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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: musiclover420] * 5
    #23537917 - 08/13/16 12:57 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Here's my favorite game to play on my mobile phone:



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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: The Cheshire Cat] * 2
    #23537921 - 08/13/16 12:59 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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Bethesda makes amazing games, ive spent almost 8,000 hours on skyrim, but it's only fun with mods.





holy shit. thats nearly an entire year of playing. and Skyrim has only been out for 5 years


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #23537952 - 08/13/16 01:13 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I can name you an amazing game... Totally Accurate Battle Simulator...    :mindexpanding::lol:


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Sophistic Radiance] * 1
    #23537959 - 08/13/16 01:15 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Sonic is the shit! I have a sonic collection for PS2 and the original Xbox :awesomenod:

Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles are my favorites by far, I should check if I have any on my CPU right now... I could go for some sonic :lol:


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Adolin]
    #23537967 - 08/13/16 01:16 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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Gresh said:
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The Cheshire Cat said:
Bethesda makes amazing games, ive spent almost 8,000 hours on skyrim, but it's only fun with mods.





holy shit. thats nearly an entire year of playing. and Skyrim has only been out for 5 years



Played it for 3 years back in highschool... especially during the summer lol... 8000 is an estimate :lol:, not exact, but i stopped playing the game like a  year or 2 ago.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: The Cheshire Cat] * 1
    #23537974 - 08/13/16 01:18 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Skyrim felt soulless to me, like hollywoodized. I really liked oblivion. It felt more like a hand crafted game.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: trees] * 3
    #23537979 - 08/13/16 01:20 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Daggerfall, buggy as it was, was the best of that series by far.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr] * 2
    #23537980 - 08/13/16 01:20 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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rbalzer said:
A good collection of points. sad stuff.

I guess I just wish I could show every gamer out there that the best games are often free, and get them to stop feeding this beast.

I've gotta wonder if the main reason development takes so long is too much focus is on visuals and all the things that come with them. Couple of my favorite games on this earth are text based, free, and made by a handful of people.




An average modern AAA 3D game takes a team of like 20-50 people about 3 years to develop, sometimes/often longer.
Between initial concept, document design, programming, art and 3d modeling and animations, sound, and so on, and so on it takes a LOT of fucking work.

No game is free... people have families to feed. No game developer is going to invest years of their time for nothing.
There's the newish Free to Play model that has become so popular. And with it microtransactions out the ass.
I'd rather pay for a game up front and have everything then it be offered as F2P, but in all actual reality is Pay to Win and there is a pay wall to unlock all the content, which is a model many F2P games have taken.
A few companies have done the F2P model right however, by making it TRULY F2P by not limiting the character and only offering aesthetic things as purchasable items.

I play a text based MUD and have for the past 20 years now.. same one...it's the best MUD out there.. it's a paid subscription though. I don't mind because I've gotten tens of thousands of hours of entertainment from it.

If you are sick of the AAA game studios BS as many are.... there's a whole wide world of indie games out there... tons and tons and tons of amazing games.

Of course if you are limited strictly to console gaming then your choices are severely limited and GL playing any indie game teehehe #pcmasterrace


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: trees] * 1
    #23537985 - 08/13/16 01:21 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Oblivion was awesome... i miss that game...


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: California] * 1
    #23538004 - 08/13/16 01:28 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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trees said:
Skyrim felt soulless to me, like hollywoodized. I really liked oblivion. It felt more like a hand crafted game.




I completely agree except that oblivion felt like an updated morrowind with some new additions.

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Daggerfall, buggy as it was, was the best of that series by far.




I have heard it was the best content and size wise but I just cannot get into those style of RBG's at all, morrowind was buggy too and also had primitive graphics by today's standards but at least you could actually roam freely with minimal movement restrictions. That was the first game I truly felt immersed in as a kid, it gave me a sense of adventure like no other.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: musiclover420] * 2
    #23538015 - 08/13/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Bethesda should get their heads out of their asses and bug-fix Daggerfall and update the graphics and call it good.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: musiclover420] * 1
    #23538025 - 08/13/16 01:35 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

oblivion/morrowind lover too...never went back as far as daggerfall. might have to give it a go


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: California] * 1
    #23538027 - 08/13/16 01:35 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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Bethesda should get their heads out of their asses and bug-fix Daggerfall and update the graphics and call it good.



:hahyeahwoo::lol:


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr] * 1
    #23538049 - 08/13/16 01:45 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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oblivion/morrowind lover too...never went back as far as daggerfall. might have to give it a go



You should give it a try.  Expect crashes and save often.
It is available for free download from Bethesda.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #23538167 - 08/13/16 02:36 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

In a way, this has been normal for the video game industry since the beginning. For example, ET for the atari, or Daikatana. Certainly, we have a problem with the hype train like never before (thanks partly due to crowd funding and social media), but Daikatana also had a massive hype train. Back then it was rare, now it's common, but this has been something that's gone on in the game industry for a long time.

Additionally, I think crowd funding is funding a lot of totally incompetent developers with zero experience. Previously, your product spoke for itself as a finished product in the shareware/early console days. Now people get funded before they've even shown that they can make anything at all.

It's also much easier to develop games these days. You don't need people who know what they're doing if you're using Unity. You just need to hire a bunch of artists and call it a day.

That's exactly the kind of thing that happened with No Man's Sky. All art, zero engineering, zero game design. Looks pretty, but it can't even run at 30fps on the best computer that money can buy.



Edit; Also, daggerfall is an excellent game when it doesn't crash. I highly recommend it :thumbup:

Just try not to get lost in the dungeons
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Edited by nooneman (08/13/16 02:39 PM)


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #23538302 - 08/13/16 03:42 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I have been a video gamer since the sega master system. 

The choices available to gamers today is amazing.  And it's only getting better


I for one, am seriously loving some of the blockbusters.  The uncharted series is unreal.  I'm playing uncharted 4 at the moment and it's a fucking blast.  The new doom has been pretty intense and entertaining. 

I'm beyond excited for the new Zelda coming out next year.  That will be a phenomenal game. 


And I'm incredibly excited for the new resident evil going back to its survival horror roots

The last horror game I played was evil within and it was incredible

I need to try outlast.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Masked] * 2
    #23538381 - 08/13/16 04:16 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

The new Zelda games looks sick. Will definitely be buying the new system when it comes out. I never bought a Wii U.


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: PatrickKn]
    #23538471 - 08/13/16 04:49 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Same! I was waiting for new Zelda.  I'll be buying the new "nx" just for that game! :smile:


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: Psilosopherr]
    #23539044 - 08/13/16 09:25 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

about 16 years ago.........when i stopped playing video games


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Re: Anybody else realized that every big money video game is garbage? [Re: demiu5] * 1
    #23539878 - 08/14/16 05:34 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Tl;dr at bottom

The free to play model is ruining gaming so fucking fast and honestly there isn't anything we can do about it.

It's like I'm paying for cigarettes that don't even relax me at all. At least cigsrettes give me stress relief before i get cancer. F2p games are like slamming asbestos into my arm.

The whole konami/kojima pt silent hills thing is really what ruined gaming for me. I'll never be able to get excited for a video game again.

I bought into all the hype with phantom pain. That game is fucking garbage. Gameplay is so awesome, hell when i was a kid and first got into mgs i only liked the gameplay and skipped every cutscene my first ten playthroughs.

Then i decided to watch the cutscenes out of boredom.  It blew my fucking mind how awesome video games were, in the capacity to tell a genuinely awesome story.

I'll never forget that time colonel said "TURN THE CONSOLE OFF NOW,Seriously don't you have anything better to do? Playing so close to the tv is bad for your eyes." And i seriously had no clue what to think. Then in the middle of the mission the game over screen came on, but you keep playing through the game over screen.

This is what got me so fucking hooked on such a great series. Hell i just last night went to play mgs2 for the hundredth time (literally, mgs4 is the only one i have that actually keeps track of how many playthroughs you've done, I've played mgs4 120 some times) and i still find new details to this day. Never realized you could kill the enemy with steam from the pipes on the boat.

But then konami switched to f2p for mgs5, they let kojima go and barred him from making anything mgs again. He is literally the only reason the series succeeded and i would argue the only reason stealth video games are a thing.

Not only that but they wouldn't let him finish the fucking game. Maybe it was kojima's fault idk but really i can't believe I finally bought one of those unfinished video games everyone bitches about.

In gaming not completing your game is the ultimate sin. I don't care  well polished the rest of it is. I only have phantom pain so i can have the whole series sitting on my shelf (I'm that type of perfectionist :lol:). Konami fucking killed gamin for me.

Maybe it should have died before this. Hell EA is a shit company, but the thing with konami that gets me is everything they've done in the last 3-4 years has been totally intentional and just so fucking unbelievably stupid. I really can't wrap my head around the stupidity of it all.

Stl;dr fuck konami you ruined games for me.

/rant cause i could easily go on all day bitching about this.


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