Quote: (05-03-2019 12:23 PM)Syberpunk Wrote:
I miss the days when every comic book film and tv show had mediocre to occasionally rather good and even excellent tie in game in the mid 90's to mid 2000's. They made these games in about a year and they shat them out all complete without glitches 99% of the time. (We had no updates then). What happened to light gun games for homes eh? House of the Dead Time Crisis.
I'd rather play them then most of the indie trash going now, back when cover mechanic weren't standarised:
The swinging in this is faster, more nimble than the PS4 version:
I see these posts here and there about the good old days of gaming and how most modern games suck in comparison. To each their own, but personally I've rarely enjoyed gaming more than in recent years.
That's partially due to graphics - as much as gameplay is the most important aspect, I find so much more enjoyment in particularly open world games with beautiful landscapes and weather systems than the blocky worlds of 10+ years ago. Just tonight in a brief Ghost Recon Wildlands session I had to stop and marvel at a spectacular dusk view from rainslick rocks on the edge of a desert, out over distant forests and fields with a thunderstorm and fading sunlight through clouds making the sky a work of art.
After that I had time for an hour in Days Gone where I was riding my motorcycle through rocky mountain terrain with snow covered mountain peaks and a small zombie overrun village in the distance, while rain started to roll in (I still haven't visited or unlocked most of the huge map, but I've seen videos of the ground being slowly covered by real time snow in other regions).
Assassin's Creed Odyssey - while feeling less inspired than the others - gives you a condensed and beautiful playground of most of ancient Greece.
Horizon Zero Dawn was a visual marvel as well with it's robot animal and tribe inhabited post-apocalyptic, overgrown world. And the latest God of War, a much more linear game than the others, was gorgeous as well (although so were the previous ones for their time, and even the newer remastered versions look quite good still from what I've seen).
And then there are the recent city based open world games like Spider-Man (which you mentioned - and which I think has fantastic web slinging, although I only very vaguely remember that old PS2 game for comparison) and The Division 2.
I've pretty much only talked about visuals here, but all the mentioned games have given me many hours of great entertainment. Still many hours to go in Days Gone, and Ghost Recon Wildlands is a game I may never finish but still load up once in a while just because I have so much fun traveling around the massive world and sniping or assaulting enemy bases and doing missions.
I'm certainly not trying to deny that modern games are overall better than the old ones, but for me old games in 3D are way too hideous for me to enjoy now, so that leaves some of the old classics with hand drawn 2D art if I felt the urge to revisit the past. Which I don't really, as I barely have time to play the best of recent games, and to be honest there are probably no more than 10-15 games, more than ten years old that really stand out in my memory.