Comments on: Video Game Relations http://www.punkrocksoup.com/video-game-relations/ Shut Up and Rock! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Eric http://www.punkrocksoup.com/video-game-relations/#comment-6 Eric Fri, 23 May 2008 01:35:33 +0000 http://www.punkrocksoup.com/?p=27#comment-6 In all fairness, watching another person play any RPG has to be about as interesting as watching grass grow, especially if you just walk into the middle of the story. But yeah, there sure is a lot of talking in that game. So much that I don't want to buy it. I'm not sure that I want to waste a 100 hours (or more) of my life on a sci-fi soap opera when...well, there's just so many other things that could be done in that time. I think if I was 10 years old and still living out in the middle of the country, in the middle of winter, then it would be the perfect thing to get me by. I've noticed that a ton of games lately have been focusing too much on all these little details that don't even matter, while missing out on the one thing that does...fun! Actually, it's not a new thing. Games with stealth modes, super complicated controller options, and stories that just drag on and on. I remember wanting to simply play a game a couple years ago, and my brother put in one of the Metal Gear games. I seriously sat there for 20 minutes watching some story unfold, by the time It got to the in game tutorials to learn how to play the game, I was so over it, and no longer in the mood to play anything at all. I just beat Gears of War. I'm still not convinced that I had fun the entire time I played the game. I just couldn't wait to get past everything so I wouldn't have to do it again. It was like the coolest looking pain in the ass you've ever seen. And forget trying to explain the controls. "Oh, you know, just pull and hold the left trigger while aiming with the right thumb stick, and actually firing with the right trigger button. But make sure you hit the right bumper button when you have to reload or else your gun will jam... Why can't you jump? Well, you can, but first you have to walk up to something and crouch down in front of it then press forward and A..." Seriously, wtf?! I had a long conversation with my brother about all of this the other day, and we agreed that we miss the days of old console games, where the only options were a directional pad, and a jump and fire button. I actually play Xbox Live Arcade games more than I do the games that are actually released for the 360 because they are FUN! Or, maybe we're just getting old :X In all fairness, watching another person play any RPG has to be about as interesting as watching grass grow, especially if you just walk into the middle of the story. But yeah, there sure is a lot of talking in that game. So much that I don’t want to buy it. I’m not sure that I want to waste a 100 hours (or more) of my life on a sci-fi soap opera when…well, there’s just so many other things that could be done in that time. I think if I was 10 years old and still living out in the middle of the country, in the middle of winter, then it would be the perfect thing to get me by.

I’ve noticed that a ton of games lately have been focusing too much on all these little details that don’t even matter, while missing out on the one thing that does…fun! Actually, it’s not a new thing. Games with stealth modes, super complicated controller options, and stories that just drag on and on.

I remember wanting to simply play a game a couple years ago, and my brother put in one of the Metal Gear games. I seriously sat there for 20 minutes watching some story unfold, by the time It got to the in game tutorials to learn how to play the game, I was so over it, and no longer in the mood to play anything at all.

I just beat Gears of War. I’m still not convinced that I had fun the entire time I played the game. I just couldn’t wait to get past everything so I wouldn’t have to do it again. It was like the coolest looking pain in the ass you’ve ever seen. And forget trying to explain the controls. “Oh, you know, just pull and hold the left trigger while aiming with the right thumb stick, and actually firing with the right trigger button. But make sure you hit the right bumper button when you have to reload or else your gun will jam… Why can’t you jump? Well, you can, but first you have to walk up to something and crouch down in front of it then press forward and A…” Seriously, wtf?!

I had a long conversation with my brother about all of this the other day, and we agreed that we miss the days of old console games, where the only options were a directional pad, and a jump and fire button. I actually play Xbox Live Arcade games more than I do the games that are actually released for the 360 because they are FUN! Or, maybe we’re just getting old :X

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