Why old games never die (but new ones do) (pleromanonx86.wordpress.com)
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world on 24 May 22:36
https://piefed.social/post/786203

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Trex202@lemmy.world on 25 May 00:04 next collapse

There’s a LOT of old games that aren’t good.

Yermaw@lemm.ee on 25 May 09:38 collapse

Its the same with music and films. They were so much better in the past and here’s the examples. Not included in the examples are the thousands of songs and bands that didn’t stand the test of time.

MBech@feddit.dk on 25 May 11:28 collapse

There were other bands in the 80’s than Guns and Roses and ABBA?

MurrayL@lemmy.world on 25 May 08:35 next collapse

It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop.

Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.

markovs_gun@lemmy.world on 25 May 09:17 collapse

Yeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of “slop” in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

OmegaLemmy@discuss.online on 25 May 09:24 next collapse

What was it called again? Survivor Bias?

mriswith@lemmy.world on 25 May 09:59 collapse

Survivorship/survival bias.

And yeah, it’s the same old “they really knew how to make * in the past”. Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It’s just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don’t.

YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone on 25 May 13:11 next collapse

Listen my spoons from the 1950’s cannot be beat. I hate how hard it is to find them.

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works on 25 May 13:33 collapse

Have you looked in your silverware drawer?

WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml on 25 May 13:44 collapse

And yeah, it’s the same old “they really knew how to make * in the past”. Houses, bridges, spoons, video games, whatever. It’s just that the well made ones survive, and the badly made ones don’t.

Idk, there’s certain structures like the pyramids where you gotta give credit where credit is due.

They really knew how to make some shit.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world on 25 May 11:57 collapse

No required online components that get stopped.