I play Video-games since quite a time and I'm getting picky now about gameplays and quality but I totally disagree with this point of view.
Games are overhyped that's for sure...when you see an average FPS game like Halo acclaimed and advertized as "THE BEST GAMES OF THE UNIVERSE!" that's only b*llshit. It's only an average FPS game. Then you have Oblivion...nice pictures possibility for photographers but quite horrible gameplay wise for RPG lovers. We can also speak about all the crap between bump mapping, eye candy, directx 10 and such.
But...we have gems like Portal, Supreme Commander, Armed Assault. It's like 20 years ago, bad games, overhyped and really good one. The only difference is that now the game industry makes more money than Hollywood. So you must search deeper to find the really good gameplays.
Saying that everything is going down the drain is a little bit (just a little) admitting getting older.
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I play Video-games since quite a time and I'm getting picky now about gameplays and quality but I totally disagree with this point of view.
Games are overhyped that's for sure...when you see an average FPS game like Halo acclaimed and advertized as "THE BEST GAMES OF THE UNIVERSE!" that's only b*llshit. It's only an average FPS game.
Then you have Oblivion...nice pictures possibility for photographers but quite horrible gameplay wise for RPG lovers.
We can also speak about all the crap between bump mapping, eye candy, directx 10 and such.
But...we have gems like Portal, Supreme Commander, Armed Assault.
It's like 20 years ago, bad games, overhyped and really good one.
The only difference is that now the game industry makes more money than Hollywood. So you must search deeper to find the really good gameplays.
Saying that everything is going down the drain is a little bit (just a little) admitting getting older.