Kids and gaming today.
Slayer5227
Elkridge Member
The more I talk to my friends who are heavy into gaming like I am I realize that kids my age (I'm 16) have no appreciation for games made years ago. I had a conversation with a few of my friends. We were discussing which FPS was the greatest of all time. My friends said Call of Duty and their favorite being MW2. I said TF2 was easily the greatest multiplayer first person shooter ever made. Then we discussed our favorite single player FPS of all time. Theirs was once again the Call of Duty singleplayers. I said Half Life 2 or Quake 2. They told me that all those games suck and the graphics are terrible. So graphics tell an amazing plot and pull you in to a deep gaming experience? The more I talk to kids my age, the less hope I have for the future of gaming.
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In this case, the difference is more about what kind of novel they're reading. They're all FPS games, but they're of different genres. It's less comparing new-fangled novels to older forms of literature than it is comparing (for instance) sci-fi novels to alternate history novels, or something like that. Or maybe just literary fiction to commercial fiction.
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That may be a better point. I mean: look at stuff like Twain and Bradbury. Considered pulp junk in their own time, and now they are thought of as literary masters.
Even Shakespeare was considered "commercial" and "common" in his time. There are countless reports of commenters who felt that Shakespeare and his contemporaries were ruining 'real' theater for all the people who really knew what theater was supposed to be.
But whether we're talking about medium, genre, or a specific artist, people in the know always think that the new, popular stuff is crap, and that the people enjoying that stuff are dullards.
Too bad the game totally blew, the soundtrack was marvelous. I consider that song one of the finest, if not my favorite NES track.
Absolutely. This is a point on which I agree. Now, I do have some elitist opinions (what with being an admitted elitist, and all), but that doesn't mean that everything that's not HL2 is trash. I'm not so big on the Call of Duty franchise, but there are plenty of FPS games that I think are grand. Hell, I liked the first Modern Warfare just fine. I haven't played the second one, though.
I have nothing more to add to the conversation than that I'm glad a sixteen year old kid is willing to give oldie/goodies a chance.
Dude, classic gaming is so awesome, of course I'm into it.
Age helps us all gain some perspective. What amazes me are all the little milestones, all those things that you never thought possible, the real "wow" moments for the hobby. My first memory of a video game was an original Asteroids machine in a Pizza Hut. You thought, okay, its cool, I just try to get everything I can out of this one quarter. Then, you could play at home on your TV, that in and of itself was a huge deal at one time. Then they made games that were not just arcade games to play at home, they were different experiences dedicated for a home player. Pitfall was one of the first games that did this really well. If you are a gamer long enough you gain the perspective of saying, oh, that was really innovative, or maybe even saying, that game saved the hobby or propelled it forward so I could enjoy the games I have now.
A game like Quake II, it basically popularized gaming across modems. Other games did it prior, but it was the game that got people to say, okay, maybe this online PC gaming thing has a future. If you were not there for it, it's kind of hard to know what it meant at the time and how its connected to the things we enjoy today.
After reading this I encourage you to play Final Fantasy 10 and Metal Gear Solid 3 if you haven't. Try not to choke up at the end, you will fail.
Dude look at that wicked sick scorpion! That's like a 6 ft. tall arthropod. Modern game enemies have NOTHING on that scary badass.
Pings? We didn't know, didn't care. Buggy? Oh hell yes. But holy crap, now you could play Deatmatch against somebody 50 miles away instead of just 50 feet. Eventually it added support for more games; Duke Nukem 3D, Hexen, you know the progression probably better than I do at this point. These days, people seem to freak if a game doesn't have multiplayer over the Internet, or they can't get it from Steam.
And now I want the tarzan SFX from Pitfall for a ringtone.
I've played Metal Gear Solid 3 and I did tear up I'm not gonna lie. The ending to MGS4 made me choke up a little too. I have never touched FFX I don't know if I can drop 60 hours into a game.