/vr/ - Retro Games

Why must we have this thread over and over again? When people say a game or other permanent thing "hasn't aged well" what they're saying is that an important part of its original appeal has become less appealing from a modern perspective.

Graphics are the number one thing that "ages". Very early games from the 70s and early 3D games especially often relied on the "gee-whiz" element but nobody is amazed by graphics now. The best that can be expected is for graphics to have "held up" meaning they were well designed within the context of the "medium"

Story holds up better but the JRPG boom of the 90s really hinged on their Easter style of storytelling being a novelty to Westerners who were just coming to be fully aware of it largely thanks to FF7. These days there are still JRPGs using the same storytelling form and now the average gamer isn't nearly as into it and often looks back on those 90s blockbuster JRPGs and sees the same kind of storytelling

Gameplay should be what ages the least. A fun mechanic should remain a fun mechanic forever but sadly the freshest crop of "typical gamers" often considers old-school gameplay to be too difficult. However, serious gamers don't and it's still the serious "core" gamers who make most of the reviews, I hope. Who knows about the future.

We should also take into consideration just how much the gamer community has expanded Even though "retro gamers" make up a fairly small fraction of gamers in general and the periphery ones who like to harp on classic games "aging" are like half, I think that even the fraction of a fraction of gamers who are core retro gamers amount to similar if not greater numbers than the entire gaming community back in the day and I think the market reflects that. For most games to be worth just as much or more used now as they did used a month after release there must be.

>>4090970
>missing out on Metal Wolf Chaos

>>3723583
Do the kids not say foreveralone anymore? It seems like there's some kind of hikikomori phenomenon going on lately where they take more pride in it? I dunno. I can tell you that party-nerds got increasingly nastier during the '00s for sure before I settled down after 2/3 of my family died at the end of that decade. Thanks, Obama!

>>3657089
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