PastFixations wrote:
Yeah I do like classic gaming.
There should have been a thread about this somewhere, not your fault.
Welcome.
I normally do go back to those games when there was no people to game with online and games were a little challenging.
I haven't played any new video games since 2005. Have they really gotten
easier?
What I like about old 2D games -primarily of the SNES console- is the limitations you have to work with. Like, you can't sidestep, you have to jump over that Goomba or Pirana Plant to move on, and if you can't muster the skill to pull that off, you've only got 2 lives left.
So yeah, even as late as 3 years ago, I'd occasionally whip out my SNES and play games like Mario All Stars or Double Dragon, stuff like that. A whole range, platforming games, fighting games, racing even, but yeah, I agree the challenge is a bit bigger when you can't move into that third dimension. I mean arguably racing games (and Star Fox) were 3D in those days, but really, when you think about it, it's just the car or the ship attached to the screen, and you looking at it from behind being able to stear it left, right, up, or down. It's a fairly simple principle that was enhanced by the SNES "FX chip", but it was enough to provide some challenging gameplay.
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