I’m genuinely interested in how others see this. Tech circles seem pretty split on the topic, so I’m hoping to hear some firsthand experiences or strong takes from this community.
Mirrors. Not a specific game but all old games do smart tricks to make mirrors which ends up being better than new games doing “real” mirrors.
Supreme commander from 2007 has the best strategic unit control from any RTS I’ve ever played. Even newer entries in the same-ish genre don’t do it that well.
Red Faction’s destruction has still never really been attempted by anything other than Teardown.
Oh man I remember being able to tear down a military complex with a sledgehammer. Super satisfying gameplay.
Even the original with the destructable landscape.
I don’t know how you’d do that even now, and certainly not how they did it on a PS2…
I think Red Faction still does a better job of it, because it blends the destruction and physics into one system. i.e. buildings will topple the second they become unstable, rather than only becoming a physics object once they’re fully separated.
Check this 16-hour-old account’s comment history. This is an LLM bot and its maker didn’t format its comments correctly. There’s a stray quotation mark at the end of each AI generated comment.
Thanks, I didn’t notice at first. But now I have blocked them
You’re talking about the account that has AI in its name?
It’s still very gross that it’s trying to blend in with the rest of us.
Also on its profile it says it’s an “AI creator” so it doesn’t explicitly label itself as an account completely piloted by AI.
I mean, joke’s on them, Lemmy doesn’t have accrual of karma so there’s nothing to really “farm” using an LLM.
It’s likely trying to shill its AI-generated folk country “music” from what I can discern from its profile.
Could be scraping our answers to train a data set to write their latest buzzfeed article. Reddit is so full of nonsense they need to come here.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem for Gamecube
IYKYK. Also, AI blows.
Need for speed underground 2 is quite possible the most fun arcade racing game ever made, it just managed to hit all the right places like a beautiful world, a bunch of different cars that all made sense, the way you upgraded your car both in performance and in looks. It is just pure fun in a way nobody, neither before or after, have managed replicate.
I’m a big fan of racing games. No real racing simulation, but more arcade style. When I got a Xbox Series X as my first games console after over a decade I first downloaded Forza Horizon 5, because it’s supposed to be one of the best racing games on Xbox. I was so anoyed by the whole story… I just want to race and nothing else.
I got NFS Hot Pursuit Remastered. Loved the original when I was fun and enjoyed the Remaster on Xbox.
Some games just try to add more and more and to please everyone but in the end nobody is completly happy with the result.
I bought FH4 because I live very close to one of the castles there and have visited a handful of other places. It’s genuinely very cool to see those places.
But so many other aspects of the game are really overwhelming. I do a race then there’s crazy flashy animations, multiple progress bars going up in the background with strobe lights, my character doing some stupid Fortnite-like dance, then it makes me do multiple attempts at a slot machine mini game?
I look at the world map and there’s literally thousands of things there, with no option to filter out stuff that you’ve already completed.
Maybe I’m getting old, but it felt like one of those mobile games that goes over the top with praise and animations to keep people’s attention and keep them on a dopamine high.
I want that map, with a story where you start with a shit car, and work your way up to better cars by doing well in races. I don’t want any of the flashy nonsense or the 500 online features (that don’t exist anymore because MS shut down the servers - now it shows constant connection errors)
Ground Control (released in 2000) had the coolest artillery units of any RTS I ever played. And I pretty much played them all. The units fired in a long ballistic trajectory that was just really awesome to watch. And IIRC massing the units and firing at a target would make the artillery blanket the area, not all just hit the same place you clicked.
This is more of a generalization, but older games can run on older and/or weaker hardware than modern equivalents, at least for AAA games. Modern indie games can still generally run on a potato though.
The difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.
I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough
Theres nothing quite like dwarf fortress, it still stands the test of time
Frontier: Elite 2 and Frontier: First Encounters still have the best planetary scale and seamless landings of any sci-fi space ship sim with interplanetary travel. Flight of Nova does it better but that’s only one planet. Frontier has like four billion.
Amen. And it fits on a floppy disk.
Super Mario Bros 3 is better than any other game at being Super Mario Bros 3. And I kinda like that. I think it’s neat. I like that I can just play the same game I played when I was 7. Same exact game. Compare that to today, and if your game from today is even playable at all in 30 years, it’s likely going to have changed so much over the coarse of it’s life through updates, that there is no singular version of how to have memories of that game. Maybe you remember a game early in it’s life, and don’t remember some big unpopular update that ruined everything. OR maybe you started playing that game AFTER the big update, and that’s how you feel nostalgic for that game, even if you can admit it’s flaws. And both versions of how you can remember that game would be valid.
But not Super Mario Bros 3. It is pixel for pixel exactly the game I played as a kid. Always will be. Plus, it’s Super Mario Bros 3. So that helps.
But which version of super mario brothers 3? The All stars version is a nice update, but is missing some of that 8 bit charm.
