I like vibration in games...especially when it makes me aware of when I get hit. I've gotten used to it, and it is just another (positive) part of most games.
The only time I notice it, is when I put my controller down on the coffee table, and it starts to rattle.
No- it wasn't just because Halo was a good CONSOLE game.
I've played:
Half-Life (Opposing Forces/Blue Shift/Counterstrike) Unreal Tournament UT2K3 Medal of Honor (+ expansion) Deus Ex Quake (I/II/III) Soldier of Fortune Return to Castle Wolfenstein No One Lives Forever (I/II) America's Army Golden Eye Serious Sam/SE
Etc. Etc....I've played tons.
I would say that Halo was the most FUN I've had in any of them.
(Okay, sorry about the stupid list, but just wanted to point out that I have a reasonable point of reference)
I thought the little alien sayings were totally cool. It took a little bit before I realized it was in english, but once I did, I thought it was pretty funny.
As far as the controls go-
Halo was the first first person shooter I played that was NOT on a PC. In fact, I was at a friends house, and he showed me Halo- I played it for a while and thought two things:
#1- controlling an FPS with a console controller was horrible.
#2- the 'auto-aim' or 'aim-assist' or whatever they call it when you just have to get 'close enough' was stupid.
Well- after I actually played the game, I realized that both of these thoughts were WRONG. The console controller DOES work, and mostly because of the auto-aim. Either one of them alone would probably not work, but together, it is excellent.
I'm playing Ghost Recon: Island Thunder right now- and it seems like some weapons are auto-aim, and some are not. When the auto-aim is on, it's fun. When it isn't on, it is very frustrating. But- GRIT is one of the few Xbox titles where the graphics have actually made me not like the game, so I don't play it too much anyway.
Gotta plug the game I'm currently playing though- Crimson Skies. Great game, if you don't mind the cheesey background story.
True, it has been a long time.
But people still buy it, and people still play it. It's good enough that they are still interested about how it was made.
Another interesting thing- Halo sold about 10-20 times the number of most other Xbox games. But when you go into your used game store, it is rare to find used copies of Halo for sale.
Is it the best game ever? Who knows...that changes all the time- but it really is a good game.
I think that a lot of GREAT games are coming out for all of the consoles right now. This is the time when the software is getting really good- now that we are all done getting excited about the hardware.
Simpsons Hit and Run is great (all platforms) far better than any other Simpsons game.
For the Xbox I just got Crimson Skies and Top Spin- both are excellent games. Now I feel like they are really starting to use the hardware by creating great games- not just making games to sell to people who bought the hardware and are looking for something to make it make sense.
I've got a fairly large collection of Xbox games. They love me at EB Games, but they don't like my tastes. (Of course, I think they are all like the 'Comic Book Guy' from the Simpsons, talking about which RPG is the most realistic)
I buy a lot of games, but I never FINISH any of them. Simpsons Hit and Run is my latest. I bought it, I played it, I had fun, and now it is time to move on. I think that I actually completed something like 18% of the game. No, I am not going to 'explore' the entire town to find every single little (bee camera, card, gag) but the ones I do find are pretty fun.
I've got 4 other people in the house all needing something- so my video game time is very short. I try to make it as exciting as possible, and usually that means some new game that just came out.
Too bad nobody else at home is interested in games- I could just imagine how I would have been thrilled if my dad was into video games, and had a huge collection. Instead they all just think I'm a dork. Well, at least my 13 year old daughter gives me SOME respect, because I do know what all of her friends (who are boys- as opposed to boyfriends) are talking about...and I can at least hold my own on NBA Street when they come over.
Oh...I did finish Halo...I think that is the only one.
In the U.S., ballpoint pens cost about 7 cents each.
Typically, I buy a bag or two of them every year or so when they have a big bin at Staples, and throw them into the desk drawer. I usually don't have too much trouble with them, but this discussion has spurred me on to figure out how much time I should spend on trying to get one of these to work.
I figure that it actually takes about 4 seconds of billed time to buy a new pen.
This may be a horrible 'throwaway society' viewpoint, but I don't usually spend too much time dicking with my pen before I pull another one out of the drawer. And of course, I throw the first one away, so I don't run into the same problem with it again.
Usually though, the issue is that I lose all my pens- not that they don't work. Eventually I end up searching through the glovebox in my car, where there is always a vast collection of pens that I have acquired from different places. Obviously there is some sort of subversive pen-exchange system out there, transferring pens around the country.
I used to own a business where I thought it would be a good idea to give out pens to my customers. Not like a fine gift or anything, but just have stacks of them so people could take them when they wanted to. So I ordered like 5,000 of them, and started handing them out right away.
Within the first month I got 3 or 4 calls from people telling me that my pens sucked. I figured that if they bothered to call, then they must have really sucked bad. I started testing them, and yes, they really did suck. So I ended up throwing out about 4,750 pens.
Maybe I should have sent them to India...I can just imagine all of those potential customers blowing on the pens with my company name and logo on them. That would have been fantastic exposure, especially now that a lot of Indians are moving into the area.
"So sir, how is it that you happened to come into (my former company name)"
"I used to blow on your pens as a child, and I always dreamed of coming here one day...and telling you that your pens sucked."
I had the problem on Mechassault, where the 'masters' were spanking my ass every game.
Then I finally went through and played the entire single player campaign. That improved my playability to where I could actually compete. Also, there is the grinder, which will give you tons of practice on different mechs.
The author of the article referred to was obviously a Linux fanboy/zealot. And, I wonder if he has problems using a computer under ANY operating system.
1- He complains that Windows Update doesn't tell him what it is doing. This is absolute crap- a lie. You have the option to see information about every patch it is applying, you can remove patches, there are direct links to very informative security bulletins telling you what the patch is all about. If the author considers himself technically minded, but didn't actually READ what was on the screen, that was his problem. But- he succeeded in installing the patches- and that is what is important. See- it's set up so even morons like him can do it.
2- He couldn't figure out how to add icons in the 'bottom panel' (Taskbar) in Windows. Well, if he had tried to drag and drop, wonderful things would have happened. But, instead he sat there like a slack-jawed idiot, looking for problems. It takes about 2 seconds to add something to the taskbar, or the start menu.
3- Once again, feigning (or proving) total ignorance, he didn't understand what these 'pop-up' ads are all about- and why can't IE get rid of them? True- IE out of the box will display pop-ups, but when you add the Google Toolbar (free) not only will it block pop-ups, but it will give you some awesome IE/Windows only tools right in your browser. The Google Toolbar is better than any similar thing I have seen in other browsers. The answer is out there. And it's free, and it's good.
There were a lot of other problems I saw with his article. But because he was already preaching to the choir, most of it will just be greeted with silly smiles, and lots of head shaking. It must make him feel good to be surrounded by people who think the same way he does, and only make his half-hearted attempts at looking at other options.
Okay, if you want a list, I'll go back a little bit in time, like the GameCube list above:
Otogi Ghost Recon Island Thunder (Live- nothing else compares) Voodoo Vince Project Gotham Racing II Top Spin Crimson Skies Morrowind (New version) Ninja Gaiden Unreal II
Those are just what I can think of right now. Most of those are Live enabled. And contrary to Mr. 'Live Blows' up above- Live is far and away the best on-line console service. I don't really care if it does cost $50 a year. #1 it is worth the $50. #2 You don't have a per-game fee (except for Phantasy Star Online) #3 It works...really well.
How many online games does the Gamecube have right now? How well do they work? Do you have to pay?
Xbox does rock. Take a look at their lineup of games this holiday- I think it is the strongest of the 3 consoles by far. Live blows away the other two on-line services.
The PSX seems like a weak stop-gap before the next generation of consoles. I would not even venture to guess which console will win the next war, but Sony has a good head-start. I think that the PSX might actually be a step in the WRONG direction if they have *ANY* quality problems.
Sell me a crappy console for $200, and if it breaks after a year, I'm bummed. Sell me a $700+ multifunction device, and if it breaks I am *REALLY* pissed.
I'm surprised they took the chance at this point. Why not take the PS2 out, and wait to bundle it with the next console?
Like most people, I really don't need a multi-function device- especially one that tries to address un-related needs.
It's a video game console, of a generation that is in its decline.
AND it is an early generation DVD recorder.
Not too long from now, I would be buying the next-gen console, and I won't feel so good about my multifunction device (ugly to boot) sitting in my cabinet.
Take out the Playstation, and it makes more sense to me.
I'm a programmer, who JUST had a run-in with marketing at work. It was not pretty...
We create and support an on-line application used by a variety of different offices. These offices use our program to disseminate information to the general public.
Marketing wanted to add a new 'feature' which would be promoting our products, over those of our customers. I 'suggested' many times that we should make this an option- not a locked-in feature. During the initial meeting with marketing, they laughed at me- told me how little I knew about the business- even though I am the primary contact within the company for our customers.
Meeting 2, we had set up one demo site, someone who was very deeply entrenched in our system and sympathetic to our marketing department, they said it was fine. I still suggested we should make it an option, but now marketing had 'proof'.
We then pushed the 'feature' out to everyone. Some of our customers were screaming and yelling within minutes of the announcement (at me, because I am their 'answer man'). I had to tell them to talk to the marketing director.
Later that day, the marketing director called me, and said we needed to pull the plug on the whole feature. I again suggested that maybe we could make it an OPTION. The marketing director said "screw it, these people don't know what's good for them- I am done with this project. This whole thing will fail."
So, finally I just made it an option. The 3 or 4 customers who hated it turned it off, and everything was fine.
My question, and the tie-in to this article is...
Why the hell does the Marketing deparment think they know what is best for everyone? Is it really THAT hard to figure out that not EVERYONE will agree with you? (i.e., not everyone will fall for your lies)
But- it seems that they have the project director hoodwinked.
No One Lives Forever II had one of the hottest characters- but since you played as her, you hardly ever got to SEE her. Except for cut-scenes...bummer. Damn first person.
So in that case, it would be better to play AGAINST Kate Archer- which I think you will be doing in the next game.
Volleyball games though...that is a good jiggly scene.
Not to refute what Alex said, but more to provide an opposing opinion.
I got a free copy of Phantasy Star Online I & II for the Xbox. I thought it was absolutely the worst game I have ever seen on my system. Horrible- the 'lobby system' consists of a bunch of similar looking rooms where you can either type (?) or talk to each other to go on some really, really, lame quests.
The graphics are horrible- except for the intro (but that lame music overshadowed the nice graphics), and that really cool black screen with the stars coming at you- THAT was nice.
But- if you generally like action games- this may be one you want to avoid. I have heard that it is a fantastic RPG- but personally, I couldn't further than about 10 minutes into the game before I gave up. I did this repeatedly until I decided this was not a game for me.
I'm just putting this out there, so other un-suspecting people like me don't spend their time or money on this game. Oh...I hated Knights of the Old Republic too. I guess a lot of people really liked that one...but I hated the combat system.
The whole 'games used to be fun, and now they are only pretty' argument is wayyyyy overused.
Games are still fun.
Old games weren't as fun as you might remember. Everytime I go back and play some game I used to love, I am usually surprised by the lack of depth, and how one-dimensional the gameplay is.
A lot of new games are incredibly deep- they are also incredibly detailed.
Wolfenstein 3d was a fun game for its time. But there was no vertical axis, there was no strategy. AND the graphics sucked. Todays games look far better, and play far better.
Okay...I would also like to take a shot at summing up your post.
1- You don't like competition.
2- You don't like sports
3- The original Need For Speed was good, because you could drive on a 'beautiful course'.
4- The current Neef For Speed has over the top scenery, and is so impressive with visuals that it doesn't look real.
5- You like games on the Amiga and NES
My responses:
1 & 2: You don't like competition, you long for your Amiga and Final Fantasy games- of course you don't like sports! (Not just the games, but the real thing.)
3 & 4: Hmm...how is it that the original NFS was good because it was beautiful, but you don't like the recent ones, because the graphics are 'over the top'. Of course, over the top could mean many things, but I don't think that more than two people in the world (both mentally retarded) would agree that the original NFS was more beautiful than the current ones.
5: Maybe you are just reaching the age where games are not a big thing for you now. Games are better now than ever before- but you just ENJOYED them more before, because you were younger, and they were more important to you.
Go to the arcade, and see how many kids actually play Pac Man. It's all the old farts. The ones who think that their Genesis system still rocks. The ones who think that today's games are too complicated. The ones who have been passed by in life by the next generation...
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I like vibration in games...especially when it makes me aware of when I get hit. I've gotten used to it, and it is just another (positive) part of most games.
The only time I notice it, is when I put my controller down on the coffee table, and it starts to rattle.
At the risk of posting too much on this story-
No- it wasn't just because Halo was a good CONSOLE game.
I've played:
Half-Life (Opposing Forces/Blue Shift/Counterstrike)
Unreal Tournament
UT2K3
Medal of Honor (+ expansion)
Deus Ex
Quake (I/II/III)
Soldier of Fortune
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
No One Lives Forever (I/II)
America's Army
Golden Eye
Serious Sam/SE
Etc. Etc....I've played tons.
I would say that Halo was the most FUN I've had in any of them.
(Okay, sorry about the stupid list, but just wanted to point out that I have a reasonable point of reference)
Halo sound-
I thought the little alien sayings were totally cool. It took a little bit before I realized it was in english, but once I did, I thought it was pretty funny.
As far as the controls go-
Halo was the first first person shooter I played that was NOT on a PC. In fact, I was at a friends house, and he showed me Halo- I played it for a while and thought two things:
#1- controlling an FPS with a console controller was horrible.
#2- the 'auto-aim' or 'aim-assist' or whatever they call it when you just have to get 'close enough' was stupid.
Well- after I actually played the game, I realized that both of these thoughts were WRONG. The console controller DOES work, and mostly because of the auto-aim. Either one of them alone would probably not work, but together, it is excellent.
I'm playing Ghost Recon: Island Thunder right now- and it seems like some weapons are auto-aim, and some are not. When the auto-aim is on, it's fun. When it isn't on, it is very frustrating. But- GRIT is one of the few Xbox titles where the graphics have actually made me not like the game, so I don't play it too much anyway.
Gotta plug the game I'm currently playing though- Crimson Skies. Great game, if you don't mind the cheesey background story.
You might want to check your dates on the Battlefield 1942 release date. To say that it did vehicles 'first and better' might not be completely true.
Deus Ex is a great game. One of the best. I truly loved that game. Once...
I can barely get through the first level now, because it is a story based game. And now I know the whole story. But yes, it was fantastic.
True, it has been a long time. But people still buy it, and people still play it. It's good enough that they are still interested about how it was made. Another interesting thing- Halo sold about 10-20 times the number of most other Xbox games. But when you go into your used game store, it is rare to find used copies of Halo for sale. Is it the best game ever? Who knows...that changes all the time- but it really is a good game.
I disagree.
I think that a lot of GREAT games are coming out for all of the consoles right now. This is the time when the software is getting really good- now that we are all done getting excited about the hardware.
Simpsons Hit and Run is great (all platforms) far better than any other Simpsons game.
For the Xbox I just got Crimson Skies and Top Spin- both are excellent games. Now I feel like they are really starting to use the hardware by creating great games- not just making games to sell to people who bought the hardware and are looking for something to make it make sense.
Correct-a-mundo-
I've got a fairly large collection of Xbox games. They love me at EB Games, but they don't like my tastes. (Of course, I think they are all like the 'Comic Book Guy' from the Simpsons, talking about which RPG is the most realistic)
I buy a lot of games, but I never FINISH any of them. Simpsons Hit and Run is my latest. I bought it, I played it, I had fun, and now it is time to move on. I think that I actually completed something like 18% of the game. No, I am not going to 'explore' the entire town to find every single little (bee camera, card, gag) but the ones I do find are pretty fun.
I've got 4 other people in the house all needing something- so my video game time is very short. I try to make it as exciting as possible, and usually that means some new game that just came out.
Too bad nobody else at home is interested in games- I could just imagine how I would have been thrilled if my dad was into video games, and had a huge collection. Instead they all just think I'm a dork. Well, at least my 13 year old daughter gives me SOME respect, because I do know what all of her friends (who are boys- as opposed to boyfriends) are talking about...and I can at least hold my own on NBA Street when they come over.
Oh...I did finish Halo...I think that is the only one.
In the U.S., ballpoint pens cost about 7 cents each.
Typically, I buy a bag or two of them every year or so when they have a big bin at Staples, and throw them into the desk drawer. I usually don't have too much trouble with them, but this discussion has spurred me on to figure out how much time I should spend on trying to get one of these to work.
I figure that it actually takes about 4 seconds of billed time to buy a new pen.
This may be a horrible 'throwaway society' viewpoint, but I don't usually spend too much time dicking with my pen before I pull another one out of the drawer. And of course, I throw the first one away, so I don't run into the same problem with it again.
Usually though, the issue is that I lose all my pens- not that they don't work. Eventually I end up searching through the glovebox in my car, where there is always a vast collection of pens that I have acquired from different places. Obviously there is some sort of subversive pen-exchange system out there, transferring pens around the country.
I used to own a business where I thought it would be a good idea to give out pens to my customers. Not like a fine gift or anything, but just have stacks of them so people could take them when they wanted to. So I ordered like 5,000 of them, and started handing them out right away.
Within the first month I got 3 or 4 calls from people telling me that my pens sucked. I figured that if they bothered to call, then they must have really sucked bad. I started testing them, and yes, they really did suck. So I ended up throwing out about 4,750 pens.
Maybe I should have sent them to India...I can just imagine all of those potential customers blowing on the pens with my company name and logo on them. That would have been fantastic exposure, especially now that a lot of Indians are moving into the area.
"So sir, how is it that you happened to come into (my former company name)"
"I used to blow on your pens as a child, and I always dreamed of coming here one day...and telling you that your pens sucked."
I had the problem on Mechassault, where the 'masters' were spanking my ass every game.
Then I finally went through and played the entire single player campaign. That improved my playability to where I could actually compete. Also, there is the grinder, which will give you tons of practice on different mechs.
That problem is solved easily- wireless.
Works fine- I already had the wireless router, but I did have to pay an additional $70 for the adapter on my Xbox.
You are absolutely correct.
I realized the error after I posted. I have had the quick launch bar turned on for so long that I forgot it was an option.
But then again- sometimes options are seen as positives.
I love that IE opens up a new window with the previous windows contents.
It helps me move around when I know that the next few links are going to get me completely lost.
Heck, the new window even has the same history as the last one! Okay- want to move forward here, and backward there...I find it very easy.
(Not saying that they shouldn't let you turn it off..but I for one really like it.)
The author of the article referred to was obviously a Linux fanboy/zealot. And, I wonder if he has problems using a computer under ANY operating system.
1- He complains that Windows Update doesn't tell him what it is doing. This is absolute crap- a lie. You have the option to see information about every patch it is applying, you can remove patches, there are direct links to very informative security bulletins telling you what the patch is all about. If the author considers himself technically minded, but didn't actually READ what was on the screen, that was his problem. But- he succeeded in installing the patches- and that is what is important. See- it's set up so even morons like him can do it.
2- He couldn't figure out how to add icons in the 'bottom panel' (Taskbar) in Windows. Well, if he had tried to drag and drop, wonderful things would have happened. But, instead he sat there like a slack-jawed idiot, looking for problems. It takes about 2 seconds to add something to the taskbar, or the start menu.
3- Once again, feigning (or proving) total ignorance, he didn't understand what these 'pop-up' ads are all about- and why can't IE get rid of them? True- IE out of the box will display pop-ups, but when you add the Google Toolbar (free) not only will it block pop-ups, but it will give you some awesome IE/Windows only tools right in your browser. The Google Toolbar is better than any similar thing I have seen in other browsers. The answer is out there. And it's free, and it's good.
There were a lot of other problems I saw with his article. But because he was already preaching to the choir, most of it will just be greeted with silly smiles, and lots of head shaking. It must make him feel good to be surrounded by people who think the same way he does, and only make his half-hearted attempts at looking at other options.
Okay, if you want a list, I'll go back a little bit in time, like the GameCube list above:
Otogi
Ghost Recon Island Thunder (Live- nothing else compares)
Voodoo Vince
Project Gotham Racing II
Top Spin
Crimson Skies
Morrowind (New version)
Ninja Gaiden
Unreal II
Those are just what I can think of right now. Most of those are Live enabled. And contrary to Mr. 'Live Blows' up above- Live is far and away the best on-line console service. I don't really care if it does cost $50 a year. #1 it is worth the $50. #2 You don't have a per-game fee (except for Phantasy Star Online) #3 It works...really well.
How many online games does the Gamecube have right now? How well do they work? Do you have to pay?
The 3 'multi-platform' games are all Xbox/PC. I was only comparing the consoles.
Xbox does rock. Take a look at their lineup of games this holiday- I think it is the strongest of the 3 consoles by far. Live blows away the other two on-line services.
The PSX seems like a weak stop-gap before the next generation of consoles. I would not even venture to guess which console will win the next war, but Sony has a good head-start. I think that the PSX might actually be a step in the WRONG direction if they have *ANY* quality problems.
Sell me a crappy console for $200, and if it breaks after a year, I'm bummed. Sell me a $700+ multifunction device, and if it breaks I am *REALLY* pissed.
I'm surprised they took the chance at this point. Why not take the PS2 out, and wait to bundle it with the next console?
Like most people, I really don't need a multi-function device- especially one that tries to address un-related needs.
It's a video game console, of a generation that is in its decline.
AND it is an early generation DVD recorder.
Not too long from now, I would be buying the next-gen console, and I won't feel so good about my multifunction device (ugly to boot) sitting in my cabinet.
Take out the Playstation, and it makes more sense to me.
Ha Ha...
I'm a programmer, who JUST had a run-in with marketing at work. It was not pretty...
We create and support an on-line application used by a variety of different offices. These offices use our program to disseminate information to the general public.
Marketing wanted to add a new 'feature' which would be promoting our products, over those of our customers. I 'suggested' many times that we should make this an option- not a locked-in feature. During the initial meeting with marketing, they laughed at me- told me how little I knew about the business- even though I am the primary contact within the company for our customers.
Meeting 2, we had set up one demo site, someone who was very deeply entrenched in our system and sympathetic to our marketing department, they said it was fine. I still suggested we should make it an option, but now marketing had 'proof'.
We then pushed the 'feature' out to everyone. Some of our customers were screaming and yelling within minutes of the announcement (at me, because I am their 'answer man'). I had to tell them to talk to the marketing director.
Later that day, the marketing director called me, and said we needed to pull the plug on the whole feature. I again suggested that maybe we could make it an OPTION. The marketing director said "screw it, these people don't know what's good for them- I am done with this project. This whole thing will fail."
So, finally I just made it an option. The 3 or 4 customers who hated it turned it off, and everything was fine.
My question, and the tie-in to this article is...
Why the hell does the Marketing deparment think they know what is best for everyone? Is it really THAT hard to figure out that not EVERYONE will agree with you? (i.e., not everyone will fall for your lies)
But- it seems that they have the project director hoodwinked.
It depends on the perspective of the game.
No One Lives Forever II had one of the hottest characters- but since you played as her, you hardly ever got to SEE her. Except for cut-scenes...bummer. Damn first person.
So in that case, it would be better to play AGAINST Kate Archer- which I think you will be doing in the next game.
Volleyball games though...that is a good jiggly scene.
Umm..looks like Courtney Cox to me.
Just the thought of her opening her mouth, bitching and whining, would send me running. She don't need no stinking gun...
Watch a woman who is holding a baby- she'll hold that thing forever.
Give a guy a bag of sand that weighs that same...he'll start complaining in 2 minutes.
Of course the kid looks uncomfortable as hell, being bounced, smothered, etc...but it ain't gonna hit the floor!
The lawsuit was not dismissed- it was settled. I believe there was a payment of 1/1 speaker bracelets.
Not to refute what Alex said, but more to provide an opposing opinion.
I got a free copy of Phantasy Star Online I & II for the Xbox. I thought it was absolutely the worst game I have ever seen on my system. Horrible- the 'lobby system' consists of a bunch of similar looking rooms where you can either type (?) or talk to each other to go on some really, really, lame quests.
The graphics are horrible- except for the intro (but that lame music overshadowed the nice graphics), and that really cool black screen with the stars coming at you- THAT was nice.
But- if you generally like action games- this may be one you want to avoid. I have heard that it is a fantastic RPG- but personally, I couldn't further than about 10 minutes into the game before I gave up. I did this repeatedly until I decided this was not a game for me.
I'm just putting this out there, so other un-suspecting people like me don't spend their time or money on this game. Oh...I hated Knights of the Old Republic too. I guess a lot of people really liked that one...but I hated the combat system.
Now, Mechassault...THAT is a good on-line game.
I agree with Mike-
The whole 'games used to be fun, and now they are only pretty' argument is wayyyyy overused.
Games are still fun.
Old games weren't as fun as you might remember. Everytime I go back and play some game I used to love, I am usually surprised by the lack of depth, and how one-dimensional the gameplay is.
A lot of new games are incredibly deep- they are also incredibly detailed.
Wolfenstein 3d was a fun game for its time. But there was no vertical axis, there was no strategy. AND the graphics sucked. Todays games look far better, and play far better.
Okay...I would also like to take a shot at summing up your post.
1- You don't like competition.
2- You don't like sports
3- The original Need For Speed was good, because you could drive on a 'beautiful course'.
4- The current Neef For Speed has over the top scenery, and is so impressive with visuals that it doesn't look real.
5- You like games on the Amiga and NES
My responses:
1 & 2: You don't like competition, you long for your Amiga and Final Fantasy games- of course you don't like sports! (Not just the games, but the real thing.)
3 & 4: Hmm...how is it that the original NFS was good because it was beautiful, but you don't like the recent ones, because the graphics are 'over the top'. Of course, over the top could mean many things, but I don't think that more than two people in the world (both mentally retarded) would agree that the original NFS was more beautiful than the current ones.
5: Maybe you are just reaching the age where games are not a big thing for you now. Games are better now than ever before- but you just ENJOYED them more before, because you were younger, and they were more important to you.
Go to the arcade, and see how many kids actually play Pac Man. It's all the old farts. The ones who think that their Genesis system still rocks. The ones who think that today's games are too complicated. The ones who have been passed by in life by the next generation...