Remeber the good old days?

Do you guys remember the good old days? Back when retail outlets didn't rip open products and take things out of them. Back when DLC were just three random letters that had nothing to do with further purchases you would be making after the game already came out. Back when companies didn't put a whole lot of intrusive software with your games. Back when games were barely marketed. Back when only a few people you knew played video games. Back when people just made games for people to play and not for their company to make bank.

It seems every week, I hear of some company doing another shady thing. Whether it be Gamestop and their copies of Deus Ex: HR, EA and Origin's spyware-ish-ness (which really doesn't bother me personally too much, but I can see why it does for others), or anything else.

It seems that no console is safe from this 'profit' focused push, and it seems PC is just as vulnerable. Maybe it has just been the past week or two... Well, I hope things get back to normal soon.

Good old days.Sad how times have changed.

Yes, the industry has grown, and so has coverage and exposure of the industry. Which is why you hear more about the shady things that happen now than you did back in the "good old days" when most of the shadiness happened in private.

I don't remember any 'good old days' but I do remember when games didn't take huge budgets. Sad people seem to forget how cost effective and beautiful 2D looks on the isometric viewpoint or how some ambient and good writing can tell a story.

i miss when people didnt laugh at other people for liking certain videogames(like halo,cod,ff,etc)

yeah everything was so much better in the good ole days. no bad games, everything was free, every game was at least 100 hours long, their was no such thing as expansion packs, there was no such things as genres as every game was unique and perfect.

them good ole days. yeah i remember them

I don't care for a time in gaming when Mass Effect didn't exist.

Yes, I miss those days. :(

Yes. I also remember when 5 fps was an acceptable framerate, good games came out once every 6 or so months and gamers had to make the best of the games they had (in that games didn't offer much content).foxhound_fox

I remember the good old days when game breaking glitches couldn't be patched so would never be fixed often forcing you to delete your save file and prey your next one has no problems.

I prefer these days.

I miss the days when gamers were grateful.drinkerofjuice

This. And when people didn't complain and lament about the very things they benefited from.

the good old days when internet didnt exist and we had no choice but to buy Strategy guides?? HELL NO!

im lovin" da 21 century 8)

Yes I remember "the good old days"...Cartridge games with no DLC...which cost you £40 and lasted two hours in many cases. With simplistic gameplay, where true 3D was a distant gleam in someone's eye. Where controllers were on a wire and multiplayer involved you and one friend, unless you bought an extra peripheral so you could do four player. Oh and the concept of second hand gaming wasn't quite the same. You could buy old games....for £40.

Or we could go earlier than that if people like, because the days I just described were better than them. The point is, with new technology comes new concepts and potential. Things are getting better every gen, and people are left with minor quibbles like DLC on games which last far longer than they used to and cost less especially when bought a few months after release. The only real thing that has changed for the worst is the amount of petulant whingers we seem to have today.

you know before internet there were no piracy either think about it.

you know before internet there were no piracy either think about it.

legol1

You certainly didn't get people recording games onto tapes back in the day.

i miss when people didnt laugh at other people for liking certain videogames(like halo,cod,ff,etc)

TheShadowLord07

Meh there has been alot of crap released now sure. But there was alot of crap released back in the day too. Sure, we have stuff like Kinect now, but back in the day we had silly stuff like the powerglove and the Virtual Boy, etc.

When thinking about the "good ol' days", it''s always about people looking back at their childhoods, which for many people, were more fun than adulthood. When looking back at out childhoods, we remember much more cimplistic, worry free times, and therefore more fun times, hence why when looking back at the games of old we tend to have more positive feelings, since we played them when life was easier and more fun; it's mu ch easier to remember all the good games and ignore the bad games. When looking at games of today, people tend to have more of a negative outlook, because due to have more responsibilities, more worries, life is just alot more stressful and not quite as magical as it used to be. So then people associate games of today with being not as good, since life itself just isn't as good in general for us; and thus people tend to look more at the bad games or bad stuff happening in the industry and firget the god stuff.

This isn't the case for everyone, of course, but I can't help but feel this applies to a good amount of people who complain about gaming or anything really not being as good as they were in the 90's or whatever. Nolstalgia is a cruel, harsh thing, really. I'm sure in the year 2020 there will people our age complaining abut how great the 2000's were, because for those people the 2,000's were when their childhood took place, and thus was when there "magical times" toook place.

It seems that no console is safe from this 'profit' focused push

arto1223

I miss the day when there wasnt any arrogant developer like Criterion that blatantly ignores the PC playerbase not releasing DLC content and proper patches for their games on PC.

What good ol' days? All I remember is the Clinton incident and Pong.

i miss when people didnt laugh at other people for liking certain videogames(like halo,cod,ff,etc)

TheShadowLord07

It's funny, I didnt think anyone on this site was old enough to remember the ''good old days''.

Back when people just made games for people to play and not for their company to make bank.

arto1223

Games have always been around to make money the better they are the more they sell, unless they are free. Same with the internet .com means commercial, Television is also out there to make money, the better the show, the more people will watch, which means more people will see the commercials which means more $$$.

P.S yes the era of games you speak of were quite nice.

Nostalgia is more powerful than you think.

Do you guys remember the good old days? Back when retail outlets didn't rip open products and take things out of them. Back when DLC were just three random letters that had nothing to do with further purchases you would be making after the game already came out. Back when companies didn't put a whole lot of intrusive software with your games. Back when games were barely marketed. Back when only a few people you knew played video games. Back when people just made games for people to play and not for their company to make bank.

It seems every week, I hear of some company doing another shady thing. Whether it be Gamestop and their copies of Deus Ex: HR, EA and Origin's spyware-ish-ness (which really doesn't bother me personally too much, but I can see why it does for others), or anything else.

It seems that no console is safe from this 'profit' focused push, and it seems PC is just as vulnerable. Maybe it has just been the past week or two... Well, I hope things get back to normal soon.

arto1223

All that still exists.

I miss the days when gamers were grateful.drinkerofjuice

yes i remember those days. but gotta admit your excited for the future of games. i mean imagine what games will be like in 20 years, heck even in ten years games will be quite differentTH1Sx1SxSPARTA

The modern days are good too. Sure there are some shady usiness practices but that's because gaming has become much more relevant as an industry.

The modern days are good too. Sure there are some shady usiness practices but that's because gaming has become much more relevant as an industry.

turtlethetaffer

And I'm sure all gaming companies of the past were perfect little angels and everything they did was all for the gamers and not for money at all.

Back when 10-12 hours was considered short.....ah i miss those days.kris9031998

Yes, the industry has grown, and so has coverage and exposure of the industry. Which is why you hear more about the shady things that happen now than you did back in the "good old days" when most of the shadiness happened in private.

Cherokee_Jack

This is just like people believing that content being cut from games only happened in this generation. back before the internet, all designers had these lofty visions of what a game would be like. But they all faced the same limitations of finances, resources, and time restrictions, so at the end of the project something had to be let go. It's just like big budget movies, some scenes being filmed and then cut, or some that never get shot, but we see the story boards for them in the DVD/Blu Ray special features. Only back then before there was a venue to release that later, what ended up on the cutting room floor stayed there.

And it's only now that this content removed for what ever limitations were an obstacle to the developers (money, resoucres, time), is able to be released later, that gamers are more aware of it, and find right to complain about it. If this were still the 8bit and 16bit cartridge days, that cut content would never see the light of day and no one would even be aware of it in the first place.

Sure there are some shady practices with Day 1 DLC (and even then you have good uses of it where it's FREE and implemented to encourage new game sales), but making blanket statements that DLC in general is the root of all gaming evil is naive.

As for TC's assertion that there was some golden age when game makers never cared for profit.... just when DID this mythical age exist?? :? You really think Nintendo in the 8bit days, or Sega, or even Atari and Colecovision companies never wanted to turn a profit for the products they were putting on store shelves? Seriously? :|

[QUOTE="kris9031998"]Back when 10-12 hours was considered short.....ah i miss those days.Vinegar_Strokes

I miss the days when making survival horror games was considered viable. I miss the days when Square had decent writing staff. I miss the days when unique games were considered commercially viable overall.

[QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"][QUOTE="kris9031998"]Back when 10-12 hours was considered short.....ah i miss those days.Bread_or_Decide

The current generation they started making shorter games.