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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by dllthomas on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:38PM (#35990520)
> Most games coming on current gen hardware are utterly forgettable.

I don't make any strong claim that the proportion hasn't shifted, but that has absolutely been the case at every point in my awareness of games. Flip through an old Nintendo Power or Game Pro.

Meanwhile, some very interesting games are coming out these days - some of my favorites are from the past 5 years; time will tell how well they hold up, but I am optimistic.

Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by yamtaddle on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:57PM (#35991698)
The NES has somewhere around a thousand distinct games, if you count all markets and include unlicensed games (which there weren't that many of).

Maybe 200 of them aren't total trash. Perhaps 100 were genuinely good at the time. Low-tens of them are still at all worth playing for someone without nostalgia goggles—though, in some cases, that's because an entirely-superior remake exists; like, if you want to try the first three Final Fantasy games, you probably shouldn't play the NES versions, in 2023, unless you're aiming for some kind of "I want to experience them exactly as Old People did" sort of thing.