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Reply #30 - 07.06.09 at 02:10:28
 
Age of Empires 3 provided a lot of fun for me, for a long time.

Btw, Monkey Island is being remade.

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/the-secret-of-monkey-island/11405

For me it was The big shocker at the E3 announcements. Can you imagine playing that. WOW. Finally, the voices that go along with it. Glad they kept the real Guybrush Threepwood voice over. Excellent.
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Reply #31 - 08.06.09 at 19:53:33
 
elfuego wrote on 05.06.09 at 23:00:41:
I dont know guys, maybe the games didnt really get ugly - maybe we just got old?  Wink

I stopped playing new games after Test Drive and went back to playing good old games for DOS. I've gotten myself a Roland SC-55, K6-III and a nice "little" torrent from piratebay with 8gb of free/abandonware games for DOS. Nothing like playing Monkey Island or Settlers 2 (not the new version, but the original one!) on Roland SC-55.

Also Duke3D is still one hell of a game.

The only "newer" game Im playing is Warcraft III - DOTA... and that on V5 5500 rig, which makes it just a bit more tasty  Cool


LOL I think you hit it right on with that, we're all getting old.  Tongue

Well... maybe not old but many of us have been around to see the evolution of gaming (we're on a forums dedicated to a company that's almost 10 yrs dead after all). I work as a lvl IV Help Desk tech, middle man with working with the network guys (helping out where I can) and the Help Desk team. There are two guys there that have never worked with DOS, Win 3.1 and one hasn't even touched Win 98.

With us seeing what games used to be and what they are now, we've watched it grow, get better and lately the bad. With EA making multi-million dollar deals to get games on the shelves , it has all become about money.

It was based off of money before, don't get me wrong, you still needed cash to pay for the food you ate but that wasn't the complete focus that it is today. There wasn't a deep seated need to port everything from one plat form to the next for maximum exposure.

With having games cross different platforms and with certain platforms having a limited amount of space to hold data, they try to make it look as good as possible with minimal story line with an exception to few. With having graphics that look as good as they do, it takes more time to code and with that more money so story lines have dropped, the whole scale of the games have dropped.

The Ultima series or even way back, Might and Magic used to take months to complete now everything is based on hours or days, not weeks or months. Even Baulders Gate you weren't going to get through in a week. I don't know... just my take on the whole thing.
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Reply #32 - 13.06.09 at 13:12:57
 
^^ thats true. You know, I read a lot about the "new" Bioshock game, and what I read was "awesome game", "10/10", "97%" grades and similar and I forced myself to finish it, just to see what's so good about it. I finished it in a day and found nothing except for old-refurbished pipemania. When I remember that I needed weeks to finish Wolfenstein 3D and Duke 3D...

Even though I am sure I can finish Prince of Persia (DOS) in less then 1h now, I remember that I needed much more time back then, when I didnt know the levels, or how to fight properly. The bitmap brothers game GODS is a perfect example of a hard platform game that you definitely need some time to finish. Newer games end in hours, just as you said...
...but I guess with a good reason behind it. Multiplayer was almost impossible back in "our days" and now the biggest income comes from multiplayer based games. Thats why single player is suffering. It will continue to do so. Why would a programmer waste time with AI, when he can assume that people are going to play amongst themselves Smiley
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Reply #33 - 18.06.09 at 02:34:10
 
Thought this little article was rather fitting being that we were just talking about how games are more about money now.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/140003

Some of these games have pulled in 350 million US$ or more. This, I'm afraid, is why we have the games that we do. Mass market everything.
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Reply #34 - 18.06.09 at 11:32:11
 
hehe, GTA IV, the only PC Game in history that often can't even be played because it fails to launch even with latest Patch applied Wink

(btw, does anyone want it ?)
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Reply #35 - 19.06.09 at 17:48:20
 
Nah, haven't gotten into that series at all.
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Reply #36 - 19.06.09 at 19:43:29
 
FalconFly wrote on 18.06.09 at 11:32:11:
hehe, GTA IV, the only PC Game in history that often can't even be played because it fails to launch even with latest Patch applied Wink

(btw, does anyone want it ?)
I'd be more than happy to take it off your hands  Grin,I have every single GTA game, except this one
Sad,just done a quick check on 'can you run it' site,hell yeah,no worries
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Reply #37 - 19.06.09 at 21:22:42
 
Well, send me your mailing address and it's yours (beware though this might be a german edition - language etc. - , not sure if you can switch languages)
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Reply #38 - 20.06.09 at 13:59:09
 
I still love and adore Unreal tournament and Zeus: masters of Olympus,I still play them now when I have a spare hour or so,brings back memories of my old P3 1.1ghz machine  Smiley
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Reply #39 - 11.10.09 at 10:05:02
 
Hello all. I'm new here and... this thread explains exactly what brought me up here Smiley

(to be noticed, my current rig is a C2D E8400 with a Radeon 4850, what's quite fair ATM but I only use it for Race Driver Grid or NFS Pro Street)

I got bored of all those "nice-graphic-0-fun" games and I decided to put back in service an old P166 (I just lacked a 3DFx TBH) as I wanted to play again the games that thrilled me 12 years ago.

What are those games? Some are now unknown:
- Sea Legends
- Theme Park
- POD
- Megarace 2
- F1 Racing Simulation
- F22 ADF
- Destruction Derby 2
- Transport Tycoon (the original one, not OTTD or TTDLX)
- Duke Nukem 3D
- GLQuake
- NFS2
- Dungeon Keeper 1&2
- and some others I won't name because the list is wide!

I think that the current issue with gaming is that they put all in graphics/realism but do not think about the true fun.
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Reply #40 - 11.10.09 at 13:08:53
 
Well, I'm a big FPS fan and I remember the 98-2000 period. Damn, it was nice. Unreal, Half Life, Blood 2, Sin, Undying, Mortyr, Requiem and many many more greats shooters. Now, they are a lot less and they make them more complicated, it's not just shoot everything Sad

But, there are nice modern shooters too : Crysis (great graphics and physics) Half Life 2 (same - graphics and physics + awesome maps, you feel that you are there), Timeshift (gorgeous graphics). Recently I finished Wolfenstein (the new one). Great game, the end was a bit frustrating, too hard, but the rest is cool, you have a ton of weapons, maps are large and detalied.
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Reply #41 - 11.10.09 at 19:21:26
 
I agree with everything except the new Wolfenstein... Undecided

This game COULD have been so much more, especially with Raven Soft. at the helm. Roll Eyes

Instead it just typifies most modern releases - lots of spangly graphics and a total lack of gameplay. Tongue

It sucked pretty fierce... Sad
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Reply #42 - 11.10.09 at 20:47:24
 
It's gotten quite bad right now.

I'm using a Special Edition Radeon 4890 to display my Desktop.
What a waste, as I don't even have an OpenCL Application to use it to process data Tongue

But maybe it's just that I'm through with playing, who knows...
We do tend to get older...
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Reply #43 - 26.11.09 at 10:57:13
 
paulpsomiadis wrote on 11.10.09 at 19:21:26:
I agree with everything except the new Wolfenstein... Undecided

This game COULD have been so much more, especially with Raven Soft. at the helm. Roll Eyes

Instead it just typifies most modern releases - lots of spangly graphics and a total lack of gameplay. Tongue

It sucked pretty fierce... Sad


I agree 100%    Wink

About the single player games though. Half life and Unreal really started to improve on single player. I love playing Quake, but from I remember everyone said single player quake wasnt any good. Maybe that was due to having next to no story. I think thats why I liked bioshock. Because of the story/setting. But, Bioshock was strictly a single player game.

I enjoy playing bad company on the 360. But to be honest, Ive only played through 1 Single player level. Multiplayer is ALOT of fun.

I'm STILL enjoying Fallout 3 btw. Man, I love that game.    Kiss
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Reply #44 - 26.11.09 at 18:40:15
 
I'll give this "new" game a try!
http://www.serioussamhd.com/

I recently played carmageddon 1, and I'm pretty sure they don't make games like that anymore Sad
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