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Last generation had plenty of games with problems. Ninja Gaiden had horrific camera issues, fighting games lacked online play. Prince of Persia Sands of time had glitch that could break the game at 71% of the way through. These games could have been better if developers could have provided patches for them. Granted, Team Ninja still cannot fix the camera in any of the Ninja Gaiden releases.Â
Sonic and Knuckles was an expansion of Sonic 3. How many different versions of the original Pokemon game were there again? Yellow, Green (Japan only), Blue, and Yellow. Fighting games also had several iterations back in the old days as well. I believe there were at least three different versions of Street Fighter 2 that hit both Sega and Nintendo systems. Each of those iterations were the cost of a full priced game. If you bought all the versions of Street Fighter 2 on either system, then it would run you about $200. Cartridge games cost about $70 per game. I remember when $40 used to be considered a budget price.
You are wrong about games not having bugs before the seventh generation of systems. Check out Sonic's Adventure on Dreamcast. That game is littered with bugs everywhere. you can fall right through solid objects. You are also forgetting that hardware itself had problems back in the old days too. The pins inside of NES systems eventually wore down making it harder to play the cartridges. Games would freeze up for no apparent reason. People would have to blow in their games and inside the console itself so that games would work the first time. The eject function on the SNES also had issues. Sometimes games would get stuck inside the system, making them harder to get out.Â
In today's world you have a lot more options of how you want to play games and where to buy them. In previous generations, you had to buy games at the store, and that was it. A game like Journey or Guacamelee would cost you full tilt back in previous generations instead of being a budget priced game. You could not go online and get games for cheap other than used copies on Ebay. Now you can pick up games for half price or so on Amazon a month after it comes out.Â
Then again, to each his own. If you want to always go to the store and pay $70 to $80 a game only for the greatest hits version to come out with bonus content at a budget price, then go ahead. The practices that are happening now have always been going on, but to a lesser exent.Â
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I'm amused at how you're putting words into my mouth that i didn't say, and responding to non-existent statements to prove 'your' point.
At no point did i say older games were glitch-free, i merely implied at a whole lot less bugs because publishers felt it was better to release a finished game than to pocket fast money and let early-buyer's suffer. Though some games did not have as strict a testing process.
Nowadays you get part of a game every year that you have to buy each time, whereas the "archaic" way would be to release a full game every couple of years which had far more content and you only had to buy it once. I like the 'more game - less money' approach.
Budget-priced games have existed since way before this generation, and your examples of "Journey" or "Guacamelee" likely would've been released as Indie (Freeware) games, or more likely Shareware; you know that system that was such a 'failure' for Doom and the like? And it was still cheaper than a full-price title. But your conjecture suggests you're not old enough to remember those days so base your whole argument on the stories the creepy old man in the game shop says.
Oh yeah, we did have to buy games at the store, such a hassle it was. Most High Streets bustling with several stores that all stocked games as well as their usual fare. Now we get 1 dedicated Games shop and all window-shopping and browsing is done online. Whether you get your game or not depends on your Broadband speed and if your credit card details haven't been stolen. You picked the "$70 or $80" figure out of the air with interest, do you get as easily conned when you're buying anything in RL? Multiple points of sale make for shopping-around: An old-fashioned term meaning visiting several shops until you find the cheapest one for what you want. This also may contribute to the general fitness of old-school gamers.
It's funny you should mention used games, as early indications are that next-gen will be making the consumer pay extra for a second-hand title. How much better that is for everyone. Not.
I love the contradiction at the end of your post :lol:
"The practices that are happening now have always been going on, but to a lesser exent. "
"Newer is better, it's always been going on, unfinished games get released then re-released and released once more on budget and we have to pay for our DLC. WINNN"
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