It’s honestly kinda crazy how long some games spend in development. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is a perfect example of something that should’ve been quick but ended up being so bloated and took forever to make.
FF7Remake was announced in 2015, got stuck in development hell for a bit, released 2020. The sequel released 2024. The third one still hasn’t been teased yet. How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story? I loved the first remake but dropped the second one, I just didn’t care about the story as much as I did ~5 years ago.
You can just play the original, though.
Same with any of these franchises. The newer titles are hit or miss, but the old games have aged like wine.
We can but it generally looks and controls like crap on modern screens. It has aged worse than many tank control games like Resident Evil.
Lots of people just wanted a nice graphical update with some quality of life improvements. I’m sure that shouldn’t take a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars to complete.
They may have aged like wine but most youths don’t like drinking wine. It is an “acquired taste”. They don’t have the nostalgia you have for them.
Then they can wait six years between sips of AAA piss, I suppose.
My friends with kids don’t seem to have any problem picking up Sonic, Pokemon, or Guantlet. One’s even picked up Eldin Ring.
You don’t need nostalgia to enjoy nice things.
Elden Ring is hardly “aged”. L DLC in the last 12 months. There are modern Sonic and Pokemon games and they hit a short cycle time.
The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting. They aren’t getting attached enough to bother waiting. That’s literally the whole point of the article. Did you read it?
You don’t need to wait to play games that came out thirty years ago.
Plenty of young people are into retro gaming.