Re: When Is A Game Old?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:43 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:40:10 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:54 this Wednesday (GMT):

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But it was pocket-sized, quick to start, and had amazing battery life.
Also it was the only portable I had. So it got played. Just never
really enjoyed.

>

Fair. I didn't know what a good game was for a few years, so I had a
ton of shovelware DS games.

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It's true!
>
Even I, back when I was a younger person and only had as many games as
could be counted on a single hand, any game would get played and
replayed because a) I didn't know what made a good game from a bad
one, and b) I only had a limited selection anyway. I'm sorry, younger
me, but "Sierra's 3D Helicopter Simulator" was /not/ a good game, and
all that time you spent with it was better spent elsewhere.
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But on the flip side, having a library of [number redacted] - and
having played a significant percentage of those games - isn't without
penalty either. I can too easily see the similarity in mechanics and
tropes, this lack of novelty makes it harder to enjoy new games which
simply ape older games just because those games were popular. There's
a reason I bitch about the lack of novelty in games so often! I don't
really wish to return to my days of callow youth when I didn't know
any better - I rather enjoy my grumpy cynicism - but it would make me
be able to look less critically at the crap Ubisoft regularly shits
out ;-)
>

Unfortunately, I sold most of them to GameStop for an actually good game
(M&L BiS). I do remember having 3 Phineas and Ferb games, a Scooby Doo
one and a penguins of madagascar game.
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