Bro, 2010 is retro now
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Beardsley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ll fight anyone who says 1998 is retro. I’m getting old, but give me a few more years damn.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Deceptichum@kbin.social 8 months ago
You are a bad person.
Why must you be so hurtful.
sparky1337@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
I launched Arkham Asylum on steam earlier this week and it recommended a GTS9800 lmao.
1GB ram, 2GB if you were running Vista.
Wodge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
We’re gonna have to rethink definitions at some point. Yes, video games are still a comparatively new medium, but nobody would call a 2010 film a retro film, nevermind books or paintings.
Anarch157a@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I define “retro” as anything made before an average Army Private was born, so about 19-20 years. By this standard, games released in the early 80’s were retro when the current generation of Privates was born, so how do we call that ? I propose the term “paleogaming” for those.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
By that definition, 9/11 is retro.
scops@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Bro, we lost that fight. I was watching a Youtube video of a guy clearing games from his Steam backlog and introduced one with, “So, many of you watching probably weren’t alive when this game came out. Everyone talks about what a classic this is, but I don’t think I’ve met anyone who has actually played this game.”
I died a little inside when it turned out he was talking about the first Half-Life.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
If in 1998 you would have argued that 1972 is retro, then I’m sorry to tell you that 1998 is retro
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
No, you're retro! runs away sobbing
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I am retro. You have no power here.
Embrace it! Gonna happen anyhow whether you want it to or not
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
I've hurt my hip. Leave me alone.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You mean the late 1900’s
nieceandtows@programming.dev 8 months ago
Bro that’s so last century
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hell, I can remember when the word retro meant something new inspired by something older. Now it just means old / classic.
M137@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I understand saying you don’t feel like 2010 is retro, but 1998? That’s been retro for a long time. You’re in a really extreme place in your head when you stick to not calling something that’s 25 years old retro.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 8 months ago
Hate to break it to you, but they play rock from the 90s and 00s on the CLASSIC rock stations now.
taiyang@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You and me both, but to be fair it’s a year closer to the creation of console gaming to modern day. So I’ll let it pass.
People who call my music vintage or classic can get right the fuck back, though.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
If you really want to get depressed, Farmville is probably retro for some people.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Those few years between 1992-1998 were as … game-changing … for games as probably the two decades that followed. We started it with side scrollers, Dune and Doom and ended it with Diablo II, StarCraft and Half-Life.
fluxion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blizzard used to give me such warm fuzzies.
psmgx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Now they just price gouge you, and sexuality harass the employees.
sparky1337@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
I spent sooooooooo much time on StarCraft and Diablo II. First video game I remember playing was Wolfenstein 3D, then Duke Nukem. Found RTS soon after.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I remember upgrading my PC from 4MB to 8MB, just to be able to play Duke3D, cost me a pretty penny as well
PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 months ago
The incredible imaginations that some people had kept me playing the custom games in starcraft for so much longer than the base game ever would have. I can’t believe how much time I spent in various rpgs, defenses, and the wild cat-n-mouse modes.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Old fart here. I played Wolfenstein 3d, then played the shit out of Doom and Duke Nukem 3d but missed out on Half life until recently. Knowing the context of the era it came out in, I can totally see how amazing it must have been. Hell, it’s still incredibly fun for me in this era.