How often do you play old games?

[Shoggoth2588]

Often to the point of near exclusivity. Not counting games from last year (unless you really are that rich) most of what I play is pretty-to-relatively-to-quite old. I frequently go back to classics and bounce between more recent titles. Today for example I went through a bit of New Vegas, Duke Nukem 64 and, Doom 64.

 

[Vern5]

I'm playing Daggerfall right now and I was playing Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic before that.

Does that count as old and often?

 

[Callate]

I've been playing through the Castlevania trilogy on the DS; does that count?

There's "old" as in "not released within the last couple of years" (which seems to cover most of the games listed here, including by the OP), there's old as in "I've played them before". Then there's old as in "doesn't play on modern systems without emulation". I played the Atari 2600 Adventure not that long ago, and still occasionally enjoy playing the Commodore 64 Archon. I occasionally trot out Sierra On-Line's Jones in the Fast Lane, which holds up pretty well, being essentially a board game.

But I started playing video games in 1979 or so, so my frame of reference is a little different.

 

[ArkhamJester]

Quite often. In fact, I'm replaying old Tomb Raider games this month. From the first one to Underworld.

Even Angel of Darkness? You poor sod, only the metaphorical buzzards will find you when your through (so I've been told)

 

[Pink Gregory]

I find the assumption that anyone who's into vidyagaems will stringently only play new games kinda ill-informed.

I don't think there's any ground in the OLD GAMES GOOD NEW GAMES BAD BAAAAAH line that's touted a lot, because it's easy to find pearls amongst the swine, especially if you have a PC (and not even a high-end one).

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

So due to budget and lack of hours at work I have some time to play old games. I recently beat Silent Hill 2 (still creepy as all s**t) after over a decade... I currently just popped in Fallout New Vegas. Soon I may get Crusader Kings II, but only because Rome 2 mods crashed my game :/

I am working on Star wars empire at war and Divine divinity and Skyrim, gotta watch those mods you have to install them in order and shit else things go bad fast. I am running Skyrim with over 15 mods 3 or 4 my own.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

All the time considering that by the time I'm able to afford most games they can probably be considered old.

 

[Feraswondervahnn]

Well my original Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, Megadrive and N64 still get regular use. My 360 on the other hand barely gets touched. More or less every PC game I own came out before the last console generation bar a select few, though this is more because my PC is pretty damn old now and I currently can't afford a new one.

I play a fair few fighting games on 360/ps3 with mates and own a fair few newer DS games but that's about it. I struggle to get into most of the newer games I play, it's kind of annoying.

 

[KB13]

I mostly play old games Centipede is my favorite closely followed by Doom 95. I did just get Dead Space for free from Origin and it's not a bad spin off of Doom, though it doesn't scare me nearly as much as Doom 1 does. I also have on good authority that my older cousin is selling his Atari and duck hunt. In general I can be found playing the classics more often than starting a new game in Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or Morrowind.

 

[Dalisclock]

Every so often I'll play older games, though I'll admit it's hard while trying to work through my backlog of new games.

At some point I'm going to replay FFVI, which I last played through around 15 years ago. Though now I see there's an "updated" FFIII for PC out on steam now and I've got a hankering to try it again.

 

[The Enquirer]

What's old to you, 6th gen games? I played nothing but 6th gen games until last year. Nowadays the oldest thing I'm playing is BioShock, which has been out for 7 years.

Wow. It doesn't actually seem like it's been that long.

And yes, I play old games all the time. Love me some Timesplitters.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

What's old to you, 6th gen games? I played nothing but 6th gen games until last year. Nowadays the oldest thing I'm playing is BioShock, which has been out for 7 years.

Wow. It doesn't actually seem like it's been that long.

And yes, I play old games all the time. Love me some Timesplitters.

Good design probably helps, but there's the fact that it also got a few ports afterwards, and they also bundled the game with BioShock: Infinite as well.

 

[Vandenberg1]

Considering Fallout New Vegas is mentioned in the OP as an old game I got a very vague sense of what "old" means right now.
If we say at least ten years then sometimes. Recently played through FFVII/VIII again after I re-bought them for PC and I'm currently playing the FFX/X-2 HD box. Also had some fun with Spyro the Dragon and FFIV-VI before that(Final Fantasy was a huge part of my childhood). I'm very burned out on gaming at the moment, however, so my progress is extremely slow.
Never really bothered with any games pre-Playstation á la 1996 since that's when I started playing games. The few times I played on a Nintendo system before that was at my friends homes, so I don't have much of a connection to them.

Dat feel when I realise FFX is 13 years old.

Well any game beyond 6+ years is considered old, but I did go back last year and beat FFVIII on my old PS1 so it's a crap shoot on age really. I can't stand FF X-2 and beyond so good luck with that. FF X at least has Rammstein in the last boss fight.

 

[DanielBrown]

I can't stand FF X-2 and beyond so good luck with that. FF X at least has Rammstein in the last boss fight.

Thanks? I don't care for anything beyond FFX either. The only redeeming feature of X-2 is that it was the last Final Fantasy with a decent combat system. Bought the original on the release date, but I've never been able to beat it as the girls and dialogue(among a lot of other flaws) sickened me. Hopefully the trophies will help pushing me through it.
Otherworld isn't Rammstein though.

 

[Olas]

If Fallout New Vegas constitutes old then I play old games almost exclusively. I haven't even gotten to New Vegas yet, I'm still on Fallout 3.

I just can't justify buying new games when the back catalogue of great old ones is so large. The only problem of course is that you tend to get left out of the conversation on sites like this when it comes to new releases. But I think it's worth it

Next time you plan on paying over 40$ for a new game, stop and think if there are any older games you've never gotten around to playing that might be better. Obviously if you're all about teh graffix (which I have nothing against) then you'll prefer newer games in general, but chances are there are a lot of great games you've missed out on too.

 

[HarleyHyena]

Most of the time I prefer older games... I recently started playing Fallout 3, then moved onto Fallout New Vegas. I'm looking back at games I could start playing to pass the time...

 

[The Enquirer]

What's old to you, 6th gen games? I played nothing but 6th gen games until last year. Nowadays the oldest thing I'm playing is BioShock, which has been out for 7 years.

Wow. It doesn't actually seem like it's been that long.

And yes, I play old games all the time. Love me some Timesplitters.

Good design probably helps, but there's the fact that it also got a few ports afterwards, and they also bundled the game with BioShock: Infinite as well.

I just picked up every one of them in a recent Steam sale.

The good design definitely helps a lot. It's weird to think Super Smash Brothers Melee came out 12 and a half years ago when the game simply handles so well nowadays. Better than a lot of other fighting games for that matter.

 

[stroopwafel]

Rarely. I kind of like where gaming is now so I mostly play current releases('current' being anything between now and, say, 2009). I've been playing games since the Atari 2600 but the PS3 is probably my most played system of all time. I always hear many people claiming games used to be so much better in the 'good old days', but I don't see it. Yeah there are a few retro gems(mainly from the 16-bit era) but most of them just didn't really age that well or were crap to begin with. In general I'm having lot more fun with modern games.

 

[Ieyke]

Regularly.
About as often as I play new ones.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I'm going on a binge with Sim City 4, Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Socom Combined Assault.

I usually take these binges on a fairly regular basis.