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Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the night-and-day dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A cool comparison of video games from the same genre, the only difference is about 20 years of technical development. The Bard's tale vs World of Warcraft is really funny."

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  1. Deeper level comparision by Mattygfunk1 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    While the screenshots are nice, if you compared other metrics like customer satisfaction and average hours of game play per gamer, how would they stack up?

    My bet would be they are a lot closer than this graphics comparision which was purely a technology problem.

    1. Re:Deeper level comparision by Rebyk · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It is like comparing a book and a movie telling the same story. Some people always prefer books because they force you to use your imagination. The same applies to old games. However, sometimes the makers of a movie or a game have a better imagination than you do or they can visualize something better. I admit that some, perhaps even most, new movies and games are just eye candy or special effects but sometimes they really make you feel something that was not possible 20 years ago, and that is just the visual part. Don't forget the sounds.

      And then there's the nostalgy. If you played some game as a kid, you can't play a new game 20 years later and have the same feelings because _you_ are not a kid anymore. That has nothing to do with the quality or playability of the game. It is very hard to be objective in this matter.

  2. But what about the ultimate retro game.... by Kaptain_Korolev · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Tweaking your autoexec.bat and config.sys so that you had enough of the first base 640k of RAM to actually get any games to run on your power beast 486. That's were the fun really was!

    Himem.sys and emm386.exe, I had nearly forgotten all about you guys, ahhhh those were the days.

    For those who want more of this jovial tweakfest go here