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More than 1,000 classic RPGs, strategy games, and horror greats are wildly cheap in GOG's "Classics" PC sale, and are we OK with Skyrim officially being labeled an "old game?"

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It IS an old game.
- I'm playing Neverwinter Nights right now T_T
  
  I thought AOL took down the server
  
  Nothing wrong with that, and you have the sequel to look forward to!
- Skyrim is older now than Half Life 1 was when Skyrim first released.
  
  Skyrim is older now than Tetris was when Half Life 1 first released.
  
  I'm not old, you're old!
- Come on, it came out 11/11/11, that was like 3 years ago right?
  
  Oh my sweet ~~summer~~ winter ~~child~~ geezer.
- Thanks to the innovation and progress happening in Bethesda, it's also a new game!
2011 was 14 years ago, the game is more than half my age x3
- Do you often formulate math problems spontaneously?
  
  I believe x3 is a smiley
  
  Maybe he’s french.
- Wait. Are you younger than 9?
  4.5x3=13.5
  
  x3 is a smiley :3
- 14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
  
  14 isn't old, it's not even legal age to buy cigarettes.
  I'll do some weird math.
  The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let's call it either 70 or 50 years ago.
  14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.
  The first feature film came out in 1906; let's call it 120 years old. So let's calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.
  20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.
  So if you compare them by the "commercial video game vs. feature film" definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin' with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.
  If you want to use the "youngest" ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.
  I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha
  
  Old enough to marry (in some American states).
When I was really getting into PC gaming in 2003 a game from 14 years before would have been released in 1989. Yes, I'd say that was old!
- I don't like how time works.
- Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim was 9 years TOTAL. (2002, 2006, 2011)
  
  Hell the first Elder Scrolls game Arena is only 17 years before Skyrim.
What the fuck? Yes. Yes we fucking are. MAKE ANOTHER ELDER SCROLLS GAME, YOU ASSBAGS!
- It is gonna suck.
  
  It's gonna be shitty, expensive, AND buggy.
  Look forward to the disappointment or just accept that late stage capitalism has ruined all of our lives and everything that we enjoyed, and it's only going to get worse.
  
  The horrible thing is that it doesn't have to suck.
  Take Gamebryo, make Skyrim in a new map, new quests, scale it up for modern hardware a little, hire some voice actors and sell it. They could give everyone exactly what they expect.
  They just won't. Everything has to be some grandiose overhaul for the sake of bullshit when it comes to Todd Howard and Microsoft.
Let's put it like this- Skyrim is as old now as Final Fantasy VII was when it came out. If you had asked me then if Final Fantasy VII was an old game when Skyrim came out, I'd have said yeah.
- Pretty much all DRM free games are on GoG no matter the age.
  
  You are inverting the logic there, all games on GoG are DRM free, but not all DRM free games are on GoG.
It's from 2011, of course it's old.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I’m glad no new Elder Scrolls game is coming out. With the enshittification of Bethesda, the announcement of TES6 coming out would just hype everyone only for it to be a buggy, microtransaction-filled trashcan. See Starfield.
I’m more hyped for Skyblivion than for TES6.
The term "classic" would suit it better.
- "Retro" would also work, given that it was released 2 generations ago
  
  So retro wouldn't fit, as retro mean new in old-style. You're looking for vintage
Old? It's still getting major releases! 😉
I'm looking forward to checking out the re-make that's about to drop of one of my old favorite games. Lunar: Silver Star Story. I still have my PS1 version.
- They're remaking Lunar?
  I hope they remaster Wings (the intro song).
  
  I kind of used the wrong word, really. They aren't doing so much as they did with FF7. It's more like just a re-master. It'll run in wide-screen, have some qol improvements for inventory, upscale graphics, lots of music, audio, and cutscene improvements, and some other little stuff, as well as retro mode that will make it all look and sound and appear just like it was 30 years ago.
  I've been waiting for its release for like 6 months, but it actually drops just next week on ps4/ps5, pc, switch, and xbone.
  Even though I've been waiting, I'm not sure if I'll get it next week right away or not. They're releasing physical copies on amazon for $55, but the digital copy is still $50. I'm a PC gamer, so I'll probably wait until that price gap is bigger if I'm only going to have a digital copy.
  Also, it's Lunar 1 and 2 bundled together, so two classics.
I'm more upset about Thief (2014) being labelled as "classic".
If I had a dog that was born in 2011 I would call him old.
I personally think games age faster than dogs ¯(ツ)_/¯
I mean it's a 14 year old game isn't it?
That’s amazing! It’s one of the few games that I feel like replaying every few years. Some of the others are Mario 3, doom 1 and 2.
There are others but I can’t think of them off the top of my head at the moment.
- Kotor
  Chrono Trigger
  Ocarina of Time / Twilight Princess / Wind Waker
  Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
  Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
  Crash Bandicoot: Warped
  F-Zero GX
  Halo CE / Halo 3 / Halo: Reach
  Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door
  Journey
  
  That’s a good list for sure oot and alttp and halo 1 for me. I’m surprised you skipped Halo 2. I never really liked that one as much as the others but people really seem to love it.
It's impossible for it to be old. They keep releasing it, making it new every time. Just last week, they announced that it will be released on my toaster this summer.
It is an old game, technically it was an old game when it was released

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