You know, the idea of giving up video games has begun to creep into my mind

[Niri Te]

Originally Posted by Human No More

There are plenty of ports and emulators around... Same for any game that classic.


Sounds impressive - what software do you use?

I have the newest version of Microsoft's "Flight Simulator" and then I had a computer geek who is also a pilot set up several driver boards, and a software that allows me to run several screens, that simultainiously show different views out the cockpit, so that I just turn my head, just like in the real world.
There is a retired Airline Captain that BOUGHT the entire cockpit forward of it's bulkhead of a 727 from an airliner boneyard. He spent hundreds of thousands having the controls, switches, and instruments patched into the computer, and has Hi-Def Flat screens in each one of the cockpit windows.
For the amount of money that he spent, he could have bought a Beech Baron, with an IFR deck.
Niri Te

[neytirifanboy]

I assume we mean video gaming here.

My view is that these things happen naturally.

I have rarely played a video game since I finished ME3. ME was my favourite game and I spent a lot of time on it. But I really hated the ending and I can't be bothered playing any more. But that may change.

In fact, I played a lot of ME1 and ME2 on the basis that the ending of ME3 would be all worth it.

ME3 was a painful lesson for me. It demonstrates that the gaming industry is incapbable of working in the long term.. Something many have suspected.

What I really hated was the elistist attitude of Bioware. They took their fans for granted and, worse, assumed that they had no imagination and would accept any sh*t they dished up.

I don't know who they think their fans are. But I regard myself as reasonabley intellectual and imaginative. So to say the least the contrived nonsensical ending was a big disappointment. Unless it was only made for the elite genius few who are far more intelligent than me and a large part of the fan base. But even that makes no sense commercial sense. Which makes me belive that Bioware are not as great as they would like to think.

Gaming has been fun. It has let me love some fantasies like mowing down enemy soldiers in Toy Soldiers, taking over the world in CivRev or even playing as a Na'vi.

But in general, I don't have the patience to stick out to the end of a game (except ME until now). I have no patience to perfect gaming technique in things that will have no use in real life (from what I can see). Even ME3 I play on causal now.

But I am not really a gamer by heart and it can get very dull very quickly.

So yeah. I think I agree with the OP. My gaming days are in their twightlight years. If not over, certainly in a sharp decline.

[Pa'li Makto]

Man, I'm feeling a bit like that with the release of Prototype 2 which was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. They completely changed everything and made the newest character more of a tank and kill the main character from the first game. It really annoyed a whole lot of the fanbase, to the point that some are flatly refusing to play Prototype 2.

Maybe it was to suck in more casual gamers I'm not sure but developers risk alienating their fanbase if they do things like that. Fans have every right to demand changes or demand a standard for their favourite game series..If people just buy all the titles, even the bad ones then it seems to send the wrong message out.

[Human No More]

ME3 was as much EA's fault than Bioware's... Not syaing Bioware were innocent, but it was EA who forced them to package it with malware (no way I am EVER installing Origin) and I bet they had more than a hand in the day 1 dlc ripoff. Bioware are only solely responsible for the terrible ending, but I have a suspicion ol Bioware would have listened to fans there and not just fobbed them off with an extra cutscene that changes nothing.

Great games do still exist, they're just rare. Indie games are what really carry the standards now. All it means is that I'm never buying another EA or Bioware game again.

[jkidd22]

ME3 ending was awful all my choices all the way through ME1 and ME2 meant nothing,All i got at the end just 3 differnt colours to chose from.

[Isard]

Play FTP. :sun:


Planetside.


Two.


Nuff said.

[ahoragi]

I'd never give up playing Avatar the Game and my beloved zombie-killing game, Left 4 Dead.

I do not have any interest in future games except maybe Aliens: Colonial Marines.

[Moco Loco]

I have 132 hours of Binding of Isaac >_> got Wrath of the Lamb and it sometimes feels like a different game.