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I don’t find video games much fun anymore
isucamper:
On the one hand, it frustrates me to see a thread like this mingled in with threads about how no one wants to give new games a chance. There's a lot of amazing games out there that no one on here wants to give the time of day because of some weird bias towards anything made after 1987. Games are a lot like music, there's more good stuff out there than one person could ever find the time to consume, but without an open mind and and a humble attitude, you're never going to find it.
On the other hand, I believe that the current generation of console hardware is a stark step backward for videogames in general. Great games are still there, but they are layered in so much crap you have to waid through... red rings of death, 2 hour updates before you can play a new game, expensive fad and gimmick games congesting the shelves... it's really been a pain in the ass.
Woodshop Flunky:
When I was a kid the best games were only in the arcade, and those cost quarters. Taking a trip to the arcade once a week was about as much as I could hope for. Then when I got there, I knew I wasn't going to get more than about three or four dollars to play (it was usually only $2 :)). I would cruise the arcade watching others play and I was VERY selective where I dropped my few quarters. Once I got into the game, it was short lived. This sort of limited opportunity made each moment of gaming valuable. Now I've got consoles in the home, and a PC that allows me to play DAYS of games anytime I want (before I was married actually). They are still fun, but enough is enough at some point.
I love pizza, and when I was a kid, we ate pizza maybe once a week. Compared to gaming now, it's like I have an entire room of my house stacked to the ceiling with pizza! I'd have to quit my job just to eat it all! :)
Donkbaca:
I love the new games, but people who are all nostalgic about gaming in the old days need to come to grips with the fact that times have just changed, and the nature of gaming has changed. Take Batman Arkham Asylum, the game is brilliant, its 20 hours long. Some reviewer was talking about how the game is "too short" a 20 hour game would take me 2 months to beat! Don't get me wrong, its nice to have some long games, but when a game is that long, its just too cumbersome to enjoy in short spurts. Lets say its a Tuesday and the wife is going to go grocery shopping with my daughter, so I have maybe an hour to kill. I turn on red dead redemption, not a whole lot you can do in an hour that will get you real progress, the wife comes home, I need to shut off the game, and its frustrating. I feel like I wasted an hour almost.
Casual games, on the other hand, are just not deep enough. I might be the only person on the planet, but I don't like angry birds. I find it boring.
I fired up the SNES emulator and played Super Mario World with a friend the other day. That game was great. It was long, but it was broken up into stages, so, you could actually play for 30 minutes and make some sort of progress, and it had all these great easter eggs in it that made replaying it fun. I don't know, if gaming experiences like that are around anymore...
There seems to be an arcade like renaissance, at least in my mind, that started with SSFIV. It was marketed with its own arcade controller, as was MvC3 and Mortal Kombat has one as well. It seems that these games are targeting people like me, these are the games I played when I was a kid, and they are trying to recapture some of that lost arcade magic, but they will fail. I remember going to the 7-11 after school and crowding around the SFII machine. It was neat to battle people one on one, talk about different strategies, watch people play, that is something that xbox live won't capture.
I don't know, in a sense I guess I have changed, but the nature of the games have changed too.
VanillaGorilla:
Ooh, good post. I have been feeling this way a lot lately. I got an X-BOX Kinnect for X-mas this year. What a piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. This quote sums up my feelings exactly:
--- Quote ---Great games are still there, but they are layered in so much crap you have to waid through... red rings of death, 2 hour updates before you can play a new game, expensive fad and gimmick games congesting the shelves... it's really been a pain in the ass.
--- End quote ---
Ya know, go ---fudgesicle--- yourself Microsluts, I dont wanna HAVE TO BE ONLINE just to play a dvd-rom I stuck into the drive. I don't need your updates immediately. If I run into an issue, or want to get on LIVE I will update. But forcing me to update the OS just to play an OFFLINE game is insulting to my intelligence, and completely disrupts the fluidity of inspiration to play in the first place.
I want to stick it in, turn it on, and play. (just like my women >:D).
Long story short: Anyone wanna buy a hardly used XBOX360 with kinnect and an unopened copy of Black Ops?
This rang very true:
--- Quote ---But I enjoy the hell out of building on my cab, coming up with new ideas, surfing other people's projects to see what kind of creative things people are doing, and scrounging through junk shops and garage sales for parts.
--- End quote ---
The hobby here has definitely overtaken the gameplay hours. I seem to derive more pleasure as an adult from building. Good new games are still out there, I'm sure, I've played a couple of cool shooters recently, but seriously, people need to get back to basics. I'm tired of killing people in hiDef realism. I'd rather be smashing flaming chickens with a hammer...
ark_ader:
I blame the Internet and the availability of games.
The over saturation of titles that we can get, for so many platforms, numbs the whole deal.
PC games do not come into this, as they have an entire value of their own.
I fire up CoinOPS on the Xbox, and just play like 5 games. Everything else is just a blur, no excitement value just repetition.
I fire up the Xbox 360 and play Pacman CE or Space Invaders - I can play them for awhile but the rot sets in. Bored...
I won't mention the 30+ games I bought the 360 or the 30+ games for the PSP I have not even tried.
I haven't played Dragon's Lair or Space Ace in nearly a year.
I think games get boring, because we have so much, and we take so much for granted.
Time warp back to 1990, and we would dream of what we have today.
The 5 games:
Digdug
MrDot
Discs Of Tron
Asteroids
Legend Of Hero Tonma
These get instant replay value. Something that is missing from games of today.