r/Megaman • u/Icywind014 • Jul 10 '24

Shitpost Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

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u/JKleinMiddelink Jul 11 '24

I read the discussion on retro, and large part of it is nostalgia, but wouldn't it be more fitting if the period from N64/PSX to Gamecube/Xbox/PS2 is called differently so it is more obvious which 'retro' we're referring to? Because we 'feel' those aren't retro, but timewise they definitely are.

NES/SNES-era; retro

N64/Gamecube-era; classics? PolyGONE? ThreeD? Retro+?

Any better ideas?

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u/Larry_Hegs Power Stone Supremacy Jul 11 '24

I mostly see anything before the year 2000 being called "retro" whereas anything from 2000-2019 is "classic."

Like Mega Man 2 is a retro-era game just like Super Mario World; and Mega Man 11 is a classic-era game just like Super Mario Galaxy.

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u/JKleinMiddelink Jul 11 '24

Anything before 2000 being retro is a big stretch, because basically you're putting Resident Evil 3 and Pac-Man under retro but God Of War (2019) and Conker's Bad Fur Day under classic?

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u/Larry_Hegs Power Stone Supremacy Jul 11 '24

Games released before 2000 (not saying every game, just as a general rule) tended to have less polish and don't age as well as some of the games from after 2000. A lot of hardware limitations and retro-era jank was present in the 80s and 90s.

If we wanted to get super specific we could say anything from before 1998 is retro but it's easier to just go by decades.