RetroGaming

25828 readers

34 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

Be kind.
No spam, AI slop, or soliciting for money.
No racism or other bigotry allowed.
Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Xylinna@lemmy.world

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

gts@lemmy.world

153

The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by PriorityMotif@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The Xbox 360 just had it's 20th anniversary. I'm not sure how I feel about it as a console today as most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives. I guess most of the nostalgia will be from playing online, which I never got the chance to do.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.

Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

After a match you could press a button to play again with the same people. You'd make friends by meeting together in game and deciding to party up