It’s true. When people talk about gamification they’re actually talking about systems that were added to games to make them feel more like a job - e.g. Collect 100 badges, log on every day, use the shop.

Games back then also had to fit on a specific chip in the cartridge. A lot of them would probably have had a lot more fluff if they had more space to put it on.

I think there is just way more games now so you can pick a game back then and find a bad game to compare it to now, but there are also tons of really good similar games now you just have to sort through so many

This is such an immersion breaking aspect of modern games and an absolute garbage approach. They're idea is to not break the "flow" for the action players but for players that like puzzles it's absolute horror. They just need to add during new game a "Puzzle hints" menu with Normal, Low and None.

"That rock looks fragile", "Have you seen the rock next to the windmill? It has cracks in it", "What if we shoot the rock with the ballista?" at those points I just want a "Shut up" option.

If I can't figure out the puzzle myself it removes all satisfaction from solving it. I want to be confused, open up a journal that I need to skim through to get relevant information and then put the pieces together.

For real?! 😆

Hold up didn't Lara croft from the classics did the same ?

gamer problems

Racism. They don't like all the black people in games now

(But you knew that and were just pointing it out more cleverly than I)

Yeah, the whole “achievement unlocked” thing is from when Flash games were king

There's probably some social commentary to be made about games being simpler, brighter, single-player and less hand-holdy, but "generation war!" this isn't.