No love for gaming at the moment :(

I think you should try branching out from the games you'd typically play like mainstream titles which are usually the same tired thing done over again. I don't buy many games myself as most of the stuff that comes out just doesn't interest me. It's mostly just re-hashed FPS but with a different theme. The only thing I play is a bit of TF2 from time to time but I've been trying out some older stuff and mods that I've missed.

Recently I played KISS Psycho Circus: Nightmare Child, a game from 2000. The dated graphics didn't put me off and I played it all the way though and enjoyed it. It did crash a lot and had some annoying bugs but I still wanted to carry on.

For MP, I tried MTA San Andreas. I enjoyed it a lot and it felt like a completely new game. To describe it simply it's a GTA RPG with hundreds of players playing at once (server dependent). However, I did get fed up with it not long after when people used unfair advantages to gain the much needed in game currency, though that was just the server I was on and not the game itself.

And lastly, I just came across a mod for Doom. Haven't tried it yet as the setup is a bit long winded but it looks amazingly fun. Was called Brutal Doom and adds massive amounts of gore to the default Doom with great weapon effects.

Guess it depends on whether you want to put the effort it looking for these. Some mods can breath new life into old games.
 
No love for gaming!!! :(

I am in the same boat ? I am 40 now been gaming since I was 10 VIC 20, C64 , Atari St. Amiga etc..... Problem is there is no innovation anymore. Just same **** another day!!!

The odd game I will like but 99% of main stream is pifft.... Bioshock and all the other 9 or 10 out of 10s! They rubbish all of them. :mad:

Some how and somewhere the actual meaning of a GAME has been lost !!

Things lost are simulators, off the wall games, shoot`em ups, adventure games and just plain crazy ideas that work!

All it is now is FPS and give me your money DLC games!! It will die soon, people cannot be bothered anymore!!!
 
Know that felling well,ran out of pc games that held my interest,cheap PS3 and the last of us sorted me out,never thought i would say this but a console game which is the best game i have ever played,uncharted series next up,red dead ,god of war,should be okay for a while yet...
now if i could only shoot with a game-pad as good as i do with a mouse things would be perfect
 
Ps3 with last of us and uncharted games restores all faith in games. Nothing comes close
 
itchy said:
No love for gaming!!! :(

I am in the same boat ? I am 40 now been gaming since I was 10 VIC 20, C64 , Atari St. Amiga etc..... Problem is there is no innovation anymore. Just same **** another day!!!

The odd game I will like but 99% of main stream is pifft.... Bioshock and all the other 9 or 10 out of 10s! They rubbish all of them. :mad:

Some how and somewhere the actual meaning of a GAME has been lost !!

Things lost are simulators, off the wall games, shoot`em ups, adventure games and just plain crazy ideas that work!

All it is now is FPS and give me your money DLC games!! It will die soon, people cannot be bothered anymore!!!
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same here, i havent gamed for 2 weeks; but i am looking forward to downloading again soon, this happens all the time with me, it's stop start; stop start, but this isn't gaming weather is it, it's time to get outside and enjoy the sun.

but there isn't anything new worth downloading..... so i'll be looking for older games.....MAX PAYNE 3...BL2 DLC Tiny Tina, i'm very fussy nowadays i will not download anything that isn't quite right, because the only decent game i've got this year is Dishonored, all the rest isn't quite good enough
 
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Andrew_McP said:
I was getting a bit jaded again too, recently. There are only so many average games you can play in one lifetime, even if they only cost a couple of quid on Steam.

But then I bought Last of Us on the PS3 and realised why we keep playing games... there is still artistic and creative genius out there. It's just a shame some of that genius is exclusive to consoles... including what is now my favourite gaming experience of all time.
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I am buying a PS3 for this exact game. It is the only thing that interests me atm, all the PC games I play are boring. Pretty bad time to be buying a new console but **** it I NEED to play The Last of Us :)
 
The Last of Us is a good game but is overhyped a bit. You go in expecting to be blown away and you'll be underwhelmed. Not saying it's not a good game, as it is, with a lot of great touches, but be wary of believing all the hype that it's out-of-this-world great.
 
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The Last of Us is a good game but is overhyped a bit. You go in expecting to be blown away and you'll be underwhelmed. Not saying it's not a good game, as it is, with a lot of great touches, but be wary of believing all the hype that it's out-of-this-world great.
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Your wrong of course:)
 
piggeh said:
The Last of Us is a good game but is overhyped a bit.
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There is obviously no guarantee that people will get as much enjoyment... wrong word... satisfaction from Last of Us as many of us have done. But I'm 50 and have been gaming for 35+ years. I've enjoyed many different gaming experiences, but at heart I feel like I've wasted a lot of my life sat in front of mediocre games when I could have been doing something more worthwhile.... like sleeping, mainly. :-)

So I am very cautious about recommending games to anyone, and I hardly ever buy full price titles. I wait a year or two, pay virtually nothing for them on Steam, and then don't worry if I don't enjoy them much, or play for just an hour or two.

My PS3 was bought late & cheap in the cycle just for GT5 (and out of curiosity, if I'm honest, because I'd never had a console). But when someone I trust recommended Last of Us to me I read around and paid full price for the digital version; no resale value.

So I felt pretty stupid after the first couple of hours seemed to show fairly average gameplay and a plot I could pick holes in. It didn't feel like the game I'd read about even though there was clearly something special about it from the very first menu screen -- which is artistically so simple, yet clever -- to the rather emotional prologue and cinematic cut to the opening credits.

And the music, don't get me started on the music! :-) I was still disappointed though by the first couple of hours. But then I cleared what's really the tutorial section and before I knew it something strange and wonderful had happened... I began to care for the characters more than I've ever cared about any characters before in any game. Even Half Life 2 didn't do that to me, and lots of people raved about that.

In fact to me Last of Us is The Wire or The Sopranos of gaming, and I realise how pretentious and dangerous such a claim is. But the long, 'boring' sections which some people see in those dramas is actually carefully crafted pacing, and when done right it can give the raw brutality which both series portray much, much more impact.

Last of Us treads that same path.

I hate totally linear games, but this is totally linear and I love it. I hate long sections where little or nothing happens, yet in last of Us the gloriously minimalistic soundscape and tension/relief cycle makes them sublime islands of calm during which minor interactions between the characters are allowed to advance the emotional journey. I hate endlessly searching for loot, but in Last that loot is so vital I wanted to find it; I needed to find it! And while I searched I learned about the characters and the world. This is a game where listening is rewarded -- whether that's listening to incidental interactions which advance the story, or using the listen mode 'cheat' which I thought I'd hate but didn't.

I also hate crafting systems because they usually get in the way. But in Last they became an integral part of the survival experience, and the choices I made had real effects (certainly on Hard) on how I could tackle the various combat 'puzzles'. I also hate missions where you have to nursemaid AI characters, because they're inevitably a pain in the backside. Yet Last is a game entirely made up of that, and I spent all my time worrying we'd get separated.

I could write much more, but I've written way more than enough. But I believe -- warts and all -- this is the best game I have ever played. That honour used to be given to Fallout3. Last of Us has easly knocked that off its perch, and is the first video game I am prepared to discuss in real life with people who aren't gamers. Which is everyone else I know at my age. :-)

When all's said and done, what I'm saying is that if a hardened, cynical, jaded old git like me -- who is shockingly poor at using a controller and has put off using one much until now -- can get sucked into this hype machine, either the hype is brilliant, or the game is a work of genius.

I can see why people would come down on either side of the fence, especially if they have less reflective personalities and enjoy a faster pace; that's why many people enjoy The Shield much more than they enjoy The Wire, and it's not a crime even though they're very wrong. :-) But I have no hesitation coming down on the side of genius here. The acting and often subtle dialogue is worth that even without the cleverly meshed gameplay.

The Last if Us, as an overall experience, is way more than the sum of its often flawed parts. As I type this, at the back of my head I'm trying to pluck up the courage to return to my second playthrough, on Hard. I don't recommend that for a first playthrough, because on normal you get a much more flowing experience. Especially if you spend half your time wishing you had a mouse! yet even that frustration somehow adds to the tension during combat. Plus there's aim assistance if required.

I said I was going to stop typing somewhere up there, didn't I. Ok, this time I mean it. :-)
 
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no hype here,simply the best game i have ever played,and i have played a lot of games, the last of us did something that few games manage to achieve and created a level of belief in the characters and the game that held me until the very end and wouldn't let me go for a second.

And for the first time in a long time i am wanting to play the story again straight away..
 
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