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Short video of what Quake would be like if it was done today; a commentary on the sad state of modern day FPS games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU
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What gets my goat is that they are short. WAY short. Most shooters have given up even trying to make a full game.
The Darkness II was pretty good. It was also 1/4 of a real game. Basically three phases and done. I was so shocked when I completed it I went in to figure out if I missed something. Nope.
Nothing, but nothing pisses me off more than that.
It's a cold day in hell when you find a shooter that isn't painfully short. Some of them don't even have the mulitplayer excuse, which is a pile of crap anyway.
This is the one thing that could make me into a thief. I am not going to pay some assholes $60 for a game that lasts two hours. In that regards they are the ones who are stealing.
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They're more like interactive movies these days, which are probably expensive to produce (thus short) and game play elements are forced in the background, rather than the story.
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FPS games are the biggest ripoffs
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To be fair old school FPSes were basically a seris of corridors and square rooms. A much larger % of the budget gets spent on impressive level design these days and the result is it costs the same amount to make an 8 hour game as it used to to make a 20 hour game. But the 8 hours is much higher quality than the 20 hours used to be, about 10 hours of which would have been just running through endless corridors doing nothing meaningful.
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Yukishiro1 posted:
To be fair old school FPSes were basically a seris of corridors and square rooms. A much larger % of the budget gets spent on impressive level design these days and the result is it costs the same amount to make an 8 hour game as it used to to make a 20 hour game. But the 8 hours is much higher quality than the 20 hours used to be, about 10 hours of which would have been just running through endless corridors doing nothing meaningful.
Wrong!
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Yuki is right in that the level design was a lot more abstract rather then the realism we have today. That was due to technical limitations of the time, but nonetheless has a value of its own. Realism might make interactive movies better, but not necessarily games.
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I didn't say the level design was more complicated, I said it was more impressive.
You can set up a bunch of boxes and corridors in very complicated patterns for cheap. Old FPSes were nearly all boxes and corridors.
Meanwhile, a linear level that takes place in a highly scripted huge battle between thousands of soldiers takes a lot more time and money to design, even if it's totally linear.
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