What do you miss in gaming?

[andromeda23]

I miss actual games. There are almost no good games at this point. 95% of games I've played recently, bored me after 20min. Incredible repetitivness in todays games is absolutely insane. Like someone said before: Too simple. No challenge. For a whole game you are forced to do the same thing all over again. Games are getting less and less fun. With all the technology which developers can use to make superb games, only thing we (as players) are getting is pile of s**t. They put lots of effort in looks and none into gamplay. When you play some games you feel like your charecter is phisicaly handicapped. I don't know. Do game developers think that players are retarded or what? Feeding us with this junk.

I miss games where you have a health bar and/or limited lives. Games when you die you are dead. I started playing on Amiga 500 and arcade machines. I miss such smashing titles like: Flashback (Amiga 500), Another World (Amiga 500), Fire Force (Amiga 500), first Prince of Persia (Amiga 500), Populus(Amiga 500), Soccer Kid(Amiga 500), North and South(Amiga 500), Wings of Fury(Amiga 500), Budokan (Amiga 500), Mortal Kombat (Amiga 500), Baldur's Gate (PC), Gothic (PC), Tenchu (PSX) (btw what they did to Tenchu Z deserves punishment). Metal Slug series, Half-Life (PC), Golden Eye (N64), Perfect Dark (N64) the new one is bad. Contra (NES) and many more. You could spent hours or even days with those games.

Why game developers are taking brilliant idea and make very bad game of it or making game and completely deprive it from basic options like for eg. fightig while on horse (Oblivion) going prone (Quake Wars and Battlefield: BC).

I miss games where you can interact with environment: climbing walls, jumbing over obstacles (I like it in GTA series). This is a vidio game where is feeling of freedome. I see that place I wanna go there but I can't because there is 10 inch wall in front of me that I can't jump over. Whay all those games are so linear. Why they don't have co-op. Every game should have co-op. There is nothing more fun that cuting through legions of enemies whith your friends side-by-side (Army of Two which suppous to be ultimate Co-op game was just short and sad)

I miss old games. I know they were buggy and didn't give you a lot of posibilities but they were fresh and inspiring. I just miss fresh inspiring ideas. It seam like there are no more good ideas for movies and games.

 

[Woe Is You]

Adventure games with a sense of humour.

Yes, I am looking at you Lucasarts.

Telltale is the new Lucasarts.

Check the new Sam & Max series as well as the upcoming Wallace & Gromit adventure games they'll be doing.

I personally miss space sims with huge manuals. I used to be their number one fan. Then they just vanished. Freelancer and Starlancer were the last space sims I played and Freelancer was just disappointing with its stupid leveling system and mouse aim.

 

[SteinFaust]

Why game developers are taking brilliant idea and make very bad game of it or making game and completely deprive it from basic options like for eg. fightig while on horse (Oblivion) going prone (Quake Wars and Battlefield: BC).

yeah what the hell happened to prone? it's been out of Battlefront 2 as well, and i honestly don't know why that infuriates me so much.

 

[andromeda23]

Completely defeats the purpose of having sniper rifles and support machineguns. It's stupid standing and having bipod sticking out from the gun. It shouldn't be called Battlefield: Bad Company. It should be Battlefiled-Super-Ultimate-Mega-Strong-Soldiers-That-Can't-Be-Killed EVER!!! Shooting .50 Sniper Rifle (M59) while standing - Priceless.

 

[SeventhSeraph]

Manners. I miss manners. I play MMO's all the time. I have like 8 of them downloaded at a time on my computer. (What can I say? I like experimenting.)

The reason for this is that unlike the mainstream games like WoW, there are more obscure games with better communities. Take Dream of Mirror Online. It's an immensely entertaining game with a good community. People like to help you out, it's pretty, the gameplay is nice.

Best of all, even GRINDING can get interesting, especially in places like the graveyard. In the game, if players kill too many of one species, a super-version comes out - like the Leech Lich in the graveyard, an extremely powerful undead.

But I'm off-track. Get DOMO though. You'll like it.

Mabinogi's nice too!

 

[andromeda23]

The MMO's are too time consuming. You have to spend a whole eternity to achieve anything. I know people who play and have no life except the game. If your looking for very bad manners play xbox live. The worst manners ever!

 

[Necrohydra]

i miss social gaming. i rember the days where me and like 8 friends would have a goldeneye match or any other 4 player game. we would have tourneys, loser-passes-controller mode, crack open some pepsi and fire up the mac-n-cheese. (yes, i was like 10-13 at the time. not sure though, feels so distorted)

This. Along with splitscreen co-op. I know it still exists in gaming today, but it seems to have taken a massive backseat to online play (thank you M$). If online play was the ultimate form of playing against people, the LAN party would have died long ago.

There's just something better, to me, about playing games, with or against, friends in the same room versus miles apart.

 

[SeventhSeraph]

I've tried xbox live at a friend's house. NEVER AGAIN. I'm not buying that system. NO!

 

[andromeda23]

I've tried xbox live at a friend's house. NEVER AGAIN. I'm not buying that system. NO!

I'm playing Xbox Live myself and somethimes there is massive lag but gameplay is on decent level. Only pain is that you have to pay for Xbox Live access but quality of service is poor.

@SteinFaust: About social gaming. Heros of Might and Magic. Playing HOT-SEAT with my brother and frinends.

 

[LewsTherin]

Games that are FUN and not a bukket of grind ( I'm looking at you, WoW )

Also, when developers didn't regurgitate concepts/tired cliches into packages with minimal effort to cash in on *insert fad here*.

I mean, look at Banjo and Kazooie. YOU ARE A BEAR WITH A BIRD THAT LIVES IN YOUR BACKPACK! Or Diddie Kong Racing, which lets you fly a plane or drive a hovercraft instead of a cart.

Someone please mail some of their excess imagination to game developers please.

 

[Llil]

I miss the painfully high but fair difficulty.

 

[SteinFaust]

Completely defeats the purpose of having sniper rifles and support machineguns. It's stupid standing and having bipod sticking out from the gun. It shouldn't be called Battlefield: Bad Company. It should be Battlefiled-Super-Ultimate-Mega-Strong-Soldiers-That-Can't-Be-Killed EVER!!! Shooting .50 Sniper Rifle (M59) while standing - Priceless.

i'd like to see a game that penalizes players for not crouching or going prone with large weapons, i.e. landing them flat on their backs when firing .50BMGs while standing or having a character drop an M60 when he fires without setting up the bipod.

 

[andromeda23]

Where are all those good ideas. Fallout. Lure of the tempers. Escape from monkey island. ufo enemy unknown? I'm asking where? Or I'm getting too old for video games (which i think is not posible) or games are getting more and more borring. They should be entertaining. Best example: Viking Battle for Asgard. After capturing first island you will know exactly how rest of the game will look like. Why there is so few games that can glue you to the monitor or TV so you can't notice flow of time.

 

[SteinFaust]

i miss social gaming. i rember the days where me and like 8 friends would have a goldeneye match or any other 4 player game. we would have tourneys, loser-passes-controller mode, crack open some pepsi and fire up the mac-n-cheese. (yes, i was like 10-13 at the time. not sure though, feels so distorted)

This. Along with splitscreen co-op. I know it still exists in gaming today, but it seems to have taken a massive backseat to online play (thank you M$). If online play was the ultimate form of playing against people, the LAN party would have died long ago.

There's just something better, to me, about playing games, with or against, friends in the same room versus miles apart.

lol also, you can lamp your friends if they're being pillocks.

 

[andromeda23]

i'd like to see a game that penalizes players for not crouching or going prone with large weapons, i.e. landing them flat on their backs when firing .50BMGs while standing or having a character drop an M60 when he fires without setting up the bipod.

In Day of Defeat: to shoot .30cal you have to suport it on something, ground or sand bags eventualy wall. Similar in COD3 to shoot support gun you have to lay down or support gun on something but again in COD3 you could dive and set MG43 is 3 sec killing every one around. In that matter Operation Flashpoint was the closest one in therms of realisim.

 

[SteinFaust]

i'd like to see a game that penalizes players for not crouching or going prone with large weapons, i.e. landing them flat on their backs when firing .50BMGs while standing or having a character drop an M60 when he fires without setting up the bipod.

In Day of Defeat: to shoot .30cal you have to suport it on something, ground or sand bags eventualy wall. Similar in COD3 to shoot support gun you have to lay down or support gun on something but again in COD3 you could dive and set MG43 is 3 sec killing every one around. In that matter Operation Flashpoint was the closest one in therms of realisim.

yeah i love trying to fire the mg42 and Browning .30 on my friend's computer. it's like the smg in halo2, "just aim at the floor and think happy thoughts" XD

 

[-Seraph-]

I miss the awesomness of the 8-bit and 16-bit era, where games felt fun, challenging, innovative and unique. Not to say today's games are not like that but there was something about those old consoles that really felt fresh and fun.

 

[Gooble]

A storyline I actually give a shit about

 

[Liam Wolfy]

I miss entertainment.

 

[dukeh016]

@SteinFaust: About social gaming. Heros of Might and Magic. Playing HOT-SEAT with my brother and frinends.

A thousand times yes.

This is going to sound crazy, but I miss the original Age of Empires install screen. It had the little soldiers walk across while the bar went up. There is no reason the dev's had to do that, I'm sure it didn't impact sales. But it was fun, it got me excited to play the game. Weird right?

Also, good game music. The original homeworld soundtrack anyone?