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More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 117 points 2 months ago

It IS an old game.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

I'm playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I thought AOL took down the server

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I mean the Bioware RPG.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!

[-] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago

Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Skyrim is older now than Tetris was when Half Life 1 first released.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

I'm not old, you're old!

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

Oh my sweet ~~summer~~ winter ~~child~~ geezer.

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[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 69 points 2 months ago

2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 34 points 2 months ago

Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 2 months ago

I believe x3 is a smiley

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Yeah otherwise that’s a 9 year old posting

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[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Maybe he’s french.

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They count very weird. For example to say 87 in french you say four twenties seven (quatre vingt sept) 92 in french is four twenties twelve (quatre vingt douze).

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago

Don't ask the danish how they say 92

[-] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Oh my lord, that is even worse!

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago

I lucked out living in a place with a completely logical numbering system thankfully :3.. even english is slightly weird with 11 and 12 not following the -teen pattern (guessing a holdover for using dozens/base12)

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[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 44 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

I don't like how time works.

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[-] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hell the first Elder Scrolls game Arena is only 17 years before Skyrim.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago

What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!

[-] bilb@lem.monster 20 points 2 months ago

It is gonna suck.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

It's gonna be shitty, expensive, AND buggy.

Look forward to the disappointment or just accept that late stage capitalism has ruined all of our lives and everything that we enjoyed, and it's only going to get worse.

[-] Aux@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago

That's how every TES game was: shitty, expensive and buggy. With zero bugs fixed after a decade since the release. Bethesda is extremely consistent, I'll give them that.

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[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

It's from 2011, of course it's old.

[-] talos_the_true_god@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.

I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.

[-] three@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Old? It's still getting major releases! 😉

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The term "classic" would suit it better.

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"Retro" would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago

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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.

I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

I'm looking forward to checking out the re-make that's about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.

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[-] bluegreenwookie@bookwormstory.social 5 points 2 months ago

I mean it's a 14 year old game isn't it?

[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago

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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