Anyone else losing ALL but a smidge of intrest in gaming ??

Get yourselves a Dreamcast!
If that back catalog of insanely fun arcade conversions and original IP doesn't get you back in to gaming then you are probably lost, never to return :)
 
Kamakazie! said:
Get yourselves a Dreamcast!
If that back catalog of insanely fun arcade conversions and original IP doesn't get you back in to gaming then you are probably lost, never to return :)
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I have 2. Great console. :)
 
Wrathamon said:
The Sam Coupé, it's a british 8-bit from 1989-1999 that used a 6MHz Z80 CPU. I'm also a hardware guru for it too, designing new interfaces and such like to plug into it - such as recently a 20MHz accelerator! My hobby tinkerings are over at my site here. (Hope it's alright to put the link here!)
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Taking a look now mate. I love stuff like this.

Keep thinking about writing stuff for the Amstrad CPC or working with it in some way, an emulator or something. I just know I wouldn't have the time to get into something like that right now though.

Edit : Just looking at the site. I never heard of this machine, was it popular? Just reading about it on Wiki, interesting stuff.
 
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I haven't lost interest but I'm started to not be bothered to complete games like I'd used to. The MOH series for the PC are the only games which I really, really enjoyed completing and was sad when I finished it lol.
 
Wrathamon said:
The Sam Coupé, it's a british 8-bit from 1989-1999 that used a 6MHz Z80 CPU. I'm also a hardware guru for it too, designing new interfaces and such like to plug into it - such as recently a 20MHz accelerator! My hobby tinkerings are over at my site here. (Hope it's alright to put the link here!)
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Great stuff! I remember wanting to upgrade my Speccy +3 back in the late eighties/early nineties to a Sam but never had the money back then. After trying it in an emulator I've been thinking of getting one off of eBay just lately to see just what they were like!
To be honest, I prefer the old school stuff and have many emulators on my pc. The modern stuff just doesn't hold my attention really. Recently I played a bit of Call of Duty on a mates pc. It was good, don't get me wrong, but I could see myself losing interest with it quite quickly. The most modern console I own is an X-Box which was a present, but really i've hardly used it in the time i've had it (over 2 years). It's a shame as it is a good machine.
I still have my old Speccy +3 and used it a while ago. I bought an old Amstrad 3" external floppy drive from eBay to use to transfer some of the stuff to pc that I wrote on my Spectrum and saved to the 3" disks!
I have a couple of arcade machines and quite a few pcbs, this is my main interest. One of the machines I bought recently is a Sega Hang-On machine. It doesn't work, but it doesn't matter as I will get it fixed up in the end (just takes a bit of time finding parts). Somehow the old style graphics and gameplay hold my interest much more than modern stuff. Saying that i'd still like some of the stuff like House of the Dead (mentioned below). I'd like next to get an original Paperboy machine but that'll have to wait till we've moved house!

Kamakazie! said:
Get yourselves a Dreamcast!
If that back catalog of insanely fun arcade conversions and original IP doesn't get you back in to gaming then you are probably lost, never to return :)
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I have one, great machine :D . I liked the fact that arcade conversions were pretty much perfect. I must've spent many hours playing Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead 2! I only really played stuff that was originally in the arcades.
So not really lost interest in gaming, just in "modern" gaming. :)
 
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dannyjo22 said:
Yep arcrade seems to have dissapeared in favour of more indepth gameplay. Which is fine if you have hours to tweak stuff. When all I want is outrun and chase HQ ;) it doesnt really interest me.

I actually wouldnt mind some decent 2d platformers too along the lines of Pitfall and earthworm jim. I dont care how fancy the GFX I always preferred 2d platformers over 3d.
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earthworm jim would be awesome. Im not really fussed about graphics generally. I much prefer graphics in the old CS and starcraft for example. Don't know why i just feel i can connect with them better for some reason rather than the newer ones
 
Kreeeee said:
He doesn't want a repetitive sequal that focuses on graphics!
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since when does GOW2 focus on graphics, the storyline and gameplay is amazing, possibly the best game ever to grace the PS2, and are not all games repetitive in some shape or form?
 
Wow, the Sam Coupé... now there's a blast from the past. Haven't heard that name in ages.

I remember reading about it when I still had a Spectrum 48K and being amazed that you could have pixels with different colours, as opposed to just having big blocks.

I don't think I'm gonna be getting much work done today now :)
 
I think Nintendo will have games more suited to your taste. There's some great Gamecube games going for four for £5 at Gamestation.
 
scaramanga182 said:
I have to agree, in the olden days I would play on SWOS, ...for hours on end enjoying every second...
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Amen to that!!!

I remember when Sensi soccer first came out, Iplayed it for hours and hours and hours!!! and I used to love every second. I loved it so much so that having purchased SWOS 95/96 updated with last years teams about this time last year, I have played it for almost non stop and have loved every second.

When looking at the current crop of games, there really is very little which interests me, there are far too many rehashes and 'the next in the series' type games, which as has been mentioned, really have the been there done that feeling about them.

The only thing which is really interesting me is the pick up and put down ness of the Wii...

Valve
 
yeah i've been getting bored with games recently only one keeping my interest at minute is fm07. there was game on megadrive that never could put down forget what it was called you had to drive a plane and hit balloons and parachute onto moving targets and stuff come to think of it might have been the snes.
 
GarethDW said:
Wow, the Sam Coupé... now there's a blast from the past. Haven't heard that name in ages.

I remember reading about it when I still had a Spectrum 48K and being amazed that you could have pixels with different colours, as opposed to just having big blocks.

I don't think I'm gonna be getting much work done today now :)
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I agree, some of the Spectrum games though where they designed the graphics so you could have full colour and minimum clash like Trap Door and such I thought were amazing at the time. R-Type was a fantastic conversion as well. There were quite a few others also.
I don't know if you've seen the Your Sinclair website The Your Sinclair Rock 'n' Roll Years but the bloke who designs the website has done a number of short videos detailing different stuff about the Spectrum from when it came out in 1983 to all the games and add-ons, etc. He's currently up to 1988. Makes an interesting read if you're into that kind of stuff. They've got quite a decent retro 80's soundtrack as well :)
I like using the emulators on my pc (indeed, the "emulators" directory on my pc is bigger than most of the others! :p ) but they still don't compare to the real thing, hence me keeping my old Spectrum and getting arcade related stuff, etc. :D
 
I've not really played much in the way of games for a while - i pretty much missed out on the x-box/ps2/gc era, mainly because most of the games seem rehashes/pretty but nothing new.

Even on the PC i've only really bought/seriously played 3 or 4 games in the past couple of years (stubbs the zombie - great fun, slightly different, Settlers 2 - great gameplay*, Dawn of War + expansions, and UO).

It's one of the reasons I was/am excited by the wii, it can hopefully inject some new life into gaming for me, with something other than mainly better graphics (I remember when new/better graphics would get me excited - Donkey Kong Country on the Snes for example;)).




*I loved it on the 486 :)
 
I think this syndrome is just getting old.

You've watched the birth of gaming from the most simplist of forms to the complex beast it is now. You've played every type of genre there is to offer whether they cross genres or not. You've seen a thousand or more game storylines, watched a thousands more cutscenes, taken a thousand and more characters to their death or glory. Gotten hold of a few million items all with different effects, interacted with thousands of npcs, seen a million or more deaths, ressurrected a few hundred people, driven all sorts of vehicles and craft. Seen many different environments (unless you play halo), vastly beautiful structures to the dirtiest backroom toilet and maybe destroyed a few along the way. Donned superpowers, flown, scaled walls, urinated on various things, used various weapons of mass destruction.

For a kid it's all new, but for a majority of the forum, it's not the first time we've seen it. After all that it would take a hell of a game to really impress us through and through. But like someone said, the business is to the masses aswell as making engines for other companies to buy.
 
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