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Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Less DRM, smaller filesizes, no stupid anticheat, and no always online bs. Anyone agree with me?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hardly the only, but not always the case either. I'd put some of it down to rose-colored nostalgia, some to the given fact that so much today is buying a base framework game and then selling 276 'addons' to make it complete, and part to that back when systems didn't have the power they do now developers couldn't rely so much on all the flashy imagery and effects so they put more effort into the story and unique gameplay. A lot of smaller studio games pull that latter part off today still, but they're sometimes harder to find.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any examples of smaller studio made games with flashy imagery and effects to match the good story? Really I'm just looking for game recs and want to get away from the usual "big" names for a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on what you're looking for and what you consider flashy. I tend to do most of mine from GOG these days just out of a preference for avoiding DRM on principal. Found a few interesting ones just of the 'cheap enough that it doesn't matter if it's not great' types.

A major marker of quality for me tends to be if something just feels polished, like the menus make sense rather than looking like someone just stuck things where they could without though, but it could still run on a potato without making things melt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm really open to anything. I tend to lean towards RPGs or story games (Life is Strange, Dear Esther, and Stanley Parable for instance) but I play most anything.