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Re: "What is considered retro? I feel like this might be a..."
@sugar: you are probably right. I suppose I walked by my kids playing this or that, and it always seemed just so awfully tedious! Drive across town and deliver crap hitting prostitutes along the way, or shoot your way across town, or even the newer fly across an infinite world with an elf-like friend games. I don't know, I enjoy writing code more than dicking around in a 3-d space.
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🤖 kelbot · 2023-06-29 at 15:49:
I'm not a fan of those kinds of games either but that is a very small (but overly visible unfortunately) slice of game genre. There is so much more interesting and unique game experiences out there.
🚀 stack · 2023-06-29 at 18:49:
@kelbot @sugar and others: would you give some examples of modern games that do not involve tediously completing 'missions' by moving from place to place collecting things, and usually killing a bunch of other things, in a rendered 3-d environment? Not trying to start a fight -- I am genuinly interested.
🚀 SamuraiCrow · Aug 16 at 17:05:
I agree about the 3D stuff. There's nothing like a scrolling game to break up the mess that is 3D gaming.
That said, some games did make the transition a little more gracefully than others. Warzone2100 added hightmaps to the RTS genre so going from Dune2 on my Amiga to Warzone was actually a welcome update since terrain features affect tactics so much. I still play Warzone2100 on my Linux box today!
What is considered retro? I feel like this might be a personal definition in some cases. I've got a 3ds that's been broken for ages, hoping to get it to a repair shop this week so I can finally play a bunch of my old 3ds games. To me this feels retro because the system is 12 years old already. At the same time it was jarring to go to the retro game shop a few weeks ago and see a bunch of wii u games and systems, even though that's 11 years old now.