Topic: Gaming: Then, and Now

[Lumi Kløvstad]

So true.

[beingthehero]

I remember Puwexil showing this to me just a few days ago and rattling off about how all are true. I can definitely sympathize with the last comic.

[Abnormal Freak]

I never thought video games looked anything nearing realism, but I totally was wowed by graphics then whereas now my reaction is very much "meh." Part of that is due to me having been a kid at the time and being impressed by almost everything, but another reason is I just don't like how games have turned toward "realism" with grittier environments and a limited color palette. Games used to be fun to look at, where now a truly good-looking game is hard to come by.

I grew up in a different era and I don't like how things are now. Thankfully the Old still occasionally shines through. SUDA51 games are very much old-styled with spicings of the New. Handhelds still cling to cute mascots and colorful graphics and simpler gameplay. That's the kind of thing I like. It's not archaic, it's just a different way of doing things, and I wish it had a more prominent place in today's console world. When a game like Rayman Origins doesn't sell bazillions of copies, something's wrong.

[Sumac]

Looks like someone who created it had major nostalgia goggles. As always, when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Personally, I think that 10 years later you will have gamers who will say "that games in my time were better". And what will you say to them? "Oh, you're wrong - it is my 16-bit games were much better than PS3 ones!!" It would be a hilarious dialogue.