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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "rms" Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Aging Well Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:38:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:38:17 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e98808a11c9b4cd49ba30c3b1a32b6e1"; logging-data="1817185"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+nU5LXtnqDKNU12P9UyOJjxjbBOwffUvY=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:y4uybnHQtQoI/AQ8KfkxjZE1KBs= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3528.331 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3528.331 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Bytes: 2353 X-Original-Lines: 1 >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