I really miss the old DOS days. Mainly because I was younger and therefore two things didn?t happen.

1) I didn?t work.

2) Because of point above, I couldn?t buy all the games I wanted.

These two things meant I had less games to play, but more time to play them, which resulted in spending a lot more time really getting to know the games I had.

A common thing to say about modern games is that they hand-held you the whole way through. Which is taken as a bad thing (And it is, essentially), but it is possibly also a necessary evil as gamers have grown up, and therefore we have to work, tend to our relationships, etc etc. Which results in far less time to simply be chucked into the deep end and learn how to swim on our own.

Regardless of whether hand-holding is necessary or not, there is a lot more magic in games which has been lost through the ages, and after replaying the first Quest for Glory (Or Hero?s Quest, if you want to be nerdy) recently, I witnessed quite a few points about gaming that I miss.

Read the rest on my blog:

http://thelimbogamer.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/quest-for-glory-modern-gaming-banter-and-english-13-2/