Connor's Video Game Musings

I adore classic first-person shooter games, or as some have called them in this day and age, "boomer shooters." Many of them were released before I was born, and yet over the years I've developed a fascination with them. To me, this era of FPS games demonstrated enormous shifts in gaming technology. At the time, 3D gaming was still a pipe dream and the most immersive a game could be were dungeon crawlers a la the dungeon sections of the Ultima games or the Might and Magic series. The idea of actually being there in the world and interacting with it without clunky interfaces was something else entirely. As the 90s progressed, the FPS genre became bigger and more ambitious, showcasing what was possible with the technology we had with the promise of something greater as technology evolved. This little series is something I've always wanted to do. I want to outline the rise of classic FPS games, see how they grew and how they changed with advancements in gaming engines. I...

 Well, here I am after 2 years. I guess I have commitment issues. And speaking of commitment issues, let's talk backlog. Most of us have a backlog of games we want to get to someday but we just keep pushing to the back for whatever reason, be it real life or something else catching our eye. The other week I finally sat down and beat one particular game that had been sitting in my backlog that I'm surprised I hadn't beaten way sooner. You've read the title, you know which game it is.     This one is particularly sad in my case because it's only about 3 hours.   I first bought The Old Blood several years ago on PS4. It serves as an expansion pack for 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order, itself one of my personal favorite first-person shooters. For some reason though I would always drop the game halfway through, either because of burnout after playing through TNO and then Old Blood or because the console controls start to wear on me. Then within the last year after I...