Anyone prefer old stuff to the newer stuff?

[Guest TheGame2705]

I personally enjoy the hell out of SNES and N64 more than Gamecube, X-Box, and PS2 (well in everything but wrestling games). I had a BALL with DK64, Rayman 2, and all the Donkey Kong games on SNES. I played Sonic on Dreamcast and Zelda on the cube and stuff that I liked before recreated elsewhere and I just wasn't too impressed. I dunno if it's a desire to not play games anymore or what.

[Guest Mad Dog]

Being a big time RPG player I like everything. Old school RPGs are fun but they are very tedious when you consider how grand RPGs are today.

 

It can get old walking around for 6 hrs. leveling up just to go fight the next boss. But then the challenge of the oldies is hard to give up.

[Guest KanadianKrusty]

Yeah, screw all those good-looking recent RPG's! Daggerfall owns joo~!

[PsychoDriver 0]

Yes, I enjoyed games like Mike Tyson's Punchout, Tecmo Super Bowl for NES and Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball more than any modern sports game.

[Guest GeneMean]

I love the older stuff!

 

Back when I was a kid, it didn't get much better than Yie Ar Kung Fu. Then along came Space Harrier and that game will always be on the short list of my all time faves.

 

My best friend and I would go to the mall and blow our allowances on Konami's "The Main Event" I always wished that would've been ported to home systems. Thank gawd for MAME I guess =)

 

I'd have to say though, my all time fave old school game has to be DOOM. That was probably the first title that really drew me in completely as far as the overall gaming experience goes.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

You know something GeneMean, I never could figure out how to play The Main Event. I settled for spending my lunch money on Superstars and WrestleFest.

 

I have three systems hooked up into my TV: A PS2, a SNES and the original NES. The NES and SNES are mainly used for Punch-Out! and Super Punch-Out nowadays.

[Guest GeneMean]

My best friend and I were the only two people at the arcade that could play that I think. The big fat 'action' button would do all your moves, then when they were down, 'tag' would pick them up and leave them groggy.

 

tag, action, tag, action .. rinse repeat as necessary and pin.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

I love old games, I don't know which I prefer.

 

It's sort of like comparing Yoshi's Cookie to Xenosaga, two excellent games.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I have a PS2 which I seem to hardly use anymore...but I play my Sega Master System quite a bit.

 

Wonder Boy In Monster Land is the shit.

[Guest razazteca]

SNES has some of the best puzzle games ever made! Super Puyo Puyo, Tetris3, Tetris Battle Gaiden, Tetris Attack, Bust A Move/Puzzle Bubble.

 

Hell the GBA is nothing more than just a rehashment of the greatness that was SNES and Sega but as a handheld.

 

On the Dreamcast I still play fighter games and several Capcom games.

[Guest T®ITEC]

I prefer the old stuff to the new stuff all the way. Even in graphics, most of the time.. except for wrestling games, of course. The latest SmackDown game is the only reason why.. They look *so* real.

[Guest Nevermortal]

I think today's brand of video games are easier to beat than the ones that came out on NES, with all the saving and shit like that, but I see myself playing games and having more fun nowadays.

[Guest Lightning Flik]

I really do prefer the old games to the new. Since I was brought up with Dragon Warrior (a game to which I have never beaten) and Final Fantasy.

 

The reason why new games are so ... easier than yesteryears is because of the fact that no one that I know of (and lots of people on the message boards at Gamefaqs) seem to really note be in the mood for an 80 hour game. Heck, there are somedays, I can't stand waiting that long with the new games.

 

Yet, give me an older game, and if it was a long or tedious or difficult as hell game, I just shrug and go "here I come Phantasy Star 4!".

 

Kinda weird how that is, isn't it?

[Guest T®ITEC]

I really do prefer the old games to the new. Since I was brought up with Dragon Warrior (a game to which I have never beaten) and Final Fantasy.

When I was ten years old, I started a game on my Dragon Warrior cartridge. I *still* haven't beaten it, either. It's going on seven years old, and it's still there...

 

Neato.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

I blame it on graphics. No, I'm serious.

 

The other day while playing SD on PS2, I commented on how much I hate the SD play control. My buddy's defense?

 

"But look...you can see their HAIR MOVE!"

 

WHOOP-DE-FUCKING-DO.

 

In old games, they didn't have six million things they could do to make the games look pretty, so instead, they made them FUN. It doesn't matter how bad Mario 3 looks by today's standards - it's a fun game. And you didn't spend half the time playing it watching cut scenes and not actually doing anything.

 

Not to say that I hate all games today, but I really think we'd be a lot better off if people focused less on how it looks, and more on how it plays. For example, one of the reasons I like the Fire Pro series so much is that, even with Dreamcast and PS systems to work with, they never really strayed far from the same graphics they were using on the SNES, and used up that extra space plugging in every move you've ever heard of.

 

Wow...now I sound old...

[Guest KoR Fungus]

Action games used to be a lot more fun in the NES and SNES days. Back then, it was about pure action and challenge, whereas now it seems like it's about 3D graphics more than anything, and figuring out the control scheme is as challenging as the game itself. RPGs also used to have a charm that they often don't have anymore. Old RPGs managed to advance plot without bogging everything down with overblown special effects and ridiculously long FMV sequences.

 

On the other hand, modern fighters are far superior to old school fighters, and it's a lot easier to tell a sophisticated story when you can have realistic graphics and voice acting, so new games have their advantages too. I'm not really sure which I prefer overall.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

For sports and fighting games I'll take the newer systems.

 

For RPGs the SNES killed everything.

 

And I can't think of many newer games that were more fun then River City Ransom

[Guest Drury37]

I could definitely sit there longer and play Sega Genesis than any modern system.Bill Walsh College Football 1995 was probably my favorite game of all time followed by NHL '96 and NHL '97.I also liked MLB World Series Baseball 1998 but I only had that on my emulator so I do not know if I can put that as one of my favorites.

Thanks.