Full game on a disk? You new school kids don’t know that 1/2 of the game is loading the 17, 5 1/2” floppies in order just to install your game.
Anon is a nostalgic gamer
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Ariselas@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
and we all had our own way of stacking the floppies. so you would never install anything with anyone you didn’t trust around, because they might move your stacks.
ArcaneGadget@nord.pub 5 hours ago
Honestly, that’s the entire reason i lost interest in consoles after buying the PS4. If i need to:
1 Boot up the console.
2 Update the system (twice).
3 PSN account bullshit.
4 Insert disc.
5 Install the game.
6 Download 50GB update for the game.
7 Install said update.
8 Finally start the game.
9 Login and TOS bullshit.
10 Finally play game.I might just as well use my PC for gaming at that point. The games library is larger and the exclusives are just not worth it. Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.
They put a stop to that, and now it’s more clear why: they want absolute control over the price of their games.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i’ve never had to spend hours finding the ‘right driver’ for my PS4 to run a game. or having to mod the game to get it to just play.
which is why i gave up on PC gaming, I’m old and I just want to play games, I don’t wnat to spend 2-3 hours ‘troubleshooting’ every game on my PC and having to swap drivers because some games only run on some drivers.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
i’ve never had to spend hours finding the ‘right driver’ for my PS4 to run a game. or having to mod the game to get it to just play.
Funny, I’ve never had to.do.those things on my PC.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
PC gaming has more exclusives btw
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The sweet spot was getting the full game on disc and getting included DLC, having the ability to mod the game, and run private servers.
You could just enjoy the game as-is with a really good singleplayer campaign and then with whatever online offered.
Some of the mods from this era turned out to be just as popular, if not moreso, than the original base game. Some of them live on to this day.
Sure, some Steam games offer mods and the like, but it certainly isn’t the same thing as what we had 15 or so years ago.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If you haven’t grabbed it, Black Mesa is like $3 right now during the summer sale
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Never played it. I’ll have a look. Thanks.
rachelzsnow@lemmy.pt 6 hours ago
when can i stop living in this universe and switch back to the one we originally were on? man i miss it so much. That and original pizzahut
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
and those planters cheeseballs
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
you never did and you never will.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
i buy two games per year for $100 tops but more like $50 after shipping and taxes. my personal and local public library give me plenty to do.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Convince another weasel to dine on the particle collider in Switzerland.
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Okay guys 'n gals. What’s your first game you thought of while reading this greentext?
Mine is TimeSplitters 2 on PS2.
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
While not my absolute favourite 2 player game, my friend and I sunk hours and hours into Champions of Norrath 1 and 2. We must have played new game+ like, 5 or 6 times. Loved it!
(Most love probably goes to Street Fighter 2 on the Megadrive)
karpintero@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
GoldenEye N64
Signtist@bookwyr.me 4 hours ago
DK64. I see so much hate for it now, with people saying there are way too many collectibles, but those people fail to realize that back then most kids only had a few games that they just had to play over and over again if they wanted to play video games at all. To have a game that always had a new thing to collect even when you went to the same level for the 1000th time was a godsend.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Super Mario World on SNES
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Soldier of Fortune
Lampenoel@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Ratchet and Clank - Up your Arsenal
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Super Mario World That game is like 50% secrets and still Nintendos best work IMO.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Goldeneye
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I gotta play it. Sadly as I grew older, those old FPS with low FoV give me motion sickness in like minutes. Can’t even enjoy Build Engine games anymore, which were my favorite old school games back then. :c
ArcaneGadget@nord.pub 5 hours ago
Spyro the Dragon. Man I need to find the time to play through that entire stack of games again…
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The remake of the trilogy is pretty good, if you haven’t tried it.
mx_smith@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
At least with those games you had a collectible figure once the game was finished.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Twisted Metal on PS1
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 11 hours ago
Perfect Dark
Fetus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You mean Goldeneye 2?
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Pokémon Leaf Green
9point6@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Mario kart 64
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That and Quake II are the only console games I’ve ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 8 hours ago
Jet Force Gemini
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Divinity and then Dark Souls
Zulu@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Halo ce
Captain_Baka@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Gotta agree here. That game was so much fun. Just remember the monkey assistant mode (don’t know what it was called in english, the german localization called it “Affiger Assistent” which translates to “monkey-like assistant” or “silly assistant”) in multiplayer!
Chezus9247@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
As a fellow German, I feel ya. The monkey was also my favorite char when playing pvp. lol
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Bubble Bobble, but it was on my boyfriend’s C64. I wasn’t allowed a computer (and was thus obsessed by them, lol)
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Why do people want physical media? It’s shit. Sorry, I have to leave my house and go take the bus to transfer some data? IPoAC is a meme, not a serious distribution system. Yet it would still be better than games on physical media!
If you don’t like the DRM that some digital copies come with I totally get that but GOG has existed for a very long time at this point. Also physical copies frequently come with more DRM than a digital copy from GOG does.
solidsmoke@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Actually belongs to you Developers can’t delete it
slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 9 hours ago
Back in 1997 I bought the game KKnD (Krush, Kill n’ Destroy) in a local store for what would now be 110 dollars only to discover that it was broken and wouldn’t run on my machine and there was no way to get a patch for it.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 8 hours ago
I genuinely do not regret jumping off the video game train back in 2015.
Everything I have heard about the evolution of the gaming industry since has surpassed my pessimistic predictions back then, which could be summarized as: video games are becoming predatory and I feel like they eat my time and money for dismissed returns.
It was especially the consol market and the whole online aspect that made me wrinkle my nose. Feels like nowadays you actually can’t buy and play a game offline.
But what do I know. I only tune in when my friend is playing on twitch and we talk about life over Signal. We have gone back to retro games recently too. Jake and Daxter 🎉
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Why would anyone build a whole ass in split screen mode?
Rooskie91@discuss.online 10 hours ago
That’ll be $75 (for N64 cartridges).
R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Nintendo games still do this bros.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
This is def nostalgia goggles, so many games were broken buggy messes back then because there was no way to ship updates
flapperfivethousand@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” ― Douglas Adams, “The Salmon of Doubt”
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No, they weren’t. Most had bugs, but they weren’t game-breaking. A lot of people took joy in finding and exploiting the bugs too. Dupes, etc.
Yeah, some shitty games were loaded with bugs.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
bugs? nah, not a problem
whistles in Morrowind
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Try playing the original SEGA catalog. Lemme know how many of those games work.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
When a game sucked ass then you had a physical product you could sell or trade to offload it. Instead of the whole game getting the servers shut off and delisted within a year if it’s bad today. Even the bad games were better back then because of this
placebo@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
On one hand it’s nostalgia, on another - over-fixation on a certain type of games that are designed to be addictive and drain your wallet. But there are many other games to play that are nothing like that.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i’ve played single player games my entire life and got nothing but shit for it. i guess because they don’t have all the drama of multiplayer games and the constant updates?