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Admin
Site Admin
Joined: 17 May 2003
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Mon Nov 10, 2003 1:58 am |
Well it has been a while since I went off on a tangent about something I care about. With all of the recent bad news about closings and delayes lately I thought it was time for another rant. This time I throw in my 2 cents about The State of PC Gaming in 2003. Believe it or not it isn't a long rant on how everything sucks but rather a candid look about what is happening and what changes need to be made. Go ahead and read it and then let me know what you think in the forums. |
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SnaKeYeZ
UO Noob
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
Posts: 8
Location: California, US
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Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:08 am |
Well said... well said... Hopefully we do have some changes coming because alot of games that have came out werent very creative... just turning into the same thing over and over... |
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JaFO
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Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:57 am |
When did you wake up to the state of the (pc) games-industry ?
The same old 'omg pc-games are going to hell' has been repeated for ages. I'd even dare to say this rant is as old as Doom itself and it probably even appeared during the not so glory-days of the arcade-machines as well as it being repeated in the console-gamers' community (if such a thing can be said to exist).
It's always the same old cycle :
- someone happens to create something that's both somewhat 'original' and instant succesful (wolfenstein, doom, C&C)
- a little later all the damned clones appear ...
- people complain about how the industry doesn't listen ...
- an original title appears. Sometimes as an original adaptation of an 'old' concept (half-life, BF1942), sometimes as a completely new concept (the sims) and the cycle repeats again (quality of titles degrades as quantity of titles grows)
Never mind that through all this the gamers' taste changes as they mature and grow tired while at the same time newbloods get into this hobby ...
The lust for money always has and always will make sure original/good games are outnumbered by the crap. It always will and has made sure that the good ones are either corrupted or go down (or both). |
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barbos
Ultimate Fanboy
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 508
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Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:15 am |
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JaFO
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Tue Nov 11, 2003 4:34 am |
classics never die ... they just get milked, copied & cloned until there's nothing left an empty shell of what once was. |
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