exdeath
Lifer
- Jan 29, 2004
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When was the last time you played one of the old games? I got so excited when I downloaded my N64 emulator, loaded up goldeneye, and then....realized it wasn't as good as I remembered it. The past is the past, lets all move forward.
Yeah... You picked a shooter of all things. Absolutely not surprised.
The genre obsessed with graphics and realism. Of course you were disappointed. Because a modern Call of Duty is the exact same thing only 1000 times newer and better.
Try something that is actually timeless and has an ending and has no modern replacement or equivalent. Ocarina of Time? Conkers Bad Fur Day?
Twenty year old first person shooters and sports games are the LAST games you should expect to be fun compared to modern incarnations. The newer ones are exactly the same but better.
However, Ocarina of Time is Ocarina of Time. No matter how many new Zelda games come out, unless its a deliberate remake, regardless of better graphics or controls, they will never be Ocarina of Time again.
All the platformers in the world can come out with HD this and HD that and be one of the greatest games ever made. But its still not Conkers Bad Fur Day.
Its different. Certain games are just unique and one off. Even with the same engine and same gameplay, you can have entirely different experiences. I mean, I can play Jak or Ratchet and Clank on the PS4, just a 3D platformer right? Sure. But its still not Conkers Bad Fur Day.
If you just take something like running in a circle through a hallway fragging people online for hours on end, its the same experience today with much better games. There are only certain types of games that can retain their playability as they age.
This isn't meant to be derogatory or biased. Shooters and sports games are games that simply derive themselves 100% from mechanics and gameplay rather than story or immersion in a fairytale world, so the experience is not so unique to a given game or generation, therefore newer versions are almost always expected to be better.
But others like RPG and adventure, its like a classic Stephen King novel. No matter how many newer novels come out, they are all unique, even though they are still all books made of paper.
But a football game is just football. It just gets better and better and there is no need to retain the old ones. And football is always football, it never changes. Unless you are talking baseball. Baseball isn't football. But baseball is baseball no matter how many times you do it. It just gets more refined.
Football is football. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you run, you tackle, you score. That has never changed. But graphics get better, AI gets better, etc. Shooting people is shooting people, very similar. You run around, you shoot people, you avoid being shot, whoever has most frags in the alloted time wins. Again and again, but better graphics and more players and more physics and more realistic guns and blood. These games are themselves DEFINED by the very things that improve each generation, they don't stand alone as works by themselves. And Ill even concede that jumping on platforms or killing monsters is still jumping on platforms and killing monsters.
But Jak 6 in 4K HD is still not Banjo Kazooie or Conkers Bad Fur Day.
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