I love my gramp games :(

Wtf?

Nice rage bait lol

2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?

all these games came out past my prime video game years, i am great gramp gamer i guess

• The 90s was about 10 years ago.
• 2005 was about 10 years ago.
• The 2010s was about 10 years ago.

I don't know why and I know it doesn't make sense, but apparently everything feels like it was about 10 years ago to my millennial brain.

Except 2020, that was like last year.

lmao this takes me back to the olden days of bait when you could just call something shit and people would argue.

Dude I can smell this picture

Both last year and lasted 50 years

Except for 2020..the year that never was.never ended..feels like everything changed after 2020.

We could use a proper remake of the original Deus Ex. One of the all time greats in the FPS RPG genre.

Thief would be good too, but currently KCD2 is mostly satisfying that itch despite stealth not being it's main focus.

I just played Fallout 1 and 2 for the first time. Though they've certainly aged poorly in a lot of ways, both were still fun plays, and worth the experience just to see where the franchise came from, ya know?

Aged poorly as in the controls/UI? I remember seeing that people had modded some QoL changes, but I still haven't taken the plunge.

D2 listed as slop? SLOP!?!?!? Who created this horrible meme and where do they live? My baseball bat wants to have a few words with them.

Zelda and halo aside, I don't disagree. I love RE2, but I'm not going to pretend it holds up in any way compared to how drastically refined games have gotten. Halo is still as fun as ever, it just shows it's age in graphics. Zelda, though? If OOT wasn't part of a franchise, and dropped on steam today, it would still blow people away.

The rest of these are pretty much nostalgia boners. Great at the time, but riddled with terrible controls, wonky character design, and absurd voice acting and dialogue.

Go ahead and tell me morrowind and deus ex aren't jank as fuck, gramps.

Doing the same, just made it to Redding, trying to get this damn car working lol

There was certainly a good deal of that, but my main issues were with "of the time" content stuff - sexism, bigotry, ableism, etc. Things to be expected in "edgy" nerd media of the time. Like I said, though, still fun to play through.

For the more technical roughness, I highly recommend Fallout1in2 (if you have both 1 and 2), as well as the Fallout 2 Restoration Project. Both of those completely smoothed over the rough edges for me and added a number of QoL things that were very appreciated.

Yeah there are some really good mods for Fallout 2, even including some rudimentary party member control which helps a lot.

I also want to shout out the mods Talking Heads and Talking Heads Actually Talk which while yes, you may or may not want on a first playthrough are both fantastic and blends right in with vanilla.

It kind of did. Shit started going to hell a lot earlier, but Covid (and the associated conspiracy theories etc. going mainstream) turbocharged it.

Nice. I wouldn't stress too much about the car. It's definitely a later-game upgrade that takes a decent amount of work and resources to make happen. Definitely good to have, though, so keep it in mind as you play through the game.

goodslop

Bad news, it's 2026. So 12 years ago.

This contextless superficial review of classics denies the groundbreaking gameplay, art styles, storytelling, and direction that these games contributed to the artistic medium that is video games.

Like saying that The Godfather sucks becuase it is derivative and stuck in the time that it was created.

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

Ugh then why did they give me the quest so early on, you bastards! Thanks!

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

Plural? I only see one.

You: smugly laughing at video games from the 90s

Me: Slipping into a dementia addled bliss as I play the classics absent any DLC, Microtransactions, or fear that the studio will collapse before it finishes the series

I've yelled at Cloud far too much in my life. 😆

bestslop

feels like everything changed after 2020

Hah, yeah, it's a bit of a tease putting it at the beginning like that. I can't say if my playthrough was typical or not, but I ended up getting it about mid-way through or so. The money requirement was the biggest hurdle for me.

D2 listed as slop? SLOP!?!?!?

D2 was the OG slop. Rogue-like before Rogue-like was cool. An endless, graduated grind with minimal story and hundreds of hours of "We've changed the color palette slightly so you know the thing you're click-spamming is more difficult to kill" monotony.

It's the kind of game you play through once with glee, then get halfway through the second run at higher difficulty, gasping for air at 2am on a Wednesday night with exams the next day, and ask yourself "Holy shit, what have I done with my life?!"

Then you jam the uninstall button, snap the CD, and bury yourself in your bedsheets dreading the hangover after your brief moment of lucidity fades.

Zelda and halo aside

Put this man in The Library and make him do a dozen runs on the highest difficulty.

Alright pal, you want a fight?

The Resident Evil 2 remake is a real good game.

Maybe one day we’ll get Surreal 98 :’)

Not necessarily a remake but the engine fixes look nice.

The cry engine was asking for dues ex to be remade in it, but sadly that's never happened. A true missed opportunity.

You can get it reasonably early and i would personally recommend doing so as that's when the game really opens up. I always beeline for it.

There was definitely slop back in the day, but this wasn't it.

...don't call it slop, you damn brat!

I have a method for estimating how many years ago something was - I think of a number and then double it. Used to work pretty well, but nowadays I'm noticing I need to add 4 to the estimate of anything that happened before COVID.

Half Life, and by extension Couter Strike, are still totally playable and enjoyable today.

Edit: and AoE 2

Keep an eye out for Surreal 98. It translates Unreal Engine 1 games to Unreal Engine 5 as they run in the background. The main attraction will be the eventual VR support, though the improved graphics are very much worth it too. There's an early access build on steam. No VR support yet, but Deus Ex already looks lovely.

I played it a bit. Liberty island looks exactly as I remember it from back then, which is to say a LOT better than the original. But man, Hong Kong, with all the neons and water and everything, it's exquisite.

You fucking wish, these games have everything except graphics due to the time they were created and games made today have just graphics and nothing else that made 20-30 years old games amazing for a fraction of the size and a fraction of the cost.

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Old days, huh?

Time is a flat circle, my friend.

House mildew and cigarettes?

Are they just mad that the best year in gaming was 1998. Games back then can still be played today they don't need a always online servers that will get shutdown. Every multiplayer game came with a free dedicated server and you could vote kick the cheaters or just people being assholes. Mods were everywhere and encouraged by the devs not lawsuits. Most games didn't come with with a rootkit pretending to be DRM.

That never happened, as I will explain in my 42 part podcast...

"All we had to do was follow the damn train Cloud!"

Then you jam the uninstall button, snap the CD, and bury yourself in your bedsheets dreading the hangover after your brief moment of lucidity fades.

Yeah, uninstall and snap the CD definitely not buy a couple more copies so you so you multi bot farm with D2jsp for perfect uniques. Absolutely definitely not that never ever didn't happen. Nope.

Not what I was thinking, but yes.