Reviving The Classics
How do you go about bringing back everyone's favorite games?
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How do you go about bringing back everyone's favorite games?
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Alternative plan: Get game IP and code, license it to GOG.com (who I imagine would kill puppies for old Lucasarts games), and let them worry about making it work on modern machines.Sgt. Sykes said:Step 1) wrap the old version of the game in a DOSBox wrapper in a way that doesn't violate GPL (this part is optional) and re-release on Steam or GOG.
For the LucasArts adventures, this part is actually the easy one: ScummVM. And ResidualVM for Grim Fandango.craddoke said:and let them worry about making it work on modern machines.
Wow, I feel old. I also feel sometimes that new gen gamers should be given a boot camp style course of getting old games set up correctly so as to appreciate the ease of access we have today.Shamus Young said:Or the game asks strange "Sound Blaster" questions and things about ports and IRQ thingies that made sense to DOS gamers in 1993 but are now completely mystifying gibberish to someone who grew up gaming on the N64.
Oh hell yes. You get a passing grade if you can work out how to:amaranth_dru said:I also feel sometimes that new gen gamers should be given a boot camp style course of getting old games set up correctly so as to appreciate the ease of access we have today.
I literally fell on the floor laughing at how ridiculous it was possible for some people to be. How can you do any of that while preserving the existing game? Yes, I think the game's shit, but this is not the sort of thing that can possibly help it; unravelling the whole story line and character dynamic they built up just to tack on extra shit? Sidequests are literally the best you can hope for, and even then you've got to be careful.some dicksplash called said:All I would want is better graphics and a ton of additions to the already awesome game they have. When I say this I mean that there should just be more of everything.
More enemies(WEAPONS maybeh?), more items, more materia, an extra character or two, and possibly another planet or something. Just something to add a ton of play time and replay value to the game without taking away from the epicness that FF7 already has.
I credit DOS games with teaching me how to troubleshoot PC issues and giving me my first job for 15+ years doing tech support. Were it not for games, I'd not have had the skill set necessary to network (setting up LAN's for Quake/Quake 2 matches for LAN parties). Kids today have no appreciation for how their machines work.Kinitawowi said:Oh hell yes. You get a passing grade if you can work out how to:amaranth_dru said:I also feel sometimes that new gen gamers should be given a boot camp style course of getting old games set up correctly so as to appreciate the ease of access we have today.
1) Write a CONFIG.SYS boot menu to select the right memory configuration (EMS/XMS) and mouse drivers for a certain set of games, and a corresponding AUTOEXEC.BAT to launch them;
2) Explain every term in the line SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4;
3) Install this game on any Windows machine without using GOG:
Same, more or less. Even today I still find the DOS command line the most efficient way of dealing with viruses at work, and all my knowledge of how to use it came from gaming way back when. Most of my fellow technicians have no idea what I'm doing when I type "set dircmd=/ogne /a" and "rd temp /s", and little things like that were bread and butter when you were arguing over which mouse driver made Transport Tycoon work.amaranth_dru said:I credit DOS games with teaching me how to troubleshoot PC issues and giving me my first job for 15+ years doing tech support. Were it not for games, I'd not have had the skill set necessary to network (setting up LAN's for Quake/Quake 2 matches for LAN parties). Kids today have no appreciation for how their machines work.
Neal Stephenson would write awesome books. They just wouldn't be Percy Jackson books. In the same way Stephen King could probably do a pretty good book in the Harry Potter universe, but what he wrote wouldn't be a Harry Potter book.The Random One said:Are you implying that Neal Stephenson wouldn't write awesome Percy Jackson books? Because... my brain is having trouble parsing that sentence.