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I don’t know if it’s pure nostalgia talking here, but games sites back then were made to look fun like they were part of the game. Verses now when they’re a dull and corporate.
I think a lot of the reason web design is more boring now is because you have to make it work on all sorts of different screen sizes with responsive design. There are a lot of tools to make this easy, but you still need start with a simple base so it looks ok on the smallest mobile screen.
I don’t know if it’s pure nostalgia talking here, but games sites back then were made to look fun like they were part of the game. Verses now when they’re a dull and corporate.
The manuals as well. Loved the WarCraft III and Diablo II ones. They were legitimately part of the game experiences as lore was told there. Now the publishers don’t even bother to include a single sheet.
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Yeah HL introduced me to modding :) I used to visit it everyday waiting for the next chapter of They Hunger to get released.
I'd completely forgotten about that! They Hunger was a masterpiece. Not one I'd ever want to re-visit though, because nostalgia is best left not closely examined. But a golden age, of txt file walkthroughs downloaded from gamefaqs with news mods and patches off PCGamer discs to explore because there's no way I was ever downloading those on a 56k modem.
I wish I could relive the golden age.
It does put into perspective how phones fucked it all up. That Nintendo 2k1 is looking really good, with high information density without being overwhelming, and an overall nice design to just look at.
Nintendo 2k1 website [1] was god tier slicing with the curved layout, inset menus, and sprites for the corners, edges, buttons without transparency. The pixel backgrounds, fonts, buttons, shadows looked great on a CRT. Tried to replicate it myself back in the day with HTML tables. [1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/nintendo-2001
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I'd completely forgotten about that! They Hunger was a masterpiece. Not one I'd ever want to re-visit though, because nostalgia is best left not closely examined. But a golden age, of txt file walkthroughs downloaded from gamefaqs with news mods and patches off PCGamer discs to explore because there's no way I was ever downloading those on a 56k modem.
I think the older games and mods are still pretty playable if you can get over with the slightly janky control. I recall TH has nasty jump traps which almost turned me away back then. I wish I could relive the golden age.
I don’t know if it’s pure nostalgia talking here, but games sites back then were made to look fun like they were part of the game. Verses now when they’re a dull and corporate.
And essentially you are taught to go against a lot of things you see in these examples and design things in the way modern websites are designed e.g. big call to action button, search bar on top and center, little clutter. Modern websites are meant to be more "simple" and "easy" as the web is now meant to be "accessible" to everyone rather than just for nerds.
Video game sites back then were cool, yes. Now do video game fan sites. These have in so many ways been replaced over the years by generic ad-ridden wikis but back in the day games often had crazy interesting fan sites for specific video games. So many unique designs and layouts were done for those niche communities and so many of those designers and developers went on to do really cool things in the future. What an…
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