/vr/ - Retro Games

Ok

>>5948303
>fuck zoomers
>is a zoomer himself
What did he mean by this?

>>5948313
no one that likes retro fps enjoys shit life.

doom, quake, unreal, marathon, goldeneye, sin, duke, blood, shadow warrior, etc.
all better than crap life.

>alf

>>5948364
kys

There's this meme going around by people who don't know much about games that Half-Life 1 "ruined" (whatever that means) first-person shooters, or even games in general because (the claim being) it pioneered or created "cinematic" type video games. Personally, I view these claims as being purely false conjecture, and should be discarded as such.

It may come of an interest to you, but Half-Life was actually praised heavily at the time for NOT being a story-focused game, which was increasingly becoming a new standard in the C-D based console era (although story and scenario based games are demonstrably far older than the mid 1990's, as anyone with a brain can figure out). Half-Life 1 gives the player full control throughout the entire game, and (almost) never breaks character from the gameplay, which is presented and introduced completely naturally to the player. Suggesting that Half-Life is bad because of the few mandatory speaking segments is just absurd - the game has less dialogue and waiting time than something like Ocarina of Time, which is also very straight-forward and old-fashioned game from the same time period. Half-Life 1 is incredibly arcadey, fast, free and truthful to classic video games, and its reputation as being otherwise is completely unwarranted.


Further game resources for the uneducated:
>Marathon (1994), FPS with huge emphasis on story and lore
>Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995), FPS with cutscenes and mission objectives
>Duke Nukem 3D (1996), FPS with scripted sequences and realistic environments
>GoldenEye 007 (1997), FPS with variable objectives, items, and important NPC's
>Quake II (1997) and Unreal (1998), FPS games that did interconnected/progressive levels before Half-Life
>Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (1998), FPS about tactical shooting and military
>System Shock, Thief, and Deus Ex, etc (Various), first-person games with emphasis on slow-pace and story
>Ultima Underworld (1992), RPG pre-Wolf 3D
>UT, Q3, Tribes, etc - fast FPS games post HL1

>>5948401
>>>reddit

>>5948303
Meh, maybe. But at least we know Half-Life and MGS will always be better than Thief.

>>5948414
fuck off

It kicks the shit out of Theif at least.

>/v/ shits on Half-Life while praising Quake
>/v/ apparently doesn't know Half-Life just used an updated version of the Quake engine
Is it so hard to make a thread about a game you actually like instead of REEEEEEEing all the time?

HL1 wasn't even the best FPS of 1998.
>>5948425
maybe you should stop liking overrated garbage and play real fps games>>5948354