What? P2P is more hackable? Hacking just one central server is more difficult than hacking multiple P2P clients that check each other? That seems like strange reasoning. This really depends on the implementation, sure you can make it insecure, but you can also make it more secure.
And why wouldn’t you want to host your own games when you want to play them together with others?
Hosting your own games also gives you much more power over it, you can mod it more easily etc.
IMO game developers of multiplayer games should also have to release dedicated servers to anyone that buys their game, so that they are still able to play the game, even if the game developer shuts the servers down, or their country is embargoed by the country where the game developer is located.
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.
That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.
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).
Oh, it’s about that. It’s just leftover from an old base 20 counting system really. Kind of like how time is still using base 60 (though it’s kinda convenient for dividing), stuff like that.
Really, English is not completely safe from that. Ask yourself why eleven to nineteen instead of, you know, ten-one, ten-two…
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)
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
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.
I’m looking forward to checking out the re-make that’s about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.
I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren’t doing so much as they did with FF7. It’s more like just a re-master. It’ll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.
I’ve been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.
Even though I’ve been waiting, I’m not sure if I’ll get it next week right away or not. They’re releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I’m a PC gamer, so I’ll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I’m only going to have a digital copy.
Also, it’s Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.
The horrible thing is that it doesn’t have to suck.
Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.
They just won’t. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.
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.
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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It’s from 2011, of course it’s old.
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Pretty much all DRM free games are on GoG no matter the age.
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Multiplayer games also don’t need DRM
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What? P2P is more hackable? Hacking just one central server is more difficult than hacking multiple P2P clients that check each other? That seems like strange reasoning. This really depends on the implementation, sure you can make it insecure, but you can also make it more secure.
And why wouldn’t you want to host your own games when you want to play them together with others?
Hosting your own games also gives you much more power over it, you can mod it more easily etc.
IMO game developers of multiplayer games should also have to release dedicated servers to anyone that buys their game, so that they are still able to play the game, even if the game developer shuts the servers down, or their country is embargoed by the country where the game developer is located.
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You are inverting the logic there, all games on GoG are DRM free, but not all DRM free games are on GoG.
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.
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.
That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.
It IS an old game.
I’m playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T
Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!
I thought AOL took down the server
I’ve got an unid’ed +3 tri to trade if they ever bring it back up :>
I mean the Bioware RPG.
Thanks to the innovation and progress happening in Bethesda, it’s also a new game!
Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.
I’m not old, you’re old!
Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?
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I mean it’s a 14 year old game isn’t it?
If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.
I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’m more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as “classic”.
2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3
Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?
Maybe he’s french.
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.
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).
Oh, it’s about that. It’s just leftover from an old base 20 counting system really. Kind of like how time is still using base 60 (though it’s kinda convenient for dividing), stuff like that.
Really, English is not completely safe from that. Ask yourself why eleven to nineteen instead of, you know, ten-one, ten-two…
Don’t ask the danish how they say 92
Oh my lord, that is even worse!
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)
Dude, you can’t just go around and say stuff like that
I believe x3 is a smiley
Yeah otherwise that’s a 9 year old posting
Ye :3
Wait. Are you younger than 9?
4.5x3=13.5
x3 is a smiley :3
x3 :3 =x
That’s still a valid equation.
Solutions are
X = 0
X= √3
X = -√3
14 isn’t old, it’s not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
Old enough to marry (in some American states).
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
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.
We’re not talking about humans or their lifespans so no, that is not equally valid
Else this 30 year old apple I have is just fine and not old at all, it’s not old til it’s closer to 72!
Old? It’s still getting major releases! 😉
The term “classic” would suit it better.
“Retro” would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago
So retro wouldn’t fit, as retro mean new in old-style. You’re looking for vintage
‘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:
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!
I don’t like how time works.
Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)
Hell the first Elder Scrolls game Arena is only 17 years before Skyrim.
Damn, there might be as much time between V and VI as between I and V.
I’m looking forward to checking out the re-make that’s about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.
They’re remaking Lunar?
I hope they remaster Wings (the intro song).
I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren’t doing so much as they did with FF7. It’s more like just a re-master. It’ll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.
I’ve been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.
Even though I’ve been waiting, I’m not sure if I’ll get it next week right away or not. They’re releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I’m a PC gamer, so I’ll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I’m only going to have a digital copy.
Also, it’s Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.
What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!
It is gonna suck.
The horrible thing is that it doesn’t have to suck.
Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.
They just won’t. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.
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.
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.