The Gare and Elin Translate It Out: keikaku means plan

[Elin]

Nothing involving NeoGeo collecting ever really ends well. :'D

[Elin]

No, I was actually just browsing the HO section looking at all the weird HO titles from ages past.

Take care, it can drive a man to madness.

[Iamerror]

Hey Elin. How are you?

[Elin]

Hey Elin. How are you?

Fine, thanks. Just getting ready for class. What's up?

[Beelzebub]

Nothing involving NeoGeo collecting ever really ends well. :'D

Collecting for the MVS isn't really all that bad. At least if you're just talking about loose carts. Full MVS kits and boxed AES games. That's a whole other beast entirely.

Also, I hope you've been doing well. From what I've read on FB it seems you are though.

[Drageuth]

No, no, there are still tons of good games. Oldfags seems to want a video game market crash but it's not happening.

Yeah good games are still being made. However the general mentality/atmosphere of the mainstream game industry is pretty vomit inducing. See Xbone conference.

There are two problems that I've noticed lately: gaming is "mainstream" now, and information is instant.

"Back in the day," a game had to stand up on its own merits and try and garner word of mouth advertisement. Print magazines existed, but they couldn't possibly review every single game out there, so they would always cover the popular ones, then intentionally cover some of the bad ones to get the humourous reviews in there and show that they take their jobs seriously and don't just rate everything 7/10 or higher. Otherwise, for a game to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, it would have to a) be entertaining, b) be interesting, and c) be good. Being accessable is kind of a minor footnote which helped, but wasn't necessary (Metroid, I'm looking at you ).

Nowadays, we can hear all the faults in a game the instant that it comes out. Hell, sometimes we hear all about how terrible a game is days before we can even purchase it. There are people constantly lambasting game for being "too similar to this," or being "too kiddy" or "too simple." There's no happy middle ground of innovation, and the ones that do try to innovate in terms of absolutely new gameplay (motion controls for the current generation) are usually accused of being a gimmick or being childish.

Gamers are a fickle bunch, and we all want something different. We can bitch and moan all we want about how lame the current generation of games is, but it's really not that much different from previous generations, there's just more games out there right now for us to get lost in, and we're all so interconnected that we know instantly when something is a flop.

There are lots of issue with the current generation. I wouldn't say that games are any worse nowadays than they were before, just that our expectations have changed. A lot of those "greatest games ever" also had the benefit of being the first game to do something, or the first game to do something right -- Super Mario 64 with 3D environments, Zelda 64 for its targeting system, Super Metroid for it's huge exploration, Chrono Trigger for it's awesome story, Street Fighter [whatever] for it's perfectly balanced system, etc. We as gamers seem to expect perfection out of every single game, and will accuse anything shy of perfection as being a pile of shit. Not every game can be Game of the Decade, even though we might want them to be.

I don't know how to end rants. I'm making chicken pitas for dinner. I hope they're tasty.

( BB looks at all the Zeros, proceeds to defecate himself )

Clearly you've seen my NES want list.

[Elin]

Collecting for the MVS isn't really all that bad. At least if you're just talking about loose carts. Full MVS kits and boxed AES games. That's a whole other beast entirely.

Also, I hope you've been doing well. From what I've read on FB it seems you are though.

At that point, you'd be as well trading in diamonds.

Yeah, I'm doing really well. The only thing I worry about is having to go back to Scotland soon. ._. I'd say "go home", but honestly Japan feels like more of a home to me at this point than Scotland ever did. I don't want to go baaaaaaack. ;__;

[Iamerror]

Not much. Just watching videos of games. Secrets and stuff.

[Gare]

So recommending stuff to Elin reminded me that I might buy a 3DS later this year or something. Then I checked all the shops around here, none of them carry Zero Escape.

Why must Hungary suck so hard at anything and everything.

Also HURF DURF REGION LOCK.

[Iamerror]

Aww. well, you can always go back to Japan,right?

[Iamerror]

wow.that sucks,Gare.

[Drageuth]

Also HURF DURF REGION LOCK.

Being from America's Li'l Brother, I can relate. US and JAP get all the good stuff. Everyone else gets fucked.

[FlavaFlave]

RANT

A-Fuckin-Men. You are a saint sometimes Drag, you truly are.

[Gare]

Being from America's Li'l Brother, I can relate. US and JAP get all the good stuff. Everyone else gets fucked.

I sometimes wish I lived in the US so I could have access to everything ever produced since the dawn of time just by going to the nearest store. FUCKIN YANKS HAVE IT EASY I'M TELLING YA.

[Elin]

So recommending stuff to Elin reminded me that I might buy a 3DS later this year or something. Then I checked all the shops around here, none of them carry Zero Escape.

Why must Hungary suck so hard at anything and everything.

Also HURF DURF REGION LOCK.

If you like, I can buy you a console from here and then post you it when I get back to Europe. Of course you'd have to import all your games for it ._.