I miss how 90s and 00s video games were built to leave an impression that lasts forever🚀
Meanwhile, modern games are meant to suck you in forever doing the most mundane and superficial activities, and playing as the most bland and uninspired characters just so they can be an easy self-insert.
Protagonists of retro games used to make us wanna be like them or enjoy the fantasy or escaping as them, or as a companion with them, unlike today, where they desperately built to sound like the lowest common denominator of us.
I genuinely miss everything retro gaming used to stand for, the design physiology, what they prioritize about gameplay, what types of worlds, stories and characters they wrote about, and how they’re shorter but much more concentrated, memorable and unique with every hour you play.
And they were also highly replayable, because that fun they had to offer, was something we wanted to try again.
Modern gaming, with its rising prices, potential elimination of physical media, predatory business practices, expensive hardware, on top of the inferior vision behind them that seems to prioritize everything but what what gamers love about games, are really not helping themselves.
No wonder the industry is collapsing, and maybe a full reset is long overdue.
Scale back
Remember what made gaming special
Higher designers and leaders who love games
And above all, protect physical media and digital ownership rights at all cost
NO DISC 💿 NO BUY