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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   1982 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 13, 2023

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You can write off 1999 almost completely except for a smattering of games with long development cycles or games which were still 2D.

Is this a contention? Are you are contender, contending me to contentious discussion? 1999 is the anno domini of video games. We got:

System shock 2

Freespace 2

Alpha Centauri

Age of Empires 2

Planescape torment

Pokemon Gold/Silver

Everquest

Unreal Tournament

Quake 3

Every single one of those sequels refines their base game into its ultimate form - in the 23 years since many of them have had additional sequels, but they never reached these heights again. In many cases they are genre defining too - would world of warcraft existed without Everquest? Probably, but shoosh.

I don't think you understood what I was saying. Look at the previous sentence.

I'm saying a Pentium 233 MMX with a Voodoo or a Riva 128 couldn't play most games from 1999 unless they were 2D, or had long development cycles. Like they were originally supposed to come out in 1998, and they had wanted them to run on 1997 hardware, then they slipped into 1999 instead. I was not saying 1999 had bad games. I was talking about the games you could expect to play on a 2 year old PC at the time.

Ah yeah I misunderstood lol. Thank goodness.

The clause "long development cycles or games which were still 2D" is doing a lot of work here, I think; "refines a base game into its ultimate form" from a creative standpoint is "long (multi-game) development cycle", a product that gets to reuse most of its source code, from a technical standpoint. Everquest still seems like a big exception, though.

I felt trolled too before I read the fine print. Please don't say such a thing! The drones need you. They look up to you!

Yes, apocalypse cancelled unfortunately, I misunderstood.

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