Elite is really sweet. Man I miss it when computer games were still ... well just really computer games like that. As awesome as that screen looks above ... playing a game full of pixels has a certain attraction for me. I think I like filling in the blanks with my imagination rather than having everything drawn for me.
Games today show too much detail ... the visuals are no longer interactive. It's like telling a joke ... a two part deal. The person who tells the joke just sets up the parameters and the person who is on the receiving end has to 'get it' ... they have to fill in the blank for it to be funny. It's interactive to a certain extent. Now games are interactive by control ... but they used to be interactive to me on a visual level ... now it's very boring because nothing is really open to interpretation.
I'm sure there are others that completely disagree but I'd rather play that old pixellated Elite than play that X3 game. I never even played Elite before so it's not a nostalgic thing ... it's a real video game though ... not an multi-perspective render of someone else's idea of what things should look like. Of course I haven't played X3 so maybe I'd change my mind.
All I know is that Elite game is cool still.
Games today show too much detail ... the visuals are no longer interactive. It's like telling a joke ... a two part deal. The person who tells the joke just sets up the parameters and the person who is on the receiving end has to 'get it' ... they have to fill in the blank for it to be funny. It's interactive to a certain extent. Now games are interactive by control ... but they used to be interactive to me on a visual level ... now it's very boring because nothing is really open to interpretation.
I'm sure there are others that completely disagree but I'd rather play that old pixellated Elite than play that X3 game. I never even played Elite before so it's not a nostalgic thing ... it's a real video game though ... not an multi-perspective render of someone else's idea of what things should look like. Of course I haven't played X3 so maybe I'd change my mind.
All I know is that Elite game is cool still.