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Counterpoint, there are also games you tried and HATED as a kid, that you might now like as an adult.
As I kid I had a lot less need for quality story telling, and roll play, probably a lot less interest in gardening simulators too. There’s probably lots of stuff you thought you didn’t like.
I remember hating Baroque on ps2 as a kid, but then I grew up, played Spelunky and finally got it what roguelites were doing, went back and liked it.
Roll play? Role playing as a roll?
Addicted to Craps, I gotta throw a couple each day, butt when I think about it - it’s really money down the toilet.
Katamari
Marble Madness?
I tried to get my nephews into pokemon nintendo games when they were like 10. Failed bad because “too much reading” and went back to Roblox…
Kids today something something attention spans what with the social media grumble grumble back when I was that age, dammit.
My version of this is 4X games. I always was intrigued by them as a kid, but I wasn’t nearly patient enough or willing to put in the time to understand them. As an adult I’ve finally been able to enjoy them.
I’m the opposite. I played the hell out of 4x in college and early adulthood. Now, I just don’t have the time or patience for them.
I love seeing this happen in real time!
“We want Conker back!”
“You know Conker wasn’t a good game, right?”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about! Conker was GREAT!”
https://www.metacritic.com/game/conker-live-and-reloaded/
See also:
Perfect Dark:
https://www.metacritic.com/game/perfect-dark-zero/
Banjo Kazooie in 3-2-1…
Yeah, xbox conker wasn’t a good game, but N64 was.
Oh wow, Perfect Dark Zero had much higher metacritic scores than I expected.
I thought it would literally be a 50 - I didn’t think it was a good game, I didn’t think it was a bad one either - it was the most middle-of-the-road competent shooter I had played in years. I remember it getting largely hammered at release though, I suspect that had more to do with having Perfect Dark in the title and not meeting unreasonably high expectations than actually being a poor game though.
That ending song about a sex act was really weird though. The song was an absolute banger but the lyrics just had little to no context to them.
This hurts so much as an adult 😪
There is no reason both can’t be true at the same time
Never had that, sorry. I come back to games I was obsessed with and begin obsessing over again. Games I found incredibly funny are still incredibly funny. I sometimes find games shorter than I expected them to be.
Me with Bionicle: The Game.
Then there is the flip side. I have been playing Galaga for over forty years.
If I ever run across an arcade I will first search out for a Galaga to play. Usually is one, which says something. No, I’m not as good as I used to be, but it’s okay. I can lose even a few levels in of brief play and still feel I had fun.
Some games yeah.
The game pictured in this comic, the Crash series on PS1, aged like fine wine though.
Based on the title on the poster, its talking about Crash Bash which is really bad. Basically Mario Party but its just he mini games.
Oh you’re right, I forgot about this one. As a PS1 household, we liked it as kids without Mario games.
I should play it again to see, and I would need to play it with other people to judge it appropriately, unlike the comic.
To this day crash bash is a game I really enjoy with my cousin. Especially the levels where you have to coordinate and defeat the CPU players as a team and you accidentally send the red explosive ball their direction. No one’s fault really, but we lost - ensue heated argument.
Yeah, weird to have Crash in the background given the quality of the games.
C*ash Slap is on the poster, which is probably supposed to be a reference to Crash Bash.
If you don’t remember Crash Bash, that makes sense, it wasn’t great.
I was going to say this, too. It definitely applies to some games, but not the original Crash trilogy. I replay those games every 5-10 years.
Going back and playing games I never liked the gameplay of and only played for the story now, as an adult, I think the stories are poorly written and cringe as fuck. 😬
Though for some games, that doesn’t make them bad. It just makes them good in a different way. Like how you might enjoy a crappy B movie because it’s crappy.
Random stab in the dark, but I could easily take this statement to be about Final Fantasy 7… 🤣
Even if it isn’t, it’s safe to accept that a lot of modern game tropes can have their origins traced back to 8/16/32 bit origins.
Basically what I’m trying to get at is that a lot of the time, the narrative was able to be seen as less cringey, and more cutting. Time has dulled the more sharp edges, or even moves public perceptions well beyond what was presented.
Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana on my shelf like
I still replay those and enjoy them. Final Fantasy Tactics, War of the Lions as well. Personally I think they hold up, with maybe Secret of Mana being the worst of the three. I’m extremely positively biased toward Secret of Mana though as it was the first game me, my brother, and my sister could play at the same time on SNES, and was the first game we got with the system for that exact reason (we first experienced it visiting another house, before we even had a SNES, and they had a splitter. They showed us Secret of Mana and some multi-player basketball game I can’t quite recall).
It’s such a positive memory of us all being able to enjoy the same activity together without fighting over controllers etc(though maybe some fight over characters :P)
The unskippable animations in that game. They didn’t bother me at the time, but once somebody pointed them out, I had to agree they were terrible. I don’t think I could play the original again because of that. (Fortunately, I’ve heard that newer versions do allow you to skip.)
W-Summon Knights of the Round; perfect time to go take a toilet break - except against maybe Ruby and Emerald weapons… 😅
It is far more likely that their expectations have changed.
I think that’s a fair comment, and to extend it a bit further, people expect a standard quality of life in games now that either have emerged over the years a a positive gameplay trait (regenerating health, accessibility customisation, the yellow paint guide) or a technical innovation (auto save, autoaim, customisable graphics etc).
I find it really tough going back to play Perfect Dark (the original, not the excellent remaster) and really struggling to play through the brilliant game at sub-20fps; or playing Metal Gear on the NES without the ability to return to the same room on death, seeing as the password system was a bit clunky.
We’ve come a long way, largely for the better.
There’s a free PC remaster that is said to be excellent. I’m trying to learn how to get it to work. It’s been years since I fucked with emulators.
This is me with books.
You played shitty games as a kid, it’s not exactly an uncommon or unrepeatable experience, I mean if it wasn’t as common or relatable as it is, AVGN (and creators like them) wouldn’t have been nearly as popular and successful as they are.
My needs changed. When I was a child I had an intense need to master new skills and show them off. Video games could meet that need in a way school never could. As an adult I can completely fill those needs with work so I have no interest in those sorts of games. Now I play games to be entertained and delighted. If I want challenge I’ll put that energy towards earning a bigger bonus for Q4.
Oh would you look at that all your effort went to your bosses bonus, better play harder next time…in all seriousness that’s a fun way to look at work.
I might have helped a few bosses along the way. Collateral damage. ;)
I went back and replayed some of the OG Metroid games (Metroid, Super Metroid, Fusion, and Zero Mission), and I’m happy to report that they are still rad a/f.
That hit a little too hard.
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