Daisho Con

What is better old school video games or next gen games? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Whats the big difference?

Personally I'm for old school games. They have way more heart than next gen games. Next gen is all about graphics and innovation... however they have lost content. It has become an industry filled with mediocre product.

I wish there was a "both" button...I may be young and didn't really grow up when the old school games were really coming out. But I still have "my" old school games that I enjoy, and even ones before my time. I also have newer games that I enjoy a lot as well. I cannot choose, however I felt this should have been an option

I'm old so I still find old school games more challenging than the new stuff...what gets me with the nex gen is the # of buttons there are....I have a hard time remembering everthing.

Old School. There was such an emphasis on good story, engaging gameplay, and clever writing. Now, it's just the newest bloodfest is always Best Game, with only 1 or 2 good games each year.... and those are almost always either Blizzard or Valve titles.


I miss the days of Myst and Riven, of Sam and Max, Monkey Island, and Loom, Space Quest.... such classics.

Oh, and since I'm a fan of adventure games, and the only ones coming out now are the TellTale ones (which are very good, don't get me wrong... there's just not enough.).

the last things to come out that really impressed me were No More Hero's, Mass Effect, Bioshock, and The Orange Box...

Part of the problem is that there's something between old school and next generation. If not, you're lumping Pac-Man in with Fallout 2, and everything in between, and that seems to me to be a flawed methodology.

If that is what you mean, then old school should win handily, simply because of the volume of high-quality games out there.

Old School because they where just more fun to me

I do agree the stories in the older games were so much better written. They didn't have a choice the graphics just weren't there so they had to make sure that story was great to sell the game.

Old school video games didn't take 3-5 years to make. They were simple and innovative. You had to be back then in order to get an entire game on an 8-bit cartridge.

I like the newer gen for faster paced games, but older RPG's. I suck at older platformers, the strategy seems largely replaced with twitch, which I suck at. Older RPG's typically have better stories though. I still prefer the newer gen for things like TWEWY, for beautiful environments that are fun to just look at, for better multiplayer, and for more complex strategies.

I think we need to define "old school." Like KORfan said, are we talking Pong, PacMan, and the like? And is Next Gen referring only to the Xbox 360/Wii/PS3 era?

In my opinion, there are examples of great games in every era of gaming history. There are also examples of incredibly terrible games too.


For example watch the first forty seconds or so of this (they just don't write stories like this anymore):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYJsxeQOMc&feature=PlayList&p=21E46C37FB1202FF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30[/youtube]

Tipicly when we refer to oldschool us old farts refer to anything 32 bit and lower. anything before the polygon invasion. everything after that was next gen graphics. the nintendo 64 is NOT true old school despite what people may think.

Thats my definition for old vs new schools.

Alright, that's a pretty fair definition for Old School. What are PS1/N64/Dreamcast labeled as, then? The Medieval systems?

I beleive it goes old school - new gen - next gen

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