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What games would you say are dated nowadays, not just graphic wised but generally?

I was playing Crazy Taxi today and it screams "Late 90s to early 2000s Cali". Not just the music but the way everything looks is so 90s

>> No.1644007
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Comix Zone is '90s as shit.

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>>1643974
Probably the "Toe Jam & Earl" games. Shame how "hip hop culture" has kind of died off in favor of really generic rap

>> No.1644070

>>1644064
The first one is still an incredible game, I'm running through it right now, but fuck it's so damn 90s.

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>>1643974
The first Jet Set Radio. The visuals not so much, but rollerblading and the music kinda make it a product of its own time. Hell, Combo is carrying a huge boombox, when was the last time you saw someone doing that?

That being said, I love it that way, though.

>> No.1644086

You can pretty much say any game that was heavily influenced by the real world culture at the time it was made.

Particularly games that make a lot of pop culture references or make fun of them.

If you didn't grow up at the time or weren't aware of it, you probably wouldn't get it.

>> No.1644090

For some reason I miss this 90's >>1643974

But I don't miss this 90's >>1644007

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>>1644090
>not liking Comix Zone

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I don't really care about a hilariously dated setting as long as the damn thing is playable and fun.

Come to think about it, I actually kind of like to watch these (cartoony and exaggerated) stereotypes of subcultures and shit I didn't really pay attention to back then.

Pic is lols. Maybe the future won't turn to total shit (ha!) so grimdark cyberpunk will become the new silliest form retrofuturism.

>> No.1646142

I hear Conker's Bad Fur Day was very dated. Conker: Live and Reloaded drove that home.

>> No.1646187

>>1646142
Ehhhhhhhhh, I've played it numerous times and it's never really felt all that all that out of touch. Maybe the caveman rave club, but not much else

>> No.1646204

>>1646142
Not really. There are parodies of movies that were more relevant at the time than now, but that doesn't date it as much as you'd think. The Matrix parody in that game surprisingly holds up better than The Matrix parodies movies like Shrek, for example.

>> No.1646253

Yeah I know what you mean OP, 90's games shouldn't feel like a 90's game. I really wish they could have boosted the graphics and gave it a feel that is appropriate for today, 20 years later.

But seriously, what the fuck is the point of talking about it? All games from the 90's era will seem like 90's era games. Because they are 90's era games. Is this thread not redundant because of this? Name one game made in the 90's that wasn't influenced in some way by 90's or earlier culture. The moment you do, is the moment you realize that the game was made in the 90's! By a person living in the 90's! With a 90's brain! So it must not be relevant at all.

>> No.1646919

>>1646253
I'm not the OP, but dude, chill. He's just referring to games that have a distinct '90s style. You ever watch a movie from that time period and thought the culture and outfits looked really dated? That's exactly the same thing. It's a harmless question.

>> No.1646949

>>1644078

>Combo is carrying a huge boombox, when was the last time you saw someone doing that?

Nobody was doing that in 2000, either. JSR was always a goofy parody of real life.

>> No.1646954

>>1646949
People did that ever? I thought that was something that literally only happened in movies.

>> No.1646956

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>> No.1646971

>>1644078
>>1646949

Strangely enough, I feel like JSRF doesn't feel as tied to when it was made. Of course JSR was a cartoony take on real life anyway, but something about the style makes it feel a lot like youth culture from 1999-2000. It's like this loud mix of rave culture, skate culture,70's/80's nostalgia,etc. JSRF feels somewhat sterile in comparison, even though the themes are still there.