 Hello, and thank you for joining me on this podcast from filmsbychris.com. I'm Chris. That's Chris with the K So is the website filmsbychris.com Be sure to check out my website and today. I'm just gonna talk to you a little bit and hopefully you'll stick around and listen What I'm gonna talk about today is What is impressive and in different aspects I'm not a huge gamer if you've watched my videos and my podcast in the past. Obviously, you know, I'm a huge Doom fan. I love Doom back in the day. I used to love Doom Duke Nukem 3d and Quake I used to modify all three of them edit them create my own levels and really it was really a good stepping stone for me to get an into programming and Game design and although I'm not a big gamer. I do like making games just small games for fun. I enjoy it looking at games back then they are fairly simple in design because machines were limited and Gaming in that aspect was still relatively new. You look at games nowadays. It is amazing It is so impressive that real-time rendering on These game consoles and if you have good hardware you can it's it's like lifelike these games It's just amazing and it's inspiring in some ways and Incredible and impressive But in some ways I find the older games more impressive and more inspiring and again This is just different views on in what you mean by that As I said back in the 90s I used to play and edit and create my own levels and mods and graphics and sounds and even music for Doom Quake and Duke Nukem 3d and I Used to be able to go to the arcade at the mall or just play games on you know PlayStation or whatever game console was out then at a friend's house and and be able to look at it And I was like and although they the graphics were not as impressive as today I found them more inspiring and let me say tell you what I mean by that. I would look at them and I would go Wow This is a good game And I understand how everything's created like a lot back then games 3d games like car racing games I think they use a lot of 2d sprites I think they still do to this day if you if you can find a car racing or motorcycle racing game Or they even have snowmobile games at these arcades. They still use a lot of 2d sprites for stuff You know the girl waving the flag. I forget what game it was back in the day. I don't know if it was a need for speed I don't think it was a need for speed I think it was there's one that you would see in arcades But I think there was a version for the console at home again I never owned one but I would play it at friend's house or at the arcade where You would have like cows and if you went off the road You would hit a cow and it would splatter on your windshield and that and the trees and the signs were all 2d sprites But the the the level the ground and the car were were 3d Objects 3 meshes, but I will look at those and because I had done some 3d design in Quake creating characters And objects and I did 2d stuff in in things like doom So when I would look at these games in the arcade or on the consoles, you know made by professionals I would look at them and be like I could do that You know a lot of these older games especially doom only had like four guys really working on it They had a few other guys doing you know the sounds and and the music but the the game design the level design the programming There's basically four guys Which is amazing to me that they were able to create a game like that just the four of them in a room somewhere and And it just inspired me I can do this. I've created stuff like this before I look at the arcade games I'm like if I want to I could get anyone inspired me I'd go home and I start working I never really finished any of these games, but I'd be able to go home and start creating Oh, I made a car that's driving through here, you know, I had modified Quake So it's I actually modified doom once to make it so so that the bad guy looks like a car driving around But I would inspire me I'd be like I can do this Nowadays I actually find the more visually impressive games a little less inspiring and a little less impressive in certain ways because So much money's done them. They have huge huge staffs of people It's like they have one person who's working on one element for for weeks or months And it's just it's impressive, but I don't have those type of patients and it's less impressive to me that It's like anybody with enough time and money can create something like that or something like doom. It's like It's just something I can do it inspires me It's like I could never make one of these triple-a games that are out today by myself or even with a small group of people I'd have to work for a big company I'd have to have a lot of time a lot of money and a lot of patience and it's just it's impressive Visually and and the game is impressive, but it's not as inspiring to me because I'm not inspired I don't look at those games go. Wow. I'm gonna go home and make something like that but I look at these games from the 90s and Especially when they got into 3d stuff and they had 3d house, but they were lower or poly stuff I remember in a level of Duke Nukem. I I don't remember. I don't think it was a mod I think it was one of the original because there was some official Expansion packs or whatever. There's one where there's a fire truck there It's so blocky and which is textures on it and it is like barely like a fire truck, but I could tell that's supposed to be a fire Truck there was another game in the 90s a spider-man game that I also like that was on I think the PlayStation and It's like it's just the buildings were just you know blocks with textures on them and I understand and A lot people will disagree with me on this and I'm not saying that newer stuff isn't impressive But I find that stuff just as impressive just in a different way I find both the new triple-a games and the old successful games inspiring and Impressive, but in their own ways But for me, it's like I can look at something and go. Oh, wow They created this and I know it's supposed to be a building I know it's supposed to be a truck even though it's like three blocks with some textures It's like it's like the fact they were able to make something Then I can tell what it is and it looked good in such a minimal fashion was impressive And the fact that I'd be able to look at that and go I can do that I can do that I look at like I haven't played any of these but I've seen videos of like the new Star Wars games It's like wow. Oh, it's almost like real people and it's rendering real time. It's amazing You know 20 years ago you you render something all night and get one frame. It didn't look that good Now we're doing it real time on hardware. That's a bit crazy But I also am not going wow that makes me want to make a game and there are people out there Who do they look at that and they aspire to that the thing is you get a job? We're kind of game like that. You're not really working on the game. You're working on Your aspect of the game which back in the day they had people who you know like John Romero was was primarily a level designer Where John Carmack was writing the engine They had different jobs, but it's like you still it's like he created levels He created levels the entire level was pretty much all John Romero You know when you created a level, you know and they had an art guy who did all the art But it's like nowadays. It's like you'll have like a whole team from my understanding a whole team of people Working on certain things. It's like your job is to make this truck. You know and it's like yeah You made an impressive truck, but it's like all you did was that truck I'm sure they do more than one object, but it's and I'm not insulting. I'm amazed amazed by Current games and what they're able to accomplish. It's just less impressive to me when you have Hundreds of people that's spending lots of money and lots of hours doing these things where Back in the day. I feel like doom is just as impressive for its time and it was created by four guys in a room, you know So that's my thoughts you can agree or disagree And again, I'm not I'm not criticizing either sides and I'm just saying there's different ways to be impressed and different ways to be inspired and I'm more inspired I'm impressed by the triple a games And but I'm also impressed by what they were able to accomplish 20 25 years ago But I'm more inspired by the older games because that's something I could do I Can create something that on my own or with the help of a few friends like maybe I'm not good at art But I can I can create the levels and I can create The game I can write the code Maybe someone else can is is a good artist and they can create they they can create the sprites But they don't know how to create the other stuff But they still have a huge part in the game and it's something that they can do So and there's still games like that out there. There's still, you know, well, it's like I mean look at like mind test and minecraft Those games are not as visually as amazing, but Think about all the people who use those games and create amazing things because of how simple they were if if mine Test or minecraft were as complicated as these big triple a games like Like that Star Wars game. I don't even know what it's called People wouldn't be able to create stuff in it and people create amazing things So it's that simplicity of the design opens up the doors to more people to create amazing things So instead of having just one Amazingly looking thing maybe fun to play that some company made Making the game simpler opens the door up to more people to be creative and create more creative things Maybe not as visually creative, but but more to it and it keeps it ongoing Just a thought just a thought that I don't think a lot of people think about they just look at new games like wow Especially gamers and I'm sure there's people out there listening to this now and and I mean this in the kindness way but and and I'm not talking about just like Just gonna sound insulting Gamers in my mind are the lowest level of computer people well Maybe a step above your standard IT guy that you have at the office And what I mean by that you can be an amazing programmer and be very smart with computers and play games But there's so many people out there that consider themselves gamers that know absolutely nothing about computers They know absolutely nothing they know how to maybe install and set their video card and drivers and that's about it But they act like they're these computer geniuses because they know how to do that and they're gamers but they're really just gamers and and Those are the people I'm talking about that are just Lowest level of if you want to even consider them computer people I'm not talking I'm not just saying because you like games or you enjoy games You can consider yourself a gamer and still be good with computers I'm just saying that majority of those people are I look at them in a not very Good light when it comes to representation of people who consider themselves because they tend to be overly vocal about how great they are with computers when they're really can't Write a single line of code and you really know nothing about computers there's a difference between computer usage and and actually knowing about computers, which is a whole nother topic I should talk about anyway Think about that think about I inspire. I inspire you I I hope that I am inspiring you to go and look at these old games and be inspired by them like and I'm just thinking about basically all the games in the late 90s, especially late 90s early 2000s It was an incredible time where we were getting into 3d stuff But things were still simple even like the original Tomb Raider and stuff like that I would only play a little bit of but just games like that where they were 3d low poly But they were able to create so much be inspired Whatever it is that inspires you whether it's the triple a games that of today or the triple a games where they called that back then I don't know but the the the amazing games of 20 years ago be inspired to create something whatever is the create that inspires you to create something create something and and Hopefully you create something that inspires other people to be creative and add to your creation and create something new from your Creation or even create something completely new but being inspired by your work Be inspirational and visit films by chris.com. 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