How is it that a game on the original Game Boy did a way better job of making me connect to the game world and...

How is it that a game on the original Game Boy did a way better job of making me connect to the game world and characters on an emotional level than most modern games today?

it focused on being fun and making you use your imagination

because back then devs actually cared about making games and not money

Because it's not about the game(s) it's about you.

There were no normies back then to ruin everything like it is now. Now that game would be made by a hipster SJW cause' they don't want us real nerds making games anymore. There's a conspiracy to keep us unemployed and not releasing good media. I have the best ideas for a new game, but I'm afraid to be arrested for racism since it only has white characters.

God, shut the fuck up.

Haha.

All the characters had a strong personality and the things that went on in the world effected them. There were no nameless NPCs just for the sake of making a place look populated.

You got Marin!

Be real, how long did you fuck around with Marin following you before you actually advanced the main quest?

Seeing her wait outside dungeons for you to come out was so cute.

Games back then were only made by people who had know-how and passion for the medium and culture. Now they are made by people with neither.

Because you were a fucking kid

Like well over an hour.

LA had neat little scenes like this and the Photos that showed what Koholint looks like when you aren't top down.

Oracles had what? Two still anime scenes and the intro?

Games nowadays are vastly bigger projects and keeping a consistent vision while working with a huge team is probably incredibly hard. Also, older games have a certain advantage with the lack of detail they have. Making good, emotive art like in the OP is way easier than working in 3D because your mind fills in the blanks.

Because you were little.

Link's Awakening is supremely overrated.

Nintendo actually tried back then.

>look at me being a contrarian on Sup Forums!

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I couldn't give half a fuck about the characters. Read a good book or watch a good movie and you will.

I've read many good books and watched many good movies that I also liked. Are you implying that you can't like one thing if a better thing exists?

>you're not allowed to enjoy characters in a game because books and movies exist

because Koizumi was free to work on the story details of that game. Unfortunately, story is choked out of any nintendo game if it isn't Itoi's.

This post sounds salty, but it's honestly true. Normies have ruined everything. If you don't remember what the internet was like before normies invaded, you have no fucking idea.

You played it when you were little enough to get immersed in just about anything.

Because you have autism.

Link's Awakening is an overrated piece of dogshit, and is no more emotional than any other game, or even any other Zelda game.

you were 10???

Why would I read a book or watch a movie when I want to play a video game?

You were a child when you played it.
If you were a kid now in 15ish years you'd be making the exact same thread with something in the place of LA that was released these days.

>>>/leddit/
Now away with you, faggot. It's so painfully obvious when newshits try to fit in.

I just played it for the first time two weeks ago and I definitely felt something for the people on the Island and felt genuinely sad that they would have to disappear (I read up on it beforehand)

you were a child you fucking moron

because you dont have a current/recent gen graphics card on a reasonable powerful computer

Limitation spawns innovation.

Look at how shit movies are nowadays as well. When you have to find a solution to your weaker hardware in order to convey something, you make a stronger product. If you're given every artistic tool under the sun and and ever expanding blank canvas, you're going to end up making meaningless garbage.

>people say any gameboy game is made with passion when it could've been a nes or SNES game instead

Because you were a kid and thus easily impressed.

Nostalgia. Link's Awakening is not that great.

What the heck did they do to Link's Awakening?!

I've played the original Game Boy copy, and the thing is that Technicolor trash anti it, trust me.

Your question appears to be wrong, I think you are mistaking a remake for the original.

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Remake is better than the original in this case.