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[Paramultart]

My response to this Cracked.com article:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-modern-gaming-doesnt-suck-anti-rant_p2/

#6: Games are not supposed to be movies.
#5: Most modern games are linear with scripted movement, so the "massive environments" are in vain.
#4: Games are not supposed to be movies.
#3: Most indie games are a renaissance of classic gaming, and therefore are the exception to the fact that most modern games are garg.
#2: We had something better than DLC in the 90's... Expansion packs, and custom user-levels. Doom never got old back then, because there was a constant flow of new user levels to play, and half the fun was making your own. We don't get that much customization anymore. Certainly not on console games, anyway.
#1: I had more fun at LAN parties than I ever did on Xbox Live, as you could play with people you know, as well as yell and throw garg at them. Also, we had online multiplayer in the 90's. Quake was better than any Xbox game ever released, and once again had the replay-value advantage of custom user maps. Can't say that about sh*tty ass Halo or CoD.
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[Paramultart]

I'm seeing a consistent trend on Cracked.com of "Things are sh*tty... and I love it!"
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[lemm]

7. I'm old.
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[VikingBoyBilly]

[kuliwil]

8. Game music has only gone downhill since SkyRoads.
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[Lava89]

I dislike having to choose one era over another. Especially since newer games don't really try to outdo the old stuff (unlike movies where they're always trying to remake stuff and forget the old, such as Star Wars). Also with DosBox, GOG, Wii's Virtual Console and Steam, playing the older stuff has become easier since Windows was DOS-based-- there's really nothing telling us that we can't play the old. In fact, Nintendo and SEGA have gone through great lengths to reference back to the good ol' days (New Mario Bros Wii and Sonic Generations) and make great games in doing so.

As for modern gaming, I prefer games like Transformers: WFC and Batman: AA over their movie counterparts, because they really make you feel like you're playing those characters and interacting with their world. And the creators seem to love doing massive fan service, while the movie directors with much more money seek to please the majority of the population (maybe Chris Nolan isn't trying to please the masses, but he really is trying to go with his own vision, which doesn't always feel like Batman).

Sure, there's alot of meat churning in the gaming industry today, where companies just repackage the same games with new bells and whistles. But that's not stopping me from playing the stuff I enjoy.

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[kuliwil]

[Lava89]

[Eros]

if you want user-created TF2 with keen-like presentation (2d, none of that "random-ass achievement" stuff), play gang garrison 2.

best. demake. ever.
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[guynietoren]

I've heard of interactive movies, and they are horrible.
Basically a choose your own adventure book with everyone in the theater voting with little button pads.

Games like Skyrim are sweet. I enjoy games that allow you to forget your playing a game and just have fun. I'm done with games like WoW that addict you into confusing work with fun. Replaying the same content repeatedly with the <1% chance it'll be different.

I mostly play scroller games like Cave Story and Super Meat Boy. Probly because my computer isn't up to snuff and I can only afford the Humble Bundles.

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