Poll: Are Classics good or...Just Classics

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DeathSnake

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I love playing classic games
Space invaders
Pac man
Mario 64
Sonic 1,2 and 3 was OK
the list goes on..
these games are un doutably classic games
but i just want to know,
Do you think these games are genually good
or just classics that people are forced to play, and say there good, because so many people talk of how good they where "back in the day"
 

Snowalker

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Umm, I thought to become a classic a game must be widely considered good? Could be wrong, thats just what I always assumed.
 

blindey

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I think OP means that by definition are classic games, because they're classic, good? The answer is: of course not. It is up to the individual's likes and dislikes. Granted, classic games are considered to have a very wide appeal, but that's still moot for the individual.
 

Erana

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JokerGrin said:
Yes, they certainly are. When gameplay came way before graphics...
Yeah, I just want to know what would happen if developers used last-gen graphics, and instead took the development time and money to make it a really long, awesome game...
 

Trivun

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Erana said:
JokerGrin said:
Yes, they certainly are. When gameplay came way before graphics...
Yeah, I just want to know what would happen if developers used last-gen graphics, and instead took the development time and money to make it a really long, awesome game...
Gameplay is worth a lot more to gamers, myself included, than graphics. I still enjoy the old Mario and Sonic games, because they relied on gameplay rather than graphics. And they're all the better for it. Fine, there are some great modern games out there that do well in gameplay and graphics, for example Gears of War and Portal. But the classics are classics because they focused on one, and it was the right one to choose. Tetris is still my all time favourite, because of the awesome gameplay. Now that is a gmae to be truly considered a classic, in every sense of the word...
 

Squarewave

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Just as with all things labeled "classic" classical music, classic rock, classic cars, etc. You'll have people who will blandly claim that all that fall under the label are good.

When it comes to games there's also a lot of mob mentality on what is good or bad, blinding stating things like "ET is the worst game ever made" "Portal is the best game ever made" "Oblivion/GTA4/ Gears of war sucks!" without putting any thought or even playing the games in question just cause its the cool thing to do. Anyone who questions the mob mentality will get flamed off the boards, or on forums with a rating system get modded down so low that no one see the post

There is only a handful of older games that I would consider classic myself, most games (doesn't matter what year they were made) are just horrible. the NES had a terrible signal to noise, for every 1 good game there was 10+ that were so bad that they should be used as a reference of what not to do
 

minoes

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A classic is a game that serves as a "frame of reference" for future games (Doom for example).
 

mooncalf

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I went with "Who Cares" because that leaves me free to judge each game on it's individual merits whether or not it is referred to as having special status by any group. :)
 

Woe Is You

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Erana said:
JokerGrin said:
Yes, they certainly are. When gameplay came way before graphics...
Yeah, I just want to know what would happen if developers used last-gen graphics, and instead took the development time and money to make it a really long, awesome game...
Length isn't everything as Portal proved. In fact, I'd rather have a very short, very replayable game that lasts an hour or two than one that's over 100 hours long.

Which is the reason why I like shmups. A lot.
 

Eclipse Dragon

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They were considered good in their day, Orcarina of Time had excellent graphics for the day, now play the game and Link looks like a pile of colored boxes.