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Subject: Re: Aging Well
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:38:12 -0700
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>It's not that I don't think most of those games aren't worth playing
>but a lot of them either have mechanics that feels a bit dated, or
>lack quality-of-life features that we've come to expect, or just have
>underlying assumptions that no longer feel quite as apt anymore.

   I think I'm with you here.  Many of these I haven't played, but Uncharted 
2 I did play a year or two back and it sticks out with me as having an 
annoying cover shooting mechanic that made levels tedious and irritating; I 
must've killed 100's of random mercs in that game.  Also I gotta say I 
wasn't too impressed with the graphics, but in fairness it is from an old 
console generation.  GoW has a similar mechanic come to think of it, 
although since it was new to me the gameplay didn't bother so much.  Now, 
GoW4 on the other hand I found insufferable, with its addition of endless 
teenage tit-for-tat chatter.  In my mind I would call Mirror's Edge 
timeless, with its very clean and bright artstyle, and I suspect I'd say the 
same of Okami.   I'll propose a couple additions, both for their clean and 
attractive art:  XIII, Tron 2, Beyond Good and Evil

rms