Remember that period in your mid-teens, when the music of the period imprinted on you? Of course you do; you still listen to it today, don't even try to lie:) Video games are the same way -- it hits some individual engram buried 'way back in your head. It's fairly obvious how old the sample group and writers for this article were ^_^ I was waiting for the page to load at the end and thinking to myself, "If it's Doom I'm going to scream..."
And, OK, yeah, I was kind of disappointed some personal favorites didn't get the shout-out I thought they deserved, but who wasn't? That Starflight wasn't even mentioned was a mark of shame -- when you realize what you've been using for fuel all that time --
You PC folk may not empathize, but for the Mac, Marathon 2 deserved a nod more than 1 in my opinion; the story was more intricate (Marathon was *always* about the terminals), gameplay was light-years better, and the atmosphere as thick as a sack of lard. Maybe it's because I was playing it during a really rough patch of my life, but We're Everywhere (yes, that specific map) sticks with me, for no obvious reason. My RL-friends and I/still/ get together and LANplay House of Pain, Lack of Vision and No Disintegrations, five years after the game was released. Halo is cute and all, but Durandal is eternal. (Literally.)
You know they've done something right when you can crack people up just by quoting BOB.
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Remember that period in your mid-teens, when the music of the period imprinted on you? Of course you do; you still listen to it today, don't even try to lie :) Video games are the same way -- it hits some individual engram buried 'way back in your head. It's fairly obvious how old the sample group and writers for this article were ^_^ I was waiting for the page to load at the end and thinking to myself, "If it's Doom I'm going to scream ..."
/still/ get together and LANplay House of Pain, Lack of Vision and No Disintegrations, five years after the game was released. Halo is cute and all, but Durandal is eternal. (Literally.)
And, OK, yeah, I was kind of disappointed some personal favorites didn't get the shout-out I thought they deserved, but who wasn't? That Starflight wasn't even mentioned was a mark of shame -- when you realize what you've been using for fuel all that time --
You PC folk may not empathize, but for the Mac, Marathon 2 deserved a nod more than 1 in my opinion; the story was more intricate (Marathon was *always* about the terminals), gameplay was light-years better, and the atmosphere as thick as a sack of lard. Maybe it's because I was playing it during a really rough patch of my life, but We're Everywhere (yes, that specific map) sticks with me, for no obvious reason. My RL-friends and I
You know they've done something right when you can crack people up just by quoting BOB.
Maybe I can actually AFFORD one now!