Games now are better than ever

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Originally Posted by Albert Einstein or E.F. Schumacker

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

I still play Herzog Zwie at least once a year.

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It's Zwei. ZWEI. "Two" in German.

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Originally Posted by Opaque

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There was an entire trend in art which was pretty much a lot of people just doing that. It'd be funny if gaming gets it's own version of the 1913 anchorage show where the media goes to find the new big ideas of game developers and leave flabbergasted as to why Konami's new action thriller looks like a game that was programmed in basic in a week's time.

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Originally Posted by haohmaru

Talk about pompous horseshit, who are you to be the final word in what anyone deems worth playing?

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Dave Halverson maybe?

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Originally Posted by rezo

There was an entire trend in art which was pretty much a lot of people just doing that. It'd be funny if gaming gets it's own version of the 1913 anchorage show where the media goes to find the new big ideas of game developers and leave flabbergasted as to why Konami's new action thriller looks like a game that was programmed in basic in a week's time.

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All I know is that Katamari Damacy did just that. It got rid of a lot of the fuss and hoopla and just boiled it down to simple play mechanics, simple graphics, simple sounds and ended up being one of the best games of the generation.

The idea might not work for every genre, but it can produce some wonderful games at times.

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Originally Posted by BonusKun

Dave Halverson maybe?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

All I know is that Katamari Damacy did just that. It got rid of a lot of the fuss and hoopla and just boiled it down to simple play mechanics, simple graphics, simple sounds and ended up being one of the best games of the generation.

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The premise of KD might be simple... and every game that isn't Rez pretty much has 'simple' sounds, but the actual mechanics are not, while the graphics are definitely not simple when you realize how many objects it's dealing with on screen at once, each with their own set of properties. If you think you could have had the exact same experience on the PSX, you're dreaming. It's a lot more complex than Pac-man gobbling up pellets.

If we're talking simple premise, then there's plenty of games that do that released these days. Gungrave:OD might have had a story to it with a slew of cut-scenes, but the game was little more than 'shoot shit up.' Mario Sunshine was more complex than that.

The only games that approach complexity are in genres where it's justified, like Rainbow Six. I'm sure there are games that are overly complicated, but I honestly can't think of one off the top of my head.

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Originally Posted by Kano on the Phone

Diff, Haoh, Joust, and Jeremy: shut the fuck up. Diff, you're a smart guy, but stop flamebaiting. The rest of you, stop stalking him.

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Wow, that's some really impressive moderating.

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Originally Posted by PBMax

Wow, that's some really impressive moderating.

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Who the hell is "stalking" anyway? Diffx posts something, "we" respond, and "we" get to told to, politely, "shut the fuck up".

Ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Of course you wouldnt agree. You run a website based on one of the most dated and obsolete pieces of hardware out there.

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Your definitions of dated and obsolete are your own and aren't shared by a lot of people. Just because a medium has improved technologically doesn't mean it's history shouldn't be enjoyed.

I'm not really going to even try to discuss with you, because all you're really doing is flamebaiting. That's all you ever really do anyway. The mods may love it (ideal TNL poster? Fucking please) but it truly is tiresome.

I only hope I don't ever become as pompous and jaded as you are. Good luck to you in whatever you decided to shit on next.