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Message: [QUOTE="Graw, post: 234363, member: 90249"] It's not just the graphics but also the heavy insistence on coherent lore and detail filled stories. When I played Zelda as a kid, I sort of read the manual but kind of just made up my own names for the monsters and just sort of made up my own little stories about the dudes in the caves and the world. When Alttp and ocarina of time and stuff came out, I just made up my own connections between the different games. These days there's an entire book explaining every single detail about the story of all the games and how they're connected leaving nothing to the imagination. My cousin owned Super Metroid when we were kids and we played through it together taking turns whenever one of us died. He didn't have a manual. Neither of us had played the first two games. All we had to go on as far as story went was the little intro blurb at the beginning. We just made up everything else ourselves. We called all the bosses dragons and called the statue room the dragon room. We made up some story about the wrecked ship and why it was there and little stories about the different areas in the game. We'd sit there trying to scare eachother while the other one was playing coming up with whatever we could about the enemies and what might be waiting around the corner. I feel like modern gaming doesn't really give you that kind of experience any more. If everything isn't explained for you in game there's a million youtube videos out there showing off every single detail of the game. A lot of what actually made old nes games good was the fact that so much was left to the imagination. You didn't realize how small and limited the games were. They felt big and mysterious and like they could just be endless because you never really knew if there was more or not. Even silly nonsensical stories felt big and mysterious just because you were given very limited information and everything else was left to the imagination. It's not just video games. I find books and tv shows suffer from it too. Especially fantasy and sci-fi. If you read fantasy from the 60's, 70's and early 80's. A lot of the stories feel more fantastical than stuff written in the 90's and later when massive glossaries explaining every detail started to become common. Too much detail takes the imagination out of things and in my opinion just makes things less fun all around. [/QUOTE]

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