Be honest, do you play more, the older or the modern gen games?

[Samatonic]

Truly, I have found my people! XD

 

[Jotaro]

So I 'll just stick with the old gold. ;-)

i ain't giving these greedy modern devs, 800$, for a ps5 pro, when my pc is much stronger than it, and can emulate/upscale on better quality than their original one, many games, from older eras, which are superior, in quality too, for the most part

but as i said, from modern games, depending on the mood, i still will play, a bit of tekken 8 or sf6, or few other games, depending on the mood, but overall, emulation has won this game, and fans deserve all the credits, for their amazing efforts, to keep them, up to date

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I think most modern game I played is Black ops 3 , ever since that era of games things been a bit meh.

My first and biggest concern is size you see I live in middle east of all places its a cool place and all but iinternet wise its bad really really bad without a fiber 1 GBs need 1 hour of download new games take up 100-200 GBs and that's just a nightmare to me you see I see the size in how efficient it is what do I mean? The hard drive I bought needs to be invested in well with that I aim to own a game that offers decent amounts of content similar to its size , for example a GBA emulator and harvest moon on it take less than a 100 MBs offering me more than 30 hours of playtime , Final Fantasy 6 offered me 36 hours of playtime and only occupied 100 MBs on my phone that I call the best deal in history of deals , take WarCraft 2 for example takes up 600 MBs offers decent amount of content and is pretty light on any device today , generally 2d games are size friendly even then older 3d games didn't go 100 GBs in size WarCraft 3 a game that both its story mode which is awesome by the way and its melee mode can go up to 25-30 hours for story and hundreds of hours for melee add on it the endless user generated content from custom campaigns to custom maps all this available for 2 GBs THAT IS PERFECTION.

Second is well my equipment is old I need to update it in the future.

With fiber I could download 4.5 GBs in 30 minutes tried to play RE remake game too slow it looks great from the few moments I tried it before throwing it into the garbage bin I think it took 15 GBs worth of size pretty decent I guess.

 

[ClarityZero]

if we go full technical, in this gen of games, the creativity should had reached its peak, but at this point, nah, it went back, many steps back, actually, why? woke and sjw shenanigans, i don't need to explain more, we all get it

mainstream big devs are afraid to break the limits, like before, that's why the indie era tries to replicate a bit, of what the older games were doing, on their own way though, despite having lesser budget and marketing

I'd say the tail end of the first decade of the 2000's is arguably when that nonsense first started moving towards infesting the industry, but I don't think it actually got its momentum until a few years afterwards.

I absolutely agree that companies' unwillingness to take risks and them always trying to appeal to as broad an audience as possible are huge problems, though. That holds true for any industry, really. When "safety" reigns supreme, innovation dies a slow but certain death.

 

[queensquest]

I tend to alternate, though for modern stuff, I play a lot more indies and Nintendo than big budget games.

Recently though I got a decent laptop so I've been playing some of the bigger budget games I missed the past half decade or so, like Control, Returnal and Ghostwire Tokyo. Last year I was mostly playing DS games and older JRPGs, so it's been a big contrast, lol

 

[stealthRUSH]

99% older games.

true despite new releases that feature hd graphics and all, I prefer retro games.

I primarily play sega saturn, pc engine + cd, 3do interactive multiplayer, famicom, playstation, super famicom, mega drive + cd fan translated games. https://howlongtobeat.com/year-in-review/stealthrush

For the 1% of modern games I play it's not any indie, remaster, reboot, compilation of sorts but Street Fighter 6, The King of Fighters XV on PS4 online, Super Mario Wonder, Sonic Superstars on Switch for example.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I usually player older games. Modern games rarely look appealing to me.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

idk why, even though, next gen games, have hd graphics and all

for some reason, i still go back to ps2, ps3, nds, x360 or ps vita, for gaming, the amount of new games i play is very limited, seems, emulation truly won this fight, among the fans, it's not about boomers or zoomers, it depends on the mood and all, but with the emulation on the game, the older gen of games, truly got an actual update on traffic

at least, for me, i don't game as i used to, because in real life matters more, and we all got our schedules and life as adults, but in that free time, i am in the middle of going back to the older games, or, playing later a bit of tekken 8 or sf6, lol

how you feel? it depends mostly on how you feel/mood, or, you partially feel, this generation of games, is for the most part, a mess and incomplete?

discuss

Modern games are either far too expensive for what they are, remakes especially or they're buggy messes. Sometimes both like what happened to the GTA trilogy. The industry isn't as experimental as they used to be either, I'm seeing. Indie games pick up the slack in that category. I've long accepted that old school SMT is never gonna be a trend in the industry, nor will shmups ever make a comeback. To put water in the wound are the practices, successes are being made and the publishers respond by dissolving the company or laying the team off. How do you even let the team behind Marvel Rivals get laid off, that's absurd.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

You guys have money for new games?

 

[Battleplayer83]

Old games by far.
I'm tired of modern games with in game purchases everywhere and the games are not even good in the first place.
if it wasn't for the old games i would have quit video games all together by now.

 

[J.F.C]

You guys have money for new games?

Where do you think we are?

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I mean, I hate to be "that guy" but older game are usually just way better in general. It has nothing to do with any objective qualities or technical aspects or "this generation was better than that generation, blegh..." They just have more love in them. Corny as that may sound.

Like, don't get me wrong, games made today are still good, and some of them even manage to be great. But for the most part, modern games just don't have the same... Charm, I guess. For lack of a better word.

It's like, most modern games just feel like products to be consumed and then discarded, rather than actual works of art meant to portray their creators' hearts. Does that make any sense to anyone?

I get you , you can feel the developers really had fun and enjoyed and loved their work I think its most evident by the chocobo themes in FF games or just the zones the looks and expressions of characters the dialogue even...Final Fantasy games for example feel like a work of love you can tell each one making these games was proud of their work and passionate about it the way Final Fantasy tactics show the game name as a blaze ignites it speaks pure confidence and passion for me THAT'S cool!

I think the difference is games were made by people who actually wanted to play what they make like the original director of FF games always wanted his own RPG game these people had a vision a love for games not purely motivated by money.

I think you can see how influential the work of that era is in today landscape companies still trying to capitalize on old works instead of new I mean we got many remasters/remakes than ever...

 

[Battleplayer83]

I get you , you can feel the developers really had fun and enjoyed and loved their work I think its most evident by the chocobo themes in FF games or just the zones the looks and expressions of characters the dialogue even...Final Fantasy games for example feel like a work of love you can tell each one making these games was proud of their work and passionate about it the way Final Fantasy tactics show the game name as a blaze ignites it speaks pure confidence and passion for me THAT'S cool!

I think the difference is games were made by people who actually wanted to play what they make like the original director of FF games always wanted his own RPG game these people had a vision a love for games not purely motivated by money.

I think you can see how influential the work of that era is in today landscape companies still trying to capitalize on old works instead of new I mean we got many remasters/remakes than ever...

100 percent.
You can just feel there is no love and passion in modern games anymore. (Besides indy games)

 

[jankusanagi]

The older, absolutely and very clearly the older

 

[Prism_Red]

50:50 for me, I focus on 2 to 3 games at a time before moving on to the next one, usually one is older and the other is modern.

You guys have money for new games?

Proud to say I do! At least I can buy 1 new title every month.
It's simple, I always skip lunch every Monday to Wednesday.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

100 percent.
You can just feel there is no love and passion in modern games anymore. (Besides indy games)

Not only that they respected and adored their previous installments with constant new versions of the chocobo theme the PS1 having unique 3d cutscenes for 2d Final Fantasy games that required the devs to probably think how they originally imagined the worlds of these games and more....with constant reoccurring weapons and names it all tells that this franchise was one of passion and of course LOVE

 

[Izzy]

idk why, even though, next gen games, have hd graphics and all

for some reason, i still go back to ps2, ps3, nds, x360 or ps vita, for gaming, the amount of new games i play is very limited, seems, emulation truly won this fight, among the fans, it's not about boomers or zoomers, it depends on the mood and all, but with the emulation on the game, the older gen of games, truly got an actual update on traffic

at least, for me, i don't game as i used to, because in real life matters more, and we all got our schedules and life as adults, but in that free time, i am in the middle of going back to the older games, or, playing later a bit of tekken 8 or sf6, lol

how you feel? it depends mostly on how you feel/mood, or, you partially feel, this generation of games, is for the most part, a mess and incomplete?

discuss

I feel that emulation fixed mostly all the known games we thought were deemed hard until we realized the versions we were playing were horribly nerfed. I find that fan-translations and restorations truly shines so much better than say you're paying out the ass for HD remasters/remakes. Now am I putting down on those? No, I'm not. It's something that feels more fulfilling playing a FULL game, with restored assets and tracks, over being somewhat to totally forgotten. It sure as hell beats playing a game twice over just to get extra content that should've already been there on jump.

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Technically speaking, people are tired, and by tired I mean disappointed with the new releases of games that are already bugged, not completed, not fun, miss the mark completely or are ~Rigged from the start~ . Don't get me wrong, there are a few games that are worth it, Monster Hunter, Ghost of Tsushima (New), etc. are great and all, but the original flare is technically gone. Old games pushed the boundaries with new ideas, characters, styles and imaginations. Companies began reusing the same stuff over and over again. Old games had verity in them. Today, Indie games have shadowed larger games, with Stupidly large budgets. For me, I personally play out games, just for the fun of it.

Assassin Creed looks great and all and I might play it once, but it won't give me the satisfaction of the real deal. Here I go, Ranting again.

I totally agree. It's why I'll continue to support fan-translations and restorations. At least for what they are worth, it gives you a fresh set of eyes. It'll blow your mind in how much were missing and we didn't know about it. Most companies didn't take the plunge because they honestly didn't know their audience. I feel that out of the original companies that really took the plunge was Falcom. I could say in a sense Tecmo did too before they merged with Koei. It's something about the originals that vastly have over any remake and that's charm. It's why we remember certain games as they were then compared to as they are now. Remasters and remakes may look nice and all but it's that shine that the originals has that no remaster can ever have, that simple charm.

 

[dropsmegamega]

Looking at my backloggd, less than 10% of the games I've played were made after 2013. The only game made in 2024 that I've played is SMT:Vengeance and of 2023 I've only played BG3 and the remake of We Love Katamari.

I am actually interested in plenty of modern games though (well maybe not that many, but still...), but they take a lot of space and are kinda expensive and I am not even sure how well they will run in this machine, so I don't have the same freedom to try and test then like I have with retro games.

 

[Battleplayer83]

The last games that really hooked me were the 2 yakuza black panther games on psp with fan translations that i found on cdromance.
As of right now i only have 1 game that i am excited about and thats Ultra Pro Wrestling.
It's basically a successor to the old AKI wrestling games on the good old N64.
I've been waiting since my childhood for another game with that engine.
It seems my prayers have been heard :)

 

[Abecero]

The last modern game I have played is AntonBlast. Aside that, as of late I've been just replaying old PS1 games from my childhood, or other games I missed out back then, like the Megaman Legends (and Tron Bonne) games.
Right now I'm again replaying Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, both trying to this time actually reach the game's "ending", but also just to unwind and relax because I've exposed myself to too much """social""" media, kill me

 

[bjork]

I primarily play older stuff, but part of that is due to not owning newer consoles and my PC being fairly outdated. But there's such a wealth of old stuff to see and I really enjoy just firing up something like a ZX Spectrum emulator and looking at a bunch of stuff randomly, that I still have fun with games.

 

[naizou's iconnaizou]

The controls and UI are undoubtedly better in modern games, but even older ones can be fun, so I play the games I want to play.
As for fighting games, I only play the newer ones since it takes too long to find matches in older titles...

 

[trickybus]

Almost all of the modern games I play are indie. Everything else is emulated. I just have more fun with older games than modern ones. The only exception would be co-op games; I'm always down to play with friends.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

It's a pretty even mix, I'd say.

 

[ekkolocria]

I mostly play modern indie titles, but a fair bit of "retro" games, too. I know there are some AAA devs like the ppl at fromsoft and (to a degree) nintendo who are still making great games but given that those are the exception to the general state of AAA games right now, for once I don't really feel like i'm missing out on much by not having top-tier hardware that can run those new games, especially since indie games tend to inspire me as a hobbyist solo dev, just given the amazing things just one or a few devs can pull off nowadays

Have you played some modern indie imsims? 3D platformers? Cruelty Squad and Psuedoregalia are probably cemented as future "indie classics" at this point