How does age currently affect your gaming?

[BumblebeeCody*]

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.

Yeah. It's how each resident reacts and live throughout their lives. It feels like a what-if scenario where "What if we took the residents and theme from a traditional fairy tale(Ocarina of Time) but put them in a different scenario that doesn't have any relation to the other form of work". What we have is a brilliant game that I still hope for Nintendo to try and match.
I want Nintendo or whoever to let Eiji Aonuma have free reign to make another Zelda game like this. Where you can use the assests of a Zelda game to make something else of the Zelda series. It's such a well developed game that you really have to look from different areas and not nitpick about being on a timer. Heck, you have to actively go out of your way to fail regardless of the timer so it comes down to the player just moaning at that point.

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.

Agreed. I have and Xbox One and I already know what I'm in form based on how last/current generations are going.

"Ah so I just bought this new game. Time to:
Make sure I have an account
Make sure it's gold to access all online features
Download the mandatory 13 GB title update
Download the compatibility packs
Download the season pass
Download the day 1 DLC
Download the Disc Locked-content
Download/Redeem the online pass
Redeem the pre-order content"

N64 be like:
Put the cartridge in and play.

Doesn't surprise me you like those games. The 360 has some really damn good gems too. Has: Earth Defence Force, Catherine (which I'm sure you know of), Alice: Madness Returns, Do Donpachi, Deadly Premonition, No More Heroes...heck, all the Suda51 games, Bayonetta(Platinum in generaL), Beautiful Katamari and lot's of the Dreamcast games including Space Channel 5 in HD plus so much more. Same with PS3 too.