RE: The Nostalgia and the Bugs – Gaming was so much harder back then
I remember those days of walking over to a friends to play a video game in person with him. I was lucky most of the times the friend lived a block away. Gaming these days seems to be missing that human element. That split screen adventure, getting Nintendo thumb and having to admit defeat by passing the control over to your friend as you just could not beat a level in a game and then he would fail as well.
That is one of the thing I use to really love back then about gaming. These days I just don’t have the time for a game to be totally brutal and hard to the point you just want to base your head on the wall while you fail a dozen times. Have to take step back and try again a few more times.
When I was younger I use to be in a raiding guild. It could take us weeks to months to defeat something for the first. We normally where first ones on the server to beat it as well. Most time we struggle even the coming weeks to get it down again. Every time we get something hard down that we struggled with Ventrilo would light up and everyone would be screaming so loud at 3 am out of joy it wake everyone up in the house you were in. Over the years when they started to make things easier as the player based died those screams turned into “yays” and then silence.
Exactly. Nowadays those feelings are lost. It's colder, a more isolated activity. I used to play computer games back then and still we played football/soccer outside, nearly everyday after school, either on the streets or the park. Now, we barely see kids outside playing anything, skating or riding bicycles, they are all inside "playing PlayStation" (it's funny because those older who don't know any better say "playing PlayStation" instead of "playing console", because they don't know more than that).
I forgot to mention that I used to draw maps of games and send them to a popular newspaper that used to have a video games section. I was extremely popular in that regard (they even made a Sensible Soccer contest and mentioned me on stage :D ), and it took a lot of work, but it was fun. Those were the only sources for maps and cheats back then.
I don't like difficult games as in Dark Souls or Cuphead. I want to experience an adventure, not to lose and replay 20 times the same section over and over again. For me, videogames aren't a sport, they are an escape and a fun distraction. Give me a Life is Strange or an Inside over Dark Souls anytime.