What happened to the good old games ? I've been recently playing old Sega Genesis games (on an emulator for Linux ... generator) and find them infinitely more fun than any recent PC game, any XBox game (except Fable ... but it's too short to count for much), or any XBox360 game. How can this be ? Did all the good game devs die long ago ? Or did just their ideas die ?
[rant] I tell you the gaming industry disappoints me, It's hard to find a recent game that doesn't piss me off with it's shittiness. Where has the creativity gone ... there must be a million FPS clones ... they all look alike, same weapons, very similar storylines, etc. RTS games look very similar to one another too. Is it just the division of games that has done this ? I mean you got FPS, RTS, RPG, MMORPG, and a couple of others. And every new game has to fit into these categories ? Isn't there an "other" category ... or something different ? At least they could use some diversity within categories.
(Why am I posting this here and not in new thread ? I figure there will be approximately 1-3 responses to this post ... making for a very small thread. But it has a lot to do with this thread anyway.) [/rant]
Playing the old Genesis games I realized that most of the games don't really fit into categories ... I suppose most are side-scrolling, but that doesn't say anything about content ... the variety is impressive. And there was a lot more creativity ... there was a plot, there was a great storyline, truly
epic games ... not the shit I see today
