Nostalgia, Is it really all that bad?

[Ridgemo]

I can play an old game usually for about 5 minutes before the gameplay starts pissing me off.

An example, one of my favourite old racing games would have to be the grandprix games by Microprose. Very fun, but if you were to say that they are better than F1 2010 by Codemasters i'd have to ask you to step outside. Same with platformers, everyone bangs on about Super Mario, but id' rather play Jak and Daxter over it any day.

Games nowadays are better in their tech. What you prefer is just up to preference. I prefer old American muscle cars to most of the stuff that is made today, but that doesn't mean they are better (they arn't).

 

[RA92]

OP

Another factor about nostalgia is that when we were younger, our minds were much more impressionable. It didn't take much for me to be awe-struck by games back then in the nineties, especially with massive leaps in tech. As gamers grow older and their taste becomes more refined, it gets harder and harder for developers to come up with new features that isn't just another iteration of an older idea that said gamers are already aware of.

Not to mention that nostalgia doesn't only involve our love for old games, but our past lives themselves. Our first games have this magical ability to take us back to our more innocent years... that's the case for me at least.

 

[DustyDrB]

It enhances the experience. There's nothing wrong with that at all.