Things you miss about old PC Games

TruffleShuffle said:
There has probably been a thead about this already but...

What do you miss about old PC games?

For me there are two things. The first, and biggest, was old PC-CD Rom games that had CD Audio tracks on them. First i used to love that you could whack these CD's in your CD player and listen to them if you wanted to (Quake 2, Carmageddon and Wipeout were good ones for this). The other thing i loved about this was that once you had installed the game, you could put any audio CD in and the game would play that as the soundtrack (great for games like Wargasm, or Quake 1).

The second thing i miss is live action. I still love games like Ripper and 7th Guest that came on a library of disks and you actually got involved in the title becusae you had real people talking to you rather than animations. Who would want Christopher Walken in their face acting like a overworked homicide cop?
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7th Guest - Absolute classic

someone else mentioned, I miss getting the big boxes with big manuals and wallcharts etc. In those days for me a game was not a game if it did not come with a book in a box!
 
Dsteviedee said:
H U G H boxes.
A shelf full of boxes all different sizes looked so much more interesting.
Pain to store though :)
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Oh yeah, I remember getting my first PC when I was 13 (486 iirc) and I got Doom 2 and Monkey Island, the boxes were HUGE! I loved it, my Megadrive was doomed to collect dust after that.

Oh and depth, look at Morrowind for example and compare it to Oblivion. The only games offering huge immersive worlds these days are MMO's, I long for another epic, single player world, BG2 style or Elder Scrolls but Dragon Age isn't anywhere near and the sequel is going even further the wrong way.
 
I always found the worlds so much more immersive. I kind of lost touch with the PC gaming scene after HL2/Far Cry came along. After that it seemed to be just all about the graphics. I'm now on the consoles and only Dead Space, Lost Odyssey, Batman and the Mass Effect games have come close to what I love so much about a good immersive world/setting in a game. Most of the time I've just playing FIFA or dabbling here and there with games, never really getting deep into them as they just fail to suck me in.

Obviously a few have slipped through on the PC that I've played to death such as Company of Heroes and maybe Oblivion (I'm sure there's a few others).

The old games just had charm :)
 
Need more proper Western, isometric, turn-based CRPGs!!!

I still play and thoroughly enjoy Fallout 1 & 2, Planescape: Torment, etc. but would also really like to see great modern attempts at such. Only current one I can think of is Dead State, which I'll be checking out, but it'd be nice to have more choice!
 
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jamesblade said:
Originality !
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This, in a nutshell. With originality comes inspiration, and the games we used to get were just that... inspired. It was a time when creativity was key, deadlines weren't set for before the game was planned to be finished, and when the hairs stood up on your arms as you basked in the sheer genius of what you were playing.

Monkey Island
Dune II
TIE Fighter
Dungeon Keeper
Wing Commander Privateer
etc etc

So, so many good memories. I feel privileged to have experienced PC gaming in that era, and feel sorry that many of you kids today have no concept of the things you missed out on, and that you will sadly never get the opportunity to play through no fault of your own. It was an era where the games you played had never had anything like them before, a time before endless sequels and rehashes. A magical for gaming. *wipes tear from eye*
 
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The smell when opening up a brand new massive boxed PC game, still got my Planescape Torment one somewhere, and Freespace 2! :D

It's like that new book kind've smell, loved it :)
 
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What I REALLY miss is the fact that modern video games don't come with many different desktop icons for your game. All the old titles used to give you a few options to choose from, now you just don't get that. Not a big thing really but I used to like that.

Oh, and proper manuals, not just the little leaflets that fit inside the dvd case. I remember when I bought a game called European Air War and it contained a BOOK, full of information on the air battle of WW2, detailed description of the instruments, flight manauevers, flying lessons, just anything you could have possibly imagined. That was a brilliant game.
 
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