/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9634201
Because why would you go and dig out the unremarkable mediocre games and the turds unless you have any kind of history with them, you're following a certain series which evidently hit some sort of snag, or you're the kind of person who actually goes out of their way to find bad games on purpose?
You're looking at decades of gaming, where you can easily just look back at history and see what people said was quite decent, really interesting, or among the best, thus the average guy looking back would check out that.

>>9634204
Arguably true, because we've hit some sort of dreadful overcommercialized slump, where most big players will refuse to do little besides those games which don't guarantee massive profits according to carefully market researched formulas, and which then are so expensive to produce that any real straying is against the interest of profit.

However, he's right in that there's some bias, because people forget that there were oceans of cheap and interchangeable garbage in the old days as well, on top of big time cynical cash grabs. People remember the NES fondly, and there's a lot of great games there, but there's also a lot of incredibly bland and some hideously atrocious ones as well, that fabled Seal Of Quality didn't do more for the customer beyond ensuring that the cartridge didn't start an electrical fire.
Shitting on LJN is a meme, but fact is they regularly hired the lowest bidder and then gave them deadlines tight as a noose, so even the good devs they used struggled to get it all right even when they tried (and some really did, bless their hearts).

Playstation, Game Boy, Commodore 64, PC, you can find lots of rock solid classics there too, but man, man oh man, even during the retro era there was more shovelware for PC alone than there are bikes in Niel DeGrasse Tyson's garage. The indie market on Steam is like a multiverse of low quality bloat.