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[Mman235]

With a few text tweaks basically the only things that don't hold up are the bimbo one (and that's more because female protagonists barely exist in the kind of games that go to E3 now) and the 3D card one. Also lol 50-75 MB installs.

 

[keuja]

Need more RTS and Tactical RPGs.

 

[computers putin']

switch a few things around and you could convince me these articles came out recently.

 

[Liha]

RTS overloard

R.I.P. C&C

 

[Bomber Bob]

So in 2027 we will be like:

"we need more brainless military fps shooters" ???

 

[Kosma]

R.I.P. C&C

Don't worry* EA will bring it back as a F2P on iPhone.

 

[Kurtofan]

Their turn came and went, just like character platformers did later on. FPS will eventually be a niche again too.

I'm salivating for that day.

 

[Dark_castle]

At least it was RTS overload instead of RPG overload. Otherwise, I would be crying inside.

 

[Nikodemos]

I'd like to see a decently-made War Wind 3. And Blood & Magic 2. And Z 3.

And Achron 2.

 

[tauke]

I remember when Fallout 2 humongous installation scares me with it's 600MB size back when it released.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

The guy who wrote that bit about micro-transactions was pretty dead on. I wish we only had to talk about them 'theoretically'.

 

[Son1x]

Lack of innovation compared to other genres. RTS games fit with the graphics of the era pretty well. But it's strange EA can't even manage to bring their C&C project to life and Blizzard doesn't seem too eager to do Warcraft 4 anytime soon. It's like the genre is stuck in a time warp, with only the Toal War games really trying anything new.

To be fair, Blizzard still has StarCraft II. They released an expanion not even a year ago and another one is coming in a year or two.

While not as popular as LoL or Dota2, its still one of the biggest competitive games.

 

[klier]

That mag is talking about the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Visionary, in 1997

 

[Sub_Level]

Uh there are plenty of girls who liked the old Tomb Raider games.

 

[Tenki]

Regarding that 50-75Mb installs, I remember when installing Age of Empires II would eat up all my HDD lol

Of course to install The Conquerors expansion pack I had to buy a new HDD lol

 

[The Technomancer]

I hope its ok to post scans from now defunct magazines? If not excuse me. This is from Computer Gaming World.

Its funny how things never change it seems.

https://www.facebook.com/videogamesbored

B-b-but why are we only now talking about female characters guys? No-one ever had a problem with it before

 

[CouchMaster]

2$ for a hot classic car? Try 50$, on top of a 60$ game.

 

[eot]

"marketing dweebs" haha.
I'd like to see someone call PR that today.

 

[KingGiddra]

Here's a slightly better scan of the E3 & F2P article:

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/issues/cgw_158.pdf

Page 17 - F2P

Page 156 - E3

 

[Akuun]

Wow. I don't remember the last time I saw the word "dweeb" used anywhere.

 

[dmr87]

Wish we had that RTS overload.

 

[Kusagari]

These guys would shit their pants if you went back in time and showed them Titanfall's install.

 

[Occam]

I wouldn't mind a decent RTS game!

I was expecting to get something for PS Move, because that was among the first demos they showed. It would have made so much sense.

 

[NervousXtian]

20 years from now, most of these would still be relevant.

 

[DieH@rd]

Seriously... wtf...

In 1997, 2 GB hard drive was over 300$ [~440 today with calculated inflation], and vast majority of PC gamers had sub-1GB drives.

 

[ShinobiFist]

Seriously... wtf...

Good way on showing your age fam

 

[theSlacker]

Old video game magazine articles that are relevant today?

 

[rjinaz]

Yeesh, the more things change, the more things really do stay the same.

 

[Mugatu]

So same as now, other than #2 but you could replace that with FPS for the genre of the moment.

 

[gigantor21]

B-b-but why are we only now talking about female characters guys? No-one ever had a problem with it before

LOL that jumped out at me, too. And it felt especially ironic considering that their taking a different approach with the reboot opened up a completely different (and far more facepalm inducing) can of worms.

At any rate, it's nice that I haven't encountered anything nearly as bad as point 4 when it comes to game compatibility on PC. Number 5 (bad writing) is especially depressing, though, seeing how much better everything else about the presentation has gotten--and how much more money is being dumped into these games.

 

[DogMeat77]

Shout out to TEN on that Online Gaming page. I remember throwing down some Duke3D on TEN. I think they eventually became POGO Games... how sad.

 

[Delusibeta]

#4 is basically a non-factor these days. Everything else with some light modification applies today as a it did back then.

 

[RoboPlato]

That's incredible. It also shows how the overloaded genres can wildly change. I wonder what will be next?

 

[LordBaztion]

God dammit gigantic HDD installs. 50mb, nuts.

 

[plagiarize]

Uh there are plenty of girls who liked the old Tomb Raider games.

Yes. Lara has even been called a feminist icon in some quarters (even though she is loathed in others). I can see what aspects of her that people would like, while seeing the aspects of her that people wouldn't. She's kind of like the Spice Girls. Singing about 'Girl Power' while dancing provocatively in skimpy outfits and being forced into roles you see regularly in porn movies.

 

[Foffy]

I see bad writing has always been an issue with video games, huh?

 

[CouchMaster]

These guys would shit their pants if you went back in time and showed them Titanfall's install.

TBH they would shit more if you showed them average HDD size in modern desktop PCs, I don't think most even recognise the word 'terabyte'.

 

[coolasj19]

Yeah. We predicted all of this long ago
None of it was unstoppable or irreversible, but now it's practically too late. Net Neutrality, micro transactions, most all of it. At least I'm still having fun.

 

[SpookyFries]

I remember getting my first 1gb drive back in 1999 and man was it amazing. "I'll never use up this much space" I said as my 12 year old self booted up his 799 emachine

 

[AstroNut325]

I had a 1.2GB HDD at the time! So a 75MB install was something cringe worthy back then to me! Oh and 1MB of VRAM!

But yes... That article seems spot on minus the RTS overload.

 

[Chip N Chance]

Im also getting tired of "Tomb Raider clone's."

 

[Beckx]

That guy really hates marketing people.

 

[Laieon]

Like many others in this thread have already said, I wouldn't mind if RTS' came back from the dead.

 

[Shtof]

Came to post this. At least we got AoC on Steam.

 

[Aizu_Itsuko]

50-75 MB installs? Outrageous!

Do you guys realize that the average HDD back then was 2-3GBs and the prices were much higher, right?

50-75MBs was a lot of space, similar to a 25-40GBs installation nowdays, except the HDD cost much more.

 

[DrForester]

Thankfully #10 is no long a problem thanks to the "Fuck it, we'll patch it later" mentality.

 

[kiyomi]

This reminds me of an old NGC review of Red Faction 2 in 2002 where they complained everything was brown.

 

[Nokterian]

75 mb installs?

hahaha

You don't want to know how mad my dad went when i bought Unreal the first time 250mb install he thought it was insane since HDD where huge at that time now there even bigger and games got even bigger as well.

 

[fates]

The only thing about E3 that has changed is the money put into it, pretty much.

You don't want to know how mad my dad went when i bought Unreal the first time 250mb install he thought it was insane since HDD where huge at that time now there even bigger and games got even bigger as well.

Yeah, I remember when me and my dad went to pick up Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight from EB. He didn't think he was going to have enough space for it and other things. I think it was a 75MB install.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Mostly the same as it ever was...only worse now in many ways, though better in others.