Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-3547390-20160606154907

Hahaha, that pretty much sums up me. Don't come asking me for the most positive of statements, you might be disappointed :P

Maybe you are right, it might just be a case where that separation in generation makes it hard for me to appreciate stuff before Quake. Just like older stuff bothers you but this old stuff doesn't, I have my limit for where old stuff starts to bother me versus where I like it. What is funny is that it can't be nostalgia, I didn't touch Quake or any old FPS until after I had become quite acquainted with Doom 3. I will say that I can handle older FPS titles more than anything else, I really loathe SNES games. Vector games, early sprite games, all that stuff drives me crazy. I would rather play the worst FPS than touch Donkey Kong ever again... and that was leagues better than Donkey Kong Jr.

You never know. Like I said, my minimalism works against me, most people probably don't want to sit there while I chat to a black screen for a bit, then start up a game and have me ramble my way through it. I have a select group that enjoys it, but I doubt it would be well liked by the general public. I just don't feel facecams add anything to the stream beyond being one more thing to look at, you can pretty much gauge everything based on what I say. Unless my face suddenly does weird cartoon expressions, it really doesn't make sense. Plus the fact that my facecam is only on my laptop, which is an entirely outdated device that is so old that the battery no longer works and so the laptop has to be plugged in at all times. Combine that with a very weak CPU that makes doing anything choppy and it is too unbearable to do anything on it, the most I do these days is use it as a testing ground to see if something that is broken on my main computer is broken on my laptop. Even then, I am usually too lazy to do a bunch of work on it, so for example I have not bothered to test my Quake server on it (not that anybody plays on it anymore anyway since Raadec is gone, Dominus has technical limitations, and Seth is inactive). From what I remember, you could never even access the server.

Meanwhile I have never touched a game on the Source engine and have played so few FPS after 1996 that I can't give a very good opinion. From my experiences with Jedi Knight, the way the mechanics work mean a lot, that game felt extremely clunky and therefore not that interesting to me. I really wish I could play some more modern games, but I have so many other titles to touch that it becomes hard to get to them all.