Thread 12154307

Games that are turning 50 in 2026:
>Breakout
>Death Race

Games that are turning 40 in 2026:
>Castlevania
>Metroid
>The Legend of Zelda
>Outrun
>Bubble Bobble
>Rampage
>Kid Icarus

Games that are turning 30 in 2026:
>Resident Evil
>Pokémon Red and Blue
>Super Mario 64
>PaRappa the Rapper
>Crash Bandicoot
>Tomb Raider
>Command and Conquer: Red Alert
>Duke Nukem 3D
>The House of the Dead
>Quake
>Twisted Metal 2
>The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
>Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
>Mario Kart 64
>Diablo
>Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

Games that are turning 20 in 2026:
>The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
>Bully
>Hitman: Blood Money
>The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
>Gears of War
>Guitar Hero II
>Saint's Row
>Dead Rising
>Final Fantasy XII
>Tomb Raider: Legend
>Call of Duty 3
>God Hand
>Rule of Rose
>Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
>Resistance: Fall of Man

Thank you captain autism

>>12154307 (OP)
And 7th will still never be retro.

>>12154307 (OP)
All based years.

Classic games which still hold up well. Breakout turning 50 next year is almost weird to think about, but it really is a very old game now, and it's one of the timeless ones. I'll still break out Arkanoid on occasion.

Thanks for reminding of Quake's, Duke Nukem 3D's, and Diablo's anniversaries, I'll have to remember those and play some on their days.

>>12155646
OP only put Diablo because some retailers had it on December 31st 1996. It wasn't officially released everywhere until a few days later in January 1997

>>12154307 (OP)
I, as a Zoomer at some point, will experience this, and I'm scared Pokémon Sun and Moon is 10 years old my god

>>12155712
Must suck to be a zoomer to not have experienced the technological jumps.

Time is an illusion according to science now

>>12155703
I know, I assumed he was going by Brevik's claims. Still, the game is almost 30, what a long time, I remember being a little kid playing it when it was new, and I thought it was one of the coolest fucking things I had ever seen.
I still think that.

Do you think any games released today will still be talked about in 30 years?

>>12154307 (OP)
This movie made me cry like a bitch, and it's impossible to find now that Netflix delisted it.

>>12155775
Elaborate

>>12156095
you can watch literally anything you want for free. stop using goyflix

>>12156147
how? and don't say piracy because that's illegal and risky

>>12155764
Maybe, honestly, I did not see a big jump from PS4 to PS5, but we could see AI games, so it's still a jump

>>12156148
Fucking retard

>>12156159
not an argument

>>12156160
I don't negotiate with terrorists

>>12156148
If you're not a pirate by now, then you deserve the suffering that you get. These corporations do not respect you nor the creators who make this stuff, so you should not respect them.

>>12154307 (OP)
Blood Omen, my beloved.

>>12156148
I can't tell if you're trolling. Are you trolling?

>>12155712
Those were kind of ok as Pokémon games go, but by then I had already lowered my standard for those. Of course, GameFreak themselves have lowered their own standards far further since, good god.

If you've never given Gen 1 a go before, give it a whirl sometime, if nothing else just for getting to know what the games were like when they started. They really hold up pretty well, still, IMO.
My personal favorite ended up being Gen 3, and I remember feeling like Gen 4 started taking a number of steps back which I didn't like, not to the point of ruination, but definitely lesser.

>>12155764
Wasn't it just absolutely wild? The late 1980s to the early 2000s was such an insane renaissance for videogames in not just technology but also design and art. The sheer progression and variety was like a long cascade of innovations.

>>12156158
LLM tech might just be interesting for if it's used for game functionality, like for character and creature behavior, but it brings nothing else to the table IMO.
PS5 really wasn't a leap, no. I liked my PS3 quite a lot, it was very well worth it for me, but it feels like AAA games haven't just hit most technological plateaus (and regrettably, some regressions), but like they've grown crazy stagnant since the late 2010s.

My PS4 was just BARELY worth it in comparison to the PS3, and I've largely used it for older games, some which are even retro. Lotta old games on that PS3 as well, but I would actually get new games for the thing back in those days and I'd find ones I really liked. I don't get that so much these days.

Maybe AAA gaming will dig itself out of the slump some day, maybe not, but indies at least pick up some of the slack, and there's a colossal backlog of older games worth checking out, so I don't feel gloomy about it.
I have SO many cool games left that I still need to check out.

It's crazy that we're now seeing 50-year anniversaries of games. Gaming is still a very young medium, but still. Half a century ago, people were playing arcade cabinets.

>>12156095
What movie?
>>12156148
About as illegal as jaywalking, unless you're turning a profit from it.

>>12157020
It’s such a beautiful day