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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 118 points 3 months ago
[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago

I'm playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I thought AOL took down the server

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

I mean the Bioware RPG.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!

[-] drosophila 19 points 3 months ago

Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Skyrim is older now than Tetris was when Half Life 1 first released.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not old, you're old!

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

Oh my sweet ~~summer~~ winter ~~child~~ geezer.

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[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 68 points 3 months ago

2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 34 points 3 months ago

Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 16 points 3 months ago
[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah otherwise that’s a 9 year old posting

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 3 months ago

Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of?

Because, I've got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They count very weird. For example to say 87 in french you say four twenties seven (quatre vingt sept) 92 in french is four twenties twelve (quatre vingt douze).

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago

Don't ask the danish how they say 92

[-] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Oh my lord, that is even worse!

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 7 points 3 months ago

I lucked out living in a place with a completely logical numbering system thankfully :3.. even english is slightly weird with 11 and 12 not following the -teen pattern (guessing a holdover for using dozens/base12)

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[-] SnotFlickerman 4 points 3 months ago

14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.

I'll do some weird math.

The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let's call it either 70 or 50 years ago.

14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.

The first feature film came out in 1906; let's call it 120 years old. So let's calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.

20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.

So if you compare them by the "commercial video game vs. feature film" definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin' with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.

If you want to use the "youngest" ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.

I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha

[-] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.

Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950).

Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they'd be ~20% of they way through their life.

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[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 44 points 3 months ago

When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I'd say that was old!

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

I don't like how time works.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago

What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!

[-] bilb@lem.monster 21 points 3 months ago
[-] SCmSTR 5 points 3 months ago

It's gonna be shitty, expensive, AND buggy.

Look forward to the disappointment or just accept that late stage capitalism has ruined all of our lives and everything that we enjoyed, and it's only going to get worse.

[-] Aux@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

That's how every TES game was: shitty, expensive and buggy. With zero bugs fixed after a decade since the release. Bethesda is extremely consistent, I'll give them that.

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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Let's put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I'd have said yeah.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

It's from 2011, of course it's old.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

The term "classic" would suit it better.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

"Retro" would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

So retro wouldn't fit, as retro mean new in old-style. You're looking for vintage

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

'Retro' in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with 'Vintage', as far as I can tell.

The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

Retro Gaming: Reddit's home of vintage gaming

[-] talos_the_true_god@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.

I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.

I mean it's a 14 year old game isn't it?

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.

There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago
  • Kotor
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
  • Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
  • Crash Bandicoot: Warped
  • F-Zero GX
  • Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
  • Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
  • Journey
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[-] Elkot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It is an old game, technically it was an old game when it was released

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