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I have always loved good video games. Given that I was a rabid hobbyist back when if you wanted a computer, you emptied a bag of parts out onto the bench and heated up your soldering iron, I've seen pretty much the entire evolution of the computer and the software that grew around it.
Back in the late 80's and throughout the 90's, good games relied more on the story than the visuals. By comparison, today the emphasis seems to be focused on visuals, just because they can.
With that said, one of the highlights of any good game made in the "old days" came with a rendered intro video. More often than not, they were vastly superior to gameplay, at least visually. Most of the time, these videos were pretty good. However, I think perhaps one of the greatest ever made was for a game called Syndicate Wars. The game itself was a sequel to a REALLY good game, and in my opinion the gameplay of the original was better.
But that intro!
IMO the best of the era.
Also, this comment from the video explains what is going on pretty well:
Back in the late 80's and throughout the 90's, good games relied more on the story than the visuals. By comparison, today the emphasis seems to be focused on visuals, just because they can.
With that said, one of the highlights of any good game made in the "old days" came with a rendered intro video. More often than not, they were vastly superior to gameplay, at least visually. Most of the time, these videos were pretty good. However, I think perhaps one of the greatest ever made was for a game called Syndicate Wars. The game itself was a sequel to a REALLY good game, and in my opinion the gameplay of the original was better.
But that intro!
IMO the best of the era.
Also, this comment from the video explains what is going on pretty well:
The guy has been implanted with a brain chip that modifies his perceptions, so that he gets the illusion to live in a 1950s-style town, while he actually lives in a cyberpunk metropolis. Suddenly the perception alterations stop working, and the guy hears an announcement, transmitted through the chip, by a group that calls itself the Way of the New Epoch, telling him to "give in to the cataclysm". He starts seeing the world for what it really is, and the cop he had just interacted with gets shot (for seeing something he was not supposed to) by the agents of the Eurocorp Syndicate, a multinational company with a private army that, among other things, manufactures that chip. The agents are told by radio that there has been an electromagnetic pulse in the city, so presumably other people are now seeing the real world instead of an illusion. The agents ask the HQ how to deal with the situation, and the answer is "destroy". They shoot the guy, and presumably they will go ahead to shoot everyone else with a deactivated chip.
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