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Nothing on the go right now, but I definitely play some older ones here and there. I was playing Minecraft a couple months ago, which I'd count as pre-2010 (official release wasn't until 2011, but I bought it during the beta). A sizable chunk of my Steam backlog is older than that (heck, a rather alarming amount of that backlog was purchased in or before 2010 >.>), to say nothing of GOG.

LB1 posted...

2010 wasn't even that long ago

It doesn't seem like it, but it's been a decade. 2010 is halfway between the release of the PS2 and the current date. Pre-2010 refers to an era when digital distribution was unusual instead of the norm, and the worst industry practices we had to worry about were roughly limited to Horse Armor. Smartphones were only just starting to be a thing, as were indie games.

That said, most modern gaming conventions had crystallized by then. Pre-2010 games don't feel nearly as dated as older ones simply because how games are designed hasn't changed that much compared to prior decades (monetization aside). Controllers have basically been standardized since the PSWii60 era (as much as the Wii tried to buck the trend), and that's had a big influence on stuff feeling like it hasn't changed that much. The shooter trend of the early- to mid-2000's also hasn't really gone anywhere, though the explosion of the indie market has helped to diversify what's available. I understand why you wouldn't feel like it's been that long, since so much of gaming feels the same as it did then.

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