RetroGaming

I love this sort of thing! I experienced the reverse lately; I downloaded Diablo 4, closed the blinds, and got drawn into the intro cinematic. Genuinely awesome, moody, atmospheric. I was IN, so ready to play some dark and brooding spooky shit! The cinematic ends...

DLC! BUY OUR COSMETICS! HERE'S A BAJILLION DIABLO CREDIT$$! totally killed the mood. Turns out the game is always-online, even when playing solo, and I was experiencing laggy movement so I just uninstalled. Left a huge bad taste in my mouth.

Something pretty simple but that I think works very well, at the end credits, at the very end, when there's something in the lines of "...and a special thanks, To You".

It was just stupid jump scares. It wasn't even scary because you just knew it was coming on every long hallway.

I particularly liked that the original Unreal came with a pack-in note apologising for the crappy netcode.

This is how I played Doom 3 and I fell off the chair a couple of times. It was an incredible experience.

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First, games will need to start including pack-in material again instead of just a download code and EULA.

Prepare to be jump scared every 30 seconds by a mob locker with 2-3 imps opening directly behind you.

This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore

(Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)

I literally went to the comments to write that :D It really is such a shame.

So this is the last game I played in my early twenties, then a gaming hiatus of 15 years (studying, dating, work…) It was on a brand new PC I had put together for my design studies. Two things I remember perfectly: A) the atmosphere was incredible and scary B) when enemies showed it ran in stop motion. Sadly I had to put my money towards more memory and better monitor and the GPU wasn’t as necessary to me at the moment.

Way to use Diablo's font to siphon that sweet pseudo-nostalgia to draw in the new generation. 🤔

I loved playing games in the dark and having the sound loud ( before headphones era). My computer room was tiny and the door was directly behind the chair. it was in the basement and you had to walk through my dad's workshop. I got a lot of jumpscares from people coming up behind me

It’s because the games were made with passion; the creators wanted to share their story and gameplay vision with people who will appreciate it and their hard work.

Unfortunately nowadays you really have to comb through the muck to find this kind of thing, because the world is flooded with games that were made not with passion and creativity in mind, but only greed and manipulation, and greed, and deceptive marketing, and also more greed. They don’t care if you like it, they don’t have pride in their work, they don’t give a damn about a single thing other than more and more revenue.

So I think this kind of thing does still exist, in small independent developers who make something special and creative. And I love finding those things. But the swill you have to wade through to find them… ick. I mean… the Apple App Store? One gambling app after another? The games with so many forms of currency, micro-transactions, and outright deceptive promo content… tell me, please, when did Apple become bottom-feeders?!

Makes me appreciate the old days of gaming sooo much more.

Horror? Doom is horror? Wtf?

Dude, I go around killing demons as if they were made out of paper. How the fuck is that a horror game?

The marine campaign from aliens vs predator is horror, well kinda. Doom is just an arena shooter.