[QUOTE="naughtyandbad"]Would you ever refuse to watch a film because you didn't like the colour palette or cinematography, or refuse to read something because you didn't like the font? Forget about graphics and look at what's important. Games are all about gameplay. If you want good games, you want good gameplay. Don't limit yourself with some trivial, petty thing like what a game looks like. Most of the best games are pre-2005, certainly on PC.evildead6789that's about the most stupid thing i've ever heard. color palette in film or font of book can't be compared with the graphics and psychics of a game. Of course they can. They are the visuals, the dressing.
It's like comparing cars. Off course very good cars were made 50 years ago but the best cars are very recent. There's just more technology involved. A bow and arrow was a great invention as a weapon but it isn't the same as an m16. And some games are ahead of it's time just like some movies are . evildead6789Nope. Technology of that nature is iterative and of a strict purpose. Computer games are not. Not all changes are improvements (regenerating health, for instance) and not all genres are given equal attention over the course of time. Show me an adventure game better than Curse of Money Island made post-2005. You know why you can't? Because hardly any are made any more. Same for RPGs, they were much better pre-2005,, because after that time they became mostly shooters with supremely shallow roleplaying. Just look at Fallout 3 versus Fallout. With cars, if you weren't alive during the 50s, you can't drive a particular car from the 50s. But it doesn't matter because all cars serve the same purpose. You just buy a newer one. The only way to play one specific game, most of the time, is to play THAT specific game. If you won't play Braid, for instance, there isn't some version of Braid with better graphics. The only way you'll ever play Braid is by playing Braid. And that's true of almost ALL great games. That's what makes them great.
Some movies are even timeless but the techology used in the medium computer gaming is not like making movies. Movie is a passive medium , gaming is interactive. Watching a 2d screen or a 3d screen can't be compared like a 2d game and a 3d game. I mean youinteract with it. Simply putthe technology hasevolved too much too compare a game like crysis with pacman.evildead6789True, but irrelevent. Pac-Man is a great, great game, and playing Crysis will not result in you having played Pac-man. If you want to play Pac-Man, you've got to play Pac-Man. Besides, you've deliberately picked a game from the early 80s to make your point seem stronger. We are talking about pre- versus post-2005, not gaming antiquity.
And what kinda of remark is that best games are pre-2005 lol. Bioshock, mass effect, call of duty's after 2005, mass effect 2 , crysis, OBLIVION, fallout 3, fable II, dead space,assasins creedare all post 2005. Sorry , but i would like to know which game that'spre 2005 that's better than all of theseevildead6789BioShock is a terrible game. It's a dumbed down, kiddy version of System Shock 2. Mass Effect is alright. Call of Duty 1 is the only truly great CoD. Crysis is a good game. Oblivion and Fallout 3 are utterly dreadful. Dead Space is good. Assassin's Creed is a supremely shallow game. You want some good games, try: System Shock 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, Silent Hill 2, Theme Park, Lemmings, Worms 2, Dungeon Keeper 2, X-Com series, King's Quest series, Ultima series, Doom 1 & 2, Diablo 2, Thief 1 and 2, Alpha Centauri, GTA1/2 and Vice City, Deus Ex, Arcanum, Max Payne 1 and 2, Escape from Butcher Bay, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. It's a long, long list. Understand that I am NOT saying that modern games are bad, simply that old games are good too, and in most instances, the only way to play those older games is to play those older games. Playing Crysis will not result in you having played Doom. Playing BioShock will not result in you having played X-Com Enemy Unknown. Playing Mass Effect will not result in you having played Thief 2. The only way to play those games is to play them, and if you're missing out, you're seriously missing out.
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