Aging With Games: the Past Meets the Present

[vlad321]

Severance said:

vlad321 said:

I have been playing since early-ish 90s and not only do older games seem better than current ones, but even when I play them they seem to be better. I think the earliest game that I still enjoy thoroughly and seriously is XCOM and that was in 92 (or something like that). HL1 doesn't hold a candle to some of today's games, but HL2 is still a better single player every time I play it than anything in the past 5 years (except for Metro 2033, holy shit that game is fucking amazing).

the thing is, your favorite genre isn't much popular , i am not talking about the run and gun shooters i am talking about the puzzle based adventure shooters

JRPG fans feel the same way as you, since JRPGs aren't as popular as say last gen or the gen before it.

That can't be true either, because Serious Sam and Painkiller are still a lt more fun to play through than say Gears of War. Because you kno what? An assault rifle with a chainsaw is a PUSSY compared to a gun that shoots ninja stars AND lightning. It's just that shooters are half-assed shoot-em-up like Serious Sam/UT/Quake/Painkiller  but are too afraid to go all the way (probably cause a controller can't handle all the way too well) and half-assed "strategy" like Delta Force, but people would be too bored to play that since DF is actually kind of hard. So you end up with half-assed games which suck compared to the ones from 5-10 years ago.

As for WRPGs, playing through Baldur's Gate 2 and DIablo 2 is far more entertaining than playing through Dragon Age (and I think DA isn't half bad if you remember) and Fable.

Now the genre that seems to have evolved the most are the platformers, and while I play SMB3 now and again, I like NSMBW a more fun and a better game. Same with MG2 and M64.

 

Basically, some genres have taken 4 steps back, while others have actually improved. Dunno why or how, but only a few games in the past 5 years have kept my attention for more than a few hours in certain genres (also Metro 2033 is fucking amazing!).