Half-life 2 will turn 20 in November so I guess the third one is coming out any day now (opens a new can of copium and grips the favourite spork)
I’m sure Portal 3 is coming soon too… right?
Sure, right after Left 4 Dead 3
If only valve could count past 2
brilliant
Black Mesa remake looks so good. I just picked it up for $4 on Steam. It was nearly 30 damn gigs lol.
Black Mesa is amazing! It’s what the already great HL1 could have been.
you must mean half life 1.
you must mean half life 1…
…right?
Some games that came out 16 years ago:
- GTA IV
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Fallout 3
- Left 4 Dead
- Persona 4
I just finished my Windows XP build, and have been enjoying FO3 again the way it was meant to be played.
I am already down. Kindly refrain from kicking me.
whispers in ear: Metal Gear Solid fooooour…
Stop, stop, we’re already dead.
We didn’t realize we were in a golden age, did we? /old-man-noises
I knew we were in a golden age when The Orange Box came out. A red letter day in gaming.
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?
This hurts me. Why would you do this?
I am fueled by your fading sense of youth.
A IV Super Smash Bros Brawl Fallout 3 Left 4 Dead Persona 4
get out.
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.
Doom came out in 1993 Dec 10
So yeah just over 30 years ago
Thanks, I’ll just be over here browsing the AARP webpage.
Hm this mortuary guide looks interesting…
We played that at the office after work :-/
I still listen to the soundtrack regularly. Though the game is slightly older than I am.
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.
Breath of the wild came out 7 years ago.
This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it’s still the peak for the series.
cue Riders On The Storm …
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 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
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.
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’m replaying a few games that are older than my daughter and she’s at college right now.
Halo CE is 23 years old.
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
When I was a kid, computer games for consumers were a concept of science fiction.
World of Warcraft hits 20 this year. I was there (via private servers), starting in 2006.
Oh, there you are, Shadow of the Colossus.
2005 (PS2), 2011 (PS3 w/ Ico), and 2018 (PS4 remake)
You can emulate a PS2 on your phone these days. Bluetooth controller with a phone clip and you have a hell of a catalogue available to you.
Forget Shadow, I was there when ICO was first released. Probably even within a month (if not week) of it’s official release. At the time it looked like no other game. Very atmospheric and contemplative.
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.
