Some of you, old gang, remember those amazing times when games pulled you to your beloved beige PCs and you could dive in their colorful, pixelised worlds.
First game to tell about would be ALone in The Dark.
I have played it not a long ago and have to say it was great to see it again. Being older by almost 30 years, it was not that scary anymore, but still showed some potential to tickle me that way :)
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I had "Alone in the Dark" for my old '486, but it was just the demo at the time.
It came on one of those 'demo disks' of shovelware. Stopped at an early point in the game. That's okay, because I was too young and was having trouble with the 3D navigation and such.
Played the full-version circa 2010. It's a very engrossing experience. Very atmospheric, even the primitive 3D characters had a lot of ... character.
It's a great companion to the first "Laura Bow" game, which made great use of an EGA palette, IIRC.
Lots of dangerous obstacles in AITD. Encourages a save-scum playstyle, unfortunately. [At least, with Laura Bow, it was fun to get sub-optimal outcomes]. Really a "heart of darkness" kind of thing as you get further and deeper into that house. [Like S.T.A.L.K.E.R: SoC did very well much later.]
First game to tell about would be ALone in The Dark.
I have played it not a long ago and have to say it was great to see it again. Being older by almost 30 years, it was not that scary anymore, but still showed some potential to tickle me that way :)
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So great to see Alone In The Dark here, I'm a big fan of the first one, I played it when I was young and I love it, it's one of my first big gaming experience with Doom 1. Never finished it, it was to hard for the young me, I still have the collector version of the three Alone In The Dark on CDRom (bought with my Soud Blaster).
Old games are just fantastic because of technical limitations and creativity of a new media, game designers experiment new ideas and a game like Alone In The Dark is all that, very innovative with a real graphic touch.
I'm so happy to know early computer gaming, I'm a little bit nostalgic of this time, when games are fun and different. Today, gaming is not as fun as it was, why, I don't know, maybe because I'm old or just because all the magic in games are gone to let place of ranking, money and standardization ?
Some of you, old gang, remember those amazing times when games pulled you to your beloved beige PCs and you could dive in their colorful, pixelised worlds.
I started my adventure in late 80s with my first computer, Commodore 128, then few years later, got my first PC, 386SX 40MHz.
Those were the times.
I feel that nowadays, games have lost something. Of course they look amazing, have huge stories, unbelievable graphics, sound etc
But I do not feel that, what I felt playing games back in 80-90s. Personally I compare it to same feeling that covers cinematography - moveis from those years had that something. Today you won't feel the same - I think its because most movies back then covered stories that we never seen before, they were new, amazing, shocking at times. Today we can say we've seen everything and another new movie just shows other way/angle of same story.
I feel the same with games. Of course there are few gems, that come up with something new, but this is very rare and designers need to really prepare and come up with fresh ideas to make us say WOW...
So I decided to play old games, again. Some of them will be played for 10th time, some only a second time.
Wanted to share this with you and hear what you guys think about these games, have you played them, do you come back to your favourite titles, do you collect games in those sweet big boxes? Share with us what you got there :thumb:
First game to tell about would be ALone in The Dark.
I have played it not a long ago and have to say it was great to see it again. Being older by almost 30 years, it was not that scary anymore, but still showed some potential to tickle me that way :)
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At few times I had to google some solutions for it, as I wasn't sure what to do - but that was alwyas a thing with those adventure games, one of my favourite genres. Same as this horror-adventure one, like for example point&click adventure games were my favourite ones.
Have you guys palyed it back in the days? Did you like it?
I noticed something new about it when played this year - it wasn't that long, it felt right, story was layed in time long enough to give me fun, but not too long, to make it boring. Something that very often happens with modern games.
I know exactly what you mean. The graphics are better today, but some of those older games just had a charm that's hard to explain. I still find myself going back to classics every now and then, and they never get old.