I’m thinking about the AVGN and how Nintendo makes you pay to play shitty emulator games from like 50 years ago.

Especially for the very old games like atari lol

  • JackidyClack [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    N64 to Ps1 era, not really. I've played a few but the it doesn't feel like they've figured out 3d games yet. PS2 and up is great.

    I love 16 and 8 bit though. I emulate old snes and nes games instead of playing shitty mobile games. Since I don't want to spend money on an actual mobile console, I just play older games on my phone. But I wouldn't consider them worth emulating on my main computer in place of my free gaming time.

    • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This falls in line pretty closely with my take.

      Anytime a game falls into the experimental new tech era (PS1 and N64 3D graphics being one, "first generation" VR games being another more recent example), I find that these systems have considerably less titles I'm interested in playing because they're usually less-refined or leaning harder into the technology's "gimmick" appeal rather than delivering a good game.

      For consoles where they were basically revisions/evolutions of tech (SNES/Genesis for 2D, PS2 and onwards for 3D, generation TBD for VR) I can find a lot more of the library that interests me.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even on Xbox I remember a lot of janky weird control schemes, it wasn't until later that it settled down into "left thumbstick move right thumbstick aim"