Gaming frustration

[Jax]

I haven't touched a VG since early spring. They all just feel like timewasters and rat races to me now. The sentiment has been creeping in over the last 5 years. There just seems to be very little substance in them. HL2 had impressive atmosphere, but has some obnoxious hangup where I can't re-install it because of Steam not remembering my account. Oh well. Better things to do anyway.

VG ?

 

[CaptainStoner]

^ video game, sorry

 

[Jax]

^ video game, sorry

When you said rat races, I thought you were on about some racing title

 

[Jim Steele]

Better things to do anyway.

What, like telling people on a Star Trek message board that you have better things to do?

 

[Jax]

Better things to do anyway.

What, like telling people on a Star Trek message board that you have better things to do?

What else would there be.

 

[Lindley]

I'm feeling similar, honestly. I'll play the occasional game still, but it's nothing like the way I used to be. They just don't have the appeal they once did.

 

[Jim Steele]

Games are better now than they have ever been in the history of the medium.

 

[Lindley]

I'll admit I'm not up on all the latest stuff, but are you seriously claiming there's a game better than Deus Ex out there somewhere?

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I had one today, in fact: Metal Gear Solid 2. I was timing the stupid thing. It made me sit through a half-hour long cutscene! That's inexcusable.

 

[Skywalker]

I had one today, in fact: Metal Gear Solid 2. I was timing the stupid thing. It made me sit through a half-hour long cutscene! That's inexcusable.

I didn't exactly time it, but I'm pretty sure there was a string of cutscenes in MGS4 that lasted around forty-five minutes. I mean, it was an entertaining movie and all, but damn.

 

[Jim Steele]

I'll admit I'm not up on all the latest stuff, but are you seriously claiming there's a game better than Deus Ex out there somewhere?

I personally find Mass Effect and Fallout 3 to be more appealing on the action RPG front, especially in terms of narrative. Actually, I've always thought Deus Ex to be a decent title that just doesn't live up to the legendary status its biggest fans bestow upon it (not that it's unique in that regard).

My point is, the medium is evolving. Game design is going to new places all the time, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but the general trajectory is up as far as I'm concerned.

And y'know what? If anyone disagrees, if anyone dismisses modern games automatically as inferior to the shite they remember from yesteryear? More fool them, they're the ones missing out.

 

[gh4chiefs]

I'm annoyed by any game that doesn't allow saving at any point. I'm especially amazed at how many PSP games only allow saving after long missions (Ace Combat X, for example) given that the nature of portable gaming is that you're going to be playing in short spurts.

Amen. My single biggest complaint about the video game industry in general.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I'll admit I'm not up on all the latest stuff, but are you seriously claiming there's a game better than Deus Ex out there somewhere?

I personally find Mass Effect and Fallout 3 to be more appealing on the action RPG front, especially in terms of narrative. Actually, I've always thought Deus Ex to be a decent title that just doesn't live up to the legendary status its biggest fans bestow upon it (not that it's unique in that regard).

My point is, the medium is evolving. Game design is going to new places all the time, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but the general trajectory is up as far as I'm concerned.

And y'know what? If anyone disagrees, if anyone dismisses modern games automatically as inferior to the shite they remember from yesteryear? More fool them, they're the ones missing out.

I absolutely agree with you. Not that there's not a place for classics (I still break out the NES and SNES stuff often), but look at games like the original Final Fantasy, Metroid, or Zelda games. Can anyone honestly say that these are better games than later installments like Final Fantasy X, Metroid Prime, or Ocarina of Time? The original games are paper thin, archaic, and tedious in comparison to the games of today.

 

[Lindley]

I don't know....I recently bought Command and Conquer: The First Decade, and the first few games of the series still hold up pretty well. Some of the control decisions bug me a bit, but in terms of gameplay, not a whole lot is different from C&C 3. Only the graphics have really changed.

 

[TheBrew]

I would still say that overall, games are better than they used to be. An 'okay game' by today's standards would be amazing 10 years ago.

 

[Lindley]

That's true enough.