Poor kids of today...

modgeulator · Thu 10/08/2006 08:05:46

I'm only three years old but the only kind of games I like are the original classics by LucasArts and Sierra. All my friends are like "play GTA" or "play Halo" and I'm all like "NO WAY!!!!" I only play classic point and click adventure games and they must be in 2d. Todays games smell. My opinion on this topic is very important.

MarkPhantom · Fri 11/08/2006 12:16:41

Boy, we do sound like old farts don't we?

I love a lot of modern games (GTA I very much enjoy), but I also miss a lot of the adventures that proliferated when I was young. There just seemed so much more woth buying, whereas I'm very careful about what I buy now. There's just not enough worth looking forward to.

There ARE a lot of great modern games released, unfortunately there's a deluge of crap or distinctly average titles (See Need for Speed: Bling-Bling edition or whatever) that top the charts and sell like crazy, and these drown out games of true quality (Psychonauts anyone?)

Hammerite · Fri 11/08/2006 13:04:01

Quote from: modgeulator on Thu 10/08/2006 08:05:46
I'm only three years old but the only kind of games I like are the original classics by LucasArts and Sierra. All my friends are like "play GTA" or "play Halo" and I'm all like "NO WAY!!!!" I only play classic point and click adventure games and they must be in 2d. Todays games smell. My opinion on this topic is very important.

lol!

=The=Brat= · Sat 12/08/2006 09:28:12

I just happen to be a kid of today and there is a reason im here, because I LIKE P & C Adventure games. You see a long time ago my auntie bought a game and with it came a deal, Buy one and pick one of these other games free. I wanted need for spped but my mum bought some sh*t game called MONKEY ISLAND <-- CURSE OF. How guvenile i thought and next minute I was playing this truly awsome game about pirates and tofu and lactose-intolerant volcaneos. there just hasnt been any game that lives up to the atmosphere of MI yet. Though sitting next to me is a newly built pc that I made especially for such awsome 3D games such as Oblivion, Physchonauts etc. So really as great as P&C games are you cant pretend you havent enjoyed blasting a few ugly demon alien scumm in an FPS just as much as joining a crew of dastardly pirate scumm, eh?

BerserkerTails · Sat 12/08/2006 23:37:29

Sure there's lots of crap today, but theyre always be the great ones that people look back to. When people get nostalgic about this generation of video games, I hope they look back on:

Metal Gear Solid (The "first one" for Playstation)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Psychonauts
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
Resident Evil 4
Super Smash Brothers Melee

These are all games that deserve classic status in 10 years. Heck, MGS is old enough to deserve classic status now. I could probably list more, I just got these from a quick glance up at my video game collection.

=The=Brat= · Sun 13/08/2006 02:19:54

Morrowind...Yummy...

Cookieswithmilk · Wed 16/08/2006 08:30:48

People insist to look at the violent or more hedonistic parts of games. Half-Life 1 and 2 were great games. Sure there was a lot of shooting, but still... I'd go so far as to say that Half-Life is practically a 3d adventure game. Not 100% of course; there are MANY shells tossed about. You can't judge it if you haven't played it. There are many moments involving clever thought just like an adventure game. These games have a unique and entertaining story. There's a wonderful atmosphere to go alongside it all too. Aside of Half-Life though, you're all right, there isn't much in the ways of innovation in the FPS world.

Someone said GTA is trash, or something along those lines. There are people who play the game solely to carve people with chainsaws, but not everyone who has this game is a moron. There's a wide appeal to this game for a reason. It's all about freedom. I own the game alongside my (Possibly bootlegged) copy of MI and Civilization (3 and 4). Playing GTA is a lot more like Civ than you'd imagine. What's mercilessy stabbing an old lady to death in GTA compared to mercilessly wiping out an entire civilization in Civ 4? GTA just gets more into the gritty than other games do and gets in trouble for doing it. There are plenty of things to do aside of killing people. The storyline, voice acting, and overall direction of the game is easily among the greatest in video games.

For the record, I'm not some kid on testosterone who thinks GTA and FPS's are the only games worth playing. I love my old lucasarts adventure games as much as anyone on this board, and my favorite game of all time is Super Mario World. I'm just tired of these games getting a bad rap for having-shock-violence in them. Just because an art form has violence in it doesn't mean it can't also be as deep, meaningful, or downright aweome as something without violence, despite how many producers continue to put "Now with more blood than ever!!!" on the box. Violence isn't the problem with video games. Didn't Romeo & Juliet have everyone die a meaningless, horrible death at the end?

I'm 18, raised in this rightfully called "Poor kids of today" generation, but am at a healthy medium between "Things were so much better in the old days..." and "Anything made before I was five isn't worth playing". Kids will latch onto new classics. Bad games of the era will be forgotten and kids will partake in this very conversation later in life. To sum up the entire talk of "How are kids going to experience games", I think this wipes it up nicely...

"The more things change, the more they stay the same..."

(However I'm not smart enough to know who coined this phrase, heh)

CoffeeBob · Wed 16/08/2006 12:00:09

Quote from: Cookieswithmilk on Wed 16/08/2006 08:30:48
Someone said GTA is trash, or something along those lines. There are people who play the game solely to carve people with chainsaws, but not everyone who has this game is a moron.

Thank you.

I might be one of those "poor kids of today" since I'm only fifteen, but I love classics more than I like the newer games. Even though I'm kind of a sadistic bastard that enjoys blowing up stuff/people in modern FPS' doesn't mean I'm one of those MTV-teen idiots.

I'd rather play Mega Man or any Super Mario-game for a whole weekend than Doom 3. That reminds me, I've yet to kick Wily's ass in MM1.

Renal Shutdown · Thu 17/08/2006 01:34:37

Quote from: Cookieswithmilk on Wed 16/08/2006 08:30:48
"The more things change, the more they stay the same..."
(However I'm not smart enough to know who coined this phrase, heh)

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alphonse_karr.html

EDIT:

Most likely, you know it from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/quotes

Cookieswithmilk · Thu 17/08/2006 05:45:54

*Tips hat to Renal*

Nicely done, sir.