The title of this thread made me giggle. I remember the masterpieces from my childhood, going from RPGs to strategy and graphic adventures, and when i see the new products of today i simply want to quit gaming for good. At least there are still a few options to turn off my brain from time to time... but that feeling of enjoyment of old is long, long lost.
I actually feel the opossite than the OP, i think this is the worst era of gaming and it's just getting worse. There are hundreds of games to chose from, too bad they're all terrible. As i said before in other thread, quality doesn't equal quantity.
Some eternal unhappy people rather die in a desert full of half empty glasses then drink the half full part... same goes for some eternal complainers on video game forums.
Does your analogy imply that people should be happy to play sub par games?
you just validated his point
Challenge: say something positive
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
I'd go with: "There has never been a better time to be a PC gamer"
I also believe that it will keep getting better...
If there's never been a better time to be a PC gamer, then that means this is the greatest era of pc gaming. Plus if I had just said that, there wouldn't be nearly as much spirited discussion in this thread.
I do agree that it will surely keep getting better.
But "greatest" is a finite descriptive. Can you tell the future? Will there never be a "greater era" in video gaming?
Some eternal unhappy people rather die in a desert full of half empty glasses then drink the half full part... same goes for some eternal complainers on video game forums.
That cartoon forgets the cash shop,. where they charge you for 2 full glasses and give you half.
Some eternal unhappy people rather die in a desert full of half empty glasses then drink the half full part... same goes for some eternal complainers on video game forums.
Does your analogy imply that people should be happy to play sub par games?
Some eternal unhappy people rather die in a desert full of half empty glasses then drink the half full part... same goes for some eternal complainers on video game forums.
That cartoon forgets the cash shop,. where they charge you for 2 full glasses and give you half.
Are you trying to make an argument against cash shops? If so, then you might say something like "...you're forgetting cash shops where they sell you a self-refilling cup of water.." You're argument suggests that you get less from cash shops than what you can get in game, which would be mean that games aren't P2W at all.
Actually, I think that your comment sums up the comic perfectly. That is the prevailing reasoning given by most these days, "....because cash shop...." aaaaaaand that's about it.
--As well as these popular games that I personally wasn't as excited for:
Everquest
Homeworld
Super Smash Bros.
Heroes of Might & Magic 3
This year (for me):
TW:Warhammer
Hearts of Iron 4
Don't Starve Together
Overwatch
Street Fighter 5
Factorio
Darkest Dungeon
We still have the rest of the year for Battlefield 1, Deus Ex:MD, and Civ6, but like every single one of those 1999 games is widely considered a classic and it's too early to tell whether this year's games will be considered classics 5+ years from now.
While we have some great stuff coming out nowadays, I wouldn't call it the greatest era.
Maybe if you narrowed the scope to 2016's Strategy Games, since we just got hit by 3 fantastic strategy games in a row (Stellaris, TW:W, HOI4). But I guess then it'd have to beat out 1997's Starcraft 1, Total Annihilation, Myth, and Final Fantasy Tactics, and that ain't happening either.
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
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Some eternal unhappy people rather die in a desert full of half empty glasses then drink the half full part... same goes for some eternal complainers on video game forums.
Does your analogy imply that people should be happy to play sub par games?
Just to list a few recent and totally different ones which have been major hits: Skyrim, Witcher 3, Doom, Overwatch, Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed, Shadow of Mordor, so all those are sub par games?
Some people confuse "sub par" with "I'm bitter and I hate everything". There are tons of quality games all over the place, one just has to look for them.
As someone said, the problem is with the players... or rather, SOME players.
There have no doubt been some Masterpieces released in a sea of mediocrity.
Isn't it something that has always been and always will be, for pretty much any form of Art and Entertainment.
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
This comes down to personal preference, but some people liked games better when there weren't so many rules in place to limit what was in them, there wasn't a strategy on how to make a game, there was no rating system, and as a result you often ended up with a more entertaining game/story even if the gameplay/graphics were much worse. I like all the games listed, but overall they are a bit tame compared to what I saw in some older games. This is just a general change in attitude that starts with Political Correctness and the game industry being taken over by parents. I'm sure there are a lot of people who consider this to be a good thing instead of a bad and it's part of why gaming has gone mainstream.
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
Yeah, and everyone's born with '1-800-MY-STEAM' tattooed on their ass. Or even a computer. Just because steam exists doesn't mean everyone's heard of it, whereas a full store full of things you can walk in, look at, hold, sometimes demo were what we used to have in place of Gameslut or whatever the consoles (with bargain bin second hand pc games with codes you can't even use to install them anymore). Working off of your myopic view, tell me how kids say.... second grade or less find out about pc games. Only the triple A games advertise enough to get across, and you can't say that everyone has a family member with steam or even a PC in the house. Whereas, most children are going to end up being taken along with their parents when they go shopping, which means they're more likely to be exposed to pc games by actually passing by a store filled with them.
But I get it, everyone on the starship enterprise has a steam account.
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Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
This comes down to personal preference, but some people liked games better when there weren't so many rules in place to limit what was in them, there wasn't a strategy on how to make a game, there was no rating system, and as a result you often ended up with a more entertaining game/story even if the gameplay/graphics were much worse. I like all the games listed, but overall they are a bit tame compared to what I saw in some older games. This is just a general change in attitude that starts with Political Correctness and the game industry being taken over by parents. I'm sure there are a lot of people who consider this to be a good thing instead of a bad and it's part of why gaming has gone mainstream.
If you look at "I like it" based good/bad, yes it's down to personal preference. You can not find an era that was "best" for everyone if you evaluate based on subjective tastes.
We can find an era that is best in terms of business, because that can be measured objectively. But this era will still not be a great era for everyone subjectively.
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
Yeah, and everyone's born with '1-800-MY-STEAM' tattooed on their ass. Or even a computer. Just because steam exists doesn't mean everyone's heard of it, whereas a full store full of things you can walk in, look at, hold, sometimes demo were what we used to have in place of Gameslut or whatever the consoles (with bargain bin second hand pc games with codes you can't even use to install them anymore). Working off of your myopic view, tell me how kids say.... second grade or less find out about pc games. Only the triple A games advertise enough to get across, and you can't say that everyone has a family member with steam or even a PC in the house. Whereas, most children are going to end up being taken along with their parents when they go shopping, which means they're more likely to be exposed to pc games by actually passing by a store filled with them.
But I get it, everyone on the starship enterprise has a steam account.
Your vision of an ideal gaming world with shops all over the city can't negate the huge success of gaming platforms like Steam, Origin or UPlay, or the console shops from Sony and XBox. You post a vision of what you would like to see, you are countered by hard facts about what reality is.
Times have changed. Welcome to the broadband Internet, time to adapt.
I read Priests post a couple of times because it was so weird and disturbing. I thought this had to be a troll post. Welcome to the broadband Internet was priceless His post might of made sense 25 or 30 years ago.
"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
Yeah, and everyone's born with '1-800-MY-STEAM' tattooed on their ass. Or even a computer. Just because steam exists doesn't mean everyone's heard of it, whereas a full store full of things you can walk in, look at, hold, sometimes demo were what we used to have in place of Gameslut or whatever the consoles (with bargain bin second hand pc games with codes you can't even use to install them anymore). Working off of your myopic view, tell me how kids say.... second grade or less find out about pc games. Only the triple A games advertise enough to get across, and you can't say that everyone has a family member with steam or even a PC in the house. Whereas, most children are going to end up being taken along with their parents when they go shopping, which means they're more likely to be exposed to pc games by actually passing by a store filled with them.
But I get it, everyone on the starship enterprise has a steam account.
Your vision of an ideal gaming world with shops all over the city can't negate the huge success of gaming platforms like Steam, Origin or UPlay, or the console shops from Sony and XBox. You post a vision of what you would like to see, you are countered by hard facts about what reality is.
Times have changed. Welcome to the broadband Internet, time to adapt.
I read Priests post a couple of times because it was so weird and disturbing. I thought this had to be a troll post. Welcome to the broadband Internet was priceless His post might of made sense 25 or 30 years ago.
Tell that to the 60% of the world's population that still has no internet at all, let alone broadband. But again, taking the myopic view spawned by an elitist viewpoint and still haven't even answered the question of how those without steam, or a computer, will know jack all about pc games. Could always go on tour and share the fiber you've got coming out of your backside I suppose.
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Word of mouth and older brothers/dads/moms/sisters tend to do the trick now and oh Internet/social media/gaming websties/twitch. are you living under a rock? Hell my nephews and nieces are playing on my phone and pc and they're barely out of diapers. this arguemt is a stretch.
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Why did Scotty nail the toilet to the ceiling? to go where no man has gone before....
"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
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Word of mouth and older brothers/dads/moms/sisters tend to do the trick now and oh Internet/social media/gaming websties/twitch. are you living under a rock? Hell my nephews and nieces are playing on my phone and pc and they're barely out of diapers. this arguemt is a stretch.
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Why did Scotty nail the toilet to the ceiling? to go where no man has gone before....
Alright, that's 3 people that can't answer the posed question within the parameters, only able to take in their immediate quality of life as 'the way it must be' for everyone everywhere. I can't argue with rich white entitled logic lol.
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"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
I can swing the sword but so many times before its time for a new scene. Its not normal by any means to spend that long on one game. Doesn't mean people wont do it I mean heck look at some people been playing WOW since it launched. My father in law still plays solitaire every day and thats all he ever plays. You can always go back for a refresh of a game but to continually play it for 1k hours its just bleh when you got so many flavors why stick with vanilla only?
"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
I can swing the sword but so many times before its time for a new scene. Its not normal by any means to spend that long on one game. Doesn't mean people wont do it I mean heck look at some people been playing WOW since it launched. My father in law still plays solitaire every day and thats all he ever plays. You can always go back for a refresh of a game but to continually play it for 1k hours its just bleh when you got so many flavors why stick with vanilla only?
Your reasons are sound, but also your own. The same exact things can be said about people that are only fans of one sports team, or will only drive a car made by X maker, or why they have the same jam on their toast every morning. Everyone has a preference as to where they want to spend their time. You enjoy your time, get bored, then hop somewhere else to enjoy time again. some of us want a game where we can sit back and continuously just enjoy it without feeling like we HAVE to move on to keep experiencing that enjoyment. Hope that makes more sense
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"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
I can swing the sword but so many times before its time for a new scene. Its not normal by any means to spend that long on one game. Doesn't mean people wont do it I mean heck look at some people been playing WOW since it launched. My father in law still plays solitaire every day and thats all he ever plays. You can always go back for a refresh of a game but to continually play it for 1k hours its just bleh when you got so many flavors why stick with vanilla only?
Your reasons are sound, but also your own. The same exact things can be said about people that are only fans of one sports team, or will only drive a car made by X maker, or why they have the same jam on their toast every morning. Everyone has a preference as to where they want to spend their time. You enjoy your time, get bored, then hop somewhere else to enjoy time again. some of us want a game where we can sit back and continuously just enjoy it without feeling like we HAVE to move on to keep experiencing that enjoyment. Hope that makes more sense
Makes sense to me
Heck I've even managed to stay with the same women for over 25 years
"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
I can swing the sword but so many times before its time for a new scene. Its not normal by any means to spend that long on one game. Doesn't mean people wont do it I mean heck look at some people been playing WOW since it launched. My father in law still plays solitaire every day and thats all he ever plays. You can always go back for a refresh of a game but to continually play it for 1k hours its just bleh when you got so many flavors why stick with vanilla only?
Your reasons are sound, but also your own. The same exact things can be said about people that are only fans of one sports team, or will only drive a car made by X maker, or why they have the same jam on their toast every morning. Everyone has a preference as to where they want to spend their time. You enjoy your time, get bored, then hop somewhere else to enjoy time again. some of us want a game where we can sit back and continuously just enjoy it without feeling like we HAVE to move on to keep experiencing that enjoyment. Hope that makes more sense
Makes sense to me
Heck I've even managed to stay with the same women for over 25 years
Women..... like more than 1? You sir, are very, very, very brave.lol
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"However fact that the OP is jumping around saying tons of games to play,tells me that NONE are really that good because if they were THAT good ,that one game would be the steady go to game. Example when i became embedded in FFXi ,i stopped playing UT99,i stopped playing MTG and i stopped playing EQ as well as Quake and a couple others."
I used to just have one steady go-to game. In fact, for a few years, it was FFXI too for me.
But now I have games for like any mood I'm in. Feel like zoning out and grinding- BDO. Strategic gameplay- SMITE. Rolling dice to piss myself off- Hearthstone. Fast-paced twitchy gameplay- Overwatch.
FFXI could never satisfy all these gaming desires- only pretty much the same one BDO satisfies now.
Back when I played FFXI, it wasn't that I was never in the mood for something like a great fast-paced twitchy shooter- it's just that Overwatch wasn't out then. There was shooters, sure, but nothing that appealed to me. Nothing really like SMITE or Hearthstone either.
It's not just these games though. I also STILL have Dark Souls 3 to get through. Every week it seems something interesting comes out that looks like fun- last couple weeks it's been Dead by Daylight.
Started playing Zero Escape last night with my girlfriend and it's tons of fun with her solving puzzles and watching the cutscenes.
Wha??? You are one of those delusional people who think a game should last you 10 years or what? There are tons of terrific games and no they aren't suppose to last you 10 years. Some of the best games I played only lasted me about 30 hours of gameplay. Play the game, enjoy the story, move to the next thing. If you are gaming with something else in mind then you won't enjoy many games at all.
If you're only playing for a few hours, then hopping on the bandwagon of the next new thing, then the developers you're supporting have failed in all but raking in your money. Some people would rather enjoy an experience and invest their time in that experience indefinitely. Why do you think games like Skyrim or Fallout have a mod scene that's still very much alive? And those are single player. I'd expect people would like to spend that much time and effort in an MMO experience as well, if not more. Take your ritalin and find a game you enjoy for more time than your ADD allows, sometimes it's worth it =P
I can swing the sword but so many times before its time for a new scene. Its not normal by any means to spend that long on one game. Doesn't mean people wont do it I mean heck look at some people been playing WOW since it launched. My father in law still plays solitaire every day and thats all he ever plays. You can always go back for a refresh of a game but to continually play it for 1k hours its just bleh when you got so many flavors why stick with vanilla only?
Your reasons are sound, but also your own. The same exact things can be said about people that are only fans of one sports team, or will only drive a car made by X maker, or why they have the same jam on their toast every morning. Everyone has a preference as to where they want to spend their time. You enjoy your time, get bored, then hop somewhere else to enjoy time again. some of us want a game where we can sit back and continuously just enjoy it without feeling like we HAVE to move on to keep experiencing that enjoyment. Hope that makes more sense
Makes sense to me
Heck I've even managed to stay with the same women for over 25 years
Women..... like more than 1? You sir, are very, very, very brave.lol
Greatest era for pc gaming? srsly? I remember when there were stores DEVOTED to nothing but pc games. Multiple shelves full of them as a matter of fact, not the 5 or 6 new releases + bargain bin you find these days.
There are more games on Steam alone than there have even been in any devoted gaming store. Not sure of what point you're trying to make.
The implication might be that Steam is one (enormous) bargain bin.
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At least there are still a few options to turn off my brain from time to time... but that feeling of enjoyment of old is long, long lost.
I actually feel the opossite than the OP, i think this is the worst era of gaming and it's just getting worse. There are hundreds of games to chose from, too bad they're all terrible. As i said before in other thread, quality doesn't equal quantity.
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Are you trying to make an argument against cash shops? If so, then you might say something like "...you're forgetting cash shops where they sell you a self-refilling cup of water.." You're argument suggests that you get less from cash shops than what you can get in game, which would be mean that games aren't P2W at all.
Actually, I think that your comment sums up the comic perfectly. That is the prevailing reasoning given by most these days, "....because cash shop...." aaaaaaand that's about it.
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No no no no no!
Yes it is great time for PC gaming but because of completly other game titles.
- System Shock 2
- AOE2
- UT
- Q3
- Alpha Centauri
- Freespace 2
- SF3:Third Strike
- Counterstrike
- --As well as these popular games that I personally wasn't as excited for:
- Everquest
- Homeworld
- Super Smash Bros.
- Heroes of Might & Magic 3
This year (for me):- TW:Warhammer
- Hearts of Iron 4
- Don't Starve Together
- Overwatch
- Street Fighter 5
- Factorio
- Darkest Dungeon
We still have the rest of the year for Battlefield 1, Deus Ex:MD, and Civ6, but like every single one of those 1999 games is widely considered a classic and it's too early to tell whether this year's games will be considered classics 5+ years from now.While we have some great stuff coming out nowadays, I wouldn't call it the greatest era.
Maybe if you narrowed the scope to 2016's Strategy Games, since we just got hit by 3 fantastic strategy games in a row (Stellaris, TW:W, HOI4). But I guess then it'd have to beat out 1997's Starcraft 1, Total Annihilation, Myth, and Final Fantasy Tactics, and that ain't happening either.
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
Isn't it something that has always been and always will be, for pretty much any form of Art and Entertainment.
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
But I get it, everyone on the starship enterprise has a steam account.
You can not find an era that was "best" for everyone if you evaluate based on subjective tastes.
We can find an era that is best in terms of business, because that can be measured objectively. But this era will still not be a great era for everyone subjectively.
Heck I've even managed to stay with the same women for over 25 years
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
Which, in a lot of ways, is true.