Current Events > Stuff today's gamers will never experience

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• Having to draw your own maps
• Writing down passwords
• Having to refill health every time you restart the game
• Not having to go through 2 hour tutorials
• Games that came with full-color manuals that were basically mini Player's Guides (some even had maps)

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Games that are near impossible to beat without a guide you had to buy

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Games that didn't spell out everything you had to do for the entire game. Holy shit.

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Tupacrulez posted...

Games that didn't spell out everything you had to do for the entire game. Holy shit.

Morrowind vs Skyrim

booting the game and immediately playing within about five seconds
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Games that are only about 45 minutes long but are so ball crushingly hard you never beat them

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Load times that aren't longer than it takes to take a dump

Blowing in the cartridge

Memory Cards you had to buy

In-game secrets/rumors/myths. The day a game launches now people data mine it and unveil everything it has to offer right away and can confirm or debunk any cool little secrets or rumors.

Not being an oppressed minority

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Frame rate tanking when 3 enemies are on screen

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If only they could very very easily and affordably play older games.

Too bad we lost all those old games. Forever.

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Yeah it's a shame that global scale emp fired last week that destroyed all games older than the last two generations, thus making it impossible for today's gamers to ever play anything retro.

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If only they would make a shit ton of collections of older games or offer them on services on their current systems!

Damn it all to hell!!

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Great games

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MC_BatCommander posted...

Games that are only about 45 minutes long but are so ball crushingly hard you never beat them

I think I just shivered.

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Using all the toner/ink in the family printer for one guide.

Plug and play.

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I play Etrian Odyssey so I get to draw my own maps.

Not on actual graph paper but still.

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Mechanics that don't actually work the way they're described or just straight-up don't work

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Garioshi posted...

Mechanics that don't actually work the way they're described or just straight-up don't work

Again Etrian Odyssey <_<

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The guest controller

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Soggy_Pocket posted...

The guest controller

Good one.

Also Gameshark codes.I got so good at them I felt like a hacker.

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HylianFox posted...

Not having to go through 2 hour tutorials

That's more common now than ever.

Cheat codes.
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Lairen posted...

If only they could very very easily and affordably play older games.

Too bad we lost all those old games. Forever.

By now, there are guides for most of those games with maps and all kinds of info that we didnt have growing up.

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Soggy_Pocket posted...

The guest controller

ie, the shitty mad cats controllers.

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pikachupwnage posted...

Again Etrian Odyssey <_<

Is this something from the original versions of 1-2? I've played them all on 3DS and haven't run into things not working the way they are described.

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Convincing your parents it's worth calling the $3.95 a minute tip hotline when you (and/or your friends) can't figure something out

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Having to buy a memory pack or rumble pack.

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Keeping the skin on the palm of your hand intact

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What games are you playing that have 2 hour tutorials?

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vigorm0rtis posted...

What games are you playing that have 2 hour tutorials?

Kingdom Hearts II lmao

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vigorm0rtis posted...

What games are you playing that have 2 hour tutorials?

Lots of games are just one big tutorial tbh.

Tutorials every half hour until you defeat the final boss.

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Shitty heads up displays.
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Having games come as full experiences that doesn't require you to sink more money into them for DLC or other monetizations to get the full bang for your buck.
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