How did boomers who were all shit at video games and had no clue about anything consistently manage to create bangers like these?
bruh they werent boomers at the time
>>739017240no women in their ear telling them no one wants to play as a king
>>739017240This one game single handedly conquered Europe.
>>739017240i still love the sprites
>>739017325>bruh they werent boomers at the timeyes they were.
>>739017240Because they weren't concerned about weird irrelevant bullshit that doesn't actually matter and just wanted to make games.
>>739017240good for its time perhaps, but it's total slop in 2026. not sure why you guys jerk these games off.
>>739017240They read books, played board games and tabletop RPGs, and had a wide range of hobbies and real-life experiences they could draw inspiration from, instead of being stuck in an insular cycle of everyone just copying everyone else.
>>739017634https://youtu.be/bIYMAuPEiE8?list=RDbIYMAuPEiE8listen to this
>>739017240>who were all shit at video games and had no clue about anythingWhat are you talking about?
>>739017827>who were all shit at video games and had no clue about anythinghave you ever seen a game developer who was good at video games?
>>739017815ok, that's fine and all, but the gameplay is just comically bad.
>>739017910No, but I haven't seen NWC devs in action.
boomer designers were taking experiences and ideas from outside the medium and trying to translate them in a way that was fun and captured the concept. millenial designers try to recreate games that already exist in games so it just becomes a boring reproduction of what already exists, and any changes made to the design to make it distinct just detracts because it pulls the work away from the original concept. boomers also had a broader life and literary experience to draw from outside of media, while millenials mostly draw on the same handful of games and movies.i think theres also an issue with design intention. games in the boomer designer era came from the arcade where you literally paid money to play, so you were trying to make the most fun game possible to get people to invest their money to play even for a brief moment. millenial design is built around the player paying to "win", which is why games now just try and delete whatever friction (the fun part), add skip buttons, make moviegames, etc. this is also why the arms race became about making the best graphics, the most powerful hardware, the most predatory monetisation, etc, because they cant win on making the most fun game. the incentives are entirely perverse in modern game design.
>>739017539ok boomer lol
>>739017240"Boomers" didn't create video games. It was passionate nerds and genuinely competent people, who specifically didn't get a "video games degree", made great video games, which we consider classics now. Now we have big corporations employing left-wingers, who got a corporate "video game degree", who makes games and unsurprisingly the product matches the creator.
>>739017928well it is one of the greatest video games of all time and you are wrong
>>739018027Best and worst game design ideas are from people, who had never played games. Women, retards, religious people etc. All Ideas from people who played a lot of games are extremely MID. So I suggest to have both in your team and let them constantly design and work on each others ideas.>Jane the cult leader's daughter bring an Idea of a chthonic dream simulator. >Chud from Ohio, who played COD for 10k hours last year bring an extraction looter shooter coop slop with crafting.>You switch their ideas and let them explore. >Then compare and ask their opinions,
>>739017240Ok, slavbros, HoMM3 or Disciples 2?
>>739018592HoMM 3
>>739018592Age of Wonders
>>739017815https://youtu.be/9MtjzDSNZ4Y
>>739018984i was trying to find the ricardo milos version of the battle theme, but all i could find was a short 240p clip on youtube
>>739018984https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZixWDlSn_Cs
>>739018592your MoM
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>>739019049https://youtu.be/shOhkzInW8s
>>739017240People who made and played video games in the 90s were far more intelligent because it wasn't as mainstream yet and development required far fewer but smarter employees.
>>739019223https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El8BlMU6N3Q
>>739017928>gameplay is comically badPlenty of roguelike slop that became popular has gameplay that is even shallower than Homm3 that came out almost 30 years ago.Arguably, you have way more variation in generated map scenarios than in your modern turn based roguelike.
>>739018984>not the 8 minute 30th anniversary edition of NecroTown with original composer dueling pianos funeral versionhttps://youtu.be/CJuOw9WS55c?si=0VkTECKeqdJ87IVm
>>739017240boomers are smarter than you. even the dumbest boomer is smarter than you. they had no internet or access to all information in world to tell them its the jews. you do and yet you are playing these shitty modern games wondering why boomers did everything better than you.
>>739017240Do I play this or Might and Magic 6-8 first?
>>739017634>slopBrown children don't get to have opinions.
what are you talking about? game dev in that era was a pure passion project, they were all gamers with a love for games
>>739018592I prefer D2, but the HoMM-Disciples-AoW triumvirate is unshakeable in my mind. I will always have fun playing those games
>>739021396Both
>>739021396they are completely different games
>>739017240Turns out if you just let White men do their thing they create wonders.>>739018592>Ok, slavbros, HoMM3 or Disciples 2?Age of Wonders 3 modded.Call the HOMM cops, I don't give a fuck.
>>739022516>age of wondersis this not closer to civ than to homm? I find HOMM closest to total war as a brand new HOMM playerespecially to the fantasy total wars with important hero units
>>739022592>is this not closer to civ than to homm?sure, a little, but it's still a wargame at heartit just has more options for global spells (like terraforming), more in-depth diplomacy and more focus on faction interactions, like converting cities, vassalage etc
>>739022592>is this not closer to civ than to homm?Way closer to homm than civ, in fact it's not really like civ at all despite having some 4X elements.To me it just feels like HOMM, but your city isn't all on one screen. The focus is still very much on combat, heroes, itemization and building up units/forces as you adventure around the map with heroes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OodJKrysmDE
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>>739022886>>739022857can i play age of wonders 3 wo playing the previous ones or what own setting?its dirt cheap on key sites, might give it a go shit actually i literally already own this somehow, never played
>>739023501you totally can, it's a good game in its own right, but the first two games are amazing as well, so you'd just be depriving yourself of fun playthroughs
>>739023501>>739023765ill give it a try at least tomorrow>I own it wo DLC fuckbut the pack of the game + dlc is 3-4$ on key siteslmao
>>739017928>the gameplay is just comically bad.there is a literally a ton of little tricks and things you need to be aware of to make sure you don't suck ass at the combat and progression.get gud.
>the more games become academized with "best practices" the worse they get
>>739022592It's closer to TRPGs than it is to either Civilization or HOMM.
Boomers are simply superior beings to pathetic, genetic dead end zoomertrash
