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Had An Old Man Gaming Moment
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:06 am
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:06 am
My FIL started over with kids and new wife so I have 4 BIL/SIL all under 20. I talk about playing PC games in the late 80s into the 90s with them all the time. Found out there’s a port of Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy on PS4 so I got it for them.
Christmas we were discussing it. They were talking about how hard the game is. They discovered (frustratingly) how there’s no auto save and the checkpoints might be 30 mins of game time apart. No charge down the alley and instant revive just a few steps back. You spend half the game at less than 20% health cause there’s no regen and med kits are really hard the find. The AI isn’t great, but the stormtroopers are freaking hard to kill, especially using a PS4 controller as opposed to a mouse.
Kids today have no idea how difficult games were when we were kids. Finally make it past a hard point only to die later and realize you forgot to press the quick save key. I can’t tell you how many games I never beat because they were damn near impossible. Anyone ever successfully get the Ghostbusters into the building under the Bouncing Marshmellow Man in the old Apple Ghostbusters game?
Anyway, CSB and all. It’s fun interacting with kids with a generational gap in gaming. My older BIL is into PC gaming and I’ve been getting him to download ports of older games just to get perspective. He seems to be enjoying it and it’s fun to relive those old games with him.
Christmas we were discussing it. They were talking about how hard the game is. They discovered (frustratingly) how there’s no auto save and the checkpoints might be 30 mins of game time apart. No charge down the alley and instant revive just a few steps back. You spend half the game at less than 20% health cause there’s no regen and med kits are really hard the find. The AI isn’t great, but the stormtroopers are freaking hard to kill, especially using a PS4 controller as opposed to a mouse.
Kids today have no idea how difficult games were when we were kids. Finally make it past a hard point only to die later and realize you forgot to press the quick save key. I can’t tell you how many games I never beat because they were damn near impossible. Anyone ever successfully get the Ghostbusters into the building under the Bouncing Marshmellow Man in the old Apple Ghostbusters game?
Anyway, CSB and all. It’s fun interacting with kids with a generational gap in gaming. My older BIL is into PC gaming and I’ve been getting him to download ports of older games just to get perspective. He seems to be enjoying it and it’s fun to relive those old games with him.
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Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:18 am to elprez00
I still have my old NES system and it works great. I don’t have many games, though, so I found a cartridge on Amazon that has 500-800 games loaded on it, and it arrived right before Christmas. I’ve been fricking around with different games and was playing Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers....it’s the same deal - you die and it takes you all the way back to the beginning of a pretty large area.
I never played Ghostbusters on NES so I started that one up as well and there seems to be no indicator of what you are actually supposed to do so I gave up after 5 minutes lol. Games these days hold your hand and walk you through a game intro it seems (sometimes painstakingly so). Didn’t have that back in the day either. They just throw you right into the fray.
I never played Ghostbusters on NES so I started that one up as well and there seems to be no indicator of what you are actually supposed to do so I gave up after 5 minutes lol. Games these days hold your hand and walk you through a game intro it seems (sometimes painstakingly so). Didn’t have that back in the day either. They just throw you right into the fray.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 12:04 pm to elprez00
Here’s a big frick you to the giraffes and monkeys on the lion king.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 12:32 pm to elprez00
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Kids today have no idea how difficult games were when we were kids.
The penalty for dieing in Everquest were brutal. No way that shite would cut it in a modern MMO
Posted on 12/27/21 at 2:10 pm to elprez00
I speak of it often but I miss the days of just grinding at a campaign for several hours to beat the game. Now our games have 3 hours of gameplay before you have to drop some more money for add on packs and shite. I just want to buy a game and play through. I'm starting to come around to open world. I had the most fun playing AC Odyssey recently and have like 30 hours in it.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 3:08 pm to Monday
Give days gone a try baw
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:00 pm to elprez00
Arcade games were never meant to be beaten, at least not without resulting in the players forking over lots of quarters. It took a long time for developers to rid themselves of this mentality.
That said, the HD console ports of the JK games are all pretty bad. They appear to literally be the PC version (complete with mouse pointer stuck on loading screen) with controls mapped to a gamepad. I don't believe there is any aim assist whatsoever which is why it's so hard to aim guns.
On PC, you were meant to create your own auto-saves. A quicksave is just one F5 key away. Can't really do that more often than not in modern shooters.
That said, the HD console ports of the JK games are all pretty bad. They appear to literally be the PC version (complete with mouse pointer stuck on loading screen) with controls mapped to a gamepad. I don't believe there is any aim assist whatsoever which is why it's so hard to aim guns.
On PC, you were meant to create your own auto-saves. A quicksave is just one F5 key away. Can't really do that more often than not in modern shooters.
Posted on 12/27/21 at 9:24 pm to BulldogXero
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Arcade games were never meant to be beaten
Galaga enters the chat.
Posted on 12/28/21 at 9:37 am to VinegarStrokes
Show me anyone who says they got to the top of the Zuul building in NES Ghostbusters and I'll show you a goddamn liar. I'm convinced that game was made to not be beatable.
Posted on 12/28/21 at 4:15 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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Show me anyone who says they got to the top of the Zuul building in NES Ghostbusters and I'll show you a goddamn liar. I'm convinced that game was made to not be beatable.
Ever heard of Angry Video Game Nerd? I tried playing ghostbusters again after watching this video....BOO THE Zuul BUILDING!
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