Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mandrake Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: Does The Tech Still Impress? Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:51:30 -0500 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WJO5W2fZ+JvSwprhh1nVZAnwA2WGHoIRS6JhcPT5s7FXTyS/29 Cancel-Lock: sha1:aWk1nAzJHIir0p3jZYsG5YOB+KA= sha256:UZqf9ygfA5ZxQxIOUKQWOH7N++y9Ltwxt0ZZEkOjgds= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2680 Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > > So this CRAP* poll is ever-so-slightly less random and pointless this > time. I mean, not /much/ less; it's just enough less CRAP that I'm not > going to be giving you the usual silly options. Yup, this time you > can't just pick from A, B or C; you gotta WRITE out your response. You > might even have to think about it first! > > > (Obviously, I expect many fewer responses this time** ;-) > > > Anyway, here's the question for this month's poll. It's about tech in > video games. Specifically: > > Does the technology in games impress you anymore? > > And by 'tech', I mean anything from graphics, physics, world-size, AI; > stuff like that. The underlying software and hardware that powers our > games. When you load up a new game, is any of that still making you > go, 'Wow! I didn't know PCs could do that" or "Hey, that's really > neat"? If so, which games? If not, can you remember the last time that > happened? I've been asking myself the same thing quite a bit lately. However, I do have an example that impressed me. Recently Ubisoft remastered and re-released Heroes of Might and Magic III. It's one of my favorite games and only recently did developers begin taking remastering seriously. That's not what impressed me. I switched over from that to Heroes of Might and Magic V and took a good look at the game. The graphics are beautiful. The music is high quality too. No longer taking Heroes V for granted. Set the camera to classic view and pincushion the enemy as Marksmen... What I think is missing from games today is the cartoon feel. All those high resolution monsters with fuzzy and often erroneous graphics. They're rough like a hooker without makeup. Not my cup of tea. They seem cultish and anathemic.