Quote Originally Posted by Tupsi View Post
Everytime someone says this it's basically saying:

"People didn't actually like the game they played, because chances are I didn't like it, so therefore no one liked it."
Except it isn't. I played XI for a long time and loved the hell out of that game. That said, I look back at it now and there's a lot about the game I see and go "Euuugh." And there are some things I remember fondly now that I *hated* when I played the game.

I'm not saying people didn't like XI. I'm not saying that that my opinion is the end-all be-all of ANYTHING. What I am saying is that a lot of times people have fond memories of stuff that (at the time) were likely not fond memories. But they choose to dress it up as something better than it was.

People have done this since time immemorial. It's like listening to our parents or grandparents (or any other adults who are quite a bit older than us) talk about the "good ole days" and how much better things were back then. Except, they weren't really better, but the passage of time makes people fond of things in their past, and allows them to forget or gloss over the things they may not have liked or that may have been bad.

That's what the concept of "nostalgia goggles" represents - looking into the past and not noticing the blemishes that were there and that you were fully aware of at the time.