[Classic] Old games are great, don't forget

Wow Denicalis. Replace Suikoden and Earthbound with Star Ocean 2 and Valkyrie Profile and that about sums up my favorites.

I agree that gaming generally doesn't feel like it used to. I no longer have a working NES or SNES. But I'll never part with my PS1 RPGs which also includes alot of NES and SNES remakes. While there are alot of newer games I enjoy and play, I tend to get rid of them after I do just about everything in them because I know that most the time, I'll never play them again. This especially holds true with how many game series nowadays get a yearly title released.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by xiaowei

Looking back at old games is an interesting thing to do. Sometimes, I believe that people are strongly blinded by their nostalgia and the mentality of "back in the mah day." I think the reason that older people find old games better is that new games haven't changed much. And when the experience is fresh and new, it really sticks in the brain. There's nothing I haven't seen in the last five years that I hadn't seen before. It's harder to remember a game when there's nothing new or memorable. However, when you talk to younger gamers, they note that old games are exactly like new games. So, why would they want to deal with the crufty old sprites* when they get polygons? The core gameplay is still the same.

Newer games aren't all like old ones. You never see side scrolling beat em ups anymore and fighting games play nothing like they did in 2D.

I know nostalgia is part of it, but that's not the whole thing. Our media as a whole has been becoming rather stale, not just video games. Look at TV for instance, rather then having good shows like we used to have, it's overflowing with crap like reality shows. We just occassionaly get a show that's a gem these days. Heck, I still love cartoons and most of what they expect kids to watch is complete crap, I know I wouldn't have watched alot of it when I was a kid.

Originally Posted by GoldfishX

Funniest part is...My NES games probably look better now than I ever thought they did in the past. 8-bit cityscapes are <3. Think the only generation whose graphics bother me are the 32/64 bit era and that was because 3D games looked like ass on all of them (the 2D stuff was sweet).

Yeah... old 3D graphics have not aged well. As great as the game is, Final Fantasy 7 is kind of painful to look at nowadays.

Man, thinking of old games. I miss my Commodore 64, I used to spend hours playing Jump Man, Bruce Lee, and Shogun. I also miss playing the old Dungeons and Dragons golden box games on PC.

There's nowhere I can't reach.