haha good times, anyway, im 18 now and yeah i think that all the games are FPS shit over and over again...
but ho boy, playing Trine with a friend was like a beautiful flashback, i brought it and i loved it to the end... like the old days
[QUOTE=HALP Cat;23731204]You used to be excited when your father took you to the games store and you'd be in heaven when seeing all those games, nowadays all you see on the shelf is shit and you mostly buy your stuff from steam or other download services.
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Ignorance is bliss, no?[/QUOTE]
I remember when my father bought cyberia 2 and full throttle, its pretty much the only game he bought me, but i loved them, even playing them again today.
[QUOTE=Denmen707;23733003]I completely agree, i now do research in games before i buy them. I used to just pick a game that looked good on the box and get all surprised.[/QUOTE]
Back when games were made by a group of geeks in one of them's mom's basement. Where the credits page was 10 guys, with a single voice actor.
Good times, good times. :frown:
[QUOTE=Achilles123;23734724]I agree, although everyone now says it's just nostalgia, which I don't believe at all.[/QUOTE]
I think it's simply because the games were more inviting than they are now. Specifically the N64-PS1 era. Now games seem to have to put graphics, sound, animation, or gore to appease us. Banjo Kazooie had terrible controls, rather bad graphics, bad sound, yet it's still a very good game today because of it's great characters, story, and fun quirks. Something that I think developers need to work on. I do care about graphics, but they only hold my attention for so long.
I feel the same way, and I also feel the same way about movies. When I go to the movies with friends when they want to go see a shitty movie with 5 metascore, I go anyway but I never get too entertained while all my friends seem to be loving it :S. But I just say I loved the movie afterword.
Also, I remember the time when I was like 10 and my mom would take me to blockbuster to rent some n64 Games.
I rented Superman.
:ohdear:
I bought Boktai 2 and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (the GBA port) compulsively, and I don't regret any of it.
It [i]was[/i] nice being impressed by and having fun with any game, regardless of how good or bad it was.
[QUOTE=Lebowski;23733901]I remember my first time playing HL2, my jaw propped open from sheer awe.[/QUOTE]
The first time playing HL2, I
spent like an hour on the first level since I was so amazed by everything. The first time I picked something I was like "HOLY SHIT NO WAY" and I spent so long on the playground playing with the bricks.
Good times, and now I fully expect physics in new releases
[QUOTE=Melnek;23731934]Congratulations, you've grown up. In about 5~8 years you'll be completely bored of video games, and your computer will start to collect dust as slowly you stop bothering with it. Until finally selling it/never booting it up for anything but a quick look at wikipadia, google or youtube.
Because to be honest, the more you age the more you responsibility falls on you and the more you think how video games contribute fuckall to your life.[/QUOTE]
It's actually like that for me now. I hardly play anymore except the occasional round of TF2..
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I think the next time I'll be stunned and spend hours and hours mindlessly goofing is when full water dynamics hits the PC in 10 or so years.
I. Want. My. Childhood. Back.
[I]Now![/I]
:suicide:
I want demos back.
Today's all about "closed betas" that you either have to get by buying another game, or win at a raffle or something. Are game developers so uncertain about their work nowadays that they have to trick us into buying it? When did they stoop so low?
Last time I felt the "Big thrill" was after I had bought Just Cause 2 on the release day.
I weren't disappointed. JC2 is fucking awesome.
I also miss gaming with friends. I remember a few years back when my best friend and I would go on Combat Arms, one of the shittiest games in existence, even Friday and Saturday night. And we had loads of fun.
All my gaming "friends" today are just people I happened to play a game with once and left to rot on my friends lists. I'm so lonely. :smith:
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All my gaming "friends" today are just people I happened to play a game with once and left to rot on my friends lists. I'm so lonely. :smith:[/QUOTE]
I know how you are feeling. :love:
When you're a kid, everything seems great. I remember replaying games that I used to play for months when I was a kid, only to find out that they sucked and that I had no idea why I liked them.
It explains why you now care more about researching first than just running into a store and pick a game at random.
The number of shit games today doesn't really change anything, there were the same number of shit games if not more back in the 80's-90's, we just didn't realise it because we were all kids and because back then videogame advertisement wasn't as heavy as it is today, the Internet wasn't as widespread aswell.
Games were ten times more fun if you just bought it without knowing what you were getting yourself into.
[QUOTE=MagicBurrito;23746670]All of Melnek's posts are negative and cynical so I stopped reading them really[/QUOTE]
nah not really
most of the games i ever bought on impulse as a kid were actually good, tho
clearly the games just suck nowadays
Garry's Mod was the game that made this transition, for me. It made me realise just how much freedom I want in games, making everything else feel really mediocre and uninspiring. :sigh:
I just miss the days when games were actually affordable, now we can't just impulse buy because we waste too much money if it's bad and are compelled to make sure we get our money's worth from what we buy.
I remember when games started being released with physics, I was so young when I started playing Half-life 2, the fact that you could drop a weapon and it would react to the physics amazed me.
I agree but also a lot of the older games were more original and better, and video games are more commercialised now like modern warfare 2, so instead of just going into a video game store and buying some good ones you actually go to a video game store, find someones shat Horsez and Bratz and low-quality games all over the shop and you've gotta sift through the pile of shit to find a diamond.
I mean yeah, we're more discriminating but you can't deny that a lot of good game industries have gone down the shitter in terms of quality.
I miss Apogee games.
Also has anyone else in Australia noticed that EB Games seems to be having a permanent one-time only sale that's lasted around 5 months now?
I feel the same.
Worms Reloaded seems really fun though, i got exited just by reading what it's about.
This is why I am sliding more and more to the Indie, free, and low budget games ~ the mainstream is just becoming a business, where the games are made by marketing tricks, and not actual content.
Dwarf fortress, Red Orchestra, Overgrowth, Heroes of Newerth... They are still fun and engaging, the community is fresh and caring. I don't think that I grew up so much, that I am getting responsibility, although this is of course also partially true. The main thing is, that the mainstream slid out of the window of my interest.
[QUOTE=killerteacup;23755410]I agree but also a lot of the older games were more original and better, and video games are more commercialised now like modern warfare 2, so instead of just going into a video game store and buying some good ones you actually go to a video game store, find someones shat Horsez and Bratz and low-quality games all over the shop and you've gotta sift through the pile of shit to find a diamond.
I mean yeah, we're more discriminating but you can't deny that a lot of good game industries have gone down the shitter in terms of quality.
I miss Apogee games.
Also has anyone else in Australia noticed that EB Games seems to be having a permanent one-time only sale that's lasted around 5 months now?[/QUOTE]
Sweden too... wtf.
I miss management games as well, like RCT and The Movies. There used to be dozens of variants.
Ah yes, The Movies was and is still a fantastic game, I love it!
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;23731134]of course
such is life when you grow up
you start to actually evaluate everything instead of haphazardly buying whatever lol[/QUOTE]
I don't think he misses that, more like actually being able to enjoy everything you haphazardly buy.
Nowadays I only like simple but challenging arcade games (stuff like Audiosurf, Beat Hazard, Geometry Wars) or single player games that don't require much thinking or doing (like Heavy Rain) :frown:
[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;23742830]Oh man, I used to play Demo Discs almost religiously. Any time a new issue of Playstation Magazine came out, I would immediately tear out the demo disc and maybe take a look at an article or two. I still have most of them, too.[/QUOTE]
I used to play those demo discs (mostly gamecube) in stores like, Walmart, Sams Club, and Gamestop. Damn, those were fucking awesome.
I enjoyed games a lot more when I didn't know how they worked, when it was a character and not a model with voice actor.
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