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What video games have you played recently? What are you currently playing? And what will you play? - Discussion Thread #1 (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm going to do these periodically.

Title kinda says all.

I'll have my own reply later.

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What do you like most about 2023's repertoire of video games?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

WOW

One thing that makes the original Metroid interesting is that it's an in-between from old adventure games to games of the 90s (i.e., games with a map). At this time D&D would have been the standard, among other TTRPGs. Avid D&D players were used to making their own maps and such. For kids of the 80s, a map might have seemed unnecessary, as the fun would have been from mapping it yourself, discovering secrets from friends, etc. Someone who grew up in the 80s tell me if I'm getting this right.