Games that are now retro as of 2024

SSj_Ness said:
I always considered it 20 years, which unfortunately means next year Xbox 360 is a retro gaming console.

I remember digging through yard sales and Goodwill type stores as a kid, finding these 2600 games that were like relics of the past that I had to have my parents tell me about. Someone is going to have that experience with a mother fucking Xbox 360.
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I had that experience already. My local game shops had a "retro" section that included games like Halo. Game shops are mostly a thing of the past now.
 
Good. The older the games are the cheaper they become. Soon almost every game that's going to be worth playing can be picked up on a GOG/Steam sale for under a dollar. The rest is free via emulation. I can't wait.
 
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Yeah, no. According to my true and honest opinion, two console generations back, along with their corresponding non-console games, is retro. But it’s an interesting situation; I don’t think of the modern 360 with its Windows 8 UI and avatar marketplace with pride flags as retro, but the launch day 360 with its blade dashboard is. The PS3 could go either way, but the Wii is definitely retro, and it launched at the same time. DS and PSP feel retro.
ForgedBlades said:
Notable games turning 20 years old in 2024:

Nintendo DS & Sony PlayStation Portable
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Stop it right now.
 
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Two Dollars said:
Yeah, no. According to my true and honest opinion, two console generations back, along with their corresponding non-console games, is retro. But it’s an interesting situation; I don’t think of the modern 360 with its Windows 8 UI and avatar marketplace with pride flags as retro, but the launch day 360 with its blade dashboard is. The PS3 could go either way, but the Wii is definitely retro, and it launched at the same time. DS and PSP feel retro.
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I think it's going to be another console generation before the PS3 and Xbox 360 feels like a retro console.
 
I'd never expected that EA would manage to drag out The Sims 4 to it's 10th anniversary, which happens later this year. But since Simmers are some of the most consoomerist of game players out there, with severe cases of Stockholm Syndrome, due to The Sims effectively not having competition, it is to be expected, I guess.

And Age of Empires II will turn 25 this year too.
 
Two Dollars said:
I don’t think of the modern 360 with its Windows 8 UI and avatar marketplace with pride flags as retro
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Ugh... They were doing this shit that far back? Is it a retroactive update or something after its relevance?

Two Dollars said:
Stop it right now.
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I don't feel so good...

Friendly Primarina said:
Fun fact: in April as much time will have passed between GTA IV and today as GTA: Vice City and 1986.
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That's a horror fact.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
Notable games turning 30 years old in 2024:

Sony PlayStation (Japanese release)
Super Metroid
EarthBound
Mortal Kombat II (first console releases)
System Shock
Doom II
Donkey Kong Country
Tekken
NBA Jam (first console releases)
Earthworm Jim
Sonic 3
Virtua Fighter

Notable games turning 20 years old in 2024:

Nintendo DS & Sony PlayStation Portable
World of Warcraft
Half-Life 2
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen
Red Dead Revolver
Driver 3
Tales of Symphonia
Doom 3
Viewtiful Joe
Fable
The Sims 2
Star Wars: Battlefront
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Counter-Strike: Source
EverQuest II
Halo 2
Metroid Prime 2
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
JFK Reloaded
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords
Gran Turismo 4

Notable games turning 10 years old in 2024:

Grand Theft Auto V
Shovel Knight
Dark Souls II
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Goat Simulator
The Elder Scrolls Online
Mario Kart 8
Tomodachi Life
P.T.
The Sims 4
Forza Horizon 2
Bayonetta 2
Assassin's Creed Unity
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (:c)
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
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jfc it didn't really hit me until re-reading this just how badly tech and game design has stagnated. From 1994 to 2004 we went from stuff like Super Metroid and Earthworm Jim to Half-Life 2 and MGS3. PS1 to PSP. Between 2014 and 2024 we went from Mario Kart 8 to... Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. GTA 5 and Sims 4 are still being supported. Jesus.

Looking at that 2004 list, there are a significant amount of titles that would more or less still feel "modern" if you bumped up the graphical fidelity and released them for the first time today. Crazy.
 
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Nick Obre said:
I have this notion, and I know it's just me probably no one else will agree, but retro isn't just "so many years old". It takes a jump in technology or design philosophy, a paradigm shift, a change in the things that can be done or the way they can be done in that sets the old thing apart from things that came later.
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Agreed, the term "retro" needs to be reevaluated.

I would still consider games from the 80-90s "retro" because that was when video games started to evolve artistically and technologically. CoD4 onward set the standard for multiplayer progression and first person shooters as we know today. That influence is still felt with various titles in the industry. I consider Quake/Duke Nukem retro as that style of shooter has largely phased out over time for CoD linearity. It's reminiscent of an earlier time that was replaced through innovation.
 
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It feels like only yesterday I watched the trailers for these games, it’s wild to think how little time it feels like has passed yet when made to think on it; it is a long time. I forget the exact quote but when said 10 years is only two words but it’s enough for an industry to stagnate and rot.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
I always considered it 20 years, which unfortunately means next year Xbox 360 is a retro gaming console.

I remember digging through yard sales and Goodwill type stores as a kid, finding these 2600 games that were like relics of the past that I had to have my parents tell me about. Someone is going to have that experience with a mother fucking Xbox 360.
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You will have to explain to them, that the stuff on the disc is what you got. Not some multi national conglomerate like steam that has everything that we couldn't even imagine happening back then.
 
The Last Stand said:
Agreed, the term "retro" needs to be reevaluated.

I would still consider games from the 80-90s "retro" because that was when video games started to evolve artistically and technologically. CoD4 onward set the standard for multiplayer progression and first person shooters as we know today. That influence is still felt with various titles in the industry. I consider Quake/Duke Nukem retro as that style of shooter has largely phased out over time for CoD linearity. It's reminiscent of an earlier time that was replaced through innovation.
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The term retro comes from a time when there were massive leaps and bounds in both hardware and software capability in the spand of 10-15 years from the current gen of games and gaming hardware (The late '90s and early 2000s IIRC).

It's pretty much meaningless now since games from 10 years ago play and feel just the same as they do now. Not to mention that it's now more of an advertisement term rather than gaming hardware/software evolution. If a game doesn't feel like there's any difference to any modern gamw in terms of those aspects and other ones like game design, effects, mechanics and the like, it's not really retro.

Games from 10 years ago might be retro at some point, but not now when everything in the gaming industry has been so stagnant for a decade.
 
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Rome's rightful successor said:
I think it's going to be another console generation before the PS3 and Xbox 360 feels like a retro console.
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It could be nostalgia, but Pac-Man Championship Edition, Marble Blast Ultra, and 360 Uno are definitely retro to me.
SSj_Ness said:
Ugh... They were doing this shit that far back? Is it a retroactive update or something after its relevance?
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I don't know exactly when, but I looked through the decaying half-broken ruins of the Avatar marketplace a while back and there was some stuff there. It was probably added post-Xbox One.
 
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Geddy Lee's Fee and See said:
The term retro comes from a time when there were massive leaps and bounds in both hardware and software capability in the spand of 10-15 years from the current gen of games and gaming hardware (The late '90s and early 2000s IIRC).

It's pretty much meaningless now since games from 10 years ago play and feel just the same as they do now. Not to mention that it's now more of an advertisement term rather than gaming hardware/software evolution. If a game doesn't feel like there's any difference to any modern gamw in terms of those aspects and other ones like game design, effects, mechanics and the like, it's not really retro.

Games from 10 years ago might be retro at some point, but not now when everything in the gaming industry has been so stagnant for a decade.
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Ultimately, we boomers don't get to define what's retro or not. As SSj_Ness said, if some little 10 year old Timmy finds an Xbox 360 and looks at it like we would an NES in 2005, then it's retro.
 
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