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16 year old games were considered "retro" when Crysis came out. Crysis came out 16 years ago.

• TillE 3y ago
  Hell, if you were making a game that looked like Ultima VI (1990) in the mid-late 90s, that would be treated as embarrassingly retro. Call it 5 or 6 years. Once we settled on quasi-realistic 3D games with a mostly consistent control scheme as the norm, that process of obsolescence has slowed down dramatically. Games have sort of plateaued in that way. So you really can go back and play Crysis and it's still fine. It's noticeably "retro", but I think only serious graphics nerds would be bothered by its deficiencies.
  • zirgs 3y ago
    Yeah, seems like that every year the age of games that are considered "retro" keeps increasing. Now it is at least ~25 years or so.
    • zokier 3y ago
      idk. 80s-early 90s pixel art style was all the rage 10 years ago as retro, nowdays the action is at late 90s-early 00s wonky polygon graphics, so it seems to have advanced pretty proportionally