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Over 40 and less into new games?
danny_galaga:
See, I skipped a HUGE chunk of gamings development. The hey-day was early 80's for me. Then somehow it all passed me by- NES SMS SNES etc. I'd occasionally play a PS at a friends place but it didn't gel with me, mostly because they tended to play racing games and I sucked at them. But this century, I got a taste for all I had missed and now I play more complicated games than I ever did when I was younger. I've almost (but not quite) gone from Galaxian to Call of Duty with almost nothing in between! I've collected some of the games I missed out on though...
I do love to immersion of some of these modern games. Ones I get sucked into are Monster Hunter on the Wii and Steel Battalion on xbox.
Having said that, I do enjoy a quick blast on the MAME cab. there's almost a spiritual connection with Galaxian (",)
Louis Tully:
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jennifer:
At the risk of dating myself, I will say that Jen has seen it all...Pong, handheld football, whatever,but then came the concept of Mame, I waited
for years, waited with visions of great things to come, To me it never did happen, And feel a bit letdown....For me the original games were losing
there magic the more I learned about how they worked, It became a job, Everything was a blur.... Today I very rarley ever play a game
but still love the art, and working on them.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: jennifer on August 29, 2012, 09:00:03 am ---...For me the original games were losing
there magic the more I learned about how they worked, It became a job...
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I was thinking about this a little while ago, having hit a certain rut in playing games. So I took about a month off - not so much intentionally, but because I had plenty of other things I was doing and wanted to do, and so just stopped thinking about playing games. I have the luxury of space and all to leave something alone in a part of the house for a long spell and not need to get rid of it because it isn't being used.
Cynicaster:
Yeah, I’ve kind of lost faith in new games. After playing a few dull graphics wank-off type games like Uncharted and God of War back to back, I found I just wanted the games to end. Then, I realized how silly it was for me to continue playing if I wasn’t having any fun. So, I have a bunch of games that I started but never finished. With no score to shoot for and no merit system to measure my performance, I find the experience completely pointless. And no, “trophies” and “achievements” do not a merit system make.
I’ve been wanting to give the PS3 another shot—I even picked up a few games used a month or so ago—but I just can’t muster the motivation to play them.
So now I play my MAME cabinet pretty much exclusively. So many of those classic games are just magical to me because they come from a time when you couldn’t hide a $hitty game behind HD graphics. First and foremost, the designers had to come up with a fun idea and implement it using the meager hardware they had available. If they failed at the “fun” part, they weren’t able to fool anybody.
As for iOS games and the like, personally, as a lot, I think they’re the worst of the worst in the history of gaming. Mind you, I’m not talking about word games and Mahjong type stuff—the mobile devices do those quite well—I’m talking about video games. I’ve heard those platforms being referred to as the “new Atari 2600” in that they largely offer basic pick up and play type games, many of which even include scoring systems (gasp!). That’s great, but where they fail is with the horrifying experience of touchscreen controls. They look and sound great, but graphics and sound can’t save a game that I find unplayable. I’d rather play Sorcerer on the Atari 2600 than Angry Birds or Temple Run—both games blow, but at least I’d have a controller in my hand for the latter.
As for reboots of classics, more often than not, I don’t see why it’s necessary. I mean, how many different iterations have we seen of Asteroids through the years, where they try to make “3D” effects with shading on the rocks, etc. Who cares! The original cannot be topped, IMO. And I’m not just saying that out of nostalgia, because I never played the original as a kid.
There are rare exceptions. Pac-Man Championship Edition DX on PS3 might be one of my favorite video games of all time. They totally nailed it with that one. It’s just enough like Pac-Man to not feel like shameless name-whoring, and it’s just original enough to be a whole new experience.