Out of Pod Experience

Looks fondly at his original PC game boxes worth 60$ or more back in the day ( F19, F117A, Gunship 2000, The Whole SSI Golden Box Series, SSI Buck Rogers series , Panzer General, Eye of the Beholder I, II and III. BG1 and 2, Planescape, Sierra´s Quest for GLory Series up to #6, Gabriel Knight series, Phantasmagoria I and II, Bards Tale (this one is my jewel) , Fading Suns, Thief and others ... oh wait Aces over the Pacific, Red Baron (Man I loved Microprose way of printing THICK manuals) , Fallout 2 (love the manual also), Icewind Dale , Leisure Suit Larry III , Conquest of Camelot (awesome manual on this one) ... others when I see them for cheap on Ebay I try to buy, games that back in the day gave me HOURS of fun loaded in crap 360k 5 1/4 Floppy Disks that when being read sounded like a broken car engine.

A:
dir
dir *.exe
dir *.bat
edit readme.txt
install c:

.... Ahhh ...

Gaming is soooooo vastly different now.

And like others have mentioned, I still have nightmares with some old PC Games, case in question #%#$%#"$#"#$ CODENAME: ICEMAN ... I mean, that´s the ONLY GAME ever that if you didnt WIN a real dice poker match against the computer for several minutes you couldn´t even win the #"%"#%"% game like hours later.

No really, anyone EVER played CODENAME: ICEMAN? .... If you even dared to LOAD a save during the dice poker game "#%"%"#% computer NPC said "YOU CHEATER $#"#$"#$"#%$"#%" and left !!!

Not to mention, when you were being attacked, you actually had to pray for the RNG Gods to actually have your first 3 torpedoes hit in a row.

Man, gaming was so "#$%"#%"#% mind numbing challenging back in the day, specially the Parser based games, I actually enjoyed the challenge!!!!

King´s Quest back in the day gave me headaches too, you actually had to THINK stuff through. I enjoyed the Gabriel Knight series for the stories, Quest for Glory for the funny challenges and how I think they were the first to create the "IMPORT your hero into the sequel with all stats !!!!" thing.

Microprose had for me the best "sim" with F-19 and later F117A with full 256 VGA colors. I remember flying over Cuba for over half an hour just admiring the sunset.

Heroes of Might and Magic, Wing Commander (secret missions rocked!) ... so MANY MANY hours of awesome playing.

Today most games are just BIG BOOBS SHINY WEAPONS AWESOME MICHAEL BAY EXPLOSIONS with EXPLOSIONS inside with Hand Holding IN YOUR FACE markers that lead you to more shinies and even bigger explosions that make a Mantis Shrimp proud with their HDR Particle Effects 100% GPU intensive pixels of Screen Burning, or almost Interactive Movies where you just move around your char to the next Cutscene and have some input in the Dialogue by choosing hardcoded choices that are usually too cliché to never ever feel any kind of attachment to your char.

But hey, that´s what people enjoy these days it seems, they just want to shut off , I do too sometimes, but I get bored of games so quickly. I still play FO3 and FNV due to the mods and extra rooms people add constantly with scripted events that are actually quite fun and interesting.

Im quite old, and still enjoy PC gaming wayyyyyy more than consoles. My last console was a Sega Genesis, a brief stint into PSP that I gave away after a month to a relative and like 2 years ago I had to buy a Wii for the wife that is now gathering dust.

But yep, indy games is where its at.

Like some of the jewels I sometimes find deep within STEAM or GOG, for less than 15$.

More like being an elitism thread I think its more of a "Hellouuu , too much McDonalds, where´s the Steak and Potatoes?" thing.

I dont bash newer types of games, I actually KNOW firsthand they are evolving into a Mental Onanism perpetual machine that keeps people hooked long enough to milk them for what they can afford over and over.

But out there, some people, like all of us , like you, like me, with the actual capability to code and make stuff that works , will slowly bring out new types of games for that special market segment.

I just only hope that they keep pumping out those delicious indy games, people buying from them legally so they can keep making new games.

Just my 2.345 bits of a cent worth into this thread.


PD: MOD skyrim , NAO.