local Hexbear confounded by process of time moving forward, people referring to games that came out several years before they were born as “retro”
A 19 year old today would have been 8 when the 360 was replaced by the XBone, and may have kept playing on one for a few years beyond that. It wasn’t quite that long ago when that generation was still current. Perhaps these particular kids / child labourers are so young they think the “retro” cutoff line is the start of the pandemic.
If they’re teenagers then Tony Hawk Underground is literally older than them, as it came out in 2003
True, and I just checked Burnout 3, the other game OP mentioned, it’s from 2004. These are both Playstation 2 era games. These games aren’t just older than any teenager, they’re also older than the Xbox 360 the teenagers supposedly found. Who knows whatever it was they actually found, or are actually playing.
Never played the original THUG but THUG 2 was probably my most played game in middle school.
Eric Sparrow is history’s greatest monster
just got to embrace the future 😎 360 is so old now
I looked forward to weekend at my Dad’s because his roommate had an Atari 800.
So you can all shut the fuck up and kindly step off my lawn.
The meaning of “retro” got frozen at the 2D/3D transition for quite a while, but it’s long past time to move to a new definition: a console becomes retro when they sunset the online connectivity
I vote to use the fashion definition. 20 years ago is retro. It’s simple. Yeah it makes me feel old. But still…
I think two decades old is plenty retro
The Nintendo New 3DS in shambles.
“Retro” just means “it happened before I was old enough to enjoy it”.
Just like “old” means “anyone older than me”.
Maybe a more objective measure is “if it is older than people who are now adults, it’s retro”.
Plus that will definitely survive as a definition after they start sunsetting consoles after 3 goddamn years
Hm, feel like we need one more gen til the 360 is “retro/vintage”, feels too recent still for those monikers.
Like for the Original Xbox it feels right, but 360’s too new imo.
Tony Hawk Underground came out 21 years ago
And it was on the original xbox, not the 360
I dont feel like anyone waited till the GB/GBC was 20 years old before it was considered retro.
Every xbox since the Xbox one has basically been the same Xbox. Even the switch is basically just a super gameboy.
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ooOOoOoh I’m younger than TES Oblivion oOOooh)I am the ancient seer on top of the mountain that played Final Fantasy 1 when it was first localized.
Final Fantasy is a 1987 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.
Yep.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Nah man. Let him know this is the way. No always online. No microtransactions in EVERYTHING. We need to go back
I want game manuals back
Oh yeah, I’d devour those whenever I was waiting for my turn on the TV. Used to be helpful shit in there, too
I’d read them in the car on the way home from the local non chain video rental store. I was never allowed to rent mortal kombat though
I convinced my parents to get me the Gameboy game when I was way too young, 9 or 10, by convincing them it was in just green and black, you couldn’t see any gore because it was such shitty graphics lmao
Hey I did the same thing for mortal kombat 2 on Gameboy pocket. I can still hear all those sound effects in my head
Play Tunic!
burnout 3 is probably in my top 10 games of all time
that was the one where there was a mode where you had to basically do vehicular terrorism, causing as much damage as possible in a single accident right?
that slapped, i wonder how many people used the training for their exit
It’s in my top 5.
Def my fave racing game
Almost perfect soundtrack too.
Introduce them to SSX3. I’ve been chasing that high ever since
I still emulate it on my phone today
Why did they stop giving us whole mountains with cool shortcuts and crazy parks that weren’t too crazy?
i keep reading sex instead of SSX sorry folks
SEX 3? I hadn’t even heard about SEX 2!
Yeah I do the same. I have to double check I’m not accidentally writing sex
I am the one and only enjoyer of the ssx reboot and I will defend that game until the end of days. Same goes for the dmc reboot
Never tried it. Stopped after whatever came after SSX3, it just didn’t feel right. Whenever I tried anything at a friends it also just didn’t do it for me
Fuckin Eric sparrow stealing my helicopter roof gap footage
It always confused me how he made that work if you didn’t design your character to look like Eric Sparrow.
Didn’t he steal your footage then go back and steal your spot for his own video? so I guess he wasn’t a complete coward, he did actually still do the gap. no badass helicopter though
When the video premiers and you first hear about Eric Sparrows vile deeds the guy who tells you about the part mentions it is over a helicopter.
guess he just strategicly rendered the video in 240p
240p would be the highest resolution skate video ever in 2003
Bro doesn’t even use a Sony vx1000 the official camera for skate videos
That guy was the best game villain ever. I still remember Eric Sparrows punchable ass face!
I Was Just Wondering If You Wanted to Hang Out With Me and Smoke Weed and Fill Our Bellies With Diet Soda and Play Burnout 3 for the Xbox 360
diet??? give me cane sugar or give me death
I will smoke his weed but I don’t play with landlords
Who got Lost Planet?
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Please help Aya in Gaza ❤️ 🇵🇸https://gofund.me/1222af19Please help Mahmoud from Gaza ❤️ 🇵🇸https://gofund.me/5156f6e9Lost Planet 2 ruled, some of the most fun co-op and pvp in any shooter I’ve ever played
People slept on Lost Planet 2 co-op. That shit was bonkers
Favorite multiplayer mode of any video game is LP 1’s Akrid Hunter. It’s so much fun to play as a big kaiju bug smashing puny humans or running around on foot shooting rockets at it. Shame they axed that mode in 2.
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I should loan him my copy of Arkham City
that’s a very good game. flying around the city is loads of fun
