i guess you have never read about indie releases on PSN, Xbox Live, Android, iOS, Steam's Project Green Light, Nintendo's e-shop, or the hundreds of independently run indie development/homebrew friendly release sites? apparently we don't mingle in the same circles. i read about and interact with thousands upon thousands of gamers and developers who enjoy such experiences.
gaming got its start for a generation that out numbers your modern experiences.
-another world
I may not have been alive when the first video games were released, but that has nothing to do with it. I grew up with Genesis at my house and NES/SNES at friends' houses. I think that's fairly retro enough.he must be younger, the younger generation of gamers just dont get the video game nostalgia factor because they did not go through the childhood experience of playing 8 bit and 16 bit games etc when they were new
And I'm not saying that there is no audience for retro games. I know people that like retro games much more than modern ones, too. But I seriously doubt that most gamers enjoy it. You read about and interact with thousands upon thousands of gamers, but you know that there are billions of gamers, right? I'll play retro-looking games if I enjoy the genre, but that doesn't mean I enjoy retro games. If the same exact games had a modern look, that wouldn't deter me from playing it. It just means that's what's out there, and that it's infinitely times easier for indie/homebrew games to be retro because they're easier to make than AAA blockbusters where they simulate every strand of the player's hair.