Poll: Are you dissapointed in the current generation of gamers?

[Ranthus]

I must say it does seem like my generation has forgotten a little thing called a 'story' somewhat - I am always criticized for liking games due to their actual worth and fun as opposed to their graphics, and how much gore is in them...

I do own a Wii, and to everyone who hates it I have one word: Okami

I agree with most of that, but I haven't played Okami on the Wii. I'm just going with a list of why I am disappointed with enough of them.
-Preference of graphics. Is there really that much of a difference between 480p and HD?
-Preference of multiplayer. Yes, multiplayer makes games last long. No, multiplayer is not the only reason to play any game, unless it's only multiplayer and has good gameplay
-See the evidence. Debates lowered to a new level, with references of sex, drugs, and homophobia, among things. Inability to spell also significant.
-Hate of cutscenes/story. See MGS4. Good story, good gameplay, cutscenes despised, therefore story ignored.
-Anti-This Gen People This generation has caused many people with near opposite qualities to emerge, bothering the gaming-neutral people(me)
-Console/PC Wars. I'm not saying they didn't exist before, but this ties in directly with the unnamed category. My preference? None, they're all fine. You just get called a "fag" and people claim they "fukd ur mthr" for saying that.

 

[ray=out]

Yes, because of threads like this. - In all seriousness though, a large amount of people can't seem to find fun in games anymore. Admittedly I find losing due to the others on my team extremely frustrating so I suppose I'm a hypocrite.

 

[DanDeFool]

Just like 15 years ago brutally hard isometric RPGs used to be the craze.

"Isometric?" Are you referring to games like King's Quest, or more along the lines of the original Final Fantasy?

OT: I'd say this is more a thread about what feelings you have about the current generation of games rather than the current generation of gamers, since gamers are just people, most of them having been around through multiple generations and, I would wager, changing very little during that time.

Granted, some demographics have only started picking up games because certain titles like Halo and COD4 appealed to their personalities, but, again, that has as much (if not more) to do with the games than with the people who play them.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

OP, it sounds like you're disappointed because people don't agree with your opinion.
I'd say I'm more disappointed the current games we see than the gamers themselves, games have become more mainstream and because of this so has their audience.

 

[Candidus]

I'm disappointed in Valve fanboys and girls.

Most celebrated mediocre game developer of all time. Short, sweet, accurate assessment.

 

[Gyrefalcon]

No, I think the current crop of gamers are doing just fine. There is a difference between indiscriminate and inexperienced. It takes time to have played enough games to get a real feel for the different genres and to determine what is a really good game versus just a good looking game. And that can vary a great deal between people.

I am seeing some excellent games being cranked out lately, so I would say that the message is getting through that gamers expect more from video games than just good graphics. Since photo-realistic is fairly common now, the focus seems to be more on good storylines and enjoyable game-play.

There will always be bad games out there, but I believe we are possibly entering a second golden-age in gaming. My only complaint currently is that companies seem to want to dumb-down console games. My computer is for work, my console is for games. I would love to play things like Heroes of Might and Magic on my console but it went from a great strategy game to a weird shooter type that had no real relation to any of the many POPULAR versions of the game for the PC-which was a mouse point and click so it isn't a control issue.

But still, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Left 4 Dead 2, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Bioshock 1&2, Mass Effect 1&2, Thief 3&4, Dragon Age: Origins, Rock Band 1&2/Guitar Hero, Alan Wake, Heavy Rain...really-there are some great games out there and probably more in the wings that we haven't seen fanfare for. All in all, it is a great time to be a gamer whether you are young or old!

 

[McBurks]

I'm dissapointed with both this current generation and mine.It seems like we as a group have dissolved into mediocrity and just played what the companies have gave us.

 

[Riobux]

I sort of am, but there are things I am a lot more disappointed with this current generation.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

I'm disappointed with online PvP as a whole.
It seems to me like a contest to be as verbally offensive as possible and give "noobs" a hard time.
Like driving, we were all learners once, why give them a hard time?

Other than that, I hate bandwagons, but my generation of gamers did it with Sonic n Mario, I even did it until I realised just because everyone else likes something, it doesn't mean its good.
I also hate elitism, that's not exclusive to this generation either.

I think this gaming generations just the biggest so far, so there's plenty of bad apples spoiling the big bunch.

No. Idiots are idiots. If they wish to think that good graphics automatically makes a good game then so be it.

Reminds me ofthe person who asked me what Lost Odyssey was like, when I said it played alot like a FF game with turn based combat and a JRPG story, they said "that sucks, I HATE those sort of games. Might get it anyway, it looks sweet"

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

I'm dissapointed with both this current generation and mine.It seems like we as a group have dissolved into mediocrity and just played what the companies have gave us.

Anything out side the status quo seems to get people reaching for the pitch forks and torches doesn't it?

 

[TZer0]

To those saying it is their problem only.. it is not.. we'll get crappier games because of things like MW2.

 

[Crosshead]

I don't really can't say I'm dissapointed by the current generation of gamers, because I don't really expect anything from them. When I was getting into games, I wasn't thinking about how I was being judged by the last generation, so why should they?
Also, gamers are so wildly diverse these days. Anytime I hear something that annoys me, I hear something soon after that impresses me.
I think we can all agree that you meet some right tools through X Box live and PS network, but I think the twits shout loudest, so they're more visible. I've met good people on there.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Here's my explanation: Modern Warfare 2 is a cheesy action film. Looking for plotholes in it is useless. It is very similar to The Rock in that regard, it's nothing more than an extremely well-made action flick.
There's only propaganda if you want to see propaganda (Killzone 2 wins on that field, Helghasts are a paper-thin allegory for nazis).
About the lags. I didn't experience them. Tell me all you want but if I didn't have'em, I can't relate to you. Akimbo shotguns are a *****, granted, but they're definitely not game killers. And I never found killstreaks unfair.
About the direction. Nothing new, again, granted, but it has so much, I sat through the campaing with my eyes glued to the fucking screen, saying "Holy crap, is this awesome" every five minutes.
I'm not a technician, I don't care for the resolution, I look at it and it looks gorgeous on my PC's screen.
Don't tell me that I like it for nothing just because you don't understand me and I can't make you understand me. Why should I try to explain why I like this game so much if all you say is "unbalanced multiplayer, low resolution, stupid story, how can you like this piece of shit?"
I'll tell you just that. During that Gulag level, when you were forced to fight through the shower cabins, I understood that I was playing the best game I've ever played. And your "bah! low resolution" stuff can't make me change my mind.

The Rock at least had a storyline which made sense. MW2's storyline makes no sense, it's not just cheesy, it's clearly just a few set pieces tied together with a plot which makes no sense - there is no excuse that. Even Commando and Rambo makes more sense than MW2.
The Helghast are meant to be Nazi's (their uniform was based off the SS) - but that's hardly propaganda unless you want to argue the Nazi's were good guys.
You don't experience lag...Well that's really hard to believe unless you have a great connection, in which case you are just lucky, but what about host dropping? Kill streaks add to kill streaks which is ridiculous. Get 4 kills, lob down a turret. Turret gets you a few more, call in a Harrier, and then sh*t gets really retarded as you can't take down air support in one hit.
It has so much....Like what?! A few good set pieces, sure, Burger Town was great, but it really becomes ludicrous at some points, such as assaulting the white house. On hardened difficulty it's close to broken due to a lack of cover from point A to B, with machine gun nests you can't take out.
You are not a technician and clearly you haven't played any of the top graphical games of the last year, such as Uncharted 2, Crysis or Stalker. They are all far, far better than MW2, which has a draw distance of about 15m before becoming a grey mess. And great AA....
You can't give me a logical reason for liking the game other than "well yeah, but yeah, but no, but yeah, but no, but I likeds its." Why is it so hard to say what a game does well if it's as great as you claim it is? I can say why I enjoy Killzone, or Resistance 2, or any game on technical merits etc. I'm trying to show how MW2 has done nothing new for FPS, and is actually a step in the wrong direction, if not just backwards.
If MW2 is the best game you've ever played, you really need to play more games.

A swing and a miss, pal, I've completed Crysis and played Stalker: Clear Sky.
No logical reason? I am sorry, are you blind? I repeat myself once again: it looks good, it plays good, it has wonderful direction, it is fucking fun.
I liked it because I LIKE ITS GAMEPLAY. Yes, I like running from point A to point B, triggering scripted events and killing enless waves of soldiers. I find that FUN.
You can blab all you want about "technical merits" and I understand you. But I like Modern Warfare 2 more. In my opinion, it has a soul, a value and a bunch of memorable mind-blowing set pieces.
I remember every mission of Call Of Duty 1 (a little bit off-topic, I know) but can't remember anything from Crysis. Crysis, while technically impressive, was bland. This is not.
I don't play too many games, but I play enough. I consider myself an educated man in that area. I can try to prove that, after Modern Warfare 2 my favorite games are Portal, Knights Of The Old Republic, Toca Race Driver 2 and Battlefield 2.
I'm not asking you to agree with me but, please, show some fucking respect towards my taste.

 

[Liverandbacon]

I think you have to realize that the "casual" gamer is really nothing more than a "hardcore" gamer from 7 years ago.

In the late-90s the biggest selling games where Deer Hunter games that were glorified Oregon Trail hunting sessions.

Then in the early 2000s Halo was the biggest thing in the world which was a simple Quake-style shoot-em-up with modern graphics and a thin storyline.

In the mid-2000s the biggest game became World of Warcraft, a game that was a reimagining of the 5-year's-previous Everquest.

Now in the 2010s the casual crowd loves Modern Warfare 2, a game with beautiful graphics and a great set-piece sequences and a mindless multiplayer mode (Half-Life 2/Counter Strike: Source anyone?).

Hardcore gamers are always frustrated with the casual crowd because the casual crowd are late-commers. They get into things that we've played a dozen times and become bored with.

That'll never change, that's just the way technology adoption works. I have two aquaintainces that teased me about playing that nerdy Half Life game in highschool who now are World of Warcraft addicts. When you're surfing on the leading edge of technology you have to be comfortable knowing the rest of the world is in the shallow end.

BAM! What was that noise? Oh, Whispering Death hitting the nail right on the head.

 

[Darth Caelum]

No. You know why?

Spoiler: Cause it's my generation baby.

[sub]I FUCKING LOVE YOU[/sub]

Indeed! You are my Hero!

 

[Sgt Doom]

I'm not really bothered about the current generation of gamers, I just learn not to take advice on firearms, politics or, indeed, anything from them.

 

[Lucifron]

Well, this was an awfully pretentious thread.

Oh, and, no. Why should I be disappointed? What's there to make a fuss about? Consumerism? That gaming is no longer a niche-hobby?