• Tropper@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it’s still the peak for the series.

    • XEAL@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Unpopular opinion: I fucking hate the open world premise of NFSU2 and I just quitted playing after a while, but I’ve completed NSFU several times.

  • ScruffyDucky@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Half-life 2 will turn 20 in November so I guess the third one is coming out any day now (opens a new can of copium)

    • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me if Portal 3 is released at some point. I’m skeptical, but I’m not outruling it. The game is whacky enough that there are probably a lot of interesting and cool things that can be implemented into a worthy successor.

      I am, on the other hand, utterly convinced that HL3 is not going to happen. The previous two were groundbreaking, stretching limits of what one can do with a physics engine. I’m having a hard time imagining that it can be pulled off a 3rd time, simply because I am unable to imagine any sory of content that would all: a) fit with the series so that it still feels like a HL game
      b) interesting enough to allow for the innovation that the previous two games had
      c) good enough to justify a new game rather than just a tech demo

      I sincerely hope that my opinion on the matter is simply a matter of failure of imagine, and that a good HL successor is released at some point, but sadly I think I’m right on this one.

      • GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Half-Life: Alyx is mostly what I hoped we’d get from HL3, inasmuch as it hits your points a & b for sure, and IMHO c (though I know that’s not agreed on by everyone). It had great action and expository setpieces (avoiding spoilers), and the (albeit relatively simple) puzzles definitely added something to Half-Life that really worked for me.

        Unfortunately it didn’t solve all VR issues (melee being an obvious one), and not least of which the cost. I played it on a cheap (~$100), janky old WMR headset, but not everyone can do that without vomiting, so a great PC and good headset are a hefty price, which is probably the biggest hurdle for a full-scale 3 in VR. Especially considering there just aren’t many other games worth making that investment in, IMHO. I played the hell out of Alyx, a little of a few other games…but Alyx was the pinnacle of what VR could do for me.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          IIRC, Valve pretty much admitted that they really have no interest in making games anymore, unless they have a interesting technology to play with and learn, and the game is an excuse for that.

          Thats why Alyx got made, cause they wanted to play with VR.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Alyx did what most Valve games do, it advanced the industry. It is absolutely a half life game and it fits but it isn’t HL3. It isn’t that grandiose.

          For people who accuse it of being a glorified tech demo, well, that’s exactly what Half Life 1 and 2 are. The sole reason for the existence of HL2 is just to sell the source engine to devs and to push Steam forward. It is a tech demo. Its puzzles are tech demos.

          What Alyx did is implement proper gunplay and looting mechanics and really showcased how possible it is to tell a story in VR without taking your POV from you. I’d argue that there still isn’t a single VR game that nails one of the foundational pillars of Alyx as much as Valve did.

  • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Some games that came out 16 years ago:

    • GTA IV
    • Super Smash Bros Brawl
    • Fallout 3
    • Left 4 Dead
    • Persona 4
    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I just finished my Windows XP build, and have been enjoying FO3 again the way it was meant to be played.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        The golden age of gaming was the late SNES/early playstation era.

        Graphics were beautiful, games were long and generally had incredible, immersive, and even heart wrenching stories.

        Unlike today, where the focus on hyperrealism, generally at the expense of story and definitely performance. but hey, its only 6 hours long and you get to pay 80 dollars for it, so thats great, right?

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          9 months ago

          The golden era depends on your personal preferences. What you said is true, but golden era for MMOs was early 2000s to early 2010s, and for me personally it was during that period

      • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I knew we were in a golden age when The Orange Box came out. A red letter day in gaming.

    • ADTJ@feddit.ukEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I remember me and my friends being so hyped for Brawl, and then gutted when it got delayed for another year

  • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    What… call of duty modern warfare 2 still has active servers, it came like 3 or 4 years ago… right?

  • sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Pitstop 2 that my brother and I played constantly we were kids are 40 years exactly… the pain…

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    This made me curious so I looked up my favorite game from childhood that I still play sometimes now… Super Metroid just turned 30 years old 💀

      • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I only ever beat it back in the day by using the game guide lol! That was long enough ago that the game guide was an actual paper book I had to find at a store and pay real money for! Well, my mom paid for it anyway lol

          • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            My mom liked playing Nintendo games as much as I did so if there was a game she wanted to see the end of we would end up getting a Nintendo Power or a standalone game guide that was supposedly purchased for me lol

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Went into CEX the other week, and saw PS1 games I’d bought when I was already an adult with a job, being sold second hand for more than I’d originally bought them for.