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"Opposites Of The Gaming World"

Time goes by and every year a game will be realesed that takes our breathe away, it is utterlly amazing and gives us everything we've wanted. The chance to be someone else, the ability to capture your imagination and plunge you into this paradise.

But hasn't anyone noticed something awfully wrong with this? To start with why are we alwaus the good guy? Why is everything so perfect? Have you ever seen Solid Snake miss a punch or slip over when going to kick someone? Have you ever seen the baddie get away at the end, unless there is a sequel already in plan? And most important of all have you ever been able to play the bad guy?

Think about it for a second, forget everything you know about Metal Gear Solid, you are no longer Solid Snake, but Liquid Snake. Now wouldn't that have been all that more enjoyable? Breaking into a facility to destroy rather then prevent, being able to give the commands to the guards, plant the devices and basically anything you wanted.

Or maybe do it then same way but your a bad guy breaking into the facility to take it over. I think without a doubt it was the best game ever made and it's complex and compleling storyline made it just unforgetable, grabbing the attention of the gaming press and the world entire. But no game is perfect.

How can you improve a game? Well that's easy, you'll find a person being beyond disappointed and annoyed if they found out the next Half Life wasn't playable on the net, and what if Resident Evil didn't have two characters, what if it didn't have any characters apart from the one you control?

Multi-player, extra options, complition of games options, and depending on the type of game, memorbale storyline, shocks and surprises and of course the action must be thick and fast.

But my question to you is, how can you make a bad game?

What could possibly make the designers produce something as awful as 'The Crow' for the playstation, a perfectly good film ruined, what went wrong with this fallouts? The losers of the gaming underworld? Did they not have enough time? Were they incapable and unexperienced or quite simply were the games testers totally useless?

Opposites in gaming would be an advantage, every game given you a second option, playing Nemesis in Resident Evil 3 or controling the bad guys in Commandos positioning them ready for war. You get the basic idea anyways, so let's hear your opinions on this and please excuse the spelling.

Thanks for reading, if you did.

New Jimmy wrote:
> Games should definately have more choice in them from the start menu, control
> options, in game enviroment etc to main character personality.

It would be
> nice to play a bad character, however as with life it would be nice to be able
> to change from a bad to a good character and vice versa during the game... as in
> real life!

Some in other words to make the game perfect it would have to be real life? What about were you go and murder your bank manager and seduce your next door neighbour? Hmmmmm...

1) i was being serious

2) i truly am a gentleman.

Games should definately have more choice in them from the start menu, control options, in game enviroment etc to main character personality.

It would be nice to play a bad character, however as with life it would be nice to be able to change from a bad to a good character and vice versa during the game... as in real life!

I'd like to play the bad guy, but if you end up winning the game you'd learn 'bad' morals or something, but in Swordfish (the film) John Travolta was a bad/good guy rolled into one, that might be a good idea, i'd like a game like commandos where I control the germans, and i have to build an empier like red Alert, to stop all the goodies from getting the missions completed. I don't think there are many ideas game companies havn't thought of, they just need to expand on ideas that already exist, just making them bigger and faster, more detail and more characters.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> ain't it annoying when you can't be bothered to wait for mail order and end up
> spending an extra fiver so you can play your new game that very day.

Do I smell sarcasm? If so then you are sadly mistaken, as much as I do love SR and I am a member, you can find some of their products cheaper from other places. Commandos 2 is 25.99 then you add the P&P that would probally be around 27.30 I'd say at a guess. I could get that in MVC in my local town for that, so really it doesn't matter.

*Gets ready to be banned from SR*

I am not a patient man and I would just rather buy it now rather then later. By that way FFF why is it that you are the only person who posts in my threads? What a gentleman you are : - )

ain't it annoying when you can't be bothered to wait for mail order and end up spending an extra fiver so you can play your new game that very day.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> what are you going to buy?

Commandos 2, I would wanna get if off of SR, but unfortunatley I can't wait that long and my greasy palms are sweating waiting for it to be delivered into my D Drive and let the gaming comence. It looks trully amazing and is probally gonna be just as hard as the first one, I'm hoping.

Has anyone ever completed that without cheats?

what are you going to buy?

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> good idea for a forum.

(i don't mind u nicking my idea)

I did?

Anyways as Racing dude said below, that's really what I like about Command and Conquers, although I do love footie games and the good old RPG and first person shooters from time to time I am really a stratergy freak and love the power of control. Things like Red Alert 2 and Commandos keep me occupied for ages and if I can get my greasy mits on Commandos 2 then I will not be on SR for quite some time.

I'm going into town in about 30 minutes so if there is no replies from me by 8pm then you'll know why.

:- )

good idea for a forum.

(i don't mind u nicking my idea)