Don't waste time envying the children of today -- look forward to your retirement. Our generation will settle for nothing less than top of the line gaming rigs and fat connections whilst enjoying our golden years. It's gonna make childhood seem boring!
Thank you for voicing that sentiment, sir. Deus Ex also captivates me to this day; it forever changed the way I feel about games as art. I still get the impression that DX was an actual chapter in my life rather than just a game I played for a while. Top honors.
Shooters up to and including Doom were two dimensional games that tried hard to look 3D. Quake was was the first truly three dimensional FPS, which set the mold for every FPS that followed it. Nobody makes FPS's in 2.5D any more, unless we're talking about limited platforms like mobile devices.
In a sense Doom teased us with possibilities, while Quake actually delivered the goods. There were a few truly 3d games such as Descent which preceded Quake slightly, but none of them had ALL the essentials of the modern FPS the way Quake did.
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Don't waste time envying the children of today -- look forward to your retirement. Our generation will settle for nothing less than top of the line gaming rigs and fat connections whilst enjoying our golden years. It's gonna make childhood seem boring!
Thank you for voicing that sentiment, sir. Deus Ex also captivates me to this day; it forever changed the way I feel about games as art. I still get the impression that DX was an actual chapter in my life rather than just a game I played for a while. Top honors.
Shooters up to and including Doom were two dimensional games that tried hard to look 3D. Quake was was the first truly three dimensional FPS, which set the mold for every FPS that followed it. Nobody makes FPS's in 2.5D any more, unless we're talking about limited platforms like mobile devices. In a sense Doom teased us with possibilities, while Quake actually delivered the goods. There were a few truly 3d games such as Descent which preceded Quake slightly, but none of them had ALL the essentials of the modern FPS the way Quake did.