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General! / Re: What to play now? I beat IWBTG
« on: May 28, 2008, 07:38:41 pm »Actually. I feel I should type a lot more about my feelings towards this game.
I'm a Computer Science student in Dublin Institute Of Technology, Ireland, and I used to want to be involved in the games industry. I still sort of do.
But I have absolutely no care about modern games. Everyone gets excited about GTA4 etc, and "Console Shooter #3940", but I just don't give a shit. I'm still of the opinion that "The best game ever" is Super Metroid and that's never going to be beaten no matter how many shaders they lay on their latest piece of crap FPS. I was talking to some guys doing the Trinity College Masters in Game Design course, and they ALL spent 30 minutes telling me how graphics are the best thing about modern games and how they've never played Half Life 1, Super Metroid, Megaman 2, etc.
Right then I thought "If these are the people making games now, I don't want to be involved".
But IWBTG is a game I enjoyed. It's ruthlessly hard like good old games, not piss easy to try and accommodate everyone, it's got kickass music (Admittedly all stolen but hey who cares it fits), it's got FANTASTIC level design and it's genuinely enjoyable. It's not "Hard due to bad design" either, I mean there are unfair moments, but nothing irritating like dumb leaps of faith etc.
It's a fucking great game, and despite the fact it's made in MMF (lolwut), it's going down as one of my best games of 2007. Fuck modern games.
Thanks for the 9 hours and 40 minutes of fun.
Thank god. I finally found someone that agrees with me on the majority of modern games...