I remember when I was playing on the Famicom, a cassette was only a few hundred KB, and I could play Contra and Super Mario over and over for a whole summer vacation. Later, Internet cafes were just emerging. Legends and miracles were only a few tens of megabytes. A group of people squatted in front of the machines to grab monsters and equipment. It was called a passion. What now? It can easily reach hundreds of gigabytes, and you have to wait for half a day to download it. When you open it, you can see that everything is automatically path-finding and completed with one click. Playing and playing is like clocking in at work. Is it fun? On the contrary, it is not as good as before. 😅
I accidentally saw "Chivalry 2" two days ago. I clicked on it and took a look. Hey, this sounds right! There is no fancy krypton gold interface, but there are two camps and eight sects. You can make and upgrade your equipment by yourself, and you can trade them freely. At that time, what we most enjoyed playing online games was "picking up a good piece of equipment and setting up a stall in the city to shout about it for a long time", or "camping with the brothers in the gang to fight in a gang war and yelling at the top of your lungs to command." These games have all been restored. The mount can also be shared by two people, and you can take a girl to run around on a horse map. You can understand the feeling of leading someone to run darts in "Fantasy Westward Journey". 🤣
What impresses me most is that its equipment maintains its value permanently and is fully open to player trading. Nowadays, many game equipment are bound to each other when you get them. If you want to sell some game currency, you have to look at the official attitude. This game directly allows you to become a businessman. You can mine materials, create dungeons, sell things in exchange for gold coins, and earn pocket money. There is also a cross-server battlefield, which is not the kind of mindless AFK. You have to cooperate with real guns and live ammunition. Whoever shouts "focus fire" or "retreat" in the team is called passion.
Actually, the game is still the same game, but we have grown up. But "Chivalry 2" made me feel like I skipped school to go to Internet cafes and save money to buy some cards. Maybe the graphics are not as good as today's 3A masterpieces, but the sense of "brothers working side by side, enjoying grudges" is something that no amount of G can bring back. Veterans, if you also miss the era when equipment was valued rather than krypton, you might as well give it a try. See you in Xiangyang City! 🏰🗡️