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It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by umbraroze@slrpnk.net to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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(Obligatory "I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games" "Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days")

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[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I love this sort of thing! I experienced the reverse lately; I downloaded Diablo 4, closed the blinds, and got drawn into the intro cinematic. Genuinely awesome, moody, atmospheric. I was IN, so ready to play some dark and brooding spooky shit! The cinematic ends...

DLC! BUY OUR COSMETICS! HERE'S A BAJILLION DIABLO CREDIT$$! totally killed the mood. Turns out the game is always-online, even when playing solo, and I was experiencing laggy movement so I just uninstalled. Left a huge bad taste in my mouth.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Turns out the game is always-online

Just like the game before it. Which also had tacky micro-transactions.

I'll let you guess what Diablo 5 will be like.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

First diablo game I played was 3 years ago, and I thought it was fine. Booted it up for a couple hours then never again

Currently playing through diablo 2, and holy moly is it good

[-] Doorknob@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I particularly liked that the original Unreal came with a pack-in note apologising for the crappy netcode.

[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 4 months ago

Something pretty simple but that I think works very well, at the end credits, at the very end, when there's something in the lines of "...and a special thanks, To You".

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago

I also thought that newer Halo games aren't as good as the old ones, simply because in Halo 3 and Reach, the game said "Welcome!" in the beginning of the online matches. I was, like, thank you, happy to be here.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Gotta get that head pat.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago

Prepare to be jump scared every 30 seconds by a mob locker with 2-3 imps opening directly behind you.

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

unlocks doors

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

First, games will need to start including pack-in material again instead of just a download code and EULA.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was just stupid jump scares. It wasn't even scary because you just knew it was coming on every long hallway.

[-] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

And darkness. Thanks for the most useless flashlight in history!

And Doom 3 isn't even that fun gameplay-wise...

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago

The first mod the game ever had, to my knowledge, was the Duct Tape mod that put the flashlight on some of (but not all of) the guns because a common joke about the shitty flashlight mechanics was "there ain't any duct tape on Mars? Cmon!" 🤣

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

I call it Doom: Teleport, cuz that's all the enemies do is teleport behind you. Yawn

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is how I played Doom 3 and I fell off the chair a couple of times. It was an incredible experience.

[-] Doorknob@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Same here, even at 15 FPS.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

What did you play it on? I think I had a modded Radeon 9550 that turned it into a 9600.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Walked up on my step son playing with headphones on in the dark. He jumped.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Excellent!

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

(Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)

I literally went to the comments to write that :D It really is such a shame.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

I still think of the National Enquirer ripoff that was included in the Zak McKraken box. Young me didn't realise it was a hint book masquerading as a faux-gossip rag.

The trinkets and inclusions in big box games were cool, whether they were required (Lenslok, codewheels etc) or otherwise.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

I remember Star Siege and MechWarrior 3 coming with a big novella book of some sort, accompanying the manual, and Sim City 3000 came with a wire bound TOME of a book lol. RTS games would often come with big foldout tech trees and stuff too.

The original manual for The Sims was really fun to read too because it was full of humorous witticisms at every turn.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So this is the last game I played in my early twenties, then a gaming hiatus of 15 years (studying, dating, work…) It was on a brand new PC I had put together for my design studies. Two things I remember perfectly: A) the atmosphere was incredible and scary B) when enemies showed it ran in stop motion. Sadly I had to put my money towards more memory and better monitor and the GPU wasn’t as necessary to me at the moment.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

Way to use Diablo's font to siphon that sweet pseudo-nostalgia to draw in the new generation. 🤔

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Nostalgia? Doom 3 came out three years after Diablo 2's expansion.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure you quite understand the point, but good effort on that swing, Tiger.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Horror? Doom is horror? Wtf?

Dude, I go around killing demons as if they were made out of paper. How the fuck is that a horror game?

The marine campaign from aliens vs predator is horror, well kinda. Doom is just an arena shooter.

[-] boblin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

This is about Doom 3, which was definitely more down the horror alley than the Doom installations after the reboot 2016.

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