Holy shit, when a 15 year old states that they love the old games i.e. Ocarina of Time, that makes me feel really old.ruben6f said:
And I'm only 23.
Would you go back to the old days? (Current teenagers might not understand)
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And I'm only 23.
Remember the gaming crash that was ended in the mid-'80s? There was a reason for that. Hundreds of bedroom/garage designed games flooding the market, each expected to be a golden stalwart hero of gaming, most of which turned out to be rubbish. Just because there were good things then, does not mean there aren't good things now. Things are much better now. Have you seen what we can do now? Entire orchestras, instead of 4 or 6 chord soundtracks. Immense detail all over the place. Customization like never before. Entire teams of people working toward a specific goal to make something amazing, rather than one guy down in his mom's basement working to push out a game that might not always work. Indie is fine and all, but it cannot be all that sustains your market. Likewise, the reverse cannot hold the entire market either. Beyond that, the variety of games available today is astounding. Superhero games. Space marine shooters. Heroic adventures. Racers. Fighters. Over the shoulder shooters. Tactical strategy. Real Time Strategy. Turn based fighters. Open worlds and Sandboxes. We're no longer in the time when everything had to be either a platformer or a flat world.
It's nostalgia talking. Sturgeon's law applies in ALL eras of EVERYTHING. There's crap today, there was crap in the 70s, the80s and the 90s, and the 00s. I don't think it's worth arguing, because there was that kind of stuff going on even back then as well.
You are only thinking about the good back then, and forgot about the bad. The grass is always greener on the other side.
You are only thinking about the good back then, and forgot about the bad. The grass is always greener on the other side.
No. I played all the old school games when they were brand new. If I want to go back, I'll just emulate, but old Atari games, old Sega/Nintendo games, Turbographics.... been there done all that. The only thing I really go back to play are old arcade games (coin-ops)and that is kind of a novelty thing. I really like the sega M2 engine ^_^
Pretty much most sega arcade engines, I'd reckon
Pretty much most sega arcade engines, I'd reckon
The only thing I really miss is that initial sense of wonder the first time I played Super Mario Bro. in a toy store. Then they joy years later of running downstairs Christmas morning to break out Mario Paint and play it for hours making really bad music and animation. I still love playing video games, but it just doesn't come close to the sheer happiness I had of playing them as a kid.
Born in 86 and hell no I'm glad i don't remember most of the 80s, nostalgia is fine but games back then aren't the same as games now I would never give up modern games based on how far they have come from 2d sprites.
No one is forcing you to enjoy the modern games either in a massive chess game, if you like old games they are still available they are not gone forever you can still play retro games or re-releases. Big studios may like to stuick to popular titles but there are so many more avenues for gaming now, mobile games, facebook games, indie development on pc and small downloadable titles on wiiware, xbox live and psn.
The past may be nice but that's where it belongs, too much nostalgia will get you no where.
No one is forcing you to enjoy the modern games either in a massive chess game, if you like old games they are still available they are not gone forever you can still play retro games or re-releases. Big studios may like to stuick to popular titles but there are so many more avenues for gaming now, mobile games, facebook games, indie development on pc and small downloadable titles on wiiware, xbox live and psn.
The past may be nice but that's where it belongs, too much nostalgia will get you no where.
On one hand there are benefits ie children are more nicer compare to the brats online and it was some what safer to play outside (depend on where you live) and getting a happy meal without the fruits or stick carrots with it.
However if I do go back would I revert back to my younger self but my current mind in it? It will be so hard to have fun while keeping thinking thinking how immature it all is (the same when talking to other kids).
Overall I would say no, sure the past were fun but I do not dwell in the past since I look upon the future (I welcome what the new day bring me).
Besides if I would go to the past (not reverting to my younger self) I wouldn't want to relive my past life, I would do suff I couldn't do as a kid like going to the clubs, watch non kid films at the cinema etc.
However if I do go back would I revert back to my younger self but my current mind in it? It will be so hard to have fun while keeping thinking thinking how immature it all is (the same when talking to other kids).
Overall I would say no, sure the past were fun but I do not dwell in the past since I look upon the future (I welcome what the new day bring me).
Besides if I would go to the past (not reverting to my younger self) I wouldn't want to relive my past life, I would do suff I couldn't do as a kid like going to the clubs, watch non kid films at the cinema etc.
If you like Nintendo so much then why not just get an emulator? - As others pointed out the non-corporate video gaming industry all but died out in the video game crash.
Plus living in the 80ies Denmark means a furiously right-wing government, a decade of austerity and poverty, and all video games being rubbish. The only thing I'd go backwards for would be if I had a book of recorded lottery numbers, and seeing how that's not happening I wouldn't.
Plus living in the 80ies Denmark means a furiously right-wing government, a decade of austerity and poverty, and all video games being rubbish. The only thing I'd go backwards for would be if I had a book of recorded lottery numbers, and seeing how that's not happening I wouldn't.
Nooooooo. Our choices were so limited back then. The only reason some of those games got off being called "good" was because there was so little to compare them to.Swat_Kat said:
If you want to play indie games so badly, then look some indie web-sites and forums. It's not that they don't exist. In fact, they're easier to find than they ever have been. All you have to do is search on Google.
Oh, and by the way, I highly doubt any of your games from your childhood were made in someone's garage. If it was distributed in any way, I guarantee it had a team, a distributor, and a budget behind it. And if it was good, likely a big team and a big budget. Unless you personally knew some of these indie gamemakers and got their "garage-games" straight from them, you did not grow up on games made by one person.
No way! I was born in 1982. That's like being born near the start of The Renaissance only with video games.
Not all 'games were better back then' is nostalgia. Baldur's Gate 2 for example is still a bloody awesome game and if it had todays graphics the world would implode from awesome. I assure you.
I do laugh at old 3d games though. They age so badly.
Not all 'games were better back then' is nostalgia. Baldur's Gate 2 for example is still a bloody awesome game and if it had todays graphics the world would implode from awesome. I assure you.
I do laugh at old 3d games though. They age so badly.
Where you sitting there, playing OoT thinking, 'Dude! This game is so retro! look at the size of those polygons!'ruben6f said:
I remember when it was the best looking game around...
No.
I was born in '87. I do not remember media being significantly better back then.
Games and movies were, as far as I'm concerned, worse in every single way. I can't really judge in regards to TV or music since I rarely partake in either.
Sure, there a few things that press my nostalgia buttons. Flashback (the game), Tintin comics, 90s Disney movies and so on. But I don't have any particular desire to see them come back.
I was born in '87. I do not remember media being significantly better back then.
Games and movies were, as far as I'm concerned, worse in every single way. I can't really judge in regards to TV or music since I rarely partake in either.
Sure, there a few things that press my nostalgia buttons. Flashback (the game), Tintin comics, 90s Disney movies and so on. But I don't have any particular desire to see them come back.
Nah, I'd go back to around 2004-2005 and totally destroy Nintendo's headquaters meaning the Wii would never be created and thus games would never become mainstream.
I'd probably destroy Infinty Ward too actually because CoD 4 certainly contributed to bringing games to the masses... Hmmm, I indeed need to find a flux capacitor... and a really stylish car to put it in...
I'd probably destroy Infinty Ward too actually because CoD 4 certainly contributed to bringing games to the masses... Hmmm, I indeed need to find a flux capacitor... and a really stylish car to put it in...