I used to go into a store to find a game, but now I go into a game to find a store.

It's simple. Older games were made to be fun. New games are made to make money

I AINT PAYIN 70 DOLLARS FOR A MOVIE

A lot of older games were actually finished and not rushed. Plus the games now are filled with microtransactions and have no good new ideas.

Modern games are not made to be fun. They are produced and developed from the group up to squeeze as much money as possible from the gamer.

Games from the 90s to the mid-00s have aged incredibly well and are still more fun than today's games

For older games: 1. They're cheaper 2. They're patched. 3. No sweet baby incs

Because we are not consumers we are human beings..

"People played more old games in 2023" The ESA: "Oh shit, we gotta cut their access to them!"

Tango studios being shutting down after the Hi-fi rush success still baffles me. So even if you done everything right, you still may get the boot because of some top executive bullshit

Remakes, prequels, unoriginality, lack of creativity, predatory microtransactions, anti-consumer practices, forced diversity, and game devs hating consumers, among other things. I've been playing Neverwinter Nights and a select few F2P MMOs while waiting for the game industry to regain common sense and imagination. That's right, a 20 year old game has been tying me over while weathering the crappy modern game industry storm. And it is doing an outstanding job of keeping me entertained.

Simple answer. About 10 years ago developers simultaneously got greedy and lazy. They saw that mobile games were profitable and now they are trying to make every game a whale trap with cosmetics and battle passes instead of focusing on FUN.

I'm about to play sleeping dogs for the first time on the PS3..... Sony will never know the console is offline

Unsustainable Greed.

Honestly, great times for us gamers who prefer older games and Indy over modern AAA, all you need is a Steamdeck (or a cheap pc) and internet access.

There is also the reason that we dont have the high end hardware needed for current day aaa games.

Reason being is because game companies are forcing Online service requirement with these newer games, making it more difficult to enjoy the game on your own spare time.

I play older games because: 1) New games are expensive (especially when you live in Azerbaijan) 2) I am stuck with a 1050 ti laptop and must use it for 8 years (until 2027) 3) Old games offer better stories and experiences with the only downside being "bad" graphics

With how good PS2 and GameCube emulation has gotten over the last two years that's where all my time has gone

Overpriced, boring, lack of creativity, forced politics, predatory microtransactions and rng mechanics, poor optimization, forced diversity, game devs being hostile to the customers... just to name a few.

I own a PS5 with over 150+ Games on it and I'm just enjoying my PS2 and PS3 a lot.

Nice to know it's not just me going back to previous consoles and handhelds more than ever.

Modern greed. You get three times more value playing a game made before 2014

Overpriced, boring/lack of creativity, predatory microtransactions, poor optimization, game studios having anti-consumer practices. That's just to name several reasons.

Because there’s no new ideas that’s why we are having these problems. Have you notice that Hollywood is having the same problem?

"Older games" brother I played these when they came out 😂 feel so old now and I'm only in my mid 30s 😢

Inflation, people having built they're backlog over the years, more and more games becoming second jobs/live services, and smaller games offering complete experience it's no wonder why gamers and pwople stick eith older games.

You know it's bad when pokemon stadium looks better than every switch pokemon game

While I love playing GT7 and Horizon Forbidden West, I have spent far more money this year on collecting physical PS4 and Xbox 360 games for the future. I spend easily 80% of my gaming time playing older games, I just completed a campaign playthrough of Halo 3 and CoD Infinite Warfare last week.

Game Company: We are sorry that we released the game incomplete, but we will be updating it over the next few years. Thank for your money tho.

100% agree, the PS2/early to mid X360 era were the golden age of gaming, after which it got progressive worse. i play the occasional new/newish game but i play mostly older games from 2010s and 2000's...sometimes even the 90's. console emulation on pc is another wonderful thing and i love playing those "stuck only on console" games too.

old videogames were true videogames

I played games my entire life, now I am almost 40, I am done. Done done done, I may pick up and play a classic but the days of waiting on new stuff are over.

I love how 17 year olds in the comment section say I went back to old games because 'nostalgia' when in reality I never stopped playing them in the first place I first played Mario Kart Wii online around 2009 and still played it online regularly until 2022 when my Wii melted. I also played GTA SA since 2005 and still play multiplayer and watch streams. I still play GTA 4 and cause chaos whenever I'm having a bad day. I play Black Ops 3 zombies with my friends nearly every day. There's absolutely no reason for me to stop playing them if I still enjoy them

Gaming peaked with the PS2 and early days of PS3

Old games just slap differently.. passion projects created for passionate gamers that want to escape the world and it's drama and just have fun

Having a blast playing old school games on my phone via emulators

Madden 2007: One of the best American Football games ever made. Nascar Racing Season 2003: The best Nascar racing sim. Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005: An amazing arcade racer with some of the best police ai ever. Super Mario Bros. 3 1990: One of, if not the best, 2D platformer. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 2004: The literal best selling game on the Playstation 2.

Newer games are mostly lonely experiences, we need more 4 player splitscreen games, especially now many people have 65" TVs

Me, playing Hollow Knight and Okami, "they aren't that old"...

I started going back to older games and couldn't be happier.

The middle class is shrinking -- and it has been since the 1970s, but it really kicked into high gear after the 2008 mortgage crisis and again after the pandemic -- and most of that shrinkage is feeding into the lower class. This is affecting who can afford what and how games are being made.

All of the NPCs and the BOTs who have been shaming real people with opinions about “nostalgia” are all real quiet lately. Don’t ever listen to these losers again

Market oversaturation. Too many games trying to replicate the success of existing hit games, competing for the same customer base. Publishers refuse to take risks with big budget games, sticking to proven but stale ideas. The charts are topped by evergreen titles that dominate their own genre by offering a unique experience. Also, the current console generation has failed, lmao. People see no value in owning the latest consoles, as they offer nothing new.

The AAA games industry has become very corporate and risk-averse. It's becoming increasingly distant from the people it sells to, so now there are whole departments that handle different aspects of "the customer side of things", while the actual decision makers are stereotypical suits who really only care about profits and politics. Meanwhile the customer has become more cynical and smaller developers have been squeezed by an ever more crowded market. There have been some really bad trends.

Because old games are objectively better in every way.

Speaking only for myself the money has literally 0 to do with playing older games and everything to do with preferring to play finished games. Saving money is just a great bi-product of not pre ordering or buying unfinished games on launch. I'd happily pay more than the normal full price for a game on launch if I knew I got everything included and the game worked as advertised. Cyberpunk is probably the game I've been the most hyped about ever, and I was so disappointed when I read the reviews that came out on launch. I haven't bought it yet, but I know my experience will be incredibly more enjoyable when I do in the near future....and I'll probably get it and all DLC at 75% discount in the process.

Also because of the advancement of flash carts, you can now play every retro game ever for your older consoles. Many times when you were just a kid you only had around 10 games, but the console had 1,000 games. This means that there were tons of older games that you never had a chance to play. But thanks to flash carts and emulation, now you can play all of these older games that you missed out on.

Thank BlackRock and Vanguard for the massive DEI push in the tech world. This is the result, a cyber-dystopia.

I have pirated all my favourite games (3TB) and now I can play them wherever and whenever I want. 🏴‍☠️

NEVER been a better time to be a patient gamer... someone still on the last generation (or even earlier), buying only the absolute best/time-tested games, all at rock bottom prices

I’ve recently got a HDMI upscaler for my GameCube & loving it! I have also gone back to games I played back in the day but never completed or games I just never got round to buying because money. It’s amazing how old games feel like the made the correct decisions to prioritise gameplay and content over anything else.

Most people play older games mainly because they are just fun to play, Fallout New Vegas and the older Fallout games are good examples of this, those games are a blast to play no matter how many times you replay it, most companies nowadays are running out of ideas for games and mostly turn to remakes of their older games or a badly made sequel.

I recently got into the original Devil May Cry games and have had a lot of fun (2 being the exception).

most of the new games I play come from independent developers like Freedom Planet 2 , Selaco and cultic , games that take only 10 , 20 or 30 hours to finish but also come with a fair low price even when you buy them without a discount , Indie does what big AAA studio stopped doing , great experience that doesn't overstay their welcome just for long term engagement and microtransactions.

Game companies now: you should like what we make Game companies in the past: we should make what you like

New games are mostly made unfinished due to dei workers.

I rarely play any new games

The Folden Age of gaming was 1995-2005. Before the microtransactions of today and the arcade games that were designed to suck quarters away at an alarming rate.

I've been a gamer for 40 years. At this stage of my life, with two young kids and responsibilities at an all time high, I only have about an hour to play in any given day. Getting into and learning a whole new game just feels overwhelming. It's far simpler and more relaxing to just stick with what I know and play something out of my old catalog.

Less bullshit, more fun.

Why were people playing older games in 2023? My guess would be because newer modern games are poorly optimized and require high amounts of VRAM along with the fact that NVIDIA cards cost so damn much in ratio to the amount of VRAM given

I think it’s also cause somebody were discovering some older games that were overlooked when they were younger and now it’s interesting. There’s games from like the UK America and Japan that are so good. You have to go all the way back to the 70s up to now.

Games back then used to be made for gamers, now its made for maximising shareholder value and making investors happy.

there are always new children entering the video game market, which explains why children's games like fortnite are always popular.

To answer the question of why older media as a whole dominates the charts, I think the simple explanation is familiarity. It is far easier to rewatch a classic television show, or replay a favorite title from ten years ago, than to put in the effort of trying something new. Here’s what it comes down to: if you’ve experienced that show or video game in the past, then you know exactly what to expect when going back to it. You know what the plot twists are. You know what the characters are like. You know the controls, the mechanics, how to beat the boss fights, where to find the secrets, so on and so forth. And most importantly of all: by going back to something old, you _already know_ that you’re going to have a good time with it. Because you had a good time, the _last time_ you went back to it. It takes a lot of work to get into a new show or game. Having to learn the plot, memorizing who the characters are, playing through the slow-ass tutorial, figuring out what you’re supposed to in order to progress. All of those things act as barriers or obstacles that get in the way of your goal, which is to be entertained. To have fun. So why not cut all of those problems out by just going back and rewatching or replaying something you’ve already seen before, instead? I think this has always been the case with entertainment, and always will be, regardless of whether or not the ‘new stuff’ is good or not. People argue that “old stuff was better”, but even when they have new experiences that are collectively agreed upon to be great, so many will _still_ choose the old stuff. “Oh, in my backlog I’ve got The Witcher 3, and Elden Ring, and God of War: Ragnarok, and Hi-Fi Rush, and Doom Eternal, and… hm… nah, I’m just gonna go do my 7th playthrough of Mass Effect 2!” Like, you get what I mean? People build up these massive backlogs, and then continue to prioritize games they’ve already finished long ago, or go back to [insert live service game here]. The quality of new releases isn’t driving people into replaying old games. They’re doing it because they’re lazy - like we all are, inherently. We don’t even want to put effort into having fun.

To describe video games as young is crazy but so very ture. There's only like 50 years of gaming and that's crazy to think about seeing how i overseen like half of it.

I think the first reasons you mentioned are about most of it. Folks are simply sick of shelling out 60-70 bucks on an unfinished product or a game that might be bricked if they turn off the servers to it.

I bought a pc a few days ago and I literally only been playing 360/ps3 era games and some old 2006 games on pc

Last year I brought a Steamdeck and most of the games I have played have been classics from the 6th and 7th generation. The system has given a new lease of life to older games

modding community can turn what had been a 60 dollar game back in 2008 into what could arguably be a 300 dollar game with the sheer amount of extra modded content.

Cost of living going up, layoffs increasing, price of games going up, and everything being less and less enjoyable as corners are cut.

Rest in peace, DriveClub

Because they are better, without Ideology or Politics. Its one of many Factors for me

The modern industry has been killing itself with approaches and goals nobody asked for. Them trying to prevent risk to the extreme and follow trends has increased their chance of failure.

In general there has been a steep decline in both games and cinema. Corporations putting their dirty hands in the creation of art absolutely ruins it.

I hate newer media and the corporations who spit it out🥲🤮🤮

Older games had more creativity. As someone who has been playing video games since 1990 or 1991, I have seen how over the last 3+ decades gaming has changed for the worse. Don’t get me wrong there are still good video games that come out today but it’s nothing like it was in the 90’s and 00’s. Developers had less to work with which pushed them to be more creative in their approach to making games. Most of my favorite games are from 2-3 decades ago and not just because I grew up with them. It’s too many politics, copy and pasting, and focus on graphical fidelity over prioritizing gameplay nowadays. If a game is pretty but the gameplay sucks or it’s just copying another game it loses its substance. Putting all these politics and microtransactions in games is destroying gaming. I still have a wonderful time going back to my ps1 or original Xbox and remembering when gaming was truly in a better place.

Ive been playing games for 40 years and I've watched the growth of the industry over that time. The moment Spore was released with the first DRM i knew the writing was on the wall. Now we have all the horrible AAAA games with bare gameplay and addictive microtransactions. The gaming world has stagnated like so many other industries once the popularity hits a certain amount. Corporate greed has always been there but now they know they can get away with these horrible practices.

I play 2007 down to 1998 games. Love them no adds and I own physical copies ❤

because today games are bad and full of DEI bullshit

Playing GTA 4 rn, way better than anything I've played in the last 4 years. I somehow missed it back in the day and there's probably 80 other games the last 15 years I wanna play through, not to mention 30 or so RPGs. There's just not enough time to play these new shiny games that honestly kind of blow. These gaming companies aren't taking any risks, where's the games like RE that when released in the 90's created an entirely new genre.

Me literally in the last dungeon in the original Phantasy Star on Switch as I click this video. 😂

Old single player games were way more fun the complete package day one no dlc bs

I'm hoping it's cause people want to play video games instead of movies or twitch stream fodder under the guise of a video game.

that because most games, even new one, play pretty much the same, the only difference are the graphic and also ofc brand new story, but gameplay is pretty much more or less similar. the only new thing happen in games are VR as it play entirely new way compare to controller/keyboard mouse

Me who is playing nothing but TF2: 😬

Patches existed before systems with hard drives. On NES for example the game released at launch often wasn’t the same version released a few printings later. The patches came when they printed new stock. They updated console firmware’s the same way

Still playing NFS Underground 2 in 2024

It's because everthing they make now is just a woke version of something else that was successful.

They should put games on the market again that you can play on the couch with 2 or more people.

My Internet is shit sometimes. Single player games have NO reason to be always online

Bro the answer is on the surface! Overpriced copy paste From same brands all over again. Never ending life service garbage with battle passes, loot boxes, “premium” skins, early access to the weapons/characters, same map that been “fixed” all over again and again. What else... OH A MASSIVE PREMIUM STORE ON HOME PAGE. Never ending “score” page after match, 3 clicks to close it than face battle pass bar, with skins that you can get if you buy it, even more useless menus and tabs before you can come back to lobby to start this crap again. I don’t even know man, what could it be...

why we choose older games over new ones? thats so easy to answer, we prefer good games with good stories and none of the woke stuff we have today. plus game quality has dropped drastically over the last decade. yeah visually things may look great but the message most games give now days is just wokeneess turned up too 11

I literally just finished Too Human for Xbox 360, a 6/10 for its time but an 8/10 game compared to today’s release climate.

A lot of game designers today think all you need is state-of-the-art graphics, bombastic effects, epic battles, and you are done. But often you wonder if these designers have ever played their own game for more than 10 minutes in a row, and if they have, you really want to ask them, "Now explain to me how this is supposed to be fun?" Sure, it looks good, but it's boring AF! Repeated missions, hours of grinding, boring journeys through empty landscapes, pay-to-win systems, useless item upgrades, reused assets, poor voice acting, and zero creativity as everything looks copied from other games. The most important part of a game is entertainment and variety. Everything else about a game can suck, but these two are essential. If a game isn't fun to play, it's useless. And if a game has no variety, it will soon become boring, no matter how much fun it was in the beginning.

I play older games because: - I can't afford a "buffed up PC" - Downloading an older game is far faster and easier. - Old games aren't just about "Graphics", they have a better story and, less bugs, non of those "DLC" BS, "Patches" and etc. (If you wanna release a game, just test it properly, and not afterwards just for the devs to patch it constantly, and leaving users to download 500 MBs to 1 GBs of Patches or Fixes)

The most of games made today are boring, overpriced which you even don't have a physical copy anymore, required online connection 24/7 to play even single player mode, endless dlcs, seasons passes, updates, etc... Also oversized gaming sector, there's dozens of games launched every month. I've been playing video games since the 80s, I've had consoles since 8bit era but my last one was ps3 because from that generation games started to be more and more boring.

From the PS3 to ps4 era, the hardware became sufficient to create a decent technical experience. A pleasing art style is now more important than technically advanced graphics. That, combined with the cost of new hardware and software and the exploitative business pracrises, means older games are just more appealing. I just bought 4 older games in the steam sale (launched from 2015 to 2020) for a total of £10. I will get a lot more enjoyment at a far lower price than a single modern game at £60. These games will also have received multiple updates to improve the content and performance. Its a no brainer.

I think in a world where theres a million different versions of basically the same game.. some with worse graphics some with streamlined graphics.. Some people want to return to simplilcity. Games that are tested and played for decades and classics. When the rules of the game are simple and there isnt a thousand achievements, side-quests shoe horned in to pad out the overall play time. Sometimes you want to boot up a classic game, play an hour or two and feel satisfied. Modern games you would be playing just the tutorial in 2 hours. It just requires a lot more time and energy to get into a new expansive game