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 Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 16:25 Post subject: |
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I'm 25.
"As soon as you downloaded, but before you installed it" is most accurate for me. Although now I don't even grab them due to having many games that I someday plan on playing but probably never will.
Games become more repetitive with age and being spoiled gives you outrageous standards.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 16:40 Post subject: |
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| CobbMk2 wrote: | I'm 25.
"As soon as you downloaded, but before you installed it" is most accurate for me. Although now I don't even grab them due to having many games that I someday plan on playing but probably never will.
Games become more repetitive with age and being spoiled gives you outrageous standards. |
This doesn't apply to other forms of entertainment like music or film though so why games? It's a myth if you ask me. |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 17:08 Post subject: |
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I don't think it is. I used to be abled to play games for hours on end. I remember playing Operation Flash Point for hours and hours. Elite too. Now I can't play as long now I'm older.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 17:30 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I don't think it is. I used to be abled to play games for hours on end. I remember playing Operation Flash Point for hours and hours. Elite too. |
Yes but you played them over and over, right? It's the same for films/books/music you really enjoy and watch over and over. They eventually lose that edge and you need to give it a timeout before you approach it again. With games that timeout becomes forever because generally they lose their appeal against the current climate of games.
I've recently gone back to Operation Flashpoint and I'm not playing it as much as I once did, but that's not because some years have passed, but because I'm just not as interested in it anymore through having played and enjoyed it's nuances over and over previously.
| Quote: | | Now I can't play as long now I'm older |
Age alone does not dictate whether you will become apathetic towards games, circumstances will. If you have kids running around (a good parent) will dedicate the majority of their time to them so naturally less free time for frivilous things like games - nor that appealing if you are tired or have a headache (etc). There are many reasons one could come up with. Age is not the defining factor but the circumstances.
Games are becoming repetitive. Can you really tell the difference between Pro Evolution Soccers or FIFAs? Yeah sure, if you nitpick - but ultimately they are all the same. Can you tell the difference between Half Life 2 and the original? Again... too similar across the board.
The more 'cultured' you become the less satisfying the ordinary will be I guess I'm trying to say. |
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 18:34 Post subject: |
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i said before that it is because we are spoiled. And once you find a game you like, which in my case is very rare, i think i only liked 2-3-4 games the last 2 years, things changed as well.
Age, education, growing up, realise that life is short etc is an important factor as well. I recenty discovered. Priorities change.
When i was 15-16yr i played a game 24h/day basically. I know i completed Max Payne in 2 days. I just didnt sleep for 2 days.
If i play the last need for speed now, i play it 1h, 2h, but then i have the feeling there are other things to do though i enjoy the game alot. Mostly i say, i'll play till 11.00h, and then i realize i stopped early.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 18:58 Post subject: |
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THe 'spoiled' arguement doesn't wash either. I don't bother with the console scene, the only games I download there are the WE9 imports before I buy the European version. If I downloaded every game I'd find so many that fell below my standards but just because I'm not playing them doesn't mean they don't exist. Hence being spoiled might have an impact but it's not as a result of playing so many good games but rather being subjected to a saturated market full of repetitive crap.
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 19:08 Post subject: |
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most games just suck
exception made for Civ. 4 and battlefield 2 mp
oblivion and Medievel 2 got me excited though
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| Posted: Tue, 24th Jan 2006 19:57 Post subject: Re: Do you get bored too easily? |
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 03:01 Post subject: |
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26 and basically I get bored after a few days almost without fail. Very few games break that while it used to be EVERY game broke that. I remember playing Baldur's Gate for months.
When I hit around 21-22 though i started going through games very fast.
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jan 2006 15:52 Post subject: |
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A Few Games I played through (very rare for me) and Loved, old and new
1) Mafia - simply amazing the game had me hooked from the opening scene to the end of the end credits
2) HL2 - (great story and lovely gfx)
3)F.E.A.R - although I started to get a little weary toward the end, I still finished it
4) SpyCraft - its a one of a kind to this day
5) Hitman series - these are the king of replay value games.
6) Bf2 - although not much of a SP, it hasnt run out of gameplay for me in 8 months
Honorable Mentions : Gta series , CoD series
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 01:13 Post subject: |
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depends on the game....
FPS/Third person games NEED a awsome story to survive (Such as mafia did)
however when it comes to longevity... strat and sport games will win everytime hands down.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 10:46 Post subject: |
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OFP really did it for me, the universe, the editor and most of all the awesome semi realism game ever. I still play it in both Single and -multiplayer, and continues to give me a worthy gameplay experience.
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Jan 2006 12:09 Post subject: |
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Finishing a game depends afaic on the quality of gameplay and how original a game is. So if addon #999 of BiA comes out and it is more of the same, I am likely to look for a few cheats and finish it. Same with FEAR; in the beginning nice effects but the boring gameplay soon kicked in (corners & corridors).
I'm already dissapointed with the new Rainbow Six demo and can add this one to the "seen-this-done-that"-list (prob. the same goes for the addon for SWAT4).
Maybe I am sounding spoiled over here but that's the way I experience things. I will only buy a game when the gameplay & originality excels. The last one I bought was BF2 and even that one I am selling as we speak. The last "non-leeched" before that was Operation Flashpoint!! But at least FLashpoint, if you like the genre, had a long-lasting playability due to the fact that there were so many mods out there and you had those lenghty online games. That's why I aiming at Armed Assault to be a possible next "buy", depending on how the final version will work out.
Again, fancy graphics, hefty effects and big guns don't do it for me anymore (I did always buy the latest graphic card every 6 months to be able 2 play until recently).
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I was like 5-6 years old, know how kids are? want to play it over and over, watch movies over and over etc.
