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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Less enshittification.

Older video games series like Sly Cooper and Devil May Cry hold up very well.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Older games

PS2

I'm gonna crumble into dust like a forgotten skeleton in an ancient barrow

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PS2 era is already like early modern gaming to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

PS2 is just modern to me. The phrase "older game" automatically conjures images of the Atari 2600. "Game" makes me think of maybe around the SNES or early PS1. Any game with 3D graphics, voice over, tutorial levels, and full soundtracks, that's just a current era game to me.

I'm old and dusty I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"older" doesn't have a specific meaning for me, could mean Atari or could mean 10-15 years ago depending on context.

But "retro" is definitely anything before the 3D era, even though I played a lot of games before 3D kicked off in earnest. It's just such a clean divide for me.

Technically I guess I started playing games when there were a very small number of 3D titles floating around. I didn't have any of those though, and I upgraded from NES to SNES about 4 years after the SNES released.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A PS2 is the oldest console I ever used. By the time I was like 8 most of my friends had a PS3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I remember convincing my mom to buy a PS2 as a kid because we didn't have a DVD player yet and the PS2 could be used as one while costing basically the same.