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It's kind of too late to shrug it off when it's on the back of the box as a feature.

The reason Mechner, Sweeney, and Romero are there isn't because they're currently indie developers, it's because they're stars of old-school indie development. Jordan Mechner made Karateka and Prince of Persia literally by himself. Tim Sweeney founded Epic Megagames, which made and released small shareware titles until they got to the point where they could make Unreal. John Romero started out making tiny games for Apple IIe disk magazines, then co-founded id Software, which started with Commander Keen and stuck with the shareware model through Quake.

Everything in the second photo looks lower-fidelity. Fewer polygons, worse textures, worse lighting. I wonder what happened...

Shootdodge isn't newly minted, it was used to describe the move in Max Payne 1.

No prestige. Not even close.