I myself still love the classic systems, but I still don't keep myself from trying to enjoy anything modern. I usually still love to play all my n64 games and I still love to play pokemon yellow for GBC. The reason why they still stick in my mind I think is because they were the first games I had played and It can be because of favoritism. I understand what everyone loves better about retro and classic games and I support what you're all saying. Games back then had such great quality (in the classic sense) and today, originality seems to fade away slowly with time (I'm lookng at you FPS). Doesn't mean that all modern games are bad though. one of the first modern (at the time) games I played was halo 2 and I liked it because it was new to me. And in my opinion, halo 2 or the series in general is pretty original, not because of gameplay but because of the storyline. That's a proble for me in most newer games, but I still don't stop looking. I loved playing the legend of zelda games back in the day and all of the different rpg's for the ps1 were good for me, but they'll get old eventually. A great game that was unique for me in the modern sense was the blazblue games. Great fighting system and it had a good storyline that kept me interested. The storyline is what really drew me in and it has memorable moments. if more games had originality and stopped copying off of eachother, I'm sure people won't keep saying that modern systems are crap. The system itself is perfectly fine, it's the games that are making the system look bad. My opinion.
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