Oh, there you are, Shadow of the Colossus.
2005 (PS2), 2011 (PS3 w/ Ico), and 2018 (PS4 remake)
You can emulate a PS2 on your phone these days. Bluetooth controller with a phone clip and you have a hell of a catalogue available to you.
Wanna feel old? This September marks the 28th anniversary of the release of the N64
I still remember the whole family crowding around when I booted it up. Everyone was fascinated by the 3d graphics.
This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it’s still the peak for the series.
Unpopular opinion: I fucking hate the open world premise of NFSU2 and I just quitted playing after a while, but I’ve completed NSFU several times.
cue Riders On The Storm …
Half-life 2 will turn 20 in November so I guess the third one is coming out any day now (opens a new can of copium)
you must mean half life 1.
you must mean half life 1…
…right?
It wouldn’t surprise me if Portal 3 is released at some point. I’m skeptical, but I’m not outruling it. The game is whacky enough that there are probably a lot of interesting and cool things that can be implemented into a worthy successor.
I am, on the other hand, utterly convinced that HL3 is not going to happen. The previous two were groundbreaking, stretching limits of what one can do with a physics engine. I’m having a hard time imagining that it can be pulled off a 3rd time, simply because I am unable to imagine any sory of content that would all: a) fit with the series so that it still feels like a HL game
b) interesting enough to allow for the innovation that the previous two games had
c) good enough to justify a new game rather than just a tech demoI sincerely hope that my opinion on the matter is simply a matter of failure of imagine, and that a good HL successor is released at some point, but sadly I think I’m right on this one.
Half-Life: Alyx is mostly what I hoped we’d get from HL3, inasmuch as it hits your points a & b for sure, and IMHO c (though I know that’s not agreed on by everyone). It had great action and expository setpieces (avoiding spoilers), and the (albeit relatively simple) puzzles definitely added something to Half-Life that really worked for me.
Unfortunately it didn’t solve all VR issues (melee being an obvious one), and not least of which the cost. I played it on a cheap (~$100), janky old WMR headset, but not everyone can do that without vomiting, so a great PC and good headset are a hefty price, which is probably the biggest hurdle for a full-scale 3 in VR. Especially considering there just aren’t many other games worth making that investment in, IMHO. I played the hell out of Alyx, a little of a few other games…but Alyx was the pinnacle of what VR could do for me.
Alyx did what most Valve games do, it advanced the industry. It is absolutely a half life game and it fits but it isn’t HL3. It isn’t that grandiose.
For people who accuse it of being a glorified tech demo, well, that’s exactly what Half Life 1 and 2 are. The sole reason for the existence of HL2 is just to sell the source engine to devs and to push Steam forward. It is a tech demo. Its puzzles are tech demos.
What Alyx did is implement proper gunplay and looting mechanics and really showcased how possible it is to tell a story in VR without taking your POV from you. I’d argue that there still isn’t a single VR game that nails one of the foundational pillars of Alyx as much as Valve did.
IIRC, Valve pretty much admitted that they really have no interest in making games anymore, unless they have a interesting technology to play with and learn, and the game is an excuse for that.
Thats why Alyx got made, cause they wanted to play with VR.
I’m sure Portal 3 is coming soon too… right?
Sure, right after Left 4 Dead 3
If only valve could count past 2
brilliant
Black Mesa remake looks so good. I just picked it up for $4 on Steam. It was nearly 30 damn gigs lol.
Black Mesa is amazing! It’s what the already great HL1 could have been.
Doom came out in 1993 Dec 10
So yeah just over 30 years ago
We played that at the office after work :-/
Thanks, I’ll just be over here browsing the AARP webpage.
Hm this mortuary guide looks interesting…
Anybody else just get back into aoe2 in the last year and watch hera? This is basically that.
Whatever T90 streams
Breath of the wild came out 7 years ago.
Halo CE is 23 years old.
The NES has been considered an antique since 2015 (30 years for an object to be considered an antique).
Linkin Park is old enough to be classic rock.
“Classic rock” is a nearly-meaningless term.
Always has been. It’s about as specific a genre as “oldies.” Just nostalgia-bait.
100 years is the legal definition of an antique. 20-99 years is vintage.
The local oldies station summer concert features Vanilla Ice, Tone Loc, Tag Team and some other 90s bands, so now I kind of want to buy a walker and some tennis balls since my childhood is considered oldies.
Pokemon Let’s Go - 5 and a half years old Pokemon FrLg - 20 years old Pokemon RB - 25 and a half years old
1999 was such an amazing year in my gaming life. Rollercoaster Tycoon, Mechwarrior 3, Battlezone II, and Unreal Tournament. So, so many hours of my life spent in those. That was like, 5 years ago, right?
No one, I mean no one mentions Battlezone or Battlezone II, ever. I love that series. I still have the BZ II box and everything.
Do you really? Dang, I’m so jealous. I still have my original discs for I and II, at least. Yeah, my brother and I loved those as well. My dad worked in IT for EDS at the time, and got some old laptops on the cheap. So, I remember my brother and I laying on the living room floor, playing BZ facing each other over the IR ports. We started implementing gentleman’s agreements, like no killing scavengers and no attacking your opponent’s base for 30 minutes. It became a cold war game, where we would max out our units, and just spy on each other. Maybe send a single fighter over to poke at defenses. Then, I’d send over the mass of APCs I was hiding away from my base, and just annihilate everything.
And BZII had such a great mod scene! We loved XMod. We’d always say no nukes, but we always made them anyway.
I remember my first foray into online in BZ II. I didn’t realize turrets could be glitched to not deploy, so my strategy of high-armor turret run lasted about 10 minutes…
My friend’s strategy was very similar to yours when we played BZ I. He’d go silent, then the next thing everyone knew, he had a fleet of bombers wipe the map clean.
There are other BZ2 enjoyers!?
I keep hoping for a modern take on it
Hmm… Manson’s Battlezone,… 3. Hey I ain’t got nothin’ else to do!
MechCommander came out in 99, too, didnt it?
That was my introduction to battletech. Fuck I loved that game, I played it SO much.
I know MechWarrior gets all the praise and hype, but I genuinely love this specific title. It’s peak isometric turn-based strategy and I love it.
Although that may have something to do with scoring that MadCat in the first or second level. I think it’s supposed to give your Commando mechs a bad time, but I lit up the oil refinery next to it and lucked into getting the pilot to eject. The thing was completely salvageable and I absolutely dominated the first half of the game with it. Good times.
That MadCat was such a gamebreaker if you could capture it. I had all my mechs just do cockpit aims since blowing the oil tanks carried a solid risk of outright destroying the mech.
and it was not nearly as easy as I’m making it sound, it involved lots of running my lance around in circles and whiffed shots (And some reloads) before i ever landed a shot on its cockpit.
Honestly Yakety Sax should have been playing the entire time while i was doing it, lol.
I’m replaying a few games that are older than my daughter and she’s at college right now.
That made me think of my Sega Game Gear. That was 33 years ago. I recently turned 40 and now I really do feel like an old fart.
Here’s one:
Tactics Ogre Reborn came out in late 2022 for Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, and PC.
That game is a remaster of another title called Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, which came out for the PSP in November 2010 in Japan. This puts it 12 years before Reborn.
But the PSP game was itself is a remake of a game with the same name that came out originally for the Super Famicom in October 1995, 15 years before its remake and 27 years before the remaster of that remake.
I’ve missed it until the Reborn remake, which I still need to finish. By the time I get back to it though, they might have put it out a 4th time!
Some games that came out 16 years ago:
- GTA IV
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Fallout 3
- Left 4 Dead
- Persona 4
We didn’t realize we were in a golden age, did we? /old-man-noises
The golden age of gaming was the late SNES/early playstation era.
Graphics were beautiful, games were long and generally had incredible, immersive, and even heart wrenching stories.
Unlike today, where the focus on hyperrealism, generally at the expense of story and definitely performance. but hey, its only 6 hours long and you get to pay 80 dollars for it, so thats great, right?
The golden era depends on your personal preferences. What you said is true, but golden era for MMOs was early 2000s to early 2010s, and for me personally it was during that period
I knew we were in a golden age when The Orange Box came out. A red letter day in gaming.
Stop, stop, we’re already dead.
I just finished my Windows XP build, and have been enjoying FO3 again the way it was meant to be played.
I remember me and my friends being so hyped for Brawl, and then gutted when it got delayed for another year
I am already down. Kindly refrain from kicking me.
whispers in ear: Metal Gear Solid fooooour…
This hurts me. Why would you do this?
I am fueled by your fading sense of youth.
