Well I thought maybe it was time to make a blog on this site with my past games,from where it all started and maybe where it will end...
I started gamming at around 8 years old(now 36),yep I begged my parents for a ZX81 till I was blue in the face and had alot of fun with hogger etc,after that it was the Atari 2600 and this is where it all took off.
The countless hours on The empire strikes back,Ice hockey,the smurfs,even the combat game that came with the console had me hooked...I mean so many options like invisible tanks.
Though my 1st real love came in the shape of a ZX spectrum,It was my friend that had 1 at 1st but wasnt long till I had 1 at my bedside,we would play Hyper sports and Skool daze until either his mum kicked me out or my mum kicked him out,then came Jet Set Willy and Attic Attack etc etc,then there was no getting us to go home .....we were hooked.
I grew up but never lost my love for games,I cant remember ever not having some sort of console/computer in my bedroom in all those years,I went through the Amiga,master system,megadrive,saturn,playstation,etc etc.
Now I know we are in a new generation where everything has to be bigger and better but sometimes it makes me wonder how the young guys of today would have faired today with the systems we had 20 years ago?
The thing that got me started on this was the whole AoC DX10 wasnt in the game,even now they are testing it and people complain,also things like the upcomming Aion where some will say "the graphics arent my style"
I never heard anyone say that the graphics were not there style back in the day,it was always about the fun.
I know some might say things have moved on and so expectations rise but surely the 1st thing about a game has to be the fun aspect?
Back in the day playing the like's of attic attack there was no MMO/great graphics but games like that paved the way for the games we enjoy today and for good reason.
If we were as hard back then as we are today I wonder how the gamming industry would have reacted,or indeed gave up and moved on to other things...
Just my thoughts on how we act these days to games and how it may indeed affect the future for gamming as a whole.
Video games were a new technology back then. It's difficult to be hard on something you have no experience with and no expectations for. It was new, it was fun and interesting. Many of those classic games released in the old days were buggy, ugly and pointless, but they were NEW, and they were fun simply because they were new.
Look at the popularity of the Nintendo Wii. Wii Fitness? Look at some of the horrendous things that are being released for that system, and yet it remains popular because it's new, with a new style of gameplay control.
Nowadays, when you have people who have played dozens of MMOs and hundreds of games, they have particular likes and dislikes, and when their wants and expectations are not met, they complain, because they're still looking to recapture that "new" feeling, which they can't do by definition, until companies innovate and actually release something new and interesting.
Wed Mar 25 2009 6:45PMI'd also like to add: look at the Darkfall camp. That game is one of the worst games released in the past ten years of any genre for any system, but because it has the bare bones full loot PvP and all of this political intrigue that everyone seems to want, it's dubbed "new and interesting" and has the attention of fanboys everywhere, who are content to ignore all the faults and praise the minute number of positives.
Give it six months, and they will be bashing it with the rest of us.
Wed Mar 25 2009 6:50PMWhile some of what you say is true and I agree that things have moved on the Spectrum ran for years as did the amstrad,C64 and there was never such an outcry about games.
I was a sub of magazines like "crash" and later "zero" and there was never big outcries about games.
Maybe it is the internet that has made that easier but I will say back in the day,infact I would even be as bold as to say before the likes of WoW,games were given a chance,now they are shot down at the 1st sight of weakness.
Wed Mar 25 2009 6:51PMI remind you of the big video game crash of 1983, which was caused, in part by the ATARI game ET, which was so universally panned, and so horrible that it shook everyone's faith in the video game industry. It was so bad that hundreds of thousands of copies were buried in a landfill in New Mexico.
I'd say that qualifies as an outcry.
Wed Mar 25 2009 6:59PMIndeed,I cant agrue with the infamous Atari dump,though I am not sure it was a video crash,also the game was not fun at all,not really what I was pointing the fact to with mmo's or games these days,as I said in the 1st post games have to be fun,ET wasnt.
Wed Mar 25 2009 7:19PMMMORPG.com writes:
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