You now realize that your favorite childhood games never were great because they were more polished or deeper...

You now realize that your favorite childhood games never were great because they were more polished or deeper, more difficult or even full of *soul*.

Your childhood games were fun because you played them with friends or siblings as a kid, dicking around with game mechanics, strategies and different maps, game-modes or custom-rules for hours culminating in pseudo-tense and more importantly hilarious showdowns, the outcome of which were either random or pre-determined, depending on who was marginally better at the game. You didn't care either way.

The fun of those games was never about the dopamine or even game design. It's that you are no longer a teenager having fun without a care in the world and your whole life ahead of you.

You are a bitter and unhealthy 30-something man with no real prospects in life. Your peak is well behind you at this point and all you do day in day out is numbing that pain of regret and longing for better times by clinging to long-gone childhood memories. Echoes of echoes of a happier time that become fainter, more distant and more abstract each time you try to revisit them until you start having trouble remembering whatever was so fun about that mustachioed middle-aged man in overalls jumping on turtles in the first place.

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seem to be projecting pretty hard there, OP
what's going on? something on your mind?

nah they're still great maybe you just have shit taste

No, I actually went back and replayed many and several can withstand the taste of time pretty well even if some needed some QoL.

Games like Commandos, Mario Galaxy, The Sly games or RE still work today bryond the aged presentation.
If anything now I realize how small and passionate many of the teams were and grow fonder of the PSX-PS2 gens where the balance between bussiness and creativity was struck before moving onto full bussiness.

You sound bitter with your own life and would rather blame the world and pass of time than challenge it. There's some truth to what you said but not trying to go beyond them shows that you're not trying to escape these issues you see in your life.

SimCopter is still just as good now as it was back then, only slightly tainted if you don't have the original launch cd because they cut the homopride parades out if it. You may be a stupid cynical cunt, but that doesn't meant everyone else is.

am I the only one who's enjoyed games more as an adult? when I was a kid I got bored pretty easily, was always extremely hyped for everything and as soon as I played anything I was disappointed.

now I can easily sink all my free time into games and enjoy them immensely, play same games multiple times if they're good

This, OP never actually liked video games in the first place.

As a stupid kid you just fall for the hype and get hypontized by pretty colors.

As an adult you actually learn to appreciate things like good game design, art direction, music, etc.

>uhhh actually it's not that games suck it's that they always sucked

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that's why I think it's odd when people in 3x3 threads whine about people having tons of Zig Forumscore and not including the games they loved as a kid
I'm sure some of the games I liked when I was a kid are legitimately good, but I know a lot of it was trash. kids will put up with anything because they haven't developed taste yet. you probably don't like any of the music you listened to when you were 10, and even though you have fond memories of the cartoons you watched then, if you actually went back and watched them you'd realize they're better left in the past. the same definitely applies to a lot of the games we remember loving
I still find myself loving new (or more often newly discovered) games, but it definitely is harder than when I was a kid. when I was a kid I could just ask for gameboy advance games for christmas and I'd be happy with whatever shit my extended family got me

We weren't all born into online multiplayer, fuck off

I've replayed them all countless times and I still do because I legitimately enjoy them. My childhood was worse than my current situation in a lot of ways.
>because you played them with friends or siblings
I spent most of my time playing games alone in my childhood, but the games that I did play with siblings are still enjoyable now, even when it's singleplayer.
>It's that you are no longer a teenager having fun without a care in the world
Then why am I still able to play old games for the first time NOW that were made around the time of my childhood and still enjoy them immensely? I was a big Resident Evil fan as a kid and never tried Silent Hill. A few years ago I played Silent Hill 1-4 for the first time and had a blast. I still appreciate the Resident Evil series a lot too.

Nnnnnope, there are certain aspects to older games that make them genuinely more enjoyable in some regards compared to modern AAA games. Usually it's something along the lines of simplicity, focus on gameplay, and readability.

There are games that I was two years old at the release of that I've gone back to and thought "wow, this is genuinely a lot more compelling than most of the modern games I've played." There are also games that I played a lot in what they say are your most formative years (12-ish) that I've gone back to to find that they're kind of hot garbage even if I have fond memories of them.

I'm 34 years old and I have memories of playing Goldeneye 64, Smash or Age of Empires Multiplayer as a little kid

How fucking old are you?

I have more friends now than I did as a kid and i'm pretty sure we'd all concur you're a fag.

False.

I was a loner. No friends. No one to share my games with. My favorite games from the 90's are largely considered THE classics from that era, even today.

Social life began for me in my late 20's, and now I have a family of my own with children I can help create memories for and with. My "peak" was likely in my early 30's, sure, but I'm currently in the best physical shape of my entire life as I approach 40, and working daily on getting even better.

OP is a faggot and his thread is his own cope with becoming a nothing in his own life.

yeah pic related is soulless fucking garbage

I swear to god if I ever go through a mid-life crisis I hope I never turn out to be as much of a loser as you OP.

Play more games, OP. Play Thief if you haven't played it. One of the first modern stealth games and still probably the tightest out there.

>childhood
>friends
I played single player games.
I've replayed a few favorites and found Paper Mario TTYD to be really dragged down by the last chapters but having one of the best environment in any game.
Paper mario was also really good, and probably the stronger overall game. Think I'll try super paper mario to finish things off.

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I have a harder time enjoying games as I can more easily see the "strings" now and part of the magic is dead.

But on the other hand, when a game hits the spot, it hits it way harder and feels amazing.

completely wrong
you are retarded

Why are Disco Elysium posters always project their insecurities and failures on other people?
It's like the game literally attracts these failed human beings.

Good game. Don't write it off because of personal politics if you have.

Part of the fun IS seeing the strings though.

Appreciating good game design as an adult is rewarding in its own right. Probably even more than being a stupid kid just being taken along for a ride.

Oh yea? Then what are some games similar to time splitters? Both in level, character and weapon design? Inb4 perfect dark / goldeneye. Those had time travel?

t;ldr Nostalgia is a concept that exists
Wow! No way, user! You're blowing my mind reminding me of a concept that everyone who ingests pop culture in any facet is already familiar with!

That's definetly true. I easily enjoy simplier, indie or humble games now because I can see the intention/effort beyond the half-assed presentation or jankyness due budget issues.

I really hope I can teach that to my kids but I doubt it honestly.

I realize this is bait, but you do touch upon an interesting topic shitposter-kun.
Not sure why but I never thought about using ps1/ps2/ps3 pc emulators until recently.
Once I started booting up some of my favorite childhood games, as well as other games from the same period I never got to play (spyro, godhand, kingdom hearts) I realized just how much better games truly were back then.
I too used to wonder if games really were better or if it was just nostalgia. Apparently games really were better. I'm in my mid twenties and am enjoying older games a lot.
Now, the question remaining is why?
why were games better back then, despite having lower budgets and earlier tech available? also the amount of good games that used to come out each year was astonishing compared to 3-4 big games spread out across exclusivity deals we get nowdays.
The state of the video game industry is truly vexing to me

It's easy to enjoy video games if you just play the games that you want to play instead of arbitrarily forcing yourself to play whatever's new/popular. That's the only thing that causes burn-out, people treating a hobby like some kind of contest to see who has the best taste or whatever.
None of this is deep or insightful, you're acting as if people aren't aware they have a bias towards things they experienced as children. Nostalgia is a very common mental phenomenon that isn't difficult for people to identify.

Because the game is about failures but the average retard couldn't play more than a half hour of the game because you can't rape anyone or punch your biclard partner while screaming about a person that doesn't exist in that universe.

games back then were legitimately better. This is evident to me after I go back and play older games from specific periods and have much more fun than with many games I've gotten in the modern age

Nigga, lots of people have already said that older games are better. Why? Because there's soul.
What's this shitty meme 'soul'?

Nigga, just as an example look at Square, when Sakaguchi allowed his devs to experiment and do the shit they want. This meant the devs were motivated for more than just money. They wanted to make something out of their craft.

It's not as simple as "games were just better," bunch of factors like games not costing as much to make so you had far more coming out in general. Now there are these lengthy AAA droughts, though the indie scene is better than ever. Production value of random-ass indie titles is reaching the point of low budget PSX games.