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“I like retro games, like Halo 2 and that”
Temp worker at my old job, 2022, verbatim. I will forever be haunted by that phrase.
“Now listen here, you little shit”
Half my University students weren’t alive for Halo 3.
My knees crack when I stand up and lately I’m getting weird joint pains in my right elbow and left thumb.
Checks out.
21 years old what the fuck. So at the end of it’s life it’s like 2012. I’m going to be honest emulation is going to dictate the legacy of the 360. At that point I’d already moved to pc but it would be good to know the must play exclusives.
More than anything consoles deliver a couch co op experience that pc just can’t match. Like I recently played obscure for xbox with a friend and it was a blast. 2 player resident evil in a high school.
Dad picked it up after retiring at the end of a long career. Shooting zombies sounded more fun than fishing.
Vintage gaming in now a thing you need to say about 90s video games.
I’m still sad that I sold my xbox360 and special edition PSP
I’ve still got my 360 and PSP. Some shit head broke into my storage unit years ago and stole my modded Xbox tho. I regret convincing my parents to sell the NES tho to buy an Xbox as a kid, wish I still had that one and the games.
Oh, you want to feel old?
Today I was looking at eink readers, when I remembered I had various old PDAs, like a psion 5, palm m100 and palm 1000 sitting in the cupboard. Same same, right? Throw some epubs on there, all good? Bit of spit an polish, install some legacy apps, few rounds of Dope Wars…boom.
Well, no. Horrible viewing angles, back light not worth a shit, digitiser not calibrating…and the default calendar year?
01.01.1996.
This one hurt me.
I was never an Xbox guy.
Is Xbox360 the same generation as PS3?
360 > 3, so it’s better /s
Yup, that’s the one.
Xbox has some silly names. You have the Xbox (PS2 era), the Xbox 360, the Xbox One (which was a big flop), the Xbox One X / S (revised versions that were mostly forgotten about), then the Xbox Series X / S (modern era)
My theory is that the Xbox naming strategy is designed to maximize the confusion of older relatives buying consoles as gifts. You’d be able to pawn more old models off on grandmas who thought it was the right one, and a fraction of the recipients of those old consoles would likely keep it and buy a newer one eventually.
Either that or someone at Sony was blackmailing Microsoft’s chief naming officer. I can’t think of another coherent reason for that mess.
It was just a moronic perception that in the choice between Xbox2 and PS3, buyers would pick the bigger number.
But then they shot themselves in the foot because where do you go from 360?
And the easy answer is to release a peripheral that upgrades the original a bit, call it the Xbox 2, then release the 3 alongside the ps3
Yeah or if their research really showed that 3>2 was going to be decisive to their bottom line, just fucking skip two places ahead and call it the Xbox4. Who’s going to stop you?
720 of course
But 360 is 720 is 0
I feel even more vindicated now.
A few years ago someone said something about one of the newer Xboxs. Either Xbox One X or Xbox series X. I forget which. And I asked “Is that the newest Xbox?”
And this guy goes off on me. Claims I’m gaslighting him, and that everyone knows which generation each Xbox is/was.
And I honestly didn’t. I was genuinely asking.
So now I feel vindicated in my prior ignorance, because with Playstation, it’s real simple. 4 is 2 more than 2. So even if you didn’t know playstation, you know numbers. So even my nongaming mom could tell you PS4 came after PS3.
But with Xbox, it was just random jibberish. Even Nintendo console names aren’t easily placed in order by non-gamers, but at least they have personality.
Like I don’t think my mom would know that the N64 came before the Wii. She would have no way to know the order. But she knows what the Wii is. She gave my niece a wii.
But Xbox names just sound like the codes stores internally use to refer to products. Sometimes you see it on the barcode.
So like Hunts BBQ sauce 16oz bottle, might be “HntzBBQ16”. Thats what Xbox names feel like.
Xbox series XS.
I wish I had a good joke for that, but I’m really high and thinking about what would happen if Rowdy Roddy Piper had gotten into politics instead of Jesse Ventura.
Which is completely off topic, but can you imagine???
I bought an Xbox one X recently to play the newer Forza Horizon series and when i was looking for one, the amount of posts i saw that listed an Xbox one X as a Xbox series X, or someone listing an Xbox series X as an Xbox one was astounding. It was at least 40% of the listings on local sites. Most people didn’t care to look at the label on the back to see what they were selling, they just knew it was an xbox. Microsoft really screwed everyone up with their stupid names.
Damn right they are. Probably the last great console generation before modern monetization practices fully took hold.
Too late.
Fifa Ultimate Team was already going strong on 360. Started all the way back in 2009, but the insane gambling player packs came a little later.
CS: GO cases technically started during Xbox 360’s life cycle (a little short of 2 years before Xbox One launched), although the game was PC only.
As others have mentioned - Oblivion horse armor DLC was already a thing.
Microsoft first introduced paywalled online functionality with Xbox 360’s Xbox Live subscription.
You could add some more to the list. By this time gaming was already going downhill. What you remember as the ‘last great console generation’ is probably just nostalgia. Although you could make a case that early Xbox 360 days were pretty great.
Xbox Live started with the original Xbox
But it wasn’t strictly paid on the original Xbox, was it? Or am I misremembering?
I am pretty sure my parents had to pay $10/mo or whatever for me to lose all those matches in MechAssault.
Huh, looks like I got something mixed up then. Thanks for the correction.
Only PSN was free, Xbox live was always paid. Like, this was a huge argument Playstation fanboys held over the heads of Xbox fanboys during the console wars
And you didn’t even get better service for your money, since many Xbox live games didn’t have dedicated servers and instead used P2P technology (which, to be fair, was also the case on PS3)
I didn’t play the full generation. I moved to PC in 2009 so I dodged the worst part of the generation. I also wouldn’t say it was the best generation. The reason I would say it was the last good one is the lack of a required install. You could buy a game, then start playing it right away. If I have to sit through an install, I might as well just play on PC.
The last console I ever purchased.
“Kinect is going to be the future of gaming!” Except this is the only generation that is going to natively support it. But hey, Apple will shrink it down, put it in a phone, and use it to authenticate you. That’s not nearly as fun as using it for dancing and rafting though.
We were well into horse armor by this point
It was the start of it, but it wasn’t common practice, at least not towards the beginning of the generation.
It was the first generation for DLC to be more common, but it felt like an addition and not just restoring intentionally cut content.
I do agree that towards the end of the generation, some of the greedier companies started some of their worst practices.
360 era DLC was just more game to tide you over while you waited for the sequel. But then they realised they could cut half the game and sell it as DLC later on. But then they realised they didn’t want to wait for later on and started selling half the game over the counter and half the game from inside the game.
yall arnt even that old chill
You don’t know me, and you don’t know my SNES, either.
I remember playing the Atari when it was new(ish). I have seen plenty of consoles come and go. I watched people handle my old toys like they were fossils before the Xbox 360 was a manic twinkle in Steve Ballmer’s eye.
But I think my childhood stuff was about the last generation of stuff that was already kind of old by the time the internet really came into the popular consciousness.
It’s cool to see people grapple with watching things that they remember from their childhood, things they discussed on internet forums as they came into being, become old. The internet is new enough that this is still a pretty recent phenomenon. Like, kids who were ten when this came out are thirty-one now. Old enough that some of them have their own kids, and more of them are dodging questions from their parents and relatives about kids. They’re old enough that teenagers treat them like authority figures rather than somewhat older peers.
It happens to everybody, but this is the first group of humans where the whole process played out from start to finish on the internet. That’s pretty cool.
Congratulations, gen z. your collective and individual crises of mortality are the best documented in human history.
So far, anyway.
This is probably more millennials having a crises than Gen z. Millennials were late grade school - college during the 360’s heyday. Their prime gaming years
What’s the matter? The passage of time wearing you thin?
Man, I totally forgot about that scene.
Until it red rings
That’s a newer one that had that worked out by then.
Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games. I haven’t played one in forever, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he’s like, “Wow, that’s an old one. I don’t think I was even born yet.”
💀
I teach at University and half of my students weren’t alive for Halo 3’s release.
The 360 is as old today as the Nes was when it came out.
1985->2005->2026
Pretty sure the NES was brand new when it came out. That’s just how age works.
The 360 is 21 years old today.
The NES was 0 years old when it came out.
Never have felt so old… 2005 still feels like 10 years ago for some reason
COVID literally stopped time, and it’s just starting to move forward again.
The person who introduced me to the NES died a long time ago of old age.
Mans over here doing the math and spitting the facts
My body hurts
Was it really necessary to post that?
nuh-uh
Ok jump off the second step and try and walk back to comment.
Fucking helllll
