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Look at titles like Haze, Crysis, and Quake 4. I’m talking about this stuff because it needs to be said. I’m not complaining because I can’t figure out where in this great big world I have to go to get more games. Games got shorter & shallower.Įvery time I bring this up I get people posting helpful suggestions like, “Yeah it sucks buy a console and stop whining.” Which misses the whole point of these posts.
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Release & patch became the common solution to dealing with the expense of playtesting. Graphics cards started to get harder to understand.
Sometime around 2002 backwards compatibility began to shrink, so that you needed to stay a little more up-to-date to be able to shop in the “New Releases” section. A few games manage to get good graphics, and gameplay, and stability, and half-decent backwards compatibility (Half-Life 2 comes to mind) but most fail to deliver on at least two of those. Sure, graphics are better now, but we have sacrificed almost every other aspect of gameplay to get those graphics.
(Both BioShock and Deus Ex 2 were greatly simplified when compared to their predecessors.) We have less room for risky new ideas like Thief. I can’t imagine getting another game as deep as System Shock 2 or Deus Ex. I can’t imagine ever getting another game as immense as the original Unreal. As development became more complex and costs rose, other aspects of the game had to be cut to pay for the bling-mapping. Graphics were at the point where games could be immersive and atmospheric, but they didn’t cost a fortune to produce. I think what makes the Golden Age of PC Gaming so special is that we were in a sweet spot, visually. Again, this is ignoring the lesser games, and expansion packs. The Sims, Deus Ex, Diablo II, Escape from Monkey Island, The Operative: No One Lives Forever, The Longest JourneyĪnother banner year. I could fire up any one of them right now and have a blast. System Shock 2, Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament, Planescape: Torment, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Homeworld, Outcast, Kingpin: Life of Crime, Rollercoaster Tycoon But ONE buggy sequel and FIVE incredible new games is a complete inversion of what we’re getting these days.) I played four of those games again this year. StarCraft, Unreal, Fallout 2, Grim Fandango, Half-Life, Thief: The Dark Projectįour franchises saw their beginning in 1998. We had graphics cards that opened up a new age of 3d, but they were simple to buy and would last for years. It was after the stone age of DOS, but before the four horsemen of bugs, DRM, graphics fixation, and console-itis came in and made a mess of things. If you’re advertising to the Average Joe, then Joe had darn well better be able to use the thing when he gets it home.Īnd there was a period of time where that was (mostly) true.
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It eventually made it possible for non-technical people to play some PC games.Ībout the time TV commercials for videogames start showing up you can say the hobby has come into its own and it’s time to start acting like responsible producers. Once you’ve paid the overhead in memory and performance, having an operating system there is actually pretty nice. It handled that stupid memory management / soundcard nonsense and gave developers a “stable” platform on which to build.
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And as much as I hate to say it, I think Windows was good for PC Gaming. Those were the rough and tumble years before the new technology settled into place and was packaged and distilled for the average consumer.
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Okay, her outfit is over-the-top, but that's the fault of the 60's spy movie heroines she's sending up, not the graphics engine. She's not a 10,000 polygon bump-mapped model, but Cate Archer of No One Lives Forever 2 manages to look pretty dang good.
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