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One of the things about the Angry Videogame Nerd that I enjoyed when he first came out (yeah, I'm that old) is that back in the mid-2000s, there was a lot of NE
by bitwize 1y ago
One of the things about the Angry Videogame Nerd that I enjoyed when he first came out (yeah, I'm that old) is that back in the mid-2000s, there was a lot of NES nostalgia, but it tended to focus on big-ticket games that were considered "good" -- Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, etc. -- and shared experiences like blowing on cartridges. The AVGN showcased that there were also a lot of forgotten not-so-great games from that era -- games like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde -- which are worth examining today from a standpoint of why they were not so great. Was it developer inexperience? Were they cutting corners? What were they THINKING?!
This had the added effect of reviving interest in these old games. Today you can still play Hydlide or Silver Surfer on a real or emulated NES just as it was back then, and a NES library could hardly be considered complete without such games.
The real issue is that gaming today is a service, and that has implications for the longevity of games. City of Heroes and The Matrix Online are never, ever coming back -- not as they were, anyway, notwithstanding doujin efforts of dubious legality (see Blizzard et al. v. Jung et al. and the legal situation around bnetd) to reimplement the server backend for these games so they can continue to be played on unofficial worlds.
- platevoltage 1y agoAre you saying you don't fire up Action 52 every few days?
- bitwize 1y agoWho isn't down for a round of Cheetahmen?
- platevoltage 1y agoAs someone who these days enjoys watching other people play bad games, or play good games wrong (speed running, or just making comedic content), I'm definitely not down to play that horrific garbage. I might go rewatch AVGN do it though.
- spacechild1 1y agoI actually once downloaded a copy of "Big Rigs" after watching AVGN's video. It still baffles my mind how this game could ever make it to the shelves. It is the most broken thing I've ever played. The infinite speed reverse gear is quite an experience, though.
- anonymars 1y agoThis is my favorite review comment on that game: https://www.gamespot.com/big-rigs-over-the-road-racing/user-reviews/2200-21545/ https://www.gamespot.com/big-rigs-over-the-road-racing/user-... e.g. > This comment on society is driven home (or in fact, not driven at all) even further by the computer AI. It doesn't even leave the starting gate. Much like the dreams and aspirations we harbour as youth, reving our engines on a starting line where the crack of the pistol never comes. Meanwhile, those of privledge cruise to easy victory, unconcerned over such mundane things as rent or grocery bills or collideable landscapes.
- bitwize 1y agoI love how if you accelerate backwards long enough (in the BLJ of auto racing games), you will eventually be at a point in the coordinate system where the distance between adjacent floating-point numbers is large enough to be visible, leading to your truck's geometry beginning to "shimmer", and then warp and change shape in bizarre twisted ways. Truly only a masterpiece could gift us with an experience like that.
- const_cast 1y agoClearly y'all never played Clover 3D, which gave Mario 64 for run for it's money. I mean, Clover has at least one extra finger!
- antifa 1y agohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
- nwallin 1y agoCity of Heroes is actually back. Several of the community servers have a license from the publisher.