I translated my “Videogames don’t age” article into English recently, and while reading it I remembered some personal opinions I didn’t include and some other points I should’ve gone over. It’s no surprise, I wrote it almost a year ago and in the meantime I’ve read (and watched videos) more on the subject. Some remakes of games I’ve played and enjoyed were released, too, so I also had the chance of both reviewing and reflecting upon the reaction of the community at large and the opinions of a wide variety of gamers.
In a discussion about the Playstation 2 the topic of the best games of the console came out, as it usually does in this kind of discussions. I said, half jokingly, half serious, that that honor belonged to King’s Field IV. One of the answers I received was: “In its time? Probably. Today? Not one bit”.