With digital circus coming out recently I realised the 2000s game aesthetic can actually be kinda cool and endearing

It feels like games nowdays are kinda soulless and generic though, glossy and modern (Obviously except for indie games)

Will the 2020s aesthetic be microtransactions and lootboxes?

  • @[email protected]
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    971 year ago

    Nostalgia happens because you remember the good and forget the bad. People remember Mario 3 but forget Mario is Missing.

    In 20 years, people will say, “Remember when they made good games like Baldur’s Gate 3 rather than the trash that is Baldur’s Cash Grab?” Kids today will wax poetic about how the 2020s was the last good decade for gaming.

    The truth is, there will always be good and bad games.

    • Otter
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      351 year ago

      I’m nostalgic for playing Among Us with extended family members during the pandemic, and that was just a few years ago

      • @TORFdot0
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        31 year ago

        Yeah but you won’t have nostalgia playing among us in 2038 when the servers are shut down

        • Otter
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          31 year ago

          I’ll have to go find some community run patch

          Halo CE style

    • @[email protected]OP
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      21 year ago

      Larian have always been pretty good really hope they don’t go that way

      That said they’ve got that wizards of the coast money behind them too

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Wow. I totally missed that one despite being a gamer with a SNES in that era. I guess I never saw it on store shelves or mentioned in the game magazines for good reasons.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            It was released on both NES and SNES, as well as PC and Mac!

            I played the SNES version on an emulator. I don’t know how far I got, just that I was walking around doing nothing.