| d21lewis said: The game has changed. I guess the lack of HUGE changes on a regular basis (like the introduction of Starfox, or Donkey Kong, or Pokémon) takes away from the excitement. Don't fool yourself. Video games now are better than they've ever been. If you don't believe me, get yourself a Wii, and download your favorite classic. Believe me, she's not as sexy as you thought she was. |
I have a Wii and have downloaded a VC games of my old favorites, and I more or less enjoy them as much as I do now as I did then. I probably like Super Mario Bros more now as an adult since I was terrible at it as a kid, now I can actually finish it. And I re-beat Super Mario 64 with 120 stars yet again, still smile when I see the ending.
Nostalgia may very well color perspective, but you can’t blatantly assume that’s why everyone prefers something over their newer versions. I only finally played Doom this year on the 360’s arcade. Clearly a cheap port, it just letterboxes the screen in 16:9 and the display stills shows 2-7 hotkeys from the PC. (Which you can’t rebind to anything) Thought it was awesome. Reminded how damn talky FPS games have gotten, and how much more fun is when the your mostly just encouraged to kill every thing that moves. Certainly not Nostalgia that helped me enjoy that since I didn’t play it until this year.
Nostalgia plays almost no role in the movies I like since a lot of my favorite movies were made years (sometimes decades) before I was born, and I didn’t see them to later in my life.
