What's your gaming history?

[Rau32]

I am curious about your gaming history. I know some of you are a life gamer and have played hundreds of games, but i am a new gamer. I only have a Gameboy emulator to play retro Nintendo, a ps3 and PSP to play sony games, a JXD S7800B to play android games and emulator games as well. And i am thinking of getting a Wii u or XB？
What's yours? Come on, i am ready to see your stuff and listen to your story. lol

[ulaoulao]

I'm one to give you a lot of contrast to what you grew up in, for me I was 8 when I bought my first NES system (1987). All of my friends had the atari. IMO game play was way better back then and less focused on graphics. Sure we all wanted more colors but designing a game didn't included all of this 3D stuff and allowed for more time to be dedicated to game play. I remember the car ride home after getting a new game and opening up the manual. My brother and I would read about all the items and places you could go then imagine what the game was going to be like. It's not like you could read the internet to find out, the games were a complete surprise and all you had was some hinted graphics on the back of the box. Being the older brother I always got to play first! You didn't have to sit thru what I call "boring" videos or prologs. You were normally in to the game in 5 minutes or less. As you collected items in the game you would read about them in the manual and see what they do while putting clues together to figure out how to defeat certain enemies. The games were never about learning code and tricks to me, just more like some warm up to a new book or get excited about a new movie.


Today its very different for me, I dont play the new stuff really. Its neat to see what they can do but its not what I would call fun anymore. This is why I emulate. I get to either go back and remember, or go back and play what I never had a chance to play. Though I will admit its not as fun when you are not a kid.

[Rau32]

I'm one to give you a lot of contrast to what you grew up in, for me I was 8 when I bought my first NES system (1987). All of my friends had the atari. IMO game play was way better back then and less focused on graphics. Sure we all wanted more colors but designing a game didn't included all of this 3D stuff and allowed for more time to be dedicated to game play. I remember the car ride home after getting a new game and opening up the manual. My brother and I would read about all the items and places you could go then imagine what the game was going to be like. It's not like you could read the internet to find out, the games were a complete surprise and all you had was some hinted graphics on the back of the box. Being the older brother I always got to play first! You didn't have to sit thru what I call "boring" videos or prologs. You were normally in to the game in 5 minutes or less. As you collected items in the game you would read about them in the manual and see what they do while putting clues together to figure out how to defeat certain enemies. The games were never about learning code and tricks to me, just more like some warm up to a new book or get excited about a new movie.


Today its very different for me, I dont play the new stuff really. Its neat to see what they can do but its not what I would call fun anymore. This is why I emulate. I get to either go back and remember, or go back and play what I never had a chance to play. Though I will admit its not as fun when you are not a kid.

Retro. I prefer retro games too. Though i have PS3 i spend most of my time on emulator games. As to the Wii and XB, i am still thinking whether i should buy 'cause i am really not very fond of modern games.

[malloc4096]

Since your kind of new to games, I'll mention they are similar to movies for opinions... as in everyone has there own favorite type and opinion.

When talking about consoles, most people may agree though, that the Games make a successfull Console, not the other way around. When a game is made properly, like a work of art it can become timeless for the target audience. No matter its graphics and age.

I have another perspective than you two so far, and i think a different gaming style preference aswell. I grew up kinda around the SNES, and later would use the PS1 / N64. and later the Dreamcast, I never liked SEGA(except arcade) but I liked the Dreamcast. It had a lot of Arcade and Computer Style games, which consiquently get me into Computer gaming. That said I've never used WII much, and I think Nintendo use to be the best in the ~1990s but everything Ive seen on it randomly or at friends, looks like the WII is mainly geared toward parents with kids, or its trying tooo hard to appeal to both boys and girls. In short I don't like it.

I'm not familiar with the Newest Generation of Consolse and games. But I think its safe to say, another problem i think they have these days is that the arguably GOOD games these days are often from developers not tied to a specific platform/console... So you can often play it on any console or these days idealy a higher powered computer. And a lot of the Proprietary Good Console branded games, just for example MarioKart, Are getting played out/Milked too much. They need some fresh development ideas.

On that note, I can mention probably some of my all time favorite types of games and why. Maybe kinda random but...
Im also kind mentioning some of these, cause you may not hear of them much


conkers bad fur day (n64) multiplayer - single play story I think was also well made and funny. But VS multiper, for its time on that platform I think was a tribute to all the best aspects of other games Iv seen combined and verywell done put into a strange game title tho. . . It had almost everything, Various Battle types and terrains, Placable turrets such as those in Turok or PerfectDark, vehicles - in team battle one person could drive the tank and another operate its cannon. just a lota great senarios / weapons which were funny aswell sometimes to fit the title.


Prey (PC) [DirectX 9]- single player story mode, best way for me to describe this is a combination of . . . Turok, Portal, Quake, Halflife. This game was perhaps not as focused as others, And Tho others might have been better just for example Halflife's story or Portals fun and simplicity, I prefered PREY overall, it had enough portal problem solving, graphics, story, also mixed in with enough obsence disgusting graphics and fiction to make it ideally rounded as a game In my opinion. PREY would be like the FARSCAPE of sci-fi tv shows in my opinion. The graphic style of Prey however I believe Must be played at DX9 level or above otherwise an intrigal factor for the games atmosphere would be Lost.


Rush 2049 (multiplatform) i played it on (Dreamcast) at the time tho. I'm ok saying Racing games are one of my specialties. But kind of like music is to an audiophile. Most mainstream racing games just for example NeedForSpeed seem childish and dumb to me. I've played and liked all different kinds, the classic mario kart i grew up with and loved, and on the flip side I loved GranTourismo, GTR and RFactor. However Rush 2049 kinda like the other games I mentioned to me was unrealistic enough to be fun but still well made and well rounded and had stuff other games didn't. Tho I must say if there was No Cockpit view in the game, My opinion would of been completely different, most 3rd person games are just uninteresting to me, a good modern exception of that would be GrandTheftAuto. Rush2049's racing physics is unrealistic, however it fits with the rest of the theme of the game. Unrealistic stunts were a big part of the game for me, tho i suppose you could go through it avoiding stunts.. However in Cockpit view with the various course obsticales and the WINGs you can expand from the vehicale and use when airborne turn it much into an airplane/glider except the only propultion you have won't help you go forward but spinn your vehicle whatever direction you wont. Only thing I can think of to compair it to At the moment, would be a 3D version of that game UNIRACERS on SNES, except with cars and option of cockpit view.


EDIT: To clearify my 3rd person comment, There are games I do like in 3rd person, but I think it maybe cause it serves a very good purpose for the game, for example, the PS1/2 versions of MetalGear and ResidentEvil. I think those were better than there later counterparts simply cause they lost that unique part of the gameplay by changing there perspectives.