this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
59 points (100.0% liked)

RetroGaming

19559 readers
524 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
gts@lemmy.world
59
Any games you wish you grew up with? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by savvywolf@pawb.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
49 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

So I assume many of us have played some games for the first time long after their release date. Like, maybe you didn't have a specific console growing up so we didn't play the "classics" on it, or something.

I'm just wondering how many of you have played an older game and thought "wow, I wish I grew up with this game"?

For example, for me, many years ago I played Super Metroid for the first time and fell in love with the idea of just wandering aimlessly around the game world, occasionally stumbling into new areas. I would have loved to have played it as a kid with childlike wonder without worrying about finishing the game or making progress.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] garyyo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Final fantasy 7. But for a different reason. I tried playing that game many times wayyy after it's release but I just couldn't get into it. But I got really big into final fantasy 6 and I got really big into other JRPGs, so it wasn't that the gameplay was bad just that the 3d graphic hasn't aged well. But I also played some pretty crusty PlayStation 1 games back in the day, so it's not like if I didn't play it at the right time I wouldn't have loved it. But just cuz I didn't play it around release, cuz I didn't know about it I was a kid, kind of missed out on an entire thing.

I like the remake but, I don't think it's the same.

[–] QuarterlySushi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

While I think it would have been easier to get into FF7 at the time of release, I did try at that time, and actually never finished it until maybe 6 years ago. I had played 4-6 and subsequently 8 multiple times, but 7 never grabbed me the same way. I know it’s a bit of a “you had to be there at the time” game, but I don’t think being there at the time guarantees enjoying it either.

load more comments (2 replies)