Comment on Sony

• ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Until you got to the sky canyon in twilight princess and the glitch made you start over because there was no way to patch offline games

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• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Games back then had bugs, too, they just never got fixed and everyone pretended they didn’t exist.

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were also released in a fully playable state. The game worked out of the box, or that would be the end of a game studio, or at least that game.

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    • grozzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This has never been true. Daggerfall and Morrowind, for example, were huge successes for Bethesda despite players falling through the floor into an infinite void several times a day. There are countless other examples of horribly buggy games.

      Before home internet, PC games magazine cover disks (they did 💾 type for years before CDs) were my main channel of getting very welcome patches.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And if they didn’t just work, they never got fixed.

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  • MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Therefore people only played and remembered the ones that did. Not much actually changed, we just have more games and more exposure now.

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• one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate AI and all that shit, but I have heard a lot of horror stories from developers who worked on “retro” gaming systems (from the Megadrive/Genesis to the Jaguar). I admire them for all the work they did because it was hard to code, but there are a fuckton of bugs that were sold during the good old days, and no one noticed what was happening because those bugs were never found.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you hate using things with massive exploitable bugs while we share a polite fiction that they work as intended, you’re gonna hate civilization.

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• blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There were lots of games that had multiple release revisions that fixed bugs. Gran Turismo 2’s original versions couldn’t be completed 100% due to a glitch, a reprint ended up fixing it.

  This is also why if you go looking for ROMs, you’ll see some games have multiple versions with some differences.

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• _chris@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not only that, but developers back then had to be really deliberate with their decisions due to the tiny size on the media and ram.

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• AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Games used to be much more simple too, and easier to test and fix.

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