Games back in the day cost twice as much, cost way less to develop, and generally had significantly less content.
All that sucks but you can make that argument without having to pretend nothing has changed in the last 25 years and the only explanation for everything is corporations being evil.
I also have this question: the price of the game is calculated using the rate of inflation for the price of goods. However, the rate of increase in wages have not kept up at all. Wouldn't that imply that the inflation calculation is overestimating how difficult it was to buy games ten, twenty years ago?
People only remember the good stuff and forget that so many games, including heavily pushed tent-poles, were just totally unfun, broken, feature-bare garbage.
The point is that there's good stuff to remember in the first place. Now, everything is "totally unfun, broken, feature-bare garbage".
Luckily back then Blockbuster was around and it was easy to find used games for a good price.
You can easily put 100 hours into a single playthrough of Elden Ring. The only way you got close to a save file with that many hours 20 years ago in a JRPG was constantly grinding random battles for hours on end to be able to beat some overpowered optional boss. There's a lot of trash these days but there are still plenty of great games worth playing.
If you're new to them then if you have a DS or 3DS there's some great ones. Zero Escape and Hotel Dusk are probably the best in the genre imo.
Really? It's a little more rigid than DS, which still feels the best to me, but DD feels pretty good.
I guess don't get old.
I feel like I am the only one that remembers how broken and shit Pokemon Stadium was. The attack tables weren't even close to the original games and were a complete mess.
Also you niggers arguing inflation. Jesus Christ.
I've seen it described as both heavy and floaty. I guess I can feel that, but I personally love how it controls.
I played Mario Kart SNES as a kid, too late for that lolI guess don't get old.
Are you sure? I think it actually played better, and fixed certain glitches, didn't it? I thought it was great, but the AI might have cheated by reading inputs, idk. Multiplayer was still incredible.
And since Nintendo did nothing for Transfer Paks, it's rentals or bust. I'm good, I did my time and it's not fun enough to do it again.
Changes from Red, Blue, and Yellow
Yeah I was hoping that you'd be able to transfer Pokemon over. Optimistically, if they ever put the Pokemon games on the Nintendo Switch Online service, maybe they'll include connectivity. Along these lines I am also interested to see how Banjo-Tooie pans out when it gets released (it will). Minor stuff that probably won't happen but it would be cool.
Of all the changes, I actually would prefer that to have stayed in. It's kind of fun to have some chance to survive an otherwise impossible situation for a turnaround.
I honestly have doubts that Nintendo will do anything to virtualize the transfer paks. I feel like if they were going to, RBY would be out before Stadium 1/2.
At least I have that to look forward to.
Are you kuding me? You can easily find good non-Nintendo games, even relatively recent ones, for under ten bucks, go back furtwr and look at steam sales for good, cheap stuff. We've never had it so good as we do now.
First one was excellent, but an little bit too rigid. The second one is an bit of an slogfest, but they gave you so many ways to snap the game in half that it's not even funny.
How the eff would reading inputs even help for a menu-driven battle game? Or am I remembering Pokemon Stadium wrong? (Cuz my memory is it was basically just the battle system from the gameboy games but with 3D graphics).
