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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

I ain't see no Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Red Alert 2.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What "slop"? Stop using "slop" for everything now. Fucking kid.

[–] Gust@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

If these games were cars you could register them as classics in California. If you played any of them on release, you should probably stand up and stretch after you read this comment

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Ow, my back and my feelings

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 15 hours ago

It's fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I'd expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 65 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Sorry but "slop" has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

The friendslop genre would like a word.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

My favorite definition was when it was used to describe cheap, mass produced clothes like your work clothes from around the 16th to 19th century, sailors would dress in their slop, etc.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 11 points 16 hours ago

This is so fucking stupid. If you substitute movies or books for the images it would just seem stupid.

It's weird video games get this strange space of "old".

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 76 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 6 points 19 hours ago

Truly. My 7yo plays enough Earthbound to put the lie to this meme, the classics are evergreen.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 42 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.

Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 38 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

Plural? I only see one.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I've yelled at Cloud far too much in my life. 😆

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

"All we had to do was follow the damn train Cloud!"

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

checks comments

Old days, huh?

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 21 hours ago

Time is a flat circle, my friend.

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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

[–] thearpist123@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

I recently had a hankering to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Because the game is so old and buggy, and because I'm running Linux, it took a lot of patching and tweaks to get running. Probably took around 4 hours, because you can't tell which random fix someone posted a decade ago will work until you try it. It was a very authentic experience of gaming in the early 2000s, and the struggle made playing the game all the more fun.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 17 hours ago

I recently played Half Life for the first time. It was fun! There is really no issue with old games, unless they had issues from the start, of course.

And now I finally get the "Blah blah blah Mr. Freeman" joke.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don't need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn't come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 24 points 23 hours ago

I love my gramp games :(

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Where do I even put the money to unlock everything?

[–] masterplan79th@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

gog.com probably has most of these

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I think they were joking about microtransactions in games today.

[–] WagnasT@piefed.world 6 points 17 hours ago

I think it says a lot about the quality of these games that so many have remasters, remakes, or even an open source engine swap.

[–] yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 56 minutes ago

I wasnt even born in 2004 and I will technically be able to legally adopt children in a few months

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 33 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)
  • The 90s was about 10 years ago.
  • 2005 was about 10 years ago.
  • The 2010s was about 10 years ago.

I don't know why and I know it doesn't make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.

Except 2020, that was like last year.

[–] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 15 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Except for 2020..the year that never was.never ended..feels like everything changed after 2020.

[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 9 points 22 hours ago

It kind of did. Shit started going to hell a lot earlier, but Covid (and the associated conspiracy theories etc. going mainstream) turbocharged it.

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[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 9 points 22 hours ago

Both last year and lasted 50 years

[–] Klear@quokk.au 8 points 22 hours ago

Bad news, it's 2026. So 12 years ago.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I miss LAN parties, everyone coming over lugging their desktops and CRT monitors, having an 8-port 10gps Ethernet hub (not switch), staying up late playing 4v4 StarCraft maps and Diablo 2 games at max capacity.

Good times.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a pizza delivery driver and three weeks ago I delivered to a party of 11-13 year olds who had a bunch of monitors and consoles together in a living room having a Halo LAN party. In the year of our Lord 2026. I thought I'd stepped into the past

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Did you at least stay for a round of CTF on Beaver Creek?

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

There is hope with the young 'uns

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

D2 listed as slop? SLOP!?!?!? Who created this horrible meme and where do they live? My baseball bat wants to have a few words with them.

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (9 children)

I just played Fallout 1 and 2 for the first time. Though they've certainly aged poorly in a lot of ways, both were still fun plays, and worth the experience just to see where the franchise came from, ya know?

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

all these games came out past my prime video game years, i am great gramp gamer i guess

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 7 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

You fucking wish, these games have everything except graphics due to the time they were created and games made today have just graphics and nothing else that made 20-30 years old games amazing for a fraction of the size and a fraction of the cost.

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