SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:
My arse were magazine more honest, the amount of games they got me burnt on and money wasted is criminal like the Driver sequels or Metal Gear acid and many PSP games come to mind. If you were only on one magazine you'd have severe bias like OPM. They were about as shite as IGN is today but we didn't know any better. Now you can connect with gamers who you can follow and begin to know their likes and dislikes and read into their reviews in much more of a transparent way. Like Skill Up suggested Watch Dogs legion as a good immersive sim and I wasn't having it cause I knew him and where he was coming from but I know it wouldn't have landed with me. I so rarely get burned now and the money saved is so much better than years past. Picking up a ps1 game cause the cover art looked cool or a ps2 game cause some magazine previewed it in a really positive light only to be disappointed. You're wearing rose tinted glasses and blinded by nostalgia. Sure everything is fun as a kid, you can play with a stick for hours and it's a great time. Ya gotta look past the mostalgia and compare things on an even keel. You can still play in the past now, many do and build the entire hobby around retro experiences. In fact now is the best time to do that cause you can collect the entirety of it and immerse yourself in all gaming had to offer back then. A mighty expensive task but one you can pursue and you have the benefit of modern technology to help you with this, loads of emulation devices to make it easier qith loads of QoL improvements. You know how I know it's all bullshit? Cause I have access to all the Nintendo games from that era, or I had for a year until I quit the service and nothing gave me the enjoyment I had as a kid nor did any of the games I was dreaming of back then live up to it in today. Same with PS+ premium titles, I keep meaning to turn it down to essentials cause I'm disappointed month after month and everytime I download a title yet nostalgia keeps me trying. Most recently I played Time splitters and Future perfect, Time splitters is absolute trash now and future perfect isn't nearly as perfect ot a fraction of the games as I remember it. I much rather when they remake them like Crash, crash team racing, REmake 2 and they actually feel the same as I remember them back then even though they are substantially improved. Today's games are just better. |
I was in my twenties during that time with a full-time job.
It was better to play back then because of the communal experience. Word of mouth was the biggest influencer to buy games. It's not the same as playing old games now. Just like you said, nothing gave you the enjoyment you had as a kid. That's not just because you're not a kid anymore, it's like watching 1930s cinema now without the excitement that was around cinema back then.
1939 is regarded as the best year for cinema lovers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_in_film
Today playing old games, you are trying to live in the past. Very different from playing it at the time they were cutting edge when everyone was engaged with those games.
But you had to live in that time to enjoy it fully. |
Something you can do now but I have started to purposefully steer clear of to save money. There was great excitement on the net for Elden Ring and you could feel it in the air... but it's not worth paying full price when you can wait two months and there will be a significant sale. As someone who lived on the new release vibe during the ps4 era, eh, one can do without it and still eat well doing so.
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