i understand what you mean when you say some new games rather hit the shelf after - or even before - completion instead of hanging around your hard drive.
there are a few reasons behind that.
first reason - times change. back in the old days, the beatles were great. Don't take me wrong, they're great performers, but if they were released now, they'd be dilluted into all that's going on nowadays. there are just too many bands, too many genres, too many releases everyday just for you to be able to really focus on and enjoy a few specific bands. It's the same with games today! How many FPS are out there? How many RPGs? How many come out every week? How many are available for you to borrow from friends, rent, or simply download? One thing i've learned from dealing with kids. You give them 1 game a month and they'll enjoy them as you hand them away. But if you give them a pack of ten games, they'll stick to one or two and they won't even try out the others... Plus, they won't enjoy the games as much, because they'll be eager to play the others.
Plus... we are more trained in the subject of games. When Half Life came out, it wasn't an EASY game. You had to play it, to improve your hand-eye coordination. well, now you already have trained, so similar games seem rather easy compared to HL1 or the like. Hell, even HL2 turned out to be fairly simple to overcome and finish. People want MORE! They are more demanding, they want MORE!
There is, however, a thin line between realism/how difficult a game is and FUN. If the game's too real it might be too difficult or worse, NO FUN at all. Take an FPS for instance. You want it real, alright, but do you want it so real as if you fall from a ledge and brake your foot you'll have to be limping across the map? No instant-healing medical kits can save you! Would that be "fun"? Would it sell?
So, some people are turning to the old games, alright. Keeping it simple. Most of them are lead to those games by nostalgy. They HAD fun with that game, they might as well give it a try again. Hell, i'm doing it with Jedi Academy and i do it quite often enough with Jagged Alliance 2.
Where will this end? It's all in the software developers' hands. We can't take many games like HL2. Of course the die-hard fans love it, I DO... but it always seem like there's something missing in that game and otherrs of the like lately...
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i understand what you mean when you say some new games rather hit the shelf after - or even before - completion instead of hanging around your hard drive.
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there are a few reasons behind that.
first reason - times change. back in the old days, the beatles were great. Don't take me wrong, they're great performers, but if they were released now, they'd be dilluted into all that's going on nowadays. there are just too many bands, too many genres, too many releases everyday just for you to be able to really focus on and enjoy a few specific bands. It's the same with games today! How many FPS are out there? How many RPGs? How many come out every week? How many are available for you to borrow from friends, rent, or simply download? One thing i've learned from dealing with kids. You give them 1 game a month and they'll enjoy them as you hand them away. But if you give them a pack of ten games, they'll stick to one or two and they won't even try out the others... Plus, they won't enjoy the games as much, because they'll be eager to play the others.
Plus... we are more trained in the subject of games. When Half Life came out, it wasn't an EASY game. You had to play it, to improve your hand-eye coordination. well, now you already have trained, so similar games seem rather easy compared to HL1 or the like. Hell, even HL2 turned out to be fairly simple to overcome and finish. People want MORE! They are more demanding, they want MORE!
There is, however, a thin line between realism/how difficult a game is and FUN. If the game's too real it might be too difficult or worse, NO FUN at all. Take an FPS for instance. You want it real, alright, but do you want it so real as if you fall from a ledge and brake your foot you'll have to be limping across the map? No instant-healing medical kits can save you! Would that be "fun"? Would it sell?
So, some people are turning to the old games, alright. Keeping it simple. Most of them are lead to those games by nostalgy. They HAD fun with that game, they might as well give it a try again. Hell, i'm doing it with Jedi Academy and i do it quite often enough with Jagged Alliance 2.
Where will this end? It's all in the software developers' hands. We can't take many games like HL2. Of course the die-hard fans love it, I DO... but it always seem like there's something missing in that game and otherrs of the like lately...
let's wait and play