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gauze
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There are a handful of people I run into who reminisce that sorta Halo golden era as peak FPS'ing, followed by CoD(we're all in our 30s).. but I think it has a lot of do with the bar of entry. I got a PC when I was young because some guy at circuit city talked my mom into getting it.. but i'd say majority of my friends and people I remember.. most of the ones who had PC's were people who had pseudo gamer dads or relatives.. atleast compared to those who had consoles.. it was a 5:1 console to pc type deal. A lot of switch after 5 deaths type of childhood.
Either way, its funny talking w/ them now because theyre trying to cut their teeth on competitive games.. much like Counter-Strike. Then trying to explain that whole entire era of mods.. as much as I played CS as a kid.. I also played Firearms, Earth Special Forces, The Specialist, TFC, Natural Selection, or Master Sword.. even when it came to BF1942.. Fondly remember Desert Combat.
I usually attribute console fps's as the reason we lost custom servers.
Either way, its funny talking w/ them now because theyre trying to cut their teeth on competitive games.. much like Counter-Strike. Then trying to explain that whole entire era of mods.. as much as I played CS as a kid.. I also played Firearms, Earth Special Forces, The Specialist, TFC, Natural Selection, or Master Sword.. even when it came to BF1942.. Fondly remember Desert Combat.
I usually attribute console fps's as the reason we lost custom servers.
Vorph
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Yeah, I'm not too concerned about it. I let the TV get updates just because they occasionally do fix things in the firmware, and I let washer/dryer/appliance connections go through so I can get notifications. Everything else LG is blocked, and my router hasn't allowed any of that hard-coded DNS tomfuckery since Amazon started using it to stop people from refusing Fire OS updates.
What they're doing absolutely should be illegal though, and not just in EU.
Burren
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Those who think Halo was peak are just younger.
Everyone reminisces about stuff you experienced when you were going through puberty. I graduated in 97. I can still recite more gangster rap than I care to. I want Starter jackets to make a come back. Etc.
Peak fps gaming for me was qwtf. Class based. Complexity. Skill, things like priming grenades. TF2 was an incredible regression. Just like each Elder Scrolls game is an insane regression and elimination of (imho welcome) complexity.
Prior to tf1, ROTT on the 486 PCs at the back of the lab, BNC network connextors. IPX/SPX instead of tcp/ip. Killing my BBS when Nate dialed in and sysop messaged me to fire up some Doom 1v1 over modem.
My reaction to Halo was poor, as in my opinion there were better things out there, years earlier.
All that said, it was around the Halo era that gaming started becoming more of a business. More players = more sales. To attract more players, lower the barrier to entry. Simplify, tighten the gameplay loop, increase the audience, roll in the dough. That’s the exact formula that produced TF2. Also EQ2 - but to a much weaker response. (Mostly due to being a weak product after all the changes to try to reach a larger audience than EQ1)
Everyone reminisces about stuff you experienced when you were going through puberty. I graduated in 97. I can still recite more gangster rap than I care to. I want Starter jackets to make a come back. Etc.
Peak fps gaming for me was qwtf. Class based. Complexity. Skill, things like priming grenades. TF2 was an incredible regression. Just like each Elder Scrolls game is an insane regression and elimination of (imho welcome) complexity.
Prior to tf1, ROTT on the 486 PCs at the back of the lab, BNC network connextors. IPX/SPX instead of tcp/ip. Killing my BBS when Nate dialed in and sysop messaged me to fire up some Doom 1v1 over modem.
My reaction to Halo was poor, as in my opinion there were better things out there, years earlier.
All that said, it was around the Halo era that gaming started becoming more of a business. More players = more sales. To attract more players, lower the barrier to entry. Simplify, tighten the gameplay loop, increase the audience, roll in the dough. That’s the exact formula that produced TF2. Also EQ2 - but to a much weaker response. (Mostly due to being a weak product after all the changes to try to reach a larger audience than EQ1)
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