Char Aznable wrote:

Yeah, I know. It's nothing against him, he's a good guy. It's just the idea that our culture has adopted. It's why Doom was turned from a damn fun FPS into a shock-horror crapfest.

um, the original doom was suppsoed to be scary, and doom 3 was amazing.

Char Aznable wrote:

I know they were supposed to be scary, but Doom 3 isn't scary like the others. It's more like "OH, SHIT!!!" scary then "JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST, I JUST SHIT MYSELF!!!" scary. And the mechanics of Doom 1 and 2 are way better.

and the old DOS ones with the silly handdrawn sprites were JESUS MOTHERFUCKING ECT scary?

please elaborate on how the mechanics in the prior dooms are way better than doom 3 as well.

I loved doom and doom 2 when I was younger. that's probably why I dig dom 3 so much.

sparkster was my man. I have him in my mugen too. plays jsut like he did in the game, right down to holding attack to charge the rocket.

Delition wrote:

Since this topic has turned more into "Why video games aren't as good any more", I won't feel too bad about typing my two cents in about the updated topic. Honestly, I believe that if companies felt the urge to create better games instead of churning out one worthless game after another, things wouldn't be the way they are. I believe the lack of creativity stemmed mostly from the introduction of Halo, and the realization that if you design a game and gear it towards drunken frat boys, enough people are going to buy it to warrant other companies churning out cheap rip-offs in an attempt to generate some easy money. It irritates me when people come into GameStop, ask my honest opinion on something, and then turn around and buy a Madden game. I realize that I don't have the most "popular" tastes when it comes to video games, but when people ask for help finding a good game and then buy a mediocre game with an explanation of "Dude, the graphics are sweeeeeet", or "Well, everyone else plays it" (Both common real examples), I die a little inside. I don't even know where I'm going with this anymore. All I know is that, opposed to popular belief, John Madden is not god, and Master Chief is not responsible for the birth of the video game industry. If only most video game companies remembered that as well. I'm going back to playing "The Typing of the Dead".

BULLSHIT!

there were plenty of unremarkable games before halo, and halo is hardly marketed towards drunken frat boys. most FPS games at the time were "run fast, get rocket launcher, get frags, jump around like an idiot, reload rocket launcher." halo took that and did something different. it slowed gameplay down, added vehicles, balanced weapons so that a guy with a rocket launcher was not invincible, addedthe ablilty to use grenades and melee along with regular weapons, and whatnot. it wasn't groundbreaking by any means, but it was something different for the time, and made the game fun. co-op was also something that you didn't see too much of at teh time (at least decent co-op) and the game was story driven, unlike games like quake and soccom (although soccom doesn't really fall into the above mentioned category)

the fact about unremarkable rip off copy games is that it's easy to churn out a quick sequel or a game based on a liscense, or a game that's similar to something else taht was successful, so that people say "oh hey, I loved GTA, I should pick up just cause, it has a parachute!" or "fuck yeah! a new burnout game!" or even "well I loved ghost rider, how bad could the game be?" and buy it. this gives the company money that tehy could use towards making a more remarkable game, or in the rare cases that they make a GOOD game, like criterion studios wit hthe burnout series, cred so that people will say "well I LOVED burnout so lemme check out black, that new game from criterion studios."

Douche McCallister wrote:

I've lost many friends over the years trying to convince them to just give Zelda a chance. However back to Halo...I believe that that is the only reason XBox is still a functioning system in the market, and if you can honestly say your not gonna give Halo 3 a try, your gaming agenda needs some tweaking.

surely the X box didn't get any other games worth playing, and surely the 360's X-Box live was a big flop, with the Live Arcade, and the achievement points, and the gamer score cards, and the downloading high def movies and stuff. Nobody wants to play gears of war, or morrowind, or dead rising, or dead or alive.

surely the regualr X-Box didn't get all of the good 2d fighitng games in better shape than the PS2 counterparts, and I'll be damned if it wasn't the only system that could handle doom 3 when it came out, among other games. I suppose custon soundtracks weren't too big of a deal either. playstation gamers LOVE hearing emo and avril lavigne while they crash cars in burnout, and I KNOW thos Wii sports player's don't mind turning down their TV volume and putting on a stereo while they launch their remotes through their television sets.

I'd also like to see Mugen running on a playstation of a gamecube.

sir, I THRIVE on random topic changes.

I enjoyed black alot, but most people will tell you "wark wark wark." it's worth the twenty bucks though.

I've been big into gears of war and DOA4 lately.