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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 88 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Sorry but "slop" has been reserved for AI-relater insults only and I will not accept any dilution of that.

[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

The friendslop genre would like a word.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 85 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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Old days, huh?

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago

Time is a flat circle, my friend.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Alright I'm done yelling at clouds.

Plural? I only see one.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

What "slop"? Stop using "slop" for everything now. Fucking kid.

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[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

It's fine. 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 20, and this kind of youthful confusion about time and aging is exactly what I'd expect from a 10 year old, so it tracks.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 25 points 2 weeks ago

I love my gramp games :(

[–] yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

2004 was 10 years ago right? Please?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • 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.

[–] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Both last year and lasted 50 years

[–] Klear@quokk.au 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's only slop if it's bad. Otherwise it's core. In this case, Grampcore.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I would argue MOST games don’t have DRM rootkits today, just not the ones that spend more $$$ on marketing than development and writing.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

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?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is so fucking stupid. If you substitute movies or books for the images it would just seem stupid.

It's weird video games get this strange space of "old".

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I miss LAN parties, everyone coming over lugging their desktops and CRT monitors, having an 8-port 10gps Ethernet hub (not switch), staying up late playing 4v4 StarCraft maps and Diablo 2 games at max capacity.

Good times.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm a pizza delivery driver and three weeks ago I delivered to a party of 11-13 year olds who had a bunch of monitors and consoles together in a living room having a Halo LAN party. In the year of our Lord 2026. I thought I'd stepped into the past

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] thearpist123@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I recently had a hankering to play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Because the game is so old and buggy, and because I'm running Linux, it took a lot of patching and tweaks to get running. Probably took around 4 hours, because you can't tell which random fix someone posted a decade ago will work until you try it. It was a very authentic experience of gaming in the early 2000s, and the struggle made playing the game all the more fun.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

As soon as people started calling staples of the FPS genre "boomer shooters," I knew it was over.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Gust@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If these games were cars you could register them as classics in California. If you played any of them on release, you should probably stand up and stretch after you read this comment

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Where do I even put the money to unlock everything?

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[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ow, my back and my feelings

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

-Slop?

The distance between a new term’s invention, its ironic use, to it then being abused is getting shorter and shorter.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes!

[–] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the game recommendations. Can't wait to try them out!

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

If someone said this to me. I would be violent instantly.

[–] WagnasT@piefed.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think it says a lot about the quality of these games that so many have remasters, remakes, or even an open source engine swap.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

I recently played Half Life for the first time. It was fun! There is really no issue with old games, unless they had issues from the start, of course.

And now I finally get the "Blah blah blah Mr. Freeman" joke.

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