• MTK@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.

    I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    6 days ago

    It’s impossible for it to be old. They keep releasing it, making it new every time. Just last week, they announced that it will be released on my toaster this summer.

  • talos_the_true_god@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.

    I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    I’m looking forward to checking out the re-make that’s about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.

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        7 days ago

        I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren’t doing so much as they did with FF7. It’s more like just a re-master. It’ll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.

        I’ve been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.

        Even though I’ve been waiting, I’m not sure if I’ll get it next week right away or not. They’re releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I’m a PC gamer, so I’ll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I’m only going to have a digital copy.

        Also, it’s Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
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        7 days ago

        14 isn’t old, it’s not even legal age to buy cigarettes.

        I’ll do some weird math.

        The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let’s call it either 70 or 50 years ago.

        14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.

        The first feature film came out in 1906; let’s call it 120 years old. So let’s calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.

        20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.

        So if you compare them by the “commercial video game vs. feature film” definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin’ with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.

        If you want to use the “youngest” ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.

        I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha

        • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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          Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.

          Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950).

          Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they’d be ~20% of they way through their life.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.

            We’re not talking about humans or their lifespans so no, that is not equally valid

            Else this 30 year old apple I have is just fine and not old at all, it’s not old til it’s closer to 72!

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          7 days ago

          Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of?

          Because, I’ve got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.

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            7 days ago

            They count very weird. For example to say 87 in french you say four twenties seven (quatre vingt sept) 92 in french is four twenties twelve (quatre vingt douze).

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                  I lucked out living in a place with a completely logical numbering system thankfully :3… even english is slightly weird with 11 and 12 not following the -teen pattern (guessing a holdover for using dozens/base12)

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              Oh, it’s about that. It’s just leftover from an old base 20 counting system really. Kind of like how time is still using base 60 (though it’s kinda convenient for dividing), stuff like that.

              Really, English is not completely safe from that. Ask yourself why eleven to nineteen instead of, you know, ten-one, ten-two…

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.

    There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.

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      • Kotor
      • Chrono Trigger
      • Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
      • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
      • Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage
      • Crash Bandicoot: Warped
      • F-Zero GX
      • Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
      • Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
      • Journey
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        That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.

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        7 days ago

        So retro wouldn’t fit, as retro mean new in old-style. You’re looking for vintage

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          ‘Retro’ in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with ‘Vintage’, as far as I can tell.

          The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

          Retro Gaming: Reddit’s home of vintage gaming

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        6 days ago

        The horrible thing is that it doesn’t have to suck.

        Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.

        They just won’t. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 days ago

        It’s gonna be shitty, expensive, AND buggy.

        Look forward to the disappointment or just accept that late stage capitalism has ruined all of our lives and everything that we enjoyed, and it’s only going to get worse.

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          That’s how every TES game was: shitty, expensive and buggy. With zero bugs fixed after a decade since the release. Bethesda is extremely consistent, I’ll give them that.

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    7 days ago

    When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I’d say that was old!