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I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That's just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Video games. Way back then there was imagination involved, and companies took risks. Nowadays every game seems to iterate on the same tired formula. The only recent entry I can think of that bucked this trend in the past few decades was maybe Portal, but there have been few to no other recent games that come to mind. Fight me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a fan of indie games are you?

Baba is you, is a pretty original puzzle game. I'm not really into factorio, but it made tower defense cool again. There's lots more that are weird and interesting like brigadore, airships conquer the skies, cruelty squad, superliminal.

As far as I remember, portal was a mod or indie game that valve picked up because they thought the idea was really good. It was really good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A student project, actually. Valve saw a college student doing fun/weird shit inside their engine and went "You're hired".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That only makes it cooler

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Literally play any indie game.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

You're talking about the AAA space. Fuck those games. Play indies. There are so many creators carrying out the legacy of game development you're talking about. Don't buy the games directed by suits. Currently I'm playing Factorio: Space Age, which is great. I recently played Lorelie and the Laser Eyes, which is a really cool puzzle game where you're actually going to want to write notes on paper, which feels very classic. There are so many out there, but you actually have to look because the don't have the marketing budget of Ubisoft or EA.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The imagination came from the limitations of the hardware.

Computers today are too powerful for gaming. Its resulted all the famous studios racing to the bottom with graphics their primary and generally only concern, and everything else coming a distant second.

But at least it left the door open for indie devs, whose lack of resources and experience are still capable of keeping that ember of imagination and innovation burning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Along with the others I'd also mention Outer Wilds and Viewfinder

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

What is the formula you're talking about? Games are so diverse it's pretty hard to see what single formula there could be that covers them all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Alan Wake 2 and Control are fantastic!