Emotional Games

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This is the usual and very old topic of graphics vs gameplay. Well I don't know about you guys, but playing Duke3D doesn't excite me anymore... cause once you beat the bad guy, you are done! Graphics are horrible and I prefer Quake1 over Duke3D anyhow. I don't think I will ever play Doom again, cause of graphics. I was never attached to the game anyhow... but let's think of one game I was really attached and play a lot a LONG time ago...

hmmm... paratrooper! Would I play it again? Nah.... cause they use the PC speaker sound and it makes terrible noice.

Pacman? Same, and it is kind of boring after a while... all you have to do is memorize some path for each level.

Alley the cat? Eh... play it only a few times... no thanks.

Xenon? That was a cool shooter, but now they have much better if you use emulator. Last time I tried it, the ship was going a little too fast... I would say maybe.

Bruce Lee? Shit... that sucks... map are huge and you are soo fucking tiny... and the combos... wuahaha... there are none.

Digger? No thanks

Bushido? No... it get boring after a while... even the small arcade hidden game sucks.

Bards tales 2? Nah... I was never able to understand that game.



Ok... let's go to something a little more recent...
KOF94 using neogeo emulator? No thanks I prefer now KOF97.

KOF97 Sure!! Graphic is barely ok, design is great(is Mary "Kawaii"(=cute)??), but they have all kind of combos :)

KOF98?... Maybe... but all females looks worse.

Alien vs Predator(arcade)?... Maybe...

Balder Gates1? Sure...

Ultima7? Sure... but it is quite buggy and too fast...

Jagged Allience1&2? No problem, I am in!

Q1? UT is kind of beating the old Q1... but I miss so much the RL and the DM levels... Why not?


Ok I am stopping... so what do I think about graphics vs Gameplay? If they graphics are too bad, I don't want it. There are some minimum standard I have... but of all the games including RPG I played, only Jagged Allience 1&2, KOF97(Cute girls), and Street Fighter vs Xmen(Storm is so nice looking) are the only games I have some emotional attachments and could still play over and over right now without any problem. These games have nice graphics, and have some kind of gameplay that is still excellent. I will love to play these games again.

zelda1 for nes grabbed me, i still wsh i had nes. I played that game so much

The only games I've ever really had emotional attachment to have been RPGs. Strangely enough, as realism and complexity increase, my attachment to RPGs and their characters decreases. I used to get completely wrapped up in Dragon Warrior, Phantasy Star, and (pre-SNES) Final Fantasy games, and even though those games suck butt by today's industry standards, I still really got into the story and characters. Pretty much everything from Final Fantasy VII onward has been just a game.

Maybe I'm just getting old, though! Any other Atari-, SMS- and NES-age gamers experiencing this? :(

Ummm... Final Fantasy?

After playing FF8, I just feel an incredible urge to be in that world with those characters... It's truly odd. I really didn't want to replay the game, but I think I could play it forever (that is in my free time) if it had no ending. It was just a completely God-like game in every respect, and at least a decade ahead of anything else in terms of character development. FF7 was decent, too. I've heard FF9 is good, but I haven't had time to play it although I do own it.

Deus Ex was pretty damn good, too. Definitely the best characters and story of and FPS I've ever played, though not quite on the level of Final Fantasy.

Once a specific game captures the hearts and minds, nothing else, no matter how much the graphics improve, will erase the original..

Take doom. Hell, I go back and play JDoom sometimes. Its still a blast, and I have all these memories of playing doom shareware, being shitscared late at night killing imps and praying for a shotgun shell around the corner..

Fast forward 10 years. Don't you think the VERY SAME people will be saying the VERY SAME shit about Counter-Strike when we're playing the 15 millionth iteration of a team based realistic combat simulator? "Fuck man, remember Counter-Strike, there was this one time when it was me against four guys and I was shitting my pants hiding behind a box on Dust and.."

Graphics, computing power, doesn't mean shit. Nothing quite beats the very first game that grabs at your soul. For some of us that was Doom, or Final Fantasy. For newer players that game will be Counter-Strike. I wonder what the gamers in 5 years time will be citing as the first game that really obsessively captivated them?

Hey does anyone know the ip the shack ftp server that someone was hosting? Was wondering if I could take officexp for a test run it was avail....

Now 20 years later those kids have grown up and still play games.

I don't know about the 'grown up' part ;)

Um, games have had puzzles forever. Does the person that wrote this story know what an emotion is? If pinched faces = emotion, prepare to break out the hankies for Max Payne.

Sanitarium was an incredibly badass adventure game...anyone who has played through it would
surely testify to that. 7th Guest was awesome too :D

Planescape: Torment's probably the most emotional game I've ever played... incredible stuff.

There are a quite a few mistakes in that article.

Woo for the spread of misinformation!!

"...an aging market that's careering toward a third decade of gaming."

Damn, they're talking about me. How'd I get this old? >:(

In Ubi Soft's ``Batman: Vengeance,'' scheduled for release in September, the Dark Knight's face grows pinched when he's wounded, giving the real-world player a silicon glimpse of pain.

Holy emotional gaming shit, Batman!

Ubi Soft credits the move away from stony-faced heroes

Faces that pinch. The move away from stony-faced heroes. They must be some sort of fucking amazing storytellers at Ubi Soft.

Smarter bad guys need more computing power.

Thankfully, developers say, improved graphics accelerators and chips can handle the chore of creating detailed backgrounds and entertaining foregrounds without hogging memory or crashing the PC.

That leaves the computer's main processor free to ``think'' for the opponents.

MORE power?!? Sounds familiar, I think I heard that years ago. Not a lot of improvement in that area, sorry, even the B&W creatures were disappointing... in terms of FPS cannon fodder AI: Half-Life's grunts are still unbeaten and that game is a few years old.

Come on, don't tell me convincing AI isn't possible with today's processing power... time to make up a new excuse.

The company's titles include ``Quake,'' ``Quake II'' and the earlier ``Doom,'' which Id says has been downloaded from the Internet more than 15 million times.

``Quake II'' has been on the shelves a year longer than ``Half-Life'', which is considered the series' biggest blockbuster. But ``Half-Life'' has sold 800,000 more copies than ``Quake II'' - a 50 percent difference - according to the companies.

Why does it sound like the person who wrote this thinks that the people who made Q2 made HL?

Also, why do I see no mention of Q3?

I got emotional when I saw some little 5 year old in Wal-mart playing the gameboy advance. I was like I had to put up with Atari and you get this shit handed to you. Go shoot up a school or soemthing you little bastard........ :)

That is lame gamers are always looking for the next thing to WOW them

wait...someone at id...knows about gameplay?

kidding :)

i get sooooo emotional baby

*waits eagerly for PMS Rant to appear*

and again????