UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story?
You can just play the original, though.
Same with any of these franchises. The newer titles are hit or miss, but the old games have aged like wine.
We can but it generally looks and controls like crap on modern screens. It has aged worse than many tank control games like Resident Evil.
Lots of people just wanted a nice graphical update with some quality of life improvements. I’m sure that shouldn’t take a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars to complete.
It has aged worse than many tank control games like Resident Evil
RE has been remastered at least twice by now.
Lots of people just wanted a nice graphical update with some quality of life improvements.
Square loves nothing more than to dust off an old game, tweak it for modern hardware, and then re-release it for $60.
Fortunately, you can pirate these updates for free.
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 day ago
They may have aged like wine but most youths don’t like drinking wine. It is an “acquired taste”.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then they can wait six years between sips of AAA piss, I suppose.
My friends with kids don’t seem to have any problem picking up Sonic, Pokemon, or Guantlet. One’s even picked up Eldin Ring.
You don’t need nostalgia to enjoy nice things.
Rooster326@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Elden Ring is hardly “aged”. Literally dropped DLC in the last 12 months. There are modern Sonic and Pokemon games and they hit a short cycle time.
The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting. They aren’t getting attached enough to bother waiting. That’s literally the whole point of the article. Did you read it?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
You don’t need to wait to play games that came out thirty years ago.
Plenty of young people are into retro gaming.