8 Ways You're Wrong About Old Video Games Being Better

Nostalgia is a funny thing, isn’t it?

As gamers leave the innocence of youth and into the horrifying, dream-shattering period known as being an adult, we look back to simpler times and sigh, fondly reminiscing on TV shows, experiences and video games we used to love. Unbeknownst to many, "nostalgia" as a state is more a chemical reaction in your brain manufacturing old memories so they feel all nice and warm - far from the cold, harsh reality of what you went through.

[ziggurcat]

nostalgia has a way of making people think something is better than it actually was. case in point: goldeneye.

[Lon3wolf]

Exactly, even though a lot of those were the pinnacle of gaming for their time, none have aged well, as games have become so much more refined.

[InTheZoneAC]

when you say none have aged well what games are you talking about?

[Gaming101]

There are plenty of PS1 and PS2 games that I can still go back to. Even MGS1 still holds up. The crash bandicoot games were remade and they were super difficult back then and still are, but if you're into that style of game it's well done.

[Lon3wolf]

@InTheZoneAC

Pre Playstation era.

[BaekHoED]

I can still play any of the SNES JRPG's, specially older Final Fantasy games. I still love Final Fantasy V job system, Final Fantasy VI plot, Final Fantasy IV characters. SMB 3 with the variety of power ups/clothes. Final Fantasy I to III on NES have really bad graphics but I can still play and enjoy the battles and dungeons.

[Lon3wolf]

@BaekHoEd

Glad you still get value out of them, I should of made it clear that it was only my opinion after all.

[Vectrexer]

The term none have aged well is completely inaccurate.
Games have become more refined. This is true they look better, play better sound better but there are some old games that are still just as much fun to play.
When it's all said and done gameplay is King. It trumps everything else..
I think that's why I still enjoy Galaga so much myself personally..

[EazyC]

Although that is true in many ways, I am always shocked whenever I play one game: Jet Set Radio. That game is an absolute anomaly, definition of a timeless game. Visuals, music, style....there'll never be anything like it.

[aarallen1]

People will be saying the exact some thing about the games of today. Today's developers have a technological advantage as well as the opportunity to build off their predecessors.

[MrSwankSinatra]

You clearly are not from the 8bit or 16bit era, so you really have no say on what games from that era have aged well, because many of those games have aged well and are still played by many to this day. Nostalgia is a non factor, when you can clearly see across many social media platforms that gamers who never even lived during those times can enjoy those games, plus people actually care about those games period. We just saw how mad people got at a pc release of chrono trigger, a genre defining game I might add.

[zaherdab]

minesweeper is still very playable

[SR388]

Goldeneye is outstanding ... SOC is crap no matter how much better you make it look lol

[lptmg]

the only thing better than that is Perfect Dark

[360ICE]

Controlling the main character in goldeneye is about as difficult as mounting a colossus, so I see why you made the comparison.

The difference being that SotC intends it to be difficult

[snoopgg]

Yeah right, soc was great then and even better now. Looking back golden eye was so overated.

[CorndogBurglar]

I don't agree at all.

First of all you can't compare games of today with games from multiple generations ago. Yes, games today are far more advanced with better graphics, gameplay innovations, framerates.....i could go on and on. You have to think about where video games were as a whole at the time these nostalgic games were released.

You mentioned Goldeneye which I find absolutely crazy. It was one of the greatest FPS games of its time. There's no denying that. Sure, if we go back and play it now its terrible, but thats because video games have come so far that its hard to imagine a game like Goldeneye being among the most advanced FPS games at any point in time.

What you are saying is like saying the original Starfox is remembered too fondly. No. It isn't. When it came out it was incredible. Now its just a bunch of untextured geometric shapes on the screen lol.

The only thing I can agree with is that nostalgia has a way of making people remember things a bit differently. Because when I think of my old classic games, like Star Wars TIE Fighter, Goldeneye, Starfox, and tons of NES games, I donxt generally remember them looking so horrible. Because at the time they didn't. So your memory isn't going to recall thinking how bad they looked because you didnxt think that at the time. All I remember is the amount of fun I had playing those games. And that to me is what really matters.

It doesn't matter how far gameplay mechanics, technology, and graphics have come, I will be hard pressed to find another game give me as much enjoyment as Star Wars TIE Fighter did.

[ziggurcat]

That’s all nostalgia talking... goldeneye was not a good game.

[Wasabi]

@Ziggurcat @CorndogBurglar

"That’s all nostalgia talking... goldeneye was not a good game."

I read your comments and feel you both have a point, So I went back, read some reviews and checked the score on metacritic.

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

It's clear that with a 96% average and overwhelmingly positive reviews, Goldeneye was a well reviewed title - a great game.

I think the issue is that you're looking at it from different angles, Corndog is comparing with games released at the time, Zigg is comparing with games released today.

[ziggurcat]

@fragnum:

a great game will stand the test of time, and play great even by today's standards. I don't think goldeneye is one of those games, even with its 96 metacritic score.

[NotoriousWhiz]

Goldeneye just needs upgraded controls. People don't use single sticks for movement and aiming anymore. That's literally the only reason it's unplayable now.

[KillBill]

Point on the memory thing is that you have much more info to compare that memory to now than you did long ago. Doesn't mean your memory previously was wrong just that it was valid at that time and compared to modern games simply loses some appeal.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Need I remind everyone how much I enjoy the secret of Mana remake warts and all despite people's dislike of it?

@ziggurcat,

You know what Goldeneye has that most modern games don't? 4-player split screen. So not all modern games are better than older games. Some older games had great stories and characters and were crazy imaginative. Modern games generally less so because budgets are hitting Hollywood size now and everyone wants ridiculous sales or gass without taking any risks.

At least older games were complete at launch, which is becoming rarer these days.

[aarallen1]

I agree. Today's games are only refined because of the trailblazers that came before them.

[yeahokwhatever]

You have more fun as a child playing than you do as an adult. That's all there is to it folks. It doesn't mean you CAN'T have fun as an adult, just know that you'd be having way more fun playing whatever game you enjoy now if you were playing it as a child.

[rainslacker]

A lot of games were good for their time, and some even hold up well by today's standards. Thing about game design is that good design doesn't really become dated. It's usually just the graphics that suffer from that. Even the original pac-man is still fun.

Nostalgia makes one remember how good a game was back in the day. It may not seem as good when that same game is judged by modern standards though. That's where nostalgia tends to fail people, because people can't disassociate the time a game was released, and the standards that they've become used to. If one can do that, and appreciate a game for what it did right, it can still be good, and if one is so inclined, they can even see how games have regressed in design principals in some areas, or how they've grown in others. Most of all though, once one doesn't judge a game by modern standards, but just tries to have fun with it, then they actually may have fun, and one can remember why they have fond memories of it in the first place.

[deathtok]

GoldenEye was about the experience of playing competitively with friends. You can’t retroactively take back all the fun people had playing the game.

I played the game with friends over the weekend... 3 rounds. That was enough. In the late 90s though comparatively it was fun as hell :)

[CorndogBurglar]

Well then you're in the minority then. Goldeneye was considered an amazing game even when it first released, before nostalgia could even be considered.

[zodiac909]

Gameplay > Graphics
Look at the Nintendo Switch.

[yeahokwhatever]

There's better graphics and gameplay elsewhere, I'm not sure what you mean.

[rpvenom]

I agree. I thought there was a lot of games I wanted to play again after remasters.. but I noticed every remaster I purchased, I would play for an hour or two.. then go back to current gen games. I don't mind supporting the devs so they create the next gen games but I regret my remaster purchases everytime. That is one man's opinion obviously, but again, it just doesn't feel the same as it once did. The two I purchased is Dragon's Dogma and Final Fantasy X... there was another one I bought.. I cant remember it now.. of course lol

[lptmg]

well it depends, the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 is still a bagillion times better than EA's Battlefront 2

[gamejediben]

Thats not saying much. Just about anything is better than EA's Battlefront II. The average anal probe is more pleasant.

[Elda]

Nothing wrong with going back & playing those old nostalgic games but most don't look up to par graphically & resolution wise.I like the current games the best including some remasters.

[agent4532]

I feel like game developers are too afraid to take risks and go for the safest route. Is rare to see a unique/innovative game both gameplay and visual wise. That's one issue and the other issue there has not been a gameplay revolution since the PS2 era.

[mcstorm]

Your spot on but also gamers don't look outside the big names like Gta, Cod fifa ect. We had some amazing games last gen and some that were different and under rated and did not sell well. Split/second and Blur come to mind and this is part of the issue with gaming today. Gaming has become like Samsung and apple in the phone world and people go for the hype and back to what they know instead of giving others a try.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

It's pretty amazing how they accomplished so things despite being handicapped by weak hardware or the fact tech was still maturing then. I really do feel we're living in an age where innovation will be a rarity.

[Tetsujin]

It's one per page. Use caution.

[Cobra951]

Oh, I never click on listicles. I expect them to be one item per page. I prefer to hear when they don't do the sleazy clickfests. Then I may actually take a look.

[NautilusXIII]

well, the games i played back then were complete at launch(not missing content).

[Tru_Blu]

What I was going to get at, big difference for me was getting FULL games for your money.

[AnubisG]

So, I just played Parasite Eve for the first time this year. My buddy kept on telling me to play it because it's an amazing game. Even though it was made in the 90's, I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the latest games that they are making today. It had this feel and charm to it that only PS1 games have.

Play what you like and enjoy playing and don't let anyone tell you that any game, no matter how old is not as good as the latest microtransaction infested onlibe only souless crap.

[Omnislashver36]

Need to try this.

And I hope Square goes back to trying to capture the charm of previous games. With KH3 and FFVIIR they've got a chance to bring it back.

[Nebaku]

Games made in the ps1 to ps2 era were in the sweet spot of game development. Games were cheap enough to make that they could experiment without betting the house on its success. At the same time, they were still tough to make given technological limitations, so it guaranteed that the people making them were talented and cared about their product.

[Segata]

Back in the 90s Websites gave you the entire article on one page. What a concept huh!?

[JackBNimble]

Back in the 90's you would have been reading the article in a magazine.

[Segata]

Which I have plenty of those gaming mags from back then.

[MrSwankSinatra]

Back in the 90s, you could take the opinions of journalists seriously.

[Cobra951]

In the early 90s, yes. In the late 90s, the web was well on its way.

[OB1Biker]

It took forever to load the page though haha
Your right though :)

[Derceto]

8 reasons you're wrong, 800 reasons you're right. Just another inept "opinion" piece.

[SR388]

Older games are way better...
no day one patches and updates,
constant updates coz of a half assed game, so many broken games,
shit online,
too many only online options that suck,
too much dlc that costs too much,
Too many hackers
Even more now of the graphix over gameplay
Too many remakes/rehashed/reboots
Too many cancelled games for no reason
No 50-100gb install bollox
So many games favour crap online instead of a deep single player...

God I could go on and on lol

[lptmg]

the only thing I don't agree here is "too many cancelled games" because if you look at the amount of games that were initially planned to be released on the N64 but got cancelled, it's probably the same amount of games that actually got released for it. Even freaking Unreal and Black & White were planned for it

[agent4532]

But the amazing graphics lol.

[zodiac909]

We need a time machine mate.

[OB1Biker]

I suppose it depends on how far back you mean?
I played many games with very limited content. Some of them glitchy forever.
Some struggled to run well at the time but run smoothly on a phone now haha

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Physicals? Those are less common these days and I do love those physicals.

[EazyC]

Yeah, that thumbnail of the 8MB PS2 card made me laugh! How times have changed.

[InTheZoneAC]

But I can play older games like Donkey Kong Country 1-3, Super C, A Link to the Past, TMNT for nes or snes, Double Dragon, BattleToads, The Simpsons Arcade Game and enjoy those as much as any current gen or last gen game. I can't speak for the N64 since that is the time when I decided to skip a Nintendo console due to their lousy controller design and the direction they went with their main titles. And everyone knows how painful it was to save games with 1 bye memory cards or not have saves at all.

[Mroc13]

Turtles in Time is still fun to play. Zelda on snes too

[2pacalypsenow]

Compared to the shit we have today. I’ll take those 8 things over today.

[JackBNimble]

So what's stopping you?

[InTheZoneAC]

Maybe he already has them? Why do you people assume something based off a simple statement? He was making a point about today's games and you turn it into something personal.

[JackBNimble]

No, you're turning it into something personal.
Oh, and it was a question not an assumption...
But I like how you assume that I was assuming.

[MrSwankSinatra]

Nothing is stopping him, he has his options, unlike most of the people on this site that would rather be slaving away for companies that only see them as dollar signs.

[jmtstan]

well back in those days, the only time we get DLC on PC is like after 1 year or 1/2 year of its game release, and its packed with costumes, new game modes and new campaign mode... now we get day 1 dlc, bunch of all other crystal/coins dlc.

[GameBoyColor]

jrpgs aged well and a lot of them are still better than what we get now.

[Nacho_Z]

Old 2D games have held up well, old 3D games not so much. It’s hard to enjoy the gameplay when they’re such eyesores but lots of 2D games being released now don’t look any better than the golden oldies. Gameplay wise it’s a mixed bag but most classic old games are classics for a reason.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I find clunky controls or camera more of a hindrance but that's just me.

[PhoenixUp]

Well it depends cuz it wouldn’t be right to compare 2D graphics from 16-bit when they had generations to evolve to 3D graphics from 32-bit when they first started out

[bigmalky]

Graphics wise, yes. Gameplay-wise for some genres I can disagree with confidence.

FF old vs FF new... The gameplay and stories were vastly superior. Nostalgia? I played FF XV recently again and stopped through boredom. I picked up FF IX for PS4 afterwards and had an absolute blast, even after playing it three times previously. So much more to do, and all of it infinitely more interesting.

Puzzle games were also better. Puzzle Bobble for instance... No Candy Crush style energy or MT system in place.

Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, 4 and remake are all better than 5 or 6, and for me personally, VII as well, despite it being a good game.

Secret of Mana, GBA Castlevania games, MGS on PS1 and 2...?

Rose tinted specs my arse. There are plenty of old games that put new games' gameplay, fun factor and replayability to shame.

[holtzy]

the games were better for one simple reason you actually got the completed game. you were not a beta tester there was no dlc.

[agent4532]

All in all those annoyances didn't cost me a dime. Game developers were willing to take risks and were not as greedy as they are today.

[Minute Man 721]

I still play Contra, X-Men Arcade, Streets of Rage etc etc from time to time. What I loved about gaming in the 80s n 90s no hints or shiny objects to help you had to figure things out

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

After playing remasters like secret of Mana, I realise I forgot what it's like to not have the game holding your hand all the time.

[strayanalog]

"Nostalgia is a funny thing isn't it?" Yes, but so is indifference. A trait too easily picked up in the gaming industry. And when tomorrow gets here, the games you think are amazing will be scrutinized by the following generation, in which case I'll be defending those too.

8. Not Respecting The Player’s Time: Clenched fists of anger easily, but games then were more built around skill, because you had to be legitimately good to get past whatever enemy you encountered and know when to jump at that critical moment. Yes, gamers can be great today in whatever they play, not downplaying that, but now that's just called "hard mode." It is funny how you bring up time, while I was playing the first stage you were still installing your game.

7. Passwords & Memory Cards: Yes, corrupt memory cards sucked, but to be honest if you took care of those things you never really had an issue. They came with manuals. I've only had around 3 corrupt memory cards the entire time I've played games, which is well over 25 years. As for passwords, who didn't develop a better memory to remember those or the common sense to have a pad and pen ready when this was all you knew in the time?

6. Just Being B*stard Hard For The Sake Of It: Yeah, when the "elite" made games they made them up to their standard, which could be nerve racking, but it made you better didn't? It gave you reason to continue and learn through trial and error, kind of like life. Sure, it could be great if everything was handed to us, but where's the lesson in that?

5. Controllers & Control Schemes: These change with time and technology, so that was a given, and you accepted that if you played long enough. You learned and adapted, that's how gaming as a whole is. Every controller was built for the era given, whether it was 2D or 3D. Yes, there was some insane combinations that I questioned, but given the evolutionary process of the controller, and how that soon became second nature to remember a new scheme, I figured it out as did a lot of other people.

4. No Bug Fixes Without A Full Recall: That's mainly because there weren't that many bugs to begin with. Gens 1 - 6 you had to get it right, as the author points out. Sure, there were different "versions" of the game, which are called "patches" now, an example illustrated by the "NUS-" on the back of N64 carts in the 5th generation. And although I never had any trouble with any game I had, game-breaking glitches and missing items, I could see how that would be frustrating, but at least you could take it back to the store and exchange it. You know what the best part about all that is? At least it was the full game on the cart/disc.

3. Handheld Devices Being Impossible To Play In The Dark: True, but I bet you had a flashlight/lamp next to you and it didn't matter. What's this. Battery life sucked, you say? What are you on about? The original Gameboy had 10 to 30 hours of battery life. Oh, you must have had a Game Gear, in which case 3 to 5 hours isn't bad, not to mention it is roughly the same battery life of today's portables.

2. All The Sexism & "Grotty Boy's Club" Mentalities: This argument is so bad it doesn't even need a reply. Looks like you have 7 Reasons now.

1. Being On The Same Plane In A Brawler: Seriously? You're reaching. Everyone goes through this at least once, but usually you get a sense of where to go on the screen because of your own coordination. I should mark this reason against the list, but I won't, and I'll leave it at 7 Reasons.

[ZAF]

All those 8 reasons were fine compared to Season Pass, Micro transactions and Broken games at launch.

This days you need to preorder to get some extra stuff that could be unlocked for free on older games, you get a game that is broken full of bugs and half the content is cut for DLCs, then there's micro transactions that exist even on single player content, so my conclusion is that gaming is much worse now then it was back in the 90s.

I'm not even going to talk about early access games which many devs use to get some quick cash and after getting the money abandon their game.

[Tross]

The only objective improvements modern gaming has over past gaming have to do with graphics and sound, as well as memory and tech allowing for vaster and more lively worlds to explore. Oh, and games can be longer. Everything else is subjective, and usually has pros and cons.

Numbers 8 and 6 on this list aren't that different, but I'll go down the list anyways.

8. Ok, that's one thing I'll agree on, although data existed as far back as the 4th gen, and was commonplace in the 5th, so the whole limited lives/continues thing was a staple of really retro titles. It wasn't all bad though. Those really old games actually suited that format and you really felt a sense of accomplishment when you could move on, and seeing more of the game really felt like a well-earned reward.

7. Passwords did suck, but you're on crack if you think memory cards were worse than that. Actually, they had the advantage of your data being portable, which HDDs don't have. I could play a game, save it, then go over to my cousin's house and continue on with the same save file. I guess that's doable with cloud saves but eh... One thing that isn't doable with cloud saves is when I would go over to my friend's house, insert my PS2 memory card into his system's second slot and play Tekken 5 with his custom characters vs mine. Memory cards deserve more credit than they get.

6. Oh, boo hoo. If you're going to be a crybaby like a lot of other modern gamers, you're not qualified to assess older games. Gamers weren't pansies back then. Plus, difficulty settings weren't always lazily designed like they are now. They weren't always just changes to how much damage you and your enemies take. If you upped the difficulty in some games you could sometimes meet exclusive enemies and even encounter entire new stages. It was actually kind of lit.

5. Modern control schemes have improved, although we were used to those old control schemes back in the day, so really it's just a matter of being used to using shoulder buttons for shooting now.

4. That is true, but because devs didn't have patches available as a crutch, they normally made extra sure their games weren't buggy and didn't skip bug testing and use launch buyers as free beta testers. I actually think we see more buggy games now than ever, and some never get sufficiently patched.

3. True dat, but at least legit handhelds ruled the roost now and not cell phones, lol. Core gamers were the core audience for mobile gaming, not casuals, and the market wasn't flooded with app games by people in it for a quick buck. Also, the future of dedicated handhelds wasn't up in the air like it is now. The Switch might help, but mobile devices pose a big threat.
2. We've seen more games with powerhouse females that aren't played up as eye candy in recent times, but past decades weren't void of strong female leads. Ocarina of Time is a game I would actually recommend to a feminist gamer. Nowadays sexism isn't gone, it has just evolved. Prior to online play, female players couldn't be stalked and harassed online. There isn't enough space here to list all the ways I disagree with Anita Sarkeesian though.

1. Huh? You went from general examples to something very genre specific? It also wasn't that big a deal, and I'm surprised this is number one of all things.

For the most part I prefer modern gaming, but to say that the past was void of merit is blatantly false. I realize my opinion is subjective, but so is that of this author.

[TheOttomatic91]

I personally prefer newer games but I love the ability to back and play older games, which is the one good thing I can say about the XB1 and one of my main criticisms towards the PS4 and Switch

[PurpHerbison]

I think majority of old games are better and that is my opinion. I wasn't even alive in the 80s, yet I love games from that era.

[CertifiedGamer]

In PS1 rpgs came out, the console had more then 2K games and they took more then 6 hours to beat. RPGs used to take way longer then persona 5 on average without Microtransactions.

[EsotericAnomaly]

After recently getting absorbed by Vandal Hearts for literally hours, nostalgia isn't always a bad thing lol.

[BlahBlahWhatever]

For a JRPG fan nothing tops the PS1 era, there was so many amazing games back then to play that even if we put the PS3 & PS4 JRPGs together still won't be able to compete with it, just get a taste of what we could play back then & make the comparison yourselves, so here we go:

FFVII
FFVIII
FFIX
Final Fantasy Tactics
Xenogears
Chrono Cross
Parasite Eve
Suikoden I
Suikoden II
Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV
Legend of Deagoon
Grandia
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
Tactics Ogre
Wild Arms 1
Wild Arms 2
Alundra
Vandal Hearts
Star Ocean: Second Story
Legend of Legaia
Tales of Destiny
Tales of Destiny II
Thousand Arms

And many other that I can't remember right now, JRPGs back then had better stories, better gameplay, better combat system, superb soundtracks that we can't forget to this day, better characters, more depth & it was by far more fun to play than 95% of the games we get nowadays, so allow me to disagree about games being better today than back then, the more we move forward to more technologically advanced consoles/games if we exclude some rare gems here & there JRPGs become worst & worst in general.

[zodiac909]

Amen.

[Sirk7x]

Castlevania: SotN, Vagrant Story, Dragon Quest VII, Valkyrie Profile, etc lol

[zodiac909]

The ideas and mechanics of older games were ALOT more fresh than games of today. End of story.
Not to mention that when you buy an old game you don't have to pay extra for the full experience, or even deal with bs updates right out of the box.

[ApocalypseShadow]

They're are not better. But they're **just as good and fun to play.**

The person who created this article must have never played games like Gunstar Heroes or Castlevania IV. I would put games like these and their graphics, gameplay and music against any modern game.

[Tzuno]

Wrong, some old games had awesome game-play and good story look at the state of today JRPG's.

[BenderBot]

Well, personally, I still play very old games and enjoy them as much as ever. Old games being 'better' is completely missing the point in my opinion. It's the enjoyment you derive from playing a game, not whether it's 'better' now or then. My favourite game of all time is from the early eighties, that hasn't changed. Even if you accept that nostalgia add's a certain 'glow' to old games,which I do. That doesn't suggest to me that modern games are 'better' by virtue of being newer.

[Mroc13]

Great games that have aged well : Zelda on SNES, MGS 1,2,3, God of war 1 & 2, Viewtiful Joe, Ratchet and Clank, Jak 3, Devil May Cry 3. These games had good controls and great gameplay. Fun great gameplay never ages.

[Einhander1971]

Maybe 3D games have aged, but 2D games still look gorgeous. Arcade, Snes, Megadrive have timeless visuals and gameplay.

[PurpHerbison]

Hand drawn sprites will forever reign supreme.

[Shinox]

Parasite Eve 1 & 2 Shits all over todays games , not a single game make you hooked into todays gaming other than the older games , PE is the prime example of how today's gaming sucks

[gamejediben]

20 years ago, I could plop down $40 USD and buy a Final Fantasy, Grandia, Suikoden, Xenogears or a number of other RPGs that would last me 60-80 hours. There was no:

Day 1 DLC.
Day 1 patches
Missing content
Loot boxes
Microtransactions

Everything worked the way it was supposed to and I had a great time.

Now I have to pay $60 just for the base game of Mass Effect Andromeda, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Shadow of War, No Man's Sky and Star Wars Battlefront and then get told I have to pay even more money for all the stuff that was cut out. It's not nostalgia, things really were better back then. I almost never buy games day 1 anymore because I can't be sure I will get something worth my money. Game companies are trying to scam us.

The only exception is CDProject RED. I already have my money set aside for Cyberpunk 2077. EA and Activision ruined this industry. I'd rather get an anal probe than buy a game from those companies.

[ImportGamer3004]

I have to say when it comes to controllers looking back as much as i love the N64 it's design is very odd much to say. At least with the Gamecube controller Nintendo saw it and decided the N64 controller design is very unusual. Sony didn't have to fix the Dualshock controller as it was brilliantly designed, though my favorite Dualshock aside from Dualshock 2 is the current Dualshock 4. Microsoft had a doozy with the original Xbox controller as that big clunky controller was replaced with a smaller more efficient controller that worked 50x better because it wasn't so big for the average gamers hands. I also have to say i disagree with your idea because older games are better in a number of ways. Look at many of the best jrpg's of all time like Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger,FFIV FFVI, FFVII, FFIX, FFX, Kingdom Hearts I & II, Dark Cloud & Dark Cloud 2, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of the Abyss, Star Ocean 2nd Story, Illusion of Gaia, Suikoden I-V, and many more. Also games released back then were complete games and not a bunch of crappy titles like the current Star Wars Battlefront II with it's Microtransactions in a $60 game. That's why i'm considering making this my last gen of gaming as videogames aren't released complete and haven't been so much since last gen.

Your complaints are so boring yet your moronicness astounds me whoever wrote this article. You can buy a Memory card adapter that will allow you to transfer save files of PS1 & PS2 memory cards to a PS3 and back it up via flash drive. You are a friggin idiot and should have figured it out you who wrote this article. I've been backing up PS1, PS2, & PS3 save files for years transferring my PS1 & PS2 saves from the PS3 back to a flash drive.

[RyanDJ]

I miss memory cards. Yes, you can upload online on most, but they were just so dang easy. Go to a friend's house and pop in your card. Not even worry about signing in.

You know what I want back? In-controller memory cards. You wanna go multiplay at a friends? Just bring your controller! My character was saved on Perfect Dark, if I remember right, on my memory pak. Wanna try an RPG at a friend's house on Dreamcast? Bring along your VMU! I was really excited on Wii when I saw some games support having a Mii attached to a controller for porting over.

Now, Nintendo's got that messed up. So many games you have to sign in with one person, and everyone else is left hanging. We just got our second Switch and ported my son's stuff over there. You can't bring him back to play a multiplayer game, so he ends up with another sign-in that's not linked to his account back on my Switch. And let's say my youngest wants to play a save file. His account is on my machine, so the kids can both play. But what if I want to play and my son isn't using his? It's this huge port-over instead of "pop a memory card in."

[DivineAssault]

In some ways they were.. Popping the disc in and getting right to the game without updates.. No need to worry about devs skimping on content.. Both have their ups and downs

[yomfweeee]

Most of the things on that terrible list really didn't have to do with the gameplay, which I think is what everyone claims used to be better (I'm not saying one way or the other). The fact that they even tried to bring up bugs is hilarious.

[Cobra951]

8 ways we're *right* about old games being better:

(1) No microtransactions.
(2) Single-player focus.
(3) Few if any bugs.
(4) Complete games released on Day One. No patches needed or DLC expected.
(5) No online services needed to keep games viable in the future.
(6) Size. Don't need stock in Western Digital to store them all.
(7) No needlessly high resolution to eat up system power.
(8) No fanboy wars. Games stood on their own merits, regardless of hardware.

[ASBO-5]

Why? *smack* *slap* *smack-smack* Heres Why!

[snoopgg]

Pong was outstanding . Lol

[Einhander1971]

What ever you say It's more than nostalgia.

[PhoenixUp]

I remembered when 8MB was enough to carry me through most of that generation, now even 500GB or even 1TB nowadays doesn’t seem to be enough