Message from @Beemann
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even the games I didnt play (so confirmed no nostalgia goggles) from back in the day still hold up pretty well
it's when things got into the cinematic walking sections era that going back through older titles starts to suck
Conversely, I don't accept 'nostalgia goggles' as valid criticism against people that say they like an old game. Things can just be good in someone's view, people can just like something
I've never thought about it, i wonder if i have a classification for an RPG.
well generally people are talking about something qualitatively. Some people will absolutely forget how awful certain parts of a game were, or have an inflated view of the complexity/depth of the mechanics
but I've also had people tell me I had nostalgia goggles just for saying Older X is better than Newer X, when I played them both in the same year
Or even worse. When you play the older game last, and love the older game more than any other
Short of being afflicted with a rare sort of 6 month nostalgia, I feel comfortable telling them where they can take their adhom :^)
yup, that sort of thing happens too. I suspect it has to do with what your expectations are going in though
Yeah come on, that was half a year ago. This is today. Get with the times and stop living in the past like an old man!
it's also fun telling people about cool shit they didnt know about in games they played ages ago
like when I found out that there were people who didnt strafejump through 90% of Return to Castle Wolfenstein
lol
What blows me away is playing an amazing 20+ year old game for the first time. You 'get' the game because you've played others from the era, so age isn't a problem. It being old, yet fresh and great to play is so surreal
As an aside: I played Dead Space this year for the first time and was very pleased. It's actually a highlight of my year. And that isn't even that old
@RoadtoDawn it's hard to get into something old and the fan base has chilled out but you just want to talk about it. Ive read five out if the six original Dune series and I'm dying to talk and see art about it etc and it's as old as my mom lol
I'll get talked into getting into something, and by the time I'm caught up they've already moved onto something else to be excited about. It's a losing battle with friends lol
Exactly
I love Dead Space. I even liked the third game, even though they did everything they could to make it bad. As much as I hate what EA did to it, I have to appreciate how they ended the series.
Dead Space was a good starting point and it's a shame they didn't take it in the right direction
I don't know, I'm not really one to actually learn how the mechanics work, so the sections with him were super stressful.
I don't know if it would work for the whole game.
thats what I liked - the rest of the game wasnt stressful enough
too often they'd set up a good scare only to blow it early
I dove right into 2 afterwards. I couldn't get into it right away, but only because there were some tweaks to the controls and movement. I'll pick 2 back up soon enough
Lol, I love that NZ gets ranked number 1 in personal freedom
He's facing a pretty harsh prison sentence too, assuming I heard correctly
so many people on facebook posting that its trumps fault for allowing it to happen or the guy was right wing... Im really conisdering just removign my facebook
How on earth is it Trump’s fault that a guy from Australia did a mass shooting? That is beyond absurd
@Salacious Swanky Cat if you have to ask, you are part of the white problem
Lol
I'm on a discord server where one of the people on it floated the conspiracy that _someone on trump's team set it up as a way to "district" from trump_
people will find ANY reason to blame him for literally fucking anything
Presumably because people believe that Trump is driving the increase in ethnonationalism that this guy subscribed to, instead of the other way around
which I find stupid either way, because Trump's obviously NOT an ethnonationalist
of course, no matter how many times you say that, they don't listen
So Trump isn't Hitler?