With the game platforms, games lost most of the "buy and install moments". I remember as a kid, see a game in the shop, save money for months to buy it and finally have it in my hands. Run home because can't wait to play it, open the box and put the CD in the floppy drive with care, as it was a teasure... 5 minutes typing the game key and then the eternal installation moments, and the fear of seing an Installation Error.Finally, the moment of double-click the new Desktop game icon, and see all the cool logos/animations of the companies and studios that made it, because I didn't discovered yet that with space you can skip it.
It was a full experience without even play the game itself!
Now, with money in the credit card, and a 100Mbs connection, it's just go to Steam, click the Buy button, and there is not even an installer, just a notification after 10 minutes saying that the game is ready to be played, and a new DLC just released, which is not bad, but makes me feel nostalgy and something missing.
Have you experienced the same feeling Anons? Any old related story?
Installers having music and screenshots was pretty comfy, yeah. GOG games are the closest we have nowadays, with ads for other games.
Jacob Peterson
>Have you experienced the same feeling Anons? I have and I genuinely miss it. Though I dislike games being tied to online platforms for numerous other reasons too.
Jayden Morris
I don't, it was annoying as all hell. Thank god for modern installers
Benjamin Jenkins
>old good, new bad, i miss old it make me sad :( Do you have anything new to say?
Alexander Hill
>put the CD in the floppy drive are you fucking serious?
Thomas Lee
He's an ESL shitter, be gentle.
Juan Martinez
lol, in spanish. We say disquetera, and google translator gave me that translation ^^ srry
Nathaniel Harris
>actually sitting through this shit and not muting the installer and minimizing the installer while you listen to music you just got from napster and checking the progress of all the porn/movies/other games you were downloading from ed2k, winmx, limewire, and whatever other client came out that week
Dylan Gutierrez
>when the shitty CD-Key generator had a loud as fuck music
