Quote Originally Posted by Fluffy View Post
Well I'd say the greatest games of today are many times better than the greatest games of back then. So to want games to be like back then sounds like nostalgia to me.
I want them to be like they used to be in one way, unique and new.

I was going to say leave it to opinion, but I can't even call it opinion. The games are simply better. I don't see how anyone could argue otherwise. Better storytelling, better sound, better graphics, bigger games. Everything about that says "better" to me.
Better storytelling is subjective, not everyone likes higher quality sound, which isn't even a proper argument for the music, which would STILL be subjective, not everyone cares about graphics, bigger how? Games like Dragon Quest VII were ****ing massive.

Quote Originally Posted by Xanatos View Post
Final Fantasy IV & V, Final Fantasy games in general are easy as it gets, grinding is pretty much solution to each and every problem. I'm referring to games such as Battletoads, Contra III: The Alien Wars, TMNT... well known for their cheap, irritating difficulty, or in other words over 50% games on NES, SNES, SEGA and so on.
Battletoads depended on the port, it was still difficult as hell, but not as buggy. As for TMNT...those games were just awesome because of the over the top difficulty. Some people just like games with silly levels of difficulty, it's a challenge with a sense of satisfaction.

Bingo. Remember this line next time you start to preach how modern games are all shit and whatnot. Of course difference being, you have more means today to see wheter you like a specific video game or not before you decide to buy it, ergo less chance to burn yourself.
Seeing doesn't mean shit. A game can look cool and play like shit. Today we have emulators to test older games out.

I see you pretty much crossed other issues, that's fine, we'll get to it later. As far as identical games go, it was an issue before as much as it's today, true, but hop with me on this crazy bandwagon and lets point it only in modern video game industry as often as you tend to do.
Well, older games aren't relevant because they AREN'T BEING MADE RIGHT NOW. But I still personally enjoy the good games of the past more so than today by far, up to the PS 2. The difference is that the bigger companies were releasing cool games. We're basically getting clones with better graphics and lamer stories, but companies still hold onto their cash cows. Instead of new and unique games, we get Pokemon White 2, Resident Evil 17, CoD Black Ops 5, Super Mario Multiverse, etc etc. Back when these games were they, they WERE game changers, but the companies just keep milking them and milking them, utilizing large amounts of funding for this shit.