/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5451542
>that box art
What happened to cover art?

Sorry for sidetracking your thread OP. just comparing some of this to nu box art is depressing.
To answer your question I prefer the original Unreal Torunament.

>>5451552
capitalism happened

>>5451542
I've played Unreal Tournament 2004 to death and at the end of the day, I'm sorry but I just prefer it.

>>5451542
2004, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dWPPgHj8rM

Both are equally great

>>5451552
the cover is cool as fuck

>>5451659
I know it is. Doom II's, Unreal Tournament's too. Modern covers are trash

>>5451542
99 for me, I didn't enjoy 2004 as much

>>5451542
Unreal tournament 2003.
Change my mind.

>>5452000
And if it was between 2004 and 99, id choose 99

>>5451542
>not dark
>not mysterious
>not rough
>not gritty
>not old
>not unknown

>>5451552
>>5451569
Box arent hasn't been important for a long time since they were designed to grab attention and try to sell a game. The internet allowed demos, critic reviews and later youtube/lets-plays to be easily accessible, and digital distribution is the final nail in the coffin since almost all people don't care about having a physical copy (or box) at all anymore.

>>5452049
Does Quake 1 has waifus?

>>5451542
And as for the question: neither. I am Unreal 1 fan through and through.

UT2004's challenge maps were awesome, where you had to complete a task and the other team had to stop you, then you traded places.

The railgun turrets positioned where you had to drive a car up thin hills was bullshit though.

>>5452112
>Does Quake 1 has waifus?
No, Quake 1 has no w*men whatsoever.

What do You guys think about the Onslaught mode from 04?

2k4 was what I enjoyed more, but 99 gold was fucking great.

>>5452107
I don't like having to download a game before I play it. I understand all these launchers are an anti piracy measure, and its easier for you to download a game than have to go get a physical copy, but as I said its annoying having to download 70 GB for a video game and run it on bloatware. Id much rather go buy a physical copy of the game and install it myself

2004 had vehicles, which was a game-changer

>>5451552
It became irrelevant.

Games aren't sold by flashy boxes anymore, they're sold by trailers and popular e-celeb streamers.

>>5452107
Digital distribution is certainly a major factor but so is the fact that games have higher marketing budgets now. If by the time a person walks into a store they don't already know the game's name and you have to rely on cover art to get their attention then your marketing team has already failed.

>>5451542
2004 and quake 3 are the pinnacle of arenas

>>5453020
also, the ut99 sniper is very overpowered

>>5452112
>>5452461
Well, there's the vore...

>>5451542

UT2k4 for me. I was an ONSfag.

>>5453632
can you imagine what it must feel like to be sexually abused by that?
really weird, haha

>>5452801
I totally agree, though i think its pertinent to separate the importance and value of box art from the value of physical (drm-free) media. For example, I recall 5-10 years ago during the transition to mostly DRM online-auth distribution a lot of games shipped in boxes with encrypted content only unlockable online. I guess it still saves a lot of downloading, unless they decide to do a non-diff based 0-day patch where you need to re-download half the assets anyway (seems to happen a lot).
These days i refuse to buy games i can't have an unencrypted non-DRM copy of, luckily some devs choose to release games on steam without the steamworks DRM crap, so you can just zip up the /steamapp and archive it. Makes me glad i mostly play /vr/.

>>5453640

Unreal, U2, 99, 2k3, and 2k4 were all different experiences for me and so I love them all equally.

Didn't have the computer to play U3 so that's where I stopped.

>>5453850
didn't miss a thing

>>5451542
Got the whole highschool class zipping around byway of handheld teleporters and popping one another out of the sky. 2004 was the better gem

>>5451542
It depends

>>5451542
Just "Tournament"? No Unreal in the title in France/Canada? WTF

>>5451542
ut2003 was such an amazing life for me