Hi guys! I just happened to whip myself up into a nostalgic frenzy this week with the news of the Leisure Suit Larry remake.

Maybe you have an appreciation for older games, too. 8)


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I saw your post on Good Old Games forum. Good to see there are fellow GoGers here.

fcuk nostalgia, i look forward to the latest and prettiest

Maybe we usually see those games with rose-tinted glasses along with nostalgia bias?

There are old games that aren't really made in any form nowadays though. Like say...X-Com or Syndicate.

Cause they don't make them like they used to.

No, old games arent any superior than new games. There are always good and bad games in each generation.

I rather have my destructive environment and advanced physics than pixelated graphics and turn based gameplay.

i re-play all classic games that i like a long time ago....hmm....i can say i rather not to replay it again, but nostalgic feeling is still there....

This post has been edited by mrhulk: Oct 14 2011, 09:41 PM

To say that old games are superior is a bit too much. But i understand where the author came from, most of my games in my library right now consist of old games.
I'm just tired of playing new games since 5 - 6 years ago, except for few titles like sports game, indies or games from my favourite franchise because most of them looks and feels same. Maybe it is because of nostalgia, but that's not all. I feel old game have special charm because back then they tried to be innovative and creative and more importantly fun. Think about golden age of adventure game, straight-forward fps shooter and arcade style racing game. They not tried too much to be realistic and fancy, sometime too much realism just kill the fun for me.

But you got to have guts to tolerate dated graphics, poor navigation or control scheme and cheesy sound effect, sometime lack of content offered by modern standard. Thankfully GoG offer this service and i just discovered it earlier this year. Before this it is almost impossible to play my favourite racing game in 1997; such as Planet of Death, Megarace on modern machine, but now i can relive my nostalgia with little amount of money. And btw, i'm not some old guy, i'm still in my 20's

ALso, we only remember the GOOD games of yesteryear.

There was a lot of crap out there then, as there are a lot of crap out now too

You mean like health regeneration and lack of recoil?

Might as well press a button to beat the game

Nostalgia helps alot in deciding if an old game is good or bad, you wont admit it but it's true. Oh yes.

Get old games from Good Old Games

Pretty much this. Give kids today another 2 decades and they will say Modern Warfare 3 is the classic and superior than 2020 video games, and said that the developers weren't used to be that "innovative" and all the stuff we said right now.

It is more of a cycle. As much as I enjoy the old game, things always and go both ways, and some features will be sacificed to make way for new.

And do you know that...

Apple is planning to release a revolutionary Game Console

Too many new games + old games = no time.

Nothing's wrong with health regeneration and lack of recoil. Not every game has to be military shooter.

Health Regeneration isnt all bad, especially these few years, as they are trying to shake it up a bit, like how Transformers War for Cybertron done to it, where the health bars have different levels or how Battlefield have been doing to it with delayed regeneration so that you cant just duck and hope you heal in seconds to get back to the fight.

Recoil, i dont see any problems if games like Unreal Tournament's gun doesnt have any recoil.

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Added on October 15, 2011, 10:45 am+1

Each cycle has the best and the worse games. Some features are retained while some are lost. At the same time, some are completely changed.

Some of my favourite games are newer games from past few years, while, there are still games from the early 2000 or even 90s that i still miss them till now. Here hoping for a remake for Freelancer/Nexus.

As long as its fun, i dont really care.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Oct 15 2011, 10:51 AM

sos or curry pls

health regeneration, unlimited ammo is the biggest wrong thing to begin with in FPS, its like now every FPS have it.

All you need now is to hide long enough to regenerate the health back even in BF3. Oh I got sniped, I got hit.... Hide longer, then reappear ur foe change his target. SNIPE TIME in full HP!. Why need a medic? No need. Back then in BF1942 u actually need to FIND a medic to heal u. Now? Medic is only useful for rapid healing. FAIL.

You dont even need to "think about" the long term risk involves when u go head on in a fight. Back then I have to keep saving my health and find the most efficient way to kill my enemy without me getting hurt too much due to limited health kit, i have to conserve my ammo in a very efficient way so that I dont run out of ammo in a mid fight or somewhere in a game. Now? just spray!

Now? FPS = Fight, just spray, got hit, hide, regen, repeat. lol?

As for recoil I still think games like BF3 sniper have recoil that is still to low, especially with a Bipod and the stupid Hold breath function. A lot things being dumb down for casual players.

This post has been edited by billytong: Oct 15 2011, 05:11 PM