Xilo Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I've been pretty disinterested in gaming for past few years and instead played MMOs. The ones getting released just didn't interest me like they used to be. Though the games starting to come out on PS3 have got me really interested again, especially this next quarter. My bank account is going to cry... I just finally finished my 1st game after several years of strictly playing online games. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-KJ Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I also lost that spark in gaming. I think it's a combination of my age and because I was a console gamer and we always had variety until the current gen (where the typical PC games pretty much migrated over). I am more of a lighthearted gamer; I enjoyed FPS games as well, but I especially enjoyed games like Psychonauts, Sly Cooper, Rachet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Crash Bandicoot, SSX, etc. Now flipping through the game magazine pages all I really see are space marines, FPS games, etc. There are some unique games but they don't really appeal to me. Fable II and Oblivion are probably the most fun I've had on the XBOX 360. Crackdown was quite fun as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lothodon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Try this on for size, I'm in my forty's and I miss old games too....but MUCH older than what you've all mentioned. Try Ultima or Alternate Reality for the Atari Home Computers. Some of the games in the Ultima series took 50+ hours to finish and were fun the whole way through. Wizardry for the Apple ][ was just as amazing, and mostly text. If your already jaded by the little change you've had to deal with, I suggest getting a different hobby all together, games are going to get shorter and easier to appeal to the masses even more in the future. Or as suggested, get Demon's Souls and get your but wooped like an old school gamer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamminium Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 22 years old. Still a Contra and Super Mario fan. But then again, I'm pretty much in touch with my inner child. I mean I still laugh at Tom and Jerry's gags. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Try this on for size, I'm in my forty's and I miss old games too....but MUCH older than what you've all mentioned. Try Ultima or Alternate Reality for the Atari Home Computers. Some of the games in the Ultima series took 50+ hours to finish and were fun the whole way through.Wizardry for the Apple ][ was just as amazing, and mostly text. If your already jaded by the little change you've had to deal with, I suggest getting a different hobby all together, games are going to get shorter and easier to appeal to the masses even more in the future. Or as suggested, get Demon's Souls and get your but wooped like an old school gamer! well your about the age that would put you were we are now but for the "tennis for two" video game that was created in 1958 and was played on an oscilloscope lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lothodon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 well your about the age that would put you were we are now but for the "tennis for two" video game that was created in 1958 and was played on an oscilloscope lol sadly that's not too far off. my father did bring home pong from sears when i was young. boy was that living! funny though, i'm still enjoying far too many video games without issue. just played through uncharted 2 twice and i'm about half way through brutal legend. if you don't expect too much and just take games for what they are (a time waste) then it's easier to accept the changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiRox Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I miss it too, I'm 22 (23 tomorrow WOOT!) i feel the same way. I first got a Sega Master System 2 in 1992 x-mas, and I guess from then on I just loved playing games. I played Doom 95 and Wolfenstein 3D on PC shareware, classics! Once I got my own Playstation in 1999 (I used to share one with my brothers before then, lame), I was constantly playing crash and spyro, I'd spend very long hours playing them and never get bored. The newer Crash's and Sypro's aren't as good and I really miss that. (I'll give an exception to Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon - totally loved it) I see what you mean about older games, every now and then I whip out my old PS and play CTR or Spyro's just to bring back the memories :) PS. congrats on the pregnancy, btw, you should get your son/daughter to grow up playing the older games first :) install like commander keen and doom on the PC. lol :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCordRm Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I "grew up" playing games which required me to buy grid paper to layout my own maps, or taking my own notes on "Power words" and so forth. Playing games like Zork, or the Ultima series. Somewhere along the way I've gotten caught up in the visual effects and sort of lost touch with actually getting into the game itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJD Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I'm 22 and feel the exact same way, loved the good old days of the SNES, NES and games like Space Invaders. Hell even Duke Nukem 3D was more fun then the current FPS games. Games these days have become way to complicated. And no i don't me difficult, they just put way to much crap in it, every freaking game made these days is basically an rpg where you have to unlock items to be able to move on. It has nothing to do with skill anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSolstice Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Perhaps it might be a bit of an overstatement to say all modern games are bad simply due to the nostalgia of classics. Remember, what you call modern now will be our children and grand-children's classics in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Perhaps it might be a bit of an overstatement to say all modern games are bad simply due to the nostalgia of classics. Remember, what you call modern now will be our children and grand-children's classics in the future. i think that things will happen in cycles... human ingenuity can only go so far, once the current generation of children are bored with the way games are today (fps, space marines, more brown) , things would revert to having some quality of the classic games (something we cant seem to pinpoint) , but with future technology... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidSolstice Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Yet somehow, I feel as though the games that are made nowadays can be emotionally engrossing and very fast and fierce at the same time (Mass Effect). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevyordeath Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Games are changing but it's all smoke and mirrors to how you originally felt growing up with first experiences of amazement and awe of seeing groundbreakers like, 'Doom'. Today's games and today's youth are experiencing what we felt 10-15 ago.Think about it. Lego hasn't changed but I'm sure if you sat down today and played with Lego, you wouldn't have the same type of experience as you once had as a child. Well said. I remember spending hours and hours playing Wolfenstien, Doom, Fallout, Starcraft, Diablo. Those games were great. But I must admit I love todays games too. Mass Effect is one of the best RPGs I think I've ever played, and Dragon Age is amazing. I've been having a blast playing Assassins Creed 2. I don't think I'd want to go back to the old games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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