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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: the_leander on December 22, 2010, 07:38:10 AM
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Was just sat looking through the magazine thread and the thought occurred to me - the only places you'll see Amiga mentioned these days is in retro mags.
I have become so old that stuff I enjoyed as a kid/teen is now "retro".
I mean sure I've talked often about Amiga being a retro computer, but it's only now it hit me of the significance of this.
Now if you'll excuse me, there are some damn kids on my lawn. :lol:
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Kids on the lawn? Yep - it's time for the shotgun :destroy:
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It's because you are old! :D
I placed bid on a CDTV the other day. Almost got it for 67€ when some idiot told the seller it was a collector's item. Subsequently, the ad was removed, and I got an SMS stating that he wanted five times as much...
Nothing left, but to face the fact that we're grumpy old nerds with far too fond memories of a long-since dead computer platform.
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Nothing left, but to face the fact that we're grumpy old nerds with far too fond memories of a long-since dead computer platform.
Dag nabbit... :D
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It's because you are old! :D
Hey! I was there for the Amiga the first time round, and I'm not old! Technology moves so fast that stuff from 5 years ago ends up being classed as retro... I hear it all the time from kids in school, talking about games like Doom 3 as retro.
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moto
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Doom 3 retro? Oh dear! :(
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Don't let it get to you... Kids have a skewed sense time. Just last week a child told me he thought I must be "at least 18" ;)
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moto
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Now if you'll excuse me, there are some damn kids on my lawn. :lol:
Make sure to put ur teeth back in before yelling at them.
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Make sure to put ur teeth back in before yelling at them.
Glad you reminded me, also glad you forgot to remind me to use the fixodent...
Halfway through my rant at the kids they flew out and landed at their feet... I'm pretty certain I've scarred one of them for life.
So yeah, a damned good start to the day :lol:
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F' you all! None of you are that old. I'm turning 50 at the end of the month!
I''M old.*(you're a bunch of kids by comparison).
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At this point, games from 6 months ago are 'old'. I dont believe there is the connection anymore in a lot of people due to the 'disposable' nature things have gotten. I have every game I bought for my Amiga. I have a lot of the games I loved that I bought for my Commodore 64. But talk to people nowadays who are growing up with Xbox 360 and they just dont have a connection to any of it. They sell off the games when they finnish them for money toward the new game. I'm at the point where I wait knowing that the $60 game now will be $20 in a few short months as stores try to clear the shelf space for the new stock.
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Bah, 50's nothing! I'm almost 30 that's ten times worse. :(
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You're still a pup compared to me! Born in 1952. I'll let y'all do the math, if you can do it without using a calculator or that blasted "new" math.
F' you all! None of you are that old. I'm turning 50 at the end of the month!
I''M old.*(you're a bunch of kids by comparison).
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At this point, games from 6 months ago are 'old'. I dont believe there is the connection anymore in a lot of people due to the 'disposable' nature things have gotten.
Some people sure, but I don't think that is true for everyone.
ps2/xbox/dreamcast/gamecube are still viable for gaming, ps1/saturn/n64 are the newest systems I'd describe as retro.
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Retro means in the future the Amiga will see short term revivals in popularity. Even living on after the last original user dies.
I think all this touch screens and 3D is forced upon you and some of us like the classic computer experience.
There are some true classic games that are worth playing year after year. Something like Street Rod has never seen a remake.
Well the Amiga released 25 years ago. It's about the same as your parents listening to 50s songs and talking about how the 'pictures' use to be 25 cents.
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But talk to people nowadays who are growing up with Xbox 360 and they just dont have a connection to any of it. They sell off the games when they finnish them for money toward the new game.
There are some true classic games that are worth playing year after year. Something like Street Rod has never seen a remake.
In some ways, I think these two things are related. For better or worse, games have changed. You might as well sell your average AAA X360 title after you finish it. It doesn't have a lot of replay value, and it doesn't have a lot of uniqueness of gameplay. So if you DO want to play it again a year or two later, it's likely that a newer and better edition of the exact same game will be out by then.
The mass-market titles don't do a lot of experimenting. You have to get beyond that, and into niche games like some of the good mobile and independent titles to get the level of uniqueness of gameplay that was found in many of the early titles we enjoyed years ago.
Anyhow, I think my kid was one of the ones who were on your lawn, earlier. Sorry 'bout that.
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Oh, but there are recent games with replay value. I'm still playing the Baldur's gate games (although they probably count as retro nowadays -.-), and I'm quire sure I will be playing out Dragon age and the Mass effect games in the future (yes, I am a Bioware fanboy), not to mention Fallout 3 and a few other modern classics.
Plants vs. Zombies was mentioned in another thread. You can bet your rear region on that that will still be played regularily in ten years. :)
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There's plenty of interesting games out there, but you gotta get indie games rather than mainstream titles
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There's plenty of interesting games out there, but you gotta get indie games rather than mainstream titles
How about a "What are you playing now ?" sticky thread ? I'm curious what people are playing, specifically adventure games (commercial or not). I haven't played anything for over a year. Such a thread wouldn't be too bad, would it ?
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How about a "What are you playing now ?" sticky thread ? I'm curious what people are playing, specifically adventure games (commercial or not). I haven't played anything for over a year. Such a thread wouldn't be too bad, would it ?
Go ahead and make it and link us :)
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F' you all! None of you are that old. I'm turning 50 at the end of the month!
I''M old.*(you're a bunch of kids by comparison).
If you feel old, I pity you. I just turned 64 (remember the Beetle's song?) and I don't feel old. My hair (what's left) is still down to my waist, and I feel fine (with the meds kicked in). My grand children think I'm old, but that's their problem, not mine.
BTW, for kids on the lawn, I find a 44 better than a shotgun :lol: .
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In some ways, I think these two things are related. For better or worse, games have changed. You might as well sell your average AAA X360 title after you finish it. It doesn't have a lot of replay value, and it doesn't have a lot of uniqueness of gameplay. So if you DO want to play it again a year or two later, it's likely that a newer and better edition of the exact same game will be out by then.
The mass-market titles don't do a lot of experimenting. You have to get beyond that, and into niche games like some of the good mobile and independent titles to get the level of uniqueness of gameplay that was found in many of the early titles we enjoyed years ago.
Anyhow, I think my kid was one of the ones who were on your lawn, earlier. Sorry 'bout that.
This comes up from time to time and while once upon a time I mightve been making that exact arguement Ive realised in recent years that I was looking through rose tinted glasses a little. Any era of gaming has typcailly been made up of 4 or 5 "generic" and safe games (from a publishers perspective), the main differences being the style of games being done to death. Those games that are exceptions to that rule, or the best of the era are often the ones that people will look back on fondly in another 20 years all the while claiming, "new games are all similar, back when I was a lad ...... blahblahblah" :)
edit: I should've read what I was responding to better. Seems I missed your reference to looking beyond the big name titles to find the interesting stuff. Having said that though I do still think that there's a parallel of sorts in regards to most eras of gaming so far as the bigger more mainstream games go.
Thinking about it just now though the intimacy on the development side for smaller development teams may be in part responsible for that elusive "something" that the 8/16 bit eras and indie developers sometimes find... "developed" vs "produced" I guess you could say.
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Go ahead and make it and link us :)
The bare thought frightens me, I have bad experience with thread creation. But below is the link, forward the link to everyone else you know...
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=55802