/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1367457
>Nowadays vidya has turned into a bunch of interactive movies that you can play while half asleep.
But I kinda like these. I just wish they were a bit more difficult. Shit, dying in the new Tomb Raider took some effort.
I like such games simply because they make up for their lack of depth with storytelling and immersive graphics/atmospheres. Older games also relied on one thing or another - like old school JRPGs for instance. Sure, they told a nice story and had immersive graphics, but gameplay consisted of nothing more than flipping through menus and selecting attacks. A lot of classics are really lacking in content as well, like some of the barebones arcade titles (see pic) that were popular back in the day. Now, I'm not knocking them - but they're not exactly the type of game one plays for a long, engrossing experience.

(Sorry if this post reads like a stream of consciousness, because it pretty much is)