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Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can't count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with handicap features, and also to find Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, you'd lose a number of hours exploring every nook and cranny finding them!

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[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Dude I remember reading the original X-Com manual like it was a novel.

[-] uienia@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The manual for the original Elite was literally a novel, well one of the many volumes of printed documentation it came with was

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