Glaucus wrote:
Personally, I think the Amiga has no chance at competing with the big first person shooters that dominate the PC market. It would be nice to see modern remakes of some of the old classic shoot-em ups. Of course this won't take the Amiga games market anywhere, but it would be nice to see these type of games make a comeback on the platform that really popularized them. You just don't see any good shoot-em ups anymore, especially not on the PC. And oh yes, they all need to have a real industrial feel to them, Psygnosis games come to mind! ;-)
Agreed. I haven't seen any new commercial 2D shoot-'em-ups on PCs for absolutely ages - and when they did exist, the scrolling was crap compared to the Amiga version :-) PC games concentrate too much on first person shooters (which I hate), and everything has to be 3D. Why does everything have to be 3D? We are missing all the little fun games like 2D shoot-'em-ups, platform games, overhead racing games. It seems that if it's not 3D, it doesn't get released, simply
because it's not 3D, not because the game isn't good. People want 3D... or the programmers want people to have 3D.
I'm not saying 3D is a bad thing, just that there is room for 2D and 3D games to co-exist, and games aren't bad because they are 2D, in fact they can be more fun (I can name more fun 2D Amiga games than 3D PC games). And fun is good, isn't it?
Chris
