What happened to the old day gaming :(

brian

brian

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As im back at my grandmothers house with a Nintendo 64, playing donkey kong 64 or super mario 64 etc, I have to ask why is it that I can spend 1-2 weeks straight playing those games and never beat it when the games are only 100 MB or so and yet the new games for PS3 which are 50 GB I can spend 2 hours and beat the whole game.

What happened?! If anything I want a game that I can get my moneys worth out of it. Something that I have to spend more then one sitting (*cough cough cod MW2*) to be able to finnish the game.

Am I the only one that enjoys games that are challenging or have game companies just becoming cheap?
 
That's the same thing with my Gamecube especially Super Mario Sunshine. :D By far, one of my top 10 game ever played. But on the N64 definately James Bond 007: Goldeneye.
 
developers focus heavily on the multiplayer aspect of games. a game without a good online experience is pretty much worthless today. it's almost as if singleplayer is being very slowly phased out. i also miss the days of seemingly impossible levels, and ridiculously hard boss fights.
 
Midnight_fox1 said:
That's the same thing with my Gamecube especially Super Mario Sunshine. :D By far, one of my top 10 game ever played. But on the N64 definately James Bond 007: Goldeneye.
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Ohh that was SOOO amazing back in 1995 or when ever, But now i try to play it and the one analog stick makes it so hard to move hah.
 
Droogie said:
developers focus heavily on the multiplayer aspect of games. a game without a good online experience is pretty much worthless today. it's almost as if singleplayer is being very slowly phased out. i also miss the days of seemingly impossible levels, and ridiculously hard boss fights.
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I think it's partially due to pirating. Single player games can just be downloaded illegally online and developers make no money.
 
Droogie said:
developers focus heavily on the multiplayer aspect of games. a game without a good online experience is pretty much worthless today. it's almost as if singleplayer is being very slowly phased out. i also miss the days of seemingly impossible levels, and ridiculously hard boss fights.
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This, not to mention is takes a lot more time, money, and effort in development now than it did back then.
 
I can't even get through Doom. Im happy with pacman and asteroids.
I even have the cheat codes for doom1 and 2. (don't make no diff).
cheers........
 
I blame gaming companies and the idiots who buy "graphics" over "gameplay" for ruining gaming.

I still to this day play Final Fantasy 2 and 3 and Legend of Lufia on SNES....Shining Force 1 and 2 on Sega.
The only PC game (made after 2005) that I can play more then once a year is Fallout 3 and even that doesn't get played as much as my emulators do.


They wonder why sales are bad...its not pirating or economy its crappy 4 hour games. Not everyone wants to play online.....even Oblivion sucks when compared with Morrowind.
 
Yeah, too many people think that graphics are the most important part, But id rather spend my $60 on a game that has a great play then having good graphics.
 
I honestly can't play anything "closed ended" anymore. (single player)

I like open ended, multiplayer games, where the same person isn't waiting behind the same corner, every time you come around it.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
I honestly can't play anything "closed ended" anymore. (single player)

I like open ended, multiplayer games, where the same person isn't waiting behind the same corner, every time you come around it.
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Yes, But if the game play is long enough like DK, then you never have the same experience. Honestly I could never beat DK so the whole game play is all different to me.

Multiplayer also sometimes pisses me off because there is no plot (I know there are some exceptions.), its just mindless killing or whatever.
 
brian said:
Yes, But if the game play is long enough like DK, then you never have the same experience. Honestly I could never beat DK so the whole game play is all different to me.

Multiplayer also sometimes pisses me off because there is no plot (I know there are some exceptions.), its just mindless killing or whatever.
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Well, long game play or not, it's still the same thing over and over, and all that's needed, in general, is to memorize and repeat. :(
 
i like single player games like diablo and titan quest.

but those games that take for ever like gta and newer FF, i loose interest half-way, and when i try to go back i don't remember wth i was doing :confused:

i'm sure there are some good new games out there, but the focus is on story telling and looking good instead of just playing for fun.

i remember playing ff on the nes and it was teh bomb! now you have games like mass effect and there's so much reading and learning stuff, it actually feels like i'm working or studying instead of just playing! :gun:
 
theres still gta, i can play single player (not the missions, just free roaming) for hours straight and not get bored. they need to make another mario game. not like super mario sunshine (which was a good game btw) but like the classics. just a platform single player. except with like 1000 levels. i would buy that.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
I honestly can't play anything "closed ended" anymore. (single player)

I like open ended, multiplayer games, where the same person isn't waiting behind the same corner, every time you come around it.
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This is the same with me, but yah i agree it would be nice to have the a longer single player mode.But like everything things adapt over time.
 
Good Singleplayer games are getting harder and harder to find. that's why i love grand theft auto 4. It took me a good week of solid playing to get the hang of it and beat the story, plus some good old free roaming and cop chases.

Whereas CoD4 for example i can beat overnight on veteran... but has lots of multiplayer.

I prefer a game with a long single player story, decent graphics (gta4 could have better graphics, and not just a crappy port too) and a good multiplayer element with lots of modes (gta4 once again) And of course, there are always mods, which GTA games on PC have always been supported, but not recommended, by the developer.

I hate developers that are in it purely for the money... let me use GTA4 again as an example. R* spent god knows how much on copy protection (can't remember) but then they can't be arsed to port it properly to the PC like all previous games in the GTA series!!?

Copy protection, just punishing the people who buy the games. I don't see torrenters getting punished, but rewarded with a free game, and cracks to bypass the DRM. And who is going to spend $100 on a single game? All this stuff is overpriced, further encouraged illegal methods. Perhaps if developers spent less on copy protection (will get cracked anyway. Fact) and more on coding and optimising the game properly, and didn't charge so much for it, we would see better quality games.

I mean, it wasn't so long ago (a few years i believe) that all a crack did was allow you to play the game without the disc in the drive. useful if you want to keep them in top shape, or if you have an older game and the cd is scratched to hell and won't play with the disc. Am i right here?

/Rant.
 
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I do see where you're coming from, with the fact that games which are merely impossible to accomplish are much more appealing.. The best example I can think of is the one and only 'Ratchet And Clank'. I currently play Modern Warfare 2 but you're exactly right that it isn't the same.
 
Droogie said:
developers focus heavily on the multiplayer aspect of games. a game without a good online experience is pretty much worthless today. it's almost as if singleplayer is being very slowly phased out. i also miss the days of seemingly impossible levels, and ridiculously hard boss fights.
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TaURiN*e said:
I do see where you're coming from, with the fact that games which are merely impossible to accomplish are much more appealing.. The best example I can think of is the one and only 'Ratchet And Clank'. I currently play Modern Warfare 2 but you're exactly right that it isn't the same.
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Well I can think of a game right now that has seemingly impossible levels, ridiculously hard bos fights, nearly impossible to complete and is single player, has bitchin' graphics, is hella fun to play and I will probably get flamed for saying this, but eff you!!! demon's souls.

One of my friends got it imported and we spent about 2 and a bit days play time going through it at a few hours a day and bits of it we had to spend a few hours figuring out how to do it becaus it is so damn difficult, but even doing that it was so much fun...and is single player :P

Still hough, I cracked out my sega mega drive last week, and it isn't as good as sonic or streets of rage :)
 
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