I'm understanding about younger gamers! Okay, probably. I guess I can sympathize with games that came out before you were born because, goddamn. Since likely you played a whole 'nother kind of RPG first since they were contemporary (like you said), having to get into the mindset of older, perhaps more archaic and unforgiving games ON TOP OF the graphical "downgrade" is a lot to stomach. I think only the open-minded types could really manage that without much trouble.

This is part of the reason I do not mind remakes at all (within reason) - slapping on a coat of fresh paint and tweaking things can open these excellent games up to a whole new generation. At least it gives them a fighting chance!

To relate, I have a hard time playing Atari games (before my time in the literal sense), but I honestly do think that the concept behind those kind of games is significantly different than the resulting NES after it. The level of complexity is just incomparable. That being said, I have given those games (and some arcade games that aren't too different in concept) a shot and I've managed to enjoy some of them.

As I sort of said in my post, the laughter wasn't necessarily intentionally rude, it just could've come across that way. Annoying either way. I can be forgiving, though! You've shown me that there's at least some hope.

... if I ever have kids, though, I'm going to train them from FFI and go up from there.