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| Topic Started: Oct 27 2009, 05:51 PM (257 Views) | |
| VOTE LIBERAL | Oct 27 2009, 05:51 PM Post #1 |
Washable Sushi Towpath
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Recently, I've been loving the Defense Grid tower defence game I've mentioned so approvingly in the iPhone recommendations thread. I also really loved the Batman Arkham Asylum game. Do I think they're the best games ever? No. But I felt far, far more excited about either of them then I have pretty much anything else in the last year or more. I think I'm just bored, jaded by games. But! Not sick of them, not even fed up. I feel like I'm at a buffet but there's nothing that I really want anymore, and even my happy memories of that awesome quiche is quickly fading as I stare at its empty plate. Now there are only tidbits and rather over-done, underwhelming thick slices of tedium. The DS - no, sold it. Fed up of puzzle games, tired of crappy third-rate ports, unimpressed by modest portable versions of some of my favourite 'big' games like Civilization. The iPhone - don't have one, can't afford one currently. But I wonder if it wouldn't be much like the DS, for me, only cheaper. A bigger variety of disappointment for a bargain price, like getting a Cascade 50 tape for Christmas. The 360 - bored of first-person-shooters, I've switched to its many racing games. Well, there still isn't that much else. Other than for the Arcade, but I've already completed or otherwise done with all the best stuff on there, bar a scant few that I'm trying to eke out. If not for the occasional immersive role-playing game like Fallout 3 or possibly Borderlands (I'm still undecided about how long I'll be interested in playing it), I don't know that I'd even bother using its disc drive . The PC - like the above but more dodgy/buggy/unstable/slow. The reason I bought a 360 in the first place. It does however have the occasional quirky freeware delight such as Windosill or other bizarre Flash oddities. But they're not really what I'd consider a game. I'm not sucked in for hours of deep thought and bouncing-in-chair-excitement by a desktop toy, nor by really anything else at the moment. I'm like a music lover who has played all his records to death but finds everything new out is shit or just depressingly derivative, pointless, redundant. What now? |
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| VinylPusher | Oct 27 2009, 07:38 PM Post #2 |
 
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As I grow older, my interest in games changes. No longer will I sit in front of a game for hours. Except for Fallout 3 on Xbox, that was a goddamn gem. I've coincidentally been replaying Defense Grid: The Awakening just recently. Perhaps as we get older, we look for more intellectual games? I still love the odd race on PGR3 and I would like to play Forza 3, but the last game I spent any gross amount of time with was PGR2 when it was first out. Seriously, I almost wore the disc out. Flash games are ok. Again though, tower defence games are a favourite. Fantastic Contraption too. Oh, and Pontifex (before I forget). |
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| VOTE LIBERAL | Oct 27 2009, 08:28 PM Post #3 |
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Washable Sushi Towpath
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Defense Grid and Fallout 3 - sir, that's me, that is. Speaking of Forza, I had forgot to say that someone recently gave me a cheapo copy of erm, Need For Speed Pro Street, and I was surprised to find that it's rather enjoyable. Good, compelling structure for progress, decent atmosphere, reasonably fast, uncomplicated... having never enjoyed a NFS game before, I was really most suprised. So, based on what you said... maybe I should give Pontifex a go, and whatever Fantastic Contraption is. I'm guessing that it is a bit like Bill's Tomato Game / The Incredible Machine, with a name like that. |
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| Futureshock | Oct 28 2009, 01:07 AM Post #4 |
I need sugar.
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Take a break? Or get Uncharted 2. |
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| RevStu | Oct 28 2009, 01:08 AM Post #5 |
Laird/Beast Of Glencairn
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The solution to game-jade misery? Why, it's http://greatflash.co.uk/index.php?topic=291.0 |
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| Tom Camfield | Oct 28 2009, 05:04 AM Post #6 |
Spaceman Moses
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Well, this year has been rubbish for games! (IMO) For example, IGN's round up of the best games so far: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/101/1013202p1.html ... is not exactly exciting. Also, don't forget that last year two of the games topping most "Best of..." lists were Little Big Planet or GTAIV, neither of which I think most WOSers really dug. Compare all of this to 2007, with Mario Galaxy, Portal, Team Fortress 2, COD4, Bioshock, Crackdown, Zelda DS, Halo 3, Mass Effect, S.T.A.L.K.E.R ... that was a year with a lot of quality being shouted from the rooftops. So, feeling a little jaded is kind of normal. I would, however, suggest that Shadow Complex (360 downloadable Metroid game) is worth a punt. It's probably my favorite game of the year. Edit: grammar. Edited by Tom Camfield, Oct 28 2009, 05:09 AM.
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| Marc | Oct 28 2009, 08:34 AM Post #7 |
Waiting for the punchline
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The iPod touch is ace and it is like having a C90 full of Spectrum games, but a good one, not a cassette 50. I'm in pretty much the same boat, the only things I've really touched lately are Xbox emulators and retro comps. I've started lots of stuff, but given up a quarter of the way in through sheer apathy, there doesn't seem a single thing on the 360 horizon that I'm even remotely interested in at present. I've mentioned in another thread, but I'd have sold the thing entirely if it wasn't for the fact that Cave's latest shooter port, and thus - hopefully - all subsequent ones, is region-free. |
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