Would you go back to the old days? (Current teenagers might not understand)

[Sunrider]

I would go back and experience it again, if it means I can fast-forward through the time spent in school. Wouldn't go back there for all the money in the world.

I miss experiencing those games for the first time. I remember my first time playing FF7. Wasted a whole summer on that game, and it was totally worth it.

Plus, if I could go back, I'd start playing instruments earlier! Profit.

 

[FalloutJack]

I would really only go back if I could somehow influence the future events. Mind you, there were some things that should've been taken advantage of at the time which were not.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

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.
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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...

Yeah, that bolded bit doesn't make you sound like a complete hipster at all...


I mean, why should we let the unclean casual gamers have any fun?

 

[Bostur]

I don't miss the graphics of the 80s and the 90s, but I do miss some of the game design and the innovative concepts. It's like the current generation of game developers try to reinvent the wheel constantly instead of being inspired by proven formulas.

 

[RedKurtain]

The original Command and Conquer... that is all.

 

[ruben6f]

I am 15 and I love the old games, they were really fun and I wold love to go back to those times, I also loved old style cartoons really fun to watch.

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.


And I'm only 23.

Lol, Ocarina of Time is one of my favourite games, it was my first N64 game and I loved every single minute of the game.

Where you sitting there, playing OoT thinking, 'Dude! This game is so retro! look at the size of those polygons!'

I remember when it was the best looking game around...

No it was more like "dude this game is actually fun" I still play it when I get mad at battlefield and other games

 

[RedKurtain]

I don't miss the graphics of the 80s and the 90s, but I do miss some of the game design and the innovative concepts. It's like the current generation of game developers try to reinvent the wheel constantly instead of being inspired by proven formulas.

I respect your opinion but from my perspective it seems that they're doing exactly the opposite. They keep using the same engines and formulas with little renovation. I think the problem is that for whatever reason, they keep choosing the wrong engines and formulas to reboot. But no matter what game it is, there will always be the dude/dudett who will claim, "I coulda made it better"

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I am 15 and I love the old games, they were really fun and I wold love to go back to those times, I also loved old style cartoons really fun to watch.

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.


And I'm only 23.

Lol, Ocarina of Time is one of my favourite games, it was my first N64 game and I loved every single minute of the game.

Where you sitting there, playing OoT thinking, 'Dude! This game is so retro! look at the size of those polygons!'

I remember when it was the best looking game around...

No it was more like "dude this game is actually fun" I still play it when I get mad at battlefield and other games

I like you. You give me hope for the future, but you must keep to your training young jedi.

 

[NinjaDuckie]

I'd say bring back Commander Keen, Blake Stone, Wacky Wheels, and the first Crash Bandicoot.

But they'd remake Blake Stone as an 'edgy' FPS game, Wacky Wheels as a 'realistic' HD bloom-enhanced racing thing, Commander Keen as a badly-designed 'survival horror' and Crash Bandicoot they already ruined.

By the way, I'm 20 now and I recently had the joy of playing with a ZX Spectrum +2 (the one with the built-in tape player.

I put "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" into the tape deck and spent twenty minutes waiting for it to load... then turned over the tape for the next twenty minutes. That was totally worth it, though. The game was actually pretty solidly designed.

As Yahtzee said re: STALKER Clear Sky, "you couldn't get away with releasing a buggy game in those days, or you'd get a trampling under the company brontosaurus".

 

[veloper]

Ofcourse not.
We can play both old games and new games now. Not everything new is crap. I still play the old gems. Music, games, cinema.

I would appreciate more retro style though. Merging the best of then with the best of now.

 

[teebeeohh]

after 10-20 years you star forgetting the shit and only remember the good stuff plus you were a kid and didn't reflect critically on stuff if it was fun.
this thread is useless, you could just as well read the comments for an average game overthinker episode.
born in 87 btw

 

[Kargathia]

I am 19, but I sure as hell want to go back to the olden days for a bit - only to come back and be able to tell all you old farts that the gaming of the 80's really did suck.

 

[Shymer]

I am approaching my 40th birthday. I am happy to inform everyone in this thread that at my age, you have got past the feelings of nostaligia. You know what you want from games and why, and are perfectly happy to pick those games that you enjoy - old or new.

Everything now seems fresh. The games of my youth are now in more than two colours, and have sound, and load instantly rather than taking ten minutes off of a dodgy audio casette, and don't involve me typing them in from a listing in a magazine.

I remember those feelings that things were getting worse. But it's only because my expectations were changing faster than things were improving. It improves with age.

 

[floppylobster]

No, no ,no, you're ALL wrong. My god I feel like Cranky Kong. I was born in 1972. That's right - 19 - fucking - 72. I grew up in the GOLDEN AGE of video games. I've experienced the crash, the rebirth, the first consoles, the height of the arcades, the move to 3D, the shift from cartridges, the birth of portable gaming, the first networked and Internet games. I owned Computer Space! I've seen it all. The absolute greatest times in gaming were -

- The height of arcade years - around 1982 - 1986 (because you could socialise with other gamers - face-to-face!)
- The height of the SNES vs. Megadrive/Genesis years and the release of Doom, Myst, Command & Conquer leading to the emergence of the PC as a serious gaming alternative. Roughly 1992 - 1996
- The PlayStation, N64 up to the Dreamcast era. 1997 - 2000
- Time of the Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and end of the PS2 era. Around 2008.

If you grew up during any of these times, you were indeed lucky and it's probably why you're into games.

For the record, films in general were better (before the design-by-committee-to-make-more-money phase we're currently in). But games are as good as they've ever been, only in different ways. The Internet is also a much better place than it was. The only things that have gotten significantly worse are: my hearing, eyesight and memory (and my temper, so don't dispute me on any of this).

 

[Squilookle]

Maybe I'm in a nostalgic mood

Wait are you saying the industry goes back to the model it had in the 80's early 90s? Or that you physically go back in time yourself?

 

[aDuck]

I was born in the 90's but raised on media from the 80's and early 90's. Seeing many of the things put out today just makes me wish for things I had as a kid. My main issue being cartoons today are just terrible.

Bang on. I enjoy games back then more than I enjoy games now. Simple arcade top-down shooters (Raptor anyone?) and new 3D games (Mechwarrior, Fury3, Descent, etc...) were always fun to play, no matter what (Hell, I am playing through Mechworrior 2 on DosBox in a window behind Chrome, AND listening to the music via iTunes). All of these ideas were new, and they just worked because they were so unique. Games nowdays are just getting repetitive and boring. While I do enjoy the Modern Warfare series, they are just the same game with one or two additions.

I personally think these games were better because they were harder.
Try tackling 5 waves of Mechs in a row without the ability to repair.
Try finishing a complete sector of Raptor on Elite difficulty.
Try not getting sick while escaping a reactor explosion on Descent.

These games will always be remembered for me because they are FUN. They remain fun, and will always leave a special place in my memory as video games that defined my childhood.

 

[Antari]

Nostalgia huh? ... Well I can remember a day when games were a finished product, and for the most part would work out of the box. Mainly because patching processes and the internet were not available. If a game came up with additional content it was called an expansion, it usually added as much content to the game as it had origionally. And was usually priced at half the price of the regular game. None of this, can we please have 10 dollars for our new map every week bullshit.

You guys can keep thinking its nostalgia, but to me its reality. Things WERE better back then. Sure graphics weren't that great. But the games themselves were alot more fun, if anything because the programmers weren't saddled by extremely bloated distributors whipping them like cattle. They make the game fun, if they aren't having fun, guess what your game is going to feel like.

When I play Ultima 7 P1&P2 its not nostalgia thats kicked in. Its joy in an open ended RPG that isn't leading me down a narrow hallway to the exact same set of enemies I just fought 50ft behind me (Ya looking at you dragon age).

 

[Zyntoxic]

Im born 1990 but I remamber playing games with my dad since I was 3 and even through the nostalgic eyes of a kid, I must say I think the end of the 90's and beginning of the 00's was the best era when it comes to games, I mean most of today's most loved classics is from that era.

Baldur's gate, Half-life, Planescape torment, Quake III, Ocarina of time, Starcraft... well I could go on, but plenty of games of that era has been consider by many the best games in gaming history, and there certainly was somthing of a "game boom" during that era since both consoles and PC's becomning rapidly more common in pretty much every household during the same era.

 

[bluepilot]

My favorite game in the world is still rod land on the amega 500

Games are defiantly better now but more like having an interactive part in a movie in some ways. I miss the early simple fun of some older games where it was like you could control your own cartoon character

I still own a gameboy advance and fish around for old gameboy cartriges in second hand scores. I found the origional tetris last week.

Now my current iPhone is more powerful than my old amega 500 but not as fun

I miss joysticks