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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
I remember playing the shareware OG doom after my not-uncle installed it on the family computer back in '94.
Yes, I’m basically dead now.
Dude I can smell this picture
House mildew and cigarettes?
lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.
That never happened, as I will explain in my 42 part podcast…
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Old days, huh?
Ragebait is the meta now for any and all content instead of just the occasional troll stirring shit.
Time is a flat circle, my friend.
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.
I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.
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.
Mewgenics is goddamned amazing & looks like absolute shit, so, the tradition continues?
Games were better when I was young!
What “slop”? Stop using “slop” for everything. Fucking kid.
Calm down grandpa
This kid missed the “be seen, not heard lesson”
No…they have a point. The word is so overused I don’t even want to type it out.
…don’t call it slop, you damn brat!
Ow, my back and my feelings
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.
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”.
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.
Damn good times.
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.
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
There is hope with the young 'uns
Did you at least stay for a round of CTF on Beaver Creek?
11-13? So born in 2015-2013? So then those would be millennials’ kids, gen alpha.
The millennials loved LANs so much, they gave it to their kids. That’s lovely.
I know man. The copious amount of pop, Doritos/Cheetos and pizza we’d consume… We were kings.
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.
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.
The jank makes it good 🤌🤌
You needed more fixes than the Unofficial Patch?
If I was on windows I’m sure the unofficial patch would’ve done it all, but in linux I had to use a couple of virtualisation tools I’d never heard of (whereas every game I’ve tried from this decade runs out of the box with Proton). The most hair-pulling step was that I had to run the game via a symlink because if the full path to the executable was too long it’d crash to desktop before I even got to hear the menu music. God bless the protondb commenter that figured that out.
Ah I see. I’ve been dragging my feet moving my gaming PC to Linux and stuff like this is why. Also I’m lazy.
