That's the spirit.Quote:
bleh, forget it. I'm going back to Prime.
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That's the spirit.Quote:
bleh, forget it. I'm going back to Prime.
Whoa! Slow down there. Senior in high school isn't exactly crusty old man age. Don't forget to enjoy it while you're there. :) Heck, I'm 25 and I've yet to accumulate more than 1 or 2 cares in the world...Quote:
Originally posted by Cloud
I played both of these games in 8th grade, when I was a naive happy little kid without a care in the world. Now I'm a senior in high school and everything is way more complicated,
25? Dang, I feel like a youngin' at 19.
I played FF7 in 8th grade and loved the hell out of it. It was also around that time I stopped enjoying games as much which is why i stopped playing them in high school, only to come back again when I got a GC this Christmas. But yeah anyways I am glad to say that FFX gave me that feeling again. I am about to start Kingdom Hearts and I am hoping it does the same thing.
I thought for a long, long time that I was just getting too old for this shit. Then one day last year, I borrowed my in-law's copy of Final Fantasy IX.
I was a kid again.
Look at movies. Such a mainstream audiance, so much shit getting churned out to appease them, keep theaters theaters running, what have you. It's only every now and again that we see something that we not only like, but makes us sit up, take notice and say to ourselves "This is one of those things I will never forget."
Gaming has gone this route.
To make a good game takes a bit more work than a movie, although I don't think a certain Square team has picked up on this fact yet. *ahem* Jab at tem FF Cinemania aside (though I did so love Kingdom Hearts), one of those games, on present technology can take quite a while to make. A brilliant concept or story or A/V just is not enough when any of these is singled out on it's own. It has to be the whole package, and maybe a little bit of soul, too.
So, we have the Tekken's, the... Jesus, help me think of some games ranging from just "good" to flat out awful here. My purchasing has become very picky in nature (and rightly so), but you get the point. Just like it always has been, we have tons upon tons of filler software, but the problem is that having Link be a horribly flat looking sprite laid on top of a horribly flat looking backdrop is simply not enough. On top of the basic fun and soul of the game, developers have to make it appealing to more than the handful of us that are bitching.
When you toss in bugs, the extensive testing needed to get rid of them... All of that, which was always there, but is brought on even more so by 3-D worlds... People, there's a reason you wanted "Zelda 64" when you were fifteen, but were halfway through college when you beat "OoT." Making a fabulous piece of software that won't be reduced to niche status takes much time and work.
So, they're few and far between these days, but we still get them. Games that make you feel like you were a kid again, playing until the sun comes up. And, if you don't believe me, come back here when the newest incartion of Miyamoto's masterwork hits. You can all give me the verbal suck off for being right then. :)
Two of your favorite games? Zelda TOOT :p was fun, but FF7 was awful. Doesn't anyone remember FF4?!? Or for that matter FF6? You cannot even compare FF7 to their grandeur and radiance. Playing FF7 was like getting kicked in the gut after the great times I had with FF4 and FF6. Don't even make me whip Chronotrigger out.Quote:
Originally posted by Cloud
Maybe it's because I haven't played a truly "magical" game in awhile, but I get the feeling that I will never ever get the feeling that I got when I played Zelda OoT or FF7, two of my favorite games.
Too many youngsters today who don't know their video game heritage and who haven't played so many of the great old games. I still have fond memories of my Odyssey^2. Or how about playing Demon Attack or Adventure for the first time on the Atari 2600, or seeing Super Mario Bros. for the first time in a Target and watching someone hit that invisible block on the first level, and then getting into a fight with that said person because they wouldn't get off the machine and let someone have a turn!@#...good times, oh yes....
I've been playing games since the Atari days, well, technically. Since the Atari 2600 was the first system I ever owned. Animal Crossing helped rekindle my love for gaming, which I thought was lost for sure after my surgery.
I don't think age really has anything to do with enjoying games, I do believe experience does though and people first starting out enjoy games more because everything is still very new to them, where on the other hand someone who has played for a good chunk of thier life has seen most of it already so the newness is gone.
It is kind of like the time I first played an RPG everything was new and fresh but now it is hard for something to impress me since I've played so many of them.
LOL. You feel this way and you're just a senior in high school? *pfft* Me thinks you're a little jaded. I'm 23 and great video games always make me feel like a kid again.
Women will make you jaded, not video games. :p Trust me buddy, after you FINISH high school and dishonest women, work and worries have torn into you, you'll be diving right back into that pile of games again with newfound enthusiam. :D
I've got that finished high school and the dishonest women part done. YAY me. I don't think age is too big a factor, a bigger factor is what you've done, or experienced, in the time you've had.