Poll: New or Old games?

[Nothankyou]

Do you like recent games or older games best?
There are a lot of people who have no idea that consoles existed before the ps1, there are those who are entirely devoted to their SNES games, and there are those who will simply not touch any games that were released after the millennium.

So which do you like best? Or do you just prefer both? Why?

As for me, I enjoy recent and old games. I still play old games on emulators, and I still get hyped up for new games!

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I enjoy games that are good. Nothing more, nothing less.

Whether they're ancient or Just finished matters not, only the entertainment value, so both I suppose.

 

[Meemaimoh]

Depends on your definition of "old", but if you're thinking "recent" as anything since 2000, then I guess I play recent games almost exclusively. Not that I don't have nostalgia for older games. I just don't have them around.

I do prefer more recent games, though, because my favourite games always have a strong narrative, and unless you count IF, that didn't happen until a bit later on.

 

[Levitas1234]

Video games for me are starting to stray towads older games, i have lost interest in everything coming out and i feel compelled to get out my gamecube and play some time splitters and all that.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I enjoy games that are good. Nothing more, nothing less.

Whether they're ancient or Just finished matters not, only the entertainment value, so both I suppose.

Because I am so awesome, I decide that I ninja'd your answer.

Don't argue with it, I just did.

 

[Axolotl]

Older, because they're generally less homogenised and because I can easily filter through the dross.

 

[DustyDrB]

Both. There will always be naysayers who say "In my day games were deeper and more challenging and yadda yadda" and those who say "lol@ old skewl graphics".

Don't listen to these people. Both old and new are good.

 

[Artina89]

I play both old and new games, what I like to do is alternate between playing games on the PS3, then after I have finished a game on that, I fire up one of my older systems and play a game on that.

 

[JackyJack]

They are just as many good and crap games in older collections as much as there are in the more modern ones.

Example:

Excellent old game: Resident Evil 4
Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

Excellent modern game: Killzone 2
Rubbish modern game: Iron Man: The Movie Game

 

[MiracleOfSound]

A little of both.

Why discriminate?

 

[Axolotl]

Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

The inventor of survival horror is rubbish now? By what standard?

 

[Lemon Of Life]

I love Starcraft, as I love Mass Effect 2. I have no preference for a particular time period.

 

[JackyJack]

Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

The inventor of survival horror is rubbish now?

Yes. It's a terrible game and no fun whatsoever.

 

[Axolotl]

Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

The inventor of survival horror is rubbish now?

Yes. It's a terrible game and no fun whatsoever.

Care to explain why? It's a pretty well regarded game and an important milestone in videogaming history.

 

[Woodsey]

Both - although old for me is 2000, as I'm 15.

My two utmost favourite games are Mafia and KotOR (with The Sands of Time near the top) but Mass Effect 2 is right up the list as well - along with AC2, Oblivion, SC: Chaos Theory (although I adore the first as well).

 

[AvsJoe]

Where is the line drawn? I don't consider last-gen games to be 'older' or 'recent'. As for the question: my favourite games are the ones I grew up with from Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Genesis, and Game Gear to N64, Xbox, PS1, and PS2.

 

[Twaddlefish]

i love the games around 2007-08, they were all so original and awesome

I detect sarcasm, good sir.

It depends what you want. If you want something a bit more simplistic, I'd go for an older game like Baldur's Gate 2 where the only choice is 'do the story and kill the bad guy'. If I wanted complex moral choices, I'll play Mass Effect 2, and it does have the advantage of being devastatingly pretty.

For FPS' I'd rather usually go with something a bit more mindless (well, not quite Halo standards, but you get my drift) that's got an engaging story and doesn't involve Operation: Flashpoint staggering tactical depth. Like Half Life 2.

 

[JackyJack]

Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

The inventor of survival horror is rubbish now?

Yes. It's a terrible game and no fun whatsoever.

Care to explain why? It's a pretty well regarded game and an important milestone in videogaming history.

You have got to be kidding. You want a excellent game which is an "important milestone" in videogaming history? Resident Evil 4.

Why do I think AITD is rubbish? For me because the gameplay is really boring, story is boring and that's enough for me not to like it.

That's my opinion of the game. Different people have different opinions and tastes. Live with it.

 

[Axolotl]

Rubbish old game: Alone In The Dark

The inventor of survival horror is rubbish now?

Yes. It's a terrible game and no fun whatsoever.

Care to explain why? It's a pretty well regarded game and an important milestone in videogaming history.

You have got to be kidding. You want a excellent game which is an "important milestone" in videogaming history? Resident Evil 4.

Why do I think AITD is rubbish? For me because the gameplay is really boring, story is boring and that's enough for me not to like it.

That's my opinion of the game. Different people have different opinions and tastes. Live with it.

But without Alone in the Dark we wouldn't have Resident Evil. It invented survival horror.