Alright, over opininated post coming up full of opinions of a guy asked this question far too many times and really just wants to rant. Plus I have a habit of not agreeing with people anyway. Plus I'm more of responding to the title then any posts!! =D Go Me!
Remember I have been playing games for 23plus years.
You have been warned.
But:
Good Old Games?
Shut the fuck up.
*coughs*
Sorry, bad start.
But really I'm sick and tired of hearing bitch and complain about this kinda stuff that it makes me want to scream when... No. Not at all. No it hasn't, no they haven't, about the same, get over it.
Games have improved. Period. They fit nearly one hundred times more into a game then when I first started playing them. Of course when I first started playing them I was 0 years old and it was an Atari 2600. Or later 8 to 13(17) C64. Whats the main difference is now everyone listens to people saying "Oh they lack the pure gameplay of the old games."
No, you see, back then we didn't have the term gameplay ... plus you never expected anything, you never really expected to be wow'ed or blown away in anyway shape or form. Gameplay was simple. Simple AND Boring. You played games for One Hour at the very most because that was how long any good game was expected to last before you were bored.
Now a few games did hook you, but when you looked at what we were compairing it to then its no wonder.
There is another But too.
But:
You were a kid playing them, it was new, it was shiny and everything excited you in ways you couldn't desribe. It is
that that makes old games better. Its not the games, its you. Its if it was new to you, or you were just more easily pleased.
Same with SNES. Here you were getting ALMOST arcade quality stuff in ya home... it still wasn't arcade quality stuff but WOW. Colours. Bright'ness. Look at Mario! God did you see the way that bosses platform Moved!? Mode 7 is the BOMB! Cut scenes!! Mario has cut scenes!! The music CHANGES when ya on Yoshi!!!
It was also the first time many people sampled games of whatever type... so guess what? They're bound to be new and awsome and not seem like re hashed tripe
But Guess What!?
People we're Complaining at your SNES games for lacking Gameplay of old and orginiality. People who played Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy and loved it complained about FF2 and 3 (American), saying they lacked something - all the while others are orgasming over them. People who had spectrums complained about all sorts of things, and would often compair there five year old games to the new SNES ones like the old ones were some pillar of awsome'ness.
They weren't. Neither were the snes games.
Its. Just. You.
Games are about as much as you put into them as you get off of them.
You pick up a game and all you care about is being blown away or being wow'ed - and just expecting it to happen - well - it won't. Those days are gone for you unless they bring out something completely new - which is hard to do because people have been very imaginative over the last fifthteen years. You have to be prepared to give.
When ya were a kid, having fun was just that much easier.
I mean, try to honestly remember some of the things ya got excited about when ya were younger and playing the game:
Super Mario: You could pose when collecting a flower if you turned at the right moment. I used to be able to play the game just to get that oppurtunity again.
Street Fighter 2: First time I learned the two in one, three hit combo's. First time. and it took ages to get right. New = awsome.
And so on.
You were once just younger and easier to please.
Honestly these days everyones spoilt for choice. What classes as bad games normally has twice as much playability as anything the Atari could dream of.
Then again these days people are expecting games to be more then they are. They have to "Define a new world" or "Suck 'em into there reality" or "Its not a good game unless you start playing then look at the clock nd five hours have passed".
God, they're games. Games. G.A.M.E.S. Something for fun. Something to spend some time on. Not what you live for.
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Right.
Also about anime - no. Not in the least either.
At one point in England anime = Sci-Fi swearing bloodfests with women who would get there tits out and that was about it. Well it was 90% of any anime we ever saw, the other 10% being something different.
Of course I loved it all.
But these days? You're just getting lots more anime. More then I ever thought we ever would. So yeah, we have to put up with some kid's stuff - but considering its the kids stuff that managed to get anime mainstream and get all the other stuff out over here, you won't ever find me complaining.
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And now responces to stuff:
Graphics have always mattered. The Snes games blew people away by there graphics. Sure today they're simple sprites. Yesterday they were being turned, scaled and showed more colours then anyone had seen. People would laugh at those who stuck with the MegaDrive when all there graphics seemed dull and borring in comparison. People were amazed and considered FF6 a marvel - pushing the SNES to its limits. In fact
many reviewers (even in England despite it not coming out over here *grumbles*) stated that the game concetrated on Graphics Too much and needed more gameplay.
Honestly.
So its a matter of when ya looking.
Even Atari 2600 games. The one that managed to make the one coloured block look better then anyother game would sell.
Wild ARMS 3 is a bloody fantastic game. As a huge fan of the first one I have no idea how you can think its not. It has everything and more. I totally got into everything into the game - the plot- the chaarcters - everything. So no, I didn't find it odd at all. I knew why they were going around and what they wre doing.
In fact I found WA1 a lot less sensible in that region, where I first played through it I went to area's just because I hadn't been there and that so happened to be where I had to goto.
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SO - all in all - no.
I do NOT believe any company has lost what a good game is and concentrates more on graphics then the old days. I think most people out there have lost exactly what made a good game to them.
Plus I think ya looking at the past too stary eye'ed. Take it from an old bitter English guy who grew up with the old games - every complaint thrown against games today Is Not New. People have been complaining in the same way all through the years and it gets very borring and repetative.
Old does not equal great.
But people will always go on about it.
In ten years people WILL complain that no game released today has the gameplay marvel of ______, where they concentrated on gameplay rather then graphics.
And so on.
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WOOO!!
Also: Thankyou, this managed to totally and utterly get all my rantage out of me. I am rant out, and its 08:25. I am free from rantage for the entire day and can live in a positive bubble.
P.S.
Try not to be offended if ya are.
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Edited by: Choark at: 12/1/04 4:51 am