Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Stogi on November 17, 2008, 07:44:32 PM
Title: ELITIST thread
Post by: Stogi on November 17, 2008, 07:44:32 PM
So I noticed that people haven't been buying games as much and I was wondering why.
For me, I'm planning a big trip in a month and I haven't been able to buy games. But even when I did have money (like this summer), I didn't buy any games.
I did recently buy Okami, but that was purely impulse. I just happened to see it and it saw me and then I played for like 8 hours straight.
But still, I feel most people are regressing.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: King of Twitch on November 17, 2008, 07:55:08 PM
Is this a petition thread for elitists?
*signed*
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on November 17, 2008, 08:03:35 PM
Can we let the stupid political buzzwords die please?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 17, 2008, 08:10:54 PM
Yeah I've been skimming down on game buying. I mean in the last month I've only bought:
-Guitar Hero World Tour -Fable II -Crysis Warhead -Gears of War II -Fallout 3 -Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts -Wii Music -Animal Crossing -Castlevania DS -Order Up -Spider Man Web of Shadows for 360 -Little Big Planet -Mirror's Edge
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Stogi on November 17, 2008, 08:12:30 PM
Good lord! That's over a half a G.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: vudu on November 17, 2008, 09:23:43 PM
I think a lot of people haven't been buying very games because there was a semi-drought right before the holiday season. Not a whole lot worth mentioning came out in August or September. And by now we're so close to the end of the year that a lot of our younger viewers aren't buying games because they'll get them for Christmas.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on November 17, 2008, 09:32:03 PM
Games are expensive. I like to play old games and wait for the new ones to get real real cheap.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: EasyCure on November 17, 2008, 10:18:34 PM
how can you afford all that GP?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 17, 2008, 10:29:26 PM
People who spend a lot of money on games either are in debt or they just don't buy much else! ='D
I know for myself, outside the bare necessities for life, my money goes to mostly videogames and manga...Not a huge music person, have had the same car since 2001 and don't plan to get a new one anytime soon, and my other hobbies cost little (outdoors stuff like hiking and swimming, etc...), leaving tons of room to maneuver for games...
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 17, 2008, 10:38:23 PM
I have a magic money tree that I grew in my backyard.
Now you may be wondering another question. How much time do I spend playing my little games? Well I'd say in the last month I've spent like 10hrs gaming.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_insanolord on November 17, 2008, 10:48:05 PM
I've bought 16 games since the beginning of October which is the most I've bought in that short a span ever.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: bustin98 on November 17, 2008, 10:59:01 PM
I went to Florida for a week to celebrate my brother getting married. And I have found its harder to buy games after being disappointed by others that I've bought. Sometimes its like the old days of buying a music cassette for one awesome song on the radio just to find out the rest of the songs suck ass.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 18, 2008, 12:51:54 AM
I'm on vacation, still playing Tales.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: nickmitch on November 18, 2008, 01:06:14 AM
College budgeting is doing it for me, but Sonic Unleashed and the new Tales are really tempting me. On the other hand, I don't even have the time to finish FFT:A2.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: TofuFury on November 18, 2008, 01:59:05 AM
I'd love to buy more games, but it's difficult with being married for over a year, and have school debt. You really have to be selective in what you buy. I've mostly turned to retro gaming and buying used games. I can only afford wii or ds games a little at a time. I can't complain, though. I'm happy with what I can get.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: ShyGuy on November 18, 2008, 03:20:37 AM
Elitist thread? paging Evan I miss Evan
Only game I'm planning on the Holiday season is COD:WAW and maybe Animal Crossing cause Bill is convincing me.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Shift Key on November 18, 2008, 03:48:55 AM
Its easy to not spend money on Wii games when the Wii is packed away...
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Dasmos on November 18, 2008, 07:39:31 AM
I don't buy or play games, I read the opinions of people on the Internet about games then bitch about them.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 18, 2008, 08:49:41 AM
Most of my recent game purchases have been budget games for the 360 I bought. I just didn't see anything that I really wanted to buy lately (well, except EDF2017 but I ordered that online). As a result my gaming budget is accumulating.
I have a magic money tree that I grew in my backyard.
Is that what grows when you plant a DS?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on November 18, 2008, 12:10:17 PM
GP IS CLEARLY A PROSTITUTE
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Ian Sane on November 18, 2008, 12:47:15 PM
Remember at E3 when Nintendo revealed Animal Crossing and ziltch else and a lot of people complained? Well there was kind of a reason for that. I haven't been buying games lately because there isn't much to buy if you only own a Wii. I don't want Wii Music or Animal Crossing, Warioland is on my Christmas list because I wanted SOMETHING on it, and while I planned on getting Guiter Hero: World Tour I haven't been able to find the damn thing wth all the instruments yet.
I have been playing a lot of Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for the PS2 though. I have finally tried out every single character and thus have some idea of everyone's moves and style and thus am ready to go full out with the match maker mode.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: EasyCure on November 18, 2008, 12:58:27 PM
I'm glad i'm not the one to make that joke (so tempted though)
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: D_Average on November 18, 2008, 01:21:26 PM
I just play free demos over and over.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 18, 2008, 03:14:12 PM
Yeah, yeah, Ian, we know E3 wasn't for the core gamer but there was this HUGE load of games shown at a later conference. Oh and I notice you're ignoring Tales?
The length of demos has been steadily going down, nowadays they don't even contain a full level anymore. Why, back in my day the shareware part of a game was 1/3rd of the full game!
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 18, 2008, 03:17:02 PM
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Remember at E3 when Nintendo revealed Animal Crossing and ziltch else and a lot of people complained?
Remember when the GC was revealed how a lot of people complained about it looking like a lunch box? Remember when the Wii mote was revealed and people complained? Remember when the Wii name was revealed and people complained? Remember when waggle was introduced to TP and a lot of people complained?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Ian Sane on November 18, 2008, 04:39:13 PM
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Yeah, yeah, Ian, we know E3 wasn't for the core gamer but there was this HUGE load of games shown at a later conference. Oh and I notice you're ignoring Tales?
Aren't we talking about what games we're buying NOW? How do I buy games NOW that come out in 2009?
I will admit I forgot all about Tales so that's something. I didn't really like Tales of Symphonia enough to continue with the series but that is something of significance for core gamers in general.
Is this even an opinion related thread? It's like a factual one. A lot of this thread has been personal anecdotes about what games we've bought recently. I haven't bought any games lately. That's a fact. I can't change my mind about that.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 18, 2008, 06:34:42 PM
I've actually slowed down my game-buying. It was at GP-like levels there for a while, until I decided to actually tally up my debt and that pretty much killed my game-buying. But since the beginning of September I've picked up:
Rock Band 2 Resistance 2 Gears of War 2 Fallout 3 Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria (MMORPGs FTW) Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (MMORPGs FTW) Dragon Quest IV KORG DS-10
I think that'll be it for the year. For Christmas I'll likely get LittleBigPlanet, and somewhere in there I might pick up SOCOM: Confrontation for the PS3 headset, but I'm in no hurry. I have enough games to last me for the next year, so I think I'm going be buying very little in 2009.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on November 18, 2008, 06:52:02 PM
Do you guys actually beat all the games you buy? Doesn't seem like there's enough time in the day.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 18, 2008, 07:14:43 PM
Remember at E3 when Nintendo revealed Animal Crossing and ziltch else and a lot of people complained? Well there was kind of a reason for that. I haven't been buying games lately because there isn't much to buy if you only own a Wii. I don't want Wii Music or Animal Crossing, Warioland is on my Christmas list because I wanted SOMETHING on it, and while I planned on getting Guiter Hero: World Tour I haven't been able to find the damn thing wth all the instruments yet.
I have been playing a lot of Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for the PS2 though. I have finally tried out every single character and thus have some idea of everyone's moves and style and thus am ready to go full out with the match maker mode.
I can't believe I'm replying to an Ian post. Not that I read beyond the first few sentences.
Here we go, good things to buy for Wii:
Skate It Shaun White De Blob World Of Goo Art Style StrongBad Tales of Symphonia Monster Lab Mega Man 9 Mushroom Men Deadly Creatures Little King VC titles ...others
Now I am totally prepared to ignore your 3 page response.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: D_Average on November 18, 2008, 07:30:15 PM
Do you guys actually beat all the games you buy? Doesn't seem like there's enough time in the day.
No.
Double no :(
I've been going on game shopping sprees, but they're usually used games so i dont talk about them hear much because i'd be like that guy who shows up to school/work and wants to talk about a movie that came out 5 years ago cuz it was exciting, but missed the chance to cuz everyone else has seen it a million times. I'll bring up a game purchase when its relevant, for instance picking up DK Jungle Beat + bongos.
Wii games i rarely get in abundance, obviously because of price, but i've been buying a good amount this generation. It's great to have the money to afford them so often, but i just dont have the time for them so i jump around from title to title. The last game i beat was The Godfather, then i jumped from Okami to Battalion Wars to a laundry list of old GC games, not beating any of them (came close to beating XIII though) and currently i'm jumping between GH:WT and Time Splitters: Future Perfect. Oh and Ikaruga, but i suck at that game and am waiting for my friend to come back to town so we can co-op it (and TS:FP). I thought i "beat" GH:WT last night but i just got the credits and unlocked a bonus tour, so i still have that to do before i can say i've completed it.
The biggest problem (when it comes to beating games) is being a completionist. Its still in the back of my mind that i have to go back and get more stars in Mario Galaxy, even though i beat Bowser/saw the credits. I know theres still a few tracks in ExciteTruck i've yet to get an S on and i need to unlock that one crazy level, and theres characters left to unlock in MK with a few more gold trophies, etc. Even when i beat the damn thing i feel i need to complete it to the fullest before i can stop feeling guilty about putting it down and collecting dust.
Back to buying games, though, I know the rest of this and all of next month i'll be trying my hardest NOT to buy any games, because i need to get my Xmas shopping in. I usually don't wait till this late in the year, but whooops! If i do buy any Wii or DS games, they'll be for my girlfriend, so she's the one that has to worry about finding the time to play/beat the damn thing.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Caliban on November 18, 2008, 09:47:05 PM
I have a magic money tree that I grew in my backyard.
Oh I knew it. You're a witch. Kudos.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Caliban on November 18, 2008, 10:26:06 PM
Oh I forgot to post something else. I've spent a lot in games in the past 3 months, and there's still a few left to buy until the end of year. I have time to play most of these games because right now I only work 24 hour weekly shifts at my old part-time job while a procrastinate on looking for a job as a machinist (preferably for CNC).
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Shift Key on November 19, 2008, 02:29:15 AM
It's a great thing core games give us 20 or more hours of gameplay when we don't even have time for 10, eh?
Thats why I haven't picked up Okami, I know I'll never even come close to finishing it, even at the bargain price of $20 on Black Friday.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Ian Sane on November 19, 2008, 06:43:19 PM
I beat the games that grab me and compell me to finish. That's a really special feeling then that happens. That "F*CK I HAVE TO BEAT THIS GAME RIGHT NOW!!" feeling. It's when I'll go to work and be thinking about getting home to play more of the game. My favourite games are these types of games. Pikmin 1 & 2 were the ultimate games of this type on the Cube for me.
Not beating a game is usually not because of time restraints but because the game doesn't grab me enough to keep at it. One big problem is that games like Metroid or Zelda will grab me while there is a world to explore but will lose my interest once the last dungeon or boss is all that remains. At that point the last little bit is like work. What I was interested in was seeing the whole world, which I've done and (especially with Nintendo) the story isn't interesting enough for me to see what happens.
I buy games in hope of getting the ones that I absolutely must beat. And even if I don't if it keeps my interest for a long time even without completing it, it's worthwhile. The important thing is the time I remained interested in it was worth the money.
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It's a great thing core games give us 20 or more hours of gameplay when we don't even have time for 10, eh?
It's not about length, it's about depth. Ikaruga takes 30 minutes from start to finish but the challenge gives it depth so it's worth the money. Star Fox Adventures is long but boring as hell so it sucks. A good core game has depth to it. So even if I only play it for 10 hours I feel I got my money's worth and I can always go back to it if I want. A non-gamer can bore the sh!t out of me in minutes because it's so low on substance.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Mario on November 19, 2008, 08:27:04 PM
I'll beat a game if it's good, and I only buy good games. If it's real good like Disaster i'll start a new file straight away too. I think RE4 was the last game I did that with. There's always time for everything, says the guy making posts on NWR.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: ThePerm on November 19, 2008, 11:36:19 PM
i dont have a job, i was focused on my last semester of college before i graduated, i've been playing ps3 games my brother bought.
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oh yeah and no new games on wii look like anything better than a piece of crap, i pretty much get that feeling that ian gets, if i gewt this feeling like i must beat the game at all costs then its a good game, some games i play are good, but i get bored with them. i still haven't even beat Brawl. Other games are cube games that didn't give me that drive like for example Prime 2, which was a good quality game, but no drive to beat it.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 20, 2008, 01:53:32 AM
BTW, Ikaruga doesn't count as core. No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core. The "new" market is really half driven by arcade-like games, you do things until you hit a high score (the other half is utility programs where scores don't make sense).
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 20, 2008, 04:01:04 AM
45 multiplayer hours into Tales so far.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 20, 2008, 04:31:47 AM
**** NOE!
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on November 20, 2008, 04:54:56 AM
Hmm interested, I've never seen no spelled like that.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 20, 2008, 12:29:24 PM
But have you seen it spelled
DO NOT WANT!
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 20, 2008, 01:03:54 PM
BTW, Ikaruga doesn't count as core. No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core. The "new" market is really half driven by arcade-like games, you do things until you hit a high score (the other half is utility programs where scores don't make sense).
Can't wait to see those Grandmas playing Ikaruga.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 20, 2008, 03:00:49 PM
BTW, Ikaruga doesn't count as core. No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core. The "new" market is really half driven by arcade-like games, you do things until you hit a high score (the other half is utility programs where scores don't make sense).
Can't wait to see those Grandmas playing Ikaruga.
Lindy stereotyping seniors. That makes Lindy an elitist. ;)
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 20, 2008, 03:30:33 PM
BTW, Ikaruga doesn't count as core. No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core. The "new" market is really half driven by arcade-like games, you do things until you hit a high score (the other half is utility programs where scores don't make sense).
Can't wait to see those Grandmas playing Ikaruga.
Not sure about grandmas (at that age your reflexes aren't going to be very good, especially with smaller things like an analog stick) but parents could probably happen as long as they're not opposed to the principle of a game about shooting stuff.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Ian Sane on November 20, 2008, 06:48:06 PM
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No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core.
Anything that could use the word "challenge" to describe it, unless the full context is "no challenge" is not non-gamer.
Or a better way to put it - if it came out before 2004 and isn't edutainment there's no way in hell it could ever not be considered a core game because the damn concept of a non-game didn't even exist until the DS.
Ikaruga is like an extreme example of a hardcore game. It's the sort of game that gamers who play like Halo or Zelda won't necessarily touch because it's too obscure and damn HARD. It's a SHMUP for Pete's sake. Who the hell plays SHMUPs these days but the most hardcore devoted gamers? Back in the days before Iwata introduced the concept of a non-game and anyone who played videogames was a gamer "hardcore game" was a term we used for stuff like Ikaruga. Non-games dumb themselves down so that everyone COULD like it. Ikaruga is the type of game designed knowing full well that most people WON'T like it but those that will will like it a lot. That's pretty much the exact opposite of what Nintendo is going for these days.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: EasyCure on November 20, 2008, 06:50:37 PM
Ian do you want me to buy you an Xbox for Xmas?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 20, 2008, 07:03:02 PM
Nintendo has always been known for its hardcore, super challenging games until that stoopid Wii came along.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Mario on November 20, 2008, 07:32:02 PM
That's funny Ian since arcade games were the original casual thing that got most people into videogames and they were very challenging by design. I do agree that the term hardcore gamer is thrown around far too often though as opposed to gamer.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on November 20, 2008, 09:59:33 PM
BTW, Ikaruga doesn't count as core. No, seriously, short, challenge and highscore driven games aren't core. The "new" market is really half driven by arcade-like games, you do things until you hit a high score (the other half is utility programs where scores don't make sense).
Can't wait to see those Grandmas playing Ikaruga.
LOL core gamers don't play Hardcore games. You know this.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 21, 2008, 05:10:26 AM
Anything that could use the word "challenge" to describe it, unless the full context is "no challenge" is not non-gamer.
Then why are you complaining about the Wii so much?
Also does that make Twilight Princess non-gamer?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 21, 2008, 10:01:18 AM
It's inclusionary vs. exclusionary. Nintendo's goal is to create inclusionary games that anybody can understand and enjoy. That was NOT Treasure's goal with Ikaruga to say the least, and saying otherwise is just plain silly. Could anybody play it? Theoretically, yes. Will anybody but the most hardcore shmup junkies play it? Categorically, no.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on November 21, 2008, 10:36:56 AM
Are hardcore shmup junkies the "core", the "traditional" gamer? No.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 21, 2008, 01:15:32 PM
Are hardcore shmup junkies the "core", the "traditional" gamer? No.
Lindy loses again. ;)
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: nickmitch on November 21, 2008, 02:12:47 PM
Lindemann never wins.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: vudu on November 21, 2008, 02:33:37 PM
For all the **** we give Silks, you have to give the man credit. For the past couple months he's really the only staff member who has been paying significant attention to the forums outside of Talkback.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Bill Aurion on November 21, 2008, 03:20:59 PM
For all the **** we give Silks, you have to give the man credit. For the past couple months he's really the only staff member who has been paying significant attention to the forums outside of Talkback.
That's like praising a cancer for metastasizing... (http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc48/BillAurion/Assorted/lolsmiley.png)
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 24, 2008, 12:17:16 AM
Are hardcore shmup junkies the "core", the "traditional" gamer? No.
I don't know what the hell they are. Insane, mostly. But they aren't your Blue Ocean crowd, that's for sure.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on November 25, 2008, 07:25:30 PM
I beat every game I buy that's beatable. I don't buy a lot of games.The ones I do buy I buy cheap and have all the fun I can with them. It may take me years to beat a game but I bet all of them. I save money that way. Why pay for a game you're not going to get all the enjoyment out of. It's like buying a movie ticket and watching the first half and leaving. You paid for the whole thing, watch it. Hardcore gamers are weird. It also seems like elitists have a lot less fun with what they do. I enjoy pretty much every game I buy. I borrow and rent games I'm not absolutely sold on. Stuff like Mass Effect, Infinite Undiscovery and stuff like that.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 25, 2008, 08:37:08 PM
I'm pretty much done buying games for a long time. There are maybe a couple on the horizon that I'm looking out for (Killzone 2, namely), but that's about it.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 26, 2008, 03:52:16 AM
I beat every game I buy that's beatable. I don't buy a lot of games.The ones I do buy I buy cheap and have all the fun I can with them. It may take me years to beat a game but I bet all of them. I save money that way. Why pay for a game you're not going to get all the enjoyment out of. It's like buying a movie ticket and watching the first half and leaving. You paid for the whole thing, watch it. Hardcore gamers are weird.
To me that depends on whether the game actually remains fun the whole way through. You're not missing out on enjoyment if the game stopped being fun, are you?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: D_Average on November 26, 2008, 02:15:15 PM
I'm pretty much done buying games for a long time. There are maybe a couple on the horizon that I'm looking out for (Killzone 2, namely), but that's about it.
Same here, as far as brand new $60 games. Renting games has worked great the past couple months. I've usually done with a game after two weeks anyway (save Madden and Burnout).
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: KDR_11k on November 27, 2008, 04:25:28 AM
Also why the hell are people hyped for KZ2 after the disaster that was KZ1?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on November 27, 2008, 04:26:47 AM
Also why the hell are people hyped for KZ2 after the disaster that was KZ1?
I'm not. I've learned my lesson a long time ago from Sony and their CGI teasers and "promising" games.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 28, 2008, 11:26:12 PM
I'm in the Killzone 2 Beta. It's very, very, good.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 29, 2008, 02:27:23 AM
The movie clip was very, very good.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on November 30, 2008, 10:09:51 AM
I've played the actual game (at least the multiplayer part of it) and it's very, very good. I can't vouch for the single-player (my guess is that it'll be serviceable but pretty corny), but the multiplayer is top-notch.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on December 02, 2008, 06:36:29 PM
Killzone 1 wasn't bad. It is another victim of hype on the negative. It wasn't the best game ever and so now everyone misremembers it. It's a solid console shooter, nothing special but not awful nor a disaster. If the controls were tighter it could've been outstanding. Simply your regular old good game.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 02, 2008, 08:43:56 PM
Killzone 1 is the very definition of vanilla. The environments really look good but they're unnecessarily big and empty, the story is color-by-numbers, and the enemies are super-generic (and I play a lot of FPSes, so I'm virtually immune to generic enemies). It was an undeniably average game that was hyped up to unjustified proportions. IGN gave it a 7.0 and I think that's dead on. All the pieces are there, they're all decent enough, but there's nothing spectacular.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on December 02, 2008, 08:47:58 PM
I can't believe the scores they give MyFirstFPS'. 7.0 is wayy to high for something generic thats be done 100x over.
Whatever though, reviews should just start crackin' down on this ****. I'm looking at you, all of you.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 02, 2008, 08:52:45 PM
Every game genre has been done a hundred times over. What's your point?
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: DAaaMan64 on December 02, 2008, 09:02:54 PM
Every game genre has been done a hundred times over. What's your point?
I'm still pissed about obsessively over used engines that don't produce anything but mediocrity. At least get some interesting art work. That doesn't take much.
I enjoy FPS' a lot, but they are the modern rock bands of video games.
Although I suppose that makes the Wii the pop star. But I didn't buy WiiFit.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: Plugabugz on December 03, 2008, 11:56:14 AM
I want to see Hardcore Gamer Sims. That genre has NEVER been done.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: EasyCure on December 03, 2008, 12:31:07 PM
I want to see Hardcore Gamer Sims. That genre has NEVER been done.
Just play the original animal crossing, play Donkey Kong or whatever for hours and hours on days on end and watch as your town gets raped by weeds and none of your original neighbors are there anymore, and all the new ones dont know who the hell you are.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on December 11, 2008, 05:05:57 PM
If you don't play 80000 shooters a year then you don't care. There is nothing in killzone that breaks the game.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 11, 2008, 05:34:28 PM
If you don't play 80000 shooters a year then you don't care. There is nothing in killzone that breaks the game.
Or that makes it unique.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: MaleficentOgre on December 11, 2008, 10:33:04 PM
It's a fun game. whatever, I liked it.
Also, liberation was fantastic. It is much better than the console game. One of the better psp games I've played.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 11, 2008, 10:40:19 PM
Liberation rules. What a great game. It's funny, I played Liberation before Killzone 1, and when I played Killzone 1 I was like "I can't believe the same company that made Liberation made this". Killzone 1 is just mind-numbingly generic, shockingly so actually.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 12, 2008, 01:16:05 AM
Liberation rules. What a great game. It's funny, I played Liberation before Killzone 1, and when I played Killzone 1 I was like "I can't believe the same company that made Liberation made this". Killzone 1 is just mind-numbingly generic, shockingly so actually.
I would think a game like that would kill your thumb. The PSP analog nub is so uncomfortable to use.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 12, 2008, 09:50:36 PM
Have you played it GP? It's not a first-person shooter. It's isometric, like Gauntlet. It's fairly slow-paced so it doesn't tax your thumb at all.
Title: Re: ELITIST thread
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 12, 2008, 10:07:59 PM
