Since this is the tenth posting old vs. New, I decided to make it a bit different: This week we're talking about consoles. Not the games you play, but the devices you play them on. They have been around since the 1970's if not earlier, and most likely everyone at least once in their lifetime owned the different brands that still exist today, hell, I still have my Genesis and kept my SNES until a few years ago. So here's the question: What do you prefer? The old versions of consoles with simpler graphics/music/save features/some hardware problems (anyone who has had to blow into a game to get it to work knows what I mean) with a huge variety of games which always seemed to stretch the imagination and bring back a twinge of nostalgia? Or the newer consoles, with the latest cutting edge graphics/music/technology with Internet, communication to people around the world, and gimmicks like motion controls and Kinect? Or do you like both equally? I actually have been thinking hard about this for several weeks, at the end, I decided that despite my love for the games that are now out. Portal, Assassin's Creed (except III), Kingdom Hearts, and tons of other games, there's a twinge of nostalgia that never goes away when you pick up an old controller and turn on that system. There's something unique about remembering Nintendo at it's prime and seeing it duke it out with Sega while making the groundbreakers that will change gaming history. Watching a playthrough of Earthbound, playing Final Fantasy VI and playing Sonic the Hedgehog 3 always makes me go back to when I was a little kid playing games on the SNES. Earthbound was one of the first rpg's outside of Final Fantasy to touch U.S. soil that REALLY opened people's eyes to the possibilities of the genre. A game guide that told you everything you needed to know helped.When it came along along with several others, it solidified the genre which made paths for other games to come along. So despite my love for the new games and that I will hop onto the 360 any day and play Halo, I never forget the roots of gaming and my love as a kid playing the Master System while fighting with my brother on who's turn it was to play. Nostalgia wins this time. NOTE: THIS DOES INCLUDE GAMES!!!!!!!
I really have no preference. I mostly go by the game or series itself. If I like the game or series, I could care less about its graphics. For example, Final Fantasy VII's graphics are shit, but I enjoy it, anyway, because of the gameplay, story, etc.
Easily newer consoles. They're more powerful, more compact, more aesthetically pleasing, less technically flawed, less prone to unfixable bugs. I mean if we're really not going to go on games, it's obviously going to be modern consoles, and will almost always be modern consoles because of tech progression. Not to mention, the controllers fit in our hands more naturally and have analogue sticks. Two wonders of gaming advancement.
Games are allowed, too... Make it more interesting. Hence me talking about the games from the SNES era.
Well, games this generation, looks more realistic, has more characters on screen, has ragdoll physics which is pretty good, more animations, etc. Y'know, was gonna list more, but you get it. I've had more fun with these latest generations, and I've appreciated the scale of them. The storylines are something important to me in gaming, and recently that's what's been explored more than ever before. So yeah, New is my vote.
I don't care. You could be on the shittiest console with the shittiest graphics and still be better than the XBox One. As long as the console and its games benefit me, I'll play them and not care Bl
