The older I get, the sadder I feel when thinking of my childhood.
Almost makes me cry. Advanced game technology came with cynicism, bitterness, and feeling tired all the time.
I would do anything to go back.
Feeling old
Ian Morales
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Oliver Allen
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Nolan Collins
Shit tier choice of joysticks you have there.
Eli Rodriguez
My nigga. I have a USB version of this one.
Justin Hill
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Aaron Ortiz
I just wish I knew whether gaming was objectively shittier now or if I'm just being the same kind of "back in my day" old man I had to listen to as a kid.
John Rogers
yep, every joystick in OP's post would last a week or two of heavy use, at most. 2600 joysticks went to shit quick and the third party ones did even quicker.
The thing about liking old games is, you can just fucking play them. They still run.
Liam Morgan
It's shittier. There was more ambition and push of technology in the past. The Xbox360/PS3 era marked a push for the GORILLIAN SALES. In order to do this, they had to make consoles accessible & cheap to sell games. So they make sure to not advance console tech and milk them for as long as possible to keep everything cheap. What we have now is stagnation.
Andrew Hughes
It's a bit of both, honestly. On the one hand, video games were made using a different design philosophy back in the mid to late 80's and throughout the 90's. Games were smaller, more obscure, made by smaller teams, and were mostly made by people who were enthusiastic about the medium. Games created back then were innovative for their time and companies weren't afraid of pushing the boundaries of what was expected or possible Zelda II was a totally different game than its predecessor. Creating this game was a risk in the sense that its new design could turn off established players, but Nintendo didn't care. Something like that couldn't happen today without the publisher risking a large amount of potential revenue
On the other hand, there are still some fantastic games being made today, and it's just a matter of finding them. However, the climate of "the video game industry" has changed. Companies are looking for more money and less risk because games are supposedly so expensive to create, and a potentially failed gamble could cost an existing dev team their livelihoods. Video game production has, as a result, become homogenized and stagnant, and consumers are increasingly becoming jaded in response.
It's shit, but some aspects were always shit, it's just that you never noticed.
Juan Jenkins
Amiga master race.