It IS an old game.
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I'm playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T
Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!
Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.
I'm not old, you're old!
Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?
Oh my sweet ~~summer~~ winter ~~child~~ geezer.
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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.
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.
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).
Don't ask the danish how they say 92
Oh my lord, that is even worse!
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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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
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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!
I don't like how time works.
Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)
Hell the first Elder Scrolls game Arena is only 17 years before Skyrim.
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What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!
It is gonna suck.
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.
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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.
If they ship it without DRM, they could label literally anything an “Old Game” and that’d be fine by me.
It's from 2011, of course it's old.
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.
The term "classic" would suit it better.
"Retro" would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago
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If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.
I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".
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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I mean it's a 14 year old game isn't it?
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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