When I got into eroge there were countless top-tier Japanese VNs to play, and when I started to run dry of those there were countless top-tier western indie-type games to play. Kinda depressing to know I'll never be in that position again.
It's kinda depressing.
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- Apr 14, 2021
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Imagine how it'll be for people who keep begging for saves/holding ctrl/cheating all the time, and instantly feel better. 
- Sep 13, 2016
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Imagine how it feels for someone who doesn't like visual novels. One in every hundred games on here are worth playing, maybe less.
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i know i don't like VN at all i don't know why there are so many, probs coz anything else takes alot more time so its hard to get it to be worth doing
Same, minus the VN part. Got into adult games after finding a hentai mugen video. Played all the classics, now I'm left with nothing to play. I've almost started throwing gameplay quality out the window at this point.
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This is what growing up is all about... you can only watch Star Wars for the first time once... or listen to a sublime piece of music for the first time once... and after more and more decades are added to your life clock you realize you have mostly seen it all now and everything else is just a variation or an imitation of things you have seen before. And many times it's of a lesser quality.
Which is why people are usually nostalgic for the things they grew up with, when things were new and could leave an impression. One of the first VNs I played/read was Leap of Faith. I still think about that game. But I can hardly remember what VN I tried last week, it certainly wasn't as good as LoF.
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Aren't you confusing it with 3DCG? Those are the ones that have the issues you mention.
Usually 2dcg or 3d games are more prone to have original artwork because people aren't just taking screenshots of the same 3D software and models...
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It rarely feel like being of a better quality, because what you remember is rarely the effective quality, but the amount of nostalgia it trigger.
But in the same time it come with a perk, you become less demanding. Since you've already since "this", and it will hardly be better than what you know, you just goes with the flow. You seek less for "good entertainment", as long as it's "not this bad after all", it will do. And it's finally how you get the biggest slaps, because sometimes it end being really entertaining.
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Certainly, few things can beat the impression a movie or show or anything will leave on you when you are young. On a technical level at least modern things are usually a lot better, there is also tons of great new music, maybe not necessarily in the mainstream, but it exists.
I think it's important to still keep an open mind about new things, sure I can listen to Dark Side of the Moon for the 1000th time, or I can listen to something new that is different, but also good. And every once in a while a new tv show is objectively better than most things we watched in the past, I think Severance on Apple TV is a great show, for example. And the things we remember fondly like X-Files etc had lots of mediocre or bad moments even.
However, I would argue that at least mainstream movies were a lot better 20+ years ago. When things like Forrest Gump or Titanic or Star Wars could all be #1 hits at the box office, appealing to very different groups of people. And not just MCU movie #274, #275 and #276. Mainstream cinema has become too formulaic.
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It's the novelty of the experience that does it for you. Same as how we'd put on a pedestal that first person who sexually awakened (aroused) us.