It's 2056...

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...You're browsing the internet using your mind or whatever and you find www.steampowered.com.

The website hasn't been updated for years and years; ever since people got bored of HL3: Episode 4. And yet, the download for Steam still works.

So, you download it.

You scan your memory files and remember your username and password and type them in.

You then remember what Steam was used for. Half Life 2! :O Arguably one of the better expiriences in your life.

So, you click the download button and wait the lengthy 7.52 seconds as it downloads.

Then you play through the whole glorious game again.

Anyway, I guess the real point of this thread is: will you still play Half Life 2 (And other games from this generation) in the future? Will they hold any nostalgic value? Will the horrribly dated graphics bother you as some games from the 80s do today? Will you even remember the game?

While music and films are timeless, are games?
 
If the systems in the future can even run HL2 (which depends on how in the future you are talking about) then yeah of course.
 
I never really enjoyed HL2 that much (Got it for CSS). Don't think people would still play that all that much in the future (not this current version anyway).
 
Well, I often take some old games off the shelf (Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital) and play them, so yes :p
 
vegeta897 said:
If the systems in the future can even run HL2 (which depends on how in the future you are talking about) then yeah of course.

50 years! But we can all still run Doom... people will hack it.
 
Last old game I played was Dreams to reality. Best. Game. EVER.
 
I can see myself playing Arcanum 50 years from now. Though I'll be in my 60s...
 
I hunt for games on abandonware, so it shows my dedication for old classics, its a shame many people don't share the same view
 
I played Deus Ex a few weeks ago. I played Sonic 3 & Knuckles a few weeks before that. Some games are timeless, I believe that in a few years I will play HL2 again. In fact, I plan to buy HL1 again some time soon.
 
I play Super Mario Brothers more than anything on my PS2, I replayed Half-Life last summer, I still play Starcraft daily, and I enjoy a game of X-Com infrequently.

So yeah.
 
i still play Dungeon Keeper1 and never tend to stop

I will always go back to games!
 
This is a good example of one of the dilemmas with PC gaming. You can watch movies form 50 years ago, but games don't yet have a system where old games can stilll be played on never PC's/consoles etc.
 
Played Deus Ex again. Played FFVIII again.

Some games are timeless.
 
All these examples have been flawed, I think. I mean, playing Deus Ex is fine and all, but that was under 10 years ago. We're talking half a century here. We'll be either close to retirement or fully retired. We won't be able to dance anymore, some of us will be gone, and a good number will probably have prosthetic hips. This iis nothing like playing Mario. But you know what? I think we will. I think that some games, HL2 included, are so good that they will never really be "obsolete". I'm sure I'll love Ocarina of Time until the day I die.
 
50 years from now?! Isn't that a bit too far to predict?

Well I'll be dead but there is no way in hell I will bother with this game in 50 years if by some miracle I still walk (or use a walker) this earth.


But judging by history (history repeats itself) - for all we know in 50 years there will be games that are so insane you will fail to see how playing the games we play today are even fun - especially considering video games are only like 25 or so years old and look how far they have come.


I definately am betting that the Japanese will pioneer games that feature a left handed controler ;) with virtual sex that is like real. Expect to take it up the ass when it comes to a price.

Judging by the lax in what is taboo and what is not, ( 50 years ago women wore full clothes to the beach and now they wear dental floss g strings) i think in 50 years, what I've said may seem TAME.
 
I still play
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Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Theme Hospital (PC)
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)

Those are golden oldies.
 
Snowden said:
This is a good example of one of the dilemmas with PC gaming. You can watch movies form 50 years ago, but games don't yet have a system where old games can stilll be played on never PC's/consoles etc.

Yea its hard to play old PC games becuase the technology doesn't provide backward compatability, but there are, and will always be, emulators for the PC savy.


But yea, I still like playing Asteroids (1979) and a few others at my brother's arcade of like 150 retro games.
 
Shouldn't you care more about AD 2101 than you should about 2056? I mean, there's a goddamn war beginning then!
 
In 2056...

War was beginning.

Captain! We get signal!
What you say?
Main screen turn on.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Good evening gentlmen. All your base are belong to us!



sry, the thread title just made me think of that....

In the future, I think that I will still play all the old games that I love even if the graphics are horrible. Maybe by then itwill be in the form of a Star Trek holodeck.... sechs with Alyx anyone?
 
i am and still playing METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERITY Forever
even in 2056
 
Sometimes I still play Adventure.... and Defender, on the Atari emulator. They're still fun to play a little bit; I just wish I still had my old Atari system since it's not nearly the same using a keyboard/mouse. I play Scorched Earth sometimes if I can get someone to play with me. Commander Keen, Doom, King's Quest, Oregon Trail... all still as great as they were back then, even when you realize that the "puzzles" in King's Quest are mostly horrible and illogical. That just makes it funnier :D.

In 50 years, I'll probably still be playing old games unless I have really serious arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome or something.
 
HL2 wasn't good enough to be that type of game.

I'm thinking more like some of the Classics from N64; Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 64.

Also the old NES and SNES Super Mario games, and Diablo II, along with Half-Life 1 and the original Counter-Strike.
 
Baal said:
HL2 wasn't good enough to be that type of game.

I'm thinking more like some of the Classics from N64; Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 64.

Also the old NES and SNES Super Mario games, and Diablo II, along with Half-Life 1 and the original Counter-Strike.

Think about what you just said there man.

HL2 wasn't good enough?

It's one of the greatest games of its time, just like the other games you mention. Its just not a classic yet becuase its like 2 years old.
 
VirusType2 said:
Think about what you just said there man.

HL2 wasn't good enough?

It's one of the greatest games of its time, just like the other games you mention. Its just not a classic yet becuase its like 2 years old.

HL2 was a good game but not really appealing for replayability as much as other games.
 
What makes you think you'll live beyond 2012?:devil:
 
Pong is a game that will always stand the test of time...
As is Pacman and basically everything that was on the ATARI.

HL2 may have been a good game, but it's no where near a classic.
 
Half-Life 2 wasn't a very good game... I don't wish to play it again or use steam :D
 
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