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I posted a topic a couple of months back that talked about gaming ten years ago and how it had changed to what I expect in the future.
Ever since I posted that topic I have been thinking if gaming really has changed 'that much' in the past ten years, it got me thinking about nearly every game and how I played it, every console and control and every company involved in the gaming industry.
Ten years ago I was six, I was playing on my Nintendo Entertainment System and enjoyed every minute of it, I had no troubles elsewhere in life and continued along the line of Nintendo consoles.
Now if I can remember correctly ten years ago I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 and having a lot of fun skipping worlds through the portal cheat. Yes, Super Mario Bros 2.... such an old but grea...woah, hang on a minute, I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 yesterday on my GameBoy Advance as Mario Advance, and I was still skipping through the portals for the later levels even though I had completed the game? How can it be that gaming has stood still? Playing the same game as a sixteen year old as I was as a six year old.
Five years ago I had settled into my Super Nintendo Entertainment System, I was happily playing all the games I had collected since its launch, my favorite games back then were the Mario World’s, Secret Of Mana, Zelda and F-Zero... F-Zero was a great, great racer and back then it was an original game which pla.....excuse me, was I not playing the remake of F-Zero yesterday on my GameBoy Advance? Was I not? Well how the hell has gaming changed if I find myself addicted to the same games I was playing at a much younger age??
If someone had told me ten years ago I would be playing the same games ten years later on my toilet and on the bus, I would have scratched my head, burped and pressed the pause button on my NES to continue the game If someone had told me that five years ago I would have dismissed it as a stupid comment but then again thinking about it if I had been told that five years ago and I thought about it properly I would have bonded with the idea... the games back then were so brilliant, what would be the harm in playing them on the toilet five years later?
The way I see it is that gaming has only improved in the development of games and visual diplay, gone is the console simplicity that I used to love, gone is the 2D flat graphics with colourful rolling backgrounds that I used to cheerish. Now we have the new era of gaming with ‘huge 3D worlds’ and ‘hundreds of cars to choose from’... It depends how you look at it, I could never have imagined playing these games ten years ago, and yes I am happy to play Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64 and Metal Gear Solid on my Playstation, but I would prefer to play Super Mario World on my bog or on the bus!
If someone gave me the choice today as to playing re-releases of Super Nintendo games or Quake X in ten years time, I have already made up my mind which I would choose.
Oh yeah... and as for the question has gaming changed? Well not as much as you think.. not as much as you think!
Thanks for reading
er-no
Ever since I posted that topic I have been thinking if gaming really has changed 'that much' in the past ten years, it got me thinking about nearly every game and how I played it, every console and control and every company involved in the gaming industry.
Ten years ago I was six, I was playing on my Nintendo Entertainment System and enjoyed every minute of it, I had no troubles elsewhere in life and continued along the line of Nintendo consoles.
Now if I can remember correctly ten years ago I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 and having a lot of fun skipping worlds through the portal cheat. Yes, Super Mario Bros 2.... such an old but grea...woah, hang on a minute, I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 yesterday on my GameBoy Advance as Mario Advance, and I was still skipping through the portals for the later levels even though I had completed the game? How can it be that gaming has stood still? Playing the same game as a sixteen year old as I was as a six year old.
Five years ago I had settled into my Super Nintendo Entertainment System, I was happily playing all the games I had collected since its launch, my favorite games back then were the Mario World’s, Secret Of Mana, Zelda and F-Zero... F-Zero was a great, great racer and back then it was an original game which pla.....excuse me, was I not playing the remake of F-Zero yesterday on my GameBoy Advance? Was I not? Well how the hell has gaming changed if I find myself addicted to the same games I was playing at a much younger age??
If someone had told me ten years ago I would be playing the same games ten years later on my toilet and on the bus, I would have scratched my head, burped and pressed the pause button on my NES to continue the game If someone had told me that five years ago I would have dismissed it as a stupid comment but then again thinking about it if I had been told that five years ago and I thought about it properly I would have bonded with the idea... the games back then were so brilliant, what would be the harm in playing them on the toilet five years later?
The way I see it is that gaming has only improved in the development of games and visual diplay, gone is the console simplicity that I used to love, gone is the 2D flat graphics with colourful rolling backgrounds that I used to cheerish. Now we have the new era of gaming with ‘huge 3D worlds’ and ‘hundreds of cars to choose from’... It depends how you look at it, I could never have imagined playing these games ten years ago, and yes I am happy to play Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64 and Metal Gear Solid on my Playstation, but I would prefer to play Super Mario World on my bog or on the bus!
If someone gave me the choice today as to playing re-releases of Super Nintendo games or Quake X in ten years time, I have already made up my mind which I would choose.
Oh yeah... and as for the question has gaming changed? Well not as much as you think.. not as much as you think!
Thanks for reading
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RastaBillySkank wrote:
> I mumbled:
>that's bad!
that was supposed to be a question
> mark sorry.
I'm of to play IGI Project? That game rules? LoL, I'm just kidding with ya! That game does rule though. I like zooming in on unsuspecting guards and blowing their heads off!
> I mumbled:
>that's bad!
that was supposed to be a question
> mark sorry.
I'm of to play IGI Project? That game rules? LoL, I'm just kidding with ya! That game does rule though. I like zooming in on unsuspecting guards and blowing their heads off!
I mumbled:
>that's bad!
that was supposed to be a question mark sorry.
>that's bad!
that was supposed to be a question mark sorry.
Thinking about it, I think you may be right. Gaming has only changed on the grpahical and size fronts, the underlying gameplay is still the same... but... hang on, that's bad! As you said yourself and as I've said many a time, the SNES was a great console. I wish hadn't sold mine, I'd give anything just to play Mario World again. You see, it's really the gameplay that rules over the graphics, we've had that arguement loads of times on here, but without the advances in graphics then would todays games be as appealing? No. We'd all be complainig about how gaming hadn't advanced.
Has gaming changed? Yes. The graphics are better, the games are bigger, the loading times are slower and the gameplay is better. The concept of most games hasn't changed, I'll agree with you on that, but the factors that make up the games have.
Has gaming changed? Yes. The graphics are better, the games are bigger, the loading times are slower and the gameplay is better. The concept of most games hasn't changed, I'll agree with you on that, but the factors that make up the games have.
Time_Warp wrote:
> SC rules!! I like Hwang best.
I remember having a two hundred fight battle with my brother the score was 102-98 which was close, luckily I just won!
Phew... that went on for hours....
But then again we did the same thing with Killer Instinct and got just as much enjoyment out of that! I continue to go with the comment that games have only changed visually...
...and for a new game to impress me in any way, it needs to be good!
> SC rules!! I like Hwang best.
I remember having a two hundred fight battle with my brother the score was 102-98 which was close, luckily I just won!
Phew... that went on for hours....
But then again we did the same thing with Killer Instinct and got just as much enjoyment out of that! I continue to go with the comment that games have only changed visually...
...and for a new game to impress me in any way, it needs to be good!
Killer Instinct was a killer game, I don't own it but one of my mates at school does, so I swap CBFD for it for a week!!!
As I said before, I would prefer to go upstairs right now and play Killer Instinct than Soul Calibur or anything else, maybe its because of the loading, maybe its because I can pull off a twenty one hit combo with Cinder and Spinal every single time... who knows...
Ild say gaming has changed over the past 10 years, although great gameplay never changes.
I too was playing MarioBros2 back then, on my friend Gareths NES. Back then I was amazed at the graphics and instant loading times (better than my Commodore 64).
Back then games were still social but you needed patients, multiplayer games were rare..you had to wait your turn :-(
The Megadrive and Snes made great strides in making gaming social, Sonic 2 and Streetfighter 2 lead the way. :-)
Things have moved on with the Saturn which brought us new genres like the survival horror Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. Then the playstation appeared on the scene and caught many by suprise with games like Wipeout, F1, Tekken and Destruction Derby.
For me the first glimpse of the future was with Goldeneye and Mario64 on the N64. The Dreamcast has blessed us with Soul Caliber, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi and Shenmue...now the future looks bright with MetalGearSolid 2 soon to be released on the Playstation2.
Gaming has evolved, but great gameplay is timeless. Maybe someday well be playing GranTurismo3 on the bus, who knows! Until then theres enough great games to keep me happy :-D
I too was playing MarioBros2 back then, on my friend Gareths NES. Back then I was amazed at the graphics and instant loading times (better than my Commodore 64).
Back then games were still social but you needed patients, multiplayer games were rare..you had to wait your turn :-(
The Megadrive and Snes made great strides in making gaming social, Sonic 2 and Streetfighter 2 lead the way. :-)
Things have moved on with the Saturn which brought us new genres like the survival horror Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. Then the playstation appeared on the scene and caught many by suprise with games like Wipeout, F1, Tekken and Destruction Derby.
For me the first glimpse of the future was with Goldeneye and Mario64 on the N64. The Dreamcast has blessed us with Soul Caliber, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi and Shenmue...now the future looks bright with MetalGearSolid 2 soon to be released on the Playstation2.
Gaming has evolved, but great gameplay is timeless. Maybe someday well be playing GranTurismo3 on the bus, who knows! Until then theres enough great games to keep me happy :-D
I posted a topic a couple of months back that talked about gaming ten years ago and how it had changed to what I expect in the future.
Ever since I posted that topic I have been thinking if gaming really has changed 'that much' in the past ten years, it got me thinking about nearly every game and how I played it, every console and control and every company involved in the gaming industry.
Ten years ago I was six, I was playing on my Nintendo Entertainment System and enjoyed every minute of it, I had no troubles elsewhere in life and continued along the line of Nintendo consoles.
Now if I can remember correctly ten years ago I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 and having a lot of fun skipping worlds through the portal cheat. Yes, Super Mario Bros 2.... such an old but grea...woah, hang on a minute, I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 yesterday on my GameBoy Advance as Mario Advance, and I was still skipping through the portals for the later levels even though I had completed the game? How can it be that gaming has stood still? Playing the same game as a sixteen year old as I was as a six year old.
Five years ago I had settled into my Super Nintendo Entertainment System, I was happily playing all the games I had collected since its launch, my favorite games back then were the Mario World’s, Secret Of Mana, Zelda and F-Zero... F-Zero was a great, great racer and back then it was an original game which pla.....excuse me, was I not playing the remake of F-Zero yesterday on my GameBoy Advance? Was I not? Well how the hell has gaming changed if I find myself addicted to the same games I was playing at a much younger age??
If someone had told me ten years ago I would be playing the same games ten years later on my toilet and on the bus, I would have scratched my head, burped and pressed the pause button on my NES to continue the game If someone had told me that five years ago I would have dismissed it as a stupid comment but then again thinking about it if I had been told that five years ago and I thought about it properly I would have bonded with the idea... the games back then were so brilliant, what would be the harm in playing them on the toilet five years later?
The way I see it is that gaming has only improved in the development of games and visual diplay, gone is the console simplicity that I used to love, gone is the 2D flat graphics with colourful rolling backgrounds that I used to cheerish. Now we have the new era of gaming with ‘huge 3D worlds’ and ‘hundreds of cars to choose from’... It depends how you look at it, I could never have imagined playing these games ten years ago, and yes I am happy to play Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64 and Metal Gear Solid on my Playstation, but I would prefer to play Super Mario World on my bog or on the bus!
If someone gave me the choice today as to playing re-releases of Super Nintendo games or Quake X in ten years time, I have already made up my mind which I would choose.
Oh yeah... and as for the question has gaming changed? Well not as much as you think.. not as much as you think!
Thanks for reading
er-no
Ever since I posted that topic I have been thinking if gaming really has changed 'that much' in the past ten years, it got me thinking about nearly every game and how I played it, every console and control and every company involved in the gaming industry.
Ten years ago I was six, I was playing on my Nintendo Entertainment System and enjoyed every minute of it, I had no troubles elsewhere in life and continued along the line of Nintendo consoles.
Now if I can remember correctly ten years ago I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 and having a lot of fun skipping worlds through the portal cheat. Yes, Super Mario Bros 2.... such an old but grea...woah, hang on a minute, I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 yesterday on my GameBoy Advance as Mario Advance, and I was still skipping through the portals for the later levels even though I had completed the game? How can it be that gaming has stood still? Playing the same game as a sixteen year old as I was as a six year old.
Five years ago I had settled into my Super Nintendo Entertainment System, I was happily playing all the games I had collected since its launch, my favorite games back then were the Mario World’s, Secret Of Mana, Zelda and F-Zero... F-Zero was a great, great racer and back then it was an original game which pla.....excuse me, was I not playing the remake of F-Zero yesterday on my GameBoy Advance? Was I not? Well how the hell has gaming changed if I find myself addicted to the same games I was playing at a much younger age??
If someone had told me ten years ago I would be playing the same games ten years later on my toilet and on the bus, I would have scratched my head, burped and pressed the pause button on my NES to continue the game If someone had told me that five years ago I would have dismissed it as a stupid comment but then again thinking about it if I had been told that five years ago and I thought about it properly I would have bonded with the idea... the games back then were so brilliant, what would be the harm in playing them on the toilet five years later?
The way I see it is that gaming has only improved in the development of games and visual diplay, gone is the console simplicity that I used to love, gone is the 2D flat graphics with colourful rolling backgrounds that I used to cheerish. Now we have the new era of gaming with ‘huge 3D worlds’ and ‘hundreds of cars to choose from’... It depends how you look at it, I could never have imagined playing these games ten years ago, and yes I am happy to play Goldeneye on my Nintendo 64 and Metal Gear Solid on my Playstation, but I would prefer to play Super Mario World on my bog or on the bus!
If someone gave me the choice today as to playing re-releases of Super Nintendo games or Quake X in ten years time, I have already made up my mind which I would choose.
Oh yeah... and as for the question has gaming changed? Well not as much as you think.. not as much as you think!
Thanks for reading
er-no
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