Muhammed the Teddy Bear

[Junket]

I worship videogames, and Xbox360 is my temple.

[EmoBlackBelt]

I worship videogames, and Xbox360 is my temple.

Xbox? Please... Atari 2600 for the win!!

[Junket]

Xbox? Please... Atari 2600 for the win!!

I hate that retro shit.

Back in 2001, suddenly everything "old school", became "cool".

Fúck that shit, I want my pretty graphics and advanced AI.

[anachronistic]

I hate that retro shit.

Back in 2001, suddenly everything "old school", became "cool".

Fúck that shit, I want my pretty graphics and advanced AI.

Advanced AI? The majority of video games today are about graphics, and graphics only. I've played a few new computer games that have some good AI though.

Yeah indie, I don't like organized religion either. I had those feelings back when I stopped going to church, I realized that I was at disagreement with a lot of Christian teachings, I'll pm you about that because it's a little personal for me.

[Gribble]

Yeah... with precious few exceptions any game made after 2001 is complete and total shit. It's just polygonal porn.

Thank you, but I'll continue to play with my library of classics. Unlike today's games, many of them have enough depth to still be appealing after all this time.

[LostNotFound]

Islam is far more violent than Christianity, it advocates violent tactics in the Quran for muslims whereas the Bible does not advocate violent tactics for Christians. If you fail to recognize this then there is no point in going further

have you read the quran?
from experience i know people choose to read bits that are appealing to them and then dwell on them without reading the whole book in context.

the woman was released from jail and returned to britain where she said she was treated normally. it was not the muslim government who wanted to kill her it was the people of the country who were over-excited and could be of any religion.

[IndiReloaded]

I hate that retro shit.

Back in 2001, suddenly everything "old school", became "cool".

Fúck that shit, I want my pretty graphics and advanced AI.

Prob seen it before, but I love this game (so does my son):

[url]http://www.freegamesnews.com/en/games/Excit.html[/url]

[Junket]

Yeah... with precious few exceptions any game made after 2001 is complete and total shit. It's just polygonal porn.

That's with any generation of videogames.

The ones you're still playing are the exceptions of their time.

Do you know how many bad cartridge games there were??

Dear god!

[anachronistic]

Yeah... with precious few exceptions any game made after 2001 is complete and total shit. It's just polygonal porn.

Thank you, but I'll continue to play with my library of classics. Unlike today's games, many of them have enough depth to still be appealing after all this time.

I've been playing a lot of homemade games. I find them just as fun as the older games.

[Gribble]

Games are different today, Fras. They're like popcorn movies. Big, flashy, and hollow. Because that's what makes money. Games today are simplified. They're designed to appeal to as many people as possible. However, this dilutes the game and makes it pretty mediocre for everyone. I'd rather have three or four games I truly loved and three or four I hated than ten that are okay.

Plus they're big business. Risks can't be taken because it costs millions to design a game. Therefore they must follow in the footsteps of previous successes. Look at the number of sequels today. Compare that with the number of new titles that used to come out seven years ago.

[Junket]

Plus they're big business. Risks can't be taken because it costs millions to design a game. Therefore they must follow in the footsteps of previous successes. Look at the number of sequels today. Compare that with the number of new titles that used to come out seven years ago.

Yeah, there were plenty of "new" titles, but they probably took even less risks, because

- limited resources
- older technology
- industry was in its infancy and wasn't taken seriously enough

There were probably as many movie games then, as there are now. I'm not talking about the Mario games, your Contras and such. I'm talking about your random platformer/shooter than had you running from the left to the right shooting random things.

Or maybe moving "up", shooting random things.

With every generations there's gems, games that stand out from the rest, do something different.

Once again, there's more sequels now because that's how this shit works. How many sequels to the first Star Wars film was there before...well, they made the first Star Wars film?

Games that I consider classic (or games I still go back to even now) from the past generation (Xbox, PS2, GC, DC, PC)

Resident Evil 4
Geometry Wars
Psychonauts
Halo 1
WarioWare
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Freedom Fighters (okay, this one really isn't too innovative, but I loved it so I'm biased)
Ninja Gaiden
Beyond Good and Evil
Burnout 2
Fatal Frame 2
Gladius
PowerStone 2
Mercenaries
Jet Grind Radio

Those are all I can think of off the top of my head. There's nothing in there I haven't played. And they're not all the games I enjoyed, I used to play a lot of the Tom Clancy games, (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell), but I wouldn't say they were particularly exceptional.

I'm sure the library of games for the original Nintendo was ridiculous, but obviously, they weren't all so unique/creative were they?

[Kiechi]

Metal gear solid. Final fantasy 7.

[vashti]

Scrabble.

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[peace_maker20]

a bit off topic here? PS3 is the best!

[LostNotFound]

the sega mega drive was the best game console ever!