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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 10:13 am
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(March 3, 2015 at 10:27 am)Chad32 Wrote: It's always good to have nice graphics, but if the gameplay is good enough it doesn't matter what the graphics looks like. Aydin Chronicles was one of my favorite N64 games, and the graphics tanked. I loved the N64, I really regret ever getting rid of it. It had some incredible games, and I'd say that barely any modern games have actually been significantly better, from a gameplay perspective.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 10:41 am
(March 4, 2015 at 10:13 am)robvalue Wrote: (March 3, 2015 at 10:27 am)Chad32 Wrote: It's always good to have nice graphics, but if the gameplay is good enough it doesn't matter what the graphics looks like. Aydin Chronicles was one of my favorite N64 games, and the graphics tanked. I loved the N64, I really regret ever getting rid of it. It had some incredible games, and I'd say that barely any modern games have actually been significantly better, from a gameplay perspective.
Speaking of N64, the games made by RARE at the time are still among my top favorites. Jet Force Gemini, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day. All about exploring and going through various and creative missions and challenges and collecting stuff that require some skills to get most of them.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 10:49 am
RARE put out some good games. No doubt about it. I forget what happened to them, but I think something went wrong. They either went out of business, or merged with another company, or something.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:00 am
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Boy, i didn't even see this thread. I grew up in the mid-80's playing Super Mario (II?, I don't even remember), RC Pro-AM, Kid Icarus and others on my Nintendo NES. Two tone gray unit with big, plug-in, flat cartridges, IIRC. I would spend HOURS on it (to my detriment, I think, but I'm disabled, and kids wouldn't include me).
Nowadays, I have no need to have a game system. I have a Facebook account. Not everybody loves Facebook. I know. But I have family on there, and it's good to have that connection. And they have all sorts of games, some of which have associated FBs where users can post questions or thoughts. So that's a sort of community right there.
I quite like Pearl's Perils, but as with anything addiction and burnout can and do happen (I think it did with my old NES as well, but I never recognized it as such).
So, yeah, like people have already said, those old games are a bit childish in some ways. The new games are often quite better for the mind and the social element.
Oh, and Rare still seems to be around. But they lost several people to a new rival studio, Playtonic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Ltd.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:09 am
The advantage with being my age is I can replay old games and not get caught up on how clunky and dull the graphics are because I've not been brought up on the cut n' slash style visual editing in modern games.
I can easily enjoy a text game like Zork (PC) or The Hobbit (Amiga) as much as the early 8-bit console games like the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive or Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, or Green if you are Japanese, on my GBA (I have a Pokémon Yellow game on the go right now) up through Doom, Quake, Call of Duty through Tomb Raider and Early Solo Warcraft games, then the early immersive experience games like Half-Life and Silent Hill, then migrate onto the early mega-gameplay areas like Morrowind and finally the modern ultra real GWAR, the new MOH, or the highly stylised Stem-Punk aesthetic of Dishonoured and MMORPG like ESO.
The entire gaming world is my oyster and I can appreciate them as someone who played them in their original context... even pong in the 70s. Yep, I'm that old... and still gaming!
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:13 am
I really miss those adventure style games like Banjo Kazooie. I enjoyed Nuts and Bolts, but I would have much preferred another in the previous style. I just don't know what happened to that genre, it's not like it's evolved into anything else.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:17 am
(March 4, 2015 at 11:13 am)robvalue Wrote: I really miss those adventure style games like Banjo Kazooie. I enjoyed Nuts and Bolts, but I would have much preferred another in the previous style. I just don't know what happened to that genre, it's not like it's evolved into anything else.
Some games are so unique they just stand alone.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:20 am
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura is another unique RPG. Quite nonlinear, which lends well to different archetypes.
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 11:47 am
(March 4, 2015 at 11:20 am)Chad32 Wrote: Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura is another unique RPG. Quite nonlinear, which lends well to different archetypes.
Like Knights of Xentar... hmmm?
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RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
March 4, 2015 at 12:08 pm
I haven't heard of that, but if it's like Arcanum where every main problem can be solved in about five different ways, I'll check it out.
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