Nah man. Let him know this is the way. No always online. No microtransactions in EVERYTHING. We need to go back
I want game manuals back
Oh yeah, I’d devour those whenever I was waiting for my turn on the TV. Used to be helpful shit in there, too
I’d read them in the car on the way home from the local non chain video rental store. I was never allowed to rent mortal kombat though
I convinced my parents to get me the Gameboy game when I was way too young, 9 or 10, by convincing them it was in just green and black, you couldn’t see any gore because it was such shitty graphics lmao
Hey I did the same thing for mortal kombat 2 on Gameboy pocket. I can still hear all those sound effects in my head
Play Tunic!
The meaning of “retro” got frozen at the 2D/3D transition for quite a while, but it’s long past time to move to a new definition: a console becomes retro when they sunset the online connectivity
“Retro” just means “it happened before I was old enough to enjoy it”.
Just like “old” means “anyone older than me”.
Maybe a more objective measure is “if it is older than people who are now adults, it’s retro”.
Plus that will definitely survive as a definition after they start sunsetting consoles after 3 goddamn years
The Nintendo New 3DS in shambles.
I vote to use the fashion definition. 20 years ago is retro. It’s simple. Yeah it makes me feel old. But still…
Yeeeh, 20 years ago, 1995!
…. D:
you could say 20 years or 2 gens old.
I think two decades old is plenty retro
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ooOOoOoh I’m younger than TES Oblivion oOOooh)
Who got Lost Planet?
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Favorite multiplayer mode of any video game is LP 1’s Akrid Hunter. It’s so much fun to play as a big kaiju bug smashing puny humans or running around on foot shooting rockets at it. Shame they axed that mode in 2.
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I should loan him my copy of Arkham City
that’s a very good game. flying around the city is loads of fun
Introduce them to SSX3. I’ve been chasing that high ever since
I still emulate it on my phone today
Why did they stop giving us whole mountains with cool shortcuts and crazy parks that weren’t too crazy?
And all the trick combos, don’t forget the UBER tricks!
I am the one and only enjoyer of the ssx reboot and I will defend that game until the end of days. Same goes for the dmc reboot
Never tried it. Stopped after whatever came after SSX3, it just didn’t feel right. Whenever I tried anything at a friends it also just didn’t do it for me
i keep reading sex instead of SSX sorry folks
SEX 3? I hadn’t even heard about SEX 2!
Yeah I do the same. I have to double check I’m not accidentally writing sex
I am the ancient seer on top of the mountain that played Final Fantasy 1 when it was first localized.
Final Fantasy is a 1987 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.
Yep.
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burnout 3 is probably in my top 10 games of all time
Def my fave racing game
that was the one where there was a mode where you had to basically do vehicular terrorism, causing as much damage as possible in a single accident right?
that slapped, i wonder how many people used the training for their exit
Almost perfect soundtrack too.
It’s in my top 5.
I Was Just Wondering If You Wanted to Hang Out With Me and Smoke Weed and Fill Our Bellies With Diet Soda and Play Burnout 3 for the Xbox 360
I will smoke his weed but I don’t play with landlords
diet??? give me cane sugar or give me death
I looked forward to weekend at my Dad’s because his roommate had an Atari 800.
So you can all shut the fuck up and kindly step off my lawn.
Wii games are retro, fight me
No they aren’t, I’m not old
fight me
wii doesn’t even have HD
Okay, we’re going to have to introduce better periodization for retro games.
just spitballing here
the coin op 80s
the gay nineties
the brown 2000s
There are three major periods of gaming:
Retro gaming: This is everything before the N64/PS1. Gaming was dominated by arcades, and third spaces with games existed. 3d didn’t really exist yet. PC gaming was for basement neckbeards. Console gaming was for bratty kids and in a way was just portable arcades with inferior graphics. Handhelds were a joke. Normal people just played arcades. Platformers everywhere.
Modern gaming: This is everything after the N64/PS1. Arcades no longer exist except as nostalgia for gen xers. Multiplayer is dominated by matchmaking. 3d is the norm. Microtransactions, lootboxes, gachas, and other addictive trash is everywhere. PC gaming is for obnoxious g*mers. Console and handhelds are mostly respected. Mobile gaming is trash. Third-person shooters with crafting everywhere.
Transitional gaming: This is gaming circa N64/PS1 era with PC gaming a little before that. Arcades were ceding ground, but various genres (fighting games, rail shooters, DDR) still held strong. PC games and console games no longer had to exist within the shadows of arcades, but were too different to be meaningfully compared (Computer RPG (CRPG) vs Console RPG (JRPG)). Handhelds stopped being a joke (Pokemon Red/Blue and the GBA in general). 3d was janky especially in the beginning (ie FFVII). There wasn’t a dominant multiplayer experience, so anything from arcades to couch co-op to LAN to community servers shared space.
I think it’s possible to extend transitional gaming be one console generation, so everything from the SNES to the PS2 could be considered as part of transitional gaming.
I think I’d extend transitional from PS1/N64 all the way up to PS3/Wii. The first gen 3D consoles have a definite transitional jank to them that I can understand acknowledging, but it’s also a period of industry transition where the meaning of AAA games changed from smaller teams and tech focus to huge teams and content focus, and the last era before online play, patches, and microtransactions became common.
I’d also probably cut retro into two periods somewhere around 1986. Even on the NES, where this was mid-generation, almost all the fondly remembered games came out from 1987 onwards.
I think I’d extend transitional from PS1/N64 all the way up to PS3/Wii. The first gen 3D consoles have a definite transitional jank to them that I can understand acknowledging, but it’s also a period of industry transition where the meaning of AAA games changed from smaller teams and tech focus to huge teams and content focus, and the last era before online play, patches, and microtransactions became common.
I mostly consider PS3/Wii to be early modern gaming. It’s not quite modern modern, but most of the components were already there. Horse armor came out half a year before they were released, a harbinger of things to come. Informal LAN parties (ie outside of a gaming cafe) were already seen as an anachronism by that time. Server multiplayer still was a thing, but they were going to compete with matchmaking. Arcades still held on with fighting games like Marvel and DDR, but it had long since been eclipsed by consoles and PC. Plants vs Zombies and Farmville came out around this time. eSports was already a thing by this time with SC2, which of course grew out of SC1. MOBAs ultimately came out of a WC3 mod which was inspired/based on a BW mod.
I’d also probably cut retro into two periods somewhere around 1986. Even on the NES, where this was mid-generation, almost all the fondly remembered games came out from 1987 onwards.
I didn’t want to make the post too long, but I split retro gaming into three parts:
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Archaic gaming: Basically weird experiments like that tennis game being played on an oscilloscope or some ancient RPG from the mid-70s. Pong could go here, which apparently led to Pong clones and a subsequent Pong crash. In this era, purely electronic games had to share space with electro-mechanical games.
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Early retro gaming: Everything from the release of Space Invaders up to the videogame crash of 1983. All your arcade classics like Breakout and Pac-Man go here. This was the era of the Atari 2600.
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Late retro gaming: This is post videogame crash with the rise and complete dominance of Nintendo. Most gaming franchises began here. Franchises like Mario or Zelda or Final Fantasy. On a more negative note, this is where “gaming is for boys” began because after the crash, Nintendo sold gaming as “toys for boys.” I honestly think you could trace Gamergate back to Nintendo’s marketing decision. Something like the development of Ms. Pac-Man, an early retro game, was a glimpse of what could’ve been.
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I’ll accept THPS2 as somewhat retroI’m aging into being torn about being old, but also being excited at the prospect of introducing “the youth” to cool old shit they don’t know about.
“Sonny, I know you love your Forts Knights or whatever, but have you heard of Halo 2? This was before loot boxes you see…”
but also being excited at the prospect of introducing “the youth” to cool old shit they don’t know about.
Try me.
Oh jeeze, the sudden pressure…
uh … y’all ever hear about Bio-Booster Armor Guyver? Or the two live action adaptations, the first of which blows ass and false-advertises Mark Hamil (of liberalism fame) as the main character, and the second of which (The Guyver: Dark Hero) stars David Hayter (most famous for voicing Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid series) as the protagonist “Sean” (the cracker-fication of “Sho Fukamachi”).
The basic idea is that a guy gets implanted with an alien parasite that turns into bio-mechanical armor (the titular “Guyver”), but there’s this evil corporation of shape-shifting mutants / aliens that also want it, so the plot basically turns into a mix of X-Files but also sometimes he turns into a fucking robot-alien man and explodes monsters with his titty-cannons.
EDIT: The first half of the older anime adaptation (by good ol’ MANGA home video!) is available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWiPz9C7tmq7-Rj2KR7M4EQDb-U0GqBMh
Thank you very much, old man!
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yeah and our generation actually has cool shit to share. any time someone from a previous generation before us tried to share something that was “cool and old” it ended up just being racist
going back to our own cool old stuff and finding out it was also racist
THUG is an OG Xbox title. It’s like retro retro.
