Posted January 24, 2012
Yes, at my young age, i have played many games over the past 17 years of my life (well, technically 14) and i too remember a sense of nostalgia... first things out of the way, i have already predicted a major question
"How can you remember stuff from when you were 3!" well quite simply, i can actually remember stuff from when i was 1-2. One of my best assets (And quite simply, because i use it poorly, downfalls) Is my memory.
This post explores the question: Do you enjoy todays reliastic gameplay over the older games fun gameplay styles.
I remember the time i first got my hands on pokemon red (First game i ever played :D), i was quite simply amazed and stunned, everything seemed so awesome. Of course, i didn't fully understand what i was doing at the time, but the mechanics of the game pulled me in. by four, i knew all the types of by heart and entire weakness charts.In fact, it was a simple black and white game to most. but for me, there was something special. Do i still like it? no, pokemon lost its appeal to me after the DS games, where they decided to exchange the graphics for something more unoriginal. in fact, unoriginallity is the word of today.
You see, most modern games have chosen to switch out graphic sets, location settings for games and create a "Realistic setting." Please, i Didn't enjoy Oddworld because of its "Unrealistic setting" I enjoyed it because i was given an awesome narrative, with awesome platforming gameplay. The stakes were high, and this game informed you of that. Not only that, but the gameworld had some of the grittiest locations i have seen in a game to date. Sadly, it was an overlooked piece of art.
Most modern games have done away with original settings, in favor of realism and ease of not having to be creative. in a world now overcrowded with realistic games, I now sit and watch, hunting down the most original titles i can find. Whether the originallity is in the game mechanics, setting, art or music i will hunt it down.
As of now my eyes are set upon kingdoms of amalur - A game with many original things, combined into an unoriginal package.
"How can you remember stuff from when you were 3!" well quite simply, i can actually remember stuff from when i was 1-2. One of my best assets (And quite simply, because i use it poorly, downfalls) Is my memory.
This post explores the question: Do you enjoy todays reliastic gameplay over the older games fun gameplay styles.
I remember the time i first got my hands on pokemon red (First game i ever played :D), i was quite simply amazed and stunned, everything seemed so awesome. Of course, i didn't fully understand what i was doing at the time, but the mechanics of the game pulled me in. by four, i knew all the types of by heart and entire weakness charts.In fact, it was a simple black and white game to most. but for me, there was something special. Do i still like it? no, pokemon lost its appeal to me after the DS games, where they decided to exchange the graphics for something more unoriginal. in fact, unoriginallity is the word of today.
You see, most modern games have chosen to switch out graphic sets, location settings for games and create a "Realistic setting." Please, i Didn't enjoy Oddworld because of its "Unrealistic setting" I enjoyed it because i was given an awesome narrative, with awesome platforming gameplay. The stakes were high, and this game informed you of that. Not only that, but the gameworld had some of the grittiest locations i have seen in a game to date. Sadly, it was an overlooked piece of art.
Most modern games have done away with original settings, in favor of realism and ease of not having to be creative. in a world now overcrowded with realistic games, I now sit and watch, hunting down the most original titles i can find. Whether the originallity is in the game mechanics, setting, art or music i will hunt it down.
As of now my eyes are set upon kingdoms of amalur - A game with many original things, combined into an unoriginal package.
