Thread 717907579

Are old games better or is it just nostalgia?

I had this set as a kid. Damn thats some nostalgia but I don’t remember it coming with miniature horses.

>>717908035
Nah, I distinctly remember the horses because they have those stims on their back that go firmly up the knight's ass.

>>717908035
the horses are not part of the set.
It came with the black king, who would swing his axe when you push his head down, and the gold king, who would swing his sword when you push his head down, and you would wonder "why the fuck does the black king swing so much harder than the gold king?"

is this the thread? i had a bootleg version of this one
the door was brown instead of red, aside from that it was 99% identical, i assume they recycled the same molds for it

My friend had that set

>>717907579 (OP)
Oh man that picture is what's nostalgic.
For me some games it still feels good to great and even feel better to play than a lot of modern games. Some others are

>>717909275

Damn this brings back nostalgia. I used to have this exact one as a kid.

Did zoomers even grow up with toys or did they only grow up with screens?

>>717912273
millennial dads have a lot of funko and vintage toys to play with for young alpha and zoomers

>>717907579 (OP)
Yes, yes, however, consider the following:

For me, it was the pinecone cows

>>717907579 (OP)
You wouldn't get it

>>717907579 (OP)
yes

I had this bad boy.

>>717907579 (OP)
They were way better. Old games were designed to make people use their brains more. You had more general freedom even with linear games often times. You don't get this with modern games. Modern games also tend to give you an overabundance of information so you don't get lost on what to do next.

Take DMC5 for example. Those parasite nighogs or whatever they are called are literally just a tedious roadblock to slow you down is all. There is no actual puzzle solving elements there. NG1 back on Xbox OG however has this floating platform puzzle after you beat Doku. Even if you think its not good the point is you kind of don't really get this shit in a game anymore. This forcing of realism or logic also fucked over a lot of the game design in modern games.

>>717907579 (OP)
Used to have this it was so fun

>OP talks about old games
>posts the remake

I found this in the cupboard at school and I let my one-to-one kids play with it.

Of course I have dibs on firing the cannon.

>>717912861
That's the sequel.

>>717907579 (OP)
If you didn’t have this as a kid you’re brown

It's hard to pinpoint where refining a core slid over in producing clichés.
It'll be very subjective and mired in nostalgia.

>>717912798
never played it but it looks very kino and comfy

>>717912273
Elder zoomers are pushing 30, Anon. Yes we fucking had toys.
Personally I was fond of my city rug and hot wheels. Also had fun building lego castles and random geomag shapes.

Meanwhile I was launching space rockets and shit out of my luxury millionaire island.

>>717907579 (OP)
yes, because games back in the day werent designed to jew you out of your money after you bought them
monetisation has ruined gaming

>>717907579 (OP)
little bit from column A little bit from column B. it's mostly column A putting in a lot of work

>>717914678
>distant relatives had the entire island but stored in the attic and they never cared enough for it to bring it down.
I remember its absence vividly

>>717914678
I had that shit, the palm trees all broke off.

>>717907579 (OP)
I remember having the pirate ship too, and having epic canon battles between the two

For me, it was the mag warriors

>>717918198
>Undivided
>Slaanesh
>Tzeentch
>Khorne
>Nurgle
>Malal

>>717907579 (OP)
>Are old games better
Yes. The average ones are at least as good as the great ones today.

>>717913748
I wish I had those fucking Venture Bros figures that are expensive as shit now. At least I have the whole series of Palisades Adult Swim figures.

>>717918631
My niece had mouse trap for her birthday a few years ago, and I was so pissed off with how much they dumbed it down to make it easier to construct.

>>717909275
>Is this the thread?
I hope so, here's my hit of nostalgia, but I honestly don't know if anyone even remembers Mighty Max, or this specific playset

>>717918813
It's not like the original ever worked properly.

>>717914446
what does the ghost want?

BEEP BEEP OUTTA THE FUCKING WAY!
SEVEN FOOT AIRCRAFT CARRIER COMING THROUGH!

>>717918842
I had a couple of the smaller Mighty Max toys. It was a small dinosaur head that opened up into a little play-set with the little figures.They were essentially Polly Pocket's for boys.

>cool video game from a bygone era
>vanishes suddenly and never gets heard from again

>>717913272
That and the devs were working with less
>Have to start from scratch
>Have to be proprietary
>Have to be mindful of consumer hardware (or not)
Joystick games are unpopular and every spoiled brat buys a game based on its raw size just to never play it or just to own and blog about it

>>717918842
>mighty max
My nigga, this and Zeitschrift were my shit

My first improvised sex toy.

It wasn't very good so it became a regular toy again pretty quick.

For me it was

>>717919215
Zbots*
what the fuck autocorrect

>>717919257
How even? Where?

My first improvised sex toy.

It wasn't as good as one would expect so it became a regular toy again pretty quick.

>parents buy you second hand toys from a garage sale
>doesn't actually come with any of the accessories besides the helicopter because the faggot kid from before lost everything
How do you even lose stuff like this if you're only ever playing with it indoors

>>717919257
You put the cannonball up your ass?

>>717919257
Did you like, put it in the cannon?

>>717919321
Sorry forgot to post the pic, I didn't mean the castle lol.

>>717919329
NO EXPLAIN THE LOGISTICS OF FUCKING A CASTLE

>>717919405
Nope, you're a castle fucker. Please tell us how you would fuck it.

>>717919004
I literally would have never had anything like this, not because of price but because my mom always kept the house in a condition like she was ready to sell it even though we lived there for 7 years. Something this big would have affected that

>>717919329
ok now these you can fuck

>>717919409
It would involve the cannon and my gaping asshole but I'm not sure id 11yo me would be that adventurous. I'd stick it in a window or something.

>>717907579 (OP)
Old game were made with Nostalgium, it was far better than the cheap New-2025 they keep using now.

>they didn't role play raping an entire caslte after conquering it as a kid
fucking virgins

>>717907579 (OP)
Pirate ship>castle>robin hood foresr

jewish infantilization tools

Post more SEXY castles that you would FUCK.

>>717919534
This topic has made my day, thank you anons

>>717919329
Of course it didn't work. The inside of it doesn't move relative to the outside. There's zero friction

>>717919559
me and my brother would do pirate ship vs castle wars, I was always pirates

>>717919585
>brainwashing children into castle fuckers
I should have known jews were behind this

>>717919623
Is this a recent set? None of the old castle sets were this intricate

>>717907579 (OP)
Old games are better only because you remember the good ones. The good ones nowadays suck ass because theymre filled with immediate dopamine options that often have microtransactions tied to them, so you can’f just lwt yourself enjoy anything since you’re constantly being bombarded with attempts to drain your wallet and it puts you on edge.

>>717919652
Now pirates do historically rape and pillage. I hope you raped the castle good, while wearing a pirate hat.

>>717919762
Yeah it's a special "adult" set that came out a few years ago. It's pretty neat, the manual has a bunch of fun facts about older castle sets and stuff in it.

>>717909859
Soul...

God damn there's a lot of sexy-ass castles in this thread...
Yeah open your fucking drawbridge, slut. I'm going to finish on your fucking buttresses.

Did anyone have Manta Force?

I had this black evil one and it had a little alien in it that looked like Krang from TMNT.

>>717907579 (OP)
I had this set and my mom threw it away

As far as Lego goes, old sets definitely had better value. Nowadays they're asking $200 for shit like pic related. The building is tiny, empty and all of the license stuff is 100% stickers.

>>717920629
That what she wanted you to think, anon.

Lets just say, dad was out of the bed for a while.

>>717919329
yeah it was an awful sex toy, no friction

>>717919665
MIGHTY MAX
MIGHTY MAX
MIGHTY MAXXXXXX
I can still hear the commercial
fuck I'm old

>>717914638
>>Elder zoomers are pushing 30, Anon
That doesn't make sense, I'm just barely a millennial and I'm 29.

For me, it was this.

>>717914678
Oh my God I owned this. The thing made sounds like THUNDERBIRDS GO and the green ship was made out of pieces you could pull out of it. I remember that red rocket you could launch out of the pool. Jesus Christ.

Was milsims better?

>>717921421
I had a deathstar like that but you opened it up and it was the events of the movie so like half of it was desert

>>717914678
Not pictured: Thunderbird 4 cause gordon is fucking useless

World Peacekeepers bros...

I think a lot of the same people are making the new ones so both.

>>717921649
Yeah sure, until shit goes down underwater and then you're fucked without him.

>>717907579 (OP)
This set is like the one play rug that everyone had huh?

I've never seen the horses or the red knight so either I lost them as a kid (most likely) or they were extra. I kept this fucking castle in our bathtub for years and years. I would love to get a set for my sons, but I assume it's super expensive now.

Had this one! Not a lot of stuff there but I loved tearing it all down and improvising new structures, plus the skeleton was funny.

>>717907579 (OP)
I had that set lmao.

>>717914678
>tfw never had the zero x toy
I had to resort to stacking my Thunderbirds on top of each other. As a child, you make do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8PR3QIwXHs

>>717919762
Lego's been making scaled up, more detailed sets for adults in recent years to pander to nostalgia; they still put out the kid-sized playsets but then they also make, like, $200 super pirate ship and $300 super castle.

>>717912798
The pull quote is weird. When was "replayability" coined?

>>717922040
On first glance I thought this was a soijak
I hate what I've done to myself

>>717907579 (OP)
Honestly no, just like toys are better today. Compare old gunpla to modern gunpla in as far as engineering goes for example. I mean you're nostalgic for fisherprice toys, we've really hit peak regression and infantilization at this point.

Also, what's with people having these zoomer sets anyways? I just had a box of Legos and some mcdonalds toys. Being a kid sucked, I like being an adult better.

>>717907579 (OP)
For me it was the pirate ship. Especially the old guy with the big fucking hand canon in both his arms. He used to take on dinosaurs and spider-man and all sorts of shit in my childhood and blast them away

>>717919623
I like how LEGO is now getting back to old Castle factions. It was something that I always liked in Playmobil.

>>717922351
I used to bring that ship with me into the pool

>>717922339
shut up weeb, nobody cares

>>717921421
I had the Hoth version.

>>717907579 (OP)
depends

>>717922458
Did it actually float?

>>717922521
I don't know dude, seems like all you neets were spoiled brats.

I had all of the ninja turtle stuff, and ghost busters toys, and a fuck ton of lego.

>>717922596
I can't recall, don't think it did but I think the small boat did

>>717907579 (OP)
God damn anon, now this brings back memories of when i was a kid playing with this...

>>717922596
no. if you wanted floating lego you'd have to get the speed boat yacht one that came with the weighted big red brick

>>717922605
>weeb is an attention whoring pedofaggot with useless opinions instead of matching the vibe of the thread
Nothing new.

>>717922737
>the vibe of the thread
Bruh go twitter with this shit lmao. You guys don't even want to discuss video games, all you want to do is depression post about how you wish you were a coddled and ignorant little kid again. Over 3/4 of the threads in this catalogue are some variation of this mindset.

>>717922730
This isn't lego dude. This is Fisher-Price. I literally don't remember lego "sets" in the 90s, I just remember a big ass fucking box of random lego pieces and you had to make your own shit.

>>717922730
send this shit to >>>/toys/ mods

>>717922912
you might be a little older than me. I played with fisher price too, but they were old even in the 90s

>>717922932
did they remove hyperlinks?

>>717912273
>Micro-Machines
>LEGO
>Action Man
>Power Rangers
>Bionicle
>Various Fisher Price toys
>Playmobil
>Super-soakers
>RC Planes and Cars
>Bop-It
>Screwball Scramble
>Hot-Wheels.
We did. You're just a psyopping faggot.

>>717923031
im 31. Maybe I had hand me downs, I actually am not sure how old OPs pic toys are. I just know they were the fuckin shit when I was a kid in 97-99. I literally had that shit next to me, with the city carpet, with a n64 with mario 64 plugged in. Later I was more into fighting 1v1 battles with action figures and wrestling toys than fishprice stuff.

>>717923192
those are all 80s-90s toys.

>>717923270
I'm 39. you're just used to play with old toys

How come unfolding universes like Mighty Max toys aren't a thing anymore ?

>>717923378
because mocromachiens were cooler

>>717923331
Looks like it came out in 94 the year I was born. So not THAT old. You might be thinking of like the first gen fisher price stuff that someone posted in here and not the mid 90s versions.

>>717921324
Zoomers started from 97

>>717920107
Finish on the buttresses will you? Silver knight archers, stop him!

We used to live pretty close to the Lego factory in Billund, my aunt used to clean at the factory so I would always get a fuckton of Lego for every holiday or birthday. I still have around 4 moving boxes of old Lego shit in the attic.

>>717923617
nah zoomers were started in like 2004-2007, probably not growing up with a lot of toys but Ipod touches and iphones

>>717923710
>4 moving boxes of old Lego shit in the attic.
Im not a legofag but you do know that shit is worth a literal fortune right now right? Lego is a huge fad thats going to die out in a few years, sell that shit while the iron is hot.

>>717923710
That reminds me I still have unopened Trolls Mountain Fortress set somewhere in the attic.

>>717923737
no...zoomers started in the late 90s. the oldest ones are approaching 30.

>>717923737
No, zoomers are from mid to late 90s up to the early 2010s. I'm born in 99 and I'm absolutely not considered a millennial.

>>717923808
I guess it’s worth a shot. It’s all just bricks without the guides or anything though. I can’t see anyone wanting to dig through all that shizz yet to assemble the Saturn rocket or the Harry Potter castle or whatever.

>>717923524
your probably right. by that time my parants had me subscribed to lego. I also played a lot with k'nex, and megablox

>>717923847
i pride myself in not being too obsessed about nostalgia, but I do wish i had a few of my favorite toys I had as a kid still. I had a symbiote spider-man toy I would literally play with for hours and he was my main character that kicked every other toys ass.

>>717923962
People pay for individual bricks, with ones unique to specific sets being worth a fortune. Idk how friendly it is for small sellers, but check out Bricklink sometime. Of course, you'll have to identify the parts.

>>717923894
>>717923960
I feel like this is a cope for really oldfags to feel a bit younger. Zoomers consider Xbox 360 retro and are nostalgic for the ps4 now. People born in 2007 are 18 now.

>>717922909
This is accurate and it's getting really, really bad. People don't even realize what they're doing to themselves.

>>717924129
You had nice childhood then, Anon. Kids today mostly collect shit and play vidya instead.
I buy legos for my nephews regularly but they only make the thing from the box and put it on the shelf. Same with niece who's drowning with dolls and plushies but they all look untouched.

>>717914446
I had both this and the haunted version

How did we go from this...

>>717907579 (OP)
as i see it old games can be good not just nostalgia however newer games have a higher *capacity* to be good which in turn makes it all the more disappointing when the games fail to deliver.

>>717924669
To this?

>>717924429
I think videogames have reached a point in technology that they satisfy some creative part of a childs brain where a kid doesnt have to have imagination to get the action he wants. Back then games were awesome, but they were still limited in graphics and interactivity. You had to play with action figures and a bunch of random shit to create the scenarios in your head that entertained you. There weren't even physics engines in games, so if you wanted to watch "ragdoll physics" you had to throw your toys around like a caveman

>>717924740
what a lack of stickers does the a motherfucker, the new one is about 70% similar but with it being unpainted plastic with minimal stickers sucks all of the joy out of it.

a kid who didn't know any better would still like it i bet but they might not be nostalgic for it 30 years later.

>>717907579 (OP)
It's a mix of both.
Games started to really suck around 2007, that's when they became mainstream again, which means publishers shifted their focus from experimenting with games, in favor of formulas that sold well. This is why you've had the same Call of Duty games for the last forever.
However, these games are still good for what they are, but the formula has gotten really stale, which really really sucks.
So what was different back then? The difference is that nobody really knew what made a good game back then, so all kinds of games were being made in hopes of finding formulas that are good, giving the illusion that they are better.
But ARE they better? Well, certainly unique, but I don't know about better, that's entirely subjective.
Personally, I'm hopeful. I've disregarded almost the entire AAA game industry for the last decade, and have been enjoying a lot of indie games, Everspace 2 to be exact, I like it a lot.
That's something folks need to do nowadays and stop bitching about games sucking.

>>717907579 (OP)
It's mostly true. Older games dreamed bigger. Modern games know how "good games are made" and try to exploit it with patterns of repetition and reward-systems that keeps the player consuming its content without recognizing with themselves that almost all of it is pointless.
Older games were focused on giving you a "fun experience from beginning to end."
Modern games are focused on "fun experience that keeps happening" full stop.
That's what makes this hard to talk about, becuase it boils down to a philosophical question to you, the gamer: Are you actually here for a good experience that you remember afterwards, or are you just here to consume slop as a "hobby"?

>>717912798
i played this a lot as a kid and also the one about pirates which was a little more robust in content

>>717924740
the white lamborghini is still my favorite one. hot pink Chevy is a close second.

>>717924881
While what you say may be true, it should not be misinterpreted as a positive remark on the modern state of games and child recreation / development.

>>717924326
And I feel like you're mixing up zoomers and "gen alpha" or whatever the fuck the official name is for the generation after ours. There's certainly some overlap there if you only consider the youngest of zoomers, but the oldest ones are nearly 30.
There's a pretty big difference between elder zoomers and youngest ones, like how I was born in 99 and grew up with the N64, GBC and 360, while my sister who was born in 05 grew up with an iphone, but we're both still zoomers.

>>717918931
He came to help decorate the castle for October. Look how spooky it turned out >>717924583

Just found these at dad's a few weeks ago. Been having a joy playing with them with my son

I lost this one at some point, must have forgotten it in a park or something. I still miss you Darko

>>717925786
I had the tmnt ones. there are some very small pieces that can be lost easily

>>717925723
>decorates the castle
>is nowhere to be found on the decorated castle
truly he was...
the unsung hero...

>>717925786
>>717925918
I didn't like these that munch, but my sister did, and she's had all of the polly pockets

You faggots wouldn't know.

>>717913272
I miss the way older games had this simple enjoyment of figuring out how to progress... how to get through the next door.

Games like Ocarina of Time, Max Payne, Half Life, Rune, Clive Barker's Undying. They all have this super enjoyable loop of: enter area, inspect your surroundings, fight enemies, figure out how to enter the next area. There was a bit of guesswork, exploration and some light puzzle solving needed back then. Find a switch to lower the water, put out a fire with a physics puzzle, shoot out some boards for a hidden switch, find a new spell that lets you get past a previous barrier... whatever it was, it created this amazing pacing where you went from combat encounter > novel space to explore > hunt for the route forward > combat encounter...

It feels like new games have failed to achieve this same loop. They either go open world and become quest icon chasers or are so tightly scripted and "cinematic" you are just gently carried through the whole game without needing to think. Also, because their graphics are so advanced you can't possibly search the environment for clues to proceed, there's just too much detail, so they have to make it insanely obvious... like the Nu-God of War and it's "puzzles" which are an absolute joke. You don't have to use your brain once.

I miss that friction of old games, of getting borderline frustrated because you can't figure out where to go and then actually analyzing your environment and figuring it out... modern games... it's like I don't even "see" the environment, because it's just set dressing it requires nothing of me.. the game will just gently guide me forward forever while I mindlessly upgrade shit and kill enemies.

>>717924881
when I was a kid Ultima Online had just come out and we tried to play it as much as we could but my parents had strict time limits on computer time to like 1 hour a day...

So we built these elaborate Lego fantasy worlds, with towns and shops and dugneons and monsters and my friend and I would roll our own lego characters and go on our own Ultima style adventure. We'd control our little dudes and lay on our stomaches on the carpet adventuring and leveling up and buying gear... it was an incredible memory and in some ways the make believe lego version of Ultima was more magical to me than my memories of actually playing UO.

>>717927213
sometimes fps games get disorienting and the sudo puzzle to get to the next area is frustrating because you killed everything an hour ago and just can't seem to find the one thing you missed.

Imagine trying to shove it up your ass, good thing nobody tried that

for me, it's exin
there was something inherently sexy about that resin color mix that L*go could never even hope to emulate

when are we getting proper castle building vidya? stronghold falls short of what I want to do

construx was better than lego

>>717927734
You have mental illness

Me as a kid wished it was like this super form of candy instead

>>717927753
Check out diplomacy is not an option anon, might scratch the itch

>>717923617
dude you are fucking old what are you still doing here, you were telling us to leave 15 years ago, we should be filling that role now

>>717927583
Yeah it could get frustrating, but overall the challenge was better than modern day slop which basically replaces the puzzle / figure out how to get ahead part with cutscenes.

>>717909859
Skulljak

>>717922182
rest of the review was probably a disaster and they pulled the best quote they could
the most damning praise i've seen was for some c-list movie with the reviewer quote of "has some passable action scenes" on the top

Very blessed thread and posters.

what a sad and embarrassing hellscape the jews have created for today's children. there is no imagination used when all you do is watching garbage on the internet. you dont make up little space man battles or medieval castle fights in your head with the pieces you have. death to israel

>>717928001
Lego was for kids that became art students.
K'nex was for kids that went into STEM fields.

>>717928001
>poor man's technic

>>717907579 (OP)
Oh man, I had that or one that looked very similar. I don't recall cannons being on it but I do remember the black & gold knights. I swear I recall someone (me or my siblings) hitting their head on one of the spires really hard once.

>>717907579 (OP)
I had this and also had my dad paint my room to look like a dungeon/castle, walls covered in big stone. knights are kino

Where's the undead pirate ship?

>>717930054
fucking BASED both you and your dad
castles are cool
knights are the coolest
honor, justice, friendship and death to our enemies

>>717912798
I absolutely fucking ADORED the cannon defense mini-games in these things.

>>717919369
because mom (that WHORE) puts the toy cars in the "toy cars" box and the terrain in the "play sets" box and the roads in the "construction toys" box.

>>717907579 (OP)
Holy shit

I had a lot of plastic dinos, but they are all gone now

was it wrong to mix and match toys from different sets? i remember having street sharks on the castle duking it out.

>all those faggy kids with their legos
>I was a KNEX chad

>>717919329
I know a guy with a broken dick because he microwaved one of these as a kid and then fucked it. It burst and burnt his dick to the point his urethra basically cauterized itself internally. They re-opened it but his dick doesn't get hard anymore. I learned all of this against my will, and now you all are too.

>>717928150
It probably reminded you of the Gobstopper from Willy Wonka. Crazy how badly they fucked up the 2005 remake. I think there was also a recent one but I didn't really ever hear anything about it.

>>717931303
I'm glad I didn't fuck up my dick as a kid

>>717931052
>still seething nobody wanted to play with him and his shitty toys

>>717931303
bro

Some old games are I guess.
Only played Homm3 as an adult and it's better or at least as good as the knockoffs.

why the fuck are we wasting our time on videogames when toys exist

>>717931660
You're supposed to have a kid so you can launder your interest in toys through him. This is the real reason everyone in the past was obsessed with having a son. The idea of having an "heir" was just an excuse to get to play with cool toys and not barbie dolls.

>>717931660
Toys take up space

>>717930054
>had my dad paint my room to look like a dungeon/castle, walls covered in big stone
Hell yeah

>>717919623
sovl

also wholesome thread

>>717931660
video games are just fancy toys

>>717929582
>>717931052
>>717928001
I had erector sets as a kid. Building stuff was fun, but taking it apart to build something new was always a pain. Shit ton of screws and nuts.

>>717933990
Videogames are more like retarded constricrive toys. Actually videogames are like playing with toys with that one friend who wants to make up gay little rules for why vegeta would lose to a power ranger or someshit. Fuck this. Videogames are literally inconceivably worse than toys.

Yes, I was a richfag.

>>717907579 (OP)
>me and my brothers filled the moat with cola one time
>it was forever sticky afterwards and that's the main thing i remember about that castle now

>>717929343
Absolute shame on you.

>>717912417
I figured Millennial dads would be the fathers of Gen A, while Zoomers are the children of Gen-X.

>>717934235
ORE WA

>>717931332
i wanted to eat that thing so bad as a kid.

nice thread with weird stories and funny memories

Anyone remember these li'l niggas?

>>717912474
For me it's this one

>>717935535
them and monsters in my pocket and Zbots

>>717927753
Going Medieval is good. It's also a village sim.

>>717931303
fuck

>>717918931
it is a metaphor for nostalgia

>>717940240
fuck off kojima

>>717935535
I think I have mine somewhere close

>>717940517
worse I was thinking of Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak and he did work with Jimbo so you saved my /tv/ crimes by nudging it back into /v/