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Games don´t change only our perception of them change

>> No.5248390

Our perceptions do age and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise.

>> No.5248397

>>5248390
You are now aware that many /vr/ posters are purposefully dishonest. Also a bunch are just too plain stupid to understand perceptions changing with time

>> No.5248441

What about everquest?

>> No.5248496

Wrong. Every year, Peter Molyneux descends down from his sky castle and lowers the fidelity slightly on every copy of every game that has ever existed.

>> No.5248509

You guys realize that when people say "games age" that it's a figure of speech, right? You know that people are aware that the game doesn't have an expiration date and that saying a game hasn't "aged well" is a shorthand way to say that the game hasn't held up against other titles in the same genre or even same serious, right?

You do understand how basic language works, yes?

>> No.5248510

>>5248509
Serious is supposed to say series.

Not even on a phone. Just tired.

>> No.5248519

>>5248509
accepting this would be similar to condoning the "boomer" meme, NO.

>> No.5248523

>>5248509
>strawmens every time someone says
>aged

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>>5248509
>You do understand how basic language works, yes?


No, they don't. Not even on a basic level. I used to think a lot of them were ESL students but I've come to realize they're mostly autistic or just extremely stupid. Either way it's pretty funny.

Like this >>5248519 lol

>> No.5248573

>>5248386
I always perceived this game to be shit

>> No.5248582

>>5248496
Peter Molyneux doesn't exist; stop telling lies.

>> No.5248589

>>5248573
That's wrong though
It's still pretty good

>> No.5248590

>>5248582
He DOES! I saw him climbing down the chimney and stealing our family photos!

>> No.5248643

>>5248509
>You do understand how basic language works, yes?

Don't forget we're in a board called "retro" games which is in fact not about "retro" games but about old games.

>> No.5248678

>>5248386
Yeah? And?

>> No.5249226

>>5248397
>Also a bunch are just too plain stupid to understand perceptions changing with time
nostalgia is a hell of a drug man.

>> No.5250194

>>5248509
this lmao

>> No.5250251

>>5248386
What is your point?

>> No.5250710

>>5248386
there is no difference between games changing and perceptions of games changing because there is no way for you to know a game except through perceiving it. nobody has direct, "perceptionless" access to "the game itself", only to the experience of apprehending it. if you read an old-timey novel and the characters keep calling things "gay" then of course you can be intellectually aware that this used to mean "cheerful" and not "homosexual" but that double meaning will still be present in your mind and the mind of anyone else who reads it. so a novel read differently is a different novel - different for everyone other than the illiterate, for whom it has remained the exact same sequence of meaningless squiggles. so how can you be illiterate when it comes to video games? you could just collect them instead of playing them, or play them in such a mechanical and thoughtless way as to render them meaningless. the conclusion is that "retro gamers" are making a radical attempt to stop the flow of time - by becoming incredibly stupid.

>> No.5251112

>>5248386
Some games become obsolete as the genre evolves.

>> No.5251146

>>5248509
Yes. Things that can make something "age poorly":
>game was a fad, and later people realize that they only liked it because other people seemed to like it at the time, and now that it isn't the hot new thing, people see the flaws
>game relied too heavily on something flashy like graphics, animation, music, etc, while the underlying game was generally bland. Once the flashy aspect is no longer flashy compared to everything else out there, it is forced to be assessed as a whole and not just on the one aspect
>similar to above, but it introduced something revolutionary that has since been perfected and far surpassed by other games, and people start to realize that they only liked the revolutionary aspect of it simply because it was new
All of the above things can still be good, of course, but they just don't have the same staying power that was assumed back when they were current. Things like Super Mario Bros through Super Mario World have aged incredibly well, since the underlying games are so much fun and all other aspects like graphics and music still hold up as appealing even in the face of more advanced productions.

>> No.5251946

>>5248386
When mom got me a PS3 and then 4, all sega and nintendo games of my childhood turned into unplayable garbage.

>> No.5251954

>>5248386
True, they don't change. But they DO age.