Things you miss about old PC Games
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Another note. the whole package. Anyone remember playing games like Deus Ex, Half Life etc and thinking, this is the best thing ever. Never really got threads like this pining back to older games. The games stood on their own and quite a few werent in any other games shadow.
Also when the single player campaign of a shooter wasnt just the practice run for the online side. Put as many explosions and tacked on stories as you want in, MW etc was just the prelude to the online play to make sure you werent too crap.
Also when the single player campaign of a shooter wasnt just the practice run for the online side. Put as many explosions and tacked on stories as you want in, MW etc was just the prelude to the online play to make sure you werent too crap.
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I too, miss the PC game boxes. Whenever I bought one, I always felt like I was getting something special. The artwork on the boxes were nearly always superb, as was the manuals inside. I actually bought games, that I never heard of, just because the box art was really good.
I miss the old days of pc gaming from the mid 90's to 2001, things were a lot more interesting back then. These days, I rarely find anything that grabs me.
I miss the old days of pc gaming from the mid 90's to 2001, things were a lot more interesting back then. These days, I rarely find anything that grabs me.
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+1 for F22:ADF and the masses of paperwork that was required to learn before you could even taxi out onto the runway!
+1 for dodgy shaped boxes (I hate having rows of DVD style cases for my games, doesn't look as interesting)
The main thing I miss about older games is simply 'choice' not only did the old games give you much more choice within the game itself but there was a bigger choice of game styles to choose from in the first place. Where are the point-and-click adventures!? I loved them!!
And as others have said, I'm all for pretty graphics, but modern games lack the gameplay to let you see past the eyecandy... there's no immersive environment any more and it's a real shame
+1 for dodgy shaped boxes (I hate having rows of DVD style cases for my games, doesn't look as interesting)
The main thing I miss about older games is simply 'choice' not only did the old games give you much more choice within the game itself but there was a bigger choice of game styles to choose from in the first place. Where are the point-and-click adventures!? I loved them!!
And as others have said, I'm all for pretty graphics, but modern games lack the gameplay to let you see past the eyecandy... there's no immersive environment any more and it's a real shame
just installing a game and playing it.. not like every new steam etc game on 100 different platforms needing updates otherwise you cant play!
[my internet max speed is 100KBps on a good day, i cannot buy anything if its not a hard copy really...im awaiting updates for me to play f1 2010 i gotta say it really is killing pc gaming for me.. have to spend one evening setting up before i can play :/
seriously considering console
[my internet max speed is 100KBps on a good day, i cannot buy anything if its not a hard copy really...im awaiting updates for me to play f1 2010 i gotta say it really is killing pc gaming for me.. have to spend one evening setting up before i can play :/
seriously considering console
Total annihilation, Best RTS ever
as for a post earlier regarding graphics over gameplay, i played medievil 2: total war over and over on a busted old laptop, on the lowest settings possible without even being able to go into the battle view
as for a post earlier regarding graphics over gameplay, i played medievil 2: total war over and over on a busted old laptop, on the lowest settings possible without even being able to go into the battle view
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Yep, I think lower budgets in the past allows devs to be more experimental and ttry new ideas even if they failed.
Now every game just seems to be a clone, sequels or take on a similar game, just so that they are guaranteed to shuft x amount of units...
Larger teams with larger budgets are much less flexible than smaller teams with smaller budgets.
When I worked on a PC game back in the late 90's there were 8 people in the company, and it was easy to know who was doing what, and we were all working in the same room, so communication was easy and informal.
Now games are so huge that they take at least 40-50 people for the core team and it's difficult for anyone working on them to have a decent grasp of what's going on in the project.
I miss the old days
Still I suppose that's why Indie development has had a revival. Digital distribution is allowing PC gaming to return to that golden age of smaller teams.
When I worked on a PC game back in the late 90's there were 8 people in the company, and it was easy to know who was doing what, and we were all working in the same room, so communication was easy and informal.
Now games are so huge that they take at least 40-50 people for the core team and it's difficult for anyone working on them to have a decent grasp of what's going on in the project.
I miss the old days
Still I suppose that's why Indie development has had a revival. Digital distribution is allowing PC gaming to return to that golden age of smaller teams.
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I miss the cover cd's from game magasines. They were invaluable in the days of dial up.
Its more a case of what games did back then to what they do now. If you have a look its more of what innovations and thought was put into older generations of games and how its changed for better or worse - generally worse in most aspects apart from free roams games and graphically.
Your dungeon in on an incline. Angry creatures cannot play marbles.
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You have too many mistresses...............there's a word for Keepers like you.
God I loved that game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHmr3D4Mnc
lower budgets.
when the budget was lower they where more willing to try something new risky and niche now everything is so expensive it has to sell X number of copies so must appeal to so they're all becoming bland same middle of the road stuff.
when the budget was lower they where more willing to try something new risky and niche now everything is so expensive it has to sell X number of copies so must appeal to so they're all becoming bland same middle of the road stuff.