SegataSanshiro on 29 December 2017
| roadkillers said: Oh I also want to say that the new God of War looks fantastic. God of War was one of the last games I bought without looking at reviews or previews. Before the internet was big and trailers were huge, we had magazines to read about games. In this magazines we would get demo disks that contained a selection of games. One of those games were God of War and I enjoyed the game. It was one of the last few games where I can say that I bought it because I enjoyed it. Now days it is a little different. People tell you what is good and then you decide. Back then you had to decide for yourself (with a small amount of magazines helping out) and you told your friends what was good. Both have their perks, finding a great game by yourself is awesome and you feel like your the only one that has it. On the other hand, there is a lot of shitty games to play to find a good one. |
Setting my disdain for GoW aside I remember the days of looking at Sears catalogs at NES games and the bad descriptions. The logic was then if you were young was that if Sears is advertising it in the yearly war and peace sized catalog then it must be good! Then there was the other method. Look at the box art. If the boxart was cool the game must be great! Lastly was friends and word of mouth. We had no other way to know. Video Game magazines were not much of a thing yet. I still remember the era when people made games for PC sold it in a local shop in a Ziploc bag and the manual was printed with dot matrix printers on a plain white piece of paper. I think that's how some bigger series started out like Ultima.
