Part 1...it's a great list, lots of fun and I'm sure all you other old-school gamers will get all the references too.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=213997
Some of the better ones:
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| Quote: 5. Graphics card naming conventions In which an nVidia 280 is faster than an 8800. 19. Creepy ragdolls Our inner child still giggles when a goon dies with his hand on his friend's bottom. Sometimes we'll shoot them again and again and again, just so their face edges a little closer to their partner's crotch. Don't mock. We've all done it. 30. FEAR's Slow-mo What the f-u-u-u-u- whunk. 37. The '~' key It's called a tilde, and it lets you turn the gravity off. Win. 44. No corporate overlords If you want to make a game, Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo aren't going to tell you that you can't. And with 196 million games-capable PCs in the world, if it's good enough, you will find your audience. That's the clear power of the PC as a platform: anything is possible. And everything eventually finds an audience. 46. 196 Million PC Gamers worldwide We're not a hobby. We're a nation 52. Voxels, texels, Megatextures, et al The more buzzwords, the better the game. Fact. 57. Football Manager Because nothing captures the magic of football better than a wall of spreadsheets. 58. Morals defined entirely by killing Because "I was good person. I let Anna Navarre live" is a great way to get funny looks on the train. Also, she was kind of hot. 61. The end of A : / Now our PCs begin at C. This amuses us. 63. The eternal hope of Duke Nukem Forever Duke's perpetual delay means we've always got something to look forward to other than death. 64. Overclocking Voiding your warranty for extra frames per second gets easier every year. It's almost like Intel want us to burn through our processors. 77. Minsc "Go for the eyes, Boo!" 95. Epic manuals Remember the doorstops that came with elderly simulators such as Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe? Or the amazing training manual-cum-short story that came with TIE Fighter? Today's special editions are about plastic figures and soundtracks. Rubbish. You can't take a pewter Big Daddy to bed. 97. One healthkit per crate It seems like you could maybe package healthkits in something smaller. Like a shoebox. | |
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There is quite a difference between the two! Not that I was such an expert at UO, but I did play it for a good while. I remember being a grandmaster fisher and scouring the seas with treasury maps. 