The steam deck has helped me break this habit. I love the system itself so much that I’m kinda just not interested in stuff that won’t play on it. A big one for me is doom the dark ages.
On the other hand though, I have played so many indie games that I likely wouldn’t have otherwise played and loved all of them. It has genuinely changed the way that I play video games.
I know exactly how every beat of this conversation is going to go, but I’m still here for it.
I’ve been hearing how games are too focused on graphics since the late 1980s.
That time you remember games being all about fun? People then were complaining about how chasing visuals over gameplay was ruining games.
I know because I was there and I was complaining.
Graphics are fun and cool. I like graphics.
Design > graphics Also, strike the earth!
It all started going downhill when Nethack added color support in 1989: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/NetHack_3.0.4#Significant_changes
Dwarf Fortress has graphics now! You don’t have to install the Lazy Newb Pack! What a time to be alive
Can’t really say this about Dwarf Fortress anymore
There is a mod to turn it back to ascii tiles.
