It's my primary factor for still being interested in games today. Many of the games you listed such as crash bandicoot, silent hill 1-4, mgs 2-3, FF7-FF10, Devil may cry 1-3, smash bros melee, and many more from the ps2/GCN/XB era. I myself was 19-20 when those games originally released so those games and era holds a very special place in my heart and will always be my favorite generation for games.

I don't play games much nowadays but when I do it's usually to fire up my old dusty GameCube or ps2.

18 year old OP feels nostalgia?

OT: I'm very nostalgic, mostly concerning writing. I remember so many great stories and narratives from growing up, especially the 90's were a golden era for RPG's and PC games in general. I can't even remember the last title I played with good writing or narration, it's all about effects, hiring celebrity voice actors or padding the gameplay with meaningless nonsense like collectibles and stupid achievements.

Even gameplay has been ruined in many cases, you're bombarded with mechanics designed to lessen the challenge, and even when you turn off everything you can, the core product remains something made for a broader market that seems to want simpler fare than older gamers. It's almost as if we're seeing a generation that doesn't want a challenge, both in life and in games!

I've also been disappointed with my childhood hero Nintendo since I grew up, partly because I realized who they really were but mostly because they've kept releasing weird-ass hardware and forcing insane prices on software and accessories. Grew up on the NES, but the last Nintendo I owned was a N64, which was awesome. I still don't understand how old Nintendo fans have stuck with them through all this weirdness.

I never play games out of nostalgia, I only play what I like and sometimes it happens to be a 20+ year old game, like now I'm playing Heroes of Might and Magic II fan made maps again.

The types of games I'm most interested in today are not the same types of games I was most interested in growing up, so I wouldn't say that nostalgia affects my preferences too much. Nostalgic games have, however, become a sort of recharge for me, taking a break from more intense experiences and kicking back in a simpler time to catch my breath.

Is actually pretty low, I can have confidence on old franchises that have been consistently good, but that's not nostalgia. If i was nostalgic my favourite brand should be Sony since ps1 and ps2 were the first homeconsoles I owned as a kid, yet now I don't even buy their consoles.

I'm quite nostalgic I think. It's wierd sometimes I seem to confuse a game with a place. Sometimes I remember the roads and layouts of virtual worlds better than the real world and games like Half Life I like to revisit as I like the atmosphere and feel of the game. If I'm playing Skyrim I might have a time out moment where I'm standing on a bridge just watching the river flow below. I like to immerse myself in the game world emotionally to get the full effect and sometimes I feel the need to revisit the same game world despite completing the game.

This is mainly first person mode games from about Half Life onwards however I also have the same feeling for some third person games like Zelda and Shenmue.

i left nintendo at N64 point too, came back at Wii U and now swittch. The break was brilliant for me and since then my ps4 now seems really boring to me. switch is great too which helps

Wii U was always too expensive and strange for me and I really, really disliked the controller. It also has the same old issues with costly software and extras, with the added bonus of tiny storage. It was just not an option for me at any point. The Switch looks a lot better but still has some major issues as far as I'm concerned, it also sports a main controller I really don't like and has perhaps the most expensive controllers and extras of any Nintendo console. I'd also like a much lower price, I never play games on the go so it seems useless for me to pay more for a machine that has a main feature I'll never make use of. As a bonus, it still has tiny storage...

As for PS4, I do own one but I rarely use it for anything besides streaming service, the PS and Xbox line has long since become dull for me, especially with a good gaming rig at my disposal. Too many games are bland and shallow, technical performance often shoddy, controllers are poor and the overall concept is stale and numbing since nothing has really changed at all since 2005 with these two. Like I once said in a thread; the PS brand has won the 8th gen but has become placid and content with remaining the same, which is not very rewarding for me as a consumer and long time gamer.

For me I would say the first FF game I was disappointed in was FF9, it looked more like a cartoony genericized spinoff than a real FF game. The characters were more like generic-JRPG/anime characters than the depth and conflict that FF characters had possessed since FF4. While I liked FF10, it was also disappointing because of how much smaller and linear the game felt than other FF games. The transition to 3D didn't end up with a game that had the big sprawling open worlds of past FF games. There seemed like a lot less to do, and everything was along one big corridor of a world, rather than on a real world map. FF12 is my least favourite FF game. While hey did bring back the big sprawling world, it was also very empty, and really boring to move around. The characters in FF12 were even worse than FF9, because they were slow and boring. The story itself left very little to be desired. FF11 is like one of those games you hear about, but no one actually played, it was an online game, and making that a mainline title was stupid.

I quit the FF series after 13. While graphics becamore more advanced, storytelling and game design got worse.

You're right, I suppose it is the POV, ridding the world of the map and using a 1:1 scale instead. While more realistic, it didn't work very well at first. It's not to say 1:1 games can't work well, see Breath of the Wild as an example of how it finally worked for Zelda.

And yeah, I was making a bit of a exaggeration there, because compared to other FF games it always seems so few people have played FF11, or even seen it in action. Even among very hardcore FF fans.