CultureShock, on 29 December 2015 - 11:30 PM, said:
I liked the old games. They were a new experience which helped a lot I know but they had more adventuring which I liked. They also left more to your imagination. At least, this is how I feel about them.
I haven't played many newer games. COD was the last one.
I think I really just put up with Duke. I liked the adventuring and surprises and stuff. The rest is oversold or underdone.
The problem for me is I like the idea of games more than the games themselves. Ack. I can't figure this out...
I understand.
On my end I only played Black Ops 2 and even though I had a better time than I anticipated I just keep getting frustrated by how it's done, having only 2 guns while the guy is surely strong enough to have 3 and your pace is limited unlike in Duke3D where you go as fast as you want.
Also you clearly see with 3D that the devs had imagination and a project in mind whereas in modern FPS they just obey to chart which is not good for the devs and consequently not for the player either. Also FPS back then were much more varied than nowadays.
You had stuff like Witchaven or Unreal or Quake or Duke3D and Doom, all of them are unique in their own way whereas nowadays you have Battlefield and COD which (to me) are just the same, only Resistance and Wolfenstein were good, original and pleasant in my regards.
I never played DNF but I saw an LP of it and I wasn't disappointed by the graphics or the ambiance, universe and all, I was just disappointed by how it was done and played just like a COD is which is totally against the spirit of Duke, if you had had 3 guns I would have been less disappointed but still