JackHandy said:
I own a PS5, and while I have a small selection of games for it, the current industry is not my main focus. I am a retro gamer, first and foremost. When we went from being able to pop in a cart or disc and play games that were 100% complete (no DLC) without needing to update them, I began to lose interest. I also don't believe today's AAA games can old a candle to the creativity of yesterday's. FF16 vs FF6? MGS Whatever vs. when those games were actually coming out? Resident Evil 3000 vs. the OG trilogy? Mario Odyssey vs. SM64? Yeah, the new stuff looks and sounds superior. And yes, in most cases, they even control and run better. But they aren't as innovative. They aren't as creative. They aren't able to blow my mind anymore, or redefine what we think a game could be. It's all just the same old shit, over and over again, ad nauseam. And don't even get me started on re-makes. Nothing backs up the notion that they are creatively inept more than those. Well, for the most part. There are a few outliers. |
... my point is that in this topic we are obviously talking about the medium in which we would buy current games so Atari 2600 cartridges are irrelevant to the conversation.
