For starters, most modern games has dlcs. It's becoming rare when newer games comes out without dlcs. Not to mention some games like two Dead or Alive games as well as Dead by Daylight. Those has a ridiculous amount of dlcs that will easily cost you a lot of money. It's truly amazing a lot of companies make enough dlc to virtually buying the same games several times over, it's not right.
Most retro games you simply bought the game that's it. Now there's some on PC that has expansion packs. Along with Sonic & Knuckles' lock-on cartridge were precursors to dlcs in video games. Another major difference is companies mostly rushing out games. Well the major ones do while that isn't as common for indie video games.
Back then most retro games are finished. Even if we compared glitches, some in retro games is way more fun than those in modern ones. As a kid, my parents bought me a lot of games on several consoles. I personally loved the digital option myself. Online gaming is somewhat presented in retro gaming I won't justice that on several accounts here.
What I will be judging however is most retro games is notably smaller in size. A lot of modern games takes up a lot of space regardless of platforms. In vice versa, I easily could fill up that space with a lot more retro games instead of just one giant size modern game. I also loved how some companies add in features to make it easier to play retro games.
Some classic games were so great, most modern ones trying to recreate their success fails horribly. I am so over joyed there's so many compilation games. Going back to prices excluding dlcs, most newer games costs around $59.99. Obviously that's asking a lot with some companies willing to go more expensive up to $99.99 is ridiculous.
There's a couple bigger game amount compilation games on most platforms. A handful of those, you are possibly set for hours possibly months alone. We are talking Sega Genesis Classics, SNK's 40th Anniversary, Atari 50, and Capcom Arcade Stadium series. There's a couple Mega Man Legacy Collection games as well.
A lot of these classic games are notably a lot cheaper. They are much more friendly to your wallets/purses as well as banks. I don't wanna give up body parts for a game or two. Another major thing I been noticing for modern gaming is multiplayer. Maybe some companies are too obsessed with them.
Some games tried competing with games like Fortnite and Dead by Daylight to name a few. Only to quickly burnt out in record time. Back then retro mostly had local multiplayer. Not to mention, games like Perfect Dark were way more balanced in comparison. Perfect Dark offers a lot of match types including being able to create your own if you wanted to.
There's also XBLA version of Perfect Dark that has online multiplayer, it's amazing stuff. Most retro Arcade games are truly timeless classics. It's so easy to list a lot of them off here. I also liked many compilation games represents several platforms. Which is rather impressive with many issues that could occur with emulating such vastly different platforms.
A great example of this is Rare Replay. I also liked some retro games get a lot of nice stuff added in newer rereleases. TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection is easily among my favorites in that department. Sure you may have modern games everyone is playing. I easily could name very impressive retro games.
You also see how things changed over the years in retro gaming. You don't really see that in modern gaming. A lot of newer games are tricky to get working on computers. Sega Genesis Classics on Steam is absolutely ridiculous what it brings to the table. Retro gaming felt more like an unity of gaming many people treasured for years to come.
I really can't say a lot of people going to like the same towards modern gaming. Especially when retro nailed several aspects way better than newer ones. Clearly the entire gaming industry needs to slow down a lot to careful reconsider many decisions. Retro also has the advantage of nostalgia. I confess Sega Genesis always been one of my absolute favorite game consoles.
Sometimes the appeal of playing a classic on one of the finest retro consoles means the world. A few years ago, I fully played Vigilante 8 on Nintendo 64. Easily, well worth the hours playing it with every character. I also felt the overall music was better retro wise as well. A lot of classic game songs still stick with me for a long time.
A couple compilation games with a lot more games for just one newer game is a lot more bang for your bucks. A lot of fighting games isn't as great as Soulcalibur II. Back then when you found an decent licensed game, it was truly amazing stuff. A good number of them gotten rereleased in recent years. I also mentioned it because some franchises kept not doing the license justice.
A good example of this was TMNT for many years. Until both TMNT: Shredder's Revenge and The Cowabunga Collections respectively. Some of them still remain as the finest licensed game of that franchise. A great example of this is GoldenEye. Many Bond games tried taking shots at GoldenEye but never came close to it's greatness.
A lot of harder games were notably harder from some clever game designs. Which gets heavily criticize by people in recent years. I rather have a game that takes me a long time with limited continues if done right. Then a game that I could easily beat with check points that's not worth playing again. Some retro games were truly ahead of their time like Shenmue.
For a long time, there wasn't anything remotely close to Shenmue. Obviously a lot of companies like Sega had some great games. A large amount of them kept getting rereleases. Konami had some truly amazing games as well like Rocket Knight Adventures. Speaking of that, Limited Run Games is doing an Rocket Knight Adventures compilation I waited a very long time for this!!!
Retro really has you covered in every possible way. GOG in particular is heavily about making a lot of older games available DRM-Free. I always deeply appreciated their hard work doing that. Retro had plenty of mind blowing games that's still being discussed today like no tomorrow. Not only that, it also has an insanely large community that supports em too.
I'm even excited Gex Trilogy coming out soon. Virtually little to nothing to go on since the announcement trailer. The fact they are going to bring back such an franchise. Any forgotten franchises could eventually make a return. I'll throw one I highly doubt ever going to get an rerelease. Bushido Blade series was a short lived 3D fighting game series on PS1.
A major dislike I have towards a lot of gamers. Which actually comes off being very picky to me. They heavily criticize older games' graphics. Here's how I see it, if the game looked good for the system as well for it's time. Then I see it as a master piece there's no need to crap on graphics like that. I could crap on some newer games requiring online the entire time that will leave to some major issues.
When you found decent retro multiplayer games. You really didn't wanna play anything else. I could say a lot of more recent multiplayer games just isn't on some of the finest gaming has to offer. Retro covers a lot more than simply older video games. We also got to discuss impressive technical feats many classic game consoles done.
A great example is the famous Saturn port of Quake 1. A port that shouldn't been able to work on the system at all. Somehow the team found a way to do the impossible. Also back then many similar titled games were vastly different. There's little to none of that in modern gaming anymore. Which kinda takes away from the overall appeal of things.
Another major factor retro has going for is a rather simple one. Most game franchises had to start somewhere. Eventually the newer hits will become retro. Supposedly around fifteen to twenty years games can be labeled as retro. Which also means any games going further back already been retro. Twitch does have an retro tag for it's website, thank you so much.
Retro also for the most part easier to set up. We are talking simply putting cartridges or disks into consoles or installing em to your computer. Some retro games gotten more direct mod support to fix a game left broken. More recently, most game companies really don't like people doing that. Sega did allow rom hacks in Sega Genesis Classics on Steam.
A computer could run a lot of emulators representing many classic platforms is truly mind blowing. Kega Fusion is an ambitious emulator that almost fully covers Sega platforms. Excluding Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast respectively. More recently, some emulators adds retro achievements to classic games.
I absolutely loved this concept with an passion. People can get better at their favorite games. At the same time, learn stuff they may not knew about em in the process. Retro gaming should be the way to go. Even Microsoft went in on making a lot of their games backward compatibility. This alone saves you money having to buy other Xbox consoles to buy those games.
Retro gaming built a lot of gamers that's no hiding it. A lot of us older games used to struggle a lot on many games. I would even dare to say kids today have much easier games. They couldn't possibly understand how hard games used to be. Although they got plenty of ways to experience it for themselves, it's very likely they won't.
Modern gaming also suffers from being more directly DRM than most retro games. For example, you can mod to crazier degrees in many older games. But a lot of newer ones could have some unpleasant surprises. Like in some Serious Sam games, you suddenly be given an enemy you can't defeat. Capcom already cracking down on people modding their games mostly on RE Engine.
What's kinda hilarious to me? It never once said anything about RE mods on other games. Which means you could play RE theme mods on other games, supposedly they won't take action. At least that's how I'm viewing this loop hole. There's plenty of devices people kept using to play thousands of games. Modern gaming will never allow such actions.
A bigger issue I have with Modern gaming is multiplayer games. They kept releasing stuff it depends on the games. Either most of it you gotta pay or some select stuff. I don't mind buying some stuff as well as I still get many things in game with points. DbD is too obsessed with selling out every possible way it can.
Yes Fortnite is also greedy with constantly bringing in other franchises over the years. Back then it was quite rare when guest characters showed up in older games. Now a lot of newer games has so many of them it's ridiculous!!! The rate games are coming out now is too fast. Especially Assassin's Creed, Like a Dragon and Call of Duty are the worst at that.
For the most you are not technically given an year to play em. Then another one or more comes out while you still aren't finished with em. I rather have a few years gap between games. So I can take more time to enjoy em then having to rush playing em just isn't right. If that's not enough two of those franchises also suffers from way too many dlcs.
Not only you are going to fall behind owning em. You also got a lot of dlcs that likely combined going to cost more than the actual game is ridiculous to me. Back then you go to a store likely with your parents. You pick out a game maybe two that's it. Virtually no strings attached you go home with completed games, not the case anymore.
Retro is more for everyone in ways even those against it doesn't fully realize. Modern gaming is more like you gotta commit to us or go away. What's even crazier is some homebrew games are truly sick stuff. Like there's a few allowing an console to play games from another console. To be more direct, there's an add-on you can buy to play Genesis games right off an SNES console no lie.
One of the absolute craziest is Everdrive. This is virtually an cheat device with the entire library of games. You also can customize parts of their designs to a degree that will increase the overall price. Also some handheld models you had to do an extra, risky step to use properly. One of these virtually saving you possibly hundreds if not thousands of dollars getting a lot of games.
Cheat codes is becoming rare in gaming. Back when I was a kid, using em, I had so many fun memories. You could do some truly ridiculous stuff in many games. Even some stuff that doesn't make sense at all but it's happening. There used to be Tips and Tricks magazines with other cheat books. Now we possibly go to the internet for things.
This also caused the end of strategy guides too. Some of the ones I had were incredibly well done for their time. I really liked TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection recreated one inside the game itself. This alone brought back a lot of memories. This also ended most gaming magazines with a few still going today somehow.
Back then these were the closest method of getting any actual gaming news. Once again you got the internet for the same thing plus more. Retro helped shaped gaming in many ways. It's a real shame more people are disliking the older games the way they do. In all honestly, deeply upsets me at my core. You wouldn't have Elden Ring with many others without em, show em some damn respect!!!
Some franchises had notably more games than their current rate like Grand Theft Auto. For a long time, they mostly focus on GTA V like it's the greatest thing in the world!!! Fighting games used to have more games coming out faster. Keep in mind, you usually got a roster of characters. The actual length of beating the games was short.
Short enough you may play through it again as another character. Now we get some characters with the later dlc characters that shows up later. This alone proves they are so focus making these games better in several ways. At the same time, it also means you likely going to swap out to play something else. Not to mention, many fighting game franchises had way more games in those gaps.
A great example what I'm talking about is The King of Fighters. For a long time, they kept coming out with em. Eventually they notably slowed down with fewer releases. I'm not saying these fighting games are bad by any means. I do really enjoy some of the newer fighting games myself. There's just nothing like more effort put into actual endings.
Not only that, the controls weren't as complex. Although that also depends on which franchise too. Classic Mortal Kombat games had a much sooner release gap than the newer entries. It seems like they really wanna cash in. MK1 in particular is currently suffering from it's many mistakes right now. Including some from MK11 that they shouldn't be repeating either.
Yes a lot of older fighting games you may need to enter cheat codes to play as. I prefer that over buying characters in because there's something about these methods that's so interesting me. Not to mention, none of those causes me money either. I do appreciate Killer Instinct (2013 game) eventually fully bundle everything dlc together.
I kept noticing a lot of other fighting game series for some odd reason isn't fully including everything. Within their biggest deals is just insulting to me. I'm going to possibly give you close to an hundred dollars to get everything in an Tekken game. Yet I still don't get everything why? Now that makes me feel getting rip off, it's just not right at all!!!
As much I wanna see the possible highs with Modern gaming. I see a lot more with Retro gaming in general. There's plenty of ways to enjoy the classics. It's just sucks many other classics are in danger possibly never getting any rereleases. I am glad a few companies are rereleasing many classics in some form.
I do prefer seeing how many things changed over the years. Then doing what many other people are doing. Which is simply be arrogant or flat out ignore Retro gaming altogether. All of a sudden, trying to stay on top of Modern gaming means the world to em. In truth those same people simply lack anything outside gaming while playing with others giving their lifes some meaning.
If you wanna feel true meaning, go help other people out once in a while. Clean up wherever you're staying more often. Help your spouse making lunch or dinner more often too. Any of those is way better than playing a more recent game with your friends for little to no real reason at all. All you are actually doing is ignoring your lack of ambition with plenty of opportunities to fix that.
Retro gaming is something truly special. It's so unique especially when you start diving more into plenty of interesting gaming histories. YouTubers like the Gaming Historian is a huge recommendation for that stuff. More newer games won't have nearly as iconic gaming histories. In fact, the way things are currently going for the industry.
I strongly felt the exact opposite piling up at a faster rate. Let's put it this way if your newer games kept getting on the web show What Happened? Then clearly you really dropped the ball. I really wish the gaming industry would really reconsider many things because the inevitable happens. Which is games became so expensive, too many people stopped buying em.
Many big named game companies starts making bad decisions. They do whatever they can to prevent going out of business. However that only makes matters even worst. Not to mention, a lot of AAA games that's suppose to get fixed doesn't. Especially when indie developers easily outdone them in many ways including that rather sad to me.
I do also greatly appreciate the indie developers keeping parts of classic game designs alive their way. I felt this is more of the actual direction to be going into. Not rushing out expensive games with too many dlcs as well as making more of them strictly online games. Most newer game consoles, you have to pay for their online service to play online with people.
Therefore, one or more of the main game companies making consoles already getting ridiculous money. Back then it was much easier to collect games. Even people collecting Retro gaming stuff is getting burnet out or quitting altogether. This is more to do with some games online can be crazy expensive. Even if you are going just for the cartridge or disk.
At least, most gaming collectors helps each other to a degree. More than what you might expect from game companies in fact. Retro gaming is one of many universal languages in this world. Many of us gotta stick together. More people are realizing older games are holding up better than newer ones. You know you really gotta change things before it's too late.
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