If they ship it without DRM, they could label literally anything an “Old Game” and that’d be fine by me.
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Let's put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I'd have said yeah.
That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.
There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.
- Kotor
- Chrono Trigger
- Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
- Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- F-Zero GX
- Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
- Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
- Journey
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When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I'd say that was old!
Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)
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I don't like how time works.
The term "classic" would suit it better.
"Retro" would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago
So retro wouldn't fit, as retro mean new in old-style. You're looking for vintage
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I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".
2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3
Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?
Maybe he’s french.
Dude, you can't just go around and say stuff like that
Is that a French stereotype I am not aware of?
Because, I've got a bit of experience in teaching math, and I wish most kids in that class could speak math naturally.
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14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
I'll do some weird math.
The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let's call it either 70 or 50 years ago.
14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.
The first feature film came out in 1906; let's call it 120 years old. So let's calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.
20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.
So if you compare them by the "commercial video game vs. feature film" definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin' with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.
If you want to use the "youngest" ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.
I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha
Sure, you could look at it that way, but an equally valid way to look at it would be based on human life spans.
Average human life expectancy is 72 years. Which is, conveniently very close to the age of the oldest video game (an implementation of tic-tac-toe from 1950).
Would you call a 14 year old human old? At that point they'd be ~20% of they way through their life.
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