Anyone getting tired of todays video games?
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Yeh those darn hackers! :-D
I have absolutely NO problem with the hacker who spent his time devising the patch, the aimbot, or whatever intellectual nicety they came up with! That is innovative behavior and I would be totally hypocritical to disparage that WORK. What I DO have a problem with is when little Johnny or Suzie, who got the hack from a torrent, is immediately able to blow my head off as I WASD myself purple! The little Johnny’s and Suzie’s of the world need to be put back inside of the fences! Perhaps the solution resides in capitalism! Perhaps the Hacker should present their work to the publisher and be PAID to NOT release the work! Yes, I do like my pie with a little sky on the side! :-D
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First there was Space War, Galaga, Crazy Climber, TRON, and Luna Lander. Then there was the original Tomb Raider, original Sim City, original Mech Warrior, and FF7. Hmmm, apart from FF7 it was always the original version of a game that was great, not the later versions. I guess that tends to support the original assertion.
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I am 19 so a lot of the games on the market i.e. "Medal Of Honour 2010" is aimed at my age group however... I think most games today (console and pc) just tend to annoy me , for example the "Call Of Duty" series: *Since Call of Duty Treyarch Series it went down hill, only the engine is updated but each increment game tends to become even more dumbed down (crosshair gets bigger, less recoil on guns, easier AI, infact by COD MW2 they removed the "Infinite spawning AI" completly)... *Graphics improve for mostly useless (my opinion) factors such as huge explosion effects that may had taken a month or so to direct when they could had improved in game bugs or just made it more authentic? *Large focus on multi player (actually CODMW2's multi player lobby's and such were very good apart from no dedicated servers!) tends to make allot of money for game developers , so much that they "glorify" endless 1990's death match style games to "reward" the player with game mechanic changing perks (such as better weapons) *The "Arcade" feel increases throughout... *I get 12 year old's shout verbal abuse at me for defeating them! (there is no more honour :( ) Other games such as GTAIV and even some modern racing games PGR4 are nothing new any-more, just improved eye candy but the game play is the same as before and in many cases (such with GTAIV) gets dumbed down and focuses on making it as linear and mainstream as possible! Sure I may had enjoyed these spoken games four 3or more hours but many take them to a new level of "game addiction"... And because of it more and more garbage games are released on the market and nothing really exciting is coming out either - I feel doomed! Just to show that I am not some fan boy having a rant, the game "Brink" coming out soon looks good, but I can guarantee absolutely no new content from it. I watched some videos of it and saw a feature that allows you to do some impressive "environmental interactive" abilities such as "Jump over a trap" or "slide under some obstacle" - Hasn't "Mirrors Edge" and other games owned this already? I now focus on "Indy" games such as "Defence Grid" and "Briad" as they offer something "new". :P
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I am 19 so a lot of the games on the market i.e. "Medal Of Honour 2010" is aimed at my age group however... I think most games today (console and pc) just tend to annoy me , for example the "Call Of Duty" series: *Since Call of Duty Treyarch Series it went down hill, only the engine is updated but each increment game tends to become even more dumbed down (crosshair gets bigger, less recoil on guns, easier AI, infact by COD MW2 they removed the "Infinite spawning AI" completly)... *Graphics improve for mostly useless (my opinion) factors such as huge explosion effects that may had taken a month or so to direct when they could had improved in game bugs or just made it more authentic? *Large focus on multi player (actually CODMW2's multi player lobby's and such were very good apart from no dedicated servers!) tends to make allot of money for game developers , so much that they "glorify" endless 1990's death match style games to "reward" the player with game mechanic changing perks (such as better weapons) *The "Arcade" feel increases throughout... *I get 12 year old's shout verbal abuse at me for defeating them! (there is no more honour :( ) Other games such as GTAIV and even some modern racing games PGR4 are nothing new any-more, just improved eye candy but the game play is the same as before and in many cases (such with GTAIV) gets dumbed down and focuses on making it as linear and mainstream as possible! Sure I may had enjoyed these spoken games four 3or more hours but many take them to a new level of "game addiction"... And because of it more and more garbage games are released on the market and nothing really exciting is coming out either - I feel doomed! Just to show that I am not some fan boy having a rant, the game "Brink" coming out soon looks good, but I can guarantee absolutely no new content from it. I watched some videos of it and saw a feature that allows you to do some impressive "environmental interactive" abilities such as "Jump over a trap" or "slide under some obstacle" - Hasn't "Mirrors Edge" and other games owned this already? I now focus on "Indy" games such as "Defence Grid" and "Briad" as they offer something "new". :P
The problem today is that gaming is being treated more like bloody hollywood. So little time is spent on the plot, the gaming strategy... more on flashy fluff. Thank god we have heroes like Chris Jones from www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk The days of the good old point and click adventure games are not over! :D Who here doesn't remember enjoying Monkey island and Leisure suite Larry? Oh well... as long as the game producers are making money, why would they change?
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Many, many years ago a good friend and I had a hilarious afternoon on his old Commodore or Atari or something (I forget exactly what it was). It was a stupid little game where you had blocky biplanes and a barn in the middle of the screen. There were a few clouds too. The planes started at opposite ends of the screen and you took off - pull back too quickly and you flipped over, too slow and you crashed into the barn. Then you had a dogfight in the clouds. The graphics were crap - but we played for hours, pissing ourselves laughing (we weren't drunk!). It was brilliant in its infantile simplicity. I've never seen another computer game since that could reduce me to tears of laughter...!
Are you talking about Blue Max? What an awesome game! As someone on the wrong side of his 30's, it's nice to see a 19 year old who has realised that a lot of the modern video game industry is just milking as much money from consumers as possible. But I would urge people to look beyond the block busters, games like World Of Goo, Geometry Wars, Trials HD, Osmosis are modern games which I think are just as good as Elite, Rocket Ranger, etc. of the 80's and 90's.
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It's true, some of those games were good. I have an original arcade Space Invaders. Any of you who have played Space Invaders are probably aware of the UFO strategy, whereby you count your laser shots to obtain maximum points on each UFO hit (300 is the max). I lay down the challenge to anyone here to deduce the UFO point algorithm by hitting the UFO with each laser shot in order. i.e. hit a UFO with your first laser shot, hit the next UFO with your second laser shot, etc. (Do not hit any invaders with any shot). It's very difficult. I've done it. You are allowed to cheat by restarting at any time. e.g. Once you've figured out the value of the first and second shots, if you hit an invader with your third shot, you can restart the game and waste your first 2 shots (or hit invaders with them) to quickly get to the third shot. Report back once you figure out the UFO point scheme, and can reverse engineer the code in any language of your choice (hint: use a hash table for the shot values.) :-) I bring this up partly to brag, and partly to agree with the OP that it's more interesting to put less time into making explosions and more time into mind-challenging game play.
22 shots, hit saucer = 300 points 14 shots, hit saucer = 300 points 14 shots etc... We used to say that if you didn't get your extra life on the first level, don't bother.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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I am 19 so a lot of the games on the market i.e. "Medal Of Honour 2010" is aimed at my age group however... I think most games today (console and pc) just tend to annoy me , for example the "Call Of Duty" series: *Since Call of Duty Treyarch Series it went down hill, only the engine is updated but each increment game tends to become even more dumbed down (crosshair gets bigger, less recoil on guns, easier AI, infact by COD MW2 they removed the "Infinite spawning AI" completly)... *Graphics improve for mostly useless (my opinion) factors such as huge explosion effects that may had taken a month or so to direct when they could had improved in game bugs or just made it more authentic? *Large focus on multi player (actually CODMW2's multi player lobby's and such were very good apart from no dedicated servers!) tends to make allot of money for game developers , so much that they "glorify" endless 1990's death match style games to "reward" the player with game mechanic changing perks (such as better weapons) *The "Arcade" feel increases throughout... *I get 12 year old's shout verbal abuse at me for defeating them! (there is no more honour :( ) Other games such as GTAIV and even some modern racing games PGR4 are nothing new any-more, just improved eye candy but the game play is the same as before and in many cases (such with GTAIV) gets dumbed down and focuses on making it as linear and mainstream as possible! Sure I may had enjoyed these spoken games four 3or more hours but many take them to a new level of "game addiction"... And because of it more and more garbage games are released on the market and nothing really exciting is coming out either - I feel doomed! Just to show that I am not some fan boy having a rant, the game "Brink" coming out soon looks good, but I can guarantee absolutely no new content from it. I watched some videos of it and saw a feature that allows you to do some impressive "environmental interactive" abilities such as "Jump over a trap" or "slide under some obstacle" - Hasn't "Mirrors Edge" and other games owned this already? I now focus on "Indy" games such as "Defence Grid" and "Briad" as they offer something "new". :P
Hello venomation Welcome to the reality! You have played the games and are bored. It's a good thing. I went the same route years ago. I was sitting in front of my AMIGA (you probalby have never seen such a machine), besides me a bunch of 31/2" floppys, and wondering "What am I spending my time with?????". You heard the names of the games from the other comments in this thread. Go out, rent a garage to make music, found your own company or something and use your intellect to create your future. Don't waste your youth with games. I know I sound like your father (which I could be when looking only at my age). Don't fear the world without games. It's not boring. Regards zuiopl
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I am 19 so a lot of the games on the market i.e. "Medal Of Honour 2010" is aimed at my age group however... I think most games today (console and pc) just tend to annoy me , for example the "Call Of Duty" series: *Since Call of Duty Treyarch Series it went down hill, only the engine is updated but each increment game tends to become even more dumbed down (crosshair gets bigger, less recoil on guns, easier AI, infact by COD MW2 they removed the "Infinite spawning AI" completly)... *Graphics improve for mostly useless (my opinion) factors such as huge explosion effects that may had taken a month or so to direct when they could had improved in game bugs or just made it more authentic? *Large focus on multi player (actually CODMW2's multi player lobby's and such were very good apart from no dedicated servers!) tends to make allot of money for game developers , so much that they "glorify" endless 1990's death match style games to "reward" the player with game mechanic changing perks (such as better weapons) *The "Arcade" feel increases throughout... *I get 12 year old's shout verbal abuse at me for defeating them! (there is no more honour :( ) Other games such as GTAIV and even some modern racing games PGR4 are nothing new any-more, just improved eye candy but the game play is the same as before and in many cases (such with GTAIV) gets dumbed down and focuses on making it as linear and mainstream as possible! Sure I may had enjoyed these spoken games four 3or more hours but many take them to a new level of "game addiction"... And because of it more and more garbage games are released on the market and nothing really exciting is coming out either - I feel doomed! Just to show that I am not some fan boy having a rant, the game "Brink" coming out soon looks good, but I can guarantee absolutely no new content from it. I watched some videos of it and saw a feature that allows you to do some impressive "environmental interactive" abilities such as "Jump over a trap" or "slide under some obstacle" - Hasn't "Mirrors Edge" and other games owned this already? I now focus on "Indy" games such as "Defence Grid" and "Briad" as they offer something "new". :P
I got tired of a lot of games some years ago. Doom was okay for ten minutes but never held any long term fascination, most games today are simply improved versions. My tip is get a Wii. Nintendo appear to have worked out that many polygons do not a good game make, everything is much more basic but the time has clearly been spent on gameplay. online Mario Kart just keeps me coming back.
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22 shots, hit saucer = 300 points 14 shots, hit saucer = 300 points 14 shots etc... We used to say that if you didn't get your extra life on the first level, don't bother.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
That's true, but now fill in the values for shots 1-21 :-) The first 6 are real killers, because you have to somehow thread your shot up through the entire invader matrix. Anyway, it's a hashtable with 14 values in it that was intended to appear random, because who would think it was related to the number of shots you've taken?
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About 15 years ago I bought real Galaxians (V2), Astroids and Pengo. Remember the challange of getting as close to 99999 on astroids without rolling over to zero? You had to crash your ships into the astroids knowing how many points you would get for each ship....