The Wii is retro gaming. Let that sink in.
I think my mind is frozen in time, because the line for what is “retro” to me is solidly between the transition from 2D to 3D.
For me it’s anything prior to 360/PS3, because from then on the graphical and gameplay leaps have been incremental compared to what came before. You really don’t consider N64 or PSX retro?
Hmm, I guess N64 would be to me. Maybe because I didn’t have PlayStations (went from Nintendo to Xbox), they all seem more modern to me.
Maybe it’s more accurate to draw my mental line as cartridge consoles vs CDs.
We called the NES retro gaming when the N64 was out. The PS3 is retro gaming, too. So GTA5 and Skyrim are retro re-releases.
I often thing about this. Technology moved so fast in those days and then it sort of plateaued. Things are certainly getting more powerful of course but nothing like that old generational leap we used to feel.
I think it’s also a testament to the age of the medium as well. Most gaming fans are young gen xers or millennials. The medium grew up with its fanbase and with that comes the perspective of a youth. A 7 year old looks back at their preschool years like ancient history, a teen the same of grade school. Combined with how antiquated the tech was it felt holder. Median gamer age is rising and if you ask a 35 year old about when they were 25 it would feel a lot closer.
Yup. The 360 came out 15 years before the Series X was released, yet the graphics improvement from 2005 - 2020 is minuscule compared to 1990 - 2005.
I thought the PS5 felt like more of a generational leap than the PS4 did.
I feel like the jump from the PS360 to the PS4/One was reliability.
I didn’t spend too much time with the PS4, but it felt like there was less crashing, and better console reliability.
Is be inclined to agree with that
The day I added a GameCube to my retro setup was the day I accepted everyone gets old eventually.
I bought a Myoomini plus and that’s the retrogaming I need and doesn’t hurt at all.
Stop trying to make “fetch” happen!
“He’s old, get him!”
Send him to Carousel.
We’re not worthy!
Roads!? Where we’re going we don’t need roads…
Did this once with a Soylent Green reference. I wasn’t even the oldest person there and nobody knew what I was talking about.
“What’s with lgmjon64 hating soy or something?”
No, (s)he said something about people, I think @lgmjon64@lemmy.world just hates everyone…
You know what the problem was? It’s people.
I work with people who haven’t even seen fucking Ghostbusters.
It’s a painful existence to feel this old, but I console myself with the knowledge that most of them will be renting until they’re about 60.
Jesus, I know we’re getting to be bitter curmudgeons, but that’s just sadistic.
I knew my time was up when most of my coworkers hadn’t seen Shawshank Redemption. Watching that was just the cost of being bored in the late 90s.
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Found Walter Peck’s Lemmy account.
I never watched it as a kid, I enjoyed watching them later, with watching the second for the first time last year. Enjoyed the game and the latest sequel too.
They said you was hung.
And they was right.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!
No truth-handler, you! Bah, I deride your truth-handling abilities!
I can hear this sentence. I always loved the cadence Grammer gave to the reading.
For your viewing pleasure. The channel it’s uploaded on isn’t the original creator, but the original video is taken down temporarily (along with the rest of their content, unfortunately), so this is all I got. But I definitely recommend checking out their channel once they’re back up, if you’re not already familiar!
Haha I love There I Ruined It, thanks for sharing!
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You’re the man now, dawg ahahahhh owww
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
We had a teacher make a “Bueller? Bueller?” reference once. You could see her die inside when we didn’t laugh.
It’s not like we didn’t get it, it just wasn’t funny. I don’t know if that would have made it worse for her.
Hey, before the internet, “memes” had to last for a long time. She’s just showing off how environmentally conscious she is by not throwing that one out yet.
Me pointing out that one character from world war z that uses a crowbar as weapon looks like Gordon Freeman, the whole class not understanding at all.
He hasn’t been in a game for 16 years, so it makes sense.
What?! He’s that guy, based on that character played by Charlie Sheen. In that movie with the antagonist from Time Cop.
