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vwalbridge:

--- Quote from: pbj on February 02, 2016, 04:29:33 pm ---Soon as a new system comes out, I very rarely have any interest in playing the old ones ever again. If the PS4 read DVDRs better, the 360 would have been in the trash a year ago. Wii and PS3 haven't been touched in almost 2 years. I've gotten rid of anything older than that. No ragrets.

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I used to be just like pbj...latest and greatest or GTFO. However, within the last couple of years, I've turned around and started moving backwards in time. I'm starting to appreciate the "oldies" more and more.

Sure I still enjoy the brand new stuff and play it when I get the chance but I feel like the modern gaming industry has hit a bit of a point of diminishing returns. Especially moving from the PS3 erra to the PS4 era. There was just not a far enough leap in technology to this current gen. There doesn't seem to be much innovation from the major developers any longer. Same games just regurgitated with higher resolution. IMO, Nintendo and indy devs are the only guys making big enough strides right now.

So for me, re-enjoying some old classics is what I enjoy at the moment.

Slippyblade:

--- Quote from: vwalbridge on February 02, 2016, 04:36:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: pbj on February 02, 2016, 04:29:33 pm ---Soon as a new system comes out, I very rarely have any interest in playing the old ones ever again. If the PS4 read DVDRs better, the 360 would have been in the trash a year ago. Wii and PS3 haven't been touched in almost 2 years. I've gotten rid of anything older than that. No ragrets.

--- End quote ---

I used to be just like pbj...latest and greatest or GTFO. However, within the last couple of years, I've turned around and started moving backwards in time. I'm starting to appreciate the "oldies" more and more.

Sure I still enjoy the brand new stuff and play it when I get the chance but I feel like the modern gaming industry has hit a bit of a point of diminishing returns. Especially moving from the PS3 erra to the PS4 era. There was just not a far enough leap in technology to this current gen. There doesn't seem to be much innovation from the major developers any longer. Same games just regurgitated with higher resolution. IMO, Nintendo and indy devs are the only guys making big enough strides right now.

So for me, re-enjoying some old classics is what I enjoy at the moment.

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I second this. Not to mention that across all the consoles there have just been so many games that were worth playing. For example, I played Chrono Trigger for the first time last year. Amazing game, loved it. There are games on almost every console that I never played - and I can play them now.

pbj:
That's nice and everything, but it's hard to go back once you've held that Dualshock 4.

harveybirdman:
It's funny, what I loved about Bushido Blade is sort of what I hate about all modern gaming.

Besides being tantalizingly realistic when it comes to getting hit with a sword (---fudgesicle--- your life bar ---smurfette---) I absolutely loved that in Bushido Blade you ran around stages and weren't constrained by a 2D themed stage per the status quo of most of it's contemporaries.

Unfortunately this concept became invasive, to the point now where every game is in the first person and only the skins seem to change.

I admire the old games for having to be fun within the constraints of the technology. I think of 8 Bit as an art form. With regards to Atari, I was not as lucky as some, I ended up with the 400 where most had the 2600. Still I played enough Combat at my friends houses to remember the system fondly. I don't emulate it though, however I've considered doing so for Demon Attack.

Ginsu Victim:
I have a Demon Attack cartridge I could send you if you have a system to run it.

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