I miss the old days

[Damian]

I miss the old days when you had a CD, put it in your PC, started the game and just play the game.

No 30GB updates, No bug fixes because mostly the game was good to play not now half assed releases with no content and bugs...

DLCs everywhere... bruh

[lx]

im asking about you and your bad example. if you dont want to correct yourself, so be it.

[Lilim]

lx eredeti hozzászólása:

im asking about you and your bad example. if you dont want to correct yourself, so be it.

You want me to "correct" my opinion ?!

[lx]

oh the opinion card!
no, i want to correct your opinion, because its based on something unreasonable.

rephrased for clarity

[inpurpleshadows]

PocketYoda eredeti hozzászólása:

inpurpleshadows eredeti hozzászólása:

I used to think that the gaming industry was going downhill, but then I played recent games that were genuinely amazing. I thought that gaming was dying due to the abundance of "triple-A" shovelware and rushed titles, but I remembered those kinds of games have always existed, from unlicensed Atari games to Steam early access. I recently played the Resident Evil 4 Remake which was pretty damn great both as a remake and as a game on its own. There are also a crap ton of indie games made by talented developers that are arguably better than a majority of titles developed by massive studios.

What exactly did you consider genuinely amazing.. Just wondering because its been years since i genuinely had a really great game.

Hogwarts Legacy came close.. A some what complete game at release with a huge abundant world and great combat. Sadly the rest was dumbed down and the story was nothing to write home about.

There are quite a few games from this decade of gaming I really enjoyed. For one, there's LOZ: Tears of the Kingdom which took the formula of BOTW, but didn't feel derivative. The new features and engaging story made it one of the most intruiging games I've played in the past few years. There was also Disco Elysium which is a downright masterpiece. An incredible art style, well-written characters and amount of branching paths made it one of my favorite RPG games and one of the most replayable.

[Start_Running]

There's always great games to be found in any given year. If you are of an open mind. And there are always crappy games.

Things haven't changed since the early days. The only thing is that the quantity of games has increased, which is both the good, bad and mmedioccre. and the fact that you're actually AWARE of the games.

Back in the old days people were less aware. Because the only game syou really knew about were the games that the magazines and trades bothered to spotlight and they were anything but comprehensive in their coverage...or balanced.

[zirkustier]

Those who miss the "good old days" shouldn't be searching the internet for walkthroughs when you're stuck in a game to stay authentic. ^^

[🅷🅴🆇🅴🅽]

Admittedly, it's not a herculean task to overlay the red filter atop the code in oldschool Lucasarts adventures or to lose track of which pirate met their fate in Tortuga. But picture this: let's say you misplace that disc now. Transport yourself back to the 90s. The early 90s. Who among your acquaintances had a PC at home during those times? One that was capable of, or permitted for, gaming purposes? And even if one did, who's to guarantee your friends indulging in that particular title? You were deemed a deity among the youth if you possessed the passwords. And these were passed around in middle school like to how cigarettes circulated during recess behind the gym in high school.

So, there you are, stranded sans anyone to loan you their disk. And purchasing a new video game? With what funds? Pocket money? Those meager dollars earned from occasionally tending to Mr. Jenkins' lawn - and sans remuneration, mind you, due to the relocation of his wife's flowers from her flowerbed to your own garden, orchestrated by you and your cohorts ...

Anyway ... you find yourself at an impasse, unable to indulge in gameplay. Or worse yet, the floppy disk met its demise.

Or perhaps you'd prefer to venture further back, to the 80s? I mean, it was an even more arduous task to derive joy in an arcade without incurring the disdainful gaze of Mom. And a substantial dearth of quarters ...

Hence, I shan't relinquish the convenience of instantaneous accessibility to everything all of the times.

[Piston Smashed™]

zirkustier eredeti hozzászólása:

Those who miss the "good old days" shouldn't be searching the internet for walkthroughs when you're stuck in a game to stay authentic. ^^

We had walkthroughs and guides back in the good old days as well. And if you go back far enough you'll find these walkthroughs and guides on this thing called paper, which was bound together to create magazines and books. There was even a time when we used our house phones and dialled a number to a helpline where someone would give you hints and tips if you were stuck.

[zirkustier]

That's right, the hotlines ;D

I know there were walkthroughs and tips and everything in magazines. The only problem was that you had to have the corresponding issue. Not everyone had subscribed to and archived everything...these mountains of paper. Getting information could be very exhausting and take a long time.

[👾]

zirkustier eredeti hozzászólása:

Those who miss the "good old days" shouldn't be searching the internet for walkthroughs when you're stuck in a game to stay authentic. ^^

I got stuck in Space Quest 3 because I didn't know what a plunger was called in English. I knew what to do but not how to write it 😭

[LoveAndPeace]

you put in the disc, it just worked, and then you get to enjoy a offline game free of the crap they put into games so they can collect analytics and use tools to mess with you.

[Piston Smashed™]

LegionKIN eredeti hozzászólása:

you put in the disc, it just worked, and then you get to enjoy a offline game free of the crap they put into games so they can collect analytics and use tools to mess with you.

I bought an external DVD writer not long back so I could go over some of my old discs. I went and got my Condition Zero disc out, slapped it in to the drive and BANG!! It didn't work, it had a crack down the middle of the disc, its not worked for the last 18 years since I broke it. Luckily though Steam has allowed me to download CZ for the past 18 years.

[Damian]

zirkustier eredeti hozzászólása:

The funny thing is that for the really (middle-)aged people I know, the "cd days" were already the "new days" because they grew up with floppy disks and cassettes. :viridian:

I didn't enjoy playing Atari TANK or Bomberman as I have enjoyed Vice City or the first Harry Potter game

[Start_Running]

Piston Smashed™ eredeti hozzászólása:

LegionKIN eredeti hozzászólása:

you put in the disc, it just worked, and then you get to enjoy a offline game free of the crap they put into games so they can collect analytics and use tools to mess with you.

I bought an external DVD writer not long back so I could go over some of my old discs. I went and got my Condition Zero disc out, slapped it in to the drive and BANG!! It didn't work, it had a crack down the middle of the disc, its not worked for the last 18 years since I broke it. Luckily though Steam has allowed me to download CZ for the past 18 years. :spazwinky:

I mean this happens a lot. And some times the disk can just wear off. Discs are not immortal. The optical material does eventually degrade and how quickly this happens depends one whether the pmanufacturer sprung for the HQ material, or the cheapstuff.

[LoveAndPeace]

i miss the old days when games did not share your internet history / meta data with the entire planet.