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You know what I miss?
Mecha Jesus | 12:55 PM on 02.27.2008 11 comments


I miss when Lucasarts ruled the PC game world. You'd see a new game come out ever couple of months, and they'd all be fantastic. Full Throttle, Dark Forces, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, all of those classic games of my childhood, with great game play, and great stories. I miss the days of old point and click adventure games, like the old Indiana Jones games. Took like a meg of memory to have on your computer, and you got hours upon hours of gaming out of them, partly because they were great, partly because they were hard as hell. Something recently has made me really nostalgic for them. Something about the quality of games has made me really want to play them.

And not just those old point and click games. Tie Fighter was such a solid flight sim game, and you can't find it at all. Or X-Wing. Great games with pretty damn good voice acting for the time, and awesome cutscenes.

Something about them has always stuck with me. Just the way they come together and played has always made me sad about games today. Not that todays games are bad, god no. I just feel that something has been lost in the proliferation of video games. Some magic and quality since they became big business.

Anyways, I'll get off my short soapbox now. I might do more of these some time. Stuff I miss, stuff I'm angry about, stuff like that. Lemme know if you like them.



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-D-'s Destructoid Blog
Lucasarts used to have some of the best games ever until they pretty much became a Star Wars mill.

Hmmmmm, how come we never had a Star Wars adventure game?
jdub28's Destructoid Blog
I miss good side scrolling beat'em ups. Does nobody else just wanna walk right and beat people up from time to time?
Mecha Jesus's Destructoid Blog
Oh man, old school beat um ups were fantastic. Hands down my favorite, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time. They need to do an beat um up game like Paul Robertson's Pirate Baby Cabana Battle. Except, y'know, longer, like with 100 levels and a buncha paths you could go off on.
ZeroTolo's Destructoid Blog
I'll always remember Double Dragon as my favorite beat-em-up. Could never get past the two Abobos in the forest though.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
I miss the days of shareware games.
Rockvillian's Destructoid Blog
@ZeroTolo

jump KICK jump KICK jump KICK
jump KICK jump KICK jump KICK

jump KICK jump KICK jump KICK

dead dead! :)

Then go into the caves and get rocked by stalactites.
Mr Wilson's Destructoid Blog
@ZeroTolo and Rockvillian

BACK ELBOW FTMFW
ZeroTolo's Destructoid Blog
Hahaha.... Man, it's hard to believe that the combo systems were that complex right when they started out.

Holy shit... I just had a horrible revelation... Double Dragon came out almost 20 years ago.
bloodylip's Destructoid Blog
@jdub

No More Heroes satisfied my desire to play modern beatemups. Also, Castle Crashers looks sort of beatemupy.
Mecha Jesus's Destructoid Blog
Welcome to my world man, most days I realize how old I am. Batman the Animated Series came out 16 years ago.
youkilledmyguy's Destructoid Blog
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Not the Lucasarts aspect but just old PC games in general. I think part of the fond memories come from the fact that back then almost everything was new, we didn't know what to expect from the "next generation" of games. Now we essentially know where gaming is heading in terms of technology (AI, Physics, so on and so forth) so there is less to be entranced by.


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My earliest memory is of my brother and me opening a big golden package on Christmas, and to our complete and utter surprise, it was an NES. That pretty much frames my life, one of abject geekiness.

I tend to enjoy the solo experience of a video game more than the multiplayer(although I do love playing games with my friends), so I'm a huge fan of third person adventure games, and think that Ocarina of Time is the single greatest video game ever made.

Also, I love watching people play games, be they RPGs, FPSs, Action-Adventure, most anything other than sports games.

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