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Do you ‘appreciate’ older games?
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Definitely. I find myself playing older games more often than new ones. I can't count how many nights I have stayed up until 1 am playing games like Castlevania 3, Mega Man X and Final Fight. Hell the most exciting thing this year for me is the Megaman Zero collection. Need more collections of games I grew up with.
Hell yes, I do have classics I sometimes go back to play but sadly I lack most of the systems I once had that played these games and it's not the same with emulation.
Once I get my own space I fully plan to have a dedicated gaming room with awesome stuff, retro and modern alike :)
Once I get my own space I fully plan to have a dedicated gaming room with awesome stuff, retro and modern alike :)
i mean... it WAS intended that way. the continues are an option from the port. credit feeding on MAME is emulating using... actual money.
the ports should do a better job of letting people experience something closer to how they were originally conceived. maybe every hour a player earns an extra credit or saving should be set between stages (and not scummed during stages or w/e) or they delete after being opened.
PS1/N64-era games are hard for me to go back to, but 2D stuff from the generations before those are just as fun as modern games to me, if not more so.
N64 games are hard to go back to for sure.
Can't say the same for the PS1 as it has a lot of wonderful 2D/2.5D games that have aged very nicely.
It depends on the game. I'm not going to go back to the Atari 2600 versions of Asteroids or Pac-Man, but I can still spend some time on Adventure, Seaquest or River Raid. I might play Aquatron or Star Blazer for the Apple ][ for a little while, but something like Aztec is too clunky for my tastes nowadays. Super Mario Bros. 1-3 or River City Ransom on the NES? I could play those all day. Genghis Khan on the NES? I'm not sure I have that kind of time anymore.
If I can still have some fun with a title, I'll keep going back to it once in awhile no matter how old it is.
If I can still have some fun with a title, I'll keep going back to it once in awhile no matter how old it is.
I appreciate games that go back to how games used to be. Game in question I'm playing now terminator resistance is like playing an fps from ten years ago. Simple, yet amazingly fun. Sometimes, you just want to kick back and play, and not have to worry about stats here and there and God knows what else, just play.
Flip side: I grew up on them in the 80s and on and, not only can I appreciate them because of that, I can also call a spade a spade and call some of the ones I grew up with and enjoyed not good (or worse, looking right at you Battletoads).
The view from myself or any other "older" folks versus the newer generations will always be different, without question, because of experiencing it in the time they were made, but I'm not going to discount someone's opinion on it being good or not just because of that. If you don't enjoy it you don't enjoy it.
The view from myself or any other "older" folks versus the newer generations will always be different, without question, because of experiencing it in the time they were made, but I'm not going to discount someone's opinion on it being good or not just because of that. If you don't enjoy it you don't enjoy it.
I appreciate them but they are not the best. Like, yeah, Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong are the reason we have Mario today but those games aren't the best things ever.
It was just a little before my time. I was born in 1990 so I didn't start playing games will I was maybe 4-5 so when I first played it it seemed a little simple? I dunno if thats the right word.
I think it's easy to go back to games you used to play as a kid because the nostalgia factor sweetens the deal. I didn't have many consoles/games when I was young so revisiting some of the so-called classics now is pretty rough. There are some games that still truly hold up though thanks to their great design that understood its technical limitations. Kirby's Dreamland, Tetris, Super Mario Bros, Castlevania Symphony of the Night are few that come to mind. I have also started to appreciate many GBA games as I think they were peak pixel art design.
I'd rather play Donkey Kong arcade over any of the country games sans TF.
I appreciate them a lot, my playtime is a steady rotation between new and old. Recently got done playing Final Fantasy IX for the first time for example.
Absolutely this. Playing retro games means more variety of gameplay styles in my life.
I may have enjoyed them when I played them at the time - but there's no way I'd go back to them. They completely suck by modern standards - even the classics.
I have been playing vidoe games since the 70's. I have fond memories of games from all the way back then, but playing them again just makes you realize the progress that's been made. Games are good for their time, and the more time that passes since release the more that applies.
neat. i've been playing them for about as long. you're wrong.
SNES and beyond, there are games which I enjoy playing. Ocarina of Time, Crash 1 and 2 are all top 10 games for me.
Let's take a couple of classic games from different era's.
Yars revenge on the 2600 - I played that for hours back then and loved it. I defy anyone to play it for more than 2 minutes and not get bored out of their minds.
Zelda OOT - A truly excellent game at the time of release, rightly regarded as a masterpiece. Pretty much unplayable by modern standards due to the really shitty frame rate and incredibly annoying menu/inventory system that make it a real slog to get through.
Good games (by modern standards) could be made from the core concepts for a lot of old games, but as they stand nostalgia is main reason to compare them favourably with the equivalent modern releases.
Great games are great games regardless of the generation they come from. I go back to NES/SNES/Genesis/N64/PS1/GB/etc. games regularly and appreciate the good ones just as much today as I did at the time they released.
Totally. Love older games. I grew up during the SNES era and have a particular affinity towards pixel games.
The Beatles- Rubber Soul (1965)- who wants to listen to this shit nowadays? I mean, I get that it is influential to pop music going forward, but that awful mono mastering on the original version UGH. virtually unlistenable.
Prince and the Revolution- Purple Rain (1984)- I get why this was popular then but people would probably get bored with the instrumental track. Also-- gated reverb on drums? Aged like milk.
Was born in 1984, and can happily play games from before I was born if they play well. For example, I've become a bit addicted to Tapper at the local arcade trying to set high scores with my friends. A year ago, I'd never played it before so it's certainly not some nostalgia bias.
Lol - so you're counterexamples aren't even games.
Classic music, movies and TV aren't really comparable to video games. Look, I know what you're trying to say, but technology is coupled to games significantly more closely than in other media.
I mean I get it, I do actually"appreciate" old games, but that's because I grew up with them and played them when they came out. If I check them out again it's only for a few minutes before I go back to more recent releases where I actually spend all my gaming time.
it's really not worth indulging with a serious response when OoT, a game that is beloved to this day, finds the user spending LESS time in menus or managing inventory and has more consistent frame rates than BOTW.
YES! Love PSOne and SNES games especially.
Really don't like anything before the SNES or Megadrive/Saturn, though. (Except maybe SMB3)
(I'm 25 and my first console was a Gameboy Color, if that info's relevant)
Really don't like anything before the SNES or Megadrive/Saturn, though. (Except maybe SMB3)
(I'm 25 and my first console was a Gameboy Color, if that info's relevant)
I think the first Super Mario Bros. (and the Japanese sequel, which is most similar to it) are in some ways the best games in that series, honestly. Once Mario left the NES, it moved away from the compact, arcade-like design of the originals that promotes consistent play and a more in-depth understanding of game systems from the player. Later Mario games tend to be a little theme park-like in comparison, often more focused on novelty or presentation over focused design. (I still think almost all mainline Mario games are good or excellent, but this is a case where a foundational game really does have unique strengths that its sequels and successors moved away from.)
I don't think games have really "progressed" in a linear fashion. The big improvement modern games have made over older ones is just that higher levels of technology allow for bigger, more complex games, but game design has changed over time in ways that aren't entirely positive, too. Maybe due to the necessity of larger-budget games to appeal to more and more people in order to recoup their development costs, there's a trend towards keeping players hooked or addicted and away from keeping the player engaged and mentally active, as was the case in a lot of great older games. (And this isn't entirely a recent thing; you can see this shift starting even on the SNES. It's just slid further and further over time.) It's kind of a generalization and simplification - there were shitty older games and a lot of great modern ones) - but it's really not the case that modern games are just flatly better than older ones.
I've not played BotW because the aimlessness of it it does not appeal to me at all. Are you saying the it's tech is worse than OoT? I find that quite surprising as it's not something I've read about on here.
Still, I expect that if you just compare them side by side, ignoring the year they were released, then BotW comes out on top as the better game. Whether or not it's better by the standards at the time of release is another question - certainly in games that appeal to me directly then BotW loses (however I consider them kind of different types of game)
I enjoy playing Famicom onwards.
Once in a while I will be surprised by missing QoL features I'm now used to, even as recently as PS2 generation. I ran into a particularly strong case of this with Flashback (heh) on MD/SNES. A game I remember renting and playing through with no trouble now feels like it has some rather picky/obtuse control and interface issues I need to get reaccustomed to before I can play well.
Once in a while I will be surprised by missing QoL features I'm now used to, even as recently as PS2 generation. I ran into a particularly strong case of this with Flashback (heh) on MD/SNES. A game I remember renting and playing through with no trouble now feels like it has some rather picky/obtuse control and interface issues I need to get reaccustomed to before I can play well.
Yeah, especially if it ages well. Zelda on switch SNES emulator is really fun. I've been enjoying it a ton.
of course the tech is "worse" in OOT, Jesus it's 22 years old! But BOTW gets criticized A LOT for menu management and frame rate... people don't review video games like productivity software or on specs...
Yes, there are more old games worth playing than there is time to play them all properly. People that can't appreciate old games are missing out.
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