Where have all the good games gone...

[Pietho]

The point is, this discussion is old. I've seen this discussion for ten years already. Everything in the past always seem better. Doesn't mean it actually is.

Yes, the actual discussion is old, but so is the problem. And just like this discussion, it's not going away. It may fall out of the public eye for a while, but then someone like me who looks at his games and realizes that 3/4 of them are the same when you scratch below the surface, is going to bring it up again.

It's a circle of life thing.

 

[Pietho]

Believe me, there are lots of shitty games out now but there are also lots of shitty games for the older consoles too. I can think of a few off the top of my head: ET (Atari 2600), Punisher (NES), Ghostbusters (NES), Warlock (SNES), Back to the Future (NES), Conan (NES), Wrestle War (Megadrive) and some crappy Bruce Lee game for the SNES. Oh, and if you gave me time, I could think up a whole lot more.

This would make an interesting thread in and of itself.

I couldn't agree more. The most painful game I can recall was called (I think) Gunfighter (I don't even know who made it, but it came with an over-sized plastic gun with a lens at the end that plugged into the console and you had to shoot at the tv. Considering the technology of the time, you missed regularly if you were more than six inches away). However, the PC still holds pride of place for some of the most irritatingly poor game designs(I'm primarily a PC gamer).

Trust me when I tell you that I have no intention of reliving the days where I had to spend 15 or 20 minutes tapping the keyboard like a monkey having a stroke because I couldn't get my character to move one pixel up and over to get the only key that would let me advance past the current level.

 

[Pietho]

I'm just saying you seemed to be a bit heavy handed to him, and while I was rude (and I'd like to apologise for that), you can't argue that you weren't. I wasn't trying to argue, which is why I am still holding back on what I could say (and could've said then).

You are quite correct, and I apologize.

 

[seventy2]

Pietho, you said it brother.
Hate to sound like my Grandpa, but these games today...argh!

Is anybody else REALLY FRICKIN' TIRED of military games--simulators, missions...blah blah...
(There are so many because the public accepts the violence if it is set in a patriotic military mission theme).

Anyway, what is it that just gave some older games more play value?

Guess the same thing happened with games that happened with movies--it's all about eye candy.