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Felch
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Germantown, Maryland
Sep 2001
time: 00:24
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From the past few years, any of the Paradox games, GalCiv, Kotor, Morrowind, WoW, Warcraft III, Half-life 2, and I'm sure other people can chip in their own nominations.
I know you're just going to say that you don't like most of them, but that's because u r a contrarian ass 
Which leads to one of the other problems with people's perceptions. In video games, like music and movies and such, there are people who want to think that they see things more clearly than others. They rant and rave against whatever is popular without really giving it an objective look. While often the popular crap is crap, it's not always the case. Sometimes a game is popular because it's actually worth playing. A lot of the harshest critics of modern games have unfair and unusual standards. For instance, I can't recall how many people I see on here saying that anything in 3D is crap. 3D isn't always good, and a lot of times it distracts the designers without adding much gameplay, but it isn't in and of itself a bad thing. It's simply a way of presenting a game.
Anyways, I don't mean to piss too many people here off, I just don't think things are as bad as y'all think. There are always new companies sprouting up, and with the constant decline in the cost of technology you'll see more and more people making their own games as labors of love. Humanitas for example.
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child of Thor
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quote:
Originally posted by DrSpike
Maybe you have just got grumpier.  |
I think maybe this is it!
well not really - i'm a happy gamer in outlook, as i've always been.
And i cant be simply becoming an 'old grumpie' anyway as i'm also agreeing with all of Felch's points as well as accepting i've got a point also
I think for me the dissapointment that is coming over in my posts is that in the 20years or so i've been an avid gamer, i've actually seen little progress in the industry except in graphics+presentation generaly.
I think maybe i was expecting something truely amazing to happen once the hardware barriers had been breached(for example there was a noticeable improvement in many genres when we moved from the 8bits like C64, Spectrum etc to the 16bits like the Amiga and AtariST), still even games like Civ were pushing the Amiga in terms of its available Mhz(i think the amiga was rated at around 16Mhz? the old 8bits ran at around 2Mhz).
So the rapid rise in Mhz that Pc gaming started to offer, along with the improvement in graphics compared to the Amiga and AtariST was pointing to a golden age of gaming for many people, and IMHO we almost got there.
And thats where i'm mostly stuck at gaming wise, with those 'Classic' titles like Xcom/Civ2 etc.
But yes as people have rightly been saying - we do still get great games today, but from one point of view, maybe not as many as we should; considering all the years the Industry has been around to mature and learn from experience. Not to mention the huge increase in MHz, storage and graphics+sound abilities.
Something like that. Now i see a rather cynical trend in moves like what companies like EA(they are the bad boys at the mo ) are upto.
They will be behind a push to increase the costs of games, while at the same time bringing down the ammount of hours you can expect to get out of a title. After all it makes business sense? more profits for them etc.
This stuff doesn't fill me with good vibes generaly
Last edited by child of Thor on 01-07-2005 at 14:37
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child of Thor
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i was just surprised that untill this law was passed, sweden had no official anti-piracy legistaion(if what the article is saying is true).
Also i think people will find it hard to change their downloading habits.
Anyway one reason i think their is a move away from the PC to consoles, from many publishers, is in part due to the ease of pirating on the pc compared to a console(especialy an on-line console which is getting a big push too).
Last edited by child of Thor on 05-07-2005 at 14:15
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Vince278
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Games can be an addiction.
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child of Thor
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quote:
Originally posted by Vince278
Games can be an addiction. |
worse than heroin(but with much more positive side effects!) in my case.
I was thinking the other day as i played a game of LMA manager2005 on my xbox, when was the last time i had a game really hand me my pride on a plate?
For example in the game i just mentioned i've taken my team from the conference to the top of the premiership+european glory - in 6years(game time), using only welsh nationality players in my first team. I have a lot of time for this game, but with no real difficulty setting it seems i probably have played it out.
So whats the last game anyone can remember being a severe challange? Are games becoming more about massaging our fragile ego's or is challange still a serious componant? I'll try and think of the last game that pawned me in the meantime........
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