There’s only 4 years between FF7 and Halo
That hurts a little
Submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
…Hmm this guy must be wrong
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FF7 1997/ Halo: CE 2001
Fuck me!
robdor@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Wow
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Combat Evolved came out 23 years ago. That’s older than Super Mario Bros. was when the Wii launched.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I am very upset with you right now.
irish_link@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I want to downvote you but I cant.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Go ahead
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At least they used the correct armor.
It irks me when they use the armor from Halo 2 or the remastered game to represent Combat Evolved.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You think you’re old? I was playing Bungie games when they were only on Mac.
Donut@leminal.space 7 months ago
Back then, Halo felt like running 26.219 miles
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Leela was my first in-game crush
CentauriBeau@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I played Atari 2600 back when it was the console to have. I didn’t see a pixel that wasn’t square until I was a man. You think you know old gaming. I was born into it, molded by it, and it made me what I am today; an old man with back pain.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You think you’re old? I was playing games on Apples, not Macs…
nexguy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You think your old. I was playing pong with paddles on channel 3.
JustADrone@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I still miss the atomic hand grenade…
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Frog blast the vent core!
masquenox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, it does. They gave Half-Life’s spot to that crappy game.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I thought the halo ce was generally very well received. Is the hate for it a lemmy generation thing?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is and it’s certainly a better game than HL.
bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Alotta half-life and older shooter fans blame the modern console shooter style on halo.
masquenox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I thought the halo ce was generally very well received.
So was a whole bunch of other FPS tripe that glorified USian militarism.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 months ago
PacMan is pretty boring but its not that bad.
bulwark@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I heard he’s a pretty cool guy and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Damage@feddit.it 7 months ago
He afraids of 343’s writing
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
What if, instead of leading humanity in a fight for survival against a diverse mix of alien races with complex social structures, he fought some apes on an otherwise uninhabited planet?
Give this man a lead writing credit.
xylogx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It stings at first, but once you realize you can now play all of the classics on emulators it helps take the pain away.
Montagge@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Nintendo would like to know your location
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nintendo knows
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah but remember the way Xbox started up? So futuristic. Boomba Boom boom SQUAAAOOW blblblbblbltingley bingley beep beep dink. That could never be retro.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Reminds me of making mouth noises.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s impossible…
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Look in your heart, you know it to be true
GustavoM@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Time to change this community to u/reallyoldgames.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i still fire up the old star wars raster arcade game sometimes mame is great for stuff like that
Hawke@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s vector.
Raster is a grid of dots, vector is lines from point to point.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
Young Link’s third appearance was as a dead skeleton afraid that he left no legacy 18 years ago.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s the game to the left of Halo? It’s the only one I can’t make out.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
No, it’s clearly St Basil’s Cathedral, not a video game!
Its representing Captain Bible, obviously
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It is without a doubt Tetris
Baggie@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Looks like a Russian palace, maybe Tetris?
pyre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
talk about feeling old… does Tetris no longer include this image?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 months ago
halo is retro for a 25 year old
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Space Invaders, Asteroid, Pong, Adventure… these are retro
Grass@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
its kinda funny because it looks dated even with the graphics overhaul in mcc but the gameplay is still solid, and there are older games that still look as good as release day but the mechanics are kinda rough. And some that always were and always will be perfect.
I feel like at this point retro is more of a style though. Graphics can only get so realistic and anything made to peak modern visual standards will be harder to differentiate from previous decades as time goes on, if we don’t all die from pollution and war and other shit. Oh fuck, maybe retro will become anything that features a non-destroyed climate/environment in a world where children will be born having never seen what earth once was.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Original Halo was released in 2001, 23 years ago.
Super Mario Bros was released in 1985, 39 years ago.
There is less time between the release of the first SMB and Halo than Halo and the present day, 16 years…
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s interesting how much technology slowed down. Back in the 80s and 90s a 5 year old game looked horribly outdated. No we’re getting close to some 20 year old games still looking pretty decent.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Technology has slowed down, but there’s also diminishing returns for what you can do with a game’s graphics etc.
You can think of sampling audio. If I have a bit depth of 1, and I upgrade that to 16, it’s going to sound a hell of a lot more like an improvement than if I were to upgrade from 48 to 64.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We haven’t slowed down. We simply aren’t noticing the degrees of progress, because they’re increasingly below our scale of discernment. Going from 8-bit to 64-bit is more visually arresting than 1024-bit to 4096-bit. Moving the rendered horizon back another inch is less noticeable each time you do it, while requiring r^2 more processing power to process all those extra assets.
The classic games look good because the art is polished and the direction is skilled. Go back and watch the original Star Wars movie and its going to be more visually acute than the latest Zack Snyder film. Not because movie graphics haven’t improved in 40 years, but because Lucas was very good at his job while Synder isn’t.
But then compare Avatar: The Way of Water to Tron. Huge improvements, in large part because Tron was trying to get outside the bounds of what was technically possible long before it was practical, while Avatar is taking computer generated graphics to their limit at a much later stage in their development.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Same with movies. LOTR is almost 25 years old and still looks great.
not_a_dog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True. Was playing Arkham Knight the other day and thought this nine year old game looked better than at least half of current gen games.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
Last time I was amazed with graphical progress was with Unreal in 1998. And probably just because I hadn’t played Quake 2.
From then on until now it’s just been a steady and normal increase in expected quality.
Doom 3 might have come close (and damn, that leaked Alpha was impressive) but by the time it was released it looked just slightly better than everything else.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Damn, should have scrolled farther before looking this up myself.
Jordan117@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Halo 3 released closer to the original Sonic the Hedgehog than today.
camr_on@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is distressing
pachrist@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Crazy to know that Cleopatra was born closer to the creation of Halo: Combat Evolved than to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh my god stop! He’s already dead!
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You made my knees hurt.
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pic has Yoshi. I believe that was Super Mario World, 1990.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was, but they’re just making a point unrelated to the games depicted.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Damn, even worse for Halo
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You could use Space Invaders on the Atari
And next year you’ll be able to use Space Invaders the arcade game