AI-assisted development is bringing old games to platforms we'd never have thought possible. That's exciting, but the growing flood of unfinished ports is beginning to raise an uncomfortable question: how many of these games are actually worth playing?

Some of the ports we’re seeing in the retro handheld community lately have been great, and I love seeing developers push these little devices beyond what they were ever intended to do. But I’ve definitely noticed what feels like a growing amount of ‘port-slop’, with new projects appearing seemingly every few hours, many of them feeling more like quick experiments than anything particularly worthwhile.

I’m not against the experimentation at all, but I do wonder if we’re reaching a point where quantity is starting to overshadow quality. Anyway, I put together a short opinion piece about it, just my own thoughts on something I’ve been noticing lately, especially here with my favorite old system: the PSP.

  • B0NK3RS@lazysoci.alEnglish
    282·
    3 days ago

    My interest and excitement for recomps etc has almost disappeared now :(

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      My interest and excitement for recomps etc has almost disappeared now

      Same here but for open source projects in general :(. Its just always slop now