Heck, I'm doing that already.Luke5515 said:
It's okay, I can't believe I forgot Longest Journey and Beyond Good & Evil (which I just finished again like a month ago. Shame on me!), so, good team work there! ^5octafish said:
Why do people seam to like old games more then new ones?
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I don't know what you are all talking about with nostalgia, but all I know is that I just re-beat Super Metroid last night and it kicked ass. At the same time, it's hard to play a lot of games from that era because they just were designed to be time sinks with the 3 lives and 3 continues. Older games aren't better as much as the best of the old games are better than the best of new games.
I've started replaying all the Dooms and Hexens and I can confirm that they are still some of the best games ever.
There are some games I loved but now cannot stand (Pokemon Ruby for example) but there are others that are just fantastic (Golden Sun, FFX) no matter how long it's been since I bought them.
Nostalgia factor, definitively, obviously, some games were VERY good...
However, we tend to see the past with rosy-tinted glassed...
However, we tend to see the past with rosy-tinted glassed...
mostly because gamers who say that or think that way have started on those times, and games back then had more production value and stuff
besides there's the epic factor, for example, a fact, CheetahMen 2 on the NES was, is, and will always be far more epic than Halo
Pokemon on the GameBoys will always be more epic than Gears of War series
and some know I'm right =P
besides there's the epic factor, for example, a fact, CheetahMen 2 on the NES was, is, and will always be far more epic than Halo
Pokemon on the GameBoys will always be more epic than Gears of War series
and some know I'm right =P
I love my older games, being I literally grew up with the Super Nintendo. Back then(I feel old) game idea's were still a little fresh and studio's were cranking out some good idea's that were later copied with less effectiveness. "EVO: Search For Eden" is the first thing to come to mind. If that doesnt look like "spore" totally ripped that off in many ways then glued some other game genre's to it then I have no idea. Plus there's just something about playing "Knights of the Round" with your older brother, side scrolling and killing everything that you just can't do these days.
I don't.
If I compare an old game that I liked (say, Flashback) with a newer game that I liked (say, Portal), the new stuff is better by several orders of magnitude.
As has been said several times already, people are just fond of nostalgia. Which is harmless enough I suppose.
If I compare an old game that I liked (say, Flashback) with a newer game that I liked (say, Portal), the new stuff is better by several orders of magnitude.
As has been said several times already, people are just fond of nostalgia. Which is harmless enough I suppose.
What's better: That first time you experience a great game, or the 100th, after it's lost its freshness?
Same can be said of games in general. An innovative game will add fresh mechanics and concepts, but the first few games you play, the entire concept of gaming is new.
Same can be said of games in general. An innovative game will add fresh mechanics and concepts, but the first few games you play, the entire concept of gaming is new.
Because people only remember the classics in older generation games, but they can think of pleanty of terrible games to go along with the good ones of this generation.
Some games of old were actually better, some people are just remembering with their rose-tinted viewpoint... could be both.
I wouldn't say its just nostalgia that makes people say these things though it is a factor. In my opinion its the fact that we've had the time to sort out the gems from back in the day which were on systems like the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, etc. While all the games that were crap have all been long forgotten or brought to light by the AVGN just for the point of making fun of them. Today's games just seem to be all the same hell the market is flooded with first person shooters or some game about a guy with a secret past who has super powers and works for the goverment. Theres not really that many sparks of true creativity to latch on to and say yes this game is awesome I love the characters, story, gameplay, etc. In the old days there were those games that blew your mind with how innovative or compelling they were. Its all things that seem to be lacking in today's game industry and while I admit I have had fun playing games that were made today but never as much fun as I've had playing anything on the Sega Genesis.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. Old games conjure up memories of a simpler time, a bygone age, when we were rosy cheeked children, perpetually smiling blissfully ignorant to the unimaginable horrors of the world in which we live (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atkinson for details)
It's only when we go back and re-play those games that we realise Spyro 2:Gateway to Glimmer was by no means a better game than Fallout 3 and we were frankly deranged for ever thinking it was so.
It's only when we go back and re-play those games that we realise Spyro 2:Gateway to Glimmer was by no means a better game than Fallout 3 and we were frankly deranged for ever thinking it was so.
1) NOSTALGIA
2) Difficulty difference
3) Love and care went into creating the game
4) Often the games have game-play that is more fun
It's like saying why do people prefer old automobiles, or prefer to collect old game consoles, or like to date older women.
2) Difficulty difference
3) Love and care went into creating the game
4) Often the games have game-play that is more fun
It's like saying why do people prefer old automobiles, or prefer to collect old game consoles, or like to date older women.
Eh, in some cases it's just nostalgia, but in some cases good games were actually made back then, shocking, I know. People who blindly say "new games are shit! old games ftw!" however ARE nostalgia blinded idiots, as really almost every aspect of game-making has improved over the years, and there were just as many bad games coming out "back then" as there are now.
Apart from nostalgia, I think another huge factor is that if you mainly play one genre, it gets repeating very fast. So, naturally, the game you saw it (specific character model, plot twist, gameplay mechanic, etc) first in, will leave a strong and lasting impression on you.