Not many new ideas for games

[Franko]

Having only ever played and enjoyed VIC 20, C64, Amiga & SNES games, I can only say that games & decent gameplay died out long ago with the advent of consoles like the Playstation.

My nephew is one of those who has been into consoles since the first Playstation, I couldn't even name all the different ones he owns, but from what I've seen on them, all of the games on these various consoles he has all look the exact same to me, you now the mind numbing 1st person perspective type of run around and shoot or blow up everything.

Give me stuff like Loco, or The Feary Tale Adventure anyday...

[Franko]

@ B00tDisk

"Oh," many of you decry, "it is another boring PC FPS." - yes, because it's on the PC. If by some miracle Valve allowed it to be ported to other systems and a build was released for the Amiga, I know the game would be embraced by the same detractors.

Never was a big fan of platform games and even more so shoot-em-ups. RPGs were my favorites, The Speris Legacy, The Faery Tale Adventure and the few others that were made for the Amiga. Hate to say it but the best RPGs ever made were for the SNES Terranigma, Chrono Trigger and a whole lot more.

Having watched and even tried some of the games my nephew plays on his various consoles and PCs, it's all about the graphics and this obsession with 3D/ first person perspective and not about the gameplay or thinking element. Hell even the adverts for them on the telly all look the same.

If by some miracle these became available on the Amiga, to say you know the game would be embraced by the detractors is 99.9% wrong, cos here's one detractor that wouldn't give them the time of day...


@ Amiga_Nut

A good game is a good game, and what is good about consoles is their games use every last ounce of mhz left in the system, witness Killzone 2 on a 12 foot screen and then go back to playing Bruce Lee on C64? I think not

True, A good game is a good game, but gimme Bruce Lee or better still Forbidden Forest on an old 14inch monitor over the mind numbing likes of Killzone anyday... (the old games may seem equally mind numbing, but there's something about them that's fun...)

[Franko]

I must say gaming has become much better nowadays, better that is, better than in 1996, when you couldn't seperate one doom-clone from the other, or if you liked adventures more, there were those horrendous 'interactive movies'.
But also in the 80s not everything was good. There have been plenty of atrocities released on the Amiga and Commodore 64 as well. Though we are eager to forget that.
Thing is, 2D is not accepted as a full game since Doom came out (not saying Doom or all of its clones are bad), whether it should be.

Your right about the atrocities even back then, out of over 5000+ Amiga games I have I reckon there must only be a few hundred that I still play to this day.

If 2D is not accepted as a full game anymore, it just helps to re-inforce my view about todays games being mind numbing. If you can't accept a game unless it is 3D then it only goes to show it worked, your mind has been totally numbed...