So not Classical Period or the Bronze Age?

Hey hey hey, don’t come here with your logic too make us feel old.

Has game carts and SD card and internal storage are just different kinds of cartridges. 100% retro. Gamecube is the only modern console Nintendo ever put out.

This episode is 30 years old.

You know that ‘Cleopatra is temporally further away from the Great Pyramid’ thing?

Grand Theft Auto V’s release date is closer to Half Life 2’s release date, than to the present.

Grand Theft Auto 4’s release date is closer to the release date of the original Starfox or Street Fighter 2, than it is to the present.

And you don’t even want me to do any date comparison for the following:

… Let’s do the time warp Againnn!~

It’s never too late to find a time warp to go back a few decades. The holos just don’t hit the same

I mean yeah. There isn’t that much of a drastic shift in game design, except for the bleeding of RPG mechanics into more genres, more roguelite mechanics in indie games (choose one of 3) and having equipment systems in multiplayer FPSes. The biggest hit of 2024 was basically solitaire.

It’s hardly that much more different.

Wheras, going from snes through ps1 to xbox 360, things went from 2d (and extremely crude 3d) to textured 3d with jank controls to high fidelity games with standardised controls. Not much changed after that. The huge “innovations” of VR, motion controls, are basically niche due to economic factors, so people aren’t exactly having commonplace motion control VR experiences that put them in the game and comparing that to ducking behind cover in gears of war. They’re comparing making cover in Fortnite with ducking behind cover in gears of war.

The line between 4th and 5th gen (SNES to N64) was enormous, 5th to 6th was pretty significant, 6th to 7th was noticeable, and it’s been 20 years of small improvements since then.

Right. I bet more people play SNES than Xbox now as well.

¿Que? The 360 has a LOT of excellent games.

Heres how that works:

Gaming got popular.

Normies like fancy graphics, production value, and are swayed by fake trailers and mass marketing campaigns.

(Doing all that well, in a way that people can actually afford to pay for, is extremely difficult and very expensive)

Corpos discovered they could turn everything into primarily a market for subscriptions and micro transactions, that houses a game, and most normies kept paying for all that untill the economy entered the Second Great Depression.

… its basically Dutch Disease, but for video gaming.

I already have Father Time beating my ass before I even started playing Hades II lmao

A LOT of people have completely failed to grasp how much technology has stagnated in the last 20 years.

The NES and Atari are separated by mere 6 years. The NES and Xbox 360 are separated by nearly 22 years. That’s how much the perception of graphical advancement has decelerated. Sure we keep making leaps on graphical fidelity, but ever more in areas that are less and less noticeable every time.

The tweet was slightly off then, Gamecube was just released at the end of 2001 and Wind Waker is 2003.

Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were 1999 and 2000 though.

Breath of the Wild is almost 10 years old.

Except much lower resolution than that.

The one in the picture is an xbox 360 s which is only 15 years old if that helps

https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-11-2017/K8s8B_.gif

It was a meme when the 360 got released.

There’s an interesting looking hot dog stand just past it

I actually only tested XBLA games, so yeah!

Yep, that’s still true. However, you can install ABadAvatar onto a USB stick which will run the exploit automatically upon startup. It usually takes about a minute for the exploit to successfully start and occasionally crashes (only happened to me once).

it feels like there are 2 kinds of people: those who feel old at 23, and those who don’t stop feeling like a child until every hair on their head and face is gray.

I’d fall into the latter category because i’m 26 and i don’t feel quite adult yet, despite the front of my chin being gray already.

Though on the flip side, remember that however old you are right now, it’s also the youngest you’ll ever be going forward.

Feeling old in your 20s? Many people are active into their 60s, some keep going strong into their 90s.

Unless you’re recovering from illness or injury, the current version of your body might be the best version you’ll ever see again.

Though one suggestion that left my own body far more capable, if you’re the skinny and weak type, do some proper workouts. Proper as in spend the time to learn proper form and also ensure you’re getting enough energy and protein in your diet. You’ll gain strength that will stay with you until you do get really old (assuming your body doesn’t atrophy due to starvation or being bedridden before then).

Eg, when I first started working out, I couldn’t curl 20 lbs, had to go down to 15. But I was curling 20 a week or two later and was pushing 40 lbs about a year or two later, then my workout habit dropped off and 8 years have passed and I can still curl over 30 lbs when I get curious in the dumbbell section of stores that carry them.

I know xd they still believe they are little kids dependent on daddy and mommy.

How is that going to work as an arcade cabinet‽

I can only think of driver, saints row, maybe simpsons hit and run. Were there any others worthwile?

I guess it depends on when you played it. Remember that GTA5 came out in 2013. It was a little more current in its satire 10 years ago.

I mean, open world games are commonplace.

Nobody calls Minecraft or The Outer Wilds a GTA-like. Even if you want to stick “3D RPG” on there, nobody considers Morrowind or New Vegas to be a GTA-like.

On the other hand I would consider games like Cyberpunk: 2077 and Red Faction: Guerilla to be GTA-likes, as they both fall squarely in the GTA/Far Cry/Assassin’s Creed triangle. This has to do not just with the shape of the map, but the systems within it, the design ethos / expected player actions, and the way the narrative is structured and presented.

It’s like saying “doomclones” stopped. Yeah, they became fpses.

In my opinion mentioning “doom clones” is a thought terminating cliche. I have never seen it improve the quality of a discussion because it shuts down conversations about the similarities and differences between games and how much the various qualities contribute to creating a distinctive experience.

If the only thing a game had in common with DOOM was the structure of its levels then I wouldn’t even consider it comparable (at least for general description). If it had the same core gameplay mechanics and feel as doom but added some of its own ideas I might call it a doom-like. If a game just poorly imitated all of DOOM’s mechanics without bringing anything new to the table, then yeah, I would probably consider that to be a shitty knockoff.

These two cases aren’t the same though. Doom built a whole new genre by building on Wolf 3D’s foundation, it just didn’t have a name at the time. Very few 90s fps games actually play like Doom, or even try to. They all got their own thing going.

GTA clones definitely wanted to be like GTA, I can tell by just looking at them. I didn’t play any GTA inspired games besides Retro City Rampage so I don’t know which titles in particular deserve to be seen as knockoffs but they were out there.

I think what killed the traditional console are the hardware progression and the decline of physical games. In 90s consoles had very different specs that gave them specialty. When you bought one it deteremined what kind of game library you would have access to, not just a few exclusives. And playing them was super convenient, you popped in your cartridge or disk and you were good to go.

Neither of those things exist today. While the console form factor still has value, there is no justification for the closed ecosystems around them in my opinion.