BeVar

November 16, 2010 at 8:33am

I've been at this right from the beginning. Just last week I made the comment, "with all these changes since 1998 in games, it's amazing how nothing has really changed"

 

In fact, I think it's ALL the same now and dumbed down. There was BioShock a couple of years ago but I don't see any real stars out there. I'm looking forward to the retro Duke Nukem Forever. All I want is a little fun.

 

Back then, the dream of making a kick-ass game that made some money was all the rage. Now it's how to leverage that console game or PC MMO  into a multi-million dollar franchises.

 

Big business does this to everything. Checkout the history of Farming or the Automotive industry, Airline industry---- oh hey, don't forget about that company called Wal-Mart; where's Montgomery Ward, K-Mart, Sears, John's Bargain Store. The big battle this Christmas is Target vs Wal-Mart.

 

The excitement of System Shock 2, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, UnReal and the wonderful mods.Half-Life and having fun on the WON network. Then came Steam and actually it was and is good but talk about an industry changer, OMG; the biggest. Everything is turned into Stats, numbers and clans/groups now. Hey, where's the fun anymore for people who want a night of whopping adventure and shooting.

 

The last game I played that I actually finished was a European game called Perry Rhodan Myth of the Illochim, released in the US as The Immortals of Terra, A Perry Rhodan Adventure Computer Game. That was more than two years ago.

 

Doesn't matter if it's adventure or role-playing or a shoot-em-up. Please give me something new and different that engages my mind like a good movie, that takes me away for hours on end.

 

Back in the latter 1990's keeping our computers running to play a game was a technical feat. You needed a resident Geek to make it all happen. Now we got the power, we got the operating system, we got the graphics power; where's the games?

 

I'm disappointed. Everything has turned into "just about money".

The pursuit of money seems to Frack-up everything.

GatorZilla

November 16, 2010 at 7:54am

This was a legendary blast from the past. It would be interesting to do a follow up about where all these technologies mentioned in the article like Auburn for Intel went. 

Please more in depth interviews like this in future articles of Max PC.