| HylianSwordsman said: I, for one, know that when I eventually have kids, I have every intention of educating them properly on the classics before letting them touch modern games. Kids nowadays don't have the patience to beat the old games, that's why we went from Nintendo Hard to Nintendo Easy and games are compared to Dark Souls if they teach you game mechanics through dying or failing. I'm not trying one of those "back in my day" types, I just really think something has been lost in modern game design. |
This is unfortunate result of publishers dumbing-down (a.k.a. streamlining) games for at least last two last decades to attract more people. Net result is that some genres have been transformed into pale shadows of it former self.
I have two sons (now almost 12 and 10), I started introducing them to gaming when they were fairly young (around 4 or so) with very simple flash games, transitioned to Wii games, and only then introduced them to retro arcade and console classics - some of them they really like, some don't. In the meantime they grew up, they both played and loved Dark Souls (older even beat DS III by himself). Nudge them in the right direction while they're young.
Lately, I've been introducing them to some of computer retro classics from ZX, C64 and Amiga days, like Knight Lore, Last Ninja and Alien Breed, respectively.
