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jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

I had one, I had the tape drive for the Commodore 64 as well.

The Supercharger back in the day wasn’t that expensive, about $70 or the price of 2 games, because you had to supply your own tape player, the supercharger just connected to it with a wire.

jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

Atari 2600:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger

jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

I feel the opposite when I hear people complain about load times… “We want you to buy our SSD so your game will boot in 11 seconds instead of 19 seconds!”

Son, let me tell you about loading games from casette tape.

You’d start it loading, get up and go have dinner with the family. After 30 minutes, maybe it would be done. Maybe.

Maybe it hit an error 5 minutes after you walked away and now you need to re-wind and try again.

jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow

24 for me and I still own most of them.

jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow

Already skipping the Switch 2. Every time there was announcement I was like:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37405fb1-ff03-405b-a4c4-82f33ab18abc.jpeg

jordanlund, 3 miesiące temu do games w Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow

Five years… in the OG days we’d be prepping for the next generation about now.

Then things got weird around the 2008 financial crash. :(

(US dates)

Atari 2600 - 1977
Atari 5200 - 1982
Atari 7800 - 1986
Atari Jaguar - 1993

NES - 1985
SNES - 1990
N64 - 1996
Gamecube - 2001
Wii - 2006
Wii U - 2012
Switch - 2017
Switch 2 - 2025

Sega Master System - 1986
Genesis - 1989
Sega CD - 1992
32X - 1994
Saturn - 1995
Dreamcast - 1999

NEC Turbo Grafx 16 / CD - 1989
NEC Turbo Duo - 1993

Playstation - 1995
PS2 - 2000
PS3 - 2006
PS4 - 2013
PS4 Pro - 2016
PS5 - 2020
PS5 Pro - 2024

Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series X - 2020

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do gaming w Can we talk about the Roblox situation?

I thought “surely they’re kidding about the dating thing…” Oh no, no you are not. In fact, the CEO brought it up TWO YEARS AGO…

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed

Chris Hansen? The guy who got caught cheating on his wife Chris Hansen?

people.com/…/chris-hansen-caught-cheating-on-his-…

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games

I guess, unless you played literally any other RPG up until that time. Every single plot twist had been telegraphed and done before by better games.

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games

The story was also hackneyed and utterly predictable. :(

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games

Unlike Mass Effect, Dragon Age was never a good game. 1 looked like an OG Xbox game instead of 360 and 2 was just awful.

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?

Ultima IV
Phantasy Star Online
Destiny (not Destiny 2)

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'

The SkyHook action was pretty amazing, that’s the #1 thing I remember other than the design work.

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'

Infinite was a pretty high bar, they may have intimidated themselves.

I mean, Jesus, even Zero Punctuation liked it and he hates everything!

youtu.be/rciyCHa6J4o

jordanlund, 4 miesiące temu do games w Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years

No, I have just been working in software development for 13 years.

If I spent six years on a project and could not demonstrate core functionality after all that time, I’d be fired too.