Gaming was better when it was not mainstream, less games, no million/billion dollar budgets, target audience was children/teens, and everything was physical.
Its okay if you disagree but I cant take your disagreement as valid if you didn't live though it make the disagreement.
Its okay if you disagree but I cant take your disagreement as valid if you didn't live though it make the disagreement.
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More people than ever have an opportunity to make games and distribute them out in the open.
No restrictive Nintendo licensing or super expensive console dev kits.
Example: It used to be you had to play a game in a single sitting.
Now you can save progress every minute.
If you look past AAA games there’s a lot of creativity.
I think the main problem is that it’s such a mass market nowadays that many projects just shun risk and do what’s safe.
But even in mass market titles there’s a lot of cool stuff.
Digital delivery changed my life for the better!
Plus, think of all the weird, obscure Japanese games that were never localized because they weren't worth the expense of making physical copies.
Gaming is better today because there are literally blockbuster once in a lifetime games for every single genre in addition to the classic libraries that we all grew up with. Physical media still exists btw, it's just not as popular
Too much emphasis on graphics and simplicity in modern games at the sacrifice of depth .
(Also this sorta sounds a bit pretentious)
More games is just better because we have more choice than ever before and making games has also never been easier. The indie scene continues to WOW and delight.
Budgets are getting too high sure, but a low budget game also just won GOTY. Ya know?
Now she plays Fortnite competitively.
Gaming became so much more accessible during the Wii and late 7th gen. She was able to dip her toes in and grow to this!
If anything with the internet, there’s no such thing as small or niche now.
Including shovelware, there have only been about 900 PS5 games released in 4 years.
I remember when the cosmetic horse armour dlc in oblivion was controversial, now days thats common place...
The real difference is marketing. Ads used to be for the best of the big studios, now it's the more ads the worse the game is.
But yeah the games you like is what I gravitate to and indie devs got my back.. And Nintendo for that matter.
you’re just nostalgic for when you were younger which is fine but incredible games are still being made.
Unfortunately I have to disagree because big budget games are the reason why gaming is in a terrible spot right now. Many studios die and have died because of the budgets.
indie games are also bigger than they’ve ever been, which are included in the “mainstream industry” you say is bad. theres plenty to hate but its def overall better now
secondly ya it’s awful that there are tons of layoffs rn but thats mostly due to a big hiring wave after covid increased demand which has since decreased
We needed less games back then because all games were memorization of timing and patterns.
Genesis was geared towards a slightly older teen to twenty something crowd.
And definitely not on PC which many gamers turned to when the video game console crash happened.
But while I can't pretend that gaming was ever pure, thanks to the Internet gaming has become so incredibly predatory that it made Nintendo from back when look restrained.
And yet all of that somehow pales in comparison to MTXs today.
Playing Atari the 1st time
Seeing TES Arena's play style after being used to PCs Adv D&D games
Playing a borrowed copy of Fallout 2
Unfortunately at this point, I don't see that type of feeling coming back but I'm still looking & still enjoy playing.
That said, corporate profiteering has degraded much of the experience of modern gaming.
Support Indie developers, stay away from games that are cash grabs, and enjoy gaming!
Gaming only became “mainstream” and the target audience changed because the kids who grew with the NES-N64 kept playing games.
I don’t miss “Nintendo hard”. Although people are nostalgic for the vibe of it, I don’t miss renting games from Blockbuster and either having to return it without finishing or being stuck with a dud.
I personally don’t engage in online PVP, so it’s by no means a necessary way to play games.
It's not good to romanticize the past too much, but I think there were more dreams in the days when we had nothing and went on adventures. There were also many new experiences for users.
The gaming sphere is inundated now, I think rather than the quality of games going down. And only the AAA games get notable marketing.
The ET Atari situation was one of a movie company not wanting a bad game to tarnish their film after the sole dev was given just 2 weeks to make the game.
Raiders of the lost ark was amazing on Atari 2600
I didn’t have shit to think about or do most of the time. I could really get invested and let it just eat my time.
On the other hand, indie gaming is better than oldschool gaming sometimes.
Atari/NES was maybe for kids, but SNES era definitely had content for adults, definitely when PC/N64/PS got going. It didn’t take that long for them to hide in adult themes Bluey-style.
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Not exactly a Utopia.