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[–]Bigs 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I used to love them and had high hopes for the future... But they suck.

Decades ago I was like the Pinball Wizard, literally famous around my home town for my ability to kick ass on the Williams Defender arcade machine. There was one other guy who came close but I always bested his high score. So was excited to get a Sega Megadrive, with the overpriced cartridges... then an Amiga A1200, with a proper mouse and keyboard... My friends and family said I was nuts when I spent 1500 GBP on a PC, specifically to play games, as I was sick of crappy Amiga graphics and always seeing 'Screenshots are IBM PC version"...

Yep, 4 whole megabytes of RAM and I paid extra for the 650 MB hard drive... 1500 GBP. On finance *facepalm

So if anyone should be super fucking STOKED at today's machines and games, tis me.

But they suck.

Just the same old same old bullshit for decades. They just take the same shitty gameplay and make the graphics prettier. That's never changed and I don't think it ever will, so I've given up and don't bother. This machine I'm using now was my 'gaming' PC I got a couple of years ago to try the scene out, but same shit. Pretty graphics but gameplay no better than the 90s.

If anything the gameplay is WORSE, because now they push micro-transactions n shit, and much of it HAS to be online, and even though my current net connection is blazing fast compared to most of my 25 year love affair with the net and PCs, it's still not fast enough to play games. Not least because as usual, they make the game pretty, so just wasting your time with lag etc.

I dreamed, wrongly, that modern games would have real computer simulation of car physics and crashes, for reals, not just pretending with the illusion of that. Yeah, Beam shit, which even on a machine built for games runs choppy, I know, I have it, on this machine. Meh.

I dreamed, wrongly, that shooting games would simulate real-world physics, with actual trajectories and penetrations, explosive energy effects and so on, of different weapons, armor and items. Nope, nothing like it. Same old shit, pretty graphics.

I dreamed, wrongly, that flight simulators would feature real-world simulation of actual air currents, weight etc etc, same shit

Remember, my 'better than the expensive Amiga' PC had a 650 MB hard drive, and it could run decent racing games like TOCA, which worked with my MS Sidwinder force-feedback steering wheel and was a blast. It played Doom and later Quake and all that 3D shooty goodness. MS flight Simulator looked awesome, to me, back then. Bit by bit I would upgrade, rebuild or even build a game PC from scratch, but...

But...

From a 650MB hard drive, this PC has 16 fucking GIGABYTES of fucking RAM, and today's games are still the same shallow illusionary glitchy shit as before, just pretty graphics.

I absolutely loved Colin McCrae rally on an old PC, so returning to games and 'Dirt' looked like it would be amazing... amazing!

Nope, same "pretending to be a simulation" feel, and actually worse in many ways, plus, and why I quit playing it, even playing alone as I prefer, the fucking thing keeps needing to connect to the internet and sits there annoying me as I wait for it to do some online bullshit I don't need or want, before I can proceed.

I hate that shit, and I hate the cheap-ass lazy programming that hasn't changed. Modern racing games STILL feature rubbery cars that bounce off things, if anything they are dumbed-down worse than in the past, where a mistake would cost you the race. Now you can just bounce off a tree or another car and keep going in most games? What am I, 6 years old?

So thanks for the chance to rant. I WOULD love computer games if they had advanced over the last 25 years, but they have actually got worse.

I just can't be bothered with them.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don’t get me started on in game purchases. Fuck's sake, I already paid €70 for the game disc. I’m not spending anymore.

Furthermore, gaming consoles and PCs are more powerful than ever, but loading times are even worse and they crash the internet? Why is that? Because video games run on 5D 3840p graphics. I know I’m being hyperbolic, but video game developers are investing in higher resolutions and more "realistic" animations. Which might seem fine, but all this does is use up more RAM, more storage and more internet bandwidth. "Are games are more powerful than ever- gamers living in rural areas and with data limits can go fuck themselves".

The PS2 was the best selling games console of all time. It had a vast library of video games. Most of which were amazing. Yet it had no internal memory, so you used memory cards that went up to 8MB. I’m not joking. 8MB was enough in 2000 to store your gaming data. Mostly because you did not need to download an entire game onto your console - you just put the disk in and play. And the DVDs those games came from were 8.5GB, which was enough for Grand Theft Auto. Now you need at least 1TB of storage on your console to play a decent library of games, because you have to download the bloody game onto your console from the gaming disk before you can play. So what’s the point in this disk?

[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I had a PS2 for a while, was a fine little machine though already 2nd hand and old by the time I got it. I played some 3D thing where you hunt down and climb up giant monsters, was pretty good.

I wouldn't touch the latest Xbox, as it's just more Microsoft spyware in your house and I already have a PC... I was very interested in the new Playstation but they also did some dirty shit, can't remember what but I recall deciding they can go fuck themselves too.

The only reason I'm using this gaming PC now is cos my other machine's motherboard finally died (RIP Winnie 7..) so this was my spare. I have a Steam account and there are loads of games installed on this machine but I literally can't remember the last time I played any.

It sort of feels like re-reading a book I already read as a kid. In some ways it's new, but I sort of know where it's going. Same old shit, same shallow gameplay, same chasing the latest video card to play the latest games, which is out of date by the time it's on the shelves cos the latest games need even more blah fucking blah.

Same old shit and I'm just tired of it.

And here's another thing, while I'm ranting.. sex? Why is there so little sex still? With literally gigabytes of RAM we should have 4D wibblevision with Sniffomatic sensory goodness, you know, save the damsel and get a blowjob? But nooo, same "keep grinding for a better weapon and armor, just to face better monsters and bad guys anyway, rinse and repeat forever, with no blowjob. Ever."

And I have to pay for this shit?

No.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My brother had the PS2. I got the Xbox just to have a different machine and the GameCube lacked a DVD player. I loved my Xbox but I can see why a lot of people didn't want it: too big, smaller gaming library and the fact that it was made by Microsoft. I picked the Xbox 360 over the PS3 but I now picked the PS4 over the Xbox One because I widened up to Microsoft's behaviour.

I can see your point about revising old video games. It is like picking up an old children's book. Can't deny it would be a lot of fun but I know it's a hassle to download an emulator onto a computer. Furthermore, my laptop is relatively powerful but it's not a gaming machine. But for now I'm preoccupied with my job, my livestreams and other stuff so I don't have the time right now to get back into video games.