Things About Gaming Or Games You've Come To Accept

The more popular a game is, the worse in quality it becomes. 
 
Example: Call of Duty: MW2.
 
Either that or I guess there will always be a constant percentage of haters for a game, and the amount just stacks as a game gets more awareness.

•  Greater fidelity of imagery paired with more thoughtful stories, more subtle emotional content, and more refined production values will make games a BIGGER target for those that hate them.  The more refined the gaming as a medium becomes the more games will be attacked.
• Gaming will never again be a topic that can be easily discussed in all its facets by one cohesive group.  It is now not possible for even an experts to fully ‘comprehend or discuss’ the hobby as a whole.      

The PC version of major cross platform releases will most likely be broken at launch or have some kind of stupid DRM attached to it.

" @GunslingerPanda: Honestly, I'm almost nine hours into Okami, and Call of Duty deserves to sell more copies so far. Besides the fact that many of the mechanics in Okami are "only okay" and that the biggest merit I can award this game is that it's got a great art style, the game also panders to players in such a way that, yes, it's clearly aimed towards children, maybe 7-12, but still has some entertainment value for older people who are willing to sit through the poorly-written cutscenes about Japanese mythology. Call of Duty is aimed towards the much wider age bracket of 15-30, which also has a larger income average than the children, AND the storytelling is fair to the intelligence of any player who picks it up.  I don't mean to say Okami is a "bad" game (if it were, I wouldn't be nine hours into it; I'll probably play even more of it tomorrow) but I definitely feel that CoD is a more universal experience made with better craftsmanship than Okami. The core of Okami, of course, is diamond in comparison to CoD's silver (except for CoD's occasional gold marks,) but there's a lot more rocky material to get through with Okami to enjoy the core of the game. I almost quit after I was two hours in-the first two hours of Okami are so poorly paced and so ill-crafted that there's nothing but the art style to recommend the game upon.  Sorry, I don't mean to crucify you about this, I just really want to understand why people think Okami is such a great game, and why you think it'd be a good fit for the general gaming public. Again, Okami's not a bad game, but I just don't understand the hype and I feel like I'm missing something. "

Except the only thing truely different about Earthbound was its unique setting, something plenty of jrpgs have aimed to achieve.

Games these days are far too easy and only going to get easier. Regenerating health, regenerating shields, no penalties for death etc etc.  I will always be a proud Arcade Kid - I like levels, lives, continues, and  a real challenge.

I have come to accept (even though I hate accepting it) that there will never, ever, ever be another classical party-based first person RPG like Wizardry or Might and Magic.  Etrian Odyssey and equivalents don't count. Those are masochistic interpretations of earliest era RPGs where random, stupid, and grindy dungeon crawling experiences were the norm.
 
I've come to accept that Pokemon is going to continue doing the same shit over and over and over again and people will still buy it and people on internet forums will explain to me how some minor mechanical tweaks somehow make a game with the exact same gameplay systems since its introduction in 1995 modernized.
 
I've come to accept that Peter Moleyneux is prone to excessive hyperbole, and thus everything he says is a lie if taken literally. 
 
I've come to accept that people on internet forums will always bitch about how the old days were better, without remembering all the bad parts about the old days. 
 
And finally, I've come to accept that Nintendo no longer has a place in my heart, for the most part. They can keep on making Mario RPGs and Fire Emblem if they feel like it.

Hopefully, they will never remake FFVII.
 
FFVIII kicks FFVII's ass.
 
Persona 3/4 are the best JRPGs ever made. 
 
1-10 game review scales are as follows:  

• 1-6: Don't waste your time or money, game is broken in all regards.
• 7: Game has some ridiculously serious flaws (i.e. missing components, lousy camera/controls, nonexistent plot)
• 8: Game is mediocre, moderate flaws (i.e. weak aspect coupled with strong aspect)
• 9: Game is good, may have balance issues in MP/AI
• 9.5: Game is pristine, flawless
• 10: Game reviewer took massive bribe, shun their site and game probably sucks (1-7 in "scale of reality")

" @Turambar says:

Except the only thing truely different about Earthbound was its unique setting, something plenty of jrpgs have aimed to achieve.

Like i've expained. While theres several series that have taken the genre into new, modern day / not cliche settings. That doesn't excuse the fake that the majority really don't. Not to mention the fake that Earthbound as well as Chrono Trigger had a means to make combat skippable (by actually seeing the enemy on screen before the encounter) and even better, if the enemy was too low a level, they'd instantly die. This was obviously a step forward for the genre, yet here we are in 2010 and we STILL have random encounters.   The other aspect these two games well was pacing. This is largely a personal preference but there is a clear difference between the pacing of JRPGs and WRPGS (or eastern and western games in general). I do enjoy a thrilling story but if the first hour of gameplay is describing, again and again, how i am the 'chosen one' of some 'lost tribe' and the evil 2nd in charge is planning to overthrow the 'king' or whatever...im going to not play because it is NOT interesting. I feel that JRPGs excuse poor pacing as 'long gameplay'. Hint - I'd rather play a really well told 20 hour RPG then a RPG that takes 20 hours just to reach the world map. "

-The Dreamcast is gone and is never coming back. 
-Sonic the Hedgehog hasn't been relevant since Sonic Adventure's initial release. 
-No matter how many smart, artful video games come out I will still be labeled as "just a gamer". 
-Even being a casual fan of Halo will label me as a 'Master Chief fanboy' to those that hate the series. 
-Sam and Max: Hit the Road will not be remade for modern computers. 
-Video games will always be viewed as childish and dumb by a large portion of the population. 
-Blizzard will never release a game within 4 years of its announcement. 
 
Sigh, this is heartbreaking.  If anyone can dispel my insights, please do.

-The transition from PC to console version almost always results in a dumbing down to some degree.

if it stays true to the original form, it sucks and is a rehash. 
if it changes the original form at all, it sucks for being too different.   

Games are better now than they have ever been. I've pushed my nostalgia aside and see clearly for the first time...

Or maybe not.

it's fun to be an asshole on Xbox Live 

This just a thread for whining isn't it.....

" @Immuniity: It's OK, I'm certainly not the staunchest defender of Japanese game design. I'd just like to point out that while not a lot of progress has been made in that sector of the industry, strategy, both real time and turn-based are stuck in similar ruts, and stop me if I'm wrong, but first person shooters, while enjoyable, aren't changing too quickly either. These predominantly western genres are, and have been for a number of years, lorded over by Starcraft, Civilization, and Call of Duty. How old are those series? How much have they really changed? Not every game can be as good as Chrono Trigger, but Final Fantasy XII and Persona 3 and 4 are pretty great games in their own right.  The point is, most genres are affected by quantum leaps rather than gradual evolution. Just wait for a new series to become the de facto JRPG the same way Halo, and later Call of Duty, became the benchmark for modern shooters. "

" @Turambar: Then tell me some good ones to play and i will. I shouldnt have to find obscure titles to see the genre shine. "

• That I will never see Vanguard Bandits get a remake.
• That I will never see a Command and Conquer Renegade 2.
• That EA has all but run the greatness that is the Command and Conquer series straight into the ground.
  
• That I will have to play some console exclusives with a god dam controller even though I despise with every fiber of my being playing the majority of games with a controller.
• That I may never get to see a well made class based turn based strategy game get made on anything but a stupid handheld.
• That the Space Sim genre is dead outside of bad to mediocer budget games made by Europeans.
• That developers will continue to cut content from the finished game to nickle and dime as DLC.
• That 99% of random people you play with online are ignorant fucks that should be castrated to prevent them from procreating.
• That the collectors edition of the PC version of multiplatform games will continue to get screwed over and not be offered while the console versions get them.
  

" This just a thread for whining isn't it..... "

" @Turambar: Valkyrie Chronicle does look fantastic...but its still a tactical turn based RPG akin to fire emblem opposed to a JRPG. I'll accept that its a JRPG if you accept that advanced wars is a JRPG or warcraft 3 is a WRPG (opposed to their respective turn based / strategy genres).
 
As for Resonance of fate it does seem like a step in the right direction but when it gets described as
 ' ...told in a drawn-out, stilted way that only reveals its agenda dozens of hours into your quest'
 HOWEVER it is totally great news to hear
 'one of the most inspired approaches to the  JRPG seen in a decade'   But i'll repeat my point. Steps in the right direction are fantastic but the genre is still plagued with poor pacing and legacy features being included in simple reverence (random encounters).  I didnt come into this thread in order to exclusively trump on JRPGs and have even made slurs against RTS, western RPGs and FPS. Why did the fan force come out for only this genre? It seems odd that everyone always complains about the FPS defense force but they didnt seem to care when the genre was called generic and uninspiring. "

1. I'll have an average life span of 3 seconds in any online multiplayer shooter.
2. I'll be disappointed by SMT: Persona 5 whenever it is actually announced.
3. Millions of people have mics, few use them and those that do, don't use them responsibly
4. Any game that has shooting and driving will half-ass the controls for one or the other
5. I can never marry Sonic...*sniff*

Zombie games are fun. (Seriously, what's the point?)