old.Tohtori
FH is my second home
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The modern gamer is a greedy, self centered bastard. Now this may sound harsh, but it's the reality. "All-to-me-right-now-give" attitude is the most common thing around the gaming world. Better graphics, better sound, more content, more everything! If we make a game that has three monsters, the community wants four. If we make a game with 300 soundfiles, the community wants 301. If we make a game that looks like a dropdead exact photo of real life, it's too realistic. Nothing is enough. Think of it yourself, how many times have you said to yourself or your guildies ingame "this and this should be like this and this"?
If we take a look back at the really old games, we have things like frogger. Frog crosses the street and avoids cars. Nothing more. Still it's a classic in the gaming community(old school gamers more so).
Now let's bring frogger to this day:
- The road isn't large enough a world, so we need to make it a continent.
- The graphics have to go 3D.
- Car isn't big enough a challenge so let's make it a dragon.
- One type of enemy isn't enough so let's bring in the whole fantasy group of nasty things.
- A frog? Who wants to play a frog? Let's make it an orc.
- Everyone doesn't like an orc. Let's bring in other races like humans, dwarves, trols, elves...
- Crossing the realm isn't good enough...
Well you get the point. Nowadays if someone made a game about a guy in chainmail trying to run past a dragonbreath, it would be laughed out of the preverbial game-kindergarden. It's like a modern kid with candy. You give a kid a candybar, the brat eats it and asks for more. Then another, and another. In the "old days", meaning the days of C-64, amiga and so forth, when we got a candy bar, we ate it and were happy until the next saturday. It's the same with games. We could play elite for ages, hack a pixel in a pixel dungeon for hours on end, drive a white dot around or even try and hit a white dot past another players white pixelwall. Nowadays? A game that lasts over 8 hours isn't made for the masses, or if it lasts over 8 hours, it has to have this and that and a packet of hohos to go with it.
It's as natural as masturbation people. Some deny they do it, some do it in public, but when the sun goes down, everyone complains about games today. I wish we could go back to a bit more simple gaming world, enjoy a bit less and still have the best days of our lives. I just think the new player community is missing on something. As the world gets worse and worse, the games must get better and better. Maybe it's just that people want to escape more easily from the harsh reality. With graphics and sound matching the real world and with as many things to do, maybe we find it easy to just log in with our mighty warrior or our wise beyond time mage and forget it all.
See you out there in the not so perfect world....ahem.. game.
If we take a look back at the really old games, we have things like frogger. Frog crosses the street and avoids cars. Nothing more. Still it's a classic in the gaming community(old school gamers more so).
Now let's bring frogger to this day:
- The road isn't large enough a world, so we need to make it a continent.
- The graphics have to go 3D.
- Car isn't big enough a challenge so let's make it a dragon.
- One type of enemy isn't enough so let's bring in the whole fantasy group of nasty things.
- A frog? Who wants to play a frog? Let's make it an orc.
- Everyone doesn't like an orc. Let's bring in other races like humans, dwarves, trols, elves...
- Crossing the realm isn't good enough...
Well you get the point. Nowadays if someone made a game about a guy in chainmail trying to run past a dragonbreath, it would be laughed out of the preverbial game-kindergarden. It's like a modern kid with candy. You give a kid a candybar, the brat eats it and asks for more. Then another, and another. In the "old days", meaning the days of C-64, amiga and so forth, when we got a candy bar, we ate it and were happy until the next saturday. It's the same with games. We could play elite for ages, hack a pixel in a pixel dungeon for hours on end, drive a white dot around or even try and hit a white dot past another players white pixelwall. Nowadays? A game that lasts over 8 hours isn't made for the masses, or if it lasts over 8 hours, it has to have this and that and a packet of hohos to go with it.
It's as natural as masturbation people. Some deny they do it, some do it in public, but when the sun goes down, everyone complains about games today. I wish we could go back to a bit more simple gaming world, enjoy a bit less and still have the best days of our lives. I just think the new player community is missing on something. As the world gets worse and worse, the games must get better and better. Maybe it's just that people want to escape more easily from the harsh reality. With graphics and sound matching the real world and with as many things to do, maybe we find it easy to just log in with our mighty warrior or our wise beyond time mage and forget it all.
See you out there in the not so perfect world....ahem.. game.