GOLDEN OLDIES
Dear Retro Gamer,
Having just seen a teaser for Gran Turismo 7 pop up on my Twitter feed, I have had a sudden revelation as to why I cannot get into modern gaming. Gran Turismo is a game that I have just never got into. Since the first one was released in the late Nineties it has never appealed to me. It’s the same story with many of the other ‘big’ games from around the Noughties onwards. Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, they’re all ‘meh’… So what gives? What is it about retro games?
Retro games, before you needed a staff of 300 to even produce a game; before you needed to play for three hours before you hit the ‘opening credits’; before you needed an account and password to play a videogame, were one thing that modern games are not: fun.
They were just fun. Gran Turismo is beautiful and authentic, FIFA is accurate and microscopically detailed, The Last Of Us has a deep and cinematic storyline, but if I had the choice between any of these and Daytona USA, Sensible Soccer and Sonic The Hedgehog, I’d go for the oldies all day long. I guess that’s why I buy your magazine.
Keep up the good work!
Phil Richardson
While Darran would do everything to keep The Last Of Us in his collection, it’s understandable that many modern games don’t click with you. We think the biggest issue is that we’ve been playing games for such a long time that new ones have to feel truly special in order to wow us. Only half the team chose to watch the PS5 reveal for example, but the ones that did found some interesting looking games in amongst the usual fodder, so there’s still hope for all us gamers.