Quote Originally Posted by Poofta! View Post
im not sure if youre trying to suck up to us so we think this 12 year old is cool, or if youre being trolled in real life and dont get.

either way... youre a kid every bit as much as everyone else in your elementary school.

yes retro games are fun; not everyone likes them. cool story.


also, everyone here who says games today suck, is an idiot. there are just as many great games today as there were being released at any point 10, 20, 30 years ago, if not more (depends which point you pick, really). nostalgia has a way of mucking things up. just because you enjoyed metroid doesnt mean you cant enjoy metroid fusion or prime 3. just because you think contra is the bee's knees doesnt mean that CoD:MW is crap. everyone here needs to grow up. for every shitty lightgun game on the nes there is a shitty railgun game for the wii. for every shitty 16bit sequal there will be a CoD: WaW.

games as a whole are getting better. technology has pushed realism in graphics, music and gameplay to new heights. this has made genres evolve and the landscape of gaming change. some mascots transferred well (mario), some... not so well (sonic). however the fact that today you have games being made which are 'old school' and are better than almost anything in their class from 10-30 years ago, is undeniable - whether it be depth of quality (castle crashers, shadow complex, dishwasher samurai, dragon age, SFIV etc etc). of course some games are timeless, we call them classics. the thing about classics is that each gen has them, including this one.

new franchises are able to create and expand on things from the past that programmers back then only dreamed of. calling games like Modern Warfare 'shit' is a sign of ignorance (at best). genres like racing were simply incapable of matching up to the quality which the programmers (and gamers) wanted until just a generation ago. RPGs today are everything that SSI attempted to do 30 years ago. Carmack himself is pleased with what FPS are today, and continues to push them forward and evolve. Hell, even side scrollers of the nes/snes era have lived on with spiritual and literal sequels (of varying quality, as everything in life) which deserve a spot in every gamer's library.

look at any wise/knowledgeable/experienced collectors or gamers here (or anywhere, really) and notice the span of their collection. it usually starts at when they began gaming (sometimes going backwards, depending on the person) and has the cream of the crop in terms of great games of every generation up until the current one (sure, everyone has a favorite era). pigeon-holing yourself to 2600, 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, last gen or current gen is absolutely absurd. you are missing the point of interactive entertainment and prove nothing more than how narrow-minded and truly juvenile you are.

fanboys dont only apply to mascots or companies. dont be fanboy. try to view everything as objectively as possible. it is ultimately you who loses out on what the world has to offer. in the end of the day neither your classmates, nor us, give a shit to what you play on your tv, in your home.



if anyone is curious: ive been gaming since the NES. i enjoy my guardian legend as much as my IL2 Sturmovik.

And you my friend are an idiot if you feel that people are idiots, based off of whether or not they do or do not enjoy current gen videogames.

I will admit, that there are some good current gen titles on the market. I grew up on NES, and find Mario Kart Wii, Mario Galaxy, Mega Man 9, etc enjoyable. However, The number of games that I have a desire to play has decreased dramatically since the NES days. I used to share a dorm with a dude who was into current gen X Box stuff, and I had no desire at all to play that crap. Not Halo, not Gears of War, no desire for the new Metroid stuff either.

I think that there are two definitions of good, which need to be looked at. Some of these games may be good in the same way that Ralph Waldo Emerson's writings are good, and worth studying. In reality, many people may abhore these (both the games and the writings), but by the same token, they have their significance and should be treated likewise. Then there are the games that are just simply fun, and these would fall into the other category of good. I am not going to argue that the graphics/realism are not getting better with these newer games. However, to equate this with improvement? I cannot honestly say that games are getting better, it all depends on a person's taste.

If my brother did not have a Wii, I honestly would not have bought one to play the new games, because I am just as happy with the retro stuff. Does that make me closed minded? Possibly, though I am not totally sure whether I agree with that or not. I personally find the newer games less fun, and to me, they are not an improvement over the older stuff. Sure I have found certain titles here and there that I enjoy, and find great, but overall, there is definitely a smaller selection of games that I would choose to purchase than with the classic consoles. Not really a case of being a close-minded idiot, or being a retro fanboy, or of being narrow-minded. Simply a case of personal taste, and everyone is allowed to have their own.