Millennium on 12 March 2009
| Aj_habfan said: Of course these games have been aging for quite a while, and without any nostalgia you might not find them as good. I'm sure you wouldn't think as highly of some of those NES games if you wern't playing them as a kid. |
Just one little problem: that's not true. Plunk anyone new to gaming (which you pretty much have anymore if you want to truly be free of bias) in front of these games, and you'll keep hearing the same stories we said when we were little: how great these games are, even -especially?- in comparison to what came later. But then, this is to be expected, since they haven't spent as much time under the shower of marketing Kool-Aid.
Graphics and pop-culture references age. Good games do not.
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
