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minus-squareluciole (he/him)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·6 days agoHot take: No console with significant connectivity requirements can ever be retro. That’s pretty much everything in the last twenty years.
minus-squarescops@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 days agoI was going to quibble with you regarding the OG Xbox and PS2, but then I looked up their release dates. I feel so goddamn old.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 days agoNot until graphics are significantly different enough, anyway. Arkham Asylum could pass as a modern game with a lower budget. No PS2, OG Xbox, or Gamecube game can be mistaken for a modern game, though.
Hot take: No console with significant connectivity requirements can ever be retro. That’s pretty much everything in the last twenty years.
I was going to quibble with you regarding the OG Xbox and PS2, but then I looked up their release dates. I feel so goddamn old.
Not until graphics are significantly different enough, anyway. Arkham Asylum could pass as a modern game with a lower budget. No PS2, OG Xbox, or Gamecube game can be mistaken for a modern game, though.