elfuego wrote on 05.06.09 at 23:00:41:


LOL I think you hit it right on with that, we're all getting old. 

Well... maybe not old but many of us have been around to see the evolution of gaming (we're on a forums dedicated to a company that's almost 10 yrs dead after all). I work as a lvl IV Help Desk tech, middle man with working with the network guys (helping out where I can) and the Help Desk team. There are two guys there that have never worked with DOS, Win 3.1 and one hasn't even touched Win 98.

With us seeing what games used to be and what they are now, we've watched it grow, get better and lately the bad. With EA making multi-million dollar deals to get games on the shelves , it has all become about money.

It was based off of money before, don't get me wrong, you still needed cash to pay for the food you ate but that wasn't the complete focus that it is today. There wasn't a deep seated need to port everything from one plat form to the next for maximum exposure.

With having games cross different platforms and with certain platforms having a limited amount of space to hold data, they try to make it look as good as possible with minimal story line with an exception to few. With having graphics that look as good as they do, it takes more time to code and with that more money so story lines have dropped, the whole scale of the games have dropped.

The Ultima series or even way back, Might and Magic used to take months to complete now everything is based on hours or days, not weeks or months. Even Baulders Gate you weren't going to get through in a week. I don't know... just my take on the whole thing.

Thought this little article was rather fitting being that we were just talking about how games are more about money now.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/140003

Some of these games have pulled in 350 million US$ or more. This, I'm afraid, is why we have the games that we do. Mass market everything.

Nah, haven't gotten into that series at all.

Well, send me your mailing address and it's yours (beware though this might be a german edition - language etc. - , not sure if you can switch languages)

Hello all. I'm new here and... this thread explains exactly what brought me up here

(to be noticed, my current rig is a C2D E8400 with a Radeon 4850, what's quite fair ATM but I only use it for Race Driver Grid or NFS Pro Street)

I got bored of all those "nice-graphic-0-fun" games and I decided to put back in service an old P166 (I just lacked a 3DFx TBH) as I wanted to play again the games that thrilled me 12 years ago.

What are those games? Some are now unknown:
- Sea Legends
- Theme Park
- POD
- Megarace 2
- F1 Racing Simulation
- F22 ADF
- Destruction Derby 2
- Transport Tycoon (the original one, not OTTD or TTDLX)
- Duke Nukem 3D
- GLQuake
- NFS2
- Dungeon Keeper 1&2
- and some others I won't name because the list is wide!

I think that the current issue with gaming is that they put all in graphics/realism but do not think about the true fun.

I agree with everything except the new Wolfenstein...

This game COULD have been so much more, especially with Raven Soft. at the helm.

Instead it just typifies most modern releases - lots of spangly graphics and a total lack of gameplay.

It sucked pretty fierce...

paulpsomiadis wrote on 11.10.09 at 19:21:26:


I agree 100%   

About the single player games though. Half life and Unreal really started to improve on single player. I love playing Quake, but from I remember everyone said single player quake wasnt any good. Maybe that was due to having next to no story. I think thats why I liked bioshock. Because of the story/setting. But, Bioshock was strictly a single player game.

I enjoy playing bad company on the 360. But to be honest, Ive only played through 1 Single player level. Multiplayer is ALOT of fun.

I'm STILL enjoying Fallout 3 btw. Man, I love that game.