🚀 go-pugleaf

>>You certainly seem to have more faith in the status quo than I do. While
>the
>>gaming public consists of people like you who think everything is rosy, the
>>industry will continue to release uninspiring rubbish like today. With a
>few
>>exceptions, most of the software companies left are the ones who have
>>produced the rubbish that has brought the software industry to where it is
>>today, while all the innovative companies have long since either gone to
>the
>>wall or been sucked into these corperations.
>>
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>I disagree with this. If I think about the "uninspired rubbish" that is
>around today, and then look at the wonder that was 8-bit gaming, I realise
>that we have never had it so good.  Sure, there are not as many completely
>new ideas as back then, but we are many thousands of games later.  Just like
>there are far fewer original films, and those that are original generally
>suck.  Why?  Because quite often there is a reason that something hasn't
>been done before.  Originality is not the defining factor in whether a game
>is good.  You only have to look at games like Starcraft, Masters of Magic,
>Final Fantasy 7 etc.  I will play any of these games, any day over the likes
>of Sabre Wulf, Atic Atac, Jet Set Willy etc.

I remember discovering NES emulators a couple of years ago.. Remember
Excitebike? Mario 3? Legend of Zelda? Remember some more recent PC
games? MDK? Redneck Rampage? Earth 2140?
So what if we have nice graphics and sound? It just means we can say
'wow, pretty' before we get bored and turn it off.
Remember back in the early '90's when games weren't all either RTS,
sports or 3D <ugh> shooters?
New ideas aren't the problem, it's that every damn game in the same
genre does the SAME THING! RTS - you've got your status bar on the
right half of the screen where you can build and control units. You've
got two (Sometimes 3) sides who all have units that are the same
thing. You wind up with small variations in firepower, attack
abilities and cost, but they still have the same amount of units that
can do the same thing. It's just not fun.