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Why current age 'video gaming' is a joke
danny_galaga:
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--- Quote from: paigeoliver on June 16, 2012, 12:43:06 am ---Plants Vs. Zombies. Great game with a SNES feel. Unlimited replayability.
Osmos. Simple concept of particles and gravity. I played it for 41 hours.
Eufloria. Incredible vectorish flower-based strategy game.
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Plants vs. Zombie really rocks - that's a nice game. Osmos sounds interesting - I've got to try that one out for sure but Eufloria is one of my most favorite games. It is fun and I simply love strategy games. Above all I love the fact that it is based on flowers and that is so inspiring to me because for me flowers are a great inspirational source! I simply love them and right now just talking about them makes me want to get flowers delivered by serenata.
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Is your marketing company hiring? Shoot me a PM.
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+1. You don't get enough personally delivered spam nowadays. It's all bot driven...
404:
I dont have a problem with current gen games, fps, MMO etc. I think some people need to keep in mind that during the arcade and console boom era's of the 80's and 90's, there were just as many copycat games as there are today. How many run and jump platformer games can you count back in those times? Tons I'm sure.
I do have a personal problem with some of these so called "Indy developers". Guys that are blatantly doing nothing more than ripping off classic games and selling them to make a quick buck off of the retro fad that currently exists. Just saw a game the other day that was nothing more than a clear ripoff of castlevania. I remember homebrew guys doing the same thing years ago and never asking for a penny. I don't have a problem with developers adding new elements to classically inspired games. I just have a problem with guys that do nothing more than steal the IP of other, larger companies who published the same exact game 25 years earlier, changing a few pixels and pushing this garbage over steam in order to make a quick buck.
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: 404 on July 06, 2012, 09:24:53 am ---I do have a personal problem with some of these so called "Indy developers". Guys that are blatantly doing nothing more than ripping off classic games and selling them to make a quick buck off of the retro fad that currently exists. Just saw a game the other day that was nothing more than a clear ripoff of castlevania.
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Hmm. Definitely disagree with your summary of indie development. A lot of new programmers basically re-make the games they loved when they were younger as a way to learn, but I think most of the popular retro-styled indie stuff adds a lot of new stuff or refines the gameplay for modern tastes (Super Meat Boy, Spelunky, Braid, etc.) I mean, blatant copying happens way too much, even of new game concepts, but not sure if it characterizes all of indie game development. Care to mention the name of that Castlevania rip-off? Perhaps it was more of an homage?
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on June 14, 2012, 04:31:18 am ---video game market is filled with cookie cutter garbage now
they make what sells and not awesome/fun games.
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This has been the case since the 1980's. They'll be something innovative, followed by a ton of copy-cats. The industry crashed about 30 years ago because of this.
However, the crap tends to be forgotten and the good stuff stays remembered. Which is why it's easy to put on rose-coloured glasses to remember days gone by...
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 15, 2012, 04:41:43 pm ---Game-wise....well, that's just it, it shouldn't be a game. It should be like a dream, where you might know it's not 'real', but it's real. Actually, you can do this every night when you sleep. Oh, but you can play retro games in your dreams. Sometimes I do.
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Sounds to me like you're less about the video games and more about the recreational narcotics. :P
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