Jaicee said:
Yep, the original Metroid and Castlevania II were the first video games I really got into...and they were new at the time. :P
It's just an observation that people in general prefer media from their own youth the most, myself included in a certain sense. That's all I was saying. I mean actually almost all my favorite games are from the current decade: Gone Home, Papo & Yo, This War of Mine, Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, The Stanley Parable, Ori and the Blind Forest, Her Story, Crypt of the NecroDancer, That Dragon, Cancer (yes I think it's that good), Portal 2, Sword & Sworcery EP, Fez, Pony Island, and more all come to mind as some of top favorites ever. What you'll notice about this pattern though is that 1) these games have a lot of aesthetic similaries to sprite-era games and early computer graphic adventures that I enjoyed (e.g. from Carmen Sandiego and Nancy Drew to Gone Home and Her Story is only so much of an aesthetic leap), and 2) that they're mostly more thematically sophisticated games that have real points. (And there are a lot more female leads. ;) ) Some of them are "gamier" and some of them are much less so. That's just kind of me. I don't really care that much about realistic graphics or how many hours a game can last one or how many modes of play there are. It's not to judge you or anyone who has different tastes or a different past with gaming! I'm just sharing my preferences and tastes here. That's all! I'm not saying that games were bad back then, but rather that I just had a hard time keeping pace with the design changes back then.
I enjoyed Final Fantasy IX as well, and for a lot of the same reasons I did FF VI and VII. It sort of seemed to combine the best aspects of both of those games, IMO. :)
Some of my favorite games from the late '90s included the early Nancy Drew computer games, Drakan: Order of the Flame, Final Fantasy VII, Mischief Makers, the first couple Oddworld games, Magic Knight Rayearth, Xenogears, and EverQuest.
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