Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with handicap features, and also to find Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, you’d lose a number of hours exploring every nook and cranny finding them!

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mlg@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I remember when volvo invented lootboxes to make tf2 free to play instead of selling a $60 “AAA” title with a battlepass and lootboxes included.

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- Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They should have made the patent free to use as long as the game was free to play, like they did with the seat belt patent
  
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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If memory serves, Valve got the idea for the loot boxes from Korean free to play games. As far as I know though, they did invent the battle pass with Dota 2.
  
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iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
oh fuck those beautiful manuals.

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Comfortably_Wet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Some games really needed manuals to play. That’s what text files were for.
  
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cyd@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows;
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

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SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fun anecdote. The PAL version of Digimon World 1 had a serious bug that prevented your progress to recruit Ogremon, which you needed to recruit Shellmon, which you needed to recruit a bunch of late game digimons, and made your access to several areas extremely harder. A 100% completion was impossible. It was still such a neat game tho.

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Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
playclassic.games is a website

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Prethoryn@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think there is something to respect about both types of games these days.

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RatBin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Of course I still have the manual of these old games. The characters were always hand drawn and properly described. For rpg they also used a nice medieval fantasy style. A lot of these descriptions were not even necessary but they were cool to have.

We don’t miss these games because they were inherently better, but because they were fun in their own way, and enhanced creativity due to their own limitations. Also these were console games, so you had a specific time and hardware to play them. It’s not like a moder multiplayer pc game, that somehow follows you beyond the gaming time, and that are played on the same machine you use to work.

Sometimes I feel like these games are exhausting when they take so much energy. Than you have updates, tierlists and a new meta every week. I used to sit down and play without thinking at anything else on old consoles. Still do. They don’t send me unwanted notifications. Than you have all the lootboxes gacha stuff.

Games were technically limited but built a simple and fun experience.

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- ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  True. I feel that particularly with ranked shooters like Valorant and their competitive modes, playing becomes less enjoyable and more of a chore. In RPGs and strategy games on the other hand, I can lose myself for hours in wonder and awe at the gameplay, story, atmosphere, setting, etc. That’s why I’d much rather play something many people would consider less exciting like Crusader Kings 3 than Valorant, Overwatch, Counterstrike, League of Legends, etc.
  
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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I would have appreciated a more robust modding community for NES, etc.

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Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s an analogy with the music industry too. Music recording before was for the “elite” who were sure that their music would hit. Nowadays, the music recording broadens to the public, ergo more less quality focused music is released.

The same goes with video games

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