The Mass Effect games are pretty good. There was a lot of potential in the ending but I think they fucked it up big time. Especially how they advertised it. Dont want to spoil it but I feel it was a bit of a let down, along with other things (War assets....). I agree that 2 was better.
A game hasnt got me hooked in some time now. The only game I regularly play is Football Manager, and that is mainly because I can surf the internet while playing. Pretty laid back game.
Diablo 3 was a huge disappointment
Ill just go back and play Fallout then! Probably my favorite game series
the disappointment/bordome/fatiguè-wave (whatever you wanna call it) is some kind of phenomenon with multiple factors coming into play. you see, games have actually never been better from a presentation point of view, all the possibilties with motion capturing, voice acting, video sequences, 3D, all the technique, holy moly namsayin?
What seems to bother people most is the fact that games have become dull, from a content (challenging) point of view. And while I certainly agree there are of course exceptions which make things bearable.
Yes the gaming industry has become a huge business, multimillion dollarssss and what not, and often you have big companies taking advantage of the customers and in general deliver some 08/15 shooting game that has been done 10x before. Innovation is hard to come by. Look for "Remedy", lol, they are very innovative (created max payne and alan wake), they deliver "deep" entertainment with the certain touch to it, if you can undestand. like breaking bad or the wire on tv, there are games that just stand out, which show that games actually still can deliver and be different and or innovative.
these days there's a certain pattern publishers follow cause they know the mass will go with it. have a game that looks awesome, a mediocre story, with a lot of shooting, have 2 or 3 dlc's ready, and don't forget to advertise it.
edit: oh men that post wasn't finished at all, I hit the wrong reply button. (:
what I am trying to say was that yes, the gaming industry should be more creative and so on, but also it's the environment that makes them. If people buy shooter xy pt: III and don't question its mediocrity at all publishers won't feel the need to deliver something fresh.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Ill just go back and play Fallout then! Probably my favorite game series
Fallout has to be the best RPG I have ever played.
Fallout 1 that is. The amount of options at your disposal are ridiculous. You saw direct results of your character creation. For example, I have played the game twice now and am in the middle of my third. First I played as a suave charismatic dude who could talk his way out of anything, secondly as a neutral mercenary with shit hot gun skills, and more recently as a retard with 1 intelligence but super strength. The latter was probably the best example of how versatile character creation in the game is, as I am really struggling to complete the game.
The same diversity cannot be said of fallout 3 and new vegas. I think new vegas did alot of things right but it also demonstrated yet again the problem with a lot of games today.
Too scripted and too dumbed down. I hate how we have games which claim to allow the player to complete it any way they want, and then tell them they can only choose from option A, B, C and D. I understand that it has always been this way, but at least in older games you weren't spoon-fed your possible courses of action. It didn't feel like choices were been forced upon you in fallout 1. You had to think of ways to go about doing quests rather than get told all of your options.
And the dumbing down has being unbelievable. Whilst it is understandable that they wanted to narrow the learning curve which old games demanded, they just seemed to completely remove it altogether.
I shouldn't receive a quest to find something, only to check my map and see its location marked out for me before I even make an effort to find it. What is the point in that?
Henry_42 @ 2/7/2012 14:43
the disappointment/bordome/fatiguè-wave (whatever you wanna call it) is some kind of phenomenon with multiple factors coming into play. you see, games have actually never been better from a presentation point of view, all the possibilties with motion capturing, voice acting, video sequences, 3D, all the technique, holy moly namsayin?
What seems to bother people most is the fact that games have become dull, from a content (challenging) point of view. And while I certainly agree there are of course exceptions which make things bearable.'
Completely agree.
A lot of new games today seem to sell based on their technological innovations alone, whilst content seems to come second. I think eventually all these improvements will prove their worth, but only when the novelty value wears off.
PS: I just remembered a rare example of a choice I made in New Vegas which didn't seem scripted at all at the time.
For those who have played the game all the way through, you should all understand this. For those who haven't. probably better off not reading this!
Basically, it was during the late game phase, where you choose who you want to side with for the war for vegas. The choice is between Mr House, Caesar's Legion, NCR, and Yes Man.
At the time I had killed Benny but had no idea about Yes Man's existence. I had missed the quest where you find him by accident.
So I decided to work with the NCR after killing Mr House. My guy was generally good so he killed anyone from the legion on sight. There was no way he was ever going to work for them. NCR seemed to be my only option, but I wanted to go down the independence route that the developers claimed you could follow.
So during the mission for NCR where you have to protect President Eden from the legion assassins, I decided to take cover with a sniper and instead of protecting the president I assassinated him myself.
It was hands down the best moment of the game, because it seemed like it was my own choice, not one that the game had forced upon me.
After killing the president, for a time it seemed like I had isolated myself from every faction in the game. I thought I had ruined any chance of winning by cutting off ties with all the factions. But then I came across yes man and it all started to make sense.
That moment it hands down the best experience on a modern game I have had. The game told me to protect the president. I decided to kill him and join an independence movement. I wasn't told that was an option, and that it why it was so memorable for me. If the game had said "protect the president or kill him" it would have being shit.
I have been going through the same thing. There are not really any games that I'm looking forward to and have to play. There are a few I missed that I want to try like Arkham City but I can wait. I watched a lot of FF13-2 on Youtube that is about it.
I'm just disillusioned with the whole scene tbh! I'll pop in a game, play it for a bit, then drop it in its case to be opened in a few months. I just can't really get invested in them anymore, unless they're immediately captivating like, I dunno, RDR or Portal 2.
Also the gamer community (lol!) pisses me the fuck off
