No it's not, you're just putting your perception of arcades as the norm, which it isn't.
DudeI was thinking the other day about which PC studios should probably be talked about with the same reverance that console gamers give to say Capcom and Konami. For me, a lot of my favorite experiences were from Interplay and MicroProse - those would be my PC choice for which names should have the same recognition. Nintendo-worship MSM journalists of course don't really have any consciousness of those names, but PC gamers remember them well - for X-COM, System Shock, Theme Park, Syndicate, Deus Ex, Civilization, Command & Conquer, Dark Forces, X-Wing, etc, etc:
Plus a few that are still around in a big way, but fallen from PC grace, either no longer developing games, no longer develop *good* games, barely develop games, were forced to work entirely on COD, were bought out by predatory publishers like EA, or became exclusively publishers:
At one point I had id on there, but they still actually make good games, so I didn't wanna put them in the latter catagory
New ID is just a brand, I don't think it has even a single member from the old team
I know some of the codex doesn't like the new Dooms, but I enjoyed them quite a lot.
Going on holiday would be an exception yes. But look at your picture you daft twat. About half of those machines are fruit machines. There's very few actual arcade machines pictured. Exactly like I suggested and nothing like the American meme.No it's not, you're just putting your perception of arcades as the norm, which it isn't.
Here's a UK arcade early 80's, pretty packed out and it was very often...
Just because your area wasn't doesn't mean others weren't. You could barely get on machines in places like Skegness and Blackpool during peak seasons. My mates dad ran a roller disco with an arcade section too, and he's always said it was his single most profitable part of the business.
They went hand in hand. Most arcades were known as "cashades" because half of the building had slots in. You're talking like that's an exception, not the rule.Going on holiday would be an exception yes. But look at your picture you daft twat. About half of those machines are fruit machines. There's very few actual arcade machines pictured. Exactly like I suggested and nothing like the American meme.No it's not, you're just putting your perception of arcades as the norm, which it isn't.
Here's a UK arcade early 80's, pretty packed out and it was very often...
Just because your area wasn't doesn't mean others weren't. You could barely get on machines in places like Skegness and Blackpool during peak seasons. My mates dad ran a roller disco with an arcade section too, and he's always said it was his single most profitable part of the business.
Apogee and Epic deserve some mention in addition to Id, because those three were the company that took the one thing consoles were doing better at the time, side-scrolling platformers, and made something just as good on PC. I would put that at the time when PC domination truly began, and outside of the odd exclusive there wasn't really anything consoles were doing that PC wasn't doing just as well.
No you can't. I haven't even been to that many arcades and even I know that. There are hundreds of machines with something or another you can't quite replicate even with thousands of dollars of peripherals, to say nothing of how the controls on one machine might be a lot better or a lot worse than your joystick, fight stick or keyboard.
I have no idea what you're even trying to say here.
Unique machines can't be replicated but I assure you a lot of arcade machines were in poor quality too. Your home joystick is likely in better condition than 90% of the arcade machines you'd find in the wild.
He's saying that because you think slots in an arcade is atypical that you haven't been to an arcade.
Yeah, that's part of what I said. Your reading comprehension is quite poor. Which, come to think of it, isn't surprising from someone who thinks that learning to read a language isn't important.
I can't speak to what was going on elsewhere, but in the U.S. the arcade was generally considered the core of video gaming through the early 90s or so. The whole point of consoles was to replicate the arcade experience at home. That's why everyone flipped their shit about the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man: the idiots worked themselves into thinking the rapidly aging 2600 would be able to replicate the arcade and it didn't even come close. The 16-bit consoles got a lot of their hype from being able to come closer to what was in arcades at the time than anything before them. No one was saying "I can't wait to play original games!" They wanted to play a reasonably accurate version of Golden Axe on their couch.
There were publishers from the 80s that I'm still fond of and find their games quite replayable. Broderbund, Synapse, the Infocom text adventures, Sierra and Dynamix, Epyx, Big Five, Datamost, EA's early pre-console output. A lot of this stuff even GOG won't pick up and sell (and the DOS versions were usually crap anyway).
But I said the complete opposite to that. The majority of UK arcades were basically casinos with a handful of computer games. The only places to have what Americans describe as an arcade like in Terminator 2 were tourist traps and traveling fun fairs. It's like saying "It's normal for everyone to have a beach they can walk to". It is for some but that's not the majority experience.
But they did? Sonic wasn't in the arcades (they later added it to the arcades with multi select machines) and it sold consoles like hot cakes. Donkey Kong Country and Mario world were bigger than Killer instinct despite being an arcade port. There was a big market for arcade ports, but as the console generation went on arcade ports took a back seat to console only titles. The Mega Drive's early promotion was all about arcade ports and sports games, but the pack in games were Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of rage and Sonic along side Golden axe. Not denying arcade ports sold consoles, but a lot of people were saying I can't wait to play Sonic 2, Streets of rage 2 or Ecco the dolphin. It's all arcade style games, but they're console originals.
weren't you guys on the same side? I stopped reading 10 pages ago, wonder what happened...
I think it's this post that did it for a bunch of people lol:
Would you like me to provide an example of what I mean? Command and conquer was great when it came out. Playing it today can be frustrating because the resolution is so small. You can barely see anything and that's important in an RTS. I can still play Mario world and not feel like the resolution is making the experience less than it could be. I can't play CnC and not feel like it's being hamstrung by it's age/limitations. How many great CRPGs have really awkward inventory management that drag the game down? There's lots of ways games have evolve for the better and going back to older stuff can be less enjoyable when you're wrestling with a shit system rightfully forgotten.I think it's this post that did it for a bunch of people lol:
I don't care, everyone is entitled to like what they like. However, I think there is an impression among journalists that maybe old PC is unplayable. It's partly to do with the compatability issues maybe, or the fact that so much PC gaming is abandonware that you have to get running yourself? Maybe people recall old ball-mouse issues, etc.
You're not wrong. Here's a modern arcade which looks more or less how the old ones looked. There's 2p machines (put money in hoping to push more money out), 1 armed bandits, weird horse racing games and crane machines. This is what even the big arcades I visited in the 90s looked like for the most part. There was 5-10 computer games round the outside but the majority of space was dedicated to gambling games.
How the resolution is used and what has changed is important. CnC's resolution can be difficult to deal with if you're using to 1080p for your RTS games. You can full screen them but you still lack play area compared to a modern RTS and that can taint how much you like a game.
seeing how the hayday of RTS was before 1080p displays were a thing, it just shows how retarded you are.
