There hasnt been a better time to be a kid gamer.

[Mike809]

I agree with you, but to me this all has a deeper meaning if you grew up gaming since at least SNES/Sega. I've been playing since NES and I wish I could tell 5 year old me what gaming would be like 30 years from now.

We brehs in here seen so much change in the landscape of gaming, that we can really appreciate how far we've come.


If I had the ability to bend time, I'd create a world where the internet was where we are today, while rewinding time to the PS1/N64 Era where there was still a lot of experimentation and risktaking, while at the same time being able to enjoy games like SF Alpha 2, Road Rash, WWF No Mercy, Goldeneye and Twisted Metal with online play in its prime.

i believe that since we had to jump through hoops and go months without a new game when we were kids, it made those few new games that we did get even more fun and exciting.
its just like porn , where now we have access to it 24/7 and before we had to hack our cable box or wait until our parents went to bed to see some softcore porn.

 

[Mike809]

Not isn't, the best thing about gaming back then was the huge leaps in progress, each generation was a huge leap and entirely new experience

I mean Devil May Cry 5 is just a better version of the original Devil May Cry, but playing Devil May Cry for the first time was a huge leap in gaming experience, there wasn't anything like it ever

They could remake shyt from back then like Final Fantasy VII, because they can't capture the imaginations like the developers did back then who did less with more so they had to make up for the limitations in technology with creativity

Nowadays, everything is interactive movie, Naught Dog gets priase as some great game developer when all their games are medicore

but because they have huge budgets they can get great graphics, voice acting, they spend all the money on everything but the gameplay which is teh worst part of their games

when you got old school sega doing way less with more with the Yakuza games which have the best facial animations in games on a shoestring budet, I can't even imagine the type of game they would make if sony gave them the Naughty Dog budget or a Square Enix budget

i dont think there's been a bigger leap than VR.

 

[Return of the Jedi]

I grew up on the classic Nintendo titles and some great stuff on the PS1/PS2, but yeah, only getting a couple games per year just sucked straight up.

It's amazing to have a litany of options now, you just gotta guide kids the quality or else they become obsessed with some stupid microtransaction-filled mobile game.

 

[PS5 Pro]

I grew up in the 90s and as a kid , i was a video game addict. Sadly , due to the cost of games back them...my parents couldnt afford them and i mostly rely on whatever my big brother could get due to him having a job.

I would satisfied my addiction by playing crappy flash games on my computer , and later learning about emulators in the early 2000s.

These days , video-games have gone mainstream compared to the 90s and all a kid need is either a console or a smartphone (maybe even just a smart tv) . Parents dont even need to buy them video games since now theres tons of free-to-play like fortnite or they just have to wait for the monthly free games through Ps Plus,Epic store or any other source, or if they are computer smart ...just pirate them.

kids these days are too busy jerking off to pornhub, don't believe me? Think about it, no need for a nudey mag like in metal gear, no need to watch Cinemax after dark the porno tape. These nikkaz got the best porno movies in VR in a treehouse. Here's the proof...

 

[Chris Cool]

being a kid in the 90s and 00s>>>

 

[PS5 Pro]

being a kid in the 90s and 00s>>>

80s & 90s >>> 90s & 00s

 

[Chris Cool]

I aint talking about the quality of games compared to the ones before. I'm talking about access to them. Kids today don't have to depend on parents to play new games

Unless you playing the same games all gen, yes they do. And they have to buy memberships.

 

[Chris Cool]

80s & 90s >>> 90s & 00s

90s kids played all that 80s shyt. 90s consoles are way better.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Unless you playing the same games all gen, yes they do. And they have to buy memberships.

And parents can control how much you play via you're phone. You can set the number of hours, times it'll work etc. At least on Xbox, idk about the other consoles...

90s kids played all that 80s shyt. 90s consoles are way better.

That's bullshyt, people didn't generally game backwards. When super Nintendo came out you was only playing the nes because you didn't have a SNES or Genesis. The nes in particular had so many classics it's hard to even fathom. 16 bit era was the best imo but only because it was a direct evolution of the foundation of gaming as we know it.

 

[Womb Raider]

Nah, the AAA obsession now is really different from what 90s babies like me had. Remember all those AA and B tier games for Playstation and N64? Now it's either indies (which I still love, but there's so many it's hard to tell what is quality and what isn't) or a handful of AAAs per year which are safe as hell due to dev and marketing costs

I miss the jank and risk-taking of yesteryear

This

 

[daze23]

I aint talking about the quality of games compared to the ones before. I'm talking about access to them. Kids today don't have to depend on parents to play new games

they need their parents to buy them a phone, console, PC, plus pay for internet access, xbox live, psn, etc.

access to video games used to cost 25 cents

 

[Mike809]

they need their parents to buy them a phone, console, PC, plus pay for internet access, xbox live, psn, etc.

access to video games used to cost 25 cents

Most kids at least older than 10 have a smart phone even if it's 3 years old. If it's an android, they can easily download emulators for it or jailbreak it if it's an iPhone if they don't like the apple store.

I'm sure it was harder to find a kid with a computer back in the 90s than finding a kid with a smart phone today.

 

[daze23]

Most kids at least older than 10 have a smart phone even if it's 3 years old. If it's an android, they can easily download emulators for it or jailbreak it if it's an iPhone if they don't like the apple store.

I'm sure it was harder to find a kid with a computer back in the 90s than finding a kid with a smart phone today.

parents have to pay a monthly fee for the service on that smart phone

I get that there is easy access to games, and some are "free", but kids still depend on their parents

 

[Killer Instinct]

We had Blockbuster and late fees. Kids today have Gamepass and PSNow at the cost of a monthly fee that would only give us two games for five days. Wouldn't trade it, though. Nothing beat the feeling of walking into a Blockbuster at 7 - 14 years old on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Grabbing the game you wanted, moms asking if you wanted candy at the checkout, and then deciding she wanted to pick up pizza on the way home.



It was the little things.

 

[daze23]

We had Blockbuster and late fees. Kids today have Gamepass and PSNow at the cost of a monthly fee that would only give us two games for five days. Wouldn't trade it, though. Nothing beat the feeling of walking into a Blockbuster at 7 - 14 years old on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon. Grabbing the game you wanted, moms asking if you wanted candy at the checkout, and then deciding she wanted to pick up pizza on the way home.



It was the little things.

I remember chilling where people returned shyt at Blockbuster, hoping someone would return something I wanted