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Posted July 25, 2019
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This thread is a bot post, re-posted an old one from 2015. Here's the original:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/have_games_lost_their_soul/page1
Posted July 25, 2019
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DarthJDG: This thread is a bot post, re-posted an old one from 2015. Here's the original:
Why do they do this? Is it to establish reputation or some such? I guess I just don't understand the world of malicious users. Just like the bot that necro'd ancient Fallout and Arcanum reviews with near nonsense responses. Weird. Maybe training their bot AI?
Posted July 26, 2019
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DarthJDG: This thread is a bot post, re-posted an old one from 2015. Here's the original:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/have_games_lost_their_soul/page1
It was a bot after alll.
Good job there, reported!
Posted July 26, 2019
Wow good catch.

But yea what's the point of that lol
Posted July 26, 2019
Somehow, but is happening since long time ago, that some genres, games, franchises lost their "soul" but so many other news came out with great ideas, tons of "soul" and are as good as the classics.
Posted July 26, 2019
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Mustafa_Khaled: After playing a bunch of games from my GOG library, and some newer games, I wanted to bring this topic up for discussion. Obviously, this doesn't apply to all games, as there will always be gems and outliers, but this addresses the general feel I am getting from the industry.

I've started feeling that, while a ton of new shiny games are coming out, whenever I play them, I don't find myself getting invested in them like I do when I play Ultima IV, Doom, Wasteland or Duke Nukem 3D. As I think about it more and more, I've come to realise that what these games are missing (At least for me) is the personal touch of the designers and developers. When I play these older games, made by smaller teams, I get a strong feel for who the people who worked on the game were. Doom oozes heavy metal and Alien fandom, and really gives you a good idea of who Id Software were and what they liked. Duke Nukem 3D may be ultra-referential, but I feel like I know George Broussard a whole lot better after playing it (A nerdy kid who's into 80s action films, and all the silly, over-the-top goofyness that went with them).

It may seem like a stupid point, but to me, that's a big reason of why I play games. It's why I follow my favourite game developers and designers on twitter, and check frequently to see if they're working on something new. Every time I play their games, it feels like we're having this silent conversation. By simply playing the game, I am experiencing a piece of that person, and that makes the game more memorable than all the flashy graphics in the world.
To be honest I like games from most eras and genres.....and I also recognize that all eras have had crap games or shovelware.

I also think flashy graphics/cutscenes can be fine and even welcome if the gameplay is good, as they make the games more like interactive movies.
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Mustafa_Khaled:
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kai2: Yes, much of the current AAA space is quite generic and sadly a waste of time.
To be fair one could say the same for ANY era of gaming depending on one's taste.
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BreOl72: If you could simply erase your 20+ years of gaming experience and if you could start gaming with only what modern games have to offer on a "tabula rasa" - you would love the exact games, that you mock now as inferior, soul-less, cash-grabs. And you wouldn't miss a thing.
Some games are crap regardless of how one looks at them or one's gaming experience....such as those microtransaction filled gacha(gatcha?) games and the like.

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StingingVelvet: I think there are good games and bad games in every era and thinking one era was overall "better" is largely nostalgia goggles.
Agreed 100%
Post edited July 26, 2019 by GameRager
Posted July 26, 2019
You know, sometimes it feels to me like bots have lost their soul. In the good old days, bots were very personal and amusing and shit, but nowadays, meh. Bots are so boring.

Unless it is a sex-bot, of course! Damn, they are hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTv9AhCuSU4#t=15
Posted July 26, 2019
As Ross Scott has pointed out in his big games list, it may only look that way if all your sources are mainstream. But the reality is, the "soul" of gaming has shifted. From big AAA companies who used to be the Electronic Artists to the small single developer. Both The Bard's Tale and Jimmy & the Pulsating Mass have the same amount of soul to them; it's just that the marketplace has dramatically shifted with the companies.

Electronic Arts is no longer about the arts, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who are.
Posted July 26, 2019
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timppu: You know, sometimes it feels to me like bots have lost their soul. In the good old days, bots were very personal and amusing and shit, but nowadays, meh. Bots are so boring.

Unless it is a sex-bot, of course! Damn, they are hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTv9AhCuSU4#t=15
Also bots should try to sell one something and not just repost old posts....makes no financial sense, tbh.
Posted July 26, 2019
You are objectively wrong if you say Doom hasn't lost its soul.
Posted July 26, 2019
I'm flabbergasted. I was reading serious replies to a serious question and it turns out it's a bot reposting a four-year-old-question.

A surreal experience.

The question I'm asking myself now is WHY?

What's the point of making a bot repost an old post?
Posted July 26, 2019
Games are not getting worse or more soulless, you're playing the wrong games and/or becoming old mentally. This is the gaming equivalent of parents complaining about the music their kids enjoy. I mean, who needs Iron Maiden when you have real music with soul like Frank Sinatra?
Posted July 27, 2019
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idbeholdME: You are objectively wrong if you say Doom hasn't lost its soul.
+111111

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DubConqueror: I'm flabbergasted. I was reading serious replies to a serious question and it turns out it's a bot reposting a four-year-old-question.

A surreal experience.

The question I'm asking myself now is WHY?

What's the point of making a bot repost an old post?
Like that one dude who works in back in Bruce Almighty: It makes the children happy? :|
Post edited July 27, 2019 by GameRager
Posted July 27, 2019
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timppu: You know, sometimes it feels to me like bots have lost their soul. In the good old days, bots were very personal and amusing and shit, but nowadays, meh. Bots are so boring.

Unless it is a sex-bot, of course! Damn, they are hot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTv9AhCuSU4#t=15
Funny thing is, when I was a kid I found Austin Powers so freaking cringy it was un-watchable. Now a couple of years older I can see the humor and find it great...

Since DadJoke007 mention Frank Sinatra, the music on the video is from Frank's daugther, Nancy. I really like a version of this music made by a great portuguese singer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjV2K2OjYQc

This is the Album version but the live version is amazing as well (without the feminine voice). Great sound track for a sex-bot session of high caliber!!!!!
Post edited July 27, 2019 by Dark_art_
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