Feel sorry for the new generation of gamers...

I miss better games. I don't need the latest rendering. I need storyline, character advancement and playability.

Too often now games cater to the PvP crowd and the core game has become a shell because of it.

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Moonyu wrote:

I miss better games. I don't need the latest rendering. I need storyline, character advancement and playability.

Too often now games cater to the PvP crowd and the core game has become a shell because of it.

Yeah, totally true. No substance, just graphics and the oh so important pvp/multiplayer.

I gotta admit i was surpised at how good of a story the modern warfare games had, they were far from the mindless killing games i thought they would be considering i saw only the dumb COD kids stuff every now and then. Bioshock series was also great, less of a surprise at how good the plot was though.

I dont like games with the most "realistic" graphics, it makes the game not feel like a game anymore and it can in fact make it a tad too real. games should look and feel like games, not like a glimpse into reality from a different point of view. Thats why i love the 1 gender rule form older arpgs, D2 and D1 come to mind of course, where an amazon was female and a paladin male so was the ranger and warrior. Today everyone begs too much for gender options and selective physical feature changes to make the char more "unique", while all one has to do is get different looking armor.

I even like game types i never played before if the plot is good, XCOM for example is a turn based strategy game, is what its called. Its really great plot wise and feels really awesome to get into character.

I never understand gamers on "graphics not good enough" thing, i never saw the difference half the time and the other half i thought it looks too real. Gender options, well, in that other game, a barbarian being female and so is the crusader and monk? Not really buying it at all, should have been all male. The demon hunter and wizard should have been the female classes. Thats why i hope GGG will never go down that road of gender options even though everyone begged for it so much its practically guaranteed to come eventually.

Old school huh? I embraced Deus Ex and Half-Life and F.E A.R. all excellent games that pushed the boundaries of gameplay, but stayed true to story and content.

Want PvP in a pretty new bow? Play just about every new game out there. Same ol' same ol'.

And rare is the sequel worth playing. Too many have abandoned the core game to introduce exciting flashy things that Detract from the core.

(Not all sequels! Some are better, but too few.)