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Our Video Game History On All Fronts Needs Saving, Now, More Than Ever!

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Sun, 12/25/2022 - 13:21

Bernston

I'm badly hurt with Nintendo's present decisions to cut off access to the 3DS & Wii U games shortly! It really defines the destruction of countless work and hours of video game history from Nintendo's past when it comes to their games & countless other gaming companies, even indies, that have put all their effort into bringing their games for people to play and enjoy, even to their children. Yes, the Wii U was a disaster, but the games made there don't have to go, too!

Nintendo's news, though, about the 3DS & Wii U really upset so much people that have enjoyed their games long through their time, even with the Wii Shop & DSi Shop termination that rendered people unable to play such games on those consoles, completely making such consoles and the games they've worked hard on nothing more than worthless paperweights destined to get wasted to the junkyard.

I don't care how business works in the industry! I REALLY HATE how Nintendo's been treating things today! And people are already giving up to the notion that "such things are meant or destined to happen, no matter how hard we try and what we do, for they claim that we are truly powerless in preserving what we cannot keep in the video gaming industry", console, handheld, you name it. They're acting like its all hopeless for gaming preservation! I can't stand this!

There has to be immediate action! I don't care what anyone says about this to deter, demoralize or discourage our efforts! Video game history on all fronts needs to be truly saved! We need better changes within the gaming industry and new laws to invoke better protection to all past games that have been delisted, about to be delisted, and have been physically out of print for long so future generations can enjoy lots of past games, regardless of what's available!

And I think the main problem with gamers in the industry is that they're being far too spoiled with too much saturation on what people are playing, such as mobile games, too much attention to never owning any games by digital, rather than keeping them by physical, and newly churned games, such as Fortnite, with the "Battle Royale" genre that created many more to follow on because people claim "gamers should play all the time rather than single-player multiplayer or local multiplayer games because they're all just so pointless, even stupid, pointless stories they make when they should be doing far more to better immerse all-online all-multiplayer games all the time, especially when it comes to the all-hip, all-better Battle Royal games that are all about subscriptions, micro-transactions, loot boxes, battle passes, season passes, etc. 'cause all the cool kids and adults are doing it, and everyone should give all what they no longer enjoy from the past, get rid of all the game history's past because its pointless trying and embrace the all-digital all-ownerless future where no one gives a hoot about the past and accept the inevitable that all games are meant to be online forever!"! We can't keep this up, you know!

There may not be such a good future where people actually appreciate every game developers' histories along with the games they made for people to enjoy and spread the word to others, like how it was in the past if this keeps up!

More to come shortly...

Sun, 12/25/2022 - 13:34

Bernston

OK, now, to continue...

All this stems from the arbitrary notion about "surpassing lot of people's own expectations from a console or their games, sales, etc. setting higher expectations to meet the so-called "evolving market" to meet actual expectancy to the "ever-evolving modern audience" or nothing!". I got news for that! Expectations are not meant to be changing too constantly to the point where it gets to be too much to handle. We can't hang on to that notion forever! This notion that chains people to meet the wants & needs of the "modern audience" has to stop!

There's no such notion as a "modern audience"! There are people that prefer traditional gaming, physical games, heck, even games that people play, regardless of what people say, just to have fun, let go of stress, & enjoy it for themselves & their children!

Change has to happen real soon, and it needs to be done WORLDWIDE! If nothing is done to save our games' history and preserve playability for future generations, I can foresee people throwing revolutions against Nintendo and any gaming company and corporation that follows such horrid decisions to do the same on all their games, no matter how much people spend money on, in the very near future! Heck, Nintendo may not ever be around if it keeps upsetting their fanbases to get to that point! We can't bank on the Switch for everything! And no matter what model is rumored to come to stores, such as "Switch Pro", "Switch 2", "Switch 3", "Switch, Switch, Switch!", people are gonna get sick of it very soon if we bank on our fabricated expectations!

Plus, gaming systems made that follows the Switch's layout & design are really getting stale real quick!

We need something better, actual traditional home consoles & handhelds that actually care about our video game history, and backwards compatibility, even a REAL new successor to the 3DS! I don't care what people say, the Switch is STILL NOT the 3DS true successor! Never have been, never will be!

We can't reinvent the gaming wheel every time, so to speak. There comes a point where if we try to find something to keep changing the landscape, or "reinvent the landscape", we'll find that we've reached such the end of our branches & abandon trying to innovate too much too fast and just focus on what's been traditional, that's always worked before and now.

Even moreso, we have to watch how we shape our video gaming technology and how we code our games lately. You never know if certain features or decisions that violates actual privacy can actually do harm to us, not just mentally, I say, not to get too gruesome here, though. Just to say, we can't just follow on what people are doing that they think its best to the people and devs alike just because its "all the latest". Keep your eyes open & our wits sharp.

The Video Game industry is, what I heard, heading to a very dysfunctional dystopian future at this rate! Real change needs to happen, here and now!

Fri, 07/07/2023 - 05:35

Peakyrr

Here here!

I agree. I once heard that we live in an information black age. With copyright and the rapid advance of technology, information is quickly becoming lost. They don't even make floppy disc drives anymore. How much information and artwork only exists on floppy disc? And this is only 20 years ago! Copyright seems to make this problem worse. Nobody is allowed much freedom for 100 years. And 100 years is enough time for any physical material to degrade. Nothing from the digital age has entered the public domain this way. Even for the purpose of preservation game companies tend to be as obstructive as possible (in their interests so you play their new game, costs them time and money to preserve(so they say) ). Most won't even let a museum have easy access to old games only for the purpose of preservation. It's like a Da Vinci being left outside in the rain but because it is owned, nobody else can touch it.

Thu, 08/03/2023 - 20:07

Bernston

Yes. That's right!

What also makes gaming a lot less enjoyable is the over-saturation of what people constantly and forcibly want based on what they saw, too much realistic graphics, over-innovation in gameplay mechanics from AAA games, following on unnecessarily formula blueprints based on Fortnite, Skyrim, MineCraft, or anyone of who-knows-what we've seen before, open-world roaming experiences, crazier resolution outputs that cost more power than standard resolutions, such as HD or SD, and moreover, too much mobile gaming expectations lots of children are too hooked onto lately. Takes so much joy out of people's hearts when it comes to proper enjoyable gaming.

MMOs are okay, but the FTP micro-transactions in console gaming where its not needed is wringing too much from us, financially in gaming through its over-saturation in what we enjoyed before, and in general to people trying to make a living on their own, even by game development. It's just a matter of finding any good use for it and doing it right to where its suitably sustainable.

And speaking of, game development is meant to be a more enjoyable career, but that shouldn't have to be less so based on too much ever-increasing expectations on people still forcibly wanting so much more than what we enjoyed, even from indie games.

I've seen other, albeit recent, handheld systems, such as the Steam Deck, the Asus ROG Ally, but I've got to be honest, none, so far, are carrying on the dual-screen touch-screen gameplay we've seen on DS & 3DS. Those made these systems stand out more and gave more enjoyment in playing games in those ways. I've got a keen eye on what is an actual dedicated handheld system and what's not, and their designs are not carrying on the dual-screen blueprints we've seen. Heck, even those two systems I've seen have crazy ridiculous prices people expect to pay for just to play games on them! NO WAY will anyone pay that much money for those kind of systems!

But, in all seriousness, after everything Nintendo has done that gave us a lot more guff as gamers when it comes to preservation and accessibility in games, we cannot, I repeat, CANNOT, keep supporting that company in such a horrible manner they keep doing to a lotta people, no matter how much they try to keep winning us over back, even if it means stopping trying to buy their exclusive games. It's a matter of standing against Nintendo on such horrible, anti-gaming and anti-preservation business practices they keep doing to us excessively from that so-called "fake friendly face" facade they keep using too much to hide their true actions.

I don't care what people say, we can't keep supporting them like this, nor forget what they did to us! We can't keep giving them inches no more, so to speak!

Even I'm strongly expecting that their so-called "Next Switch" or whatever, which so many people keep assuming too many times when they still know nothing about what Nintendo truly works on behind closed doors, will not be backwards compatible with the Switch's game library, and they'll no doubt keep giving us stabs in the back to gaming by doing it to make sure they keep making it extremely hard to play great games we've enjoyed before.

You and anyone reading this shall know that the Switch's novelty in design and gaming is starting to get weary real quick, even from systems trying to follow on such designs based on its on-the-go configuration.

It is still NOT a real handheld, not even the Switch Lite, because it is still an offshoot, I repeat, OFFSHOOT, handheld-based variant, NOT a permanent replacement to all things in dedicated handheld gaming alike and altogether. The different experience in that console has been well, but we can't bank on such an experience as that throughout the rest of out gaming days just because its successful and so convenient to play games from the get-go.

The over-unification of home console and dedicated handheld gaming can kill so much enjoyment in all things gaming. I know, because it hurts my heart at times as a gamer myself.

Someone has to get in, step up, and give us a proper dedicated handheld gaming system that can, and will, continue what we enjoyed in that venture, even a new dual-screen system that continues that kind of gameplay mainstay we've enjoyed for many years, even if it means to challenge and/or dethrone Nintendo as the reigning handheld king.

Dual-screen gaming is no longer just a mere gimmick in handhelds, but has become a gaming mainstay in its own right and way, and such a right has to be preserved and continually enjoyable to gamers alike, even children. We just have to keep it perpetually afloat, no matter what people say, negatively or otherwise.

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