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JrK
United States283 Posts
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Herculix
United States946 Posts
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TitCriss
Canada39 Posts
Anyway SC2 would be a great game, I can't wait. | ||
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EppE
United States221 Posts
I don't believe the Golden Age was when you were a kid, I think it was simply your first game of that genre. Now any game I play it feels just like a copy or clone of that game I played 10-15 years ago so at it's core, I'm already tired of it. To me EverQuest was one of those games for me. It was unlike anything I had ever played and every MMO since then has just been a modified clone of that. I think the first girl friend analogy is very accurate with video games. When you have nothing to compare it to, no matter how shitty, the first one is always special. For popularity, I think this may be the Golden Age... perhaps Bronze Age would be a more accurate description. SC:BW was the Stone Age of eSports Gaming and with any luck SC2 will push us up a level. I still think that eSports and gaming acceptance in general has a long ways to go. | ||
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Ricjames
Czech Republic1047 Posts
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UnPhazed
United States4 Posts
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Eloderung
18 Posts
On July 27 2010 13:04 showbiz wrote: The "golden age of gaming" was whenever you were a kid. This quote is pretty much true. I disagree completely. Games were much more difficult back then, more complex and anything but straight-forward. Only if you were young and stupid. We were all young and stupid at one point, which meant that at some point in our lives we all thought Sim City 2000 and Super Mario Brothers were the most difficult games in the entire world. Old games often used mathematically impossible difficulty settings as a band-aid fix to their lack or replayability, relative to today's online multiplayer games. But then again, I'm sure that you have a #1 Diamond league SC2 account to back up your claim that games were much more difficult and complex back then. You probably reside in the best WoW PvE guild too and have a seven #1 season PvP titles. I mean, clearly, today's games simply cannot compare to the difficulty and complexity of Sim Ant. | ||
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onmach
United States1241 Posts
That said there have been genre shifts as gaming became more mainstream, and some franchises have sort of gone that route and suffered. Some depth has been lost as the demand for things like voice acting replaced text boxes. Mostly this is just a case of people remembering things being better than they were. I loved thundercats and GI Joe as a kid. But they weren't good. They were crap compared to what is out now. Even the lamest kiddy anime on the cartoon network is better than the best stuff I watched as a kid, and the same is true of games. | ||
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danson
United States689 Posts
On July 28 2010 00:27 Eloderung wrote: This quote is pretty much true. Only if you were young and stupid. We were all young and stupid at one point, which meant that at some point in our lives we all thought Sim City 2000 and Super Mario Brothers were the most difficult games in the entire world. Old games often used mathematically impossible difficulty settings as a band-aid fix to their lack or replayability, relative to today's online multiplayer games. But then again, I'm sure that you have a #1 Diamond league SC2 account to back up your claim that games were much more difficult and complex back then. You probably reside in the best WoW PvE guild too and have a seven #1 season PvP titles. I mean, clearly, today's games simply cannot compare to the difficulty and complexity of Sim Ant. qft. and it makes me rage when people say shit like "pc gaming is dead" when they are ON A FORUM DEDICATED TO PC GAMING. Obviously if your theory was true you'd be one hell of a worthless human being, spending all day on a forum of a "dead" style of entertainment. grr. negative dumpsters are negative. | ||
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LeCastor
France234 Posts
Creativity is gone with 16 bit consoles. | ||
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Arcticc
United States203 Posts
It just seems like you all base your opinions on Starcraft. The 'era' of Starcraft. The mechanics of Starcraft. I get that this is TL and it should be expected to some degree, but come on... PC games going to shit because they aren't exactly like Starcraft 1? Give me a break. I had fun with PC games before Starcraft (UO had plenty of players), during Starcraft (competitive Counter-Strike) and after (WoW). Not to mention the countless games inbetween and during those periods. If you need a challenging, hardcore game, head over to Darkfall. I hate always reading the same view repeated over and over. Gaming industry is dying. What the hell? It's flourishing. Look at Starcraft 2 as your most immediate example. | ||
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harky
98 Posts
That said I think adding SC2 might finally draw things back towards the PC side. The scene outside of Korea has been dominated by console games ever since the arcade style crashed out in the late 90s. Even the shooter scene in the US right now is dominated by console games, which is pathetic and wrong. I don't care how good you think Halo and GoW are there are a lot of 'pros' in those games that are horrible, horrible shots simply because of the lower frame-rates and poor control schemes. Meh, I say. Meh! Man... I'm getting old. | ||
Chill
Calgary26003 Posts
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Armsved
Denmark642 Posts
On July 28 2010 00:40 danson wrote: qft. and it makes me rage when people say shit like "pc gaming is dead" when they are ON A FORUM DEDICATED TO PC GAMING. Obviously if your theory was true you'd be one hell of a worthless human being, spending all day on a forum of a "dead" style of entertainment. grr. negative dumpsters are negative. Yes sir, its all these angry linux nerds who are also claiming they will boycot Sc2 because the skill cap is waaay lower than BW. It is also these people that should stop being so goddamn negative. I mean, why would gaming companies suddenly start making worse games? "Guys we need to make more money, make worse games now and do not try and make this game work as an esport, EVER!" Just because there's 50 people working on it doesnt mean they are making worse games. I mean wtf, how do you people come to these conclusions out of thin air "when 15 people work on a game it will become better since they have more responsibility". Im sure people could argument that 50 people makes better games than 15 people aswell. Look at how balanced Sc2 is right now at release, they are obviously trying to cater the hardcore gamer just as much as the casual. I really think blizzard wants this to work as an Esport. | ||
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e4e5nf3
Canada599 Posts
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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NukeTheStars
United States277 Posts
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johanes
Czech Republic2246 Posts
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johanes
Czech Republic2246 Posts
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Zalfor
United States1035 Posts
On July 28 2010 00:27 Eloderung wrote: This quote is pretty much true. Only if you were young and stupid. We were all young and stupid at one point, which meant that at some point in our lives we all thought Sim City 2000 and Super Mario Brothers were the most difficult games in the entire world. Old games often used mathematically impossible difficulty settings as a band-aid fix to their lack or replayability, relative to today's online multiplayer games. But then again, I'm sure that you have a #1 Diamond league SC2 account to back up your claim that games were much more difficult and complex back then. You probably reside in the best WoW PvE guild too and have a seven #1 season PvP titles. I mean, clearly, today's games simply cannot compare to the difficulty and complexity of Sim Ant. you're pointing to being good at WoW as knowledge of gaming? Lol... I'm not disagreeing with your points, but I'm just saying that last part is kinda funny. | ||
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