Vegosiux said:
GundamSentinel said:
For me personally, there are very few games over 10 years old that I can still enjoy. Gaming really wasn't better in those days.
I'll ask you how many games that are 10 years old or older you enjoy once we're in 2022. It's not exactly an accurate comparison, you'd need to compare how many games you enjoyed then as opposed to how many you enjoy now.
Not how many games from then you enjoy now as opposed to how many new games you enjoy now.
Good point, good point, my bad. Then I'll say this. I first came into contact with gaming when I was about 4 (in 1991, when we got our first PC). There were a few games I enjoyed at the time (some platformers and racing games mostly), but the greater majority of them just couldn't hold my attention. My father played more games than I did and he only played Captain Comic.
By the time I was 7, I just didn't play any games any more. Why? Well firstly, they were ugly as sin. And not just for that time, they just didn't particularly look like anything recognizable to me, so were not very relatable. Secondly, games were quite dull. Again, even without modern games to compare them to, there was just very little to do in them. When I look back at games I played at that time (like Pacman, Tetris, Test Drive), I can hardly believe that video games had a future after that. They were fun, but just not for a very long time. Sure, there were a few that were of a much higher level, but I've seen very few. So why play games, when I had Lego? Thirdly, they just didn't run very well. Operating systems (or any program for that matter) at that time weren't very user friendly, so even getting a game started often felt like performing an arcane ritual. Consoles often weren't much better, though in that case it was more dust blowing and cartridge slamming.
I only picked up gaming again when I was 13, when there were games like Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Age of Empires 2, Homeworld. But again, those are the titles that stand out. It's just like when people often say that the PS2 had a great library; it just had a very large library. For every great game there were a dozen crap games. So at that time gaming was a very small hobby for me. There was of course a vastly superior PC, and I sometimes played Playstation or N64 games with friends, but not much more.
It's only been in the past 5 or 6 years that I've found enough entertainment in gaming to really get invested in it. There are games I'd happily spend hundreds of hours with without getting bored, something I couldn't dream of when I was little.