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Gaming Then vs Gaming Now

Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.

Content of the “Then” column:

  • Double-click GAME.exe
  • Play game

Content of the “Now” column:

  • Launch Steam

  • Steam updates

  • Steam opens

  • Close Steam’s ad window
  • Select Game

  • Game launcher starts

  • Game launcher launches Game launcher updater

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Ok

  • Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?

  • No

  • Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing

  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes, sell my soul
  • Start game
  • Skip vendor intro
  • Skip vendor intro #2
  • Skip vendor intro #3
  • Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
  • Skip opening cutscene

  • Main menu opens

  • Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?

  • No
  • Press play.
  • Play game.
BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

Vulcan Shaders have stepped into the ring

thefool ,

I remember visiting my friend while he was in the middle of installing a game, and it failed on the 10th of 10 disks

rotopenguin ,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/734708cd-03fc-4c4c-b905-03248e08e13b.jpeg

Kecessa ,

“What’s the seventh word on the fourteenth page of the manual?”

Has lost the manual

Can’t play game ever again

GreenMario ,

Had a hand written cheat sheet for X-wing which used 3 symbols per page for its copy protection.

Valmond ,

Load game for 12 minutes

Select IRQ for sound: 7

MEEEP

Select IRQ for sound:

Game starts

No controller does absolutely nothing at all, keyboard included.

Helicopter flies over the tutorialish level getting flak

Almost dead starts level “1”

Gets shot down quickly.

Load game for 12 minutes

The_Picard_Maneuver ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

something changed

Pop up window minimizes game: do you want to allow this program to communicate on private and/or public networks?

bleistift2 OP ,

The funnest part was when the popup didn’t minimize the game and you were wondering WHY THE FUCK MULTIPLAYER didn’t work until you gave up and saw the firewall window.

GreenMario ,

press more than one key

DO YOU WANT STICKY KEYS, BRO?!

coffinwood ,

I don’t know what time in the past you compare the present to, but my current PC boots quicker into Windows, starts up Steam, and launches a 70 Gigabyte game than a 286 could count its two Megabytes of RAM on POST.

To “double-click an .exe file” one had to manually launch DOSShell or Windows, because else one would have to traverse into the game’s directory (by heart). But launching a game via Windows would often leave the machine with too few resources to run the game.

Did I mention the constant reboots to switch RAM and driver configurations because not every game would just run? The hassle to setup sound cards? Having to have the game disks ready all the time?

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

And screwing around with irqs because some games were picky and expected your sound card to use a certain one. The were ruined when I had to decide between using a joystick or having sound.

underKap ,

All the people that defends steam, probably use mcafee antivirus.

Sotuanduso ,

From “double click game.exe” to beginning actual gameplay took all of 68 seconds just now on a fairly average AAA game I have (Gotham Knights,) and 90% of that was just loading time with no further input required. This was on Steam (which was not running in the background because I stopped it first,) but because I used a desktop shortcut, I did not have to click through all the menus and close the ad window.

I use Avast, thank you.

such_lettuce7970 ,
@such_lettuce7970@kbin.social avatar

I dunno about all this, I just play games from Atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Playstation, etc. Maybe I'm simple but I'm also having fun :P

Weirdfish ,

Yeah, I went console when I realised I wanted to spend time actually playing the game.

Sure I’m missing out on the absolute highest settings, mods, etc.

However, I spend 55 minutes out of an hour actually playing the game.

WuTang ,
@WuTang@lemmy.ninja avatar

I love the fake “offline mode” of Steam which for certain game, doesn’t work.

I knew it was already shitty 20years ago when Steam get popularized by this shitty game (Counter Strike),

thisfro ,

Half of that never happens to me tbh and the vendor intros were mostly a thing in 2010ish games (for me).

But something that is not on the list and I hate is if steam just starts another game launcher where you have to click something (like Witcher 3 or cities skylines).

ares35 ,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

missed the bit about windows forcing an update and reboot, then crashing to an irreparable state, forcing a reinstall of the whole os and games that were installed.

Blake ,

I remember having to hunt high and low for the dune 2 manual to find out how heavy an Atreides airfield is because that’s what anti-piracy measures were back then.

Also it was much more of a crapshoot whether or not a game would work at all. Some games just completely refused to be played outside of specific hardware, especially when it came to video cards. Stupid messages like “sorry, you must have a GeForce 2300 or newer to play” that literally checked if your video card name started with some specific string…

Similar kind of thing with sound cards. Most games had a couple options for sound: if you have a sound card that contains the magic words “sound blaster” you got to enjoy nice sounds! Otherwise hope you like some kinda shitty half-attempt at MIDI sound.

And every game ever came with an EULA, if it wasn’t in the game it was in the manual or in some readme. It’s just as meaningless now as it was back then.

Then when CDs came out, sometimes they’d get scuffed and become impossible to install, so you’d have to end up buying a game twice because your cousin got a hold of it.

Things haven’t changed that much. There’s still a lot of shitty games, with a few that are great. It’s more like micro transaction or “free-to-play” games instead of shovelware now for the most part it seems though.

Everyone remembers the classics and forgets the duds!

Glifted ,

Ya’ll motherfuckers are forgetting the days when you had to have a fucking paper-slot decoder thing or read word 3 on page 50 of the manual to start your game.

Turious ,

Some of my favorite games from back in the day had a half dozen vendor intros. There were a few years where they were completely out of hand. It’s not all so bad these days.

AlexWIWA ,

This is why I just went back to playing Red Alert 2. My install from 2001 still works.

strawberry ,
@strawberry@artemis.camp avatar

pirated games don't have this issue. been doubleclickjng exe files for all my games

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