Tell me more! :D

Yeah, while my mind did go to GoldenEye, this really applied to NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, and ps2, out of the systems I have/had.

My wii u games are still playable, though they might try to connect to a server that no longer exists to look for updates. Similar with ps3 (though I think my system needs an overhaul because it's running pretty slow these days, like many dropped frames in rock band 2 or even some in GH3).

For the ps5, I'm not sure what will happen when Sony no longer wants to support it. I mostly have physical games, maybe I should try disconnecting the internet and see what happens if I try to fire up random games, both ones I've already played and ones that haven't left their case yet.

Anyways, I mostly thought of the era of the first paragraph, since the others have updates.

You mean Goldeneye 2?

I gotta play it. Sadly as I grew older, those old FPS with low FoV give me motion sickness in like minutes. Can't even enjoy Build Engine games anymore, which were my favorite old school games back then. :c

I loved playing as Lanky Kong.

I had that, 007, Pokemon Stadium, Tony Hawk, and Turok. Anything else I had to rent from Blockbuster.

That and Quake II are the only console games I've ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.

The remake of the trilogy is pretty good, if you haven't tried it.

At least with those games you had a collectible figure once the game was finished.

You should try Tekken Tag Tournament. It's one of my favorite games because you can play the Story Mode in CoOp and it's soo much fun!

Okay that looks REALLY interesting. Thank you for sharing! Gotta share one thing: Bishi Bashi! PSX game that's also a minigames collection. Pretty fun, quite high quality as far as I can tell. Haven't found someone to play it atm. :c Still, looks fun af!

Which is a shame. I was going to buy Marvel's Wolverine and that God of War remake collection.

Now I will go back to not supporting Sony in anyway shape or form

i’ve never had to spend hours finding the ‘right driver’ for my PS4 to run a game. or having to mod the game to get it to just play.

Funny, I've never had to.do.those things on my PC.

On PC I don't have to rebuy games because Sony doesn't believe in backwards compatibility.

You're completely right, whoops

i buy two games per year for $100 tops but more like $50 after shipping and taxes. my personal and local public library give me plenty to do.

In Germany you could buy most games for 12.95DM in the 90s/10€ in the 2000s, if you were willing to wait a year after the initial release. And unless you had enough money to buy the newest PC, you often had to resort to last year's games anyway. As a comparison, I got 20DM for mowing my neighbours lawn.

These re-releases came with just a jewel case and no box, the manual was a PDF on the disk but on the other hand they often had some bugs fixed since the first release.

i agree with you in a way, its true that in the 2000’s i could only buy about a game a year also because you weren’t switching consoles as frequently as we do. I could wish for a game from Xbox and i would never play it because the console i had at home was playstation. Nowadays that is leveled, but this goes hand in hand with the things related to the amount of games we have vs what games we finish. And back then i fisnished all small amounts of games and we recall every nook and cranny of the games, nowadays its really cool to look at a 200 game library but we are not taking the best of them because of the diversity, we have so much we quite cant click as easily (at least this is how i feel but i have found people with different opinions)

Never played it. I’ll have a look. Thanks.

bugs? nah, not a problem

whistles in Morrowind

I guess GenAI slop is making me age faster, then

As someone who recently started hoarding old tools I wish that was true for all things.

We just recently got a singer 500a and its still impressive the engineering that went into that thing. The machine work is beautiful, and if you told me it was made in a CNC machine today I would of believed you.

Today modern and new, just means slave labor and plastic molded parts. Besides computers a lot of things haven't really changed. And often when they have changed it's for the worst. If I get a sewing machine today it would come with some app and internet connection for no reason, and would have plastic parts that struggle to get through 3 layers of cloth. While the singer 500a was meant to run 24/7 and is essentially the same exact thing.

For the most part the world has kind of been solved sense shortly after the industrial revolution. All the general commodities we interact with where mostly at their peak form back then. Dish washers, fridges, washing machines, driers. They're all almost exactly the same as they where when they where invented. There have been minor improvements that have been added over the years but for the most part things are in general just shittier.

You can blame so many things, you can say that mass production, trickle down economics, exporting labor etc all causes this. You can say that everyones access to mass produced garbage is an indicator of wealth and poverty dropping. What I don't think you can say anymore is that things "products" are better than they where in the old days.

I agree with your statement about cultural aspects though. Other than that when I hear some new innovative product the first thing that comes to my mind is its going to be another internet of things device that constantly bugs me and asks for more data, while providing 0 utility over the old version of the product, if anything its going to add more friction to my task, or attempt to insert a paywall into my life where one never existed before.

With games its harder to objectively say things where worse/better, but this infection of syphoning money out of every possible source infects games too. The only reason I can't say new modern games are bad is because indie games exist. Some of those indie games actually have brought me back to a childhood state where games where actually fun.

We're 26. The new stuff is crap, and that's not just nostalgia goggles, it is actually objectively worse.

There's plenty of new stuff that isn't crap, like say indie games. But the platforms, the consoles, etc.? Those are intentionally disrespectful these days in a way even, say, the Wii/PS3 era of consoles wasn't (and they certainly weren't perfect either, it just started getting way worse way faster after that).