How are YOU holding gaming back?

[The White Hunter]

Uh... I really enjoyed Bulletstorm?

I hugely prefer voiced dialogue to old school RPG list-o-options dialogue systems.

I prefer gameplay that relies on player input rather than character stats.

I don't have any particular objection to DLC, even on-disc day-one DLC.

Oh, and I'm not currently boycotting any publishers.

I agree.

Um... I buy Nintendo stuff and apparently nintendo are stagnant and uncreative...

[sub]motion control... touch screen.... multi screen... mario galaxy 2's stage designs...[/sub]

I like fairly uncommon genres byt odays standards
I love JRPG's and platformers, and survival horror that isn't just hard to play. Resident Evil 4 being my second favourite game of all time...

Oh yeah I keep buying Capcom stuff! I enjoyed Resident Evil 6 even though the last boss of Leon's story is a manticore, godzilla and mothra all in one somehow.

Edit: I don't really enjoy online multiplayer, I did for a while, but it's really just repetitive wank most of the time. I prefer to be in the same room as my game playing buddies. Best multiplayer I played back in 2012? Well me and a friend ploughed through Gunstar Heroes and Golden Axe...

 

[DSK-]

Not buying/playing enough console games, elitist viewpoints on FPS games and E-sports and a few other things I suppose :/

 

[Nieroshai]

I actually enjoyed all the CODs too, and I don't mean the multiplayer (that's what I bought Battlefield 3 for).

I've always been a big Nintendo fan, and don't mind at all that they're going a different direction than other console developers.

I thoroughly enjoyed all the Halos, and don't think Bungee ever "betrayed" their fanbase; gameplay tweaks that aren't successful aren't "betrayal," they just aren't successful.

I actually liked Resident Evil's new focus on smoother controls, and far from betrayal, all I find wrong with newer installments is lack of puzzles. Think: RE2 would've been just as awesome over-the-shoulder with good controls, if not more awesome.

I thought the DmC Reboot was good. It's Americanized, but that isn't bad. Dante is more punkish, but he is also written with more heart. When in the original series did you ever get the feeling Dante gave a flying fuck-demon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus] about humans? He killed demons more because of his mom than any incentive to save the world. The new Dante looks off, but fits the story better. Hell, even Vergil gets the stupider-looking-but-better-written treatment. And the story is, if not better, at least more comprehensible. I do miss how often in the original series, demons would take on angelic appearance, Mundus especially. I don't hate the new demon-angel-hybrid thing for Dante, but I do blame Darksiders for coming up with the idea.

I liked Doom 3, what can I say? It's not a rock and roll shoot-em-up like the first two, but is that necessarily bad?

Duke Nukem Forever was okay. Not good, not bad, just okay. I play old shooters, and the nostalgia trip was fun, but they should've slashed the price.

I liked FF13. Guilty pleasure that I can't justify.

Metal Gear Solid 4 was my favorite installment. 3 was awesome, but 4 had feels. Oh the feels.

I can think Dead Space isn't scary and still think it's a good, brilliant game.

Dragon Age 2 actually FIXED everything that was wrong with Origins. It sucked not being able to choose race, but Bioware RPGs are stories, not sandboxes.

I actually didn't hate the original, unchanged endings for Mass Effect 3. I didn't like the starchild, but it didn't kill anything for me. An exposition from Harbinger would've been cooler, and your decision could be either in defiance of him (red and blue both) or compromising with him by picking green and accomplishing his mission for him without killing or enslaving his kind.

That's it for my confessions, which while are common apparently are neither mainstream nor vocal. Also, in the context of Skyrim exclusively as a standalone, Stormcloaks all the way! But... then I remembered Morrowind and Oblivion. FOR THE EMPRAH!

 

[Kiyeri]

I've never boycotted a company before, even if I dislike their practices.
I buy DLC. Not every piece, just whatever is reasonably priced and sounds interesting.
I've bought more old games than new releases recently, mainly because I don't play shooters.
I fucking love Bioware.
I loved Dragon Age 2. And Dragon Age: Origins. I can't wait until DA3, which I will buy the day it comes out.
I don't get upset (usually) by whatever the latest disgrace to gaming is and repeat it at every available thread topic (Mass Effect anybody?)
I'm invading this obviously male-only boys club, because men and women can't ever have the same interests.

 

[major_chaos]

I supported SOPA.

/thread

Explain please? I know you don't owe me an explanation, but I think you are the first non-politician I have see say that and I honestly wonder why you feel that way.

 

[HardkorSB]

Can you think of anything you like which is or could be construed as "holding the medium back"?

Holding it back from what exactly?
From ascending to a higher plane of existence?

You know who I think is holding gaming back?
1) Console fanboys
2) People who cry because they get DLC a few days late, and don't seem to understand why. See Skyrim PS3 DLC here*
3) People who are casual gamers BUT SAY THEY ARE NOT. I have no problem with casual gamers.
4) People who cannot distinguish casual and hardcore games but think they can.

How is any of that holding anything back from anything?

 

[MrCollins]

I only really buy indie games during the humble indie bundle packages, which means small devs doing great work don't get the money they deserve.
Apart from that, none og my practices are "holding back the industry", and i tihnk the term is somewhat absurd. Holding back the image of the industry perhaps.

 

[DementedSheep]

Many think the obsession with graphics is holding the medium back due to how much it costs but I like games being "pretty" and have on occasion bought a game mostly because of that. No it?s not the most important thing, graphical fidelity is less important than good design (though still somewhat important) and I will play a game that looks like ass if I like the game play but looking good does add a considerable amount to my enjoyment of a game. I?m the sort of person will stop to marvel at the scenery.

I also like ?gritty realism? though yes I think we?re getting a bit over saturated with attempts at that.

I don?t have any particular issue with DLC, even day one DLC. So long as their is no false advertising, it?s not something that unbalances multiplayer and it?s not something critical to the main game I?m fine with it (though even the last 2 are ok so long as you know before you buy the game that it has that. I just won't buy it). I think it?s their right to sell their product the way they want and you are not entitled to all content made pre release.

I like genre mixing which some seem too despise and see it as a sign of trying to appeal to the masses.

That all I can think of really.

 

[HardkorSB]

He's saying the people holding back gaming are the people who whine and cry at the drop of a hat. Throw a rock on this site and you'll find one.

Yes but how does that translate to "holding gaming back"?

 

[Starik20X6]

I really like the New Super Mario Bros. series. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is how I see it, and Mario platformers sure as hell aren't broken.

 

[WanderingFool]

Uh... I really enjoyed Bulletstorm?

I hugely prefer voiced dialogue to old school RPG list-o-options dialogue systems.

I prefer gameplay that relies on player input rather than character stats.

I don't have any particular objection to DLC, even on-disc day-one DLC.

Oh, and I'm not currently boycotting any publishers.

Dude, Im positive everyone enjoyed Bulletstorm... it had liberal use of the term Dick Tits, whats not to love?

Anyways, I like FPS games, Like COD (and feel that Blops 2 is the best thing to happen to the franchise since COD4). I havent a problem with most DLC. I think Mortal Kombat 9 (the newest) is better than most other fighting games Ive tried. Unless its called Minecraft or FTL, I dont really give a shit about Indie games.

And I still think the Wii's motion controls suck ass, and I wont be touching the WiiU unless the second coming of Jesus a game of that equivalent comes to it exclusively...

 

[TrevHead]

Like I said in my previous post I don't really care what others do at the end of the day, others can be pirates and just play a used copy of COD all day. I just think think it removes any right for the person to moan about the state of gaming or pretend to be some kind of hardcore gamer. That would be the same as pretending to be a foody to your peers and watching cookery programs while never making anything more complex than beans on toast.

I liked Doom 3, what can I say? It's not a rock and roll shoot-em-up like the first two, but is that necessarily bad?

Same here I also liked Quake 4. Maybe I deserve stoning.

 

[King Billi]

Can you think of anything you like which is or could be construed as "holding the medium back"?

Holding it back from what exactly?
From ascending to a higher plane of existence?

As some people would like to make you believe yes.

Actually it's more the problem that comes from gaming culture being viewed as a single collective entity by the general public and that every "negative" thing to come out of it applies to everyone associated.

By "holding the medium back" I'm just referring to anything you like which you feel is often lambasted as standing in the way "true progress"(whatever that is?) or is contributing to the negative stereotype of gamers as a whole. Because you know that thing YOU like is totally making the rest of us look bad... and apparently that's a pressing concern.

 

[Jenvas1306]

I honestly believe women will never be integrated in this culture unless gaming culture becomes "cool".
I don't know what that says about my opinion of gaming culture, or my opinion of women, but that's my personal experience.

you dont know any women who play games regulary do you? you will find lots on the escapists, all types of gamers. maybe we arent as many, but the numbers grow and dominate at some types of games. Statistics show that overall women make like a third of the total number of people you could call gamer.


OT: I guess I cant express my likes as I cant afford games usually. my next one will most likely be bioshock infinite. Luckily I sometimes have a friend buy me a cheap game (bastion, left4dead)