kraspkibble
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nah the good old days are gone.
To be fair, 1997 was an amazing year for pretty much everything in the games industry.1997:
PS1
- Gran Turismo
- Tomb Raider 2
- Crash Bandicoot: Cortex Strikes Back
- Colony Wars
- Final Fantasy VII
- Tekken 3
and still no love for the WiiU, it's a damn shame.
Allow me to be “that guy”.
The fact is that these good old days were good because most likely you were a student with fuck all to do besides play video games with your friends. Maybe you were a young adult with fuck all to do besides go to college classes get blasted and maybe show up at some bull shit college job.
I imagine if you were in a similar situation now you would find lots of games to play and enjoy the same way.
Me personally I am an adult with responsibilities that are nearly impossible to escape from for more than an evening at a time or so, so I will never experience that thrill of just being able to relax, hang with my friends and play video games.
Yup. I think a lot of this is rooted in nostalgia for the time itself, rather than the games themselves. A time when we had abundant free time, few or no adult responsibilities, and friends were made easily. When you grow into adulthood, all those things get harder. The game experience was part of a life experience that has gone. It's not that the game industry has changed, so much as you have changed, your life has changed.
Here's a video I saw yesterday that made the same point. I don't play MMOs, but the point carries to any type of game and nostalgia for yesteryear.
"The single biggest factor in your enjoyment of an MMO is the lifestyle you have outside of the game."
At that time everything was new, now yeah sure we have dozens great games each years, but nothing feels like this, and it's not just nostalgia. It's just that everything at that time that was new and brought to a game was to make the games better, more immersive, prettier, new experiences, new gameplay, nowadays everything that's new is just about how to capture / share games (twitch, youtube, etc) and business models (GamePass, PS Now, PS+, etc)... That's not so exciting, imo, in fact it's not exciting at all to me.
The fact is that these good old days were good because most likely you were a student with fuck all to do besides play video games with your friends. Maybe you were a young adult with fuck all to do besides go to college classes get blasted and maybe show up at some bull shit college job.
I imagine if you were in a similar situation now you would find lots of games to play and enjoy the same way.
Me personally I am an adult with responsibilities that are nearly impossible to escape from for more than an evening at a time or so, so I will never experience that thrill of just being able to relax, hang with my friends and play video games.
Exactly. We lived through a revolution in the industry, and were extremely fortunate to do so. Every year games with entirely new design paradigms and huge quality of life increases were coming out - every year was mindblowing. We won't see that again. It started with Mario 64. 1998 was probably the peak. But revolutions don't last forever. GTA III was probably where it started to end - after that designs for future games had been almost fully realised.
1998.
At that time everything was new, now yeah sure we have dozens great games each years, but nothing feels like this, and it's not just nostalgia. It's just that everything at that time that was new and brought to a game was to make the games better, more immersive, prettier, new experiences, new gameplay, nowadays everything that's new is just about how to capture / share games (twitch, youtube, etc) and business models (GamePass, PS Now, PS+, etc)... That's not so exciting, imo, in fact it's not exciting at all to me.
We? They, software and hardware houses, created this situation.
I think there’s something to be said for the shift in how games get made now compared to back then, even after accounting for nostalgia. Games have to be bigger and bolder and have perfect graphics to impress, and the move to higher resolutions has companies spending more money on bigger teams to make bigger games.The fact is that these good old days were good because most likely you were a student with fuck all to do besides play video games with your friends. Maybe you were a young adult with fuck all to do besides go to college classes get blasted and maybe show up at some bull shit college job.
I imagine if you were in a similar situation now you would find lots of games to play and enjoy the same way.
Me personally I am an adult with responsibilities that are nearly impossible to escape from for more than an evening at a time or so, so I will never experience that thrill of just being able to relax, hang with my friends and play video games.
Great video, I dont play MMOs but yes this can absolutely be applied to all gaming.
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Fall / Holiday 2001 after the PS2 had been out over a year or so in NA.
Do you think we will ever see a repeat like this for Fall / Holiday 2021? 2022?
I know this image has been around the internet for ages, but it's striking even after all these years.
Imagine, 10 fantastic must have, instant classic titles all released within the same few months for one console.
I haven't seen something like this in years and with the current state of "AAA" gaming, it seems we never will.
The funny thing is, when the PS2 released, I heard the same arguments being made online that people try to make now.......it was that the PS2 had no games! It was just a fancy DVD player!Fall / Holiday 2001 after the PS2 had been out over a year or so in NA.
Do you think we will ever see a repeat like this for Fall / Holiday 2021? 2022?
I know this image has been around the internet for ages, but it's striking even after all these years.
Imagine, 10 fantastic must have, instant classic titles all released within the same few months for one console.
I haven't seen something like this in years and with the current state of "AAA" gaming, it seems we never will.
That's kinda crazy in retrospect.2017 was pretty lit.
But no, 1998, 2001, and 2004 remain unbeaten. Notice that a Metal Gear Solid game came out in each of those years.
This is an interesting observation. Back then, I would be more into the "fantasy/weeb/child/weird" shit. I still kind of am, but my tastes changed, for example my patience for anime crap is near zero now. It's been hard for me to tell how much of that is a drop in quality and how much of it is my change in tastes/being older (I do think it's both).The average gamer today would play GTA 3, MGS 2, GT3 and maybe Ace Combat and call the rest of the stuff fantasy/weeb/child/weird shit. So even if there was an equivalent lineup in 2020-21, most people would still bitch and moan.
Even as an older gamer with plenty of nostalgia onboard I very much have those days RIGHT NOW. I'm playing games, having fun, speak to friends about games. Enjoying following the shit around the game, enjoy Game Pass AND streaming. Pure fun. I don't know what some of you people are doing to yourselves and why, sounds miserable forcing yourselves doing crap you don't want to do.I miss those days so much. That was when playing games was fun, and we spoke about games and not the shit AROUND the games. Or game pass. Or streaming. Just pure fun.
1998.
At that time everything was new, now yeah sure we have dozens great games each years, but nothing feels like this, and it's not just nostalgia. It's just that everything at that time that was new and brought to a game was to make the games better, more immersive, prettier, new experiences, new gameplay, nowadays everything that's new is just about how to capture / share games (twitch, youtube, etc) and business models (GamePass, PS Now, PS+, etc)... That's not so exciting, imo, in fact it's not exciting at all to me.
OK and that's fine! I still enjoy gaming today but I feel like the days of the 8, 16, 32/64 bit days were FAR better. There wasn't any politicizing of games or gamers. Devs weren't out changing games to please "the woke". We had games that were released when they were done and we weren't treated as beta testers. We didn't have to wait for fucking loading times to fix games. And games were just better then. The only thing capturing the feel of gaming back in those days for me is VR gaming. It's something new and fresh and exciting. I don't need to play my game when I'm out at the shops on my phone, or in a train on my phone. I play my games sitting on my fat ass at home in front of the big TV. And I certainly don't need a library on hand of 200+ games that are mostly filler to satisfy my urges. I have plenty of games to play without that clutter. I never needed it in the past and I don't need it now! You do and that's fine. But i'd rather not have to subscribe to play games for the rest of my life.Even as an older gamer with plenty of nostalgia onboard I very much have those days RIGHT NOW. I'm playing games, having fun, speak to friends about games. Enjoying following the shit around the game, enjoy Game Pass AND streaming. Pure fun. I don't know what some of you people are doing to yourselves and why, sounds miserable forcing yourselves doing crap you don't want to do.