Most old games are terrible by todays standards.

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Intrinsic said:

And I know too well just hwow decieving a thing nostalgia is... which really is what everything you justr mentioned is. Nostalgia. Those games really don't hold a candle to what we have today. Storywise, atmosphere, music and even gameplay. 

And the same way you say third person shooters and fps military shooters is the same way how looking back then there were a ton of side scrollers and top down games. Or did you forget that?

You don't know whatchu talking about. I play Thief fan missions because they are a lot of fun, it has nothing to do with nostalgia. There is no modern game that can replace Thief, hence the community is so big and active. If you didn't know, Thief reboot (2014) was a disaster. So much for old games are terrible by todays standards...

Side scrollers and top down games were always foreign to me, I started on PC in 1997 and never had a console up till 2011. You could torture me with side scroller platformers and top down shooters, I had zero interest in them even as a kid when visiting friends and cousins. Those genres are very american, not many europeans play(ed) them.