I also remember the days when games belonged to a group called *shareware*.... games were spread freely thorugh the then arcane network called the internet. These days, i walk down to my local Dick Smith store and buy a game worth 90 bux. The developers of games back then use to be any one who was smart and had an imagination. These days, anyone who has a huge wad of cash can make a game. No developer lets there imagination run free anymore. I think this is y HL2 has such a big push behind it. Its a freely modable game. Eveery single part of the source engine is open to imagination.I think Darwinia has changed the way that people look at games for the rest of our lives. Do we develop another linear fps title? Or stretch the brains of the future generation? ITS UP TO YOU!
Darwinia was crappy looking by intention, its setting is a living civilisation in a virtual world. The makers of the game made it so it actualy looks virtual. Its one guys emagination of what the world would look like if it was a giant supercomputer.But if its sexy looking graphics that is the reason why darwinia has poor sales, then we really are as stupid as those fat-cat moneybag "game developers" think we are.
personally i like the type of games we have. all these news game look and play liek crap.
:edit: if FPS is overused it will eventually bore, then the old RTS, RPG and simulations (once forgotten) will look new and fascinating. They wont die out for as long as gaming veterans will remember them.
Exactly, Take WoW for example.Its a game thats purely devoted to the players imagination and never comes to an ending point. The players temselves even have the choice of what happens in the game as it progresses. In games such as BF2, we are shown whats right from wrong. Its pretty muched shoved in our faces. WoW leaes the rules open for experimentation. We can even find chances where the rules bend for just enough time to keep us motivated. If only we didnt have to pay $40 Australian every two months.
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Games like System Shock 2, Theif 3, Scrapland,NOLF all get overlookedI think game of the year for me would have been Vietcong 2. Overlooked by many for not having fancy graphics and the lure of COD2.
Thief 3 was absloute arse, Repeditave crap.Vietcong 2 is a real flop too, If you were a fan of the original this game would make you want to rip your testies off, Go read pretty much any review from a gaming company/community and they will say the same, it's not just based on the graphics, (although they did use the same engine, 2 years later....)there are huge gameplay flaws aswell.Little games that are released from small companies/one man bands 90% of the time flop, purley beacuse they don't have the funds for advertising and development, It's like saying socitey shouldn't be all into skinny as fuck blonde girls ect ect. but thats just not how it works, The big fish always wins.
all those games vonn said are budget games made for crappy computers
Dear god are you retarded?!
