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Why I think the quality of video games has gone down since the 90s. Nostalgia enclosed
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By quality I mean the amount of talented man hours that have gone into making games. Like remember rareware? They put out epically constructed games like donkey long country, blast corps (an n64 fab of mine) and other games that were redonkulus.
The culprit? Inflation.
I don't know who wrote the rule that all games must cost around 50 dollars till the end of eternity but 50 dollars was a fuckload more back when super Mario 3 came out than it is now.
I can't really put my finger on what it was that made the older games feel infinitely playable and timeless but they always seem like forgotten treasures to me. Like an island of misfit toys. I can't tell you how much I shat my pants when my buddy showed up with a working Nes and a bunch of sick games.
I feel like halo 1 was the high water mark, and I doubt as much time or effort has been spent on a game since.
Inb4 xxx nostalgia
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Can't believe no one has said Chrono Trigger....
MOTHER FUCKING CHRONO TRIGGER
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chill bra, you can play oregon trail online for free.
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oh just cause 2 fallout 3 and new vegas
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might be my favorite game of all time. played that shit endlessly, beat it in every possible way. never got old
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play the Uncharted trilogy, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Assassin's Creed 2. tons of work went into those games, and it shows. i agree that there are a lot of games these days that are just spat out every year because developers are afraid of launching new IPs, and i still think Final Fantasy VII and Banjo Tooie are the greatest games ever made, but there are original and exciting games being made by passionate hardworking people and if more people supported those games we would see more of them. sales show that the kids don't want new games, they just want the next COD, so developers take a huge risk when they create and put years of work into something original. Sleeping Dogs and Journey are two games i can think of that came out this year, were fucking fantastic and original IPs, and yet they didn't sell very well at all.
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Lol, you trollin' son? World at War was the best game in the COD series. MW2 was nothing but grenade launchers, unless you were a noobtuber, there's no reason why you should like that game. And yes, MW3 is terrible.
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