"Well, I think there are some points where you are exaggerating a bit, guys. There are still good games out there, both in the market and by independent publishers. You only have to look a bit harder to find them, but only because the supply of games is much bigger today than 10 years ago, for example."
You are 100% right, but like you said you just have to look harder to find them. I guess some of us are just jaded from having to search for the gems, when it used to be the mainstream reviewers jobs.
EagleOfFire, I won't disagree with you, WOW may be the best MMORPG out there, but MMORPG are personally just not my thing. Partly it's the monthly fee, partly its the fact that you expect yourself therefore to play since you are paying a monthly fee, although sometimes you just don't have the time to touch a game, for a month or two at times, in my case anyway. Then there is the one thing that I am pretty much sick-to-death of now, the run here, kill "X" amount, return and repeat.
If you play WOW from the social angle it's a perfect success I guess, from the escapism side, not really my thing. Perhaps it's just too large a game for me. I spent a large portion of my time as a teenager playing Diablo 2 LOD, I seriously got addicted to that. The whole level up - item hunt - treadmill got me bad. It got me so bad actually, that I quit the game 5 times and ended up coming back to the game again. I don't know what it was really that got me addicted, but now I am more aware so it's that aspect of RPG's don't really get me that hard anymore.
I actually just did something yesterday that I should have done a while ago. I uninstalled Counter Strike: Source. It had become a habit, where when I wanted some game time I would load it up (basically same game I played back in 1999 I think it was at version 1.0), I would play the same map, de_dust2, and I would repeat as needed... no wonder I got a little jaded.
As someone mentioned, it gets to a stage where you don't want to bother installing & learning a new game, especially when you feel it might take you months to finish the game, at least in the case of RPG's. I don't really know why that puts me off nowdays though, it took me something like 8 months to finish Baldur's Gate 2 and 6 months to finish Baldur's Gate 1 if I recall correctly.
Anyway I am now trying to make an effort into playing one of my games I have on my backlog, just which to start with. I intend to eventually finish them all, although that doesn't seem to work, I still have some older games that I haven't completed, not to mention the more recent ones of the last 4 years or so.
I actually have 3 RPG's I intend to play, games I wanted so badly when they were released, but couldn't get, because of the dinosaur of a PC I had then. My PC was something like 8-9 years old at the start of 2006, so I am trying to play a bit of catch up with the more popular games, most of which I picked up in the budget bin.
Of these 3, I have Neverwinter Nights 1, Knights Of The Old Republic and TES: Morrowind to play. I started Morrowind, but from what I have read I think it will take me 10 years to finish it
Heard NWN is also pretty long, so I am undecided about where to start.
Then I also have Thief 2 to complete, I completed Thief 1 only about 2 years ago. I had completed near half of Thief 2 when it did come out, but I lost interest and now and forced to start over.
So how do you guys play your games?
You guys play one at a time till you finish it? Or play 2 concurrently experiencing a little of both?
For some strange reason as well I have this urge to play Nethack or Lost Labyrinth, although I think I might want to actually play one of my AAA titles of old first.
Tito, come on, it was always better in the good ole days
I guess I just miss the fact that games like Grim Fandango didn't get a sequel, that certain games changed from 2D to 3D, not that thats a bad thing, but there was a charm in having those beautiful "hand painted" backgrounds as opposed to awkward looking polygon structures for some RPG's. Nowdays thats not really an issue, 3D games now tend to look a lot better when compared to their traditional 2D heritage.
Answer me a niggling question ... Why is it when games are looking as beautiful as they do now, would one feel an urge to want to play a silly-simple tile based game (include flat 2D games) over the prettier offerings. Take for example me feeling of wanting to perhaps play Nethack over KOTOR? I am just delusional? Maybe it's the apparent simplicity of the game that is appealing, I'm not really sure.
Any of you guys feel or felt the same way?