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What Happened? Is it just me, or is anyone else out there not finding the �latest� games as fun as they used to be? I don�t know what it is. It�s been a while since I�ve really found a game to be �fun� and been able to play it for hours on it�s own merit. I think it�s time for me to do a retro run of games. Just to see if it�s me, the games, or even the way the industry sees the gamer these days� I just don�t know

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calebito14

#1 Posted 1 year ago | - 4 Lame

BioHRay

The Wizard

It's way to early for drunk

#4 Posted 1 year ago

calebito14

Ok, I'm about an hour early or there about, but that's all, I remember certain times. You know the ones i'm talking about haha

#5 Posted 1 year ago

bucksrocks

I agree. Back in the day I could grab a good game and play it for hours on end because the game was so fun. I find that happening less often now. I wonder, could it be that we are getting desensitized to fun games? Could it be that we have just played so many good games that mentally we have been raising the bar and games now aren't reaching it? Or is it just that games aren't as good as they use to be. I don't know the answer but I have the same thought that you did.

#2 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

Masshalogear

Amethyst

I think you've hit it right on the head by saying that we play so many good games that we do indeed get desensitized to fun games. I can't remember the last game I played for hours on end and it didn't feel like a chore in doing so.

#2 Posted 1 year ago

bucksrocks

I wonder that every time I play a new game. I always think "Is it just me having too high of a standard for games?" Maybe its a combination of both. We expect so much from games and maybe the games just aren't as good. Wish I knew. :/

#3 Posted 1 year ago

Franco

Fact Finder

I agree 100%

The first title to disappoint me in that way was Dead Island, and it's gone downhill from there. Mw3 really sealed the deal too. But since I've been playing launch titles lately and a shitload of Game Room stuff, I'm content for the moment. It just feels that developers and publishers are focusing on the wrong things :(

#3 Posted 1 year ago | + 3 Ditto

Franco

Fact Finder

I think its over-saturated. Every time I get a new game, I try to rush through it because I know in two weeks something else is due to come out. Know what I mean?

#2 Posted 1 year ago

calebito14

Yeah, I get what your going at, I look back through my title and realise and large amount of them I never completed/finished in its entirety, just due to the sheer amount of games that came out in such a short space.
Dead Island was a very large letdown though.

#3 Posted 1 year ago

Hoorah

Davesexual

To be fair to new games, you've played nothing but Mass Effect sprinkled with a little BF3 for the past 2months. That being said, I have games on the way, and none of them are really new. Games today are just recycled for the most part, nothing new, no wow factor. They're essentially replaceable with almost every other game in it's genre. I don't think it's just you, the classic gamer that's been around for awhile, it's the developers putting out the same game for the next generation of 12 and 13 year olds.

#4 Posted 1 year ago | + 2 Ditto

BioHRay

The Wizard

I disagree! New concepts are just "hated"... Consider "AMY" I loved that game, but critics hated it, and no one played it... People seem to be afraid of "new" stuff, they only want the next big FPS game...

#5 Posted 1 year ago

Hoorah

Davesexual

Hmm, another excellent point. Do I have to give my Bio points back now?

#6 Posted 1 year ago

Decrulez96

The last good game i can remember is ME3, before that SR3, before that? I honestly could not tell you. Games seem to be too similar to each other at lest to me they do.

#5 Posted 1 year ago

Masshalogear

Amethyst

In my opinion it comes down to time. The game market is so congested how can we get invested in something we replace sometimes as soon as next week. The last 1/4 of 2011 for me felt like a race to get through game after game and now I either don't wan't to play them or have got rid of half of them.

#6 Posted 1 year ago | + 2 Ditto

BioHRay

The Wizard

agreed, but we don't really account for the majority of people... Most people only get a few games a year. We (I'm assuming you are in this situation) can get any games we want. So it seems to make for a market of fighting for sales over the same general game (ie. FPS market)... so I guess...

#1 Posted 1 year ago

Conklin

I agree I need to find a game again that I can play hours on end and have fun. Not a game where I play for a hour or too then either get bored to quick or just RAGE.it seems the games are becomeing more and more suited for 12 and 13 year olds.All I can say I hope I find a game like that again soon

#7 Posted 1 year ago

calebito14

I think that it is a combination of a highly congested release schedule for the majority of the year bar the obvious summer drought, along with the fact that in certain sectors of the industry namely the shooter market there is stagnation in terms of new ideas, but then when a game does come along the tries to shake things up it ends up underperforming sales wise, a prime example of this being Vanquish. So as a result we the consumers do bear some of the guilt for this problem.

#8 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

BioHRay

The Wizard

I totally agree! New concepts are highly frowned on for some reason... I personally LOVE people that are willing to take a chance.

#1 Posted 1 year ago

KistyNocturn

Gamer Cat

This is why people wonder why I play older games, lol because latest doesn't always means the greatest to me. I been on a retro phase right now in games...want to join me in commentary later today?

#9 Posted 1 year ago | + 2 Cool

manunited50

FightKiss

The main game that suffers from this to me is Call of Duty. CoD 4 Played 200+ hours online and several campaign completions, MW2 2 playthroughs and maybe 40hours online and I didn't even bother buying Black ops (although I borrowed it) and haven't touched MW3. I feel that the narrative of the stories become a bit old and similar to each other e.g. in CoD the whole "someone just died.. aww shit!" moment was great in MW but 2 it was overdone and I've heard that MW3 abuses it too. The multiplayer in essence hasn't changed, because sticking new skins on the guns and new maps and perks isn't a new game, it's DLC. This also applies to Halo (probably 1000hrs on 2, 200 hours on 3 and about 60 hours on reach for me). The campaign stories aren't quite refreshing enough. I think the best way to look at this problem is to look at the exceptions. for example I love Halo 3: ODST. The way the story was played out was innovative and I loved the way the whole search for beacons mechanic worked. The change in gameplay dynamic by being a bit less powerful was great and I found it a real challenge. It seems developers can make good games. What I think though, is that they are flogging the dead horses, trying to make the same franchises last forever. Keep the story going to get every last buck and it gets dull. To me, ODST proved that bungie can still make 10/10 games (i enjoyed it a lot) but Halo 3 and Reach did not live up to the standard of ODST because the whole gameplay is the same: I'm Badass spartan, I smash puny covenant with my fist and guns whereas ODST was a different dynamic because they aren't as powerful as Brutes.

Post edited 4/06/12 5:56PM

#10 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Cool

Butters39

i agree with you. the last "fun" game in my opinion was Saints Row 3

#11 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Cool

Kevin

Expand your game genre's?

#12 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Zing!

BioHRay

The Wizard

Well give me an idea of what to play

#3 Posted 1 year ago

Kevin

Will do. Let me get my 3 ideas to you.

#4 Posted 1 year ago

TiamosLoren

Azure Dragon

The latest games seem to be all big on graphics, style, size, story and combos. There's not really any direct focus on fun, nothing fresh being brought in. The game modes being made available tend to be similar as well. Horde mode spread from GoW to Halo (Firefight), Mass Effect (Multiplayer), Call of Duty (haven't played it, so don't know name), Battlefield (Onslaught) and even Space Marine (Exterminatus). That's just ONE example of the games industry basically taking a good idea and milking it for all it's worth until it becomes an industry standard to have it (remember when there was only local competitive multiplayer? Seen how far the industry has milked that one?) and it becomes much like everything played before.

The thing is, nothing new gets developed when consumer, developer and publisher alike don't take chances on something new and unique, something that either tries to breathe new life into a genre or makes a totally new one in the process. We look back to the old games just to try and work out where it went wrong while the whole time it's staring everyone in the face - it's the repeat of the gaming fallout from a few decades ago. That is when the innovation was launched to try and challenge people to accept new and different games, ones that were simply based on one premise: Fun.

In the interests of trying to perfect everything else in a game, that one last aspect has taken the back seat far too many times. And now the consumers are slowly paying for it.

#13 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

Atilaa

The games these days are trying to be too serious. They can't just do a fun game, like Matt Hazard or Duke Nukem, without everyone complaining and saying it is bad for some tiny reason, making no one buy the game.
The developers are afraid of low sales and because of that they don't dare to make "new" games and such.

The latest funny game I played is Matt Hazard, started playing 1 month ago, before that it was ME 2 or Fallout 3.

#14 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

Laggy

Ace Ventura

I couldn't agree more! I keep going back and buying arcade games and platformers because the remind me of my childhood and the fun I used to have back then. The new games are good, there's no denying that, but they're not as fun. They're entertaining but they don't make me happy or bring me as much joy as they used to. I still love the games but I keep going back to old ones just because they are more fun, I don't know what it is about them but I can play old games without getting bored, new ones just don't do that for me.

#15 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

Hightower

Indie Night

I don't think we see enough fresh new ideas, everything seems to be sequels. Bulletstorm was the most fun I've had in a game in a long time, not just because of the fresh new mechanics it introduced, but because it was something completely different to anything I've played before.

Basically, There's waaaay too many sequels and not enough fresh new IPs anymore.

#16 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

annihil8or

Sponsor

When I got my xbox 360 2 years ago the first game I got was mw2 I loved that game so much I played it all the time then I got all the call of duty games including black ops and I realized that there practically recycling the same multiplayer and I'm getting sick of it because in mw2 I'm like 5th prestige and in black ops I'm like 3rd and in mw3 I'm like 2nd prestige so I'm loosing interest 100% and I think that it's our fault as the consumer because we keep buying the game even though its the same thing over and over again and assassins creed keeps mooching off the same story they honestly could of finished it in revelations but they added ANOTHER cliff hanger for the 5th time and I love the series to death but I just want the conclusion already. And I plan on buying Amy.

#17 Posted 1 year ago | + 2 Cool

AngryBirds

I agree with you, but I see it as a good thing. I can now catch up on all the great games I've been meaning to play.

#18 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Funny

AnEnemyAI

Mass Effect

I completely agree. New games now seem to be getting a little too repetitive. Older games are so much more unique.

#19 Posted 1 year ago | + 1 Ditto

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