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The old ways are best
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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Revisionism. Releasing questionable quality because the moneypeople were pushing for it has always happened in the past. People who remember are just less likely to scream online about it.
There's also a healthy dose of survivorship bias. The truly terrible games have faded into obscurity back when I got my first Amiga I played "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" for a few weeks, because that was one of the two pack in games. Guess how many times I have revisited that steaming pile of Tiertex shit since then?
I'm glad someone mentioned survivorship bias. I used to do a fun little "True Random" roulette with some rom packs I had (basically every game ever made prior to PS2) and a vast majority were pretty awful. The challenge we had was to play at least 30 minutes, but that was so rough sometimes.
It's tough though, I have played a few games I used to love back in the day over the last few years that are not what I remember at all. Can't help but feel like my struggle is with going back to a gameplay style that's evolved far past the games that are locked in time. I beat Dune 2 with all 3 factions as a teenager, struggled to play it for an hour last year. It's hard to go back to one of the grand daddies of the RTS genre when you have gotten used to modern interfaces, controls, and features.
I think of those things as additional challenges, but it kind of depends on the game. RTS, Dune 2 definitely hasn't aged well compared to Starcraft, for instance. To be fair, Dune 2 is like the first major RTS, though. Lol
But that's partly what I meant by my post, True Random time with my friends is more of a "suffering is content" moment, haha. Playing an FPS with tank controls is infuriating!
I'm personally looking forward to RetroAchevements adding support for MSDOS sometime in the next year, though, because I like the challenge of jank ass games. I'll probably play Dune 2, after I finish all Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2, haha.
Yes. Crappy games also stayed crappy forever because there were no patches.
Yeah, long before those days.
You got me wondering what happened to Tiertex and I was surprised to find that they were still trading as recently as 2021!
I guess the pivot out of gaming meant they continued to trade for 20 years after their last video game project. Good on them.