For PC gamers: If it was the mid '90s would you still be PC gaming?

[Hoppipolla]

You would be playing games like Doom, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem 3D. And you would probably have no internet or very very basic internet!

Also your screen resolution would likely be either 320x240 or 640x480!

What a time to be alive ^_^

 

[starystulejarz]

I would be gaming less those games were not that fun or advanced as 00s games. There are some exceptions but not a lot of them. Zoomers seem to be romanticizing time where they were not a live, i was gaming back then and i had much more fun with games later in my life.

 

[Hoppipolla]

I would be gaming less those games were not that fun or advanced as 00s games. There are some exceptions but not a lot of them. Zoomers seem to be romanticizing time where they were not a live, i was gaming back then and i had much more fun with games later in my life.

I like how simple and to the point they were. No big downloads, no big updates, no constant Windows updates, no Steam account needed. Very little waiting through cutscenes either!

Just a walk to the shop and that's all

 

[starystulejarz]

I like how simple and to the point they were. No big downloads, no big updates, no constant Windows updates, no Steam account needed. Very little waiting through cutscenes either!

Just a walk to the shop and that's all

early-mid 00s were the same, only after 2007-2008 something have changed

 

[ordinaryotaku]

More because I would probably be finding ways to mod the hell out of DOOM or make mods for it. I did this when I was an early teen already, but with less games to buy and games being more pricy, that's what I would be doing.

And with little to bad Internet, I would be sticking with what I would have or get free shareware games or buy PC Gamer magazines for their demos. Some games like Ultima were like $80 IIRC (NOT adjusted for inflation), and even with my job right now, I cannot buy $80 games.

Though PC gaming was also AIDS at the time. A new $4000 high end computer in '95 or '96 would not be able to run any new games at all by the new millennium. You would have to be upgrading every year due to the large leaps in 3D acceleration that there was during this time. By 2002, a Pentium III with a Voodoo card was considered dogshit even though these were high end specs in 1999. All the while I was able to keep my low end 1050ti rig to run my favorite games for almost 7 years.

 

[Hoppipolla]

Though PC gaming was also AIDS at the time. A new $4000 high end computer in '95 or '96 would not be able to run any new games at all by the new millennium. You would have to be upgrading every year due to the large leaps in 3D acceleration that there was during this time. By 2002, a Pentium III with a Voodoo card was considered dogshit even though these were high end specs in 1999. All the while I was able to keep my low end 1050ti rig to run my favorite games for almost 7 years.

Huh I didn't really think of that. Stubborn old me would probably still be using a 486 in 2001 lol

 

[Friezacel]

I like how simple and to the point they were. No big downloads, no big updates, no constant Windows updates, no Steam account needed. Very little waiting through cutscenes either!

Yeah and dont forget the terrible graphics

 

[Hoppipolla]

Yeah and dont forget the terrible graphics

Do you really care about graphics that much though?

Or is it more the possibilities opened up by new tech, like more impressive open worlds?

 

[Friezacel]

Do you really care about graphics that much though?

Or is it more the possibilities opened up by new tech, like more impressive open worlds?

both actually

Its just that i cant stand seeing people worshipping the past

 

[Hoppipolla]

both actually

Its just that i cant stand seeing people worshipping the past

What if it was better though lol

 

[Friezacel]

What if it was better though lol

some aspects might have been better, but claiming that everything waa better is just cope

 

[Todd Thundercock]

No. PC gaming was shit and very expensive to keep up until at least the PS3/360 era. You seriously had to upgrade constantly just to be able to play new games. PC gaming is infinitely better and easily accessible now. You can take decade old parts now and play most games 30 fps, which used to be whatever and now people bitch if it's not smooth 60 fps.

The exception was 2D emulation which was wonderful by the late 90s.

There's good reason why consoles were so popular back then, and now are basically only for people who just want to lay on a couch and game without thought.

 

[Hoppipolla]

some aspects might have been better, but claiming that everything waa better is just cope

I never claimed that everything in the past was better though

But just because time has passed doesn't mean that culture or even technology is necessarily completely improving in every way.

For example, we used to have lots of fun on light gun games in the '90s, but flat screens at least for a long time (and possibly still idk) can't really support them. So that's a pretty clear example where although in many ways there was an improvement (thinner screens that are lighter and use less power), in another way things got worse.

I guess very often it's a trade-off.

No. PC gaming was shit and very expensive to keep up until at least the PS3/360 era. You seriously had to upgrade constantly just to be able to play new games. PC gaming is infinitely better and easily accessible now. You can take decade old parts now and play most games 30 fps, which used to be whatever and now people bitch if it's not smooth 60 fps.

The exception was 2D emulation which was wonderful by the late 90s.

There's good reason why consoles were so popular back then, and now are basically only for people who just want to lay on a couch and game without thought.

We used to play Doom on our family PC though and it's not like it was amazing or anything.

 

[Todd Thundercock]

We used to play Doom on our family PC though and it's not like it was amazing or anything.

Old DOS games would run fine, but I recall Doom 3? (I think) needed a current GPU just to run.

 

[Hoppipolla]

Old DOS games would run fine, but I recall Doom 3? (I think) needed a current GPU just to run.

Oh but that's space age though lol

I was talking about like 1994.

I am boom. XD

 

[Friezacel]

For example, we used to have lots of fun on light gun games in the '90s, but flat screens at least for a long time (and possibly still idk) can't really support them. So that's a pretty clear example where although in many ways there was an improvement (thinner screens that are lighter and use less power), in another way things got worse.

Nothing lasts forever and things constantly develop and evolve. What you describe is pretty much the old school version of Virtual reality

 

[Hoppipolla]

Nothing lasts forever and things constantly develop and evolve. What you describe is pretty much the old school version of Virtual reality

Hmmmmm!

Really? Was that really all that Virtua Cop 2 and House of the Dead were? I'm not convinced lol

 

[Skelly]

early-mid 00s were the same, only after 2007-2008 something have changed

half life2 released and forced people to be online to 'update' the game with steam

 

[starystulejarz]

half life2 released and forced people to be online to 'update' the game with steam

Yeah and i avoided it till 2008 so it wasn't a common place, i could play warcraft 3 offline and was downloading patches in exe form, battle net was only mandatory for online play

 

[proudweeb]

Yeah I used to love that shit

barely touch it nowadays

 

[Hoppipolla]

Yeah I used to love that shit

barely touch it nowadays

To be fair though I think some of the reason is because new games of that generation aren't being released anymore.

 

[edgelordcel]

no. i would be -15 years old. joke