out at that price point today, which is why it’s bundled with 3 other games for $20 now.
This made me curious so I looked up my favorite game from childhood that I still play sometimes now… Super Metroid just turned 30 years old 💀
I’m so nostalgic for that one. Don’t think I ever managed to beat it back then though.
I only ever beat it back in the day by using the game guide lol! That was long enough ago that the game guide was an actual paper book I had to find at a store and pay real money for! Well, my mom paid for it anyway lol
I didn’t have a guide, but got stuck for days at the part where you have to super bomb the glass tube. I just did it out of desperation and couldn’t believe it worked! A similar thing happened 5 years earlier in Simon’s Quest when you have to hold crouch while holding the blue crystal. Come to think of it, Super Metroid might just be the last game in which I got stuck like that before I had access to the internet to look these things up.
I never convinced my parents to get me Nintendo Power… So there were many games that I just never figured out!
My mom liked playing Nintendo games as much as I did so if there was a game she wanted to see the end of we would end up getting a Nintendo Power or a standalone game guide that was supposedly purchased for me lol
That is the greatest game of all time (in my opinion). Celebrating its 30th all year - what a masterpiece.
The fact you couldn’t go back after saving in the last area was horrible.
But if it didn’t have that I might agree, definitely one of the best games I’ve played.
1999 was such an amazing year in my gaming life. Rollercoaster Tycoon, Mechwarrior 3, Battlezone II, and Unreal Tournament. So, so many hours of my life spent in those. That was like, 5 years ago, right?
MechCommander came out in 99, too, didnt it?
That was my introduction to battletech. Fuck I loved that game, I played it SO much.
I know MechWarrior gets all the praise and hype, but I genuinely love this specific title. It’s peak isometric turn-based strategy and I love it.
Although that may have something to do with scoring that MadCat in the first or second level. I think it’s supposed to give your Commando mechs a bad time, but I lit up the oil refinery next to it and lucked into getting the pilot to eject. The thing was completely salvageable and I absolutely dominated the first half of the game with it. Good times.
That MadCat was such a gamebreaker if you could capture it. I had all my mechs just do cockpit aims since blowing the oil tanks carried a solid risk of outright destroying the mech.
and it was not nearly as easy as I’m making it sound, it involved lots of running my lance around in circles and whiffed shots (And some reloads) before i ever landed a shot on its cockpit.
Honestly Yakety Sax should have been playing the entire time while i was doing it, lol.
No one, I mean no one mentions Battlezone or Battlezone II, ever. I love that series. I still have the BZ II box and everything.
Do you really? Dang, I’m so jealous. I still have my original discs for I and II, at least. Yeah, my brother and I loved those as well. My dad worked in IT for EDS at the time, and got some old laptops on the cheap. So, I remember my brother and I laying on the living room floor, playing BZ facing each other over the IR ports. We started implementing gentleman’s agreements, like no killing scavengers and no attacking your opponent’s base for 30 minutes. It became a cold war game, where we would max out our units, and just spy on each other. Maybe send a single fighter over to poke at defenses. Then, I’d send over the mass of APCs I was hiding away from my base, and just annihilate everything.
And BZII had such a great mod scene! We loved XMod. We’d always say no nukes, but we always made them anyway.
I remember my first foray into online in BZ II. I didn’t realize turrets could be glitched to not deploy, so my strategy of high-armor turret run lasted about 10 minutes…
My friend’s strategy was very similar to yours when we played BZ I. He’d go silent, then the next thing everyone knew, he had a fleet of bombers wipe the map clean.
There are other BZ2 enjoyers!?
I keep hoping for a modern take on it
Hmm… Manson’s Battlezone,… 3. Hey I ain’t got nothin’ else to do!
Went into CEX the other week, and saw PS1 games I’d bought when I was already an adult with a job, being sold second hand for more than I’d originally bought them for.
What… call of duty modern warfare 2 still has active servers, it came like 3 or 4 years ago… right?
IW4x is actually still really active if you want to play the original MW2 multiplayer.
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That’s the 2022 game not the OG 360/PS3 game.
You were missing the joke where kids talk about the remake
I still can’t fathom that Pikmin is past the legal drinking age in the United States.
Don’t look up when Pikmin 2 came out
Looks up when Pikmin 2 came out
Is a year earlier than I remembered
Turns into dust
Here’s one:
Tactics Ogre Reborn came out in late 2022 for Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, and PC.
That game is a remaster of another title called Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, which came out for the PSP in November 2010 in Japan. This puts it 12 years before Reborn.
But the PSP game was itself is a remake of a game with the same name that came out originally for the Super Famicom in October 1995, 15 years before its remake and 27 years before the remaster of that remake.
I’m still waiting for the Ogre Battle 64 remake… any day now… any day…
I’ve missed it until the Reborn remake, which I still need to finish. By the time I get back to it though, they might have put it out a 4th time!
I love that Fallout is now thought of as a first-person game, but it started as a turn-based isometric team RPG in 1997 which was, itself, a near-remake of a 1988 game, which I spent hours playing as a kid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(video_game)
And then a few years ago, Wasteland was also revived in the style of the first two Fallout games.
Yes, I know I’m old.
I still want to go back and play the first 2 fallout games. I wasn’t aware of them when they came out, so I wasn’t introduced to the series until 3.
They’re amazing. I highly recommend it if you like games in that style. The first two Baldur’s Gates were also like that (I haven’t played the latest).
I do! Although I do think I prefer BG3’s turn-based combat vs real time w/ pause.
They are turn-based, not real time with pause. I prefer the former too.
Oh good! That’s awesome to hear. I think I might even own them from some bundle in steam, but I just haven’t gotten around to playing them.
Pokemon Let’s Go - 5 and a half years old Pokemon FrLg - 20 years old Pokemon RB - 25 and a half years old
This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it’s still the peak for the series.
Unpopular opinion: I fucking hate the open world premise of NFSU2 and I just quitted playing after a while, but I’ve completed NSFU several times.
cue Riders On The Storm …
Some games that came out 16 years ago:
- GTA IV
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Fallout 3
- Left 4 Dead
- Persona 4
This hurts me. Why would you do this?
I am fueled by your fading sense of youth.
I just finished my Windows XP build, and have been enjoying FO3 again the way it was meant to be played.
A IV Super Smash Bros Brawl Fallout 3 Left 4 Dead Persona 4
get out.
I am already down. Kindly refrain from kicking me.
whispers in ear: Metal Gear Solid fooooour…
Stop, stop, we’re already dead.
I remember me and my friends being so hyped for Brawl, and then gutted when it got delayed for another year
I’m ok with forgetting it. Stupid slipping.
We didn’t realize we were in a golden age, did we? /old-man-noises
The golden age of gaming was the late SNES/early playstation era.
Graphics were beautiful, games were long and generally had incredible, immersive, and even heart wrenching stories.
Unlike today, where the focus on hyperrealism, generally at the expense of story and definitely performance. but hey, its only 6 hours long and you get to pay 80 dollars for it, so thats great, right?
The golden era depends on your personal preferences. What you said is true, but golden era for MMOs was early 2000s to early 2010s, and for me personally it was during that period
I knew we were in a golden age when The Orange Box came out. A red letter day in gaming.
Halo CE is 23 years old.
Fuck
