Games that are now retro as of 2024

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines will be 20 years old this year in November.

It had detailed facial animations that was ahead of its time, impressive water aesthetics and it also utilized bullet time in the same fashion as Max Payne where you can enter or exit bullet time at will. The character Jeanette Voerman would later inspire the appearance of Harley Quinn in Arkham Asylum.
 
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Nick Obre said:
So I'd say nothing is ever gonna be really retro anymore, things will just be old. Unless something very big and very game-changing happens.
Which it won't.
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VR was the one chance for this to happen but other than second life but it's VR there's nothing most game players want to do with it, plus it's another hardware expense in an increasing recession, made worse by the most popular (cheapest) hardware being so because it's a glorified smartphone internally. Plus most of the games made for VR are just regular games, but shocker, your head and arms are tracked in 3d space. Boneworks is one of the only games that's actually innovated here because it does shit you can really only pull off in VR, other popular VR titles are just shit repurposed from regular ol games.
 
Two Dollars said:
It could be nostalgia, but Pac-Man Championship Edition,
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In that case, the original Pac-Mans are SUPER retro. I like the modern take with Pac-Man CE. It's a reimagining of Pac-Man.
HeyYou said:
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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I think "retro" evolves with time. A 12 year old could consider the 360 "retro," a 25 year old could consider the original Xbox "retro." They wouldn't be WRONG.
 
Fuck that I just came to terms with ps2 and gamecube games being retro after realizing that metroid prime is not in fact a modern game with state of the art graphics the way my brain remembers it but actually over 20 years old with decent looking but not actually modern graphics by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Grub said:
Fuck that I just came to terms with ps2 and gamecube games being retro after realizing that metroid prime is not in fact a modern game with state of the art graphics the way my brain remembers it but actually over 20 years old with decent looking but not actually modern graphics by any stretch of the imagination.
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You could always take the cope route and evaluate retro not by console generation but by game. Even though 360 will be retro next year it doesn't necessarily mean its entire library will be; hold on tight to your copy of Just Dance 2019.

Hell, thanks to FIFA Soccer 2005 the PS1 isn't even fully retro yet until the end of the year! May the coping begin!
 
SSj_Ness said:
You could always take the cope route and evaluate retro not by console generation but by game. Even though 360 will be retro next year it doesn't necessarily mean its entire library will be; hold on tight to your copy of Just Dance 2019.

Hell, thanks to FIFA Soccer 2005 the PS1 isn't even fully retro yet until the end of the year! May the coping begin!
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I don't know if sports games work well for that. People that enjoy the newest sports games like to play with their favourite current teams. For them a team full of retired sports ball players would be retro even if the game mechanics are the same.
 
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jONALD said:
anything made after Madden 2005 or backyard football is pure souless garbage!
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I don't think I've actually played any football game since play action football on the nes. That game was the shit.
 
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).
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Retro used to mean that you had to dust off the old console/computer to even play the old games which was part of the novelty factor. Buying NES Donkey Kong on the eStore and play it with Switch controllers isn't the same thing.
 
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Resonance of Fate is retro now. More than feeling old, it makes me sad. It was Tri-Ace's last game with their main team before the mass exodus, which was shortly before the acquisition by Squeenix.

It's pretty much the last vestige of Tri Ace's iconic (to its handful of fans) cinematography style, there hasnt been a single other game with similar camerawork since. The game is also too niche to inspire indie ripoffs, so its likely gone for good.
 
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media becomes retro when people born after its release are able to experience it.
 
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You know this list might make everybody else mald but this actually feels really cool to me. My PS2 that I grew up with is officially a retro console. I never actually thought I'd ever own one but now I've officially managed to keep and maintain a retro console in working order and its one of the best ones you could have. Now, I'll just have to hunt for a CRT and my life is complete.
 
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Five Nights at Freddy's is officially now a retro game.
 
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Personally, I could give a shit about anything being called retro, because it's term with moving attributes. I still play games that came out before the original atari and still find them fun, I still run shit in dosbox. It has never been about what is retro or not, it's about what's fun to you. Yeah, I feel old seeing shit like this come up, but that was never the point with gaming. I think a lot of people get too memberberrries with stuff and the way gaming has gone.

And before anyone brings it up, fuck anything troon or genderspecial related in games. That's killed many a fun game from the past by inserting shit no one wanted.
 
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