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BoomerKuwanger posted...

I think that PS2 is unequivocally retro at this point, but the scale isn't linear. Some games that are 10 years old (or more) still strike me as "modern" whereas, say, 1988 to 1998 has a much wider gap of what popular games of the time are like.

It also doesn't help that a lot of modern games deliberately evoke the styles and mechanics of older games. There are still often noticeable differences, like you'd never actually ask if Sea of Stars was a contemporary of Chrono Trigger despite the obvious similarities, but it does mess with our ability to assign an overall "feel" to a given era when that feeling has been mixed with that of prior eras.

Thinking about it, that sort of deliberate retro styling is something that mostly started after 2000 (in part because handhelds were 1-2 generations behind consoles and therefore effectively kept retro-styled games alive without a deliberate effort to do so), so I guess that might be part of why I don't feel like gaming has changed as much in the last 20 years as in the 20 years prior.