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The SNES is definitely retro (Evan Amos Vanamo Media) The Friday letters page is angry that publishers are not making the games people want, as a reader is embarrassed by Stellar Blade. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected].
uk Dividing line I've been having that age old argument with my friend again, about what counts as a retro video game and what doesn't. I used your definition, that it was anything more than two generations old, but he insists the Xbox 360 is also retro. I realise it's been a long time now but that doesn't feel right to me.
A lot of games released in that generation would still be perfectly playable today, with no changes, and a lot of long-running series, like Call Of Duty and Assassin's Creed, are basically still the same now as they always were. Don't get me wrong, I love the Xbox 360, but I don't feel it's retro. For me my favourite retro machine will always be the SNES.
For me it is the perfect mix of retro, quality, and nostalgia. Although if I were to make a choice based purely on nostalgia it would be the Amiga 500, as that was the first format I owned. Curious to know what others think in terms of what counts and what their favourites are.
Tim Rodgers Uniting the fans There might have been some argument over whether Starfield was good or not but it's crazy to see such a big name game, from a major developer, get such a low Metacritic score – 54 as I type this. And it'd be much less if a couple of crazy Xbox websites hadn't given it inflated scores. I've rarely seen the critical consensus be so similar to fan reviews either, especially for a bad game, but on Metacritic the scores are almost the same.
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well done for uniting people, Bethesda? I haven't played it, for obvious reasons, and I really don't intend to. Maybe the reason they haven't brought it to PlayStation 5 yet is because they know nobody will buy it? It doesn't matter whether Xbox goes multiformat or not, unless they have the..
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