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Its not just me, games used to be better
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He's a chill dude so he's not in TMZ and stuff. Also it's unclear how well he can speak English. He does interviews with a translator. IMO he can speak English and chooses not to so the media doesn't bother him.
My bad I saw this after posting
If not made by EA or Sony, they don't count.
(Seriously whatever happened to all the different sports games? All reduced to real-world franchises AFAICS with no scope for imagined teams. Sports games used to be better)
(Seriously whatever happened to all the different sports games? All reduced to real-world franchises AFAICS with no scope for imagined teams. Sports games used to be better)
that made me chuckle. There might be some truth to it.
Gotta say that while I'm older, I can still appreciate new games, some are very fun, like those I talk about in the co-op thread or others I started playing as of late. That doesn't translate to sports.
My comparison comes from the fact that older games used to be better, or they had some super original details you could exploit -some really famous speedruns appeared 'cos of that-. Many super original and fun games appeared. Now it's harder to be original, although it's not the fault of new games.
I don't want to go off-topic too much but when it comes to sports, the NBA of the past seemed better. No load management so the fans who are paying their hard earned money to watch their star don't find out they can't watch play their favourite player 'cos he is resting, a bit more varied play -too many drop step back and 3pts after that move), more recognisable stars overall -Shaq was fun, no fun players now, it's all about the social media-, you could play defence -unlike now- and there wasn't the stupid 3s rule, so players had to play harder to get points.
While my fav player is Michael Jordan and he will always be, I think the best NBA era was the 2000s, LOTS of talent appeared that decade after MJ retired.
Back to games, many games between 1990 and 2011 are some of the best games made to date. Even young people plays Tetris nowadays like that 13 y.o. that managed to beat the very last level of Tetris, and other games, like Mario 64 are still played by very young people to get the best speedrun of the game, some do that even blindfolded.
In addition, be it for how they were coded or other reasons, it was easier to mod old games. Mods from which some games were born, say DOTA and League of Legends.
Ninja Golf is on Atari 50, if that's what you are asking.
More there used to be several football games, several basketball games, etc. Now it seems there's only one, the official franchise one with the expensive licenses of real teams and players, and maybe a second-place also-ran. We had a few different footy games to play on PS1.
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