Ahhh...my day just got made. There was a youtube comment saying how Silent Hill 2 was one of the best games ever and that nothing could ever live up to the '90s and how everything sucks nowadays. Even though SH2 was released in the 2000s.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Ah, YouTube comments. Especially those full of video game nostalgia grognards. Where would we be without them?
I know this is weird, but I won't want to watch a video if one of the top comments or uploader comments is that kind of thing. I don't know why it annoys me so much, but it does. And this is coming from someone who thinks quite a few 80s and 90s games are really good.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I especially "love" it when people say that "all anyone ever cares about anymore are graphics and sucky FPS games" (paraphrased from numerous sources).
Because clearly the games that get a lot of media attention are the only games that exist anymore.
I have a thing against blind nostalgia. Whether it's for movies, games, books, music etc. Things improve, things sucks; it's a pattern any time period experiences. It's both humorous and rackles me. I enjoy plenty of things that are from the '90s or before.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
JZ: Exactly. There are also games from the 80s and 90s that really aren't that good.
As a tangentially-related example, I like the Pokémon from Generation I and II a lot. Part of the reason is admittedly nostalgia and that I'm more used to them. But I don't hate the later games on principle. There's a lot of Pokémon from all 5 generations that I like. Thus, I'd like to think that my Pokémon nostalgia isn't blind.
I mean, if you can look at something newer objectively and judge it, not because it's simpler newer, but because it has terrible flaws that's fine.
From what I've seen of Silent hill: Shattered Memories (a re-imagining of the first SH game). I don't like it as much because of how it changed story elements and downplays some really good parts in the original. Now the remake of the first Resident Evil game I like more than the original; more complexity to the story, better graphics/voice acting, some better scares.
Squid: That's true. There's plenty of bad games from the 80s and 90s that people just forget about that were worse than some of the stuff from nowadays. Of course, I've still seen people praise terrible things from the past as being totes better than anything modern.
And I really don't thing anything now can really be labeled "classic" yet because of how new it is.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
From what I've seen of Silent hill: Shattered Memories (a re-imagining of the first SH game). I don't like it as much because of how it changed story elements and downplays some really good parts in the original. Now the remake of the first Resident Evil game I like more than the original; more complexity to the story, better graphics/voice acting, some better scares.
And I really don't thing anything now can really be labeled "classic" yet because of how new it is.