How Does Nostalgia Affect Gamers?

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ECM said:

milkyjoe said:
The problem with all the arguments about nostalgia is that a lot of the time, it's just assumed that the person who is talking about whatever particular older game in question hasn't played it in 5/10/15/etc years, and if they did play it now then they wouldn't like it as much.

That isn't always the case. A popular one I often get told is that I would not hold Ocarina of Time to be the best game ever made if I went to play it again today. In reality, I played the original N64 version last year, in the build up to the release of Skyward Sword, and my opinion has not changed.

Bingo.

I still *regularly* play Dreamcast, N64, PS1, Genesis, SNES, PC Engine, etc., etc. games and they're every bit as good, if not better in too many cases to note, than the games released now.

(I personally tend to draw the line at 16-bit as my own, personal, Golden Age of Gaming, not because I started gaming with that generation--I'm old enough to have owned and enjoyed the 2600 and its contemporaries--but because, even to thsi day, that's the home of my all-time favorite titles which I *still* play in 2012.)

In most cases with nostalgia, you're only able to dream about re-living the experience. In this cas you can literally re-live the experience. I'm not sure if that still even relates to nostalgia, but it probably relates to force of habit. There are a lot of people who enjoy things they are comfortable with. The more comfortable they are with it the more they enjoy it and the less they enjoy other experiences. 

IMO. In this case we just have to accept everyone has different tastes.

If someone likes a game because of their sentiments, that's perfectly fine. Just as similarily there are others (like myself) who always need to play the newest game and shineyist. 

For me, sometimes I recall great memories of playing a game so I dig it up and try to play it again. After a minute or so I get bored and stop playing. It's me not the game >.<