| LadyJasmine said: I question this I know a lot of people who still play Starcraft or Age of Empires 2 and other old PC games. I think people like those old games even with bad graphics as they had better mechanics and were easier to play. A lot of PC games are just to advanced and likely to graphics intensive for most people to play now. |
It's also very comfortable to replay familiar games over and over. Knowing the game inside out and building up a long reportoire with a game is very hard to replace. When I was in my teenage years I played Civilization to death, as well as Dune 2. I modded the original civilization by adjusting the runtime library for endless variation and also wrote a map editor for Dune 2 for the same purpose. Yet are those the best strategy games ever? I never got into civilization's sequels as much as the original, but ask anyone know which is the best version and I doubt the first one would be it.
Same with half-life death match. That can never be replaced for me as we played it for years in office lan network with custom maps, even a home made map of the office we were working in. Online multiplayer can never touch that.
Familiarity is a strong factor that influences what new games people like as well. Familiar settings and control schemes are much easier to get into than new IPs. We're mostly creatures of habit, new things take effort and willingness to step out of our comfort zone. There's nothing wrong with that. It's all about fun, and it took a lot of trial and error to find those few games you're comfortable with. Any new game you try will still be hit and miss, more and more miss as the library of your favorites grows.
