Lets take a step back a sec shall we.

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Today i played good old tetris on my very very old gameboy (yes it still works :p), anyway after playing it i stood back and looked at my pc and marvelled at the tech jump, if you told someone 20 years ago that we would be playing on super fast personal computers and seeing photo realistic images people would have either called you crazy or locked you up in a crazy house :p
Anyone else just taken a step back and looked at what we have now ?
 
They would have said we were crazy ten years ago, the advance in technology is astounding in what little time really has past us.

When "FMV" graphics were not even thought of as gameplay graphics.
 
Crysis proves thus so, although it's more of a pretty slideshow on ALL hardware. It is a stunning game and is a graphical marvel. I've always wondered why it was so difficult to render and get good framerates... many things I suppose.
 
I still remember wrestling with programming on my Spectrum when I was in school... It supported a total of 8 'real' colours per pixel and each block of 8x8 pixels only supported a total of two colours being used in that area. With this might machine I was able to create such amazing games as "block blasters" and the like...
 
What amazes me is how much fun I got out of black and white 30x40 graphics with no sound and 16k of memory :)

Seriously, I got hours and hours of fun out of Mazogs, Black Crystal, and other stuff on a ZX81. The games I've spent most time on are the ones with amazing AI, regardless of the graphics - Lords of Midnight on the C64 and UFO : Enemy Unknown on the PC. Things have actually deteriorated in that respect for a lot of games - do a scripted event well enough and hope people won't notice there's not AI going on in the background.
 
i have to admit i can believe its been 20 year since the gameboy.
I will still quite happily play on my master system over the games they dish out these days i had a much better time playing the old games over the games that can be completed in about a day
 
I remember when i had a 48k spectrum and a friend of mine said one day there will be 1mb games and i laughed at him and said never lol.
 
DF1986 said:
Today i played good old tetris on my very very old gameboy (yes it still works :p), anyway after playing it i stood back and looked at my pc and marvelled at the tech jump, if you told someone 20 years ago that we would be playing on super fast personal computers and seeing photo realistic images people would have either called you crazy or locked you up in a crazy house :p
Anyone else just taken a step back and looked at what we have now ?
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we were supposed to be staying in space hotels by now if you believed what they were saying back then :p
 
what about even cars, tell someone 20 years ago you could have a full computer running in your dashboard, and gps that could pinpoint your location and give you directions...
 
-Exodus- said:
what about even cars, tell someone 20 years ago you could have a full computer running in your dashboard, and gps that could pinpoint your location and give you directions...
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Lets hope its not another 20 years before they find a way to stop satnavs directing people into a lake, or large vehicles down a country lane.
 
The graphics might be better...but is the gameplay?

Where are the modern day equivalents of Tie Fighter or Wing Commander? (Yes I know we have X3 but it's not quite the same). Where's the likes of a new Longbow 2 (Black Shark 2 was promising up to the point where it was confirmed the game will use Starforce copy protection). EF2000 or Total Air War?
 
Vern1961 said:
The graphics might be better...but is the gameplay?

Where are the modern day equivalents of Tie Fighter or Wing Commander? (Yes I know we have X3 but it's not quite the same). Where's the likes of a new Longbow 2 (Black Shark 2 was promising up to the point where it was confirmed the game will use Starforce copy protection). EF2000 or Total Air War?
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We grade gameplay so low because it's the same old stuff being churned out, the likes of those games were revolutionary and different. What can developers do now to make us go "WTF that's awesome!" Mirrors edge atleast is a bit different.
 
Gameplay is miles better than it was years ago. Every damn game on the Gameboy was a crappy 2d platformer. Now we have so much more.
 
I remember the rendered intro to Mechwarrior 2 was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen on a computer at the time. We passed the point of being able to display that in real-time about 3 years ago :D
 
Vern1961 said:
The graphics might be better...but is the gameplay?
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A lot of old games people remember fondly because we didn't have anything better. Despite the fact that it was played round the world for hours at a time, for years, I defy anyone now to play Pac-Man for an hour and still be enjoying it at the end of that hour.
 
Weebull said:
Gameplay is miles better than it was years ago. Every damn game on the Gameboy was a crappy 2d platformer. Now we have so much more.
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Apart from zelda, pokemon, final fantasy? :cool:

edit, the last revolutionary game that I thought was tremendous probably would have to be shenmue, although I very much know a lot of people will have difference of opinions on that one.
 
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Wii Sports. Super Mario Galaxy. Katamari Damacy. Shadow of the Collosus. Any one of the million of those marble-rolling games. Even Halo was pretty revolutionary for gameplay when it came out, even if it has become the template for Xbox shooters since. This is what I can think of currently.

There are just far more types of game out now than there were back then, and for their to be so many differing genres, you have to accept that some games have invented new gameplay.
 
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