hex11
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Registered: 09-09 |
I'm also a fan of RPGs, adventure games (with or without graphics), non-realtime strategy, puzzle, and arcade games. But the thing is those don't need 3D engine or very much bling-bling, so the newer stuff just doesn't seem any more appealing than all the old stuff I haven't yet played. And since I can get the old stuff much cheaper, and run it on much weaker hardware (even if emulation is required), then it's a no-brainer for me to just stick with old school games. Heck, this old laptop I'm using that was practically free (it's a Pentium-M @1.8GHz with 512MB RAM) can emulate real arcade games at high framerate. And even though those are mostly 2D-engine games, they're very, very awesomely made 2D games with outstanding graphics and gameplay. So why in the world would I want to spend lots of money for hardware upgrades in order to play new PC games? Makes no sense to me at all... Plus, I'd need a Windows partition, or run them via Wine, and I never used that so not sure it'd work well anyway. So in the end for me it comes down to playing "new" open-source games, or older stuff. Both have their merits.
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09-03-12 16:01 
