• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    Ahh, the days before games companies hired the casino slot machine UX designers. An elegant game from a more civilised age.

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Trollbait, it has to be. “no brand tie ins” is genuinely hilarious to me. I’m picturing a videogame reviewer going like: “The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we’ve seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10”.

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Millennials as well. I get bored with modern games. Grinding all day for a pink weapon skin. Tf, I don’t care what color are my skins. Give me a good old challenge

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    We had mods. They’re a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn’t have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.

  • speaker_hat@lemmy.one
    01·
    1 year ago

    It was pure gaming.

    No advertisments, no marketing, no extra costs.

    The only way to get better was to play more.

    How can it not be fun?

    Good ol’ days, thank you VALVE.