Modifié par kalpain, 30 juin 2011 - 02:20 .
Gravity Bun wrote...
I remember peeing my pants over Baldur's Gate 2, buying it at a ridiculous price the day it came out and installing it on my pathetic 2.5gb hard drive.
Mass Effect 3 is the first since then that I actually sit up and pay attention the moment a tiny scrap of news appears.
I wasn't even half this excited about the new Fallout, Dead Space, Elder Scrolls and Bioshock games :-S and waited for all of them to hit budget price before I bought them.
javierabegazo wrote...
For all this talk of how "streamlined" and "mainstream" the game industry has been heading, there's been a great deal of improvement in so many areas.
The amount of people who have video games as entertainment has exponentially exploded, it's like any medium. You have action movies like Batman: Dark Knight and then you have action movies like Michael Bay's "The Island".
Sure it's easy to look back on the "glory days" but the cost of creating video games is astronomical these days, where you have actual cinematic designers, and so many complicated levels of gameplay that involve even longer sessions of Q+A, rather than just a team of 12 people. Whole soundtracks are made with orchestra arrangements, not just simple midi files. Instead of just a sprite of a face, and a blurb of text, there's entire digital acting scenes, like on Eden Prime, seeing Ashley talk about losing her squad.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/8564342/Average-video-gamer-is-37.html
Apparently the average gamer is actually 37.
I'm geeked about a lot of games at the moment. Gears 3. Modern Warfare 3. Battlefield 3 and of course ME3 can't get here fast enough. Strange how all the games I can't wait to play are a part 3....
EDIT : Almost forgot Batman Arkham City. Not a part 3 but still a sequel...
Whatever666343431431654324 wrote...
Fair enough. I was commenting on the age brackets provided earlier. The first computer game I remember was playing a Star Wars text game on Compaq portable computer my father brought home from work. That had to be almost 30 years go. I win. Go pout.But I agree, the medium is pretty young so an old timer could easily be mid-20s.
marshalleck wrote...
I haven't geeked out over a new release in years. I'm interested in some new games coming up, but that interest is limited pretty much to watching videos of and about them only if someone posts a link. I've been gaming for like...a seriously long time, and I just feel like I've seen everything and nothing really new or exciting is happening. It's really incredibly, painfully obvious to me how formulaic the game industry is becoming, and it frustrates me when younger folks can't see it, because things are still new to them. Pretty jaded I guess.
Edit: lol Base Wars. OP and I are on the same page. I used to completely abuse my friends with that game.
knightnblu wrote...
The last time I was this stoked about a game, it was Privateer. Privateer took place in the Wing Commander universe and that game rocked. But I would have to say that Mass Effect 3 has me on tenterhooks. The E3 videos, the press, and comments by BioWare all heighten the desire to play the game.
While disappointing, I am happy that BioWare decided to push back the release date of the game. I expect a lot out of BW and of ME3 and I don't want to be frustrated by a game that is below snuff. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from a previous game that suffered that fate.
Hatchetman77 wrote...
knightnblu wrote...
The last time I was this stoked about a game, it was Privateer. Privateer took place in the Wing Commander universe and that game rocked. But I would have to say that Mass Effect 3 has me on tenterhooks. The E3 videos, the press, and comments by BioWare all heighten the desire to play the game.
While disappointing, I am happy that BioWare decided to push back the release date of the game. I expect a lot out of BW and of ME3 and I don't want to be frustrated by a game that is below snuff. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from a previous game that suffered that fate.
Privateer was ****ing AWESOME. You didn't even have to play the storyline to have a blast. Make a Privateer game with the Mass Effect License BioWare.
Comming from a games QA background myself I can tell you that reducing features or simplifing the features does not make testing the game any easier. In fact testing rule sets like Fallout 2's skills and attributes is easier than you may think it is as you have a fixed result and can instantly check those effects using the debug tools amd you have to remember that QA covers everything with a game from how the environment looks and reacts to the implementation of localisation and everything in between.Gatt9 wrote...
I'll disagree with you on the QA though. Considering that games have a steadily declining number of features, QA'ing them is a great deal easier. Look at Fallout 2's skills and attrubtes, then look at ME2's, it'd take a fraction of the time to QA ME2's character portion.
Ah another five decade gamer. Sweet. I doubt we get that.KreeCapt wrote...
I am 40 and have been playing VG's since Pong. I fondly remember the Arcade days. There are a lot of games today that I eagerly await. Batman Arkham City being one.
However, The Mass Effect Universe has had great influence on me. Much like Star Wars was to my childhood, Mass Effect is to my Gaming life. The wait for ME 3 is tough, but I hope it's worth the wait and no little teddy bear-like creatures start throwing rocks save the Galaxy.
I think my husband is getting tired of me talking about Mass Effect though. He hasn't played it. I keep telling him he needs to.
KreeCapt wrote...
I am 40 and have been playing VG's since Pong. I fondly remember the Arcade days. There are a lot of games today that I eagerly await. Batman Arkham City being one.
However, The Mass Effect Universe has had great influence on me. Much like Star Wars was to my childhood, Mass Effect is to my Gaming life. The wait for ME 3 is tough, but I hope it's worth the wait and no little teddy bear-like creatures start throwing rocks save the Galaxy.
Definitely not. It makes you elite! The first game I played was a Star Trek console game in basic on a PDP-11 in college. :/ My first computer was a TRS-80 with a whopping 8k memory and 32k expansion (yeah kids you read that right---k not m)ladyvader wrote...
I'm in my fifth decade of gaming. Does that make me old?
Thanks. And the computer you had was top of the line at that time too. How things have changed.Pordis Shepard wrote...
Definitely not. It makes you elite! The first game I played was a Star Trek console game in basic on a PDP-11 in college. :/ My first computer was a TRS-80 with a whopping 8k memory and 32k expansion (yeah kids you read that right---k not m)ladyvader wrote...
I'm in my fifth decade of gaming. Does that make me old?
Pordis Shepard wrote...
Definitely not. It makes you elite! The first game I played was a Star Trek console game in basic on a PDP-11 in college. :/ My first computer was a TRS-80 with a whopping 8k memory and 32k expansion (yeah kids you read that right---k not m)
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