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Nostalgia blinds people, but not the way you think it does


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blog-0075234001412186886.jpgNostalgia does blind people

 

I often hear that Nostalgia blinds people. And I agree with that. Nostalgia makes people unfair in their opinions towards different media. But it blinds on another way then often is referred

 

I mean that people often see nostalgia as a bad thing, because it influences the opinions on old games like Mario, Ocarina of time, Final fantasy etc. However, I don’t think that’s wrong. The only thing that the nostalgia adds then is a extra thing on why someone likes a old game

 

It becomes a problem when nostalgia clouds the view on new games that come out.

 

There is a good friend of mine, called Youri. Youri and I both love the Assassin’s Creed franchise. We do, however, have different ways on how much we like certain Creed games.

 

The first creed game Youri and I both played is Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. It was a good game with nice graphics and a pleasant feeling to it.

 

And I personally will not compare Assassin’s Creed games with each other. Mainly because it takes place in different times, and therefore the creators tried to give each time his own personal feeling. Because of that, no Assassin’s Creed game will feel the same, because there is different art style, other styles of music and different colors. In short, the atmosphere is different, so comparing Creed games isn’t fair in my opinion.

 

Youri, on the other hand, does compare the games with each other. To him, the first Creed game he played was the best, which was Brotherhood.

 

Now, thinking that one game is better then another game of that franchise isn’t a bad thing WHEN someone can back their opinion up with a real things they found great at the game or major faults at the other games.

 

Only youri sees the other Assassin’s Creed games as less good, because ‘’it doesn’t feel the same’’

 

And that’s a problem when looking at Creed games critically. Because Youri has that much of Nostalgia for Brotherhood, no other creed game will give him the same feeling, and thus, will never be as good as Brotherhood.

 

This wouldn’t be a problem if Youri could still enjoy the new Creed games. But he can’t enjoy them anymore. He hasn’t even played Black Flag trough the end, because to him, it doesn’t have the same feel as Brotherhood

 

And I think this is the big danger of Nostalgia, being unable to see the beauty in new games, because they don’t capture ‘’that’’ same feeling you had playing an old game. When I heard that the newest generation of Pokémon had a Pokémon that was a ice cream cone, I became pretty angry and said that Pokémon was ruined for me.

 

Now, I can say that Pokémon isn’t ruined: it just changed, like media is supposed to do over time

 

And I think everybody has this Nostalgia blindness for certain media. There is really a blindness behind Nostalgia. Not in the past, but in the present and near future, and we should be aware that there is a threat in Nostalgia

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