An Editorial By Cyrax9: Why Older is Better.

[Cyrax9]

WHY OLDER IS BETTER: BY CYRAX9

Why is "Older" Better, and more importantly, why is this in the "Computers" forum? I'll start off by saying this is in the Computers froum because it's about PC's Games, and Software, with that said, let's answer why "Older is Better".

Older is better for several reasons, on older PC's you could see what actually went wrong when you got an error message, on Older PC's if there was a problem it was easy to fix, and on older PC's, Windows wasn't a complete POS like it is today.

Here's a good example with GAMES : I was bored to death the other day, I have a stack of CD-ROm's sitting inf ront of my 1.7GhZ P4 running Windows ME, and not one game NOT ONE GAME is as good as the "Classics", "The Sims" may be he exception, but that's still playable on my P2 running at 300MHz. If you can see what's just sitting on top of my desk you'll ghet an idea of what I mean by REcent Games (Stuff that's less than 2 years old, anything before 2000 is counted as "Old") here's a small list:

1. "The Sims: Livin' Large"
2. "The Sims"
3. "Deluxe Star Trek:" Starship Creator"
4. "X-Wing for MS-DOS"
5. "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy-Straegic Command"
6. "X-Wing and Xwing Vs. Tie Fighter Flight School for Windows 95"

All of those games, with the exception of "The Sims" were made before 2000, they all have Sub-Pa Graphics by today's standards, the Sound is a pain in the @$$, and they are FUN! That's right FUN, F-U-N!

Why are games this old so much "Fun" when they don't have "Flashy Grpahcis" or "Catchy Sounds"? Because they all came with something today's games lack badly, Extras, Manuals made of PAPER, and something called GAMEPLAY!

I have a "Freeware" Copy of "Civilization", not "Civ II" or "Civ III" or "Civ Insert Nmae here", just "Civilization 1", and you know what? It's the best game I ahve on this PC!

"Civilization 1" agmne out around 1993, and since then we've seenM$'sa attempt at a Cive "Clone", it's called "Age of Empires", we've seen several other "Strategy Games" that aren't worth theirt weight in horse-d*ng, and we've seen games barnded "Staregy" that are easy enough for a 5-year old to beat. "Civilization" is not Fancy, there's no blood and guts spewing across the screen, there's no mosters/zombies etc. to kill, there's no amazing 3D FPS to clock and there's no amazing "Original Soundtrac", but y'know why it's FUN? Because even if the Grapjhcis are little Squares shaped like Windows Icons on a "Colored' BackGround, the GAMEPLAY is the best of any "Strategy Game' on the market, and as freeware, the "Soudn Bytes" are fun, even if teya re cheesy, and 256 Color "MS Paint" style grpahics are fine in this game, now I know you may think itsounds dull but once you're playing this thing, you won't want to stop, the reason? the GAMEPLAY is what makes this game good, NOT a bunch of Blood and Guts flying every whichway. In short an old game with 2D sprites is more "FUN" than ane game witrh 3D Pre-Rendered FX.

To Close this I will say, that in the past tow years more crap has been churned out by the gaming industry than anything substancial for the PC, download "Civilization 1", it's only 6MB and it's free, play it, and learn why Newer isn't always better.

In the Next" part of this sreis of Editorials I'l discuss Hardware performance and "Application SOftware", this is Cyrax9 saying "Goodnight, and have FUN".