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With all these new improved consoles arriving e.g. PS2, GC, Xbox... I've noticed that owners of previous consoles seemed to have left the 'ancient' and come over to the 'new'.
This is a re-occuring pattern that happens with gaming. We seek for the new leaving the past behind, but soon the new becomes the old if you get my drift. Say you got DMC tommorrow you would think it was new wouldn't you?...then you play it constantly and everything becomes so familiar to you. Then it's not long until the game is finally complete. Then what? the obvious, you hear by media of an upcoming game and WAM!!! you want it.
I know this obviously has to happen otherwise the industry wouldn't be able to continue producing games/consoles, but if you are a current owner of a next-gen console, when was the last time you layed hands on say a Playstation or N64? I know since I got my PS2, Playstation no longer appealed to me. Till this day I haven't layed a finger on the squirmy little Playstation pad, instead I have been spending my luxurious time playing on my PS2.
While my ex-lover, Playstation, holds its now square-blocky graphics, I feast my eyes on living proof that enhancement does make a difference. No more rough graphics, but smooth, slick graphics appropriate for any game, and if the gameplay doesn't impress you'd sure admire the graphics. One thing that Sony focused on during the development of the PS2 was the success of Playstation. The Playstation had already made Sony's trademark for gaming fanatics, so Playstation fans (like myself) were sure to get a PS2 based on Playstation's recent success. Even if it wasn't based on Playstation's success fans would've purchased a PS2 because of its improvements from the Playstation. There's the new look, peripherals and even the slogan 'Third Place', that made them desperate to get one.
It's quite sad how consoles and games willow away to the 'least wanted' pile, but it's very good when new consoles and games take their place. If any of you lucky gamers own more than two consoles, think about which one you play on and the ones you constantly ignore, ones that were once worth £300. Just think of that and never forget the memorable years you spent bashing away on them!
The good ol' days..
This is a re-occuring pattern that happens with gaming. We seek for the new leaving the past behind, but soon the new becomes the old if you get my drift. Say you got DMC tommorrow you would think it was new wouldn't you?...then you play it constantly and everything becomes so familiar to you. Then it's not long until the game is finally complete. Then what? the obvious, you hear by media of an upcoming game and WAM!!! you want it.
I know this obviously has to happen otherwise the industry wouldn't be able to continue producing games/consoles, but if you are a current owner of a next-gen console, when was the last time you layed hands on say a Playstation or N64? I know since I got my PS2, Playstation no longer appealed to me. Till this day I haven't layed a finger on the squirmy little Playstation pad, instead I have been spending my luxurious time playing on my PS2.
While my ex-lover, Playstation, holds its now square-blocky graphics, I feast my eyes on living proof that enhancement does make a difference. No more rough graphics, but smooth, slick graphics appropriate for any game, and if the gameplay doesn't impress you'd sure admire the graphics. One thing that Sony focused on during the development of the PS2 was the success of Playstation. The Playstation had already made Sony's trademark for gaming fanatics, so Playstation fans (like myself) were sure to get a PS2 based on Playstation's recent success. Even if it wasn't based on Playstation's success fans would've purchased a PS2 because of its improvements from the Playstation. There's the new look, peripherals and even the slogan 'Third Place', that made them desperate to get one.
It's quite sad how consoles and games willow away to the 'least wanted' pile, but it's very good when new consoles and games take their place. If any of you lucky gamers own more than two consoles, think about which one you play on and the ones you constantly ignore, ones that were once worth £300. Just think of that and never forget the memorable years you spent bashing away on them!
The good ol' days..
i know what you mean. i never play the PSX anymore. but maybe i'll play the games when i get the PS2 up and running (not long now).
I still play my old consoles and i'd never trade them in. i kept my original game boy and my snes and i've got an amiga 500 and 1200 somewhere.
ok so i won't play the older stuff as much as i do the newer stuff but hay just cause the games are old doesn't mean there no good.
i think there killing the PSX now as the games there making look horrible because there trying to make the console do to much.
Good examples are driver 2 and the italian job, the graphics on both these games are cack plus they suffer from slowdown.
anyway i'm off to have a quick blast of super street fighter 2 turbo on my snes :)
I still play my old consoles and i'd never trade them in. i kept my original game boy and my snes and i've got an amiga 500 and 1200 somewhere.
ok so i won't play the older stuff as much as i do the newer stuff but hay just cause the games are old doesn't mean there no good.
i think there killing the PSX now as the games there making look horrible because there trying to make the console do to much.
Good examples are driver 2 and the italian job, the graphics on both these games are cack plus they suffer from slowdown.
anyway i'm off to have a quick blast of super street fighter 2 turbo on my snes :)
Ah, but a vast majority of games players today, joined the scene with the PSX... the major reason being it was trendy.
And now the next "fashion" is in... so that's what people will get!
Sonic
And now the next "fashion" is in... so that's what people will get!
Sonic
With all these new improved consoles arriving e.g. PS2, GC, Xbox... I've noticed that owners of previous consoles seemed to have left the 'ancient' and come over to the 'new'.
This is a re-occuring pattern that happens with gaming. We seek for the new leaving the past behind, but soon the new becomes the old if you get my drift. Say you got DMC tommorrow you would think it was new wouldn't you?...then you play it constantly and everything becomes so familiar to you. Then it's not long until the game is finally complete. Then what? the obvious, you hear by media of an upcoming game and WAM!!! you want it.
I know this obviously has to happen otherwise the industry wouldn't be able to continue producing games/consoles, but if you are a current owner of a next-gen console, when was the last time you layed hands on say a Playstation or N64? I know since I got my PS2, Playstation no longer appealed to me. Till this day I haven't layed a finger on the squirmy little Playstation pad, instead I have been spending my luxurious time playing on my PS2.
While my ex-lover, Playstation, holds its now square-blocky graphics, I feast my eyes on living proof that enhancement does make a difference. No more rough graphics, but smooth, slick graphics appropriate for any game, and if the gameplay doesn't impress you'd sure admire the graphics. One thing that Sony focused on during the development of the PS2 was the success of Playstation. The Playstation had already made Sony's trademark for gaming fanatics, so Playstation fans (like myself) were sure to get a PS2 based on Playstation's recent success. Even if it wasn't based on Playstation's success fans would've purchased a PS2 because of its improvements from the Playstation. There's the new look, peripherals and even the slogan 'Third Place', that made them desperate to get one.
It's quite sad how consoles and games willow away to the 'least wanted' pile, but it's very good when new consoles and games take their place. If any of you lucky gamers own more than two consoles, think about which one you play on and the ones you constantly ignore, ones that were once worth £300. Just think of that and never forget the memorable years you spent bashing away on them!
The good ol' days..
This is a re-occuring pattern that happens with gaming. We seek for the new leaving the past behind, but soon the new becomes the old if you get my drift. Say you got DMC tommorrow you would think it was new wouldn't you?...then you play it constantly and everything becomes so familiar to you. Then it's not long until the game is finally complete. Then what? the obvious, you hear by media of an upcoming game and WAM!!! you want it.
I know this obviously has to happen otherwise the industry wouldn't be able to continue producing games/consoles, but if you are a current owner of a next-gen console, when was the last time you layed hands on say a Playstation or N64? I know since I got my PS2, Playstation no longer appealed to me. Till this day I haven't layed a finger on the squirmy little Playstation pad, instead I have been spending my luxurious time playing on my PS2.
While my ex-lover, Playstation, holds its now square-blocky graphics, I feast my eyes on living proof that enhancement does make a difference. No more rough graphics, but smooth, slick graphics appropriate for any game, and if the gameplay doesn't impress you'd sure admire the graphics. One thing that Sony focused on during the development of the PS2 was the success of Playstation. The Playstation had already made Sony's trademark for gaming fanatics, so Playstation fans (like myself) were sure to get a PS2 based on Playstation's recent success. Even if it wasn't based on Playstation's success fans would've purchased a PS2 because of its improvements from the Playstation. There's the new look, peripherals and even the slogan 'Third Place', that made them desperate to get one.
It's quite sad how consoles and games willow away to the 'least wanted' pile, but it's very good when new consoles and games take their place. If any of you lucky gamers own more than two consoles, think about which one you play on and the ones you constantly ignore, ones that were once worth £300. Just think of that and never forget the memorable years you spent bashing away on them!
The good ol' days..