Gameplay is the barrier to entry. Every GTA game I played, going all the way back to GTA2, was fun to play. I wouldn’t have cared about the story in Vice City or San Andreas if it wasn’t fun to play.
I image that is why people play old games that have poor mechanics when viewed with modern eyes.
Sometimes! But I think sometimes you play old games for the mechanics… Heck, sometimes you even play old games for the art direction / atmosphere. I think I can get a lot out of old games just by kind of appreciating them in the context of the year that they were released… In that sense I think I can also be impressed by the graphics in some old games, because I can be impressed with what they managed at the time.
But yeah, I think games have a lot of aspects that can make them worthwhile (and different people will value different things). Nethack doesn’t have a lot going for it in terms of graphics or story, but it’s still worth picking up and it’s not impossible to sink hundreds of hours into.
Story is the key for me. Gameplay is important but story is what gets me hooked.
I image that is why people play old games that have poor mechanics when viewed with modern eyes.
Gameplay is the barrier to entry. Every GTA game I played, going all the way back to GTA2, was fun to play. I wouldn’t have cared about the story in Vice City or San Andreas if it wasn’t fun to play.
Sometimes! But I think sometimes you play old games for the mechanics… Heck, sometimes you even play old games for the art direction / atmosphere. I think I can get a lot out of old games just by kind of appreciating them in the context of the year that they were released… In that sense I think I can also be impressed by the graphics in some old games, because I can be impressed with what they managed at the time.
But yeah, I think games have a lot of aspects that can make them worthwhile (and different people will value different things). Nethack doesn’t have a lot going for it in terms of graphics or story, but it’s still worth picking up and it’s not impossible to sink hundreds of hours into.