Ask yourself in 1998...
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Well, I was 15 and thoroughly teenager-ish and FFVII was out... so... probably "I'll always be playing this, this is the best game ever, I need to go cry in the corner I'm so alone and nobody loves me... I'm going to write more bad poetry about how awful my life is."
... Yeah. I wouldnt ask my 1998 self anything, I'd fucking slap her in the face.
... Yeah. I wouldnt ask my 1998 self anything, I'd fucking slap her in the face.
Next year, dude. Remember... except it's an MMO... so... yeah.blackrave said:The Elder Scrolls game with all Tamriel available.
(and no TES:Arena isn't what I had in mind)
Also another awesome C&C game
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Half-Life - wait for it - 3. Like, on budget. Like, on a separate system with an older OS because the normal one can't run it anymore. Ordering my robot buddy to fetch me more Doritos. Yeah, the future's underwhelming.
Honestly ? I would have probably said something like Final Fantasy 13 or something. Back then final fantasy was my favorite game , and i would have at least played I,IV ,VI and VII ( the ones released in NA). I remember asking my dad what happened to the missing numbers and up to what number will they go to .
Honestly? I thought it would be in the details of the worlds they made. The progression from early shooters to full 3D ones in 1998 created a perception that there was no aspect of the real world that they could not mimic, and make it fully interactive; a world full of real-world features. That was the idea.
Games today are more shallow than they were in 1998 though, big surprise and big let down for me.
I spent a lot of time building Doom maps, editing WAD files, spent a lot of time in Duke 3D's Build Editor. The idea of tagging sectors to give them a specific, preset function, which you could tweak with modifier tags, and stack other tags on top for multiple functions... was genius. This was what gaming in the 90s was about- making feature-rich environments using clever tricks and ingenuity.
It's pretty god damn sad that now that we do have full 3D tech and models without pointy polygon heads that everything else is completely uninspired.
Also in 1998, I predicted global terrorism would destabilize the entire middle east in response to provocation from groups like al Qaeda who could hop from country to country; and that the USA would tear the entire middle east down chasing them... basically starting WWIII.
I spent my entire teen years preparing for war and the apocalypse. Now that I'm 30, own a home, have a gf who lives with me that I will probably marry, I don't really know how to feel. I honestly didn't think we'd still be here in any meaningful capacity. And not to trivialize the events of 09/11/01, but when I turned on my TV that morning I was secretly excited because this was the beginning of my whole vision. I turned on TV that morning and I knew exactly who the finger would be pointed at, and knew exactly what came next.
To this day, I do not understand how we did not start WW3. Maybe we still are, maybe it's just taking longer than I thought. Now i'll be too old to be of any use.
A little off topic, but I genuinely did just go back in time 14 years just now and thought about just how I felt. So thanks for that.
Games today are more shallow than they were in 1998 though, big surprise and big let down for me.
I spent a lot of time building Doom maps, editing WAD files, spent a lot of time in Duke 3D's Build Editor. The idea of tagging sectors to give them a specific, preset function, which you could tweak with modifier tags, and stack other tags on top for multiple functions... was genius. This was what gaming in the 90s was about- making feature-rich environments using clever tricks and ingenuity.
It's pretty god damn sad that now that we do have full 3D tech and models without pointy polygon heads that everything else is completely uninspired.
Also in 1998, I predicted global terrorism would destabilize the entire middle east in response to provocation from groups like al Qaeda who could hop from country to country; and that the USA would tear the entire middle east down chasing them... basically starting WWIII.
I spent my entire teen years preparing for war and the apocalypse. Now that I'm 30, own a home, have a gf who lives with me that I will probably marry, I don't really know how to feel. I honestly didn't think we'd still be here in any meaningful capacity. And not to trivialize the events of 09/11/01, but when I turned on my TV that morning I was secretly excited because this was the beginning of my whole vision. I turned on TV that morning and I knew exactly who the finger would be pointed at, and knew exactly what came next.
To this day, I do not understand how we did not start WW3. Maybe we still are, maybe it's just taking longer than I thought. Now i'll be too old to be of any use.
A little off topic, but I genuinely did just go back in time 14 years just now and thought about just how I felt. So thanks for that.
Pretty much this- I got Mario 64 so that I could 'have a platformer', Diddy Kong Racing so I could 'have a racer' and Goldeneye so I could 'have a shooter'. I assumed back then that I'd be happily playing them more or less forever, and like many others this has more or less played out just like that. What I didn't predict was most other games getting so crap that I wouldn't want to keep playing other games. I always assumed great games would always be coming out and I'd admire them but stick with my original choices, probably because of financial reasons. As it turns out, I just play the original batch because they're still much better than most offerings today.DustyDrB said:
Oh yes... well of course there'd be... and I'd... I'd...Neverhoodian said:I would probably say awesome platformers by Rare and awesome Star Wars space sims by LucasArts.
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I just got my Playstation 1 from the only Gamestop in 200 miles of my house at the time. I was playing Saga Frontier because I got bored with FF7 and need a break from it.
I guess that in 2012, I thought I would finally beat Saga Frontier. It is a game that needs a lot of time to get through. Not because it was dense, but it was repetitive and boring.
I guess that in 2012, I thought I would finally beat Saga Frontier. It is a game that needs a lot of time to get through. Not because it was dense, but it was repetitive and boring.
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The really deep and complex genres are all but dead now. Nobody targets niche audiences in mass media anymore, whether it's a videogame company or a TV channel. You can argue whether this is a good thing or not, but you cannot argue that modern RPGs are more complex and deep than late 90's RPGs, or that modern FPSs are more complicated and deep, or that modern action-adventure games are more complex/deep, or pretty much any other genre. The only thing that's coming to mind that's actually gotten more complicated over the years is Pokemon, and that's mostly due to the extra features it's picked up since its initial outing.
It's definitely not blind nostalgia to say that modern games have not gotten deeper than late 90's games. When talking about niche genres, it's not even blind nostalgia to say that they've gotten /less/ deep. You might be able to make the argument that the big mass market titles are deeper than the old big mass market titles, but it came at the cost of the really deep niche titles largely disappearing.
I'd be playing a game that looks like an FF7 cutscene! Look how real that is, I can't wait when I'll be able to control the characters when they look like that. I bet the cutscenes then will look even better! And there will be more movement instead of just having Cloud shrug and shake his head at everything! And Monkey's Island will have super 3D acceleration! Whatever that means.
Wow even as a kid I never had unrealistic expectations for gaming. Admittedly when I was thinking that I wasn't thinking 14 years into the future of gaming, more like 5 years.
Wow even as a kid I never had unrealistic expectations for gaming. Admittedly when I was thinking that I wasn't thinking 14 years into the future of gaming, more like 5 years.
1998 me being asked how gaming would be in the future? Hmmm...
I'd have to say I wouldn't be very opinionated on the subject that year. My speculations most likely would have been around multiplayer and how it would evolve. Most likely I would have said that online gaming on PCs with customization was going to take off with StarCraft being the game that year and the map editor being a God send. I wouldn't have predicted online capability on consoles and would have vouched for better party games and split-screen/hot seat type games. That and the advent of the thumb joystick being a permanent thing on controllers.
I think 1998 is a bad year to ask, personally. Too early in the life-cycle of the N64/PSX. 2000 would be a good sweet spot with those two consoles having been out awhile and new tech just around the corner to drool over.
I'd have to say I wouldn't be very opinionated on the subject that year. My speculations most likely would have been around multiplayer and how it would evolve. Most likely I would have said that online gaming on PCs with customization was going to take off with StarCraft being the game that year and the map editor being a God send. I wouldn't have predicted online capability on consoles and would have vouched for better party games and split-screen/hot seat type games. That and the advent of the thumb joystick being a permanent thing on controllers.
I think 1998 is a bad year to ask, personally. Too early in the life-cycle of the N64/PSX. 2000 would be a good sweet spot with those two consoles having been out awhile and new tech just around the corner to drool over.
Lots of RTS and platformers, since that's pretty much all I played for a long time. Age of empires, Captain Comic and Commander Keen were the shit when I was younger 
The two games I've been playing lots of lately are Rayman origins and Starcraft Brood War, so I was bang on the money [sub][sub] although I would've thought the RTS I would be playing would be a new one... [/sub][/sub]
That's really just what I'm doing at the moment, though, usually there's more shooters/RPG's in there, but I haven't had much opportunity to use my powerful computer and have had to play games that run on my toaster level laptop. I would be playing Chivalry, XCOM, SC2 and AC3 if I could >.>
The two games I've been playing lots of lately are Rayman origins and Starcraft Brood War, so I was bang on the money
[sub][sub] although I would've thought the RTS I would be playing would be a new one... [/sub][/sub]That's really just what I'm doing at the moment, though, usually there's more shooters/RPG's in there, but I haven't had much opportunity to use my powerful computer and have had to play games that run on my toaster level laptop. I would be playing Chivalry, XCOM, SC2 and AC3 if I could >.>
In 1998, I enjoyed games that took me to fantastical locations and quirky adventures with an expressive cast of characters.
In 2012, if it mimics real-life to a certain degree, I find it boring as hell. Not that there's wrong with a colorful simulator, mind you, I just don't find brown & grey that interesting to look at all the time.
Captcha: what your appetite
Action-Adventure, what else?
In 2012, if it mimics real-life to a certain degree, I find it boring as hell. Not that there's wrong with a colorful simulator, mind you, I just don't find brown & grey that interesting to look at all the time.
Captcha: what your appetite
Action-Adventure, what else?
I wasn't really focused on gaming's future in 1998. Hell, if you could ask 8 year old me, he'd probably just assume the PS1/N64 graphics were there to stay. I just wasn't familiar with technological advancements as a concept.
One thing is for sure though, 1998 me would have wanted to know the future's of Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon. That would be an awkward conversation. And I don't think he'd like my lack of enthusiasm towards Pokemon.
One thing is for sure though, 1998 me would have wanted to know the future's of Banjo-Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon. That would be an awkward conversation. And I don't think he'd like my lack of enthusiasm towards Pokemon.
Ah yes, there was this little game called Falcon 4 that came out back then. I was crazy about fighter jets back then, so I got a special joystick for it and everything. At the time all I could dream about was how super-realistic and awesome Flight Sims would be in a few years...
... /sad
... /sad
I was two at the time. I can be reasonably certain that my thoughts on gaming back then were "haha daddys getting beat up by that guy hey do the punch again make him do the punch again daddy".
And then there's the baby picture of me holding a PS1 controller. I think dad took it away when he got creeped out that I was starting to figure out how to do better than he did. Good times.
Two, four, six, even twelve years later, I never would have imagined Starforge or Minecraft being projects by one or two guys at desks. We've come quite a ways, but nobody knows what to do with the technology we have.
And then there's the baby picture of me holding a PS1 controller. I think dad took it away when he got creeped out that I was starting to figure out how to do better than he did. Good times.
Two, four, six, even twelve years later, I never would have imagined Starforge or Minecraft being projects by one or two guys at desks. We've come quite a ways, but nobody knows what to do with the technology we have.