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Dragon's Lair on X-box

Posted by michael on from the follow-the-flashing-tiles dept.

aka pseudonym writes "Remember the game Dragon's Lair, the laserdisc based game from the 80's? Well, it is now out for the X-box and other game systems. You can check it out at www.dragonslair3d.com. This looks like the first game that supports the HDTV 1080i resoloution the X-box is capable of. There is a review of the game here. A related slashdot link is here. Aaahhh memories, at least now I don't have to drop a full dollar into the machine every time I want to play this addictive game."

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  1. GOOD LORD, WHEN WILL PEOPLE SICKEN. . ?! by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    3d games were cool back in the day of Doom and Dark Forces. Half-Life had a cool story. Quake-boy Carmak(sp?) has been reliable in doing cool things with bleeding edge tech. But X-Box?

    From the standard driving game to the standard run around with guns game, it seems like every game box release from each major player has simply been an extended parade of slight variations of different texture-maps and ever-so-slightly different rule-sets painted over top the same !#$?! graphics engine. Ya-freeking-hoo! Could I BE any more bored out of my skull?

    And, good lord, I HATE texture mapped stuff. Everything from Mario to Orcs look so dull and fake-ish and same-o same-o. -Now, handling a Stormtrooper blaster for the first time and stealing the actual plans for the Death Star because Princess Liea NEEDED them, (in an age before Star Wars sucked and Lucas's brain hadn't yet turned to cheese-whiz), was just about the most amazing gaming experience I've ever had. And yeah, sure, I was born in the early 70's, so maybe by today's game-box standards I'm a cynical 30-something year old who's X-Gen opinion doesn't mean squat. (Which it obviously doesn't, since the game companies are reaping in gazillions from their boring-ass 3d 'games') But still. . !

    Dirk the Daring will forever be a 2d animated piece of visual coolness from my childhood, where they tried it because simply because nobody had ever done so before. Daring. New. Made with a passion for the art! --But this new, factory-setting-3d-version with a half-assed 2d texture tweek is a waste of time, in my totally un-humble opinion.

    Why won't somebody put their balls on the line and write something new and interesting? I've not seen any significant game inovation since the days of MOO-2 and Command & Conquer. --And Voxels, btw, are the height of graphics coolness; they STILL look a million times better than the no-substance, too easy, 3d popcorn being shoved up our sore-spots these days.

    The one exception I can think of is the LucasArts release, Grim Fandango. But like Half-life, that was all about the story, and in it's case, kick-ass voice-acting and comedic timing.

    Grumble, Grumble.


    -Fantastic Lad