Poll: Why Do You Retrospect Older Games?

Retrospect in meaning playing older games. Is it for the gameplay? Visual(Art Direction or even graphics)? Nostalgia Sense?

Game-play but I should point out that I am specifically talking about RPGs when I say that. RPGs were just much deeper back in the day. Today's RPGs are more like semi-interactive cinematic experiences or, in other words, not really RPGs. I'll take an old game like Fallout, Planescape, Ultima, Might and Magic, Wizardry, etc. over anything that's come out in the past 5 or so years.

I've said it a million times before but it's worth repeating, this new breed of hybrid-RPGs are made more for FPS/Action fans than they are RPG fans.

Gameplay. There's no such thing as obsolescence in games for me.

I respect older games because of their originality. Developers back then had less pressure from publishers, and there was no set way to create a game; they just made things up as they went along. Everything just felt fresh and new.

more of "Innovation from the past", back in the day, developers usually came up with game that make you say "Whoaa!", now days, when you buy a game

you would say "Hmmp."

Gameplay, and nostalgia.

Gameplay I guess, since that's why I play any game.

It's more like I want to see what games were like back in the day since I missed them when they were released. I'm usually amazed that some games did things better 10 years ago than what modern games do now (see; every RPG, adventure game and anything made by Origin, Looking Glass and Black Isle.) I guess that's why I find most modern games so underwhelming - games are supposed to improve in every way, so why have they regressed during the 00's?

I actually thought Postal movie was funny hahahah

besides that, Uwe Boll can suck a chubby

i got pyschonauts on steam recently becuase it was 2 dollars today

I've played Ultima Online since 1999, I still play it because the gameplay is un-rivaled, of course i play private servers the ones that are re-makes of the early years of UO,I still play diablo1/2 they are the games that made hack and slash games awesome for me, and counter strike has its own spot also

None of those really; being relatively new to gaming I play old games to see some of the major milsetones in the industry. :)

As with most people its all about the gameplay for me.

Older games just appeal more to my prefered genre of game. RPG. Back in the day they were deeper and more challenging.

Well look at some of the older games..Game play an graphics at the time where far better.Some thing in todays games are missing..The intensity of a game ..Look at baldurs gate 2..The epic battles of the pause an play the challenge..Dragon age was a good game but baldurs 2 is a great game..Boo go for the eyes boo..Where was that in dragon age??Remembering thins in the past..Just the other day i put in star wars jedi outcast..Its unreal how the graphics has heald up..Games back than had a epic feel to it..Morrwind compared to oblivion..Morrwind just had this epic feel to the game when it was released..Played for hours..Oblivion is just meh...

Might an magic series both rts an rpg..Where great games..Man i spent hours in the games..Look at wow an everquest..Everquest to me was fun an couldnt wait to log in every day..Wow when i played it fealt dumbed down..It took me 3 weeks to ding 30.,You no what that was like after you dinged 30 an to do it at 50..It had this sence of damn im done...Todays games dont have that feel to them..Not even the good games..Dont see what all the hype about wow is..After playing everquest...

I've said it a million times before but it's worth repeating, this new breed of hybrid-RPGs are made more for FPS/Action fans than they are RPG fans.

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Are you describing Mass Effect? If so I agree with you.

But just because the mainstream doesn't appreciate hardcore D&D rules in their rpgs, doesn't mean all recent rpg's are 'action' games now. Go get some friends and dice and play oldskool D&D on a gameboard if you don't want to see any action in your games. This change has happened because game budgets have increased exponentially since back in the 90s, and it is no longer financially feasible to make these niche rpgs.

I do agree with youthat the older rpgs were great, and it's a shame we won't be seeing anymore of them in the forseeable future. KOTOR is an example of imo a great new rpg with a balance between accesibility and old rules.

I wanted to vote gameplay but in retrosoect I have as much fun with games today as I did in the past. I don't know how to quantify the difference. I still get the same feelings of accomplishment when I do something well and dissapointment when I don't. I voted nostalgia because that's how I feel when I play older games. When they did things for the first time. But just because they did it for the first time does not mean they did it better, they just did it differently.

I'm getting ready to play through Planescape: Torment again. One of the best games I have ever played. I play them still today because of the gameplay and because of the amount of detail that went into games back then is just so much more than now-a-days.

Gameplay.

No other RTS has ever interested me much after playing Blizzard's RTSs. They all feel dumbed down and slow, with features that give you the feeling of playing against mechanics rather than opponents, and none has more than one tenth of the diversity SC has.

I still don't understand how can people even fathom to call them "simple". I guess playing against scripted units or resource gathering is so much more complex that I don't understand this either :| .

About other games, I've just recently started trying out some of the classics just to know a bit of gaming history, like Black Isle and id Software games. Too bad I missed them at their times.