Comment by mrguyorama

>Yes, bad old games exist. But there were literally dozens of genre-defining games that would go on to shape how games continued to be made in the decades since

The N64 had one of the smallest videogame libraries ever. It had less than 400 titles. How many of those were "Super great" vs how many were utter garbage?

The SNES had 1749!

The vast vast majority were slop.

A lot of the "great" ones are only really great in context, ie no preceding works to draw from and with the technological limits of the time.

Is Pilotwings good? As someone who grew up with similar age flight simulators but not pilot wings, it is extremely mediocre. Same for StarFox and StuntRaceFX even though both were dramatic at the time, but they do not hold up in the slightest. 12fps is not that fun.

>Games that are so good they define or reshape genres are few and far between nowadays.

Yes, this is called a new domain maturing. This is the expected outcome in all new domains. You pick all the low hanging fruit and explore most of the solution space.

Scroll through this list and tell me things were better back then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Enterta...