Huh, great narratives and gameplay over graphics? The rose-tinted fog seems particularly strong here. Take Psygnosis as an example - Shadow Of The Beast, Killing Game Show and in particular Awesome want a word with you. Or most (all?) of the Bitmap Brothers titles, perhaps excluding The Chaos Engine and Speedball 2. Take…
Speedrunners exploit bugs in these "bugless" games all the time :D . There wasn't much in the way of Q&A in those days, unless it was office staff :) . "Narratives" in older games were almost non-existent for the top 100 games on any console (Amiga had more story-types I would say), we just wanted to play. Go from left to…
TDRL; haven't gamed in quite awhile, stories haven't been the greatest lately, agree. Just for the record i haven't been gaming since ARK 1 (kind of a nightmare but otherwise neat for me at the time.) Maybe it was forced but also the p.c. i used at the time was 12 years old and i got it to run enough for me so could've…