Monte Carlo Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Kudos to the excellent Grognardia blog... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 And you just felt you needed to open a thread for a picture that everybody knows by now? Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Oh, I forgot you were a moderator. **** off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) Oh, woe is us! Why hath faith played such a cruel trick upon us? Deliver us from this horrid existence, it is not worthy of us. Edited June 22, 2011 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Jesus Christ. Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 I'd not seen that picture before. I apologize to the forum for not being as cool as Morgoth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I think it's called being captain obvious. Do we really need the grognard horde to have another diatribe against the woes of "modern gaming" and hear for the billionth time how much better everything was ten years ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I'd not seen that picture before. I apologize to the forum for not being as cool as Morgoth. Apology accepted - I still think it's a funny picture, but perhaps it would have been better under "random news" or the funny thread in WoT? Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte Carlo Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 I think it's called being captain obvious. Do we really need the grognard horde to have another diatribe against the woes of "modern gaming" and hear for the billionth time how much better everything was ten years ago? Do me a favour and tell me it isn't true. Geez. Your obsession with modernity is as dull as mine with the past. your retorts are equally predictable. come back when you start shaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Come now, children, let's play nice. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Maybe you could get lost a bit easier in older shooters, but that's because of aimless and sloppy level design rather than intention. I like my shooters linear, bot not on-rails, like CoD and the other "big" franchises out there. Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entrerix Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 i like my shooters wide open. like battlefield 2. i'll play whatever kind of shooter when the mood is right, but as a general preference, i like huge open areas to traipse through Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) I'm conflicted. I hate getting lost, but I also enjoy exploring. I hate cutscenes, but I also hate resources being spread on things nobody will ever see. And you just felt you needed to open a thread for a picture that everybody knows by now? And you felt the need to derail said thread into off-topic on the first reply because of your steadfast dedication to community building, I'm sure. "Neener neener, I saw it first." Grow up. I am so tired of these internet cliches like "old", "first" or "tl;dr" that message board hipsters (an oxymoron if there ever was one) love to throw around. Edited June 22, 2011 by TrueNeutral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I think it's called being captain obvious. Do we really need the grognard horde to have another diatribe against the woes of "modern gaming" and hear for the billionth time how much better everything was ten years ago? Do me a favour and tell me it isn't true. Geez. Your obsession with modernity is as dull as mine with the past. your retorts are equally predictable. come back when you start shaving. Ouch, you cut me with your razor wit. My point is that there is a wide variety of games out there that cater to all tastes. Instead of focusing on the AAA, try looking into some more indie stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flouride Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) I seriously disliked the map design in Doom 1&2. I would only get lost at some point. Duke Nukem was 1st fps game that had good map design (imo). So no, don't really miss the -93 map design at all Edited June 22, 2011 by Flouride Hate the living, love the dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) I liked the level design in the first two Dark Forces games, ah the fuel station in JK. Only tried a few of the big name AAA shooters, crappy level design in terms of paths at least. Dumb question though, how can a game be linear but not on rails ? Edited June 22, 2011 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Have fun searching for a blue and yellow key for 2 hours. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowtrain Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I like my shooters cheap and loose. Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorophx Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Have fun searching for a blue and yellow key for 2 hours. actually, that was a lot of fun Walsingham said: I was struggling to understand ths until I noticed you are from Finland. And having been educated solely by mkreku in this respect I am convinced that Finland essentially IS the wh40k universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niten_Ryu Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 I never got lost in old FPS, but then again I played 'em like madman. I wonder how many % of all FPS released in the 90's I complited at least twice. Heck, there are even some obscure ones like Blake Stone - Aliens of Gold Shadow Warrior Klingon Honor Guard (and I freaking hate Star Trek) Often a full price no less Thank to Steam holiday sales I spend under 10 Let's play Alpha Protocol My misadventures on youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entrerix Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 dark forces was awesome, getting lost was half the fun Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Call me an old geezer, but I can relate to Montes point. It's probably one of the reasons I'm much less of a gamer today than I was 20-25 years ago. Style over substance and presentation over content. When in a nostalgic mood, I really miss the days where things like exploration and discovery were part of a game, searching pixel by pixel and trying the impossible in a bad case of OCD, trying to spot yet another secret item/location Today you get more warnings than a fighter pilot does on his HUD... Pull up, Pull up!, Low altitude, Stall! Turn left, Flashing question marks and exclamation marks. I think I still have some hand drawn maps on some moderatly yellowed and aged paper from a labyrinth in one the C64 Bards Tale games somewhere in a binder. Effin teleporter/spin-me-arounds making it a challenge. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 As I said before, the market is so much wider than the front and center AAA stuff. Go and discover some games instead of being a crotchety old geezer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 As I said before, the market is so much wider than the front and center AAA stuff. Go and discover some games instead of being a crotchety old geezer. I really *am* looking forward to Age of Decadence “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 That's one, but there are hundreds of gems out there, from super hard RTSs to awesome innovative stuff. That's why I always jump on the "back in my day..." kind of people. Perhaps I should resurrect the indie game thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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