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Storm Rider:
Yeah, series-only gaming is bad. People who only buy Halo, GTA, and Madden every time they come out are killing creativity in games. Support smaller developers who create good products!

I'm also waiting on the Wii version of RE4 since I skipped on the Gamecube and PS2 versions. It's also going to only be 30 dollars when it does come out, so that's a bonus! But Johnny, do you not have Twilight Princess or WarioWare?

0bsessions:
I simply don't have the time to play video games I used to, sadly, especially in the summer. Between watching baseball games and going out, I just can't game like I used to. I've had Super Paper Mario for close to two weeks now and haven't gotten the time to play past the first save point.

With that in mind, I said I tend to stick to specific series, not that I play games just because they're part of a series. I've never touched a Madden game (Which I wouldn't call a series as much as an updated franchise), haven't cared for GTA in years and am not particularly big on FPS to begin with, and even at that, Halo's relatively subpar of a shooter. I just tend to stick with stuff that's got a proven track record. With how expensive games are these days and the amount of time you have to put into them, I don't have the luxury to expand too far. Sometimes, this'll bite me in the ass (I love Legacy of Kain, but Blood Omen II was generic garbage), but most times, the big series tend to deliver (Zelda, Resident Evil, Metroid, etc).

I won't specifically skip something over for not being part of a series. One of my top games of last year was Bully. I enjoyed the idea of sandbox gameplay without having to go around beating cops to death (Something I never got that much pleasure out of). I've been dying to play Katamari Damacy, but I haven't had the leisure without a PS2 (I need to buy myself a modded one sooner or later).

When you look into it, though, it falls down to the matter that most of the best games to come out, sadly, are part of a series. Outside of the DS (I still need to finish Hotel Dusk), nobody really releases creative new ideas en masse anymore. If I'm gonna get the same crap over and over, I'm going to go to guys like Miyamoto to shovel feed me it.


--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 10 May 2007, 20:57 ---I'm also waiting on the Wii version of RE4 since I skipped on the Gamecube and PS2 versions. It's also going to only be 30 dollars when it does come out, so that's a bonus! But Johnny, do you not have Twilight Princess or WarioWare?

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Seconded. Last year was the first year in a while where I had trouble making time for every game I was genuinely interested in and Twilight Princess came out at the top of the pack for me, easily. I was enamoured in FF XII, Suikoden V, Wii Sports, Bully and Gears of War, but nothing owned my soul quite as bad as Twilight Princess.

Also, for those not aware, Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is, technically, budget priced at $30. I've bought this game twice already (My pitbull managed to get my original copy out of the case and devour it) and am still gonna buy it again.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: Storm Rider on 10 May 2007, 20:57 ---But Johnny, do you not have a job?
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Storm Rider:
Right right. My bad.

Scytale:
I just remembered another awesome series I used to be pretty into, does anyone else remember the Caesar games,  Sierra used to make them, I think Caesar 3 was my favorite.

The Total War games are good too a friend's got me hooked on Rome: total war at the moment.

Oh and speaking of series does Duke Nukem count, there were only 2 and the 3d FPS version, but I used to love Duke 1 and 2, especially the first one, I always thought 2 was a bit too hard.

What ever happened to 2D platformers, I used to love them, stuff like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, Prince of Persia, Jill of the Jungle etc, that genre just seemed to die I think consoles probably caused this as I know on the N64 anyway all the old 2d games like Mario and Donkey Kong went 3d, which is a pity cause I really loved those old games and I never got into the 3d stuff, just didn't seem the same. Is anyone still making old school type platformers? Man I might go and see if I can get prince of persia to run on my old box, that game was so awesome.

Man this is making me really nostalgic, I remember when I used to buy games for $5 a floppy disk, then you could get cd's with like 30 games on them for $20. I honestly don't think I would of gotten into prgramming or anything like that if I hadn't had to learn all the dos commands, how to use a hex editor and the debug command (to cheat of course :P), make my own boot disks etc.  I remember I bought a copy of windows '95 (which was a lot of money for me to spend back then) because there was 1 game I really wanted to play (Starcraft) and my Dad refused to upgrade from Windows for Workgroups...

I feel kind of like a Grandpa when I go into Electronics Boutique or something and don't recognise 90% of the games they sell anymore, I guess thats one of the reasons I stick to series I'm familiar with, don't really have the time anymore to play anywhere near as many games as I did when I was a kid.

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