Legacy gaming (Virtual Console) helps me appreciate modern games + design

[richardhutnik]

Khuutra said:

richardhutnik said:

If things go as they should, things should improve over time.  Things that weren't as good should be improved with the new versions.  In regards to retro, I will say that as the industry got bigger, you run into cases where newer genres get overdone, and other genres get forgotten.  When this happens, you end up playing older games and realizing how much you miss the play mechanics.  It would be great to see updated versions of classics, like a good sequel to Actraiser, for example.

This isn't really the case in art once some basic forms have been established, though. Things will change, but it dos not necessarily man they will be better.

In some cases, the basic form had been perfected, and then the developers will decide to try to make things more "accessible" dropping stuff people miss.  Or a genre gets ignored in favor of new stuff not developed yet.