rathersilly
Bluelighter
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This thread was inspired by the Goldeneye one. The 90s were a golden age. Who else used to really enjoy playing games, and now, just can't find the motivation to pick a controller up?
I used to love video games - in particular, the Super Nintendo. Anything from Nintendo and its brethren. All the Donkey Kong series, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Bomberman, Zelda, Chrono Trigger... I could while away hours on end playing these things. I got my N64, and games like Mario 64, Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, these were some of the most enjoyable times of my youth. Three mates, battle mode in Mario Kart, or deathmatch in Goldeneye...
The PC was good too, I even played some RPGs like Baldur's Gate and really got into them, which is odd, as that kind of stuff usually aint my cup of tea.
Eventually, I just stopped playing. Social life took over, and they became a distant memory.
I moved to Cambodia last year for work, and decided I needed something to consume my spare time (of which, here, there is plenty), and bought an Xbox 360. I have probably 30 games for it, and I don't think I've played any of them for more than an hour, except for maybe GTA 4.
Have I just grown older and grown out of gaming? Are my memories simply fonder because I was young, and things like that are more fun when you're young? Are games these days just lacking the charm that they once did? The Super Nes certainly had some bad games, but the vast majority of them were pretty good. It seems like these days developers spend a bucketload of cash making them look and sound pretty, but don't care so much about how they play.
Does anyone else feel like this?
I used to love video games - in particular, the Super Nintendo. Anything from Nintendo and its brethren. All the Donkey Kong series, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Bomberman, Zelda, Chrono Trigger... I could while away hours on end playing these things. I got my N64, and games like Mario 64, Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, these were some of the most enjoyable times of my youth. Three mates, battle mode in Mario Kart, or deathmatch in Goldeneye...
The PC was good too, I even played some RPGs like Baldur's Gate and really got into them, which is odd, as that kind of stuff usually aint my cup of tea.
Eventually, I just stopped playing. Social life took over, and they became a distant memory.
I moved to Cambodia last year for work, and decided I needed something to consume my spare time (of which, here, there is plenty), and bought an Xbox 360. I have probably 30 games for it, and I don't think I've played any of them for more than an hour, except for maybe GTA 4.
Have I just grown older and grown out of gaming? Are my memories simply fonder because I was young, and things like that are more fun when you're young? Are games these days just lacking the charm that they once did? The Super Nes certainly had some bad games, but the vast majority of them were pretty good. It seems like these days developers spend a bucketload of cash making them look and sound pretty, but don't care so much about how they play.
Does anyone else feel like this?