New games suck, I'm back to D2
That's right, Fishy's coming home. *cue imperial march*
The last couple games I bought were massive disappointments to me. Dumbed down to 11, rushed, unfinished and overall just sad. Maybe I've just reached a point in my life where I just hate new things and view old stuff through the nostalgic goggles? But I don't think so... I believe I can recognise and appreciate quality when I see it... The thing is, I'm not seeing it these days... Pretty much the only thing that improves are graphics and everything else seems to suffer for it. I guess it's because vids and screenshots sell games and once their sold who cares if the game is actually good?
Most recently, my gaming heart has been broken my Dragon Age 2. What faith I had in Bioware is pretty much shattered. They've removed nearly everything that was good about DA:O and expanded everything that was bad and introduced a whole bunch of other bad as well. Bad. Baaaad. No wonder they had to write and upvote their own fake reviews for this PoS... Anyway... I could go on for longer than it took me to beat the game about why it sucks donkey balls, but let's not do that. You don't want to read that and writing it down in depth doesn't make my gaming experience any better either...
Why is it that each game assumes I've been getting dumber? Back in my day, we didn't have quest markers, we kept journals on a piece of paper or in - dramatic pause - OUR MEMORY. -gasp- Now? There is a big fat marker for the guy who gives the quest, preferably an arrow I can follow to him, too. Then a big fat marker / arrow on what I have to kill for the quest and then a big fat arrow showing me the way back. Gee, thanks for challenging me, game. Srsly, thanks. Ideally each level is a tube as well. I got as much freedom to explore as a freight train. Funny enough, I hit about as hard so maybe I'm on to something here...
I'd have to check when I last fired up D2, what I do know is that I was pretty sure that after 51 guardians and 15-ish Mats / Pats I'd be done for good. I guess I should have known better.
So yea. Screw new games. I've been playing X-COM, Tie-Fighter, Planescape: Torment, Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 3 and now it's back to D2.
As I type this, I'm installing D2 and LoD again. Which is why there is so much text. Installing the game takes freaking forever...
I've been browsing the SP-MP forum as well and it seems there is sporadic interest in HC MP. I'll host a few games as I start fresh and untwinked and see if it catches on.
So... hi again. :badteeth:
That's right, Fishy's coming home. *cue imperial march*
The last couple games I bought were massive disappointments to me. Dumbed down to 11, rushed, unfinished and overall just sad. Maybe I've just reached a point in my life where I just hate new things and view old stuff through the nostalgic goggles? But I don't think so... I believe I can recognise and appreciate quality when I see it... The thing is, I'm not seeing it these days... Pretty much the only thing that improves are graphics and everything else seems to suffer for it. I guess it's because vids and screenshots sell games and once their sold who cares if the game is actually good?
Most recently, my gaming heart has been broken my Dragon Age 2. What faith I had in Bioware is pretty much shattered. They've removed nearly everything that was good about DA:O and expanded everything that was bad and introduced a whole bunch of other bad as well. Bad. Baaaad. No wonder they had to write and upvote their own fake reviews for this PoS... Anyway... I could go on for longer than it took me to beat the game about why it sucks donkey balls, but let's not do that. You don't want to read that and writing it down in depth doesn't make my gaming experience any better either...
Why is it that each game assumes I've been getting dumber? Back in my day, we didn't have quest markers, we kept journals on a piece of paper or in - dramatic pause - OUR MEMORY. -gasp- Now? There is a big fat marker for the guy who gives the quest, preferably an arrow I can follow to him, too. Then a big fat marker / arrow on what I have to kill for the quest and then a big fat arrow showing me the way back. Gee, thanks for challenging me, game. Srsly, thanks. Ideally each level is a tube as well. I got as much freedom to explore as a freight train. Funny enough, I hit about as hard so maybe I'm on to something here...
I'd have to check when I last fired up D2, what I do know is that I was pretty sure that after 51 guardians and 15-ish Mats / Pats I'd be done for good. I guess I should have known better.
So yea. Screw new games. I've been playing X-COM, Tie-Fighter, Planescape: Torment, Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 3 and now it's back to D2.
As I type this, I'm installing D2 and LoD again. Which is why there is so much text. Installing the game takes freaking forever...
I've been browsing the SP-MP forum as well and it seems there is sporadic interest in HC MP. I'll host a few games as I start fresh and untwinked and see if it catches on.
So... hi again. :badteeth:
