How you play games now vs when you first started to play video games

[Shaissa]

So this is more for the people that probably grew up with Atari-PS1...

So I finally got some of my friends to play some older Snes games, (FFVI, IV, Chrono Trigger, etc.) and Whenever they got stuck they just go online to figure out where to go, and it made me think, way back when I first played these games I didn't even have internet, let alone the only walkthroughs I could get were if you bought them/ found them in stores, which only Best buy at the time was the only one that really sold walkthroughs.

This got me thinking, do you find yourself playing games differently now than you did when you first played them? For an example do you just go online now whenever you get stuck vs trying to figure out what to do on your own?

I find myself doing this a lot with my PS3, whenever I got stuck on a game, I looked it up online now... Just a force of habbit I guess now...

But what do you guys do now that you use to never do?

 

[KillingJoke]

With the Internet it makes everything alot easier, but I find myself not playing as much now as I did when I was younger. Partially because its harder for games to hold my interest and I find myself returning to the games of old just to have a bit of enjoyment.

But when it comes to playing them yeah I use the Internet alot more than I used to since I did have a dial-up connection around the time of PS1 but it was typically easy to figure things out. Most games are very linear now and will hold your hands which is very different from the way games used to be.

 

[ShadowStar Mila]

When I was a kid and early teen days, I can think of a few games I played that I could never play likethat again no matter how hard I try. I consider myself a master strategist which means Im always thinking of what I can do different,how to approach or deal with how I want continue the rest of my game and things of that nature.

A good example ill just say is Final Fantasy Tactics, I didnt level grind or train to et job classes. lots of rpgs have in some shape or form a ay to grind to build a stronger party of characters. Even as I got older I started to do it but not alot. How do I level grind now compared to almost never doing it in the past. Im crazy and I grind at every location on any game that has anything I can grind on.

As for getting stuck on the game,when I was a kid I had no choice but to firgure everything out on my own. As a teenager I usually try it on my own first and if it doesnt work I just go online and I use google which usually leads me to gamefaqs (this was before people started haing the answers on youtube). As of today I went back to the old days as a kid, I only use the internet or should I say gamefaqs and youtube to help me with an achievment or 2. As for beating the game If I get stuck I rather figure it out on my own since I dont wanna spoil myself. So yes I play very different from how I used too. I remember playing alot of games and then replaying themwhen I was older and shocked at how certain stuffwas new to me since I never found this item at this location before,or did sidequest and such. I also think I play smarter now too oppossed to having no strategy and just charging right into the action.

 

[Tyler Breeze]

You should have seen me play WWF games when I was younger. All I did was punch with the X button. I didn't know how to do anything else, so I did that and hoped for the best. I pissed off my Dad so much when I did this. Now I've mastered WWE games (though I lost twice yesterday, as Stone Cold, against 2 CAWs.) Anyway, back in the day, I would ask Dad for help when I was stuck in a game, but yeah now, I just google up some help and that's it.

 

[ShadowStar Mila]

You should have seen me play WWF games when I was younger. All I did was punch with the X button. I didn't know how to do anything else, so I did that and hoped for the best. I pissed off my Dad so much when I did this. Now I've mastered WWE games (though I lost twice yesterday, as Stone Cold, against 2 CAWs.) Anyway, back in the day, I would ask Dad for help when I was stuck in a game, but yeah now, I just google up some help and that's it.

lol what I wouldnt give to face somebody that would just spam an attack or grab...thats an easy win too bad or us...all where gonna get is modded moveset users/finishers as normal moves,glitchers,hackers and turbo users x.x

 

[Red Wizard]

Well, I grew up with the Atari, then the NES, and so on. It was different because when I was stuck somewhere, I had to figure it out myself, or hope I knew someone that figured it out. It wasn't until I was an adult I beat Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari, or Dungeons of Daggorath, or Clash at Demonhead because there were things my childish brain couldn't figure out. Then I wonder... if it was new to me now, could I have beaten some of the games that troubled me then? If I was an adult in the 80's instead of a child, could I have had the brain power to figure things out? Or is it cause I had decades of gaming experience to learn how to do things? I always wonder this.

 

[ff1-10]

Hmm...for one, I used to play almost every day after school or just about every weekend, but with school gradually leveling up as you level up, too, in life, lol, I just stopped playing and...not that I lost interest, but I can't focus and fully go back to them like before because I know that I should be doing other things for my future.

As for getting lost - YUP! I find that to be different. Back then, I only looked up something once or twice because I was small, so I wasn't ever really allowed to use the internet by my siblings. I used my brother a lot to know where to go because he usually played these games before me and sometimes he would just tell me random stuff and I would go, go, go on my way. I WOULD use my own brain, too, even when it got difficult and was so proud when I eventually figured it out. I think it was probably cuz my brother would tell me to talk to everyone and use my head. Now...if I get lost, I'll think about it for a bit but eventually give in to the internet. The fact that it's easily accessible now that I am older and have my own computer, I can't resist. I miss those days, though, when I used to think and find out myself. It tells me that I was more of a hard worker back then compared to now. But, of course, for all of those hidden masters and items and last moves and stuff, I feel like you'll never truly know where or how to get them unless you look it up, so I always do that for those, especially when there are characters who you have to say certain things to in order for them to join your party (ugh, Suikoden)! Trust me, though - I have NO clue how I played the old way with Chrono Cross - that game is damn confusing. I just went wherever I remembered I saw my brother had gone and didn't give up until the story finally continued somewhere. Using his save made it easier, too.

Hmm...other than that, I still play old games and will only get excited for and buy a game that seems as good as the old ones. I'm not a fan of newer games. Old graphics appeal to me more - they're so cute! Not just that, but the newer graphics are so pretty that they hurt my eyes and my head after a while! And because they're so real, it's hard for me to get lost in their world. But...that may be just be because the passion and emotions that games used to have are gone now.