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I played GTA 5 on the 360. Retro my ass.
But seriously, I have started considering this console as retro. Going back to 2006 and beyond is when I started looking at N64 as retro and GC/PS2/Xbox as ‘the old’. Now PS4/XBO is ‘the old’ and well… yeah… its been 20 years.Wake up, gen z boys and girls. You are not kids anymore. You are old af.
I need to re-cap my childhood Turbografx, so my toddler can experience some family Dungeon Explorer. She’s the age I was when my parents bought it.
I can still hear the ninja spirit death anthem.
The 360 was released in 2005. That’s over 20 years ago. Yes, they would be considered classics at this point. And know what, I wish more folks younger than myself discovered how gaming WAS and realize what it’s turned into.
This is where it started for me. Skyrim, F:NV, GTA 4, Midnight Club: LA, Project Gotham, Halo 3, and not to mention the countless classic re-releases on XBLA. To think I would actually get into verbal arguments with my classmates over the 360 v.s PS3 console war.
war. war never changes.
Bro, we’ve been out of high school about 20 years now. Soooo yeah.
No way. Halo 3 trailer was just released no way it’s been 20 years.
Wtf is a Halo 3? Atari just announced a new game based on that sick alien movie Spielberg just put out that’s super popular right now.
I pulled my XB360 out this week. Like many people living in the south, we were iced in for the last 4-5 days. As a way to entertain my toddler I pulled out the 360 and Kinect to play fruit ninja. He loved playing it and even beat my high score from the last time I played it back in 2015
I hate to break it to you but… It’s been over 20 years. It’s more retro now than the NES was when the 360 came out.
You’re hurting me.
You know that ‘Cleopatra is temporally further away from the Great Pyramid’ thing?
Grand Theft Auto V’s release date is closer to Half Life 2’s release date, than to the present.
Grand Theft Auto 4’s release date is closer to the release date of the original Starfox or Street Fighter 2, than it is to the present.
And you don’t even want me to do any date comparison for the following:
… Let’s do the time warp Againnn!~
For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.
Spock - Civilization 4 (2005)
No u
Shit, that saying is over 20 years old.
Please stop…
I first heard that one over 15 years ago.
It’s never too late to find a time warp to go back a few decades. The holos just don’t hit the same
Yeah, but the SNES became retro the moment the PS1 came out. That leap in tech was ridiculous.
Frankly, the reason this is shocking to people is that games, graphically and mechanically, made leaps and bounds from the SNES to the 360, and gave largely stagnanted from the 360 to now.
A LOT of people have completely failed to grasp how much technology has stagnated in the last 20 years.
Yeah, my smart phone with Internet access basically everywhere begs to differ.
Phones didn’t changed fundamentally since 2015.
I don’t understand, is that from now?
Wow the diminishing returns between that time really comes into focus.
The line between 4th and 5th gen (SNES to N64) was enormous, 5th to 6th was pretty significant, 6th to 7th was noticeable, and it’s been 20 years of small improvements since then.
There is a noticeable difference in graphics from 7th to 9th. But 8th felt like a half step. And it doesn’t feel like there are noticeable improvements in any graphics, physics engines, lighting or anything else since 2020 when 9th gen started. This cant be said about any generations up to 8th.
I mean yeah. There isn’t that much of a drastic shift in game design, except for the bleeding of RPG mechanics into more genres, more roguelite mechanics in indie games (choose one of 3) and having equipment systems in multiplayer FPSes. The biggest hit of 2024 was basically solitaire.
It’s hardly that much more different.
Wheras, going from snes through ps1 to xbox 360, things went from 2d (and extremely crude 3d) to textured 3d with jank controls to high fidelity games with standardised controls. Not much changed after that. The huge “innovations” of VR, motion controls, are basically niche due to economic factors, so people aren’t exactly having commonplace motion control VR experiences that put them in the game and comparing that to ducking behind cover in gears of war. They’re comparing making cover in Fortnite with ducking behind cover in gears of war.
Right. I bet more people play SNES than Xbox now as well.
SNES is far more accessible due to ease of emulation and small game sizes, so makes sense!
I guess if you count emulators and Brazil…
Heres how that works:
Gaming got popular.
Normies like fancy graphics, production value, and are swayed by fake trailers.
Corpos discovered they could turn everything into primarily a market for subscriptions and micro transactions, that houses a game, and most normies kept paying for all that untill the economy entered the Second Great Depression.
… its basically Dutch Disease, but for video gaming.
This has fuck all to do with anything I said.
¿Que? The 360 has a LOT of excellent games.
I think they’re agreeing; game tech improved a lot more from the SNES to the 360 than from the 360 to now.
I meant like graphically.
Me then: “Haha ‘time marches on’ what a cool phrase”
Me now: “Yo, time, can we maybe slow the pace or take the break?” Time: “No. Only march on.” Me: visibly aging
I already have Father Time beating my ass before I even started playing Hades II lmao
I don’t believe you.
You didn’t hate that at all.
*crumbles into pieces like a Dry Bones*
The Xbox 360 is as old now as the NES was when it came out.
It’s now 2026, so Zelda 20 years ago was:
Breath of the Wild is almost 10 years old.
… and Nintendo still hasn’t figured out how to run it at an actually stable 60 fps.
I’m trying to finally finish trials of the sword on master mode… which is only going to be possible due to hacking my switch, backing up my save, transferring it to PC, and finally converting it to a Wii U save to run in Cemu. Glorious ultrawide at 144fps - I only wish I had left myself more of the game to play on a worthy system
Holy shit that reminds me, I’m so far behind on my Zelda shit that I haven’t even yet played OoT master quest or whatever its called?
But yeah, its… pretty sad, the state of Nintendo these days.
Why am I still on this thread?? I keep taking psychic damage from Father Time!!!
And still costs $60/$80 with the DLC!
Except much lower resolution than that.
And noticing that this tweet is already 5 years old is the cherry on top.
The tweet was slightly off then, Gamecube was just released at the end of 2001 and Wind Waker is 2003.
Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were 1999 and 2000 though.
They had Call of Duty 2 going on the in-store display setup at EB games when the console had just come out.
There was a line to play it. Lots of people standing around just watching what was on screen.
I remember thinking it would be impossible for games to ever look better than what I was seeing at that time.
I don’t find this hard to believe at all.
Tried to play halo 3 campaign for the first time a little while back.
It really felt aged, like an upgraded ps2 game essentially.
And this was the pc version mind you.
Broooo… 😭 what do you mean aged? Am I that old?
I feel old consider the new resurgence in people wanting a PS2. you can’t find them anywhere anymore. all the retro game stores are selling out of them. Even the PSP is hard to come by.
I remember waiting in line at the midnight launch of the PS2. I also remember waiting in line at the midnight launch of the first Xbox and having to convince my friend to also pick up Halo because I heard good things about it. He just wanted to get Cel Damage and Fusion Frenzy.
It’s wild living through the time that these systems are brand new and pricey, then become practically worthless, and then become scarce and unaffordable forever.
I’ll never forgive myself for getting rid of my virtual boy after seeing slo-mo guys recent video and how much he paid for his.
I remember my mom getting me Halo 2 two months after the release date and how excited I was because I knew how hard it was to get. That was 2004. Halo 2 is drinking age now.
I remember getting a Wii after release but during one of the console drops. We were second in a line of about 10. I think they had like 4 available.
Keep in mind the launch model of the 360 didn’t have an HDMI port, most people still had a CRT, and it didn’t even come with component cables, there was only a composite lead in the box, you had to pay extra for component cables if you wanted them.
