Nostalgic games that still gets you.

[Bofferbrauer]

I actually play old games most of the time. Just to give you some indications, I got 221 games on my GOG shelves and had bought over 80 VC titles on my Wii.

The main reason is because most modern action games really don't interest me in the slightest. Action-Adventures or Sandbox titles never interested me very much, Halo moved Ego-shooters into a direction I do not like at all (I loved nonsensical action-packed shooters like Serious Sam with a huge selection of similary ludicrous weapons, and being able to have them all at once but still needing to count my bullets because ammo is pretty rare. Oh, and lots of secrets to find. So pretty much everything that ain't in modern shooters anymore). I love brawlers, Turn-based wargames, whacky arcade racers and "sports" titles, non bullet hell spaceshooters, western RPG with a full party and turn-based (or real time with pause) combat and generally different concepts and hard games (but not punishingly hard).

In other words, pretty much everything that ain't mainstream anymore I love, and most that is mainstream nowadays doesn't interest me. Despite mostly playing on my PC, I haven't found any need yet for an Uplay or Origin or any similar account, and even got steam only because of some gifts and Kickstarter betas, have only bought a single game there yet (South Park: The Stick of truth).

It's also the reason why my consoles tend to be from Nintendo. Nintendo is much less Mainstream, it's games carve from genres mostly forgotten by all other publishers, their VC is a treasure chest of old yet good games and recently it's Nindies programm adds games from smaller developers, which often also are nonconformist.