Example: I differ from company to company.

I would say either Atari or Sega, but I’ve been playing a lot of Nintendo lately even if I barely use my NES or my Switch.

I think the SNES is cool and now believe the Genesis was overhyped and marketed poorly like their other consoles though I made a living playing the Saturn and Dreamcast.

I am a PSO hunter, but I seldom play it anymore.

Atari is now a niche company with a deeper legacy than Nintendo, being the first popular video game company still alive and releasing new software and hardware to boot.

Nintendo, however, is the more popular video game brand while Atari is now a much smaller company than before but still active with arcade cabinets, home consoles, and games.

I’m not sure what I really like anymore but currently I think Nintendo so far is nice with their Super Nintendo console.

I’ve been playing Super Mario World and F-Zero lately.

  • Ivy RavenEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Feel like all my favorites fell off pretty hard. Was a big fan of Blizzard from Starcraft and Warcraft 3 which led into World of Warcraft. Still play WoW, but Blizzard as a company lost any love I had after all their shitty doings outside the game.

    Bungie is a similar story. Halo was awesome and the Destiny universe used to have a choke hold on me due to the lore alone. But their CEO is a piece of shit and their decisions to force playtime over fun or enjoyable content has seen me distance myself from their stuff to a severe degree.

    I grew up with an SNES and used to be a huge Nintendo fan, but again eh. The Switch I found to be bleh. And as a huge Legend of Zelda fan their moving the series into a stamina meter thing turned me off.

    Know it sounds like I hate or am down on gaming. I’m really not. Just hyper aware of the behind the scenes BS and has killed a lot of video game hype for me. I still play WoW and enjoy it. I still play a little Destiny 2 and kind of enjoy myself when I do. But my golden age of gaming has passed me by. Everything now is about battle passes, gatcha mechanics, pay shops etc and feels like only Soulslikes deliver a full game. Sadly I’m too crappy to play those lol

    • maryXann@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There are still nice indies without that greedy attitude that big corps have. Wube Software for example (the factorio guys) are pretty irreproachable afaik.

    • Kyle Judd@lemmy.autism.placeOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Pardon me, but…Have You Played Atari Today?

      Atari is a company still making hardware and software that I like to play on like the VCS.

      There are other brands too, like Evercade, Polymega, Analouge, and the Playdate.

      And then all the other older consoles like from the usual Nintendo and Sega are still being supported by unofficial software developers.

      So the retro gaming scene is pretty active compared to the modern gaming scene.