I've been playing a lot of PS1 and PS2 games lately.I didn't realise how much games changed, you can just pick up a game, and even if there's story you're playing within 5 minutes. You're just playing the game. It sounds ridiculous but it's shockingly refreshing. The HUD's are minimal, no floating icons telling you your destination or above NPC's heads, no minimaps a lot of the time. You're just IN the world and your mind fills in the blanks and it's just a fun time.
Another thing is modern games are so draining mentally, everything is so serious and focused on realism and so miserable. Even whacky Japanese games are less whacky and whimsical in 2026. The early 00's had so much life and energy to it, unashamed optimism and earnest joy.
I spend most of my gaming these days on those retro handhelds like the miyoo mini+. I have a Wii connected to my TV, and a gaming PC that is mainly used for RTS games. I find no joy in most modern games, but I'm an oldfag.
>>741402572You didn't play kingdom hearts, final fantasy, or metal gear solid I see.
>>741402976Game like that were the minority back in the day, now story heavy games are the majority. I booted up a racing game from 2025 the other day and sat through 10 minutes of cutscenes and multiple tutorial races before I was allowed to even start playing.
That's because companies want more normies spending on games, you need to teach people with monkey like iq to understand the game.
>>741402976The thing about those games is that they also pretty quickly throw you into the worlds to get immersed. Sora has his weird ass dreams, Tidus is immediately established as an all-star player in a weird fantasy sport, Solid Snake is infiltrating a Marine ship for consequences left over from the previous game. Nowadays games either love in media res so you're shooting / fighting shit without much context, or you're given a Lord of the Rings plot dump and then tutorialized through pretty blatantly gamey bullshit most of the time. Old games, mechanics and explanations were just a part of the world, but nowadays you're told, "Hey why don't you shoot those convenient targets" and then a prompt shows up on the side of the screen telling you how to fire a gun.
>>741403097Brother I am from back then. What games are missing now is that they forget they are games. Everything wants to be art or a critically acclaimed story. It's like how GTA had power ups and rampage modes and cheat codes in the ps2 era. But there's still plenty of games that are light on the gameplay and heavy on story or cutscenes. I think even dynasty warriors has tons of cutscenes if u don't skip them all.
>>741403097>>741403289Games had tutorials back then or u were expected to read the manual since every single game had bespoke controls. It's not like now when every game uses the same button layout per genre.Either way it's like you are somehow denying the existence of dark souls or any modern title that refuses to hold your hand. There's plenty of shit like Noita, Kenshi, the entire indie scene really fits your description.
you know there's a billion indie games and you dont have to play aaa movie slop, right?
>>741403543>Either way it's like you are somehow denying the existence of dark souls or any modern title that refuses to hold your hand. There's plenty of shit like Noita, Kenshi, the entire indie scene really fits your description.I have 0 interest in indie games just like I have 0 interest in student films or self-published books. Fromsoft existing does not make up for the other 99% of the industry.
>>741403543>>741403601Indies are not a replacement for AAA or AA games, even when compared with PS1 games, they're just not a replacement. Indies aren't worth anyone's time, they're a joke.
>>741403894so you're just a doomer retard brownoid, got it
>>741403838Excuse me sis your Capcom? Fatlus?
>>741402572ive been playing twilight princess and yeah i just boot it up and im in the game, theres very minimal handholding and im so used to it for playing modern games that I sometimes get lost and dont know what to do.
>>741402572It's unfortunate that zoomercucks have never known such simple gaming and will revise history with gaslighting that this era was inferior to homogenized always-online slop
>>741403838well book publishers only publish nigger woman and gay trannies, so sounds like modern AAA is right up your alley
jews will never let us have soul like this again
https://youtu.be/1_nY3mCLLnwhttps://youtu.be/g345EpUovdwhttps://youtu.be/5WhQARiF8QUhttps://youtu.be/RC1VmGXiEFwi miss when japanese games had music like this
>>741402572every game is like that now, so you're retarded
>>741402572>PS1-PS2isn't that the island in wind waker?
>>741406058Ps3? Well, high school wasn't that long ago.. it must be what, 10 years old by now? 12 maybe?
>>741406250it's sandover village from jak 1.
>>741403543Why is that anytime someone uses the word "bespoke" unironically they are massive faggot?
>>741402572Yeah, that there's my favorite PS2 game.
>>741406739maybe youre the faggot,hmm?
>>741409061hmmmperhaps
>>741402572>The HUD's are minimal,In the past, the HUD was ugly if there is one. Although some might have sovl like those in certain fighting games.
