Yes, I know technology has to go forward, but there was just something that I can't put my tongue on that was so amazing with Unreal and Half-Life graphics that seemed to make the game so much enjoyable. I know I'm going to get flamed to hell, but I really dislike graphics like Call of Duty and Battlefield. It's just too... realistic. There's no charm in it.
I like my HL1 shotgun more than my HL2 shotgun. I prefer blocky and low-res landscapes of Unreal than Battlefield 3's large-span and beautiful landscapes. I really don't know why. Perhaps it's because I never see any FPS games today that isn't ultra-realistic and has to draw inspiration from real world instead of just coming up with alien worlds themselves. Hell, even Halo, where you play as a soldier on a gigantic alien-made halo in the middle of space, doesn't have that inspired landscapes.
Even if I miss the alien landscapes of Unreal and Xen of Half Life, it still doesn't explain why I still prefer the tunnels and corridors of Half Life.
Does graphics count as rose-tinted glasses-nostalgia? Or is it just that graphics back then was more imaginative and brought more joy and depth to the gameplay more than today, where the graphics are all about grand explosions and general chaos?
Not saying that is bad. It's just that graphics nowadays have developed into something that I, personally, feel as... empty.
Is it just me that feel this way?
Source: http://www.fpsguru.com/article/3225/Six-90s-Shooters-That-Have-Aged-Pretty-Well.html
By Shin Park
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