Do you have unreasonable standards.
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The characters in Red Dead weren't intelligent in the slightest!MaxPowers666 said:
OT: I'll play a game that's fun. You may ask me to define "fun"; but fuck off.
I think my standards are quite reasonable, for whenever I buy a game, it must do one or more of the following things well:
Visuals: Not "graphics," but what the graphics show. For example, Okami is entirely cel-shaded (save for the neat painting-scroll things that introduce new enemies), which to my understanding is fairly old and not particularly demanding of the developers or the hardware. But it is a beautiful game, you cannot deny. I'm also one of the twelve or so people who bought Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. It's an action RPG with absolutely horrible controls, but it paints one of the most haunting and original tales of survival in a post-apocalypse I've ever seen. Ehh, I'm still an idiot for buying it for $50, but I couldn't find a deal on it anywhere, so I finally gave in.
Gameplay: I'll buy a game if it's fun to play, generally. Prototype has a generic city-scape as its backdrop, so save for the cool designs on the main protagonist's mutant powers the visuals are nothing special. The narrative is a bit silly as well, with your standard "big corporate conspiracy" mixed with "zombie apocalypse," not to mention the disconnect between the protagonist's portrayal as a sympathetic character, despite having been granted super powers and murdering hundreds of innocents every mission. Regardless, Prototype is a blast to play. It's fun to run up buildings and leap hundreds of yards in the air, and there's trainloads of tanks, soldiers, zombies, and screaming civilians to fight.
Narrative: Games that tell a great story or display superb artistry get my attention as well. I was not impressed by the generic sci-fi visuals of Mass Effect, nor was the gameplay that great, with its baroque RPG elements or bland third-person-shooter elements. However, when it comes to storytelling, it's one of the best. Good ol' BioWare made sure of that.
Ideally, I want a game that does all three well, like Bayonetta or No More Heroes, but the better a game does in one area, the more forgivable its other areas are.
Visuals: Not "graphics," but what the graphics show. For example, Okami is entirely cel-shaded (save for the neat painting-scroll things that introduce new enemies), which to my understanding is fairly old and not particularly demanding of the developers or the hardware. But it is a beautiful game, you cannot deny. I'm also one of the twelve or so people who bought Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. It's an action RPG with absolutely horrible controls, but it paints one of the most haunting and original tales of survival in a post-apocalypse I've ever seen. Ehh, I'm still an idiot for buying it for $50, but I couldn't find a deal on it anywhere, so I finally gave in.
Gameplay: I'll buy a game if it's fun to play, generally. Prototype has a generic city-scape as its backdrop, so save for the cool designs on the main protagonist's mutant powers the visuals are nothing special. The narrative is a bit silly as well, with your standard "big corporate conspiracy" mixed with "zombie apocalypse," not to mention the disconnect between the protagonist's portrayal as a sympathetic character, despite having been granted super powers and murdering hundreds of innocents every mission. Regardless, Prototype is a blast to play. It's fun to run up buildings and leap hundreds of yards in the air, and there's trainloads of tanks, soldiers, zombies, and screaming civilians to fight.
Narrative: Games that tell a great story or display superb artistry get my attention as well. I was not impressed by the generic sci-fi visuals of Mass Effect, nor was the gameplay that great, with its baroque RPG elements or bland third-person-shooter elements. However, when it comes to storytelling, it's one of the best. Good ol' BioWare made sure of that.
Ideally, I want a game that does all three well, like Bayonetta or No More Heroes, but the better a game does in one area, the more forgivable its other areas are.
Story is usually what makes me keep my games, i only usually buy and keep games that have a good story with good characters and possible voice acting. Thats why its hard for me to keep games with Multiplayer.
Other than that i guess i'm fine with everything. Oh, i won't play sport games or anything really casual to be honest either. I'm quite fine with sub par graphics most of the time.
Other than that i guess i'm fine with everything. Oh, i won't play sport games or anything really casual to be honest either. I'm quite fine with sub par graphics most of the time.
Oh I have totally unreasonable standards, mostly because I played all those "classic" greatest ever games when they were new. If a new game tries to be similar to one of those and comes up short I can't stand it. It's why I'll never finish Bioshock, it's why the new X-Com will suck, and it's why Deus Ex 3 will probably be loathsome.
What you are calling "casual" were originally called "arcade" and are designed to be fast, fun, and intense. But if you had to shut them off suddenly or didn't have much time to dedicate you didn't lose track of some deep storyline. And deep RPG's can reach the same audience as arcade games. It's just the difference between a 50 hour work week and a 3-day vacation.Mackheath said:
Video games have been big business for over 30 years and draw some hefty dollars. But at the beginning there was a lot more innovation, now there are mostly formulas. You see the same thing repackaged over and over. Moreover, the early games had limited graphics and sound so they had to be fun. Honestly, there are a number of highly cinematic games out now that are beautiful to look at but mediocre to boring in gameplay.
But as far as standards go? I would like my dedicated gaming consoles to have full-fledged games not cut-down ones. For example: There is no reason today's consoles could not run a full version of "Heroes of Might and Magic" yet instead they released "Heroes of Might and Magic Elements" which turned a great strategy game into a mere fighting game. Given the graphics used for Oblivion and Assassin's Creed 2 there is no logical reason to do this. I would like consoles to stop being looked at as "for kids only" and start being treated as the pure gaming machines they are. My computer is for work, my consoles are for games.
My standards depend on what game im buying like if i buy a bioware game i want a good story and character development but if its a hack and slash game i just want good game play
I really don't care about the graphics, but for single-player games I usually need likable characters and some semblance of a story.
This leads to me being unable to play most FPS games on single-player, even games that are supposedly amazing.
So, yes, I have unreasonable standards.
This leads to me being unable to play most FPS games on single-player, even games that are supposedly amazing.
So, yes, I have unreasonable standards.
its really hard to describe my standards...in some categories/things, i have lower standards than a slave from the 1300's, but in some categories people might say "uhh...and why do you even touch video games again?"
but unless its due to nostalgic reasons
*its very hard for me to enjoy any kind of 2D games these days, i absolutely love 3D(i dont mean 3D as in digital glasses 3D, i mean the depth of a game, the z plane in math terms)and cant stand going back to 2D, so anytime someone tells me to check out "such and such" and i see its 2D i instantly have to bite my tongue to give it a runthrough. i just love the aspect of having that third dimension on the screen.
*in an rpg/platformer/adventure game, you've gotta give me a decent main story, otherwise your gonna put me to sleep or cause me to freak out wondering why i wasted money on a game that is just a bunch of mods huddled together.
(there are plenty more im just tired as fuck and off to bed..)
but unless its due to nostalgic reasons
*its very hard for me to enjoy any kind of 2D games these days, i absolutely love 3D(i dont mean 3D as in digital glasses 3D, i mean the depth of a game, the z plane in math terms)and cant stand going back to 2D, so anytime someone tells me to check out "such and such" and i see its 2D i instantly have to bite my tongue to give it a runthrough. i just love the aspect of having that third dimension on the screen.
*in an rpg/platformer/adventure game, you've gotta give me a decent main story, otherwise your gonna put me to sleep or cause me to freak out wondering why i wasted money on a game that is just a bunch of mods huddled together.
(there are plenty more im just tired as fuck and off to bed..)
No, I don't really have all that high of standards when it comes to games. All I really ask is that they entertain me and are fun to play.
Naturally though I expect different things from different types of games, like for example, I expect an RPG to have an, at least, semi-deep and interesting story to it; but I wouldn't expect that of say Bejeweled.
Naturally though I expect different things from different types of games, like for example, I expect an RPG to have an, at least, semi-deep and interesting story to it; but I wouldn't expect that of say Bejeweled.