Widespread gaming history myths

[Gamerforlife]

Myth
Licensed games always suck.

Many people STILL believe this despite tons of great licensed games in the past two decades. Some review I read for Batman Arkham City on a gaming website basically said that it is the first licensed game that doesn't suck. Apparently, this guy's been living in a cave

Myth
Every game was hard in the 8-bit era.

Really? Would games like Battletoads be legendary for their difficulty if that was the norm? Yet another myth you STILL see in modern reviews written by morons whenever some retro style game comes out

Myth
There were never any good Batman games before Arkham Asylum.

Really? Batman for the NES. Batman for the Genesis. The Adventures of Batman and Robin on the SNES. Batman Returns on SNES. The Contra style, hardware pushing Batman and Robin on the Genesis. LEGO Batman

Myth
Beat'em ups suck without multi-player

I see people talk about the fun of solo-ing beat'em ups all the time and there are videos of people doing that on youtube even for modern games like Castle Crashers and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Many people were still playing and enjoying Castle Crashers when it first came out and had no online multi-player yet, despite the vocal trolls who wanted the folks at Behemoth beheaded.. In fact, games like Devil May Cry spawned from the beat'em ups of old and are pure single player experiences

[Lokkenjawnz]

I don't know if it's just me, but a lot of these myths aren't myths at all, just peoples' opinions. This to me sounds more like people venting about others saying dumb things about videogames basically, not exactly the threads intent I believe.

However I have to chime in on the whole DLC thing. Expansion packs from back in the day are not really comparable to DLC these days. Most (emphasis being most) DLC is nowhere near the scope of older expansion packs, which were usually more akin to cheap sequels than pure expansions. That's not always the case, but it is, in my experience, the norm. The bigger issue, to me at least, is that expansion packs 10 years ago, were still physical copies (for the most part). Whereas I didn't think twice about buying Brood War, it basically doubled the number of missions, added half a dozen new units, and a whole new storyline. However if a similar game/expansion scenario were to play out these days, only as DLC (i.e. just a download, not a physical copy) I'm not sure how I'd feel about it. I have a real hard time paying for downloadable things, unless they're dirt cheap, as I tend to prefer a physical copy. However that's not really fair to developers, as there are plenty of amazing games, sold as download-only copies at the same price as a physical copy, that are absolutely worth a buy. It puts me in a weird place as a consumer, because I want to support my favorite devs, but I don't really want to buy downloadable stuff on a regular basis.

I think the bigger issue with DLC is not the DLC itself, but the precedent that it sets up. There is plenty of good DLC, that you can tell is truly a work of love from the devs, and that is an incredibly cool development in the game industry that we get these little add-ons post-release. However, the DLC model is showing the less scrupulous businesses that they can get away with nickel-and-diming us into paying multiple times for one product. It's a very strange situation time to be a videogamer, I can only hope that things end up smoothing out in the next couple of years.

[baphomet_irl]

that Halo was the first mutiplayer game with vehicular combat - seriously loads of people seem to think that, when Tribes and I'm pretty sure BF:1942 predate it, and I'm sure there were some before that...

[Zing]

Years ago, gamers were afraid that the "release now, patch later" mindset would infect console developers. Who would have guessed that they would end up charging money for this?

[MrPopo]

Years ago, gamers were afraid that the "release now, patch later" mindset would infect console developers. Who would have guessed that they would end up charging money for this?

I'm sorry, I can't remember paying for any bug fix patches on the console.

[noiseredux]

I don't know if it's just me, but a lot of these myths aren't myths at all, just peoples' opinions.

yup.

[MrPopo]

I don't know if it's just me, but a lot of these myths aren't myths at all, just peoples' opinions.

yup.

This is the biggest myth of all.

[ZeroAX]

Myth

The Dreamcast is dead

The prophet has spoken



The legend lives on. On the day the casual game bubble bursts, facebook games crumble from the weight of way too big investor expectations, when the mobile gaming scene evaporates from lousy controls and countless rip-off games of old classics, the second coming will be upon us and all gaming kind will be saved. All gamers, Nintendo, Sony, MS, Apple, whatever will join under the banner of our savior and we shall live in a DLC-less, blue skies in games world with a single godly console that plays all retro games perfectly as well as accept all controllers and add ons.

Oh, on that day, we'll also get a new Sonic game that's actually better than the Mega Drive stuff.

[Erik_Twice]

Myth

The Dreamcast is dead

The prophet has spoken



The legend lives on. On the day the casual game bubble bursts, facebook games crumble from the weight of way too big investor expectations, when the mobile gaming scene evaporates from lousy controls and countless rip-off games of old classics, the second coming will be upon us and all gaming kind will be saved. All gamers, Nintendo, Sony, MS, Apple, whatever will join under the banner of our savior and we shall live in a DLC-less, blue skies in games world with a single godly console that plays all retro games perfectly as well as accept all controllers and add ons.

Oh, on that day, we'll also get a new Sonic game that's actually better than the Mega Drive stuff.

There was a thread for this kind of posts where is it?

[baphomet_irl]

Myth

The Dreamcast is dead

The prophet has spoken



The legend lives on. On the day the casual game bubble bursts, facebook games crumble from the weight of way too big investor expectations, when the mobile gaming scene evaporates from lousy controls and countless rip-off games of old classics, the second coming will be upon us and all gaming kind will be saved. All gamers, Nintendo, Sony, MS, Apple, whatever will join under the banner of our savior and we shall live in a DLC-less, blue skies in games world with a single godly console that plays all retro games perfectly as well as accept all controllers and add ons.

Oh, on that day, we'll also get a new Sonic game that's actually better than the Mega Drive stuff.

that would be ena poli POLI orea day!