>is 23 years old
>uses memory cards, internal storage functionality was sold separately
>wired controllers
>was designed for CRT TVs
>no official HDMI support
>no day 1 patches or updates, you just insert the disc and press the power button
>no online store
>no web browser
>Boomers on Ganker: "The PS2 isn't retro because... it just isn't, okay???"
i'm a boomer and i see the PS2 as retro
the Dreamcast on the other hand is NOT retro, and will never be.
If PS2 is retro then I am old since it launched when I was in middle school.
same for me but I still consider it retro
even ps3 games are starting to look a bit retro to me. graphics have come a long way
PS3 games always looked like shit though.
PS2 games still look clean on a CRT.
>even ps3 games are starting to look a bit retro to me.
And just like that this thread was discredited in 3 posts.
And corresponding PC portsremasters make the games look like contemporary indie. Past "mid generation" period, since a platform can't get "pastgen" backports, it is half the way to retro. Although there is stuff like Dreamcast or Vita which could go on for while. So it's about subjective obsolescence imo.
That will make you over 30 yo, definitely not young and new.
>Play PS2 on anything except a crt
>Games become immediately unplayable because of how dark they become
Going between a cart and OLED tv with the PS2 is literally night and day
This is why I still own a CRT.
not retro. Never retro.
Torture to Anders Breivik.
No.
Its the very beginning of REAL LOOKIN GRAPHICS and therefore not retro. Retro is old but classic looking. Ps3 and 360 aren't retro because they look like modern shit at low gfx.
>Ps3 and 360 aren't retro because they look like modern shit at low gfx.
It really is insane how littler graphics have improved since 2005.
Like playing Mass Effect 2 on PC looks like a modern game.
>no web browser
the overwhelming majority of people weren't using their PS2s for fricking Linux anon
>No one used the thing that was a major marketing point
Shitskin amerimutt have a nice day before your wife gets pregnant from a black man
name a modern console with a memory card slot let alone a analog input
you cannot
go have a nice day you delusional old trannoid
>name a modern console with a memory card
Technically the Vita
Before that... the 360? Pretty sure it had memory cards very early in its lifecycle
>can only name 13+ year old consoles
>modern
moron
I wasn't trying to disprove your point anon
Also holy shit the Vita's already over a decade old?
>name a modern console with a memory card slot
Series X?
Ssds aren't memory cards
anything after 4th gen cannot be considered retro, PS1 isn't retro eiher
Sex hasn't changed in the past 20000000000 years and yet no one is fighting on the internet if it should be considered retro. Curious right? Unless this senseless is just a cover up so people don't realize GameStop and bed bath and beyond are gonna have a merger and become the next Amazon thanks to American tax payer funding that's been saved up since Theodore Roosevelt
>same games
>same mechanics, same gameplay
>same graphic style but on very low instead of high
>retro
yeah, soon AC 2 (the base for every formulaic contemporary slop that comes out weekly) will too be retro. moron
Have you played modern asscreed? Ac2 might as well be a retro game with how meticulously it was crafted compare to modern asscreeds bi yearly hotbox based
combat action adventure asset flip
>same graphic style but on very low instead of high
anon have you SEEN how PS2 games look nowadays? most of their graphics have aged terribly
>>uses memory cards, internal storage functionality was sold separately
controllers
>>no day 1 patches or updates, you just insert the disc and press the power button
>>no online store
>>no web browser
stop, I'm going to coom
>100's of years old
>Worn by literal cowboys and coal miners
>Awkward to move around in for normal sized people
>Have to be "broken in" to become somewhat bearable
>Boomers on Ganker: "Jeans aren't retro because... they just aren't okay???"
I fricking hate jeans so much. I only wear shorts and sweat pants.
Once again, it is not retro because it's a 3D system. Retro is a style, not a feature.
Top hats? Retro? Baseball cap? Not retro. 62 Mustang? Retro. 2018 Charger? Not retro. Neither hats nor cars are all retro or all not retro only individual ones.
This is a modern system that may have retro games.
Gaming has no room for pretentious homosexuals like you. Go back to jerking off to last of us 2 cutscenes
>uses memory cards, internal storage functionality was sold separately
You couldn't save shit on HDDs save the rare JP only game.
>>is 23 years old
>>uses memory cards, internal storage functionality was sold separately
controllers
>>was designed for CRT TVs
>>no official HDMI support
>>no day 1 patches or updates, you just insert the disc and press the power button
>>no online store
>>no web browser
Stop saying retro, it's not retro, the PS1 is not retro, the Atari 2600 is not retro. have a nice day.
And BTW, the PS2 is trash, it's not a game console, it's a DVD player that also happens play videogames, with an extensive library of shovelware trash. I mean look at the thing, it doesn't even look like a games console. Playstation was the death of console gaming, snoy is not a game company like Sega and Nintendo, even Microsoft had more of a gaming legacy than sony. How fitting that on it's successor consoles, even the games would be movies.
Seething "white" americmutt
It's not retro because you play modern games the same way that you played PS2 games, same physics, just better graphics
Original PS2 is retro, slim PS2 isn't, Simple as