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    I wish i wish i wish

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    You guys are so nostalgic. But there are still inovative games nowadays! Just like agozer said, katamari damacy is a good example.

     

    Back in the 8-bit and 16-bit era, granted there were a few innovative concepts and good games, but most were crap just like now! Have you forgotten Pit Fighter? There were A LOT of these crappy games back then, and good and innovative games were not that common. Sure, now we only remember the good games. But when I was a kid and had a SMS, I read lots of game magazines to make sure the next game I'd buy wouldn't be a total crap, because guess what? Most games in shops were really bad.

     

    I really don't think it's worse now than back then. Anyway, if you don't like today's games, have a look in your roms collection. Try a few random games (really random, some games you don't know and have never heard about), you could find a jewel, but most likely the biggest part will be pure crap.

     

    See, I disagree. I am about to make a sweeping generalisation here, but when I go through all my roms and old games, a lot of them are good, and most of the others are playable and at least vaguely interesting. But I just can't say that about today's games. I look on the shelf at the local game shop, and barely any register anything with me, with only a couple I consider special and worth me buying and playing.

     

    I mean, go to a local games store, see the recent releases, and see which ones take your fancy - you could probably count them on your hand.

     

    Just my two cents.

    I wish i wish i wish

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    I remember that back in the SNES days my dad would let me and my brother rent one game a week. We'd go through all the games, fight over which one to play, and then eventually rent it. Almost every single rental was fun.

     

    These days, I just don't have as much fun with games. I dunno if maybe I'm finding games to be less fun with my age, or games really were more fun back then. But I do know that it's a lot different now.

     

    Wow...very similar story to my past experiences. But I also remember renting NES and Master System games too.

     

    I think I have lost interest in gaming for both the reasons you state - I have just grown up, and also because games were better back then.

     

    Don't get me wrong, there still are a couple of cool games being released today, but I think older games were just more fun and more playable - even if they were more harder to complete, which is something I personally find.

     

    Todays games are very much obsessed with graphics and having an oscar winning plot, which is great, but not when the fun factor gets left on the side of the road.

     

    Another thing I find are games are less creative and inventive these days - because games are such big business, developers are scared to push genre boundaries just in case their game flops. They feel safer staying in the usual genres and franchises.

     

    I remember booting up new games on my old Amiga computer, and wondering, "wow, what the hell! I've never seen a game like this before!" And to discover yet another oddball game that some obscure developer came up with. You don't get that today.

    doom the movie

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    Are you sure the Rock will dies?  :(

     

    He is the hero, he is the one who should shoot the head-on-the-stick :)

     

    Well, in the first game the marine dies at the end of episode 1 and goes to hell. Maybe that's what happens to the Rock in the movie.

     

    Although I heard the movie would have no demons and no hell, which would suck.

    Where do you work and What would be your dream job

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    My...I haven't visited this place in so long. Hello peeps.

     

    Right now I am working 9-5 in an office. It is ok pay, nice location, nice people, not hard work, but I can't help but feel that I want something more.

     

    I work part time on the radio, have a show and all that. That is fun, but its annoying, because it eats into my spare time, like weekends. I wish it was my day job, but that seems unlikely.

     

    I don't know if there is a dream job - I have been thinking about my career options and goals recently, because life is drifting by under my nose. But I have no idea. Perhaps something arty, but not too arty, which paid well and wasn't too far from home.

     

    And I agree that working in stock is cool. It was very hard work - I'd come home with bruises and cuts all over me from lifting and moving big, bulky and heavy stuff. But it was a really good workout, made you feel alive, and I met lots of funny people - like truck drivers. They are funny people.

    Still feel the sensation of emulation?

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    I sort of still feel it, but not as passionately as before. I come here more for the convo and SPAM more then anything else. Still dally in some Neo Geo, Mame and Amiga emulation, but not as fervently as before.

     

    Another reason is that I am an emulation hoarder - once I finally get a game and make sure its working, I burn it to CD and...that's about it. I promise myself to play them, try to complete them, but I don't. I just collect!

    Video Game News

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    Also one last tidbit is that there will be another Tomb Raider. WTF , the only thing that can save this franchise is that Laura Craft better be doing  some nude scenes in it. You fanboys will prolly flame me for that one  but thats my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

     

    I'm all up for nude scenes...but anyway, I think Tomb Raider is pretty much dead - even movies with Angelina Jolie can't bring it back from the brink! But if they can insert something new into the formula, then who knows.

    What are your other interests besides computers?

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    Posted · Edited by Chaotica

    I like reading...like, almost anything. When I went to university, I stopped reading for pleasure, because you have to read alot of texts. But now that I have finished school, I read alot.

     

    I like writing too - short stories, long stories, poems, rants, reviews.

     

    I like drawing, but I'm not so good at it. I like going to art galleries too.

     

    I like exploring all types and different types of music, but my favourites are rock and metal. So of course, I love to go to rock concerts when I can.

     

    I still losely follow wrestling, and I hope the Undertaker beats Randy Orton at Wrestlemania this year, even though Orton is pretty cool.

     

    The media industry (radio, tv, newspapers, print, publishing, advertising) fascinates me, and I hope sooner or later I can crack into it.

     

    I don't watch too much tv, apart from the news, and cricket and aussie rules football, which I both follow, but I can't play for peanuts.

     

    That's about it, apart from chatting with friends, pubbing and clubbing and random flirting.

    Life Expectancy, how long do you think you have?

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    I'm expecting to live to 60. If I live past that I'll be very suprised and pleased.

     

    yes, i feel the same way. im quite unhealthy and i can admit that bc its my fault for not takin care of myself :thumbsup:

     

    Make that three! I feel the same way, but just recently I have been really trying to take care of myself, eat better, stay more positive, and excercise more. It ain't easy, tho!

    ITT: Gaming Alphabet

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by Chaotica

    A - Apidya

    B - Balder's Gate

    C - Castlevania

    D - Doom

    E - Expendable

    F - Final Fight

    G - Gods

    H - Half-Life

    I - IL2 Sturmovik

    J - Jazz Jackrabbit

    K - King of Fighters

    L - Lucky and Wild

    M - Mortal Kombat

    N - No Regret

    O - Overdrive

    P - Planescape: Torment

    Q - Quake

    R - R-Type

    S - Speedball 2

    T - Thief II - The Metal Age

    U - Unreal Tournament

    V - Vampire Saviour

    W - Warlords: Battlecry II

    X - Xenon 2: Megablast

    Y - Yolanda

    Z - Z-Out

    XBOX2 Specs Revealed

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    Xbox2 coming out this year: Head start or failure? YOU CHOOSE!

     

    Early bird gets the worm, remember when the PS2 came out? Other then being hyped like hell. It sold by mass of the earth during the first few months.

     

    I don't know about early starters...remember the Dreamcast? It got an early start too. I miss Dreamcast.

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