Failed Gaming Concepts/Ideas That You Wish Were Successful

[mjk45]

d21lewis said:

You know, I kinda wish every concept would have succeeded. I'm not too jazzed about where we are now. The majority want "more power.", "higher resolution.", "better framerate." but that's so boring to me. Just a better performing version of what we already had.

I'm a fan of the days when each generation brought something new and unique as well as a little improvement in graphics. Analog controls, motion controls, online gaming, multi-media functions, two screens, mode 7, 3D gaming, new controllers, etc.

We let a vocal minority convince us that performance was all that matters and that's all we got. That's why I gravitate towards VR and the Switch, I appreciate what we've gotten but many of us would never have known or cared. Now we're buying new TVs and sound equipment to say "Yeah. I can see the difference. It's a little smoother. It sounds a little better." When all that mattered was the experience. We've been molded into to audiophiles and graphics whores.

When we get our "next gen games" how many of them will make us feel emotions that we couldn't feel on 8th gen hardware? Or even 7th gen hardware? Once that "wow" factor wears off, what new gameplay options will we have?

Sorry. Got off on a rant, there.

take your blood pressure meds and wipe the spittle from your face I hear you, we get games that have to be freeze framed, blown up and a pointer used to show us what we're supposed to be looking at, while in the real world we will be to busy trying to play and move through the damn game to notice, stuff like draw in, tiny numbers of unique npc's, view distances etc while showing some improvement it is limited in comparison to improvements made in gaming graphics.

compare it to a Christmas dinner where there's only so much seating with adults at the main table and the children along with a certain shady uncle sitting on child seating at the small table, except in the computer version it's the good looking that sit at the big table and the next time when they invest in an extension table the same people's ever growing arses fill the extra space. so the rest are still stuck but we also know what table has the real fun.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 10 January 2022