{"id":131,"date":"2008-12-27T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=131"},"modified":"2008-12-27T11:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T01:12:34","slug":"going-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2008\/12\/going-old-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Going old-school"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an epiphany about gaming yesterday. I was stuck at work, being paid a lot to do very little (the holiday period is good like that), and after we had exhausted showing off our meagre guitar talents (yes, that<\/em> bored), somebody suggested a little Quake 3 action over the LAN.<\/p>\n

After a little scrambling to figure out the best way to do this with three Linux boxen and two Windows machines, we stumbled upon OpenArena<\/a>, which is a great cross-platform implementation of Q3. We were soon partying like it was 2000 again.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the realisation I came to as I railed somebody from one of my favourite camping spots for the 10th time was that I hadn’t had as much FPS fun in ages. Sure, graphics and story and other things might have improved, but I seriously have had less fun combined with all three Halos, Gears of War and Doom 3 than I have across Quake 1, Quake 3, and Half-Life (and mods), Unreal (and its earlier sequels).<\/p>\n

By no means am I near the top of the bunch. I mean, sure I can run rings around a newbie, but I was never dedicated enough to garner some of those advanced skills that come so natural to some players so as to appear somewhat godlike. But it’s still a lot more fun. The gameplay is free-flowing, over-the-top and a lot more funny than the depressing realism, grittiness, and grey<\/em> palettes that seem to be infesting the genre at the moment.<\/p>\n

I might be accused of indulging in a little nostalgia, but I don’t think so. I played for a good 3 hours before being forced to take a call, and would have kept going. It’s not that I’m an old fogey refusing to play the latest and greatest. I’ve tried a few, and they’re just not as fun.<\/p>\n

What about you guys \u00e2\u20ac\u201c do you stay on the bleeding edge, or prefer to hang on to the old classics?<\/p>\n

I might go see if I can find my old Starcraft CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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