All games are boring anymore. Discuss.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:15 pm

I have a hard drive full of games. AAA titles. Indies. What have you.

I watch a lot of StarCraft II but don't play much.

I look at all the rest of the games and don't even want to touch the icons with my mouse pointer.

Is it true? Are all games boring and stupid anymore?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:57 pm

Sure, sure.

So, games with big budgets behind them really do seem to be of the same genre that we've been playing since 1992. FPS. Sports. RTS. Adventure. RPG. Squad-based tactics.

If you aren't going to come up with new TYPES of games, then you must make me feel something about the people and situations in the FPS, sports, RTS, adventure and RPG games. For the most part there aren't capable writers working for these companies.

I'd still be buying FPS games if they had interesting stories between the gameplay, but they can't even make interesting cut-scenes.

(And it seems like quicksaving is going away, which was the final nail in the coffin.)

So that leaves "indie" games.

Indie games, however, are soooooooooo incestuous. I have found that you sort of have to let the indie scene go. Just ignore it - they're going to act like cunts and there's nothing that can stop them. We didn't need heroes and villains in the independent gaming scene but we have them and it's worse for it.

So if you can LET GO of the fact that independent games are somehow filled with terrible people, that's where the new styles of games are. We all played the hell out of Hotline: Miami. It was a "new" style of game. Now, sure, it got tedious at the end but there were hours of great gameplay there.

Monaco was released this week, wasn't it? I don't have time to play it this week but I wanted to give that a try. Isn't that a different "kind" of gameplay? Do you want to try that one out and see?

Jason Rohrer's game where you defend your house from house invaders sounds fun and is different.

Games were always meant to try new things. Publishing destroyed that, but that's what video games were meant to be.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Wed May 01, 2013 2:02 am

Or play older games that you didn't get to play when they first came out. I do that a lot. I only recently played through Fahrenheit, even though I knew about it when it was released. There are many older but excellent games worth playing. "Omikron: The Nomad Soul" is next on the list for me.

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PS:
Robb, your forum's URL tag is broken.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed May 01, 2013 3:10 am

Haven't found a third game for the PS3 that I even want to try out. Looked through the demos and saw nothing of interest. Went back to SNES emulation and am playing Zelda again.

Games ARE boring now! It couldn't be just that we're all older and jaded now or anything, could it? Could it!

THE
BORED
AARDVARK

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Tue May 07, 2013 9:31 pm

I'm usually overwhelmed when I look at my desktop, as I took the time to install every single game I've bought in a bundle, its actually debilitating to choose which one to play. That and I've sinking two or three hours into a video game eats up my already precious time.

So hey, question - when do you guys with full time jobs actually find the time to indulge in video games, hobbies, writing, etc? Probably the biggest problem I've been trying to solve the best few months.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 07, 2013 10:24 pm

Dude, I just.... I just don't any more.

I mean, I've played a shitload of pinball lately. So sure, that.

But I just don't play PC games much any more. I would in an instant if we got a new genre or a decent story, but, welp...

Bradley Svedka. · Post by **Bradley Svedka.** » Tue May 07, 2013 10:53 pm

RetroRomper wrote:I'm usually overwhelmed when I look at my desktop, as I took the time to install every single game I've bought in a bundle

Clean up your fucking desktop. Violation, 1 demerit. User id ident RetroRomper. 20130508.

Quinn Z DeAngelo · Post by **Quinn Z DeAngelo** » Wed May 08, 2013 1:17 am

Bradley Svedka. wrote:
RetroRomper wrote:I'm usually overwhelmed when I look at my desktop, as I took the time to install every single game I've bought in a bundle
Clean up your fucking desktop. Violation, 1 demerit. User id ident RetroRomper. 20130508.

It's one thing to be an asshole. It's another thing to be an insulting asshole. Try cleaning up the language, Mr. CzColon.

lethargic · Post by **lethargic** » Wed May 08, 2013 12:02 pm

Man, I think I found a place where I can be the positive person!

Video games rule!!!!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed May 08, 2013 12:59 pm

Help.... help us love again!

lethargic · Post by **lethargic** » Wed May 08, 2013 2:01 pm

Just don't play Assassin's Creed 3. It will ruin your life as it has mine.

RealNC · Post by **RealNC** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:03 am

At least games today inspire people to create stuff like this:

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lethargic · Post by **lethargic** » Fri May 10, 2013 12:59 pm

I like Skyrim in real life.

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