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Honestly, that's the entire reason i lost interest in consoles after buying the PS4. If i need to:
1 Boot up the console.
2 Update the system (twice).
3 PSN account bullshit.
4 Insert disc.
5 Install the game.
6 Download 50GB update for the game.
7 Install said update.
8 Finally start the game.
9 Login and TOS bullshit.
10 Finally play game.

I might just as well use my PC for gaming at that point. The games library is larger and the exclusives are just not worth it. Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.

Okay guys 'n gals. What's your first game you thought of while reading this greentext?

Mine is TimeSplitters 2 on PS2.

Full game on a disk? You new school kids don't know that 1/2 of the game is loading the 17, 5 1/2" floppies in order just to install your game.

-Actually belongs to you -Developers can't delete it

This is def nostalgia goggles, so many games were broken buggy messes back then because there was no way to ship updates

Back in 1997 I bought the game KKnD (Krush, Kill n' Destroy) in a local store for what would now be 110 dollars only to discover that it was broken and wouldn't run on my machine and there was no way to get a patch for it.

The sweet spot was getting the full game on disc and getting included DLC, having the ability to mod the game, and run private servers. It was kinda the golden era of this stage in gaming. Computers were powerful enough to give a great visual experience and studios were still interested in producing engaging storylines in triple A releases instead of just banging out battle royale games.

You could just enjoy the game as-is with a really good singleplayer campaign and then with whatever online offered. To this day I still have great memories of Half Life, Crysis, or even MoH:AA, especially the Snowy Park map. Do they compare graphically with today’s games like Fortnite? Not a chance. But you remember the story and how the game was way better at pulling you into it.

Some of the mods from this era turned out to be just as popular, if not moreso, than the original base game. Some of them live on to this day.

Sure, some Steam games offer mods and the like, but it certainly isn’t the same thing as what we had 15 or so years ago.

when can i stop living in this universe and switch back to the one we originally were on? man i miss it so much. That and original pizzahut

I never got the "modern games are no fun!" thing because I've always played retro games only. Growing up around my dad and his SNES Station, I ended getting influenced.

That'll be $75 (for N64 cartridges).

With the exception of "buy game", "disk/cartridge", and split-screen mode with minigames, this is Endless Sky.

Digital gaming can be great when corpos don't ruin everything that makes it great.

Because of this and also the whole RAM deal, I'm wondering if some retro trend is going to happen. Like gamers just going back to exactly those games.

Why would anyone build a whole ass in split screen mode?