
Nirwanda Vaughns
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Posted - 2014.12.27 19:26:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:Cloud gaming is kind of scary. Extra Credits said it best: So much gaming history will be utterly gone once the servers go away. In another 10, or 15 years if you want to be optimistic, some of the most important games (for the time) like World of Warcraft will just be a memory. With so many games going to cloud, we won't be able to dust off our old consoles and show our kid's or upcoming designers some of the most important games of all time. Imagine if you could never play Super Mario Brothers. Some day, a game WILL come out that is that important and if it is cloud based, once the servers go away the game will be nothing more than a memory.
Hell, even for the "Man, I would love to play that game again!" How many people still post about MAG?
yup its the same with ebooks. i just can't get into an ebook. hate the things. i much prefer both holding a physical book and the smell of the paper lol additional sensory elements can help with the nostalgia, not sure how old many of you are but if i dig out my NES, SNES or Megadrive/Genesis and i crack open a game case there is that smell of the cartridge and the smell of the instruction manuel. there was nothign better as a kid going to town on the bus for a new game and the 'new game smell' when you first open it to read the instruction manual on the bus ride home. with digital all that is lost, games are becoming stale in both gameplay and the feeling of holding a game you've wanted for ages, even the removal of proper instruction manuals is quite the let down if i'm honest, it loses an important aspect of the whole process, maybe if we still had a manual we wouldn't have to sit through the same idiotic 'how to' missions when we boot a game up. its all part of this hand holding culture games have and that anythign challenging just gets tossed to the side.
anyone play the first zelda on NES? there was sweet f**k all tutorial. you just saw a cave and went for it, no sword, shield or jack s**t lol
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