Do you feel the same about games you played as a child?

[svgmn1]

I am currently playing some games I played as a child like fps shooters or even nfs and they are hard as fuck, I don't remember them being that hard as a child, yes I did spend a lot of time as a child on my consoles but I don't remember any of them being nearly impossible grind substances. honestly these games suck....

Take nfs mw, it is so repetitive and grindy that it almost feels like a gacha grinder where career advancement almost feels like 90s arcade machine or gacha grinder, it is just multipliers that keep getting ridiculously multiplied after every BL member and make ridiculous requirements (namely bounty and milestones). this pattern is so easy to notice yet so many people praise this game as the best installment of the series ever.
criterion nfses for example were games that I didn't enjoy back then, but right now I think a game like nfs hp remaster is honestly just a better game. it is more comfy, less cheesy and have better visuals instead of just overblurring to the point of non visibility, the music was also much much better on nfs mw 2/hp which is also different to what I thought back then, so games that I didn't love much as a child are games that I like more now.

 

[DrowziBone]

I feel the opposite, games were so much harder on PS1, I remember needing to buy the walkthrough books for Final Fantasy games but now there are so many hints and assists that you can play entire games through story mode.

I'm still playing military shooters and racing games as when I was a kid. I never got into the whole Battle Royale / Warzone craze the new generation is in. I like respawn matches not collect what you can, die, and watch others play until the next round.

 

[svgmn1]

I feel the opposite, games were so much harder on PS1, I remember needing to buy the walkthrough books for Final Fantasy games but now there are so many hints and assists that you can play entire games through story mode.

Interesting, I never used hints or something rn I feel like this wouldn't fully replicate the experience I had when I was young even though I did use hints back then. if I wanted to I can just mod a save file and finish the game without much grinding. think I was always a noob.

I'm still playing military shooters and racing games as when I was a kid. I never got into the whole Battle Royale / Warzone craze the new generation is in. I like respawn matches not collect what you can, die, and watch others play until the next round.

This is a solid point. you can see almost how all battle royales started implementing respawn mechanisms in the last couple of years but it only made the mechanism more clumsy.

 

[keithbauhaus]

I feel the opposite, games were so much harder on PS1, I remember needing to buy the walkthrough books for Final Fantasy games but now there are so many hints and assists that you can play entire games through story mode.

I'm still playing military shooters and racing games as when I was a kid. I never got into the whole Battle Royale / Warzone craze the new generation is in. I like respawn matches not collect what you can, die, and watch others play until the next round.

I can definitely relate to this. I feel like it's much more gratifying beating a game (or a level within a game) that requires you to build up the prowess to beat it. Save states for older games can also be utilized as a crutch if a game's difficulty is daunting, but I typically like to play older games on the console they were designed for (or through an FPGA such as MiSTer). There are some FPGA cartridges (i.e., the everdrive gameboy) that thankfully support save states, but I try to refrain from using those unless the game is notoriously difficult (TMNT for the NES or Battletoads are prime examples, lol). I'm still playing Quake and DOOM (Zandronum) for the reasons you pointed out in your post too.

 

[anotherwastedlife]

i remember when playing games even as a child i was shit at them and always found them harder than most did, no matter what the game was i always found everything hard and always played on the easiest difficulties. i'm better at games now but not by much, i'm still pretty shit at them. my favourite and longest cope and i can't even be good at that

Take nfs mw, it is so repetitive and grindy that it almost feels like a gacha grinder where career advancement almost feels like 90s arcade machine or gacha grinder, it is just multipliers that keep getting ridiculously multiplied after every BL member and make ridiculous requirements (namely bounty and milestones).

agreed, i have more fond memories of the first underground, i can barely remember much from mw apart from running from cops all the time

 

[HeightpillVictim]

I remember I use to play gta 3 when a was a kid it was super fun. Now a played it a few months ago and it give me a lot of nostalgia

 

[Grodd]

Yeah most of them i still like

 

[TooSomething]

There are some games that I enjoy today as much as I used to enjoy them as a kid, but then there are those which I have learned to hate because of how obviousely broken they are.

Tank Racer is one of those games. That pos is too damn hard to be enjoyable. Every tank more or less feels the same and when I hit an enemy with my canon they are barely even fazed and barely get slower, but when I get hit I lose control of my tank and a lot of speed also.

Nowadays, admittedly, I cannot enjoy any of the original Resident Evil games anymore. I just don't tough that shit anymore.

I like Driver 1 and 2 as much as back then.

MediEvil is even more fun than back then, as well as the Spyro trilogy.

Gran Tourismo 1 & 2 are too easy, for my taste but also grindy.

Wipeout is tough, imo. Cannot get used to the physics.

G-Police is still a banger.

 

[TooSomething]

I remember I use to play gta 3 when a was a kid it was super fun. Now a played it a few months ago and it give me a lot of nostalgia

Love this game. It gives me insane nostalgic feelings and makes me both very happy and very sad at the same time.

 

[svgmn1]

I remember I use to play gta 3 when a was a kid it was super fun. Now a played it a few months ago and it give me a lot of nostalgia

few games to me are re-playable indefinitely and unconditionally, gta 3 is one of those few games. it's such a well done game imo

There are some games that I enjoy today as much as I used to enjoy them as a kid, but then there are those which I have learned to hate because of how obviousely broken they are.

Tank Racer is one of those games. That pos is too damn hard to be enjoyable. Every tank more or less feels the same and when I hit an enemy with my canon they are barely even fazed and barely get slower, but when I get hit I lose control of my tank and a lot of speed also.

Nowadays, admittedly, I cannot enjoy any of the original Resident Evil games anymore. I just don't tough that shit anymore.

I like Driver 1 and 2 as much as back then.

MediEvil is even more fun than back then, as well as the Spyro trilogy.

Gran Tourismo 1 & 2 are too easy, for my taste but also grindy.

Wipeout is tough, imo. Cannot get used to the physics.

G-Police is still a banger.

Maybe we are just afraid to complete these games and just finished them once and left it like it was dealt with

This is why I'm never ever re-playing any souls like game I played in the past

I admit that my will for grinding and attentionspan has gone downhill, which is why I'm seeking short completion games to play these days, especially the old trnedy ones that I didn't get to play.

 

[TooSomething]

few games to me are re-playable indefinitely and unconditionally, gta 3 is one of those few games. it's such a well done game imo

Maybe we are just afraid to complete these games and just finished them once and left it like it was dealt with

This is why I'm never ever re-playing any souls like game I played in the past

I admit that my will for grinding and attentionspan has gone downhill, which is why I'm seeking short completion games to play these days, especially the old trnedy ones that I didn't get to play.

I have beaten all of the games that I have mentioned, even Tank Racer.
I have in fact 100% it a few weeks ago again, because I am a masochist.

And yes, that was by far the worst. You just have to have quite a bit of luck and drive absolutely perfectly if you want to 100% the game.

The problem though is that the enemy tanks start shooting at you before they can see you.
So, if you are chasing a tank and can't see him yet because of walls and other obstacles, the AI can already see you and starts blasting in your direction.

The AI can also sonewhat predict your movement / direction and will lead the shot in attempt to hit you.

And it manages to hit way too often.

Even driver 1 & 2 are not as rage inducing, ngl.

Just try the game. Try to 100% it.

But other than the incredibly unfair AI it is a fun game and I imagine that it would be a blast in vs mode.

 

[pisser]

I do, the nostalgia will always keep me in even if the game was slop. There were so many timeless games on the 360 (charlie murders peak)

 

[NonNTFailure]

Yeah, the games I played as a kid in the 2000s were meant to be fun after all. Not this soulless corpo slop we get nowadays

 

[ToBurble&Pine]

Never had the chance to get into gaming when I was a kid due to poverty

 

[svgmn1]

Never had the chance to get into gaming when I was a kid due to poverty

poverty + not having friends and/or being outcast as a kid is a death sentence for your gaming skills.
people who have fps skills or platformer skills or anything always started young.

As someone who lives in a shithole torn by a war (Iraq) I reflect back on some kids I remember in my school, they got gaming pcs as early as 2008, we were in a civil war and those kids got gaming pcs, headphones, pro mics and everything.
Meanwhile I was begging my parents to let me take a rented ps2 or buy me a ps2.
No one wanted to have shit with me because I was that one kid who still played genesis with only one cartridge.

 

[cooked in life]

I still enjoy old racing games from the 2000s

 

[Deco]

Yes and I don't even play hard games. I still struggle more with Pokémon Fire Red than anything else. I wouldn't dare touch Gen 1/2.

 

[Hoppipolla]

I'm an oldcel so the games I played as a child look pretty basic now ^_^

They were fun though! Action-packed!

 

[Straight Farquaad]

I was retarded when I played games as a kid. Id constantly try and go through invisible walls, jump off stages to try and walk along obviously out of bounds stuff. I thought they were fucking magic. Led me to finding a glitch so weird I thought i was hallucinating.

 

[svgmn1]

I was retarded when I played games as a kid. Id constantly try and go through invisible walls, jump off stages to try and walk along obviously out of bounds stuff. I thought they were fucking magic. Led me to finding a glitch so weird I thought i was hallucinating.

it could be worse. I'm still retarded, maybe even more.

 

[fukurou]

not a fair comparison.
old games were made for old consoles they look shit on emulators for the most part

 

[cirno369]

It's all inverse now. I still love the games, but I remember struggling in Chemical plant zone act 2, now that is easy as hell to me, but the easy things are now difficult to me

 

[ogercel]

Yes and No but most games have aged gracefully!

 

[Zionist]

Yeah, the games I played as a kid in the 2000s were meant to be fun after all. Not this soulless corpo slop we get nowadays

 

[Zionist]

PS2 era was the best, so many great games and hidden gems

 

[Zionist]

Yes and I don't even play hard games. I still struggle more with Pokémon Fire Red than anything else. I wouldn't dare touch Gen 1/2.

Pokemon is easy af, nigger, watchu talkin bout

 

[slavcel11]

no, unfortunately I've become very cynical and at times overly critical of the games I used to enjoy.

 

[SSuzumiya]

It depends most of them I still enjoy but some not so much. Like I used to be really into Sonic games but having replayed a couple from my youth I started to think that Sonic games in general aren't very good even some of the 2D ones

 

[Pikacel]

Yep

I haven’t changed much from when I was 14 yo

 

[tedkwasasaint]

I am currently playing some games I played as a child like fps shooters or even nfs and they are hard as fuck, I don't remember them being that hard as a child, yes I did spend a lot of time as a child on my consoles but I don't remember any of them being nearly impossible grind substances. honestly these games suck....

Take nfs mw, it is so repetitive and grindy that it almost feels like a gacha grinder where career advancement almost feels like 90s arcade machine or gacha grinder, it is just multipliers that keep getting ridiculously multiplied after every BL member and make ridiculous requirements (namely bounty and milestones). this pattern is so easy to notice yet so many people praise this game as the best installment of the series ever.
criterion nfses for example were games that I didn't enjoy back then, but right now I think a game like nfs hp remaster is honestly just a better game. it is more comfy, less cheesy and have better visuals instead of just overblurring to the point of non visibility, the music was also much much better on nfs mw 2/hp which is also different to what I thought back then, so games that I didn't love much as a child are games that I like more now.

No i used to love fortnite but now i hate it

 

[Goonicide]

I was retarded when I played games as a kid. Id constantly try and go through invisible walls, jump off stages to try and walk along obviously out of bounds stuff. I thought they were fucking magic. Led me to finding a glitch so weird I thought i was hallucinating.

same

 

[_meh]

I feel different.

That's why I just play newer games instead, rather than going back and playing old games I've played before.

 

[Orbiter]

megaman on the NES was hard af. almost no instructions and unforgivable gameplay. now every game spoon feeds ppl with 100x tutorials.

 

[uncomfortablecel225]

Depends on the game

 

[FuckYou]

Some are just as great as I remember them being, others have aged terribly.

 

[Lo3e]

I am currently playing some games I played as a child like fps shooters or even nfs and they are hard as fuck, I don't remember them being that hard as a child, yes I did spend a lot of time as a child on my consoles but I don't remember any of them being nearly impossible grind substances. honestly these games suck....

Take nfs mw, it is so repetitive and grindy that it almost feels like a gacha grinder where career advancement almost feels like 90s arcade machine or gacha grinder, it is just multipliers that keep getting ridiculously multiplied after every BL member and make ridiculous requirements (namely bounty and milestones). this pattern is so easy to notice yet so many people praise this game as the best installment of the series ever.
criterion nfses for example were games that I didn't enjoy back then, but right now I think a game like nfs hp remaster is honestly just a better game. it is more comfy, less cheesy and have better visuals instead of just overblurring to the point of non visibility, the music was also much much better on nfs mw 2/hp which is also different to what I thought back then, so games that I didn't love much as a child are games that I like more now.

no idk I tried to boot up Minecraft on my 360 idk had some dumbass bug stopping me from reliving childhood

 

[Deco]

I do but I can't replay unless I'm really bored and a long time has passed. I hate that about myself sometimes as I wish I could've been just like those autists who replay their favorite game over and over again.