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Originally Posted by Mblake1981
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So things like P99 are a nostalgia trip for more reason than it being the hot game during our youth.
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"Our" youth? Whippersnappers maybe. Pong and Atari VCS were the games of my youth. Didn't have a decent PC until much later. Yanno, maybe what goes around comes around and what's old is new: Before PC gaming kind of branched off into its own entity, I recall my Commodore 64 essentially ran ports of regular console games, like Atari-type games. Even used the same controller. Now we're more or less back to that point. Maybe in 10 or 20 years it'll go back the other way.
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I recently watched my niece play Roblox. The graphics in some reminded me of early EQ. She plays on a tablet.
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There's a silver lining: Thanks to stuff like Roblox, Minecraft, Terraria, etc, today's generation isn't going to grow up thinking graphics > all else like the 90's children did. Much like your niece, my daughter understands already that how a game looks doesn't necessarily reflect how much fun it is or isn't. I don't know how much use studios will make of that cultural shift, but the opportunity is there.
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