GamingVice.net:
"Have you ever noticed the difference between games that came out 15+ years ago and now? And I don't mean graphically, or the addition of online play…or the format used for the games itself. Something in the gameplay has changed and makes games feel more random or cheap than anything and less strategically challenging unless you play against another person.
Developers seem to be more focused on how many enemies you see on the screen, or the quality of the graphics, or what the online features are rather than making the gameplay the strength and everything else a bonus."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
VERY GOOD ARTICLE. I know exactly what you mean, something just feels.... different now. Recently I was playing Cool Spot on my Genesis and thought, wow, this is a game that's basically an advertisement for 7Up and yet it's FREAKIN' GREAT. I'm quite glad that someone has finally touched on this. EXCELLENT. Although there are MANY excellent games out right now, even with graphics getting more and more real to life, it does indeed feel like something has changed.
Agree...mostly.
Especially the games getting easier part. I brought Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection the other day and i'm also struggling to get pass parts of the game i used to find easy.
good read , but I can say one thing , alot of the DL'able games from PSN that I've played are very very challenging, Hummelstrumner-X, pixeljunk eden & monsters, Cuboid, Super stardust HD, everyday shooter, echocrome , those are game where its gonna take you a few tries to get even the first lvl right , I usually buy games like those from the store when I'm in a hardcore mood, but for the most part when I buy retail bought games its usually for mindless fun and wanna just get lost in a adventure
Games have become far more commercial. Plain and simple and only a few companies have managed to keep the old gaming feel with their new titles (whether or not the general fanbase is supportive of them or not).
Personally, I blame FPS games. They are super easy to do and hardly anyone does anything worth noting. Metroid Prime introduced platforming to the FPS genre and Half-Life 2 played by the book exactly to get a great game out of itself, but when the concept is as simple as "shootat things you want to die", you can really slap any kind of theme to it money roll in. Even (to me at least) Bioshock felt underwhelming in the gameplay perspective despite having an amazing story (of course, I got the game under the pretense that there would be a lot of unique and fun powers and moral decisions that had a serious effect on gameplay).
Great article, but still not news.