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SvennoJ on 19 October 2024
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LegitHyperbole said:
Chrkeller said:

Nostalgia is powerful. But I think old gamers have rose tinted glasses. I remember blocky graphics, punishing difficulty, long gaps between save points, terrible framerates, short wired controllers, limited BC and having to own tons of hardware to play all the top games.

Games are better today, better balanced with way better controls.  Hardware is way better as well.  

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Old games have terrible controls and awful camera angles.  And I remember having memory cards everywhere.

Oh stop. I went from NES to PS1 so memory cards were revolutionary but g'lord they were a disaster. So many game saves lost. Now I don't even know where my saves are but I have saves in hundreds of games and when I bought my pro they were just there once I set up the console. I can't imagine handling hundreds of saves in the 90's, it'd be a nightmare. 

It was no issue at all. I had only 2 memory cards by the end of the PS2 generation for all my games. Never lost a save game. The first time I had a corrupted memory card was on PS3 with BC, virtual memory card on HDD got corrupted costing me all my FF12 saves, never got to finish the game.

Dreamcast has the saves in the controller (card), N64 stored them on the cartridge.

Today my game saves take up valuable disk space on consoles. It adds up, have to delete a bunch to make room. But saves have gotten a lot bigger as well, so memory cards are not an option anymore. Takes a long time to copy the lot to USB stick. (And then you can't exchange them anyway, all locked to your account/console nowadays)

One more thing that's missing nowadays are cheats. Cheat codes are missing.