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it's true i remmeber donkeys years ago when i was a kid when my older brother broute home the original Command & Conquer game for ps1 i loved it so much it could'nt be true but today with Red Alert 3 i felt like jumping off a clife after 3 missionsI think there is some truth to games being more fun when we were younger but I figure that has to due with the fact that back in the day...say NES, Genesis, SNES etc we didn't have as many games to play so we enjoyed the ones we have alot more. Back in the early days too it was easy to get excited about new games cause they had more variety in terms of visuals and gameplay. Lets take todays games....FPS are a dime a dozen and pretty much any game set in reality looks familiar to the next one and so on. I believe we have sorta become spoiled and desensitized with the newer games because there are just so many. I will use Gears of War for example. When this game came out in 2006 it looked and played like nothing every before. I was pretty stoked about this game and it lived up to the hype. Needless to say I still enjoyed the 2nd game in the series but the magic just wasn't there. I think this happened with MW2. Great game, but I can honestly say I didn't get as excited about its release as I did with COD4 MW.
Back in the day games were all about gameplay. Today they tend to be more about graphics, story and presentation. Games in some cases are more like interactive movies. The biggest reason I feel the Wii has been so successful is because it is just so much fun. Sure people don't play Wii generally as much as Xbox 360 or PS3, but I think when they do, they enjoy it just as much. The Wii is always the one system everyone wants to play at parties cause it is just easy to pick up, play and have fun.
Lets take a good sports game. Simulations are great, and they emulate the authenticity of the sport, yet I find them rather dull and boring. When you play simulation sports game they start forcing you to be manager, coach, player etc. For most people these games can be daunting. I think thats why Wii sports excelled. It didn't try to be realistic, it just wanted to be fast and fun and thats what trueold school gaming was all about.
tbs76
it's true i remmeber donkeys years ago when i was a kid when my older brother broute home the original Command & Conquer game for ps1 i loved it so much it could'nt be true but today with Red Alert 3 i felt like jumping off a clife after 3 missionsI think there is some truth to games being more fun when we were younger but I figure that has to due with the fact that back in the day...say NES, Genesis, SNES etc we didn't have as many games to play so we enjoyed the ones we have alot more. Back in the early days too it was easy to get excited about new games cause they had more variety in terms of visuals and gameplay. Lets take todays games....FPS are a dime a dozen and pretty much any game set in reality looks familiar to the next one and so on. I believe we have sorta become spoiled and desensitized with the newer games because there are just so many. I will use Gears of War for example. When this game came out in 2006 it looked and played like nothing every before. I was pretty stoked about this game and it lived up to the hype. Needless to say I still enjoyed the 2nd game in the series but the magic just wasn't there. I think this happened with MW2. Great game, but I can honestly say I didn't get as excited about its release as I did with COD4 MW.
Back in the day games were all about gameplay. Today they tend to be more about graphics, story and presentation. Games in some cases are more like interactive movies. The biggest reason I feel the Wii has been so successful is because it is just so much fun. Sure people don't play Wii generally as much as Xbox 360 or PS3, but I think when they do, they enjoy it just as much. The Wii is always the one system everyone wants to play at parties cause it is just easy to pick up, play and have fun.
Lets take a good sports game. Simulations are great, and they emulate the authenticity of the sport, yet I find them rather dull and boring. When you play simulation sports game they start forcing you to be manager, coach, player etc. For most people these games can be daunting. I think thats why Wii sports excelled. It didn't try to be realistic, it just wanted to be fast and fun and thats what trueold school gaming was all about.
tbs76
Retylus is right i used to play games like GT4, The Getaway Black Monday and Kill Zone right till the very last race or mission but after 2 weeks with Test Drive Unlimited i just could'nt be arssed to play it any more honistly i would have rather shoved by D*ck in a toaster than play it i could'nt care less about it it ended up as a frisby for my dog in the end sure i'd loved Cod6 at first but after a week or 2 i'd be back on Kill Zone or Black in my opinion the old PS2 games always lasted longer and were fun for a longer time i know i know they don't have the unbelivable graphics of Cod6 or the Realism of Test Drive Unlimited but to me PS2 games make PS3 games look like total sh!t after a whileIt's not your age, games are just getting worse. I noticed that I play old games more passionate than newer games which often lie around after I finished them halfway.
Right now I have Blur, Bayonetta, Resonance of Fate and Uncharted 2, pretty good rated games. None of it is even closely finished and I'm not really motivated to do so. On the other hand I recently played through FF9 and Crash Team Racing almost nonstop and started a new round Harvest Moon: Back To Nature. Can't be coincidence, right?
Reptylus
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