"It's going to be fun to play this game again!" [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]
"It's going to be fun to play this game again!" [Azul Crescent's silly scribbles]
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/8635192
Where are my fellow Rascal survivors?
Sonic Adventure fans be like:
Played both as a kid and found them really cool
0 desire to touch them nowadays and wouldn't recommend younger people to experience them
And it's not like I don't like the old games I played back then, I play a lot of Super Mario World from time to time (though in fairness exclusively ROMhacks except about every 10 years where I look at the original again). Sonic Adventure for me just didn't age well.
But that's fine, not every game has to be a timeless classic. I have good memories of the games and that's what's important
Playing what you had, good or bad, is how it was back then. Everyone has that game which is terrible to most but we love because it's what we had available.
Back when they still had video rental stores that carried games, and you had to carefully select what game you were stuck with for the weekend lol.
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B.
Some games were terrible and you made them better in your memory on accident.
Some are still exactly as good as you hoped.
Most had a cool vibe that made you like it but were guilty of multiple atrocities of game design.
I hope the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster will be fun to play.
For me one of the few games I can play (without remaster) to this day, is Age of Empires. And the remasters and remakes have been really great too! And started playing it like 25 years ago!
It isn't bad. It can seem bad now because every AAA game is psychologically designed to give the biggest possible dopamine response to increase in-game spending. So your brain, being conditioned on such games, will think the older game is bad because it was designed to be fun but also engage your brain and make you think. Since your brain has to work for it, it subconciously thinks the tradeoff is not as good as new games.
The only games from my childhood I can ever recall being like that when thinking back would be the edutainment style games I had, obviously.
Mario Teaches Typing comes to mind, lol
I don't think I ever had any type of games that taught teaching. I had games like hooked on phonics type stuff and a Land Before Time math game, among a few others.
Typing was never something formally taught to me, even from a video game. I guess by the 2000s they just didn't think it was important enough to be taught in elementary school to kids. Yet cursive was deemed something we needed to know.
As someone who pretty much only plays games I also played as a kid...
Yea.
Tonight I got my ass kicked in Rocket League by my daughter. I had to immediately pay OG Super Mario Bros for a pick me up.
Quest 64? Oh yeah, absolutely.
Star fox 64? I can play the shit out of that right now.
Star fox 64? I can play the shit out of that right now.
Played this game a lot when it was new, then kind of ditched it completely later. But I often have to think about how good it actually was.
Resident Evil 1, Apple Cider Spider (c64), and Glover come to mind...