I remember getting TES3: Morrowind for 10 bucks at a best buy, due to all of the GOTY adverts on the cover a long ass time ago. When I threw it in the Xbox, I walked around confused in the rain for an hour or so before judging the game as garbage and forgetting about it. Then on a slow day about a year later, I put in in the Xbox again and started lightheartedly screwing around in the game. Not only did I find out how amazing the game was, I then went on to lose a good 200 hours in it with little effort.
Super Meat Boy worked really well on my shitty laptop after I figured out how to dumb down the graphical settings. Starcraft 2 on min settings also works really well with my year old $300 laptop.
Again, I looked up a video playthrough of Quake 2 online to see if your statement is right. You know how long that is? 2 hours. 2 hours of video. Granted, with no backtracking and no loading screens and the guy is very good. But still, go do Halo in two hours, or Call of Duty. In fact, I found one for MW2 and it was almost three times longer (no loading screens, but the guy is far worse at it. Still, 6 hours is what it takes).
Quick nitpick here. online video play-throughs are a very poor indicator of how long it takes for someone to get finish a game the first time through. On the slower side, you can find a casual, laid back, let's play blank. On the other hand, you can find a speed-run put together by many, very dedicated fans of a game who have spent hundreds of hours finding weird ways to get through a campaign as quickly as possible.
I played through Quake 2 again about six months ago, and while I didn't measure the time it took, it's not anywhere near a two hour experience. I'd say I got at least a good eight to ten hours out of it, and I'm not a slouch when it comes to PC first person shooters.
I can't help but laugh, games are not easier now. The only difference is 20 years ago you were probably a little kid. Fun fact: things seem easier in adulthood. Let's hop off this nostalgia train shall we? "
I disagree with this wholeheartedly. When I do go back to play games I thought were difficult when I was younger, most of these are still very difficult. If this is just nostalgia, then these games should be much easier now that I'm older, right? Another thing is that when looking at some of the longer lasting gaming franchises I've played, the games tend to get progressively more difficult the further back in time I go. This occurs even if I start with a newer game in the series, then go backward. Now I don't know what sort of games you play, but the ones I play show a rather distinct pattern in this respect.
@sickVisionz: From what I've heard, that transition pissed quite a few people off initially. Then again, those changes made it easier to watch and enjoy movies after people got used to them, 3D by nature doesn't have that same thing going for it according to this: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
@NoelVeiga: No hard feelings or anything, but most of the things you're calling misconceptions are differences of preference, and the rest are pretty well warranted assumptions.
@RudeJohn said:
" @medacris said:
" "All gamers are morbidly obese college dropouts. Or 12." Certainly some, but not all. ....
I agree. There are many types of sub-humans. You've only mentioned two. :-) "
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