Change?

[Chibi Kitsune]

so there was recently a graphics vs gameplay thread and there's a funny article that would've fit perfectly into it

but that thread was more of a debate, this one is to show that nothing has changed since 2004

Remember when it was okay for a video game to not have convex volumetric fog rendering and bilinear interpolated textures to be fun? Since when did it become acceptable for 30% of your system's resources to be devoted to rendering shadows, atmospheric scattering, ambient light effects, and all this other superfluous bullshit that game coders keep adding to their engines so they can win some imaginary pissing contest?
Nobody cares about graphics if the game plays like dog shit. I'm bored to tears with first person shooters. Changing the theme from one time period to another isn't enough anymore, assholes. Did someone beat you to the punch on that killer WWII shooter you were making? Don't worry, just take the same concept, change a few textures, and call it Battlefield Vietnam. We won't notice. Hell, why not Battlefield Korea?

this sound a lot like most of the debates we had here last year and early this year

[Spindel]

And I fully agree with it. I'm bored to death with FPS games because they all are *gasp* the same *gasp*. There is no innovation just as he says they just change the setting and a coupld of textures and TADA! a new game.

I played FPSs religiously since 1992 to around 2006 then I said fuck it. Because they are all the same but prettier as time passes. Last big innovation in FPS was Quake, and guess in what area the innovation was?

Yes correct in graphics when enemies switch from bitmaps to poly-models.

[boffo]

I won't argue it. I've long felt that just about every FPS is a rehash of those that came before it. Weapons and storylines may change, but the basic goal is always the same, as is what you have to do to get there.

[Chibi Kitsune]

Icon will make this an interesting thread

[BCA]

Come to think of it there aren't many war games set in Korea or Vietnam...

[Chibi Kitsune]

an Arctic based FPS oh wait

[Molish]

The only good shooters, i find, are horror survival. Condemned 2 was pretty cool and believe it or not, it was innovative. Sadly though, FPSs have gone downhill since Halo and it seems that the FPS is dying out as a genre because each new rehash has a little bit less first-person in it.

[Chibi Kitsune]

they may be boring and repetitive but they still come out almost as much a crappy wii games

[E6600]

All games nowadays are a rehash of the original PacMan but with prettier graphics!
Tactical JRPGs FTW!!

I don't really care about graphics, I care more about gameplay, in the old days so did game developers, not so much anymore.

[Chibi Kitsune]

which is why the SNES vs Sega days are still considered the best by several people