For me it's a time sorta thing. Back in the day I had endless hours to play. These days I can barely get an hour in a row. That influences the games I choose to play.
yeah, as a kid i used to be like "120h of gameplay aw yeah sweet" but now i just a decent game that i can pick away at 2h at a time and not take the better part of a year to complete.
Back in the day for me it was all action. Contra. Castlevania. R-Type. Etc. while I still love these games, strategy is really what I grew into as I got older. Turn based tactics games never appealed to me until I hit my 40s (I’m playing Tactics Ogre for the first time). Once I gave them a chance and ‘got’ them, it completely changed my perspective. Now they’re among my favourites.
I always say unless it's like an anxiety thing, the timer in Majora's Mask is functionally nonexistent. Like in terms of the narrative and such it's fantastic, but in terms of "limiting" your ability to do stuff, it gives you so many "checkpoints" like you can complete each temple in pieces over the course of three or four cycles if you really need to.
You definitely can. Just the idea of a timer stressed me out as a youngster. Now it gives me a means to optimize my gameplay. “How much can I get done in a single cycle?”
This kind of sound like a generational and age conversation as well, as someone who grew up with NES games were more rough around the edges and it taught us more patience and forethought and random precise actions while playing games. You hear it a lot with older gamers where they think games are getting easier and easier, and to some extent that is true, but it’s also because game control has progressively gotten better over the years and those who learned on older games have already developed skills that makes it easier to adapt to newer games. And the adverse is also true, as newer games require more twitch reactions, older gamers tend to rely more on forethought and memorization rather than reaction.
Im 42 and the only games i play is indie titles and retro games. Right now i play an rpg game called caves of lore. It was developed by one guy and it is amazing. I highly recommend it ☺️
I ironically love Majoras Mask even though I don't like time limits, love turtling tho haha. I'm having a hard time thinking of a game to match the subject of this video. I can say though I feel I appreciate games I played as a younger me more even though it is way easier for me to get a game to play now then when I was younger.
Not my situation, I grew up with fighters & RPGs as a kid, and I still like fighters and RPGs. Just played both Baldur's Gate 1 and BG3 back to back, all good... and Retroarch to replay old games and stuff I missed because it was only in arcades when I feel bad. Also still playing Tomb Raider. Literally same old ones with remasters now. There's a reason they're re-releasing stuff all the time, and series get to numbers so high publishers get embarrassed and we end up with five Lara Croft continuities and THREE games that are called Mortal Kombat 1... People kind of keep wanting more of the same, so you get re-release of a remastered version of a remake.
i think most obviously i used to play a lot more platform games (yoshi's island, crash bandicoot, donkey kong country). even if they were brutal at my age/eye-hand coordination level, i'd just bang my head against them until i got my twitch reflexes down. these days I don't really have patience for platformers at all. CRPGs, with the occasional dip into RTS/strategy/sim, is where i'm at.
I used to play more arcade games that required fast reflexes like FPS games. Nowadays I prefer more games with turn based combat like in Persona 5 or Dragon Quest, even though I had never been interested in JRPGs before
..unless you're like me, and have liked "old guy games" like RPGs since you were a little kid lol. I already heavily leaned in that direction and just have slowly even moreso over the years
I'm a heathen so any Zelda game, I played the OG on a friend NES in the 90s, but I didn't have a Nintendo system until I bought a Wii and DS as an adult, at that point I didn't enjoy/ wasn't interested in the ones I tried. I kinda liked OoT in the 3DS but never got past the midle of the game. I'm now 39 and loving them on the Switch, already finished Link's Awakening, slowly enjoying BoTW, and playing OoT on N64.
hmm. Good question. I have a lot of nostalgia for Crash Bandicoot, and some levels of Warped and Cortex Strikes Back in particular. I also used to enjoy Zoo Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon, but just the sandbox element (and the dolphin training in Zoo Tycoon 2 Marine Mania). I wasn't much into the tycoon element of it. In real life I still don't overly care about money nor do I care for seeing numbers go up on a screen for the sake of it, it's so boring. But maybe the approaching the challengeds from a strategic perspective would be fun now. Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster don't really hit the same since the managiing part has way more tedious steps from what I've seen. I have generally gotten more into games though. Many things, but decidedly not the overtly competitive or the action games (too overstimulating with all the flashes and numbers on screen, which is decidely the opposite of fun to me. It even trigger migraines). But a farm-life sim, rhythm game, puzzle game, or a metroidvania that fits my style all work. I'm getting pickier by the month though. I won't ever be able to play everything and I don't want to give up my other hobbies either.
I've not changed much at all. The things I seek are story, lore, progression and verisimilitude. I utterly despise combat that is so challenging that you need to learn an encounter to beat it. And PVP. It's the worst thing in gaming because it brings out the nasty little trolls and meta freaks.
My taste hasn't changed, it's expanded.
That’s a great way to look at it!
For me it's a time sorta thing.
Back in the day I had endless hours to play.
These days I can barely get an hour in a row.
That influences the games I choose to play.
yeah, as a kid i used to be like "120h of gameplay aw yeah sweet" but now i just a decent game that i can pick away at 2h at a time and not take the better part of a year to complete.
Back in the day for me it was all action. Contra. Castlevania. R-Type. Etc. while I still love these games, strategy is really what I grew into as I got older. Turn based tactics games never appealed to me until I hit my 40s (I’m playing Tactics Ogre for the first time). Once I gave them a chance and ‘got’ them, it completely changed my perspective. Now they’re among my favourites.
I always say unless it's like an anxiety thing, the timer in Majora's Mask is functionally nonexistent. Like in terms of the narrative and such it's fantastic, but in terms of "limiting" your ability to do stuff, it gives you so many "checkpoints" like you can complete each temple in pieces over the course of three or four cycles if you really need to.
You definitely can. Just the idea of a timer stressed me out as a youngster. Now it gives me a means to optimize my gameplay. “How much can I get done in a single cycle?”
This kind of sound like a generational and age conversation as well, as someone who grew up with NES games were more rough around the edges and it taught us more patience and forethought and random precise actions while playing games. You hear it a lot with older gamers where they think games are getting easier and easier, and to some extent that is true, but it’s also because game control has progressively gotten better over the years and those who learned on older games have already developed skills that makes it easier to adapt to newer games. And the adverse is also true, as newer games require more twitch reactions, older gamers tend to rely more on forethought and memorization rather than reaction.
Great video. Would like to see more talky videos like this. This is the first video of yours I've seen btw.
Im 42 and the only games i play is indie titles and retro games. Right now i play an rpg game called caves of lore. It was developed by one guy and it is amazing. I highly recommend it ☺️
I’ll look into it! I love small indies like that.
I ironically love Majoras Mask even though I don't like time limits, love turtling tho haha. I'm having a hard time thinking of a game to match the subject of this video. I can say though I feel I appreciate games I played as a younger me more even though it is way easier for me to get a game to play now then when I was younger.
Not my situation, I grew up with fighters & RPGs as a kid, and I still like fighters and RPGs. Just played both Baldur's Gate 1 and BG3 back to back, all good... and Retroarch to replay old games and stuff I missed because it was only in arcades when I feel bad. Also still playing Tomb Raider. Literally same old ones with remasters now.
There's a reason they're re-releasing stuff all the time, and series get to numbers so high publishers get embarrassed and we end up with five Lara Croft continuities and THREE games that are called Mortal Kombat 1... People kind of keep wanting more of the same, so you get re-release of a remastered version of a remake.
i think most obviously i used to play a lot more platform games (yoshi's island, crash bandicoot, donkey kong country). even if they were brutal at my age/eye-hand coordination level, i'd just bang my head against them until i got my twitch reflexes down.
these days I don't really have patience for platformers at all. CRPGs, with the occasional dip into RTS/strategy/sim, is where i'm at.
I used to play more arcade games that required fast reflexes like FPS games.
Nowadays I prefer more games with turn based combat like in Persona 5 or Dragon Quest, even though I had never been interested in JRPGs before
..unless you're like me, and have liked "old guy games" like RPGs since you were a little kid lol. I already heavily leaned in that direction and just have slowly even moreso over the years
I'm a heathen so any Zelda game, I played the OG on a friend NES in the 90s, but I didn't have a Nintendo system until I bought a Wii and DS as an adult, at that point I didn't enjoy/ wasn't interested in the ones I tried.
I kinda liked OoT in the 3DS but never got past the midle of the game.
I'm now 39 and loving them on the Switch, already finished Link's Awakening, slowly enjoying BoTW, and playing OoT on N64.
I will always support someone enjoying Zelda haha. What’s been your favorite one so far?
hmm. Good question. I have a lot of nostalgia for Crash Bandicoot, and some levels of Warped and Cortex Strikes Back in particular.
I also used to enjoy Zoo Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon, but just the sandbox element (and the dolphin training in Zoo Tycoon 2 Marine Mania). I wasn't much into the tycoon element of it. In real life I still don't overly care about money nor do I care for seeing numbers go up on a screen for the sake of it, it's so boring. But maybe the approaching the challengeds from a strategic perspective would be fun now. Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster don't really hit the same since the managiing part has way more tedious steps from what I've seen.
I have generally gotten more into games though. Many things, but decidedly not the overtly competitive or the action games (too overstimulating with all the flashes and numbers on screen, which is decidely the opposite of fun to me. It even trigger migraines). But a farm-life sim, rhythm game, puzzle game, or a metroidvania that fits my style all work. I'm getting pickier by the month though. I won't ever be able to play everything and I don't want to give up my other hobbies either.
I've not changed much at all. The things I seek are story, lore, progression and verisimilitude. I utterly despise combat that is so challenging that you need to learn an encounter to beat it. And PVP. It's the worst thing in gaming because it brings out the nasty little trolls and meta freaks.
Calling people toxic for being good at a video game.
@@mechadeka So, in your eyes, you can only be good if you're a meta freak troll?