Well, are they?
Okay so nowadays you have the three super-consoles that are several million times more powerful* than the consoles of the early 1990s, and can do things that we could only dream about, but are these next generation games really as good as games used to be? Sure they have fancy graphics, and complex aspects that we would never see in a game 10 years ago, but do they really play better?
It seems to me that games arent as good as they used to be. Back when I was a lad, I would spend hours playing Sonic the Hedgehog (thats the Master System version) over and over again, no matter how many times I'd finished it, and I still wouldn't get bored. I was addicted to it. Nowadays I play through a game maybe two or three times if I'm lucky, and will never touch them again, unless I feel the sudden need to revisit them briefly just to remind myself of them.
Games used to have proper replay value. Not just a load of pointless extras that you got after finishing a game a couple of hundred times*. You wanted to play through the games again. Not because of any hidden extras, but because you wanted to. You enjoyed the game so much that you felt that you had to play through it again, and again, and again.
Maybe this was just me, I dunno. But I definitely do think that games were better way back when, in the days of old.
* Please note that this may be a slight exaggeration.
Okay so nowadays you have the three super-consoles that are several million times more powerful* than the consoles of the early 1990s, and can do things that we could only dream about, but are these next generation games really as good as games used to be? Sure they have fancy graphics, and complex aspects that we would never see in a game 10 years ago, but do they really play better?
It seems to me that games arent as good as they used to be. Back when I was a lad, I would spend hours playing Sonic the Hedgehog (thats the Master System version) over and over again, no matter how many times I'd finished it, and I still wouldn't get bored. I was addicted to it. Nowadays I play through a game maybe two or three times if I'm lucky, and will never touch them again, unless I feel the sudden need to revisit them briefly just to remind myself of them.
Games used to have proper replay value. Not just a load of pointless extras that you got after finishing a game a couple of hundred times*. You wanted to play through the games again. Not because of any hidden extras, but because you wanted to. You enjoyed the game so much that you felt that you had to play through it again, and again, and again.
Maybe this was just me, I dunno. But I definitely do think that games were better way back when, in the days of old.
* Please note that this may be a slight exaggeration.
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