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Gaming was like breathing. It was the biggest part of my life as a teenager, one of my priorities as a college student, and eventually one of my most expensive “hobbies” as a young professional.
Then all of a sudden, after thousands of hours spent playing across genres and platforms, boredom hit me hard for the very first time in my early thirties. Some of my favorite games soon gave me the impression of being terribly long. I couldn’t help but notice all the repeating tropes and similarities in game design between franchises.
I figured it was just a matter of time before I found the right game to stimulate my interest again, but time continued to go by and nothing changed.
Is it that games have failed to innovate, or that real life is ultimately more engaging?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Monday January 07 2019, @08:08PM (1 child)
For me, it the best console game was (and still is!) MechAssault version one. [wikipedia.org]
I have yet to find a shooter that's anywhere near as fun as that one. Not a lot of pixels by today's standards, but the gameplay — which I maintain is by far the most important element — was nearly perfect.
The story mode is very good, with decent replay-ability, the team-on-enemies mode is awesome to play with a friend, and the online gameplay mode was outright terrific (no longer, the servers are gone.)
Today, specifically to play MechAssault, I still keep an XBox v1 in my theater system, and still often play this game on game night with my friends. I have owned all the other XBoxen and Playstations, a few of the Nintendo boxes, and currently have the latest ones in the system, but... the XBox/MechAssault combo is still #1.
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On the Canary Islands, there isn't even one canary.
On the Virgin Islands... still no canaries.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @11:28PM
Not to mention the convenient code execution bug in the saved game loader that let you root the box!