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Why does everyone get so obsessive with them?

I don't mind Motostorm although half an hour once per week is more than enough but so far I have failed to be greatly entertained by any of the other games that I have played in years.

Drake's Fortune - Laura Croft without the view.
Resistance and Blacksite - men with guns shoot stuff - Yawn - just as dull as Halo.

Is it me or has gaming hardly changed in years and all they are doing is rehashing the same stuff with better graphics?
 
I don't need another game console but you may be right.

The PS3 is brilliant for BluRay movies and it also scales downloaded avi movies really really well onto my plasma screen.
 
They were better in my day, I had an N64, which had about 20 good games in a sea of complete shite. I owned all the good ones, ah those were the days.
 
Wibble said:
Why does everyone get so obsessive with them?

I don't mind Motostorm although half an hour once per week is more than enough but so far I have failed to be greatly entertained by any of the other games that I have played in years.

Drake's Fortune - Laura Croft without the view.
Resistance and Blacksite - men with guns shoot stuff - Yawn - just as dull as Halo.

Is it me or has gaming hardly changed in years and all they are doing is rehashing the same stuff with better graphics?
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I think the problem is more with the genres you're playing rather than games as a whole..
screw the sci-fi/fantasy/adventure bullshit and get with some real world stuff..

Try out Football sims, and some racing games, and if you really want first person shooters, I'd suggest you give Call of Duty 4 a try.
Then you'll really see where the obsessiveness in gaming comes from, particularly online gaming.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
They were better in my day, I had an N64, which had about 20 good games in a sea of complete shite. I owned all the good ones, ah those were the days.
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I agree the older games were better for playability - I haven't been particularly excited about any video game since Street Fighter II on the Super Nintendo
 
Wibble said:
Is it me or has gaming hardly changed in years and all they are doing is rehashing the same stuff with better graphics?
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Isn't that the same with any complex entertainment media, especially film? There are at the end of the day only so many genres you can have, you are at the end of the day just changing the story, and that is what a lot of games do, as do movies. To be fair however, with the processing power available today, imeersion can be increased other than increasing the fidelity of the image and sound, but many do not do that, it's not the focus because development nowdays simply cost oo much money, so the majority stick with the tried and tested formulas that are know to sell well. Doing something different is highly risky, and can only really be risked by the first party developers. Even they however still have a bottom line. Maybe you should take a look at titles such as Afrika, Aquanaughts Holiday (although they are not scheduled for release outside of Japan) or Flower and Flow, or more mainstream such as LBP, PJ Eden, Echochrome, etc.
 
roodboy said:
I agree the older games were better for playability - I haven't been particularly excited about any video game since Street Fighter II on the Super Nintendo
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I don't think that playability has got any worse, I think that's selective nostaligic memory on the part of most. Maybe you have simply gone into the phase that I found myself in when I was in my early 20s - I lost all interest in computer games in the sense of playing them, and didn't become interested again until I was in my early 30s. I was a serious hardcore gamer, but after playing thousands of the things over almost a 15 period, it all became rather samey.
 
Wibble said:
Why does everyone get so obsessive with them?

I don't mind Motostorm although half an hour once per week is more than enough but so far I have failed to be greatly entertained by any of the other games that I have played in years.

Drake's Fortune - Laura Croft without the view.
Resistance and Blacksite - men with guns shoot stuff - Yawn - just as dull as Halo.

Is it me or has gaming hardly changed in years and all they are doing is rehashing the same stuff with better graphics?
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I think the most likely reason is that you're out-growing them.

The games I used to play through the night, about a decade ago, would look absolutely shite these days. Conversely, contemporary games that I play for an hour or so and think "meh" would have blown my tiny mind, when I was in my late teens, early 20s.

One of life's many ironies. When you are finally old enough to buy whatever game/console you want - without worrying about the cost - you're too old to enjoy them.
 
WeasteDevil said:
I don't think that playability has got any worse, I think that's selective nostaligic memory on the part of most. Maybe you have simply gone into the phase that I found myself in when I was in my early 20s - I lost all interest in computer games in the sense of playing them, and didn't become interested again until I was in my early 30s. I was a serious hardcore gamer, but after playing thousands of the things over almost a 15 period, it all became rather samey.
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This may well be true - I used to be a hardcore gamer in my youth, spent hours everyday with video games and buying all the magazines to read the reviews etc. I even went on TV (Gamesmaster) to prove my game playing skills! The peak for me was the SNES vs Megadrive era and then I started to lose interest after that.

However, I do think that all the advancements in the power of games machines has meant that sometimes there is less focus on the playability and too much on the graphics, sound etc.
 
Same. I have not used my XBOX for 3 months now.
Played GTA4 for only 4days, got bored. COD4 was class, may start it again.
 
Something else about this generation is that it's still relatively immature, and was also the first that had a shift of display technology to go with it. Many of the early adopters went for it because they wanted to see something in high definition, and I think that's where the focus was, giving them what they wanted. As it matures, I think we will see a shift away from that as a prime focus.
 
I think I'm slightly bored of them now and its not like I'm an old man who used to play on his (insert very old console here).

I used to play on the PC from Lemmings, Doom, GP2 to Max Payne or Halo and so on until like a few years ago. Now I only really bother playing the odd big appealing games like GTA. The only kinda' games I play longevity wise is football / racing games or like AoG / Red Alert 2 otherwise I won't bother all that much.

I look around for the PS3 right now and whilst there are good games out there they just don't appeal to me enough to get them. I'll play some for 2 seconds and just leave it.

Then again maybe I've just grown out of it all.
 
ZIDANE said:
I think I'm slightly bored of them now and its not like I'm an old man who used to play on his (insert very old console here).

I used to play on the PC from Lemmings, Doom, GP2 to Max Payne or Halo and so on until like a few years ago. Now I only really bother playing the odd big appealing games like GTA. The only kinda' games I play longevity wise is football / racing games or like AoG / Red Alert 2 otherwise I won't bother all that much.

I look around for the PS3 right now and whilst there are good games out there they just don't appeal to me enough to get them. I'll play some for 2 seconds and just leave it.

Then again maybe I've just grown out of it all.
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Sounds ever so much like me in even the type of games you're on about..
It was during the late 90s that I was a really really hardcore gamer on the PC, and that was around the time I was only about 13/14/15.

Now I'm just into footy games, that too only when I get time...
 
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