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 Video game unoriginality 
#8410891 - 05/16/08 08:36 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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It seems most games these days are just rehashes of old classics. I haven't seen a game that has been truly original since Super Mario.
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: blewmeanie]
#8410979 - 05/16/08 09:01 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i think there have a been quite a few great original games since the first super mario in my opinion. but, i get the feeling it's starting to taper off as gaming becomes more and more mainstream and more about the money.
the days of a couple passionate super nerds whipping up a piece of genius in their garage are mostly long gone. creating video games now is such a large undertaking and it requires months and months of development time with large teams at work, which means a hefty budget.... which then means developers don't want even want to try putting out anything different or original because they just consider it too much of a risk. consequently the industry stagnates and you get a flood of mediocre crap and sequel after sequel after sequel....
to offset the cost of development, you'll eventually see most games with in-game advertisements for companies like coca-cola and other bullshit like that... it's really sad.
the big publishers like electronic arts just eating up all of these smaller developers and smaller publishers and before you know it, 98% of the video game industry is going to be under the control of 2 or 3 major publishers that are only in it for the money  .... i guess it's not unlike the movie industry or the music industry... or television..
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: blewmeanie]
#8410980 - 05/16/08 09:03 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
blewmeanie said:
best game ever
that is the worst game i ever played
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: Coaster]
#8410984 - 05/16/08 09:05 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: two_rivers]
#8410985 - 05/16/08 09:05 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
two_rivers said:
i think there have a been quite a few great original games since the first super mario in my opinion. but, i get the feeling it's starting to taper off as gaming becomes more and more mainstream and more about the money.
the days of a couple passionate super nerds whipping up a piece of genius in their garage are mostly long gone. creating video games now is such a large undertaking and it requires months and months of development time with large teams at work, which means a hefty budget.... which then means developers don't want even want to try putting out anything different or original because they just consider it too much of a risk. consequently the industry stagnates and you get a flood of mediocre crap and sequel after sequel after sequel....
to offset the cost of development, you'll eventually see most games with in-game advertisements for companies like coca-cola and other bullshit like that... it's really sad.
the big publishers like electronic arts just eating up all of these smaller developers and smaller publishers and before you know it, 98% of the video game industry is going to be under the control of 2 or 3 major publishers that are only in it for the money .... i guess it's not unlike the movie industry or the music industry... or television..
Check these cats out. They're in it for the love of games not money. They're making a home-brew RPG for the Dreamcast.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GyroVorbis
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If you haven't seen an original game since Mario Brothers, you've got to be fucking blind.
Are the reptilians using a mind clouding device on you or what?
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: WakeboardrB]
#8411032 - 05/16/08 09:26 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Abes oddysee was a good original game. I haven't played a video game since I had a PS2 (long time ago)
A lot of people like the final fantasy games, are they original? I don't know.
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: WakeboardrB]
#8411038 - 05/16/08 09:28 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Check these cats out. They're in it for the love of games not money. They're making a home-brew RPG for the Dreamcast.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GyroVorbis
hey, now that's more like it..
...but i don't have a dreamcast.
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: Chemy]
#8411040 - 05/16/08 09:28 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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there's a game called eternal sonata for xbox 360 i suggest playing that you will be rolling in laughter the entire time
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Vampire bloodlines was an awesome game.
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: DimensionX]
#8411064 - 05/16/08 09:34 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i thought it sucked, when you played the first one and then played it you realized they fucked up. the bars were nice thow, the skills were just foobared up among other things
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: two_rivers]
#8411071 - 05/16/08 09:36 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
two_rivers said:
the days of a couple passionate super nerds whipping up a piece of genius in their garage are mostly long gone.
I miss Lucas Arts: Monkey Island, Indiana Jones (Last Crusade and Atlantis!), Tentacles of Doom, LOOM
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: makaveli8x8]
#8411073 - 05/16/08 09:37 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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It had a few glitches in it. Playing as the malkavians, or however you spell it, was my favorite part. I thought it had a cool story line and atmosphere.
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: AnarchoTrip]
#8411078 - 05/16/08 09:39 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, the old adventure games were cool. Full throttle was a good one for its time.
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Re: Video game unoriginality [Re: DimensionX]
#8411079 - 05/16/08 09:40 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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apparently there's some patches or something out for that game, add's some interesting stuff to it
can't remember exactly, something about when you play one of the lines you hear voices in your head and some other stuff, makes it funnier to play
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Nintendo's where it's at if you're looking for originality. They've always been on the cutting edge and they always will be, I think. Just look at the Wii - they're re-defining how games are played in every way, rather than focusing on graphics alone (which do not make a fun game).
I bought an old gamecube a few weeks ago and I've already found five or six hugely fun games. Check these out:
Pikmin: Your spaceship's crashed on a strange planet and you've got to lead a pack of miniature-aliens around the hostile landscape to defeat weird monsters and find missing pieces of your ship.
Eternal Darkness SR: Horror games don't usually get to me, but this game is fucking scary. You play 12 different characters, in several very detailed time periods (Spanish Inquisition, World War II, Roman Era, etc), each of their stories tying into one huge, intricate plot. The voice acting is top notch and the storyline is one of the most original and compelling you'll find in any video game, on any system.
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: Cameron]
#8411138 - 05/16/08 10:02 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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ScummVM is the emulator I use to play the old Lucas Arts games. ya' gotta download the games somewhere else, though.
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: AnarchoTrip]
#8411147 - 05/16/08 10:04 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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lucas arts games? what console?
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Re: Video game unorginality [Re: makaveli8x8]
#8411153 - 05/16/08 10:06 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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uhh... well, I played them, originally, when I was like... 7. I have no idea what console, I know it was a computer, but I have no idea.
However, I've been playing them, recently, on my Windows PC with that ScummVM program.
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