m0ney said:
Profrektius said:
I loved Commandos in my school days, I also have recently gone back to it and it has not aged well. As much as I still have nostalgia for it just wouldn't be that enjoyable by someone who doesn't have that nostalgia. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, just recently released, a game that is heavily inspired by games like Commandos (could even call it a rip-off), but ultimately improves the experience in every single way and makes it a great game by todays standards. Give Commandos and Shadow Tactics to 100 random people who have played neither and 99 of them will tell you that Shaow Tactics is more enjoyable.
This same thing applies to almost every old game. While sure there won't be as faithful modern games for every old game. The love of those old games are purely nostalgia driven. Sure I can't think of a game that 100% faithfully represents the original Thief games, but you know why? Because those games are not good by todays standards. Their mechanics are outdated and generally not enjoyable. While not the same gameplay mechanics most modern stealth games will give a more enjoyable experience than the original Thief games ever could.
Grim Fandango, while a charming game with a great atmosphere and characters, the gameplay is awful by todays standards. Give that game to someone today and tell them to beat it without a walkthrough with it's moon logic puzzles. They will get frustrated and go play something more enjoyable instead.
I could go on with this for almost every game. There are so few old games that actually are an amazing experience by todays standards and don't have a better modern alternative.
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So much wrong in your post.. Commandos is timeless, it looks and plays even better today than in 1998 because at 1080p on a widescreen monitor you see the whole map unlike on a 17 inch CRT monitor in 1998.
How you sh*t on Thief is blasphemy. Thief has the best sound design to this date, which is crucial in stealth. NewDark, fanmade patch, is regularly updated and makes Thief look like a modern game. New fan missions are being made and released almost 20 years after, if you don't believe check ttlg
Grim Fandango gameplay is extremely annoying classic adventure point and click mess and waste of time, that is the only thing I agree with.
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Give Commandos and Shadow Tactics to 100 random people who have played neither and 99 of them will tell you that Shaow Tactics is more enjoyable.
Same with Thief. Sure there might be some weirdo who got into gaming only now and would enjoy the original Thief games, but give pretty much any other highly rated modern stealth game and they would enjoy it far, far more than Thief. In fact mostly likely they would find the original theif games not only less enjoyable, but actually not very enjoyable at all.
