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Video Games are Evil.

Posted by RhysAndrews on April 26, 2006, 1:04 a.m.

Yes, thats' right. Games are evil today.

Today you look at any game on Xbox360 or PC or whatever, and you fall in love with it right-a-way. No, it's not love, it's lust. Game Designers focus on nothing but graphics these days. People go wow that's awesome, buy it, play it until they're bored of the graphics, then it's never seen again. That's lust.

What about the love of Classic Gaming? Where'd Lemmings go? Where'd friggin Cruise for a Corpse or all those old Simpsons Games or Willy Beamish go? Those were the games that you'd buy, and play until you've finished the game over and over. They didn't focus on good sound or amazing 2D-pixelated-graphics, they focused on gameplay. I'm pissed off with commercial games these days. I still get tempted to buy one because it's lust, temptation… But I don't, because 90% of those games are just eye-candy.

Comments

Alpha Man 18 years, 8 months ago

xD How could you do that to the system that owned PS1's ass?

RhysAndrews 18 years, 8 months ago

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I agree, first time I saw screenshots of 360 games, I hated them because of that. They looked way, way too fake, and looked as if they were perfectly modelled from clay.

Quite True… Reminds me of those arcade machines with like Daytona USA or what have you… they were so much smoother than the games on your PC or whatever console.

I do completely agree that most games are fun when you get them.. as in new games; But they're fun until you finish the game (or semicomplete or something), then you're bored of either the graphics or the gameplay just isn't worth playing again. Classic Games were different, My brother would finish "Oh No More Lemmings!" 4 times in one day if he were bored; and it would be family-fun each time. Crysis looks good, but I feel it'll only be good as a graphics-upgrade.

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I couldn't agree more but hey, at lest we still have GM.

Exactly. Also, part of the reason that I'm against people making 3D Games with GM (well; fps' or racing or what have you), is because people are starting to turn to graphics more than.. how do I say it? Vibrant Simplicity. Keeping things simple, but shining those simple features until they're ART, not just sloppy games.

-Rhys

Kaz 18 years, 8 months ago

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everything is just too smooth these days, un-naturally smooth.

Just like in PDZ. ALL ROCKS ARENT SHINY!

Kenon 18 years, 8 months ago

*Shines a few rocks*

Get a DS. Not based on graphics. Look at meteos and polarium.

SleepinJohnnyFish 18 years, 8 months ago

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Crysis looks good, but I feel it'll only be good as a graphics-upgrade.

Perhaps you should actually read up on Crysis before posting such a blatantly incorrect statement.

takua108 18 years, 8 months ago

My comments on the topic:

1.) PC>consoles. That's all. End of story.

2.) I have to agree with Rhys on this one because my computer sucks (P4 3.0GHz / 512MB RAM / Nvidia 7200) too much to play most games on anything higher than medium quality graphics. I went back today (I was home from school sick) and played Halo PC, and damn that game was fun. It wasn't too much in the way of graphics (especially not on my machine with the graphics on only medium), but it was really fun. Of course, at the time it was top-of-the-line graphics…

3.) Old-school games kick ass. I'm a huge fan of the Genesis Sonic games, because up until 2002 all I had was a Genesis for gaming (and I was too dumb up until 2001 to buy PC games), and I think those old games were great. Also, old DOS games rock, especially the LucasArts ones. I'm just playing through my dad's old copy of Sam and Max Hit the Road, and that's a great example of another kind of game they're making less and less of these days: a truly funny one. Day of the Tentacle was grand too.

4.) A great example of a great freeware game with nice, clean graphics (not that <i>good</i>, mind you), and truly fun and addicive gameplay: <a href="http://phackett.com/rumblebox/">Rumble Box</a>.

5.) The title of this blog post freaked me out…I thought you were going Jack Thompson on us :]

SleepinJohnnyFish 18 years, 7 months ago

takua, Halo PC is a bad example for your claim, since that game was originally made for console…

ffalcon 18 years, 7 months ago

Harvest moon Alpha Man? No comment.

Jack Thompson's viewpoints warrant a totally different blog. In fact, I now have my new blog topic.

melee-master 18 years, 7 months ago

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Perhaps you should actually read up on Crysis before posting such a blatantly incorrect statement.

Rhys was stating his opinion, Korberos.

Pandaroo_Fang 18 years, 7 months ago

I stop playing cause I cant beat a boss cause I suck :3 haha

Like..I like it..but if it plays hard to get…IT'S OVER D<