Gaming Excitement? - General Gaming

I'm certainly as excited now as I ever was when I loaded up Fallout 3 and Mass Effect the other day on my new PC.Until I got the new Pc I was unable to even play these games due to the limitations of my old PC, so what has happened I've been able to get the latest generation games and I'm just as excited as I was was when I fired up my first Commodore Amiga game, (F29 Retaliator if I remember correctly.)

Probably the only time I've enjoyed gaming more was when I used to play "Booty" on the Spectrum 48k with my dad, but I think that was in a large part down to the circumstances in which I was playing the game.
 
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wordy said:
I'm certainly as excited now as I ever was when I loaded up Fallout 3 and Mass Effect the other day on my new PC.Until I got the new Pc I was unable to even play these games due to the limitations of my old PC, so what has happened I've been able to get the latest generation games and I'm just as excited as I was was when I fired my first Commodore Amiga game.
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Same here. Playing stuff at 800x600 or 1024x768 on an old laptop meant that, when I got my new rig and started gaming at 1920x1200 (with all the bells and whistles turned up to the max:cool:), I felt like I was coming into gaming for the first time (again!).
 
Jezcentral said:
Same here. Playing stuff at 800x600 or 1024x768 on an old laptop meant that, when I got my new rig and started gaming at 1920x1200 (with all the bells and whistles turned up to the max:cool:), I felt like I was coming into gaming for the first time (again!).
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You'll get bored soon and want something bigger.
 
'Wes said:
You had pretty poor graphics in the past, but the storyline made up for it, and the graphics seemed to link well with the atmosphere of the game, like in Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith. It's taken the opposite now in my opinion but i also think people are running out of ideas.
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I dont think its down to a lack of creativity on the developers part, its more like developing games to a proven formula that sells units. The odd time you see the odd gimmick put in to alter the look or gameplay.

Take for example all the FIFA/Tiger Woods/NFL titles that have come out on an annual basis. I'm sure there are a lot of creative developers in EA, but a few roster upadates and maybe some new swing conrtol in Tiger Woods or a manager mode added to FIFA is about as creative as they are going to get.
 
wordy said:
I know they're at the same res but just want a bigger screen. Besides my 24" was the 1st model to be released, and the new ones are a lot better.
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wasnt laughing at that. just my dirty mind. Anyway, back on topic...
 
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Gaming is better... You are just bored of it and have had too much. When I first started playing BC2 online, it was as much fun as gaming has ever been for me. It's like when you first learn to drive, it is somewhat enjoyable but after a few months/years, it is a chore.
 
I'm 29, been gaming since I could pick up a joy stick, i'm about to build another gaming PC, i'll never get bored, games just keep getting better and better for me, online gaming particulary, single players just arnt challenging enough most of the time apart from the odd epic games like Crysis, Fallout, World At War, HL2 etc etc etc

I mean whats the alternative, TV? And its natural to game less in the Summer
 
Guest2 said:
Is gaming just more boring as I am now 25 instead of 10 or were games better "back in the day" ?
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There's very little that's genuinely new on the market. After a few years you've played awesome games from all gaming genres.

Then when a new game comes out you keep comparing it to something that you've already played and enjoyed. So it has to be really, really well executed or you naturally start to notice its faults.

This is where having a great, compelling story can help any game win over the ice-cold hearts of us jaded gamers ;) Half Life 2 brings very little that's new, but it's well-executed (Citadel level was awesome), and the story is likeable.

By way of contrast, I can't say I'm expecting much from Doom4. It's going to be pretty and shiny and technically excellent, but I can't see myself getting excited about more one-man-army vs monster legion gameplay. I've already enjoyed that twice in Quake and Quake 2, the latter having had a half-decent story to go with it. But story quality hasn't been Doom's traditional selling point :p
 
ordinaryjoe said:
Gaming is better... You are just bored of it and have had too much. When I first started playing BC2 online, it was as much fun as gaming has ever been for me. It's like when you first learn to drive, it is somewhat enjoyable but after a few months/years, it is a chore.
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Its not that we have had too much, maybe we are a bit hard to please now. I think its more that we expect to be blown away by these new games. All the marketing has them hyped up to be unbelieveable but disappont on arrival.
 
I haven't been excited at a game at all for years - pc gaming wise.

I think the last big single player pc game that got me excited was HL2 when it was about to be released. Every other game I have played since seems to be all about pushing graphics or copying from other games. In the mean time, I guess the only thing that has kept me playing pc games is multiplayer games where companies like Valve regular add new enchancements and updates to keep things somewhat interesitng and fresh.

I miss the old days when PC games like Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Age of Empires etc were all breaking new ground. And the thing I find weird is, all the guys who made those games must surely still be involved making games, so why aren't they breaking new ground still? Or perhaps they have moved up to a more senior level and arn't involved in the development as much? :(
 
My response to people (not just in this thread) going on about how older games used to be about gameplay, nowadays it's just graphics, is why aren't more people playing those old games if they are so amazing? The beauty of the PC platform is the huge back catalogue, and although sometimes there are compatiblity issues on modern pcs, there are solutions to get most games running.

I still play Quakeworld (a 14 year old game albeit heavily updated) most days, because it is so fantastic. But where singleplayer games are concerned, there are loads of great games released over the past decade to keep me occupied, I don't need to go back further than that.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
a lot of the stuff is the same cause the big players arnt gunna risk too much in bad times financially.

take mw2 absolute pure remake and worse but sold gazillions. so why should they change pump endless bucks into something that is basically making them hundreds of millions.

for the last few days me and about 50 others have been talking to avalanche in a chat room and how refreshing it is to have a games company actually listen to you and ask what you want and tell you what there doing every step. good or bad.


this is what made pc gaming good. communities and innovation which is sadly lacking at the moment.
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u can still find that today, but its generally the smaller companies, usually in niche markets.

its just a matter of finding them, and finding one that you like.

the problem is that the industry is dominated by the big companies, and the select few popular genres that a lot of ppl miss all the other games about
 
Still enjoy gaming myself. I was a wee tot when we got our Atari 2600 and I'm still hooked on games at 31. Now I've a family of my own and the older two are taking an interest themselves!

While I agree we haven't seen much new material in recent times, I do think the indie games industry is turning out some decent work. World of Goo, Plants v Zombies and Braid are some highlights from recent times.

That said, I did look forward to and enjoy Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2 and Just Cause 2 so the big publishers are still entertaining me (ass creed 2 would probably make the list as well but I won't touch that damn DRM).
 
I find I get most of my fun from novelty games these days. Warcraft 3 custom maps were great for that sort of thing, tower defence and swarm survival type games which led to a lot of offshoots. Counterstrike zombie mod is good too, particularly those zombie escape maps, they're stupid but really good fun. Don't seem to get much pleasure from playing within the fairly rigid confines of the experience that big title game designers want me to have.

Games are probably becoming more like sports where the enjoyment is meant to come from the competition. Unfortunately sports are usually rather rigid in their ruleset so creativity when playing is severely restricted. I enjoy sports and want a different experience from games. Improving my action per minute for crazy micro in StarCraft 2 really doesn't interest me, I'd prefer to make a conga line of hydralisks and march round the map to benny hill music while my opponent is like WTF?
 
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