I've been meaning to reply on this thread for a while, but what you just posted forced me to explain some things! Achievements are literally the DUMBEST form of post game content and are only meant to trick stupid people into buying games that are nowhere near as big as the old ones and are just there to make the game seem to last longer to complete instead of actually making the game better and bigger! Extra levels, new game plus, new areas, etc. that offer something more than the regular playthrough or something different are all MUCH better options than achievements that do nothing other than require you to buy DLCs to get them!
It's not like all games have those things in them, so why do you find it necessary to even complain about it?:/
WOAHH dat alot of text du ohul realy reads? okie! oshul read oshul read and make u proudI've been meaning to reply on this thread for a while, but what you just posted forced me to explain some things! Achievements are literally the DUMBEST form of post game content and are only meant to trick stupid people into buying games that are nowhere near as big as the old ones and are just there to make the game seem to last longer to complete instead of actually making the game better and bigger! Extra levels, new game plus, new areas, etc. that offer something more than the regular playthrough or something different are all MUCH better options than achievements that do nothing other than require you to buy DLCs to get them!
@TIGER2, you want the real sad fact about games? People think that looks matter the most instead of quality, content and mechanics! That has resulted in many, if not most, of the games from 2009 and on to just be focused on LOOKING good, but are terrible compared to other games that are actually good and often overlooked just because they don't have really high quality art styles! People won't understand that there phrase "Don't judge a book by it's cover" doesn't only refer to books, but games and other things too (eg: anime)! This is why we hardly get any quality games anymore, all we get are graphics focused games that are buggy, have terrible mechanics, even worse story and gameplay, get even worse when ported on another system, hardly take any time to beat and aren't even fun any! What's could possibly be worse than that? DLCs instead of the actual game of course! After developers kept seeing how people would buy anything they were told to, they took advantage of that stupidity with DLCs that should actually be part of the game and basically have made people pay full price for an incomplete game and then pay again for the rest at an even higher price just to profit! Of course not all DLCs are like that, but most DLCs are, especially those of certain companies (*cough*Valve/Nintendo*cough*). However, the ones that should be part of the actual game outnumber the ones that it's ok if they aren't in the main version that they have ruined gaming as an activity and hobby for good!
And just to be clear about the graphics, before Hellgate London spoiled everyone with it's really high quality graphics, no one ever complained if a game looked bad as long as it played nice and was fun. Still, at least HL was also a great game in every other aspect and is easily the best game of 2007 and one of the best of all time! Regardless though, I can list more than 50 games that have relatively bad graphics but are masterpieces! Take the relatively new Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey for example, art looks relatively bad on purpose just to make it look like the originals, but it's a truly beautiful game!
To address the dirtiness in games though, just because there's something you don't like doesn't mean you should be against the game, others may actually like it! The developers can't make a game for everyone, there will always be some people who don't like a game, don't expect the creators to compromise their ideas just to cater to you. Of course needless things like unreasonable violence or nudity just to sell more are bad and I'm against those, but a game that is intended to be violent shouldn't be accused of being too violent (eg: No More Heroes) or a game that is more for adults and contains nudity or sexual themes shouldn't be accused of being inappropriate for younger audiences (eg: the Leisure Suit Larry games). That's what the age ratings and symbols are there for, to show you what's in the game so if you don't want that you can just not buy it and instead move on to something you like more!
About that lengths part, if people stopped caring about graphics so much, not only would games take considerable less amounts of storage, but also indeed allow for more levels and content with the same size as it otherwise have, making it a much more complete game! Nowadays, especially for computer games, there are games that take insane amounts of disk space while they only last for a mere couple of hours to play through! It's really aggravating to see games need 40-50GB of space only to last 15 hours or so!
That's what I call the sad facts of videogames!About that lengths part, if people stopped caring about graphics so much, not only would games take considerable less amounts of storage, but also indeed allow for more levels and content with the same size as it otherwise have, making it a much more complete game! Nowadays, especially for computer games, there are games that take insane amounts of disk space while they only last for a mere couple of hours to play through! It's really aggravating to see games need 40-50GB of space only to last 15 hours or so!
I like your new picture. Anyway, Looks are important to me when it comes to games. I like the way donkey kong looked for the super nintendo. It isn't just how real it looks, it is the quality. For example, the quality of Spirited away is good, though the actual art isn't the best, i was able to flow with it and get used to it. Not everything to me is about looks. For instance, people, I prefer the quality of the people, not their appearance.I've been meaning to reply on this thread for a while, but what you just posted forced me to explain some things! Achievements are literally the DUMBEST form of post game content and are only meant to trick stupid people into buying games that are nowhere near as big as the old ones and are just there to make the game seem to last longer to complete instead of actually making the game better and bigger! Extra levels, new game plus, new areas, etc. that offer something more than the regular playthrough or something different are all MUCH better options than achievements that do nothing other than require you to buy DLCs to get them!
@TIGER2, you want the real sad fact about games? People think that looks matter the most instead of quality, content and mechanics! That has resulted in many, if not most, of the games from 2009 and on to just be focused on LOOKING good, but are terrible compared to other games that are actually good and often overlooked just because they don't have really high quality art styles! People won't understand that there phrase "Don't judge a book by it's cover" doesn't only refer to books, but games and other things too (eg: anime)! This is why we hardly get any quality games anymore, all we get are graphics focused games that are buggy, have terrible mechanics, even worse story and gameplay, get even worse when ported on another system, hardly take any time to beat and aren't even fun any! What's could possibly be worse than that? DLCs instead of the actual game of course! After developers kept seeing how people would buy anything they were told to, they took advantage of that stupidity with DLCs that should actually be part of the game and basically have made people pay full price for an incomplete game and then pay again for the rest at an even higher price just to profit! Of course not all DLCs are like that, but most DLCs are, especially those of certain companies (*cough*Valve/Nintendo*cough*). However, the ones that should be part of the actual game outnumber the ones that it's ok if they aren't in the main version that they have ruined gaming as an activity and hobby for good!
And just to be clear about the graphics, before Hellgate London spoiled everyone with it's really high quality graphics, no one ever complained if a game looked bad as long as it played nice and was fun. Still, at least HL was also a great game in every other aspect and is easily the best game of 2007 and one of the best of all time! Regardless though, I can list more than 50 games that have relatively bad graphics but are masterpieces! Take the relatively new Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey for example, art looks relatively bad on purpose just to make it look like the originals, but it's a truly beautiful game!
To address the dirtiness in games though, just because there's something you don't like doesn't mean you should be against the game, others may actually like it! The developers can't make a game for everyone, there will always be some people who don't like a game, don't expect the creators to compromise their ideas just to cater to you. Of course needless things like unreasonable violence or nudity just to sell more are bad and I'm against those, but a game that is intended to be violent shouldn't be accused of being too violent (eg: No More Heroes) or a game that is more for adults and contains nudity or sexual themes shouldn't be accused of being inappropriate for younger audiences (eg: the Leisure Suit Larry games). That's what the age ratings and symbols are there for, to show you what's in the game so if you don't want that you can just not buy it and instead move on to something you like more!
