Random Gaming Thoughts

[Gucci]

Happy Dreamcast Day for all the fans of the system originally released on 9/9/99 here in the States. Can't believe it's been 25 years!

What a wonderful day it was that day! I still remember launch day. Sonic Adventure and I think for Christmas that year I got Seaman with the microphone.

[opa]

Awe crap. I missed dreamcast day.

Apparently PS5 Pro is a thing now? I still have a stack of PS4 games I haven't touched yet. Probably not getting a PS5 at this point.

[Note]

What a wonderful day it was that day! I still remember launch day. Sonic Adventure and I think for Christmas that year I got Seaman with the microphone.

That's awesome. I ended up getting my Dreamcast on Christmas day that year with Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur. However, I had a chance to play the system quite a bit leading up to the US release, as my friend's mother brought a JP model back from a work trip in Hong Kong earlier that summer! He had Sonic Adventure and Power Stone, was amazing to experience those games at the time.

Awe crap. I missed dreamcast day.

There's still time to celebrate! Lol.

[pierrot]

Oh man, I saved up for months, and sold off most of my non-Sega games and consoles to fund a Dreamcast at launch, but I find in the last ten years or so I increasingly forget about the launch date. I preordered it with Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur and NFL2K, but my SA disc was a bad press that I had to get exchanged. It was a painful wait to get it swapped out; That was the game I was most looking forward to playing since trying out the demo in the store kiosks a couple weeks(?) earlier.

I did play PSO a bit yesterday, so that's kind of celebrating the day, I guess.

[RCBH928]

When someone tells me he feels nostalgia of the xbox 360 games from his childhood

[pierrot]

^ I feel this in my soul.

Edit: Just a follow-up thought that I am also very aware of the fact that when the Xbox 360 released, the Sega Genesis (my first console) wasn't even as old as the 360 is today--. (16 years vs 19 years.) It doesn't help me feel less ancient, it just gives me the perspective to realize that 19 years ago a lot of people in their mid 30s would have looked at me side-eyed if I was talking about my nostalgia for the Genesis.

[RCBH928]

^ I feel this in my soul.

Edit: Just a follow-up thought that I am also very aware of the fact that when the Xbox 360 released, the Sega Genesis (my first console) wasn't even as old as the 360 is today--. (16 years vs 19 years.) It doesn't help me feel less ancient, it just gives me the perspective to realize that 19 years ago a lot of people in their mid 30s would have looked at me side-eyed if I was talking about my nostalgia for the Genesis.

going by the "2-gen-back" rule of retro games, xbox 360 still not retro

I think there is a difference, as advancement in current tech gives more nostalgia/retro effect. There is a huge difference between genesis gaming and 360 gaming, meanwhile there is hardly much between 360 and Xbox Series X. I can see nostalgia more on the Wii side as it had motion controls which we don't see much of now. The unique Wiimotes should bring nostalgia to younger generations.

[o.pwuaioc]

^ I feel this in my soul.

Edit: Just a follow-up thought that I am also very aware of the fact that when the Xbox 360 released, the Sega Genesis (my first console) wasn't even as old as the 360 is today--. (16 years vs 19 years.) It doesn't help me feel less ancient, it just gives me the perspective to realize that 19 years ago a lot of people in their mid 30s would have looked at me side-eyed if I was talking about my nostalgia for the Genesis.

I feel this way about music, too. I did not like when Nirvana was added to classic rock rotation. I talk with my staff about songs of their youth...you know, old songs like Thrift Shop and Gangam Style...

[pierrot]

going by the "2-gen-back" rule of retro games, xbox 360 still not retro

I think there is a difference, as advancement in current tech gives more nostalgia/retro effect. There is a huge difference between genesis gaming and 360 gaming, meanwhile there is hardly much between 360 and Xbox Series X. I can see nostalgia more on the Wii side as it had motion controls which we don't see much of now. The unique Wiimotes should bring nostalgia to younger generations.

Switch 2 is on the way.

Still potentially somewhat relative, though. Living through six or seven generations of consoles probably makes recent generational 'leaps' seem like small potatoes, but for someone whose memory only really goes back to the 360/PS3 (without much/any exposure to older consoles and games) it might seem like a much bigger deal. On a personal note, I played Uncharted like five or six years ago, and found even then that it kind of looked like ass. Not too long ago, I was also running the benchmark for Tomb Raider (2013), and was kind of impressed by how not great it looked compared to my memory of it from around 2014 or so.

I feel this way about music, too. I did not like when Nirvana was added to classic rock rotation. I talk with my staff about songs of their youth...you know, old songs like Thrift Shop and Gangam Style...

Music stings, too, for sure. Not that long ago I was thinking about how my dad always listened to the Golden Oldies when I was a kid, and if that time difference were adjusted to today, stuff I listened to in the early nineties would be as old as those Golden Oldies were.

It is the weirdest thing how I somewhat feel frozen in time over the past decade in a way where Thrift Shop and Gangnam Style are songs that should have just come out a couple years ago at most--.

[RCBH928]

I feel this way about music, too. I did not like when Nirvana was added to classic rock rotation.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it classic but Nirvana ended 30 years ago. Thats pretty old