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Martian · 08-04-2009, 11:15 PM

I'm curious as to how my name got dragged into this.

I don't think I have five favourite games. I switch it up based on mood, and tend to stick to one game at a time. Right now I'm playing an inordinate amount of Sid Meier's Pirates! The remake, not the original. The first game was released some time in the early nineties, and the new one was 2002 or 2003 I believe, so neither one qualifies. I enjoy both because who doesn't want to be a pirate, and will readily admit that the new one is nice because it's so much prettier. I'm not entirely sure that it's an accurate depiction of life as a 17th century brigand on the Spanish Main -- there's certainly much less scurvy than I've been lead to believe, anyway -- but it's fun to sail around and spout cliches all the same.

I like games that capture my imagination in some way. X-COM, Civilization, and Master Of Orion are good examples of games that managed to do that. I also play some first person shooters, but I'm not particularly interested in online gaming as a rule so most of these games don't really appeal to me. The Half-Life series is fun because it's apparent that the developers put just as much time into developing an interesting story set in a believable world as they did drawing scary-looking monsters. Left 4 Dead is an anomaly for me, although part of that may be because I only play with a select circle of people and therefore avoid the douchebaggery that online play is generally rife with.

By rights, newer games should be better. Newer hardware gives developers the ability to do things that the guys in the eighties or nineties wouldn't have bothered dreaming about. Perhaps this is the problem -- when one has to tell a story with 256 colours and PC speaker blips and bloops, one must necessarily get creative and do something new and interesting. Removing restrictions also removes the drive to innovate.

EDIT - Regarding X-COM, I also prefer UFO Defense to Terror From the Deep. I never could get interested in Apocalypse.

08-04-2009, 11:15 PM	#29 (permalink)
Martian Young Crumudgeon Location: Canada	I'm curious as to how my name got dragged into this. I don't think I have five favourite games. I switch it up based on mood, and tend to stick to one game at a time. Right now I'm playing an inordinate amount of Sid Meier's Pirates! The remake, not the original. The first game was released some time in the early nineties, and the new one was 2002 or 2003 I believe, so neither one qualifies. I enjoy both because who doesn't want to be a pirate, and will readily admit that the new one is nice because it's so much prettier. I'm not entirely sure that it's an accurate depiction of life as a 17th century brigand on the Spanish Main -- there's certainly much less scurvy than I've been lead to believe, anyway -- but it's fun to sail around and spout cliches all the same. I like games that capture my imagination in some way. X-COM, Civilization, and Master Of Orion are good examples of games that managed to do that. I also play some first person shooters, but I'm not particularly interested in online gaming as a rule so most of these games don't really appeal to me. The Half-Life series is fun because it's apparent that the developers put just as much time into developing an interesting story set in a believable world as they did drawing scary-looking monsters. Left 4 Dead is an anomaly for me, although part of that may be because I only play with a select circle of people and therefore avoid the douchebaggery that online play is generally rife with. By rights, newer games should be better. Newer hardware gives developers the ability to do things that the guys in the eighties or nineties wouldn't have bothered dreaming about. Perhaps this is the problem -- when one has to tell a story with 256 colours and PC speaker blips and bloops, one must necessarily get creative and do something new and interesting. Removing restrictions also removes the drive to innovate. EDIT - Regarding X-COM, I also prefer UFO Defense to Terror From the Deep. I never could get interested in Apocalypse. __________________ I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame