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I'm a big fan of the genre, played at least one of the Wing Commander games a while after it came out, and I think Tie Fighter also. I never understood the app
by buescher 6y ago
I'm a big fan of the genre, played at least one of the Wing Commander games a while after it came out, and I think Tie Fighter also. I never understood the appeal compared to say, Star Raiders or the Star Wars vector arcade game.
Maybe I was just getting too old for video games, but I played Oolite (never played Elite when it was current) for a little while when I was between jobs at 40 and loved it.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoYeah, I must be too old too. When "cut scenes" started becoming the norm I felt like video games had lost their way.... Additionally, the big studios with their cut scenes set a kind of bar that the indie game dev couldn't match. It eventually sorted itself out but at the time it looked like the big players were moving in and the indies should probably head off and get "real" jobs.
- techrat 6y agoAnd then Half Life came along and showed you could have a game without any cutscenes whatsoever, with story and expositional moments parts of the game you could still interact within the map. Listening to the security guards in the main hall, finding that button under the desk... and pushing it.