• Why Half-Life ruined videogames for me forever: a Christmas story
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[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;49428498]I am so fucking glad I still enjoy things and games that come out today. Sure, I remember things fondly, old games were amazing. But I've actually gone back and played those games. Fuck nostalgia. It corrupts your perception of things and makes everything worse. Games from that time period were not always that great. I can't even remember how many fucking duds I played as a kid. There were amazing titles that I'll never forget, but I go back to them, and my memory, and reality are not the same. Nostalgia is what drives a lot of this I believe. [editline]31st December 2015[/editline] While it isn't a clone of it in any way, it has a well paced story that is centered around a singular protagonist as he goes through some pretty crazy events. It's one of the few games of the last decade to emotionally connect with me. I understood BJ. I got why he cared so much, and I got why he was so unstoppable. There was a lot more emotional heart to that game than anyone really wants to give it credit for. Not to mention, level design in that title is second to none.[/QUOTE] Honestly, TNO is just solid all around, my only problem was I was playing on the hardest mode and it becomes PAINFULLY unfun in the final levels because everything are major bullet sponges and you dont get enough ammo, so it turns itself from that fun fast-paced shooter to a generic boring cover shit. Thankfully just turn it to normal and continue on that spree. TNO was pretty ballsy, not easy making a feel good game about WW2 Nazi genocide.
The only games I legit enjoyed this year are Dota 2, Global Offensive, Witcher 3, MGSV, Cities:Skylines and Battlefield 4. Rest feel like one-time borefests, and yes, that includes Fallout 4. Out of all games FO games, I outright lost interest at 30 hours. Everything else was of meh quality. I will be honest when I say that I can't remember anything else I've played which I found memorable and of this year. Have yet to try Just Cause 3.
I dont get the infatuation with TNO. It was good enough for me to want a sequel (which will hopefully fix many of the problems that i had with it), but it was pretty iffy as an experience overall. [editline]31st December 2015[/editline] I liked it as a proof of concept, but it definitely isnt comparable to Half Life 1/2.
Not exactly related to the article, but I will say that I miss that time as a kid where I didn't know how games worked, so I thought that past the locked doors and invisible walls, there was more world to explore. Then I got into mapping, and learned how game engines actually worked. Games kinda lost their magic to me after that. On the other side of the coin, that's pretty much the exact reason why I took up mapping for games like Halo and Unreal; to create those environments that I thought existed behind the world boundaries.
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