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Originally Posted by marsan
well, then maybe it's just me  I am 23 and at least the last 6 years I have played quite few games, mostly just a few that was heavily recommended by friends or sequels to other games I already loved in the past. I think the last time I really played a lot of games was back when I was 15/16. I still play games, but I don't like most new games these days. It's mostely just the sequels to classics or re-releases of classics I buy. I don't really like the style of most new games. It just ain't as fun playing them as the classics, me thinks. I miss the days when story was more important than graphics  These days it's all about the money. The room for cool and original niches are getting smaller and smaller, and unforunately for me it was the niches that became big hits that I loved the most
I think I will always buy adventure games, though, even though I see a "dumbening down" of the audience there too. The adventure games get easier and easier with less story these days. But then again, the budgets they have to deal with gets slimer and slimer too. I also enjoy some RPG games. But some of the same dumbening down happens there. Like Oblivion, it was smaller than Morrowind(which I loved and still love), you could fast travel so people wouldn't get bored from walking or something like that, the cities looked more similar and the skills upgrading system was made even more automatic. Even though I've bought and played through Oblivion and ordered the expansion pack as well(hey, one has to support those who made great stuff in the past, and Oblivion is still a wonderful and beautifully made game, so it's well worth supporting), it was no morrowind.
Also, I am an "old" PC gamer. I haven't owned a console since the nintendo 8-bit, so just the thought of playing a game on console makes my back shiver. I don't really like the control. I prefer sitting with a keyboard and a mouse instead when playing a game. In my head, a keyboard feels much more natural than a joystick or gamepad, since it's what I love and know. And last, to generalize a bit more. Most of the games released for consoles are a different style than what I like in a game. So yeah, I would probably have stoped playing games if I had to buy them on a console. |
This is what I always say. It's like you would read my mind...
You are right even with Oblivion. I liked Morrowing much more, it has even much better music. And Arena was the best of the series.
I don't like playing console games much either, but I bought for example Dreamcast just because of Shenmue, Biohazard: Code Veronica and Soul Calibur. And Gamecube just because of Biohazard 1 and Soul Calibur 2
You don't see many adventure games for console. It is eiter some action game or some sport, I am sick of action games. And unfortunately, this happened also in PC industry. In couple of last years, all complanies make just shooters, where they don't have to think about any story. Story is usually about planet being destroyed by someone, so you have to go, shoot everyone in your way and save the planet by killing the boss. Only graphics and environment are different in each game. And what is really sad, that not many people like adventure games. If there is not enough blood in the game, they don't play it.
