anna on Nostr: Hera linus said in a wanshow something that is kinda scary, that "retro" will be ...
Hera (npub122p…8gnv) linus said in a wanshow something that is kinda scary, that "retro" will be kinda crystalized, as this current era of games will basically be lost, only documented in videos and images, once the developer looses interest.
newer folk won't be able to share the experiences they loved as a kid, with their kids, or just plainly relive them. i can boot up my dusty ps2 (or realistically, pcsx2) and relive gow, batman begins, even that bad g-force hamster spy game, the games i played as a kid.
preservation of media is *so* important, and companies now a days are making sure that it's harder and harder to do, so they can sell us remasters in a few years, or shove lootboxes, or etc.
and honestly, this shouldn't apply just to single player games, multiplayer games should also be made open (released server software) when support is ended (if not always, *bring back community servers!*). example: i don't like fortnite, but a kid that grew up playing it today should be able to 20 years from now when the game is dead, spin up a local server with friends and relive some of that.
it's so sad that pretty much anything after the xp era basically unplayable now, unless, piracy (the only solution to preservation, but still, only for single player experiences)
newer folk won't be able to share the experiences they loved as a kid, with their kids, or just plainly relive them. i can boot up my dusty ps2 (or realistically, pcsx2) and relive gow, batman begins, even that bad g-force hamster spy game, the games i played as a kid.
preservation of media is *so* important, and companies now a days are making sure that it's harder and harder to do, so they can sell us remasters in a few years, or shove lootboxes, or etc.
and honestly, this shouldn't apply just to single player games, multiplayer games should also be made open (released server software) when support is ended (if not always, *bring back community servers!*). example: i don't like fortnite, but a kid that grew up playing it today should be able to 20 years from now when the game is dead, spin up a local server with friends and relive some of that.
it's so sad that pretty much anything after the xp era basically unplayable now, unless, piracy (the only solution to preservation, but still, only for single player experiences)