What do u HATE in older times? Any incline of nowadays?

Wow, what is really retarded here is such ridiculous overinterpretation

There's no 2D>3D or 3D>2D as I said before is only a matter of choice, what is pathetic is to abandon one of them (any of them) under the guise of technological advancement.

Yeah and because of this we should abandon all the possibilites that 2D gives us...

Forget da women, artificial cunt made them obsolete.

 

-better music
-better sound
-better graphics
-better controls
-integrated manuals and lore
-less loading
-better interfaces
-lower technical requirements
-effortless purchasing and installing through digital distribution
-proper use of technology, less "let's be cutting edge" that gave us the hideous 3d fad of the late nineties/early 2000s
-cheap games
-much better financing options for developers
-better publishing options for developers

It's a great time to be a gamer.

 

lol i dont even

Yeah, instead we have such proper uses of technology as shit filters, bloom, kill-cams, 3d for the sake of 3d and so on. Yeah, nobody is trying to be "cutting edge".

for trying.

 

"less"

 

Sound Blaster Pro, IRQ and other shit I had to set manually. No more shaman dances, praying to launch a game. Trying to scrap another 10 MB out of my hard drive.

 

Most of my old floppy disks still work, and most of them are just pirated, too.

 

Of course, what I meant was putting them into the FDD and it couldn't read it.

Out of curiosity, what happened when a floppy disk with an original game was unreadable? Could you ask the developer another one is you had an invoice of the purchase?

 

I don't miss dicking with himem.sys, EMS, XMS, manually guessing IRQ and DMA for sound card, and general working with config files in DOS. It wasn't a nightmare, but it was highly annoying.

 

Much better button mapping now

I'd like a gold box re-release on GOG that has a new side panel in flash or somerhing with digitized convenienit versions of the journal. I might perceive that there is a story in a gold box game besides getting to the next plot town if I did that

This was cool because it was kind of a meditative zen maintenance thing; a good way to waste five minutes

 

IIRC, I think you also had to show a proof of purchase like a receipt or something. I don't recall ever actually writing/calling a publisher asking for a replacement diskette...

 

Oh yes, ball mice. Those things made playing even Myst an exercise in torture.

 

I am curious about localization. How was the localization of a game back in the day (90s)? Good? Bad? Are today's translations handled better? Asking out of curiosity since I played everything in English when I was growing up.

 

yeah, hardware too, all kinds of ports, most of which weren't plug and play like usb: Most of the time you unplugged and plugged you had to restart your computer, and you had to keep the drivers safe. Ball mice which was a fucking pain the ass. Big ass CRT screen, that weighted a ton. Extremely poor computer speakers (now you can get some really good ones, I have some bowser & wilkins computer speakers which are fucking amazing). Actually pretty much everything hardware related was worse before.

I think very poor, as far as I can tell, nearly all of them were only in english. And I've actually done some research on the matter.

 

Try playing the Meditation Levels on Oxyd with a dirty ball mouse......

 

Oh yeah, three-button mice with ball which always needs to be cleaned, PS/2 shenanigans, LPT ports, shitty CRT monitors - it's amazing how brain dismisses it when you think about your "happy teenage years". Also ISA slots for videocards.

 

I agree here. Even when it came to the bigger European languages such as French, Spanish and German. It didn't seem to catch on until the 00's, apart from games trying to avoid legal/rating issues, such as with Fallout's lack of children, or (at least I guess so) Nazi imagery in German versions.

 

I remember two games that were translated to polish in the early 90's: Subwar 2050 and One Must Fall 2097, I guess they were ok (I was 12 or something when I played those). We're talking about a sub simulator and a fighting game, so there wasn't much potential for an epic translation fuck-up. I rarely play localized games, some of the atmosphere is usually lost (there are some exceptions).

 

I like patches. Before games came and you played what you got, often bugged since post release support was non existent. Nowadays at least SOME companies support their product and fix bugs.

 

For games originally in English, sure.

A fuck ton of Japanese games were ignored in the 90s (Most companies only bringing over what they thought would be digestable to an American audience, and all 3 first parties blocked shit for stupid reasons, like being 2D, not having a dub or Nintendo's moral standards), and stuff that WAS translated was often 1: translated REALLY badly (worse in the 80s and early 90s) 2: Had horrible gameplay cuts either due to censorship or being "too complicated" for the West (see). Any Japanese games translated beyond English were translations of translations (a practice that is only recently ending, and only for bigger first party titles) 3: If it was on the Playstation, it was pretty much gaurenteed to have one of the worst dubs ever (at best you get something lovably cheesy like Valkyrie Profile, done by the 4Kids actors) because SCEA required games be dubbed and no one gave any sort of damn to quality (just wanting them as cheep as possible).

Yeah, let's add how shitty translation (both in quality and quantity) were as another thing on my list.

 

Translation of wapanese games is still spotty, both in quality and in quantity. Maybe better, but not by much. They still only translate what they think its digestible outside of Japan. Not that I give much of a shit about wapanese games.

Bullshit.

There were always patches and updates and there were always games which got no support. What's different is how easy is to get them.
Claiming post release support was non existent is simply absolute bullshit, though.

I don't know in what period you people lived or talk about.

Guess shit glasses are as easy to get as pink ones.

 

Ah, ball mouse. This abomination alone cultivated fiery hate for humanity.

 

Downloading speeds. Downloading just demos of games was often way beyond the scope of a 56k modem.