archbrix said:
For me, very little of that is nostalgia in the case of Zelda. A great playing game is a great playing game. To supply an anecdotal example: I remember in an issue of EGM a few years ago, the crew brought in a group of kids (pre-teen, I believe) that were raised on the 5th and 6th generations of gaming. They let them play a bunch of NES games to gauge their responses to them. At one point, they asked a couple of the kids if they had played Wind Waker. They said they had, and that they loved it. One of the boys started playing The Legend of Zelda and was immediately into it. After a while, one of the editors said, "What would you say if we told you we like this game better than Wind Waker?" "I'd agree", he exclaimed. Some games just age beautifully: Zelda, SMB, Pac Man, Galaga, Tetris... because of timeless gameplay. |
Fair enough. I'm not sure how many kids would follow that line of thought though. I see so many kids playing games on mobiles now, a lot of which are essentially copies of classic games rebranded and repackaged in a shinier wrapper of presentation. Some games do have timeless gameplay, but when that gameplay is ripped off so many times in the modern era, I'm not sure they'd neccessarily care for the old stuff.
