This is what cracks me up about gamer's today. I am 44, back in the 80's and 90's.... we had some utter crap. Loading games on cassette for 20 mins on a ZX, then it got too the end and games didn't work. Cartridge based games that ya had to blow on in order too make them actually load, or blow in too consoles themselves. We had broken, buggy games...... But we just DEALT WITH IT. Back then we also had utter crap, garbage consoles that cost literal £££! In my family, 3 of us, we had Mega CD £299.99.... crap, Jaguar £300.... crap, 3DO that was about the £480 mark i believe. Amiga CD32 £249.99, Phillips CDi £380. Now they were all utterly useless lol, over the period of about 4 years my parents spent a fortune on consoles that all died within 5 years, but we just DEALT WITH IT! Even though the games were either crappy platformers, broken RPG's, cheap arcade ports or mostly FMV garbage... We still played them all and had an absolute blast. These days though, PC's never been more powerful, PS5, Series X, absolute beasts.... huge amounts of games on Steam and GOG, loads of games on console and on Game Pass, PS Plus. Yet all you hear is gamer's on here or X saying ''gaming is dead, gaming is trash, games today are so broken''. You can really tell the ones that act like games in 2024 are broken, were clearly just an itch in their daddys pants in the 80's and 90's.... Because if you gamed through the 80's and 90's and saw the amount of consoles that just died and games that were f#####g awful, you would realise that in 2024, gaming is fantastic.
Yes and No, I’m 39 so I know what You mean, now, the reason why gamers complaining about modern new games is that most of them are 30+ age so they remember gaming in peak era that is ps2, ps3 gens, games in that time were (most of them) COMPLETE, no microstransactions, not many paid DLC’s, you could play the game without installing it, without patches and games had souls, many different genres (not like today auto play single player games with politics in it (lgbt, forced diversity etc), now companies are afraid to make something new (Switch is exception here), because, like in movies today, if project is worth 100 milions and it earns „only” 150 its considered a failure, developers are fired etc, so we’re having generic (beautiful) soulless games, that on premiere this game is having like only 60% of its content, the rest comes with DLCs and transactions.
We feel you on so much of this We had to blow into cartridges, super long loading times, glitches, buggy games - but we got through it all! 🤣 The complaints today about games having issues are super tame. We had entire $300+ consoles like 3DO that were basically paperweights after a couple years! But we didn't care, we just wanted to play whatever we could. But we try to appreciate how good we have it now instead of constant negativity here! ❤️
The 3DO broke me from buying consoles at launch. Except for the Dreamcast. I bought the Panasonic front loader for over $700. When they launched the cheaper top loaders I was pissed off.
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This is what cracks me up about gamer's today.
I am 44, back in the 80's and 90's.... we had some utter crap.
Loading games on cassette for 20 mins on a ZX, then it got too the end and games didn't work.
Cartridge based games that ya had to blow on in order too make them actually load, or blow in too consoles themselves.
We had broken, buggy games...... But we just DEALT WITH IT.
Back then we also had utter crap, garbage consoles that cost literal £££!
In my family, 3 of us, we had Mega CD £299.99.... crap, Jaguar £300.... crap, 3DO that was about the £480 mark i believe.
Amiga CD32 £249.99, Phillips CDi £380.
Now they were all utterly useless lol, over the period of about 4 years my parents spent a fortune on consoles that all died within 5 years, but we just DEALT WITH IT! Even though the games were either crappy platformers, broken RPG's, cheap arcade ports or mostly FMV garbage... We still played them all and had an absolute blast.
These days though, PC's never been more powerful, PS5, Series X, absolute beasts.... huge amounts of games on Steam and GOG, loads of games on console and on Game Pass, PS Plus.
Yet all you hear is gamer's on here or X saying ''gaming is dead, gaming is trash, games today are so broken''.
You can really tell the ones that act like games in 2024 are broken, were clearly just an itch in their daddys pants in the 80's and 90's.... Because if you gamed through the 80's and 90's and saw the amount of consoles that just died and games that were f#####g awful, you would realise that in 2024, gaming is fantastic.
Yes and No, I’m 39 so I know what You mean, now, the reason why gamers complaining about modern new games is that most of them are 30+ age so they remember gaming in peak era that is ps2, ps3 gens, games in that time were (most of them) COMPLETE, no microstransactions, not many paid DLC’s, you could play the game without installing it, without patches and games had souls, many different genres (not like today auto play single player games with politics in it (lgbt, forced diversity etc), now companies are afraid to make something new (Switch is exception here), because, like in movies today, if project is worth 100 milions and it earns „only” 150 its considered a failure, developers are fired etc, so we’re having generic (beautiful) soulless games, that on premiere this game is having like only 60% of its content, the rest comes with DLCs and transactions.
We feel you on so much of this We had to blow into cartridges, super long loading times, glitches, buggy games - but we got through it all! 🤣
The complaints today about games having issues are super tame. We had entire $300+ consoles like 3DO that were basically paperweights after a couple years! But we didn't care, we just wanted to play whatever we could. But we try to appreciate how good we have it now instead of constant negativity here! ❤️
The 3DO broke me from buying consoles at launch. Except for the Dreamcast. I bought the Panasonic front loader for over $700. When they launched the cheaper top loaders I was pissed off.
I felt the same when when Sony came out with the cheaper PS3 model after spending a fortune on the original. I learned my lesson! 😅
Me my cousin, uncle and friend Rob all had 3DO’s before the PSone was a thing
How did you like it compared to the PSone?
I’m hoping NightDive Studios gets the rights to do more remake/Remasters of forgotten 3DO games 🎉
Yesss! Super excited to see what they're doing right now with The Thing remake, but we'd love to see that too! 😄