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I Still Feel Old
- Thread starter Kirin
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How about Gen Z or Millennials?
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Funny, my little brother calls it millennial denial whenever I use Xennial or similar. I definitely relate more to him than our decidedly gen X older brother but there are some differences. He had a cell phone in high school for crying out loud.
As another person on the borderline between Gen X and millennials, I feel like I'm getting whiplash from how quickly the meaning of the word "millennial" has switched from "young person" to "old person."
You must not know turtle.
Yeah, Mega Man gave it away.
No offense, but of all the retro game series, mega man is definitely the most elder millennial adjacent
I guess Mega Man never caught on with younger generations.
But who knows, that Mega Man: Fully Charged cartoon is sort of new (2018) so maybe in a few years the kids who saw that will be wearing pixel E-Tank shirts like all the 40-year olds.
But who knows, that Mega Man: Fully Charged cartoon is sort of new (2018) so maybe in a few years the kids who saw that will be wearing pixel E-Tank shirts like all the 40-year olds.
FelixSH
(He/Him)
Wasn't Megaman Battle Network pretty popular around the early 00s? I mean, the kids from then are still at least in their mid 20s now, so I guess this is a rather pointless argument. If it is even true, I just felt like the second and third game were pretty popular, and there was the anime that made it to German tv.
But that's probably the latest the franchise has gotten any mass market appeal, if it did then.
But that's probably the latest the franchise has gotten any mass market appeal, if it did then.
yeah i'm not in my 30s (in my late 20s), and i grew up watching the megaman battle network anime series as a kid. was my introduction to the series, and decided to only get into the games after seeing the megaman zx e3 2006 trailer on a magazine dvd and going "ive gotta play this". fwiw though, i was very interested in the anniversary collection when nintendo official magazine uk did a preview of it in their import section but assumed it'd release in europe, only for capcom to decide to *not* release it there, whoops.
i also believe i'm probably one of the the youngest people on talking time though lol
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Becksworth
Aging Hipster Dragon Dad
Yeah, I imagine most people these days first think of Samus when they hear "shoot enemies with your arm cannon", which is wild to think about growing up in a decade where like two or three dozen Megaman games were published.
I'm not gonna say mid 20s is old, but keep in mind there's not really anything for people under 20 to latch on to. There are collections and stuff, but they don't really appeal to younger gamers.
It's sad to see how it's diminished in popularity from generation to generation, compared to most other gaming franchises
i don't disagree, but when i was younger i really liked playing collections of series that i never had the opportunity to play, and liked emulating
older games for the same reason.
maybe things have changed, but i'm sure that the collections still have their audiences of younger players too. it is a shame that we're not getting that many new original megaman games though, esp considering 11 was fantastic.
The PS2 is now older than the Atari 2600 was when the PS2 came out.
Paul
I say this with all possible love
Shut up
I say this with all possible love
Shut up
Counterpoint: video game graphics are still in 2D, and there were 3D games back in 1973!
While true, 2D was the standard and 3D was the novelty. Now 3D tends to be the standard with 2D a novelty.
"Novelty" is almost certainly not the right word, but I'm struggling to find the right one. I'm posting from work; this is the best we can expect. You know what I mean in any case.
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Yeah I get you. It's just not a sharp line between them is all.
What really gets me is that it was around ten years between the release of the SNES and the PS2. And now it's been around 24 years since the PS2.
What really gets me is that it was around ten years between the release of the SNES and the PS2. And now it's been around 24 years since the PS2.
I remember when games were 1D!
*wanders off to yell at a cloud*
*wanders off to yell at a cloud*
jpfriction
(He, Him)
Dog man is lame. Cat kid comics club is where it’s at.