Ah yeah, but you miss out on the, erm, interesting, atmosphere of a midnight launch queue.
In your opinion.
Thank you. Good list, most have been mentioned already, further cementing what I said. I love Monkey Island btw, Golden Axe is a good example of one that doesn't deliver like it used to, what a joy that was on release. Graphics mean little to me, more about the experience, likewise I put little weight in skill, I'd rather have fun and there's plenty to be had regardless of ability. In future I'll attempt to maintain an opinion that fits in with the romantic retro crew who alwa...
Again, I didn't say old games are shit. I said there are a few rare cases that still deliver the same today as they used to.
Look through the comments and at your own. FF, Mario, Chrono Trigger again and again, the rare few among a massive back catalogue. Then you mention To Kill a Mockingbird, Pink Floyd and Shakespeare! The FF, Mario and Chrono Trigger of music and literature :-) Same rules apply. I didn't draw this conclusion from time playing Mario and co., I dre...
Don't be daft, people don't click these opinion pieces, they simply read the comments and snippet then draw conclusions from there.
What I stated was that for myself going back and getting the same joy from a game is rare.I seek alternative opinions within the writing. Now look at the usual suspects cropping up in the comments, Super Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Crash, Tomb Raider, Donkey Kong etc etc. I'd say considering the tens of thousands of retro games out there, it's interesting we always come back to the same few. You could almost say those disagreeing have done so by cementing the original opinion.
I said there are exceptions within the original article.
You're talking about playing something for the first time, I'm talking about going back to a game you once considered great. It's rare I've gone back a game and found it even remotely as enjoyable as it was originally.
You have to write your own truth, and mine is that, with the exception of a few rare cases as stated in the article, retro gaming is by and large a disappointment that only serves to soil memories of games once considered great.
I'm not saying old games were garbage in comparison to today's games, they were far from it and I wouldn't have stuck around for over thirty years playing, but they rarely live up to what we remembered from the time.
It's funny to me t...
I lived through these games when they were relevant and at the pinnacle of playing. I'd love to still get a similar buzz from them now, but it's not there. Anyone who believes they get the same feeling from a Spectrum game now as a few decades ago is kidding themselves.Clinging on to the romance of their youth.
I find anything pre that generation almost always comes with huge disappointment. Rose tinted generations past are pretty much never quite as you remember them...in my opinion of course.
But were they storyline twists that got you, or actual gameplay innovation?
I considered VR as the next step in taking games somewhere new, that combination with the indie scene sounds promising.
That's probably spot on, I'm guessing the smaller games have more freedom to try new ideas, there are probably a stack of indie titles I need to seek out for fresh gameplay ideas.
It is amazing how far things have come in a relatively short space of time. From pong to virtual reality. We should consider ourselves fortunate to have become gamers. I can't wait to see what the next 30 years bring!
I like my readers to be breathless by the end of the opening paragraph :)
I'm ready for some decent games to hit the retail shelves. I'm not a particularly big Infamous fan but have found myself counting the days for that to arrive.
As for PS Plus though, right now I think it's delivering a good PS4 experience.
This release coupled with the price drop has pretty much sold Xbox One to me a good few months before I originally planned to pick one up. Can't wait to get my hands on it now.
To be fair it's a tongue in cheek piece, an embellishment of a true story if you like. I like to own both MS & Sony consoles when possible as at heart I'm a gamer. But as a preference over the past decade I've swung towards Xbox and if they hadn't made such a monumental **** up of their announcement I might still be. As it stands right now, i'm delighted MS did what they did as it pushed me towards Sony's excellent machine as a primary console. But I do agree that ...
The PS1 was surely just a gaming console and you're right it did thrive, possibly because with the focus solely on games the quality and innovation also thrived. What concerns me is that these days the games are merely another element of the full picture and there seems to be little imagination anymore as we're treated to run of the mill shooters and tweaked sports titles to play in-between chatting to mates or watching a film.
Of course it's purely a personal point of vi...
Nice idea! I definitely think any divide between board games and video games is narrowing. It'd be good to see them merge a little more.