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Quake 2 is retro? Shit, I'm old.

dixego 8y ago
PS2 and GameCube are retro at this point.
robbrit 8y ago
People in their early 20's don't even know Half-Life (released at the end of 1998, over 20 years ago now), let alone Quake. We're definitely getting old!
- Apocryphon 8y ago
  Blame Valve's lack of interest in maintaining their franchises for that one.
  - robbrit 8y ago
    To be fair if I was in their shoes and had the cash cow that is Steam, I probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining franchises either. Games are expensive to build and profit isn't guaranteed; a distribution platform that is being used by everybody has much better economics.
  - hnbroseph 8y ago
    i lowkey kinda feel that the pervasive gamer hype about half-life 3 (for example the "hl3 confirmed" meme was extremely pervasive) made valve feel like it would be impossible to match the hype, and any flaw would be hyper focused. maybe now that it's faded a bit there won't be as much pressure. or i could be wrong about that mattering.
    - empyrical 8y ago
      The book "The Final Hours of Portal 2" has a section where they explained how much pressure they felt to try and have Portal 2 live up to Portal 1. Even effectively shutting down development of of other games for 2 months so the whole company could focus on prototyping experiments for new gameplay concepts that could be incorporated into Portal 2. I would not be surprised of the pressure they feel for Half-Life 3 to be great is an order of magnitude greater than what they felt with Portal 2
      - Apocryphon 8y ago
        Team Fortress 3 when
- ascagnel_ 8y ago
  Half-Life has been dormant (2007-2019) for longer than its release timeframe (1998-2007).
quickthrower2 8y ago
Quake 2 was released closer to the Star Wars release date than the present day. ...those xkcd style "make you feel old" statements are quite fun to make.
chungy 8y ago
That's how I feel. I misread the title as "1987" and conjured up ideas of Zelda and Mega Man... and then I see Qauke 2 in the screenshot and I immediately thought "A modern game engine?" I suppose it's not really all that modern, but still... wow I'm old.

PS2 and GameCube are retro at this point.

People in their early 20's don't even know Half-Life (released at the end of 1998, over 20 years ago now), let alone Quake. We're definitely getting old!

Apocryphon 8y ago
Blame Valve's lack of interest in maintaining their franchises for that one.
- robbrit 8y ago
  To be fair if I was in their shoes and had the cash cow that is Steam, I probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining franchises either. Games are expensive to build and profit isn't guaranteed; a distribution platform that is being used by everybody has much better economics.
- hnbroseph 8y ago
  i lowkey kinda feel that the pervasive gamer hype about half-life 3 (for example the "hl3 confirmed" meme was extremely pervasive) made valve feel like it would be impossible to match the hype, and any flaw would be hyper focused. maybe now that it's faded a bit there won't be as much pressure. or i could be wrong about that mattering.
  - empyrical 8y ago
    The book "The Final Hours of Portal 2" has a section where they explained how much pressure they felt to try and have Portal 2 live up to Portal 1. Even effectively shutting down development of of other games for 2 months so the whole company could focus on prototyping experiments for new gameplay concepts that could be incorporated into Portal 2. I would not be surprised of the pressure they feel for Half-Life 3 to be great is an order of magnitude greater than what they felt with Portal 2
    - Apocryphon 8y ago
      Team Fortress 3 when
ascagnel_ 8y ago
Half-Life has been dormant (2007-2019) for longer than its release timeframe (1998-2007).

quickthrower2 8y ago

Quake 2 was released closer to the Star Wars release date than the present day. ...those xkcd style "make you feel old" statements are quite fun to make.

chungy 8y ago

That's how I feel. I misread the title as "1987" and conjured up ideas of Zelda and Mega Man... and then I see Qauke 2 in the screenshot and I immediately thought "A modern game engine?" I suppose it's not really all that modern, but still... wow I'm old.