Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Old Games For The Win Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:43:28 -0500 Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Lines: 38 Message-ID: <41saujlk8vfbn564cb19ho8n6b6jvfdm55@4ax.com> References: <9888ujpfbmn7ifkt2s6h4o1d7ume4e5mov@4ax.com> Reply-To: zaghadka@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:43:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e3f62c5ae1a272513e349aa401786006"; logging-data="627969"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FnhTEHxr1HqybScWxClHXJqYJvcvjGyA=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:q8JAz3VF3RPGHR+JksnvYj+FWyc= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 2709 On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:58:14 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike S. wrote: >On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:17:23 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson > wrote: > > >>So you might be playing more old games simply because _there are more >>old games to play_. ;-) > >I play more old games because modern big budget games do not appeal to >me. Period. It really is that simple. I lost interest in modern games >around the year 2000 or so. I don't think it is their fault. It is >just a personal preference thing. > As soon as our "hobby" went to the frat boys and normies - it began sometime around the point when you didn't have to configure your sound card addresses, manage your resident programs, and properly configure IRQs - I knew it was the beginning of the end. But I did make some coin configuring such people's systems to play, say, Blackthorne. Windows 98 finally ended that source of revenue. It took a while for the inertia of needing to satisfy that audience to die down. It is now complete. Around when you say, 2015, give or take. Those days are gone. Very few developers are willing to risk making games that appeal to that sort of intelligence. The ones that do are all indies. Games are also more socially oriented, where single player was the established norm for the tech-oriented audience. We tended to be loners. We aren't the market any more. The PC Master Race is, in fact, dead. -- Zag This is csipg.rpg - reality is off topic. ...G. Quinn ('08)