/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5185103
Some more examples I remember from the old days was
> Pang - gotta prevent these balloons from hitting the ground or something like that, character shoots steel arrows up to pop them
> Aliens/Ripley game side scroller
> The Simpsons side scroller game which has a really fat guy wrestler at the end of the first level as a boss, almost undefeatable.
Remembered those from a laundromat, movie theater lobby, and a local yearly festival.

>>5173792
But seriously the thing that killed the Arcade was technology, at some point all of the technology catches up and there's a threshold for keeping people entertained. When the game quality is "good enough" then its not worth paying the extra expense or time to go out of your way for something a little more.

I dont see VR or Holographic Projections as being anything to write home about either. Its easy enough to get suspension of disbelief looking at the tv/monitor. If anything these experiences are just a trivial trinket - "oh thats neat" but it doesnt offer anything truly new in the content aspect. People arent into true realism. Nobody has gotten true edgy gore right anyway, and its abit too scary to watch.

Might just be my unjaded 90s eyes but for example some game made in 2008 can keep me entertained just as good as one made in 2017 if im playing it for the first time and its got enough content to it. I still let graphic issues or lack of realism pass as long as the overall mood is still appropriate and its not blatant polygonz.

Fruck... I still play F.E.A.R. even though ive got the maps memorized, games like that have the mood, and the visuals are "good enough", from screens and vids ive seen of Doom '16 im not more impressed with it than I was with Doom3. Im not really into multiplayer games, I prefer going against AI opponents who I have an inherent stat based advantage against, who have variety, and tie it in to some kind of plot or story.