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Keep in mind the launch model of the 360 didn’t have an HDMI port, most people still had a CRT, and it didn’t even come with component cables, there was only a composite lead in the box, you had to pay extra for component cables if you wanted them.
SNES and GBA was peak and most evergreen due to the games being peak pixel art before everything went 3D. Nearly every SNES and GBA game is still beautiful. I tried playing some N64 games, and they are so ugly that they are nigh unplayable. Xbox is just a platform to play modern PC games that isn’t quite as good as PC. Even Playstation 1 and 2 games are too dated to enjoy beyond one or two fighting games.
It isn’t retro because it’s beefy enough to not be emulated easily. And yes, by that definition, the Wii is retro.
The Switch is overall beefier and is emulated very well. Emulation is about the architecture and level of interest, not just specs.
Bad definition
And the switch
Fact: I have never seen an Xbox 360 in my life.
Well, Gears of War is about to be 20 years old. Twenty.
In my opinion, no. For me it’s not about time, 360 for the most part plays just like any other present day console. Only difference is that development and marketing budgets went out of control (a trend that was already underway during later seventh generation), and the relentless stream of CoD, Halo and GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).
Hey Saints Row 3 was actually funny
When consoles got “accounts” and avatars, that was the death of them. Theyre just subscription dumb terminal spyware now.
It has Kinect Star Wars. And… that’s basically it.
GTA clones stopped (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT).
I mean, open world games are commonplace. It’s like saying “doomclones” stopped. Yeah, they became fpses.
but on the other hand “realistic crime open world games” kinda gta knockoffs were more commonplace back then.
Unfortunately, somehow, gta feels like a gta knockoff. I didn’t even finish V, and the satire just seemed less biting, and late to the punch. Like the jokes it was making had already been made elsewhere, so it felt stale and done before.
DREEEAAAAMCAAAAAAAASST!!
DREEEEAAAAAAMCAST!!
*is quickly surrounded and tackled by shadowy xbox figures*
DREAMC-argh!
. . . dreamcaaaaaaast!
It’s now 2026, so Zelda 20 years ago was:
Breath of the Wild is almost 10 years old.
… and Nintendo still hasn’t figured out how to run it at an actually stable 60 fps.
I’m trying to finally finish trials of the sword on master mode… which is only going to be possible due to hacking my switch, backing up my save, transferring it to PC, and finally converting it to a Wii U save to run in Cemu. Glorious ultrawide at 144fps - I only wish I had left myself more of the game to play on a worthy system
Holy shit that reminds me, I’m so far behind on my Zelda shit that I haven’t even yet played OoT master quest or whatever its called?
But yeah, its… pretty sad, the state of Nintendo these days.
And still costs $60/$80 with the DLC!
Yet most other open world games are still struggling to surpass its world design…
Eh…
Except much lower resolution than that.
Don’t let Nintendo see this thread 0_0
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You wouldn’t emulate a handbag
It could be the Wii U version, I suppose, but that’s 10 years old.
And noticing that this tweet is already 5 years old is the cherry on top.
It sucks that 360 games don’t all work on series x.
To be fair, and for all their other woes, Microsoft’s work on back compat with Xbox One / Series is a pretty incredible feat of engineering.
Too bad licensing means they’ve essentially run out of games to port.
I started playing burnout revenge yesterday. Then I got utopia the creation of a natio working for dos, Amiga and SNES. Classics babeeee!
It is on a timeline, but not tech.
If you compare 1985 to 2005, holy shit. So many classics because of mind blowing advances.
2005 - 2025… Well, there’s still 2005 games that go hard with some mods. We really rely on gameplay and story to make a classic now.
I still use my old wired 360 controller to play games on my laptop. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Same! I love the form factor of it and it still hasn’t given out yet. Only thing that made me even think about wanting to replace it was the haptic/adaptive triggers on the PS5 controller. Don’t like the form factor but man those triggers are nice.
Its a nice controller but they are fragile af, look at them wrong and they start to act up.
I think it became retro when the 9th gen consoles started coming out.
To me, current gen is current, previous 2 generations are not retro, and anything older is. Many 360 models still had analog video out (as did the PS3 and Wii), so arguably it’s the final generation built with CRTs in mind.
Yes. Getting old is hard.
Just go with it and let the newer generations enjoy what you did.
