Pssh, Kids these days...
Posted by Thomas Ma on Sunday, April 24, 2011
Under: Soapbox
When I was a kid, I grew up with mixed reactions on regards to games and television shows. Playing some games that are horribly bad to towards now, seeing negative reviews by contrast and feeling the awe-inspiring pathetic "Nostalgia" that people are plaguing my mind right now. Which I, in fact hate for their intolerance of new games in favour of retro games, plenty of "those" retro gamers started doing
reviews and just overdosing with "Nostalgia" that they just makes me really want to punch them in the face. Why? Because nostalgia to me is to look back, dust the old Nintendo and play Spy Hunter or get my old catalog of the first PlayStation and playChrono Cross(or w/e), beat the entire game again and just forget about it. That's it! Heck even "Nostalgia" XBL/PSN/VC games have the similar premise to me, and won't lasted me that long. While as these "Nostalgia gamers", they just keep on playing retro games and post it on Youtube(generally a stereotype), and disdain new games as not innovated and interesting.
But I digress...
My youth that I looked back, is just watching anime and cartoons and playing either the PlayStation 1/Gamecube or PC and rarely used the internet. Which in a rare occasion, I tend to just watch Flash shorts and play games and didn't hinder on finding a community about various games and opinions. Back then, I felt obliged to not see these kinds of things because it feels like, I'm not being judged for playing or admiring these things. Like somehow liking, Sonic the Hedgehog and tempting to buy a 3D Sonic game back then, no-one cared for judgment if I buy these games. But now, in this era of internets people are started to have diversifying opinions and tend to tell me to "shut up" and don't buy these games? For example, Jeff Gerstmann recently wrote an article: a 11 year old who is obsessed with Sonic and just insulted the person who just is crazy with Sonic. Which leads to my previous sentence of diversifying opinions and childhood, when you were a kid, you probably don't use the internet(probably now) or read a magazine for journalism. Kids don't really care if the game is bad or not, they just want to enjoy the game to its highest potential and when they growed up, they will benefit these experiences and have these opinions. Usually, kids see the next sequel of "this game"(like Sonic Unleashed) and say "Alright! A next Sonic game!", play it and just want more. Jeff stated, "that Sonic CD is the best Sonic out there", but in common sense, Kids probably only have a console
and they can't afford another one, especially when its a Sega CD or sometimes parents will "incidentally" pick up this game and think that their kids will enjoy it. There are horrible games besides Sonic Unleashed that have this kind of attention. whether its NPD numbers of games or gamers/non-gamers whom just look at the box art and is stroked about it. Or just like Ryan Davis joked in the Bombcast (Oh! Transmorphers, that's what my grand kids are talking about!).
As flawed as Sonic Unleashed is, there are a group of people out there who likes Sonic still, regardless. I have seen some weird shit even worse than Sonic the Hedgehog's story, like marriage proposals to fanfiction but regardless they still crave for it even if people are bashing them. It does hinder in the game industry in accounts for bad games like Sonic but yet they still like the Sonic universe and these "Nostalgia" games that have matured in them.
Ahh.... Lynx, the dreadful memories, we have together.....
But I digress...
My youth that I looked back, is just watching anime and cartoons and playing either the PlayStation 1/Gamecube or PC and rarely used the internet. Which in a rare occasion, I tend to just watch Flash shorts and play games and didn't hinder on finding a community about various games and opinions. Back then, I felt obliged to not see these kinds of things because it feels like, I'm not being judged for playing or admiring these things. Like somehow liking, Sonic the Hedgehog and tempting to buy a 3D Sonic game back then, no-one cared for judgment if I buy these games. But now, in this era of internets people are started to have diversifying opinions and tend to tell me to "shut up" and don't buy these games? For example, Jeff Gerstmann recently wrote an article: a 11 year old who is obsessed with Sonic and just insulted the person who just is crazy with Sonic. Which leads to my previous sentence of diversifying opinions and childhood, when you were a kid, you probably don't use the internet(probably now) or read a magazine for journalism. Kids don't really care if the game is bad or not, they just want to enjoy the game to its highest potential and when they growed up, they will benefit these experiences and have these opinions. Usually, kids see the next sequel of "this game"(like Sonic Unleashed) and say "Alright! A next Sonic game!", play it and just want more. Jeff stated, "that Sonic CD is the best Sonic out there", but in common sense, Kids probably only have a console
Speed's my game! Ohh...wait.. What?
As flawed as Sonic Unleashed is, there are a group of people out there who likes Sonic still, regardless. I have seen some weird shit even worse than Sonic the Hedgehog's story, like marriage proposals to fanfiction but regardless they still crave for it even if people are bashing them. It does hinder in the game industry in accounts for bad games like Sonic but yet they still like the Sonic universe and these "Nostalgia" games that have matured in them.
In : Soapbox
Tags: sonic
