StaceyPowers Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 What do you miss most about your earliest days of gaming? I think I miss how hard we sometimes had to work to solve puzzles, weirdly enough (no YouTube videos to watch). Sometimes I’d actually had to collaborate with friends to figure stuff out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 The uniqueness of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family sedan Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I miss those PlayStation demo discs with about 12 games on them. Were they picked at random or was it based on which sports in real life got the highest ratings on TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I say games that I can't play anymore, Ever since Windows 8 came out and beyound that games that are older then that doesn't get supported and or works. Just old old times when gaming and like to get those gaming or games to work without having to go all out with trying to get them to work. I don't miss the old days. Because it's not like the games are gone forever. It's not hard to appreciate the old and new at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 (edited) I kept a computer from the WindowsXP era, and I play AOE and Diablo II on it a lot. The old PC is the only way I can continue to play those games. It's more than 20 years old at this point, and technology is advancing so fast that computer parts are obsolete 6 months before they hit the market. At least that's what I was told by a guy that builds and repairs computers for a living. He's an asshole, and I hate him, but he's also a master with computers. He could hack literally anything if he wanted or needed to. Edited June 28, 2021 by The Blackangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 lot of free time in hand, no stress, no anxiety or any similar mental (sickness), unique vibes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopSilver Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I miss modding in the early days of gaming where you didn't get banned automatically. You could even lag switch someone and we had a trick called team standby where you used Zone Alarm and internet connection sharing and put your team mates ips in trusted. We would play Halo 2 and boost to level 50. This was back when I was 11-12 years old though. It's impossible to do this without getting banned now and it's almost immediate that it happens. But that's what I miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagger Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 19 minutes ago, TopSilver said: I miss modding in the early days of gaming where you didn't get banned automatically. You could even lag switch someone and we had a trick called team standby where you used Zone Alarm and internet connection sharing and put your team mates ips in trusted. We would play Halo 2 and boost to level 50. This was back when I was 11-12 years old though. It's impossible to do this without getting banned now and it's almost immediate that it happens. But that's what I miss. To be fair, that is more akin to cheating rather than modding, so you can't exactly blame game dev's/publishers for clamping down on that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevvy Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Actually good and fun mmorpgs that aren't focused on squeezing money out of players. Family sedan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steerminator Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 I miss every game coming with instruction manuals. Whenever I get a new game I like to read through the instruction manual and look at the pictures and any background info on the characters/story that's in there. A lot of games still have them, but a lot of games also don't 😞 Family sedan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor1911 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 The excitement of playing out new games as soon as it is launched. Excitement is still there, but the intensity is no more like before. When a new game used to launch, I would be the first one to grab it and then distribute to my friends. I was more like a game distributor in my college days. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empire Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Razor1911 said: The excitement of playing out new games as soon as it is launched. Excitement is still there, but the intensity is no more like before. When a new game used to launch, I would be the first one to grab it and then distribute to my friends. I was more like a game distributor in my college days. 😆 The big joy of excitement is still there, well, it can be right? like the new game of flight sim that gave me the excitement to go out and buy the game as soon as it was released and then wished the the bugs was fixed. At least that when it comes to flying in flight sims I do not get bored. Not like other games that has no new content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor1911 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Empire said: The big joy of excitement is still there, well, it can be right? like the new game of flight sim that gave me the excitement to go out and buy the game as soon as it was released and then wished the the bugs was fixed. At least that when it comes to flying in flight sims I do not get bored. Not like other games that has no new content. Microsoft had created something amazing with their flight simulator games, particularly I played Acceleration for quite some time during my school days. I guess the time I spent playing is now boosting my confidence, as I am now an aircraft propeller designer in a private company. I sometime use their real flight simulator, even though I am not authorised for that. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shole Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Having free time and my friends having free time so we can all play together, that's the most painful thing ever. Family sedan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 6/27/2021 at 7:41 PM, StaceyPowers said: What do you miss most about your earliest days of gaming? I think I miss how hard we sometimes had to work to solve puzzles, weirdly enough (no YouTube videos to watch). Sometimes I’d actually had to collaborate with friends to figure stuff out. Personally, I'm very bad at playing puzzle games because I'm bad at it even in real life. It stresses me the hell out, so I stay away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
