There are quite a lot of those games. And everybody has their favorites. So writing an article on something like this is just wrong to begin with. What one person thinks is a great game must be completed at least once a year an other person wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole.
There is one thing I noticed while replaying old games. I'm starting to get spoiled on the graphical quality, and more granular game flow (e.g. the feeling of more fps in motion). Or it might be just me or the emulator (e.g. dosbox). A while ago I was playing Crusader: No Remorse. A great game, but when I started playing I started to notice things that somewhat make the game much less. I don't know if it was because of dosbox or if the game was always like that (it was a very long time ago since I last played it). For a lot of other games the FMV is often subject to quality, these days with the awesome codecs these old movies look quite aweful. For example Phantasmagoria, a FMV game spanning 7 CDs. The movies are really low quality. Back then tho it was quite high quality. If you can't look past these things it might spoil the game forever.
Since everybody is posting their list. A couple of my favorites that I sometimes\often replay: - Little Big Adventure \ Relentless - Anachronox - Super Mario World - Tron 2.0 - Beyond Good & Evil - Unreal - Vice City
And some games I really should replay some time: - Crusader: No Regret\No Remorse - Dark Earth - Normality - Phantasmagoria - American McGee's Alice - The Longest Journey - King's Quest 8
Note: I left out the games with a pretty much infinite replay ability due to it's design, e.g. Mario Kart, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Sim City #000, online multiplayer games
A couple of European game developer studios: Rockstar North (San Andreas) Nadeo (Trackmania) CroTeam (Serious Sam) Quantic Dreams (Fahrenheit) Funcom (the Longest Yourney) Revolution (Broken Sword) EgoSoft (X3)
Well... I could go on for a while. It's not the problem that European game devs don't get a lot of attention. It's more that nobody realises that these dev studios are European. They are often mistaken for American.
We tried and succeded, or at least, until 2007. It just won't stay dead. One "yes" and we're screwed. One "no" and we'll have to repeat it over and over and over again until hell freezes over (or we until we say "yes", whatever comes first).
iirc in 2005 I bought the least number of games since 1995. It wasn't a good year, not really a lot of great games were released. 2006 is going to be different.
Maybe the journalists should starting to take the developer more serious:
When one of the journalists asked me the proverbial 'how many weapons in the game' my feelings about most game marketing started uncontrollably bubbling to the surface. [...] When they market films do they say 'Coming soon: Citizen Kane 2: Rosebud's Revenge: The Wrath of Kane, now featuring 10 actors, 13 sets, and 8 writers!'? No, they don't.
— Cliff Bleszinski
You can keep your Adobe (Acrobat) Reader. Way to heavy. I've been using Foxit Reader for a while now and it just works and it is fast.
Besides... the name is just great with one of the other tools in the Google pack: Firefox and Foxit;) Now we just needs a Foxbar, Deskfox, Fox-aware, Foxasa, Anti-fox (hmm, that doesn't sound good), Planetfox, Foxsaver.
There are so many games that were very promissing but never made it anywhere close to a release. And they only picked three? This "article" doesn't have enough content to deserve the bandwidth.
Lose 6-20 inches in one hour And others claim to gain 3 inches in 2 weeks. Either something very strange is going on or I'm confused.
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Why not wxWidgets? It's more flexible if you ask me. It simply wraps the native GUI stuff, or an other toolkit like GTK+. I don't have any numbers, but I think the performance would be better and the distribution size shouldn't suffer much (as with Qt or GTK+).
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You could have fooled me with that one.
Great Software + Dumb People = Bad Stuff
So it's doesn't really matter in case of dumb people.
Although... we now have a problem.
Great Software + Dumb People = Bad Stuff = Crappy Software + Dumb People
Great Software = Crappy Software
Now explain why the xbox360 core doesn't come with a harddisk?
I mean, you've got to store those downloads somewhere? right?
The price went down?!
New DVDs are about 20 euro here. And that doesn't mean it's a super special edition.
apt-cron
although that only works when the patch doesn't need human attention
One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written.
Looks like he was right on that one. Although I fail to see how you can blame MS Windows on those stealing hobbyists.
Could this secret company be KingIsle Entertainment ( http://www.kingsisle.com/ ) ?
Tom Hall moved to that company to create an MMOG.
Duke Nukem Forever will be released.
....
And so was last year and the year before that and before that and before and before that
Anyway, looks like a loaded FPS year.
There are quite a lot of those games. And everybody has their favorites. So writing an article on something like this is just wrong to begin with.
What one person thinks is a great game must be completed at least once a year an other person wouldn't touch with a 10ft pole.
There is one thing I noticed while replaying old games. I'm starting to get spoiled on the graphical quality, and more granular game flow (e.g. the feeling of more fps in motion). Or it might be just me or the emulator (e.g. dosbox). A while ago I was playing Crusader: No Remorse. A great game, but when I started playing I started to notice things that somewhat make the game much less. I don't know if it was because of dosbox or if the game was always like that (it was a very long time ago since I last played it). For a lot of other games the FMV is often subject to quality, these days with the awesome codecs these old movies look quite aweful. For example Phantasmagoria, a FMV game spanning 7 CDs. The movies are really low quality. Back then tho it was quite high quality. If you can't look past these things it might spoil the game forever.
Since everybody is posting their list. A couple of my favorites that I sometimes\often replay:
- Little Big Adventure \ Relentless
- Anachronox
- Super Mario World
- Tron 2.0
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Unreal
- Vice City
And some games I really should replay some time:
- Crusader: No Regret\No Remorse
- Dark Earth
- Normality
- Phantasmagoria
- American McGee's Alice
- The Longest Journey
- King's Quest 8
Note: I left out the games with a pretty much infinite replay ability due to it's design, e.g. Mario Kart, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Sim City #000, online multiplayer games
It was a big disappointment. Not enough levels, and the story could have used more depth.
Graphics were ok tho.
A couple of European game developer studios:
Rockstar North (San Andreas)
Nadeo (Trackmania)
CroTeam (Serious Sam)
Quantic Dreams (Fahrenheit)
Funcom (the Longest Yourney)
Revolution (Broken Sword)
EgoSoft (X3)
Well... I could go on for a while.
It's not the problem that European game devs don't get a lot of attention. It's more that nobody realises that these dev studios are European. They are often mistaken for American.
He has a hidden agenda with a certain US lawyer. Their goal is to ruin games by the means of making terrible movies based on them.
Pre-rendered cutscenes are sooooo early 90s.
Cutscenes are not bad per se. You just have to do it right. A great example of a game where the cutscenes where like they should is Anachronox.
We tried and succeded, or at least, until 2007. It just won't stay dead.
One "yes" and we're screwed. One "no" and we'll have to repeat it over and over and over again until hell freezes over (or we until we say "yes", whatever comes first).
iirc in 2005 I bought the least number of games since 1995.
It wasn't a good year, not really a lot of great games were released.
2006 is going to be different.
At the airport: buffering ...
wtf am I in that list.
Or maybe I wasn't interesting enough in 2005, ah well, maybe this year.
You can keep your Adobe (Acrobat) Reader. Way to heavy.
;)
I've been using Foxit Reader for a while now and it just works and it is fast.
Besides... the name is just great with one of the other tools in the Google pack: Firefox and Foxit
Now we just needs a Foxbar, Deskfox, Fox-aware, Foxasa, Anti-fox (hmm, that doesn't sound good), Planetfox, Foxsaver.
There are so many games that were very promissing but never made it anywhere close to a release. And they only picked three?
This "article" doesn't have enough content to deserve the bandwidth.
Lose 6-20 inches in one hour
And others claim to gain 3 inches in 2 weeks.
Either something very strange is going on or I'm confused.
Why not wxWidgets? It's more flexible if you ask me. It simply wraps the native GUI stuff, or an other toolkit like GTK+.
I don't have any numbers, but I think the performance would be better and the distribution size shouldn't suffer much (as with Qt or GTK+).
Ok, maybe my English isn't as good as I thought.
But wtf is the problem anyway?
[ ] Quit smoking
[ ] Help the poor
[ ] Feed the hungry
[x] Buy more christmas lights
Dining philosophers.
And what a surprise, a deadlock.