Kow wrote:

How dare you!

Ah, come on. I could tell it was no good when I was 7.

It was no Chuckie Egg anyway.

Anyway, it was a great game, one of the best the spectrum had.

davyK wrote:

Cue much FPS-ing which is a big yawn

And then a big barf. Has been typed many times but you can't put a trad FPS on that shit and expect it to be just fine.

Main events are gonna be the offspring/bites of The Witness.

That arcade jockey horse racing game. That's the future.

As much as I'm a sucker for massive AAA games I think it's pretty clear this is a golden age of indie development.

Anyway, r.e. the op, I don't think vr is going to re-ignite a passion for gaming, although it will be fun. IMO playing with friends is the best way to keep that fire going!

I loved Ethan Carter.

Liveinadive wrote:

While I agree there is a lot out there I do think a lot of joy has been stripped out of gaming. By joy I mean innocent childlike fun.

The rise of big money in e-sports and in-game shops has moved the focus in AAA multiplayer titles to competitive leagues and high tension quick fire ranked matchmaking. It makes me sad we'll probably never see again server based games housing unique communities who come on at all times of the day for the most casual of casual matches with quick turn overs, voice chat bants with different nationalities about pointless shit and no pressure against leaving or joining whenever you fancy.

Speakign to davyK's post on page 2, where what you liked as a kid often is what you do as an adult (musical tastes, for example) ... I personally have to respectfully disagree though I know it does happen with some things. 

For me, my musical taste tends to change every four or five years and has diverged significantly with what I enjoyed say, from 15-20 though I do still enjoy some of those artists but I don't regularly listen to them anymore. 

Recently Ive found that if you like an artist then you can often find new good ones based on who else's work they have covered or who else they have collaborated with. Dream Theater led me to Zebra, Rainbow and Iron Maiden. Orbital led me to Zola Jesus. I think Royksopp led me to Fever Ray/The Knife and subsequently Light Asylum. It's a trend of small discoveries. 

With gaming though, it's been quite different and often a retreat to familiar styles/places of known quantity even if I didn't play them as a kid. Take Nintendo: I didn't own one until I was 21 or so when I got a GC. Ive also tried out more SRPGs thanks to Valkyria Chronicles as my first real crack at one, and completely gone off FPS and militaristic stuff like Tom Clancy and Halo games after a relatively intense addiction to them from about 2000-07. Sort of like binging on them before developing an allergic reaction, even though I look back fondly on getting very competitive with Splinter Cell online, for example.

I do like discovering small, unexpected brilliance. Pixeljunk Monsters captivated me when it first came out, so I'll always give Q Games a go. Same with Way Forward who often make nice simple games that remind me of Game Gear Shinobi with how tight they control. And last night I bought Steamworld Heist which was amazing from the first minute. 

Also shout out to @Tempy and his recommendation of Toki Tori 2. That game is delightful and I hope we still get to see Rive from Two Tribes at some point. Games like those, Swords and Soldiers and World of Goo have been some of the biggest surprises this past decade and really prove that this is a golden era, you just have to dig a little.

I've lost the love in the past few years. Got excited about certain games and Destiny had me by the balls but not for the right reasons I suppose.

I struggle to put in more than a couple of hours before feeling I should go outside or do something else.

I think the main problem is that games these days just aren't that good.

Which of these 250 games will I play? I know - none of them.

I still haven't played or finished:
-Any Zelda game
-Mass effect trilogy
-Dark Souls (fucking dark souls!)
-The Witcher 2 (soon 3)
-Ass creed 3+4
-Many many more

60% of my library is untouched, like a virgin.

Don't bother with assassin creed 3. I hear 4 is goo but 3 was a ripoff even as a psn freebie.

Vela wrote:

Don't bother with assassin creed 3. I hear 4 is goo but 3 was a ripoff even as a psn freebie.

There's also the ass creed2 expansions brotherhood and revelations.

It's quite amazing how it manages to be bbloated and still deny you content unless you pay for it, especially after alluding to it so strongly in other parts of the game that weren't hidden behind a paywall

stonechalice wrote:

Ass Creed games represent most of the problem with why I don't get on with so many games these days. Bloated drivel.

Yeah, and that stuff is creeping into almost every AAA game these days. I really enjoyed MGSV controls and gameplay for example, but fuck me did the checklist bullshit padding start to grate after a few dozen hours. It turned enjoyable mechanics into a chore.