Now some people will tell you its all about the graphics, sounds, cut scenes, and story lines that make games so great. While that sounds so fantastic in theory it just doesn't mean shit in practice. Is all you have ever played been on XBOX (or 360) and playstation (1,2,or 3)? Then you probably don't believe me, read on......
I would sound like a crazy person if I were describing some of my all time favorite games. Those games by today's standards have bad graphics, laughable sounds, little to no cut scenes and for the most part no story at all. Yet they are fantastic and still remain just as great today as they were in the past.
Examples?
You're a frog trying to cross a street then a river but you cant swim. You're a guy running up girders and ladders and you have to jump barrels a gorilla is throwing at you. You're a metal tube bouncing a ball up to break blocks to escape space. You are a yellow circle eating dots and being chased by ghosts! The funniest sounding one? You walk across walkways being chased by eggs, pickles, and hot dogs while trying to make buns, meat patties, and lettuce leaves fall into giant hamburgers!
"Retro" games rely on being accessible, FUN, and very replayable; not on superficial things like pretty graphics, snazzy audio, and 20 minute long CGI rendered cut scenes. Now don't get me wrong, I buy the latest and greatest and for the most part play the ever loving crap out of my games (to the point where I'm getting 1k after the fun as faded), but every time I have to drop $60 on a new title I cringe and pray to God its worth the investment. It's getting harder and harder to justify the hunk of cheddar and Ive gone from buying a title or 2 every month to buying a title every 2 months or so.
So to all you kids out there stuck in your Halo worlds or only play games that have Kratos in them...... give old school a try, you'll probably love it and the games aren't $60 a pop.
Just an FYI, PacMan, Ms.PacMan, Galaga, Contra and many others are about $5 on the PSN/Live! networks; so you can get about 12 retro games for the price of 1 shiny new one.
Old is the new new.
~Malenko
PS, gave up on operation finish all the "need for speeds", they are just too terrible.
2 comments:
The correct way of stating this is "good graphics don't NECESSARILY make a good game"... but they certainly help! Pacman and other retro games were good because of the novelty effect-- they were new and there was nothing better. Bad Company 2 is good for the same reason; best graphics available, but then it goes further to be a great game with its gameplay. The same level of gameplay could NOT be replicated with 2D graphics, or even an inferior engine in general.
perhaps my point was missed, I never stated 2D is better then 3D or that great graphics equals a bad game; tons of games have both, Super Mario World and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 both have fantastic, visuals, sounds, and game play.
Having not played BF:BC2 (and the fact their servers are down) keep me from commenting on the game but I hear its like MW2 but requires more team work, and that doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.
The gist was, when game makers focus on making a game fun that can over come ANYTHING its lacking , whether it be visuals, sound track,story,etc
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