Younger generations and retro gaming.

[Viata]

Nah, I'm playing video game. If I wanted to read some shit story by a shitty writer, I'd read fantasy books.

 

[RaggleFraggle]

I like retrogaming because in some cases higher budget games back then were much more interesting and creative than they are now, more experimental and willing to take risks because the market wasn't as rigid as it is now. Of course, sometimes that's easier said than done to make ancient games play well on my few years old PC and its 4k monitor. Even if I can run it (thank goodness that GOG is around to do the work for me, unless it's one of the many games they don't have), it may still have technical limitations or other issues. I would love it if more games could get compatibility updates, remasters, or remakes. Sometimes I just can't stand the graphics or UI or whatever because it just hasn't aged well at all.

Myst is a good example. The game has been remade four times to update the graphics and introduce it to new generations, but otherwise the plot and puzzles have remained unchanged. I'm currently waiting for the sequels to get remakes since Cyan regained the rights to every entry in the series.

Not every old game was all that amazing, however. Some of them might have interesting ideas with really iffy executions and technical issues, but which are charming enough that you wish they could get remakes for posterity.

 

[Morenatsu.]

I like retrogaming because in some cases higher budget games back then were much more interesting and creative than they are now, more experimental and willing to take risks because the market wasn't as rigid as it is now. Of course, sometimes that's easier said than done to make ancient games play well on my few years old PC and its 4k monitor. Even if I can run it (thank goodness that GOG is around to do the work for me, unless it's one of the many games they don't have), it may still have technical limitations or other issues. I would love it if more games could get compatibility updates, remasters, or remakes. Sometimes I just can't stand the graphics or UI or whatever because it just hasn't aged well at all.

Myst is a good example. The game has been remade four times to update the graphics and introduce it to new generations, but otherwise the plot and puzzles have remained unchanged. I'm currently waiting for the sequels to get remakes since Cyan regained the rights to every entry in the series.

Not every old game was all that amazing, however. Some of them might have interesting ideas with really iffy executions and technical issues, but which are charming enough that you wish they could get remakes for posterity.

Myst's graphics got worse with each remake, why would you ever want that?

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

I enjoy more playing games that had interesting ideas but failed to implement them than something safe and mediocre, i will remember the game that failed to execute the idea but i will forget about the AAA cinematic bullshit in a week even if it wasn't a "bad" experience.

Mediocrity is the greatest sin. Development of old games was much cheaper so they would toke risky ideas more often, they could release another game in a year anyway. Games taking half a decade to develop was a fucking mistake only to improve the hair on the cheeks of female protags.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Imagine playing an Infocom game without the feelies lmao