Games that are now retro as of 2023

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As we all know, the rule of thumb as to whether or not a game is retro is when it reaches the 10 year mark, which is a standard that has stood the test of time. Joining the ranks of the many classic games of yesteryear, the following games are now considered retro:
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Assassin's Creed 4: Black Fag
  • The Last of Us, Part 1
  • Bioshock Infinite
  • Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • The Walking Dead: Season Two
  • Metro: Last Light
  • DMC: Devil May Cry
  • Payday 2
  • Dead Rising 3
  • Papers, Please
  • Ride to Hell: Retribution
  • Oceanhorn
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
  • Forza Motorsport 5
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Pokemon X and Y
  • Shin Megami Tensei IV
  • Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
  • Just Dance 2014
As well, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are now considered retro video game consoles. Please update your categorization respectively.
 
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I still have trouble accepting PS2 era as retro. You're going to have to come up with something more than age (such as a wholesale change in graphics or gameplay) to justify it to me. Maybe next gen will do it, if they do things like removing the ability to buy games physically or mandate VR inclusion. I'll gladly accept my horrifying ratings now.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
I still have trouble accepting PS2 era as retro. You're going to have to come up with something more than age (such as a wholesale change in graphics or gameplay) to justify it to me. Maybe next gen will do it, if they do things like removing the ability to buy games physically or mandate VR inclusion. I'll gladly accept my horrifying ratings now.
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-Games don't require installation, just plug in and play. No (day 1) patches that may cost several gigabytes & more, as the devs actually used QA and extensively playtest, with disc revision reprints as a last resort.
-No DLCs and micro-transactions.
-No cheevos.
-Manuals in game boxes.

I would argue PSP and DS are also retro as well for the same reasons as above (even if admittedly, a very few japanese PSP games in the early 2010s did have DLCs).
My personal view on 'retro" is that it's bunch of things that cannot be widely replicated in today's times: be the way the games were designed & developed, how they're sold in the market, the overall mentality of the industry back then, etc.

Alternatively, if @whatever I feel like was a cute 2hu girl:
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GSC Gamesworld's Cossacks series?
tho they're retro already
 
I'm pretty sure you're riffing on zoomers, but personally I consider retro to be 20+ years at minimum. 10 doesn't really hold up; some consoles have official support for 10 years or more, meaning launch games are eventually retro right along new releases on the same system.

I also think retro for gaming will become more diffucult to categorize based solely on age due to diminished returns in terms of graphics, and game design largely staying the same since PS3. Before that games were pretty different visually and design wise.

PS4 games won't seem retro in 10 years, probably not even 20+ years, not in the same way Dreamcast games do now. PS6 will be prettier and smoother with bigger worlds, but I'm sure CoD will still be CoD, and Sony will be shitting out the same cinematic garbage, but even more woke. 8k BLM and pride flags, I can't wait.
 
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As well, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are now considered retro video game consoles.
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Yeah nah... the PS4 and Xbone aren't retro yet. Last time I checked, the rule of thumb is that a console needs to be at least two generations old to be considered retro. I don't necessarily agree with this, but that seems to be the consensus.
 
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This isn't about games being retro as it's about if gaming is fun anymore or not. They break it up into different parts of nostalgia, if games themselves have changed going through all the eras of graphics and how the first attempt at DLC was horse armour to what we have today, Then they talk about how the world has changed, It's pretty interesting I think.

 
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I still have trouble accepting PS2 era as retro. You're going to have to come up with something more than age (such as a wholesale change in graphics or gameplay) to justify it to me. Maybe next gen will do it, if they do things like removing the ability to buy games physically or mandate VR inclusion. I'll gladly accept my horrifying ratings now.
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Agree, for a game to be retro in my mind it needs to be something that isn't really done anymore, or at least not done in that way. Super Mario 3 is retro because it was STATE OF THE ART! when released, now it's quaint and on a purely technical level it is piss easy to pull off even for a teenager working from his bedroom alone.

Fast forward to PS2 and we're still playing games like that, and ports of those games(in addition to remakes of said games). We will never be allowed to forget soon-to-be-retro The Last of Us that have so far been released for three generations of consoles. But something like Super Mario 3 was absent from the N64 and Gamecube.

I forgot my point and I'm not going to look up and read my crappy post. Maybe it was that both limited availability and ability to play a game was what made something retro? It could only be played if someone dug out a system and the game. (not including emulation)
 
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that OP is violence. it fucks me up that there are adults out there whose treasured childhood gaming memories are shit like Halo 3 and xbox Minecraft

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This isn't about games being retro as it's about if gaming is fun anymore or not. They break it up into different parts of nostalgia, if games themselves have changed going through all the eras of graphics and how the first attempt at DLC was horse armour to what we have today, Then they talk about how the world has changed, It's pretty interesting I think.

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the guy in that video is a fucking retard. of course gaming isn't fun anymore if you stick to shitty AAA games and never expand your wheelhouse. most of the action is with small to medium dev studios these days, and has been for a long time. gaming wasn't suddenly ruined by corporatism, it's been a plague infecting the industry since the earliest inklings of profitability in the medium. new systems of monetization exist mainly due to the expansion of technology not because a horde of jews came out of fucking nowhere and suddenly made everything shit. he decries that WoW has had all the adventure sucked out of it in favor of soulless optimization, and then holds up Starcraft II as the gold standard of competitive online games, lol. don't be this guy. load up Steam, go to the Under $5 section, find some weird shit and try it out. did you like Doom 2016 and/or Doom Eternal? go to the Doomworld forums and check out the Cacowards. download gzdoom and some WADs. it's literally free. try some retro shooters. Ion Fury is real good and it's $10 right now. don't be one of those retards who just gobbles up every fresh turd that slides out of the AAA gamedev pipeline while complaining about how gaming is shit now
 
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  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Assassin's Creed 4: Black Fag
  • The Last of Us, Part 1
  • Bioshock Infinite
  • Call of Duty: Ghosts
  • The Walking Dead: Season Two
  • Metro: Last Light
  • DMC: Devil May Cry
  • Payday 2
  • Dead Rising 3
  • Papers, Please
  • Ride to Hell: Retribution
  • Oceanhorn
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
  • Forza Motorsport 5
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Pokemon X and Y
  • Shin Megami Tensei IV
  • Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
  • Just Dance 2014
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From that list alone, I can only count maybe five games that are still play-worthy after almost ten years.
 
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that OP is violence. it fucks me up that there are adults out there whose treasured childhood gaming memories are shit like Halo 3 and xbox Minecraft



the guy in that video is a fucking retard. of course gaming isn't fun anymore if you stick to shitty AAA games and never expand your wheelhouse. most of the action is with small to medium dev studios these days, and has been for a long time. gaming wasn't suddenly ruined by corporatism, it's been a plague infecting the industry since the earliest inklings of profitability in the medium. new systems of monetization exist mainly due to the expansion of technology not because a horde of jews came out of fucking nowhere and suddenly made everything shit. he decries that WoW has had all the adventure sucked out of it in favor of soulless optimization, and then holds up Starcraft II as the gold standard of competitive online games, lol. don't be this guy. load up Steam, go to the Under $5 section, find some weird shit and try it out. did you like Doom 2016 and/or Doom Eternal? go to the Doomworld forums and check out the Cacowards. download gzdoom and some WADs. it's literally free. try some retro shooters. Ion Fury is real good and it's $10 right now. don't be one of those retards who just gobbles up every fresh turd that slides out of the AAA gamedev pipeline while complaining about how gaming is shit now
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Oh yeah, I mean if you watch the video you'll note I don't mention the last part where he changed and was thinking about it. There are some valid merits there. Gaming has changed; there are people in the world who were told that they needed to figure shit out themselves because you would never have a calculator in your pocket. There are also people in the world who have never not been connected to gaming if they want. For some people retro is anything before DLC now or around there. At one point graphics was a good indicator but since things like RPG maker are more widely available and games in general of all graphics ranges doing well. Games and technology have changed.

For me it's "Can I get this in physical media and only physical media?" If you can only ever buy a physical copy that shit's old. Who knows what it will be like in 15 years though?
 
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