Why is there no good games anymore?

apatia77 said:
There are plenty of good games on the market, maybe not good enough for you.
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I think it depends upon how long you've been gaming. For anyone who was around at the 'birth' of PC gaming there was a very exciting decade or so (up until the 'Age of Sequels' ;-) where everything was exciting and new, with developers fighting to wring potential out of a fairly primitive, but highly flexible platform.

But after a while you start to see so many titles which are 'just' shinier versions of old stories. As with movies and books, sometimes that works well, but if you've read/watched/played and enjoyed the originals, it can be hard to get excited by the new releases. However a new generation of gamers is always coming along, and current stuff is new to them. So your enjoyment of a particular title will always be a complicated equation.

I'm lucky because I was drawn to the PC by racing and flight simulations, both of which still have a long way to develop (if the market remains big enough to justify development in this attention-deficit era). I do still pick up other games titles, but I'm so often disappointed. Only Far Cry (not 2!) and now Fallout3 have lit my gaming candle in recent years.

Oh... unless you count all the hours I've wasted in Tower Defence. And I guess I should. It's a fine example of how games don't have to be complicated to be addictive and satisfying. :->

Andrew McP
 
arknor said:
most pc users dont want games that are single player only they want coop and a decent online mode,
single player games that last for maybe 6 hours arent worth buying
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this... If the price was actually reasonable for 6 hours worth of playing, then It might actually sell better. But all I see is when they release, they're priced at 29.99-39.99, which is honestly, not worth 6 hours of gaming.

only a couple of single player games are actually worth that much money e.g. Bioshock, Oblivion, Splinter Cell series, Hitman series, Half-life 2, KOTOR series, GRID, Fallout series etc.
 
The 'golden' age for me was 2004/5. I remember getting my credit card through the post & going 'well what shall i spend it on?" .....ended up building dual core, ATI crossfire raptor beast of a machine .....within the space of 18 months i was playing HL-2, Doom, Farcry, Quake4, Fear, Epispode 1, FSX, Unreal . . . . . ... ive never seen soo many 'blockbuster' games come out. I dont think we will again.

But i look back on those days & wonder what has happened.

Im looking forward to L4d-2 & Bioshock .....


We need more companies to create ground breaking engines like the Steam. I really hope the next big engine is CryEngine 3 ...please please dont be UT4 engine ....a piece of my soul died when i paid $69 for UT3
 
So you think there are no good games anymore simply because there were none you got exited about this year?
 
The last game I played and thought Hey! I'm really enjoying this was Fallout 3, I thought to myself at the time I hadn't played anything for a while that I truely had fun with.
 
PC Gaming dead lets see......
Aion
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Dragon Age: Origins
Borderlands
Call Of Duty Modern Warefare 2
Left 4 dead 2
StarCraft 2
Max Payne 3
Mafia 2
SplinterCell: Conviction
Aliens Vs Predator 3
BioShock 2
Alan Wake
Rage
Deus Ex 3
Crysis 2
Diablo 3
Supreme Commander 2
Mass Effect 2
Star Wars: The Old republic

Every game i listed above ill be buying, so no pc gaming is far beyond dead.
 
Loads of great games out at the moment, steam aside, ive got Fallout 3, Arma 2, Batman Arkham Asylum, Ghostbusters, Street Fighter 4, Trine and Football Manager Live installed, all out this year and all superb.

People go through phases, they get jaded with gaming, i suspect thats more the case rather than the games being poor, been a great year for PC gaming, especially with some of the capcom ports.
 
Play the 1990s classics? :p Late 90s in particular was revolutionary for several genres of PC gaming. Everything from TIE Fighter to Deus Ex was generally of a high standard (ok, maybe the graphics were mediocre but you said those aren't important).
 
Mr.Nick said:
So you think there are no good games anymore simply because there were none you got exited about this year?
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What did you expect the guy to do, Start a thread called, there are no games out there for just me to play, I mainly like playing <insert game type> in the thread title?

The thread title is a title, Read the original post, and you'll see what the thread is about ;)
 
LittleChimp said:
Totally agree cant compare to the legendary PS2 titles.
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Yeah I still have a PS2 and still buy games for it, there are just so many awesome titles on it. The PC was great that generation too, loads of awesome games.


I think it's the reccession causing big corparate multi platform sequels and rehashes. Gaming is a massive business now, rivaling the film industry. Publishers such as EA are out to scrape every last penny out of it however possible, and the truth is inventive new stuff is just pushed aside as it dosen't sell as well as sequels to successful franchises.
 
I think it's because more and more it's about making money for the game makers and not for the love of games and making a good game.

The passion has gone.
 
too much risk gamble with money equals stale predictable game unless you get some hardcore kinda geek company who makes something great but eventually cashs in . job done.

games are pretty crappy at moment on pc and not like years ago where consoles had good games and pc had its special games that you dreamed of playing.

games like half life 1 when they came out and unreal were awesome you just dont get that now.


what youll end up with in few years time is a box under your tele that will do everything and thats your lot. gone is the gaming golden age of pc :(
 
I'm going through this atm... thinking of selling my crossfire setup because of it.

Can't seem to find any game that blows me away anymore, as well as being original.
 
There wont be for a long time yet the next great pc game will probably be battlefield 3.
 
I don't think a console will ever replace the PC.
The future is applications like steam and battle.net were you sign in and purchase games and play on their own servers with integrated clan,friend services.
Next week I will be playing Batman AA at 1920x1200 60fps and after experiencing it on my 360 I can't wait.
People think the PC gaming scene is dire but it's not.
The Xbox 360 scene is dire for me due to the terrible hardware and the fact that compared to my PC games, 360 games look awful.
Have you played their flagshiip game gears of war2?
They refuse to put it on dedicated servers and yet still pump out mappacks without actually fixing it.
If the console companies do drive them onward for another 5-6 years then PC gaming could take back it's crown as the console technology out dates itself even further.
At the moment I can play battlefield 2 at 60fps 1920x1200 with 32 player battlefield on dedicated servers and the game cost me £8.
On xbox live I can play battlefield BC at half that population , the servers are near dead on P2P and live costs £40 a year.
If xbox live is the future of gaming, they can keep it.
There are less risks overall with companies now due to the recession.
 
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