LogFAQs > #897860940

Nostalgic opinions of old games has more to do with remembering flaws as a positive rather than a negative, leading to a skewed opinion.

And too many people are incapable of separating their opinion from fact. When you think about it, back in the day, magazines only had so much room to cover things, and they usually preferred to cover games that would sell well, meaning shovelware didn't receive any focus.
Nowadays, all games can receive coverage equally because the internet doesn't run out of "magazine space", so people are actually getting to see more of the games that are bad now.

This is what has created the phenomenon that leads people to believe that new games are strictly inferior to older games, when quality has been steadily increasing overall, albeit with upswings, downswings, and snags here and there (like the recent "Okay, that's enough of that" debacle with overpriced DLC for an overpriced game that even led to Disney cracking down on EA).

The market will change as things like that happen.

But for what it's worth, the market has *always* emphasized graphics over gameplay, even back in the days before the NES - it's the easiest thing to demonstrate that your console is superior to the others over. I honestly wish this wasn't the case because graphics are honestly one of the last things you should value in a game - graphical *style* is honestly more important, and it's why some games age better than others.
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