Gaming Then vs Gaming Now

Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.

Content of the “Then” column:

  • Double-click GAME.exe
  • Play game

Content of the “Now” column:

  • Launch Steam

  • Steam updates

  • Steam opens

  • Close Steam’s ad window
  • Select Game

  • Game launcher starts

  • Game launcher launches Game launcher updater

  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Ok

  • Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?

  • No

  • Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing

  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Scroll
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes, sell my soul
  • Start game
  • Skip vendor intro
  • Skip vendor intro #2
  • Skip vendor intro #3
  • Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
  • Skip opening cutscene

  • Main menu opens

  • Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?

  • No
  • Press play.
  • Play game.
BeezKnuts,
@BeezKnuts@lemmy.world avatar

Made by someone who wasn’t around back then. Getting games to run was just as if not more tedious than it is now.

Meowoem,

I used to have the irq of my sound blaster 16 memorised because you need to put it in for every game.

TheOakTree,

Legitimately why I still pirate some games that I purchase through Steam.

The pirated copy runs better 95% of the time, and people can’t even argue that you’re meaningfully stealing because you already own access to the same exact game.

CoolBeance,
@CoolBeance@lemmy.world avatar

well at least I don’t have to keep the CD in the CD Drive to actually play the game now

UsernameIsTooLon,

Don’t forget you gotta update your driver’s too before even beginning “Launch Steam”

Jimmycrackcrack,

Hate this bullshit so much.

revlayle,

I had ME legendary edition in my steam library. I wanted to play. It asked me to sign up for all the EA bullshit.

I still haven’t played it.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Who here remembers inserting disk 4 of 12?

AngryCommieKender,

14 of 32… windows 3.11 on floppy was a beast.

SeaJ,

That was more Windows 95 or NT but the point still stands. CDs were a massive leap in capacity.

Thorry84, (edited )

3.11 had a floppy pack bundled with Office, it was freaking huge, something like 60 floppies. And they were those freaky 1.68MB floppies as well.

Omgpwnies,

Fun fact: Those were still the exact same floppies that you would normally have formatted to 1.44MB, but Microsoft formatted the disk differently to allow 1.68MB. Works well for small numbers of large files, but not so great for general purpose storage.

PraiseTheSoup,

Unreal Tournament 2004 was 7 CDs if I remember correctly. That’s the most I ever dealt with, and I would gladly insert 100 CDs if it meant we got games of that quality again.

ArianaGrande,

Yes!! UT04 was phenomenal

Hadriscus,

I had it on one DVD The ways I spent modding the maps in the map editor ! Every time I listen to the Offspring again, like I did at that time, it takes me back to DM-Rankin and its creaky stairs

guiguinofake,
  • Open cracked games folder
  • Find game
  • Double click .exe
vox,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

you can disable steam ad windows

maniel,
@maniel@lemmy.ml avatar

Don’t forget about:

#THIS GAME SUPPORTS AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE DON’T SHUTDOWN YOUR COMPUTER#🆗

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

To be fair, the vendor intro 1-2-3 taking a while has been a problem since PS1 era. With the PS2 came an extra serving of infinite cutscenes

AngryCommieKender,

You cannot tell me that the opening/title cutscene of Chrono Cross is anything less than a legendary example of a proper opening sequence both visually and musically.

youtu.be/180sjeAMKPE?si=xRFXcywMYCQo7TyR

youtu.be/PZ595N9NZVg?si=T76rJ3M3tGO1zUu8

Thorry84,

Agreed, it has been around way before that. The Apogee intro is still engrained in my brain.

_number8_,

i’m tired of software constantly needing to download fucking updates for every little fucking thing. you can’t just use sEcUrIty as an excuse to make things 2000x more annoying

bleistift2,

It would go a long way to provide a changelog so we could appreciate whatever work went into the update. Looking at you, steam.

scubbo,

Gamers are the only people who complain when something is improved for them for free.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

Gotta add a few hours of fiddling with your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to free up memory to the “Gaming Then” column.

nailbar,

Luckily my brother took care of that part. I just had to remember:


<span style="color:#323232;">d:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd games
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cd cannon
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[Space][Space][F3]
</span>

To play Cannon Fodder.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

You could’ve just typed cd gamescannon to save a step.

nailbar,

Note that only a few years earlier I was rebooting the computer whenever I got stuck in King’s Quest, which was a lot, since I didn’t understand english.

I don’t know which King’s Quest.

JokeDeity,

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