Should Gaming Go Back to the Future?

[Tinman]

Dan Parmenter tells us why retro classics should be left in the 80s

Should Gaming Go Back to the Future?

[Necuno]

These days, engrossing storytelling and expertly weaved plots are brushed aside by razor-sharp graphics and cinema-quality special effects, so perhaps a dose of retro is needed to remind the youth that there’s more to games than a Blu-Ray stuffed full of texture detail and extras that alone are a thousand times the size of the entire Police Quest series.

Would be nice to have a game again that have a decent story and plot vs zomg looks, so tiring sometimes just to fecth this or fix that. Replaying some duke3d and seeing that it was actually amazing for its time by seeing what they had and what they acomplished with those tools. then theres the thought of how bout a polished product that comes out of the box you just bought vs.... the PATCH

Worse case is when you hear and be hyped about a classic being remade just to have your memories shattered by a watered down product.

[_Caboose_]

ahhh was stuck on that part of larry thanks Tintin

Nah in anyways i scheme yes they going forward but some of us still want to play those old school games that we were too dumb to finish back in the day

[OmegaFenix]

I missed the Retro Scene, played mostly DN3D, Shadow Warrior and Age of Empires. I am replaying DN3D with the higres pack and its AWESOME. I do long for a decent story, a deep, meaningful and complex plot. Mass Effect gave us some of that, Fallout 3 not so much. I am a firm believer that the classics, like with films, should be left alone. Few, very few, remakes ever live up to the classics, notable exception is the new Star Trek.

Maybe in the not too distant future we will be seeing games that forcus not only of looks and action but on story and choice. Heavy Rain shows promise, i hope we are not disappointed.

[Keldarza]

I don't mind them restoring old games so that they can work on today's PCs, that's pretty cool (AKA DosBox) and even what they did with monkey island, improved the graphics a bit, added some voice to the game. Looks pretty amazing yet sticking to the original. But really, just keep it to that, don't try to "remake it".

[phakt]

What about the originals in Virtual Reality (soon on shelves everywhere): you become Roger Wilco, you shoot Jessie Bains, you kick ass in Persia?

[Shred]

Remember BMX in Califoria Games?

[_Caboose_]

California Games was awesome!!! i remember the footbag one hehe, but damn the surfing was hard

[Maplassie]

Being a Retro-Gaming-Enthusiast, I love threads and articles like these.

Have you ever stopped to think about this. We long for games years back, remember how awesome it was playing them, ooohed and aaaahed everywhere, it was brilliant. 20 years from now, are ppl gonna think of Doom3, or the original doom1 and 2? it's not a question of wich game is better, I mean doom 3 scored very high, but wich will be more memorable? I dont think it comes down to playing the games at a young age, or being some of your first games played. But the games back then had this certain sence of "innocence" to them. I know that sounds weird hehe. Such simplistic, copy and paste and sparsely decorated game worlds, but yet they were so immersive and so atmospheric and so damn brilliant to play.

Take Crysis. You think ANYBODY would think back in 20 years about crysis and how awesome it looked and stuff? Or are they gonna laugh at how silly it looks compared to games of the current times(in 20 years time)? I bet on the latter. Yet we don't really compare Pre 2000 games the same way. WE play them with the horrible graphics, mono sound, akward controls, cause heck, those were the days, those were the REAL games.
Apart from Deus EX which came out post-2000 and is the best game EVAAAAARRRRRRR!

[OmegaFenix]

Apart from Deus EX which came out post-2000 and is the best game EVAAAAARRRRRRR!

And is being compared to game we play today.

Very True what Mappy said here. Crysis maybe have looked awesome but it lacks the depth to become truly legendary.