How does age currently affect your gaming?

[Kakariko Kid]

I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

I love Majora's Mask. There was something about affecting the flow of time, results and how it stood away from OoT with the time thing. And now the 5 stages of dying. Mind blown. That's what makes it my 2nd favorite Zelda.

2ND? I'm sorry. We can't be friends any more.

Just kidding. MM is my personal favorite Zelda, with Twilight Princess being my 2nd and A Link to the Past being my 3rd. The game is one of those that makes you think if you look into the background. It's the first game to try a dark fantasy type and treats the player like an adult. It's too bad that it's so short, which is the only reason why I want a remake, but with real graphics.

Someone told me to pick up a PS2 game called Ephemeral Fantasia becuse it plays like MM. I have yet to find a copy of the game, so maybe someone who has played it could tell me if I need to play it or not.

MM is about to replace ALttP I think as #1. A Link to the Past has been my long time fave, but I find myself replaying MM more. And I would love a remake for it. I don't have a 3DS but I liked OoT in the remake from what I played. And #3 for me is Windwaker. It's just so different.

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I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

I love Majora's Mask. There was something about affecting the flow of time, results and how it stood away from OoT with the time thing. And now the 5 stages of dying. Mind blown. That's what makes it my 2nd favorite Zelda.

2ND? I'm sorry. We can't be friends any more.

Just kidding. MM is my personal favorite Zelda, with Twilight Princess being my 2nd and A Link to the Past being my 3rd. The game is one of those that makes you think if you look into the background. It's the first game to try a dark fantasy type and treats the player like an adult. It's too bad that it's so short, which is the only reason why I want a remake, but with real graphics.

Someone told me to pick up a PS2 game called Ephemeral Fantasia becuse it plays like MM. I have yet to find a copy of the game, so maybe someone who has played it could tell me if I need to play it or not.

MM is about to replace ALttP I think as #1. A Link to the Past has been my long time fave, but I find myself replaying MM more. And I would love a remake for it. I don't have a 3DS but I liked OoT in the remake from what I played. And #3 for me is Windwaker. It's just so different.

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I was born in 1989 and my first gaming experience was the Sega Game Gear; my mom didn't want to buy me a Game Boy since it "wasn't in color". When I was seven I lived in an apartment building and made friends with a boy across the hall who owned a Super Nintendo.

I got one a year later but my mom ended up selling it on me when she got me an N64. For a little while I stuck to Nintendo systems but then I realized the PS2 matched my tastes so much more with their weirder titles. I loved the SMT series, Persona, Space Channel 5, Katamari Damacy, Gitaroo Man, Mr. Mosquito, and so on. They had the exclusives that wouldn't be on any other system and the backwards compatibility was a huge plus.

Nowadays... My game library becomes smaller and smaller with each new system. There's nothing I care about and all the stupid bells and whistles they make me pay for that I don't use are infuriating.

Mine does, too. It's crazy that I bought a NES and SNES with two controllers for each and a total of 42 (I can't remember, maybe 34) from someone for less than half of what I paid for a 360 with a Kinect and one controller.