The Fall Of The Modern Gaming Era

[Jonbo298]

Super Monkey Ball is an awesome game.

[GameMaster]

I play Pokémon Puzzle League almost everyday. And I love Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Smash Bros. is a great modern game though. I don't think that game can be ruined but I guess I'll have to wait and see what the next controller is like before I cast my assumption in stone.

[Dyne]

Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG are the only RPGs I truly enjoyed and finished 100%. Starting from FF7, RPGs became crap to me.

Fire Emblem rekindled my love somewhat.

[Typhoid]

Chrono Trigger...I love Chrono Trigger.

Mario RPG is awesome to. I almost shat myself when I saw it at a garage sale for 5 bucks.

I like FFX. I could play it non-stop. One time, I played it for about 16 hours straight.


I love RPG's. In moderation. Too much of an RPG can kill the whole experience for you.

[Fox 6]

KoToR was pretty good in my books. Though the second one was lacking somthing special.

[KillerGremlin]

Oddly enough, my favorite video game right now is Counter-Strike. You can argue that Counter-Strike is a super simple game, because it does have a lot of repetition, but I know for a fact that there is an endless amount of depth in the game.

I don't think simple is always better per se, but I guess it depends on the gamer. I mean, Mario is not a simple game. Super Mario Bros. is a pretty damn complex game....I mean, all the Mario games, minus the franchise titles and Mario Sunshine, have been revolutionary.

The problem is time. But then, that's why you really don't need to buy every video game that comes out. I have yet to pick up RE4, and considering that I still have to beat Metroid Prime 2, The Minish Cap, AND play Counter-Strike, I doubt I will ever buy it.

I think I'd kill myself if the only games at my disposal where simple arcade games though. I mean, as lengthy as games like Ocarina Of Time and Halo are, they are TOTALLY worth playing through.

The industry needs more of a medium. Think Pikmin. A simple concept with incredible depth and excellent gameplay. Pikmin was a gem.

[dropCGCF]

Game companies are all too restricted by licences nowadays. Everyone plays Madden because of it's "realism". I always played Blitz because it was simple.

Games were creative back when. Now everyone thinks by using the Apocalypse engine, they can make a "new" Tony Hawk. Two were enough.

Hasn't anyone noticed that the DC failed? They tried too many things at one time. Sure, the idea of a VMU was great, but most Americans don't have spare time to raise a Chao.

Gamers are going to get fed up and stop buying games. I had to decide for a long time whether or not I wanted Halo 2. And I was shockingly dissapointed by the ending.

Games like DDR are widely popular around the world because they can be understood in any language, and their settings can be made so easy that children can play them right. Donkey Konga hits it. My sister can play it and win on easy levels, and I play the hard ones. Everyone's happy. Nintendo gets more money.

[DeathsHand]

nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia...

In 5-10 years, kids who are young today will look back and remember the good ol days...

The first time their friend Timmy shot a hooker in the head after they got busy in a dark alley in GTA...

The first time they played Halo 2 on Xbox live back before online console gaming was fully embraced and became... "Better"...

And remember the good old days when a simple 8 button, 2 analog stick, 1 D-pad controller layout was enough to play your favorite game, back before Nintendo threw their 2 joystick 20 button, 5 touch screen controllers into the mix......

I don't chalk it up to the gaming industry declining or think that simple is always better... When I go back and play old NES and SNES classics, I enjoy them about as much as I enjoy playing recent classics (FF7, OoT) or soon to be classics (GTA, RE4), the only difference is you get the added boost of it being a "walk down memory lane"...

Although for me most of the time that walk down memory lane is made up of "I remember when I sucked at this game"

When Hot Topic starts selling cool classic "Vintage" NES T-shirts, I think that really says something...