Re: Old Games For The Win

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:58:09 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:43:28 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:58:14 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:17:23 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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So you might be playing more old games simply because _there are more
old games to play_. ;-)

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I play more old games because modern big budget games do not appeal to
me. Period. It really is that simple. I lost interest in modern games
around the year 2000 or so. I don't think it is their fault. It is
just a personal preference thing.
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As soon as our "hobby" went to the frat boys and normies - it began
sometime around the point when you didn't have to configure your sound
card addresses, manage your resident programs, and properly configure
IRQs - I knew it was the beginning of the end. But I did make some coin
configuring such people's systems to play, say, Blackthorne. Windows 98
finally ended that source of revenue.
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It took a while for the inertia of needing to satisfy that audience to
die down. It is now complete. Around when you say, 2015, give or take.
Those days are gone.
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Very few developers are willing to risk making games that appeal to that
sort of intelligence. The ones that do are all indies. Games are also
more socially oriented, where single player was the established norm for
the tech-oriented audience. We tended to be loners.
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We aren't the market any more. The PC Master Race is, in fact, dead.

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Speak for yourself. I'm pining for the fjords.
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[Alternately:
"I'm not dead."
>>    'Ere, he says he's not dead!"
>Yes he is.
"I'm not."
>>     He isn't!
>Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
"I'm getting better."
>No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. ]

Re-reading this, it came across a lot more antagonistic than I
intended (what can I say, I was in a rush to finish, and I'd been
doing a bit too much doom-scrolling beforehand ;-). The gist of what I
was trying to say is that

a) I think that there are a lot of worthy games
   being created today that meet the criteria of players
           whose tastes were formed in the 80s and 90s
b) I think that going through the rough era of the 2000s
      was a necessary part of getting to where there's so
   much diversity in games today

I apologize if it came off a bit more aggressive than I'd wanted.
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I don't apologize for the Monty Python quotes, though. ;-)