Sload Soap wrote:
How outdated are we talking? Do you prefer Adventure on 2600 over Skyrim or what?
I have a phobia from being bitten by a yellow duck as a child, so the dragon in Adventure is scarier than the Skyrim dragons.
I did an Advanced Search and I've made a similar joke three times on this site. I think I've finally become that old man that tells the same joke over and over and thinks he's so clever every time...
I think I've always been that old man.
See ya later, alligator.
Luke wrote:The controls for NBA 2k11 are some of the worst I've ever encountered in any game. I can't just use turbo and shoot to dunk?
This is why I can't play modern sports games. I don't give a crap about realism and controlling my players down to the flick of their wrist, just let me do a flaming multi-frontflip dunk from the three point line, dammit.
Yeah, that is just the difference in those who like arcadey sports games and sim sports. I am in the sim sports camp and revel in all the gameplay details, strategy, and control.
[quote="Gunstar Green]I think it's possible what you prefer isn't necessarily "outdated" graphics but color and art instead of realism.[/quote]
I prefer them even for "realistic" games. I don't know why. Even in modern games with good art design I'd prefer it to look like a Gamecube game or something.
It's a real pet peeve of mine when people act like gameplay is definitely the most important aspect to video games. It annoys me even more when they use the tired excuse of saying "Well it is called a video game." Yes, I know what the medium is called, thank you. But video games are inherently a collection of other mediums.
Video games have sound and music to them, but movies TV and songs have used that before. Video games have stories to them, but books TV and movies have used those before. Video games have graphics and visuals to them, but TV and movies have used special effects before, and it could be argued that stage props and costumes have served the same purpose for centuries.
And video games have interactive gameplay to them, a set of rules, with obstacles to get around through skill and/or intelligence and an objective to reach. But board games, pen and paper role playing games, and even sports have been doing the same thing for far longer.
Video games do not have a single piece to their puzzle which someone else hasn't figured out before. They are only unique because they manage to combine all of those aspects into one single medium. People will easily praise a video game that has little or outright no story whatsoever so long as it has good gameplay, but then they'll turn around and outright mock a game for being heavy on story but lacking in gameplay. It's a double standard, and it annoys the ever-loving crap out of me.
I feel old when talking to anyone my age yet too inexperienced to effectively talk to anyone older. Life is grand that way.
Sload Soap wrote:
How outdated are we talking? Do you prefer Adventure on 2600 over Skyrim or what?
I have a phobia from being bitten by a yellow duck as a child, so the dragon in Adventure is scarier than the Skyrim dragons.
I did an Advanced Search and I've made a similar joke three times on this site. I think I've finally become that old man that tells the same joke over and over and thinks he's so clever every time...
