More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"
More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"
It's impossible for it to be old. They keep releasing it, making it new every time. Just last week, they announced that it will be released on my toaster this summer.
It's from 2011, of course it's old.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.
I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.
It is an old game, technically it was an old game when it was released
What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!
It is gonna suck.
The horrible thing is that it doesn't have to suck.
Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.
They just won't. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.
It IS an old game.
Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?
Oh my sweet
summerwinterchildgeezer.
Thanks to the innovation and progress happening in Bethesda, it's also a new game!
Yes but more that that, not just old games should be on GoG, all offline games should be on GoG.
2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3
14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
Old enough to marry (in some American states).
14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
I'll do some weird math.
The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let's call it either 70 or 50 years ago.
14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.
The first feature film came out in 1906; let's call it 120 years old. So let's calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.
20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.
So if you compare them by the "commercial video game vs. feature film" definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin' with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.
If you want to use the "youngest" ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.
I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha
When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I'd say that was old!
I don't like how time works.
Let's put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I'd have said yeah.
If they ship it without DRM, they could label literally anything an “Old Game” and that’d be fine by me.
That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.
There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.
- Kotor
- Chrono Trigger
- Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
- Crash Bandicoot: Warped
- F-Zero GX
- Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
- Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
- Journey
That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.
I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".
