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...Sprite scaling, Gouraud shading, Hardware sprite handling, Parallax scrolling etc.

Looking at how amazing Crysis is has made me think of the old Speccy, Amiga and SNES days.

Its amazing how far its come in 15-20 years!!

Anyone remember Paula, Denise and Agnes ;)
 
Yeh loading my games on the C64, used to have to wait ages for the tape to load. Gamers were a lot more patient back in the day. Now it seems if people are waiting more than a couple of mins for it to load the games a disgrace lol.
 
Remember the Hobbit on the speccy? Text-based adventure game. I think it was one of the first games I ever played and I was far too young to know what I was doing - I'd just end up typing random stuff:

Attack Gandalf

You attack Gandalf.

Gandalf attacks you. With one well placed blow Gandalf cleaves your skull.

You are dead.
>

etc
:D
 
Waiting for paperboy to load... oh the coolness!!

I actually remember playing the Arcade version where the Arcade machine had a set of handlebars that you would steer... oh my gawd Im old
 
skullman said:
Remember the Hobbit on the speccy? Text-based adventure game. I think it was one of the first games I ever played and I was far too young to know what I was doing - I'd just end up typing random stuff:

Attack Gandalf

You attack Gandalf.

Gandalf attacks you. With one well placed blow Gandalf cleaves your skull.

You are dead.
>

etc
:D
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The best one was drinking the wine. Then telling Bilbo to sit.

The Speccy added random h's so your character appeared drunk.

The result was, "You s 4 i t, time passes..."
 
billsterno1 said:
Yeh loading my games on the C64, used to have to wait ages for the tape to load. Gamers were a lot more patient back in the day. Now it seems if people are waiting more than a couple of mins for it to load the games a disgrace lol.
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I don't think they were more patient. It was more down to the fact that they had waited for a game to load (go make a cup of tea, etc) and then once they had waited they wanted to play the game properly (Ocean and co sorted some of the waiting out with impressive loading sceens and music and also some games had mini-games such as Invaders which you could play whilst waiting for the game to load). How times have changed.. if I get a game I don't like in the first 5 minutes then it's uninstalled never to be played for a couple of months. In them days I'd play everything even if it was obvious it was a pile of rubbish.



M.
 
Absolutely! I really do think Crysis takes gaming to a new level of immersive detail, and that comes at a price.

I can understand why some people are unwilling to cut back on resolution, detail setting, etc, but those of us who had to wait for Speccy games to load off tape, or played Doom in a *tiny* window to speed it up will probably appreciate exactly what Crysis is delivering. It's nothing short of amazing.

I can understand why some people are dismissing it as Far Cry2. But god, as they say, is in the detail. And what detail!

Andrew McP
 
m4cc45 said:
In them days I'd play everything even if it was obvious it was a pile of rubbish.
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That's a fair point. If you've waited ten minutes for it to load you're going to play it as a matter of principle!

The biggest disappointments always came after typing in games from magazines though. Boy, was that a waste of life! :-)

Andrew McP
 
Amstrad CPC 6128 all the way! I had the disk drive version so loading times were not an issue, however I remember my cousins spectrum and having to go away and do something else while a 15kb game loaded.

I got a Kanomi 6 pack of games with the Amstrad and Yi Ar Kung Fu and Green Beret were the first 2 games I ever played on it.

I remember my mum and dad staying up really late and completing Silkworm one night when i'd gone to bed, my Dad was the helecopter and my mum the Jeep lol.

Even though the new games are amazing there is still nothing that competes with the magic of those days.
 
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