I\'m sorry, but gaming is not on a decline just like Hollywood isn\'t on a decline. People who say so are just grumpier they\'re not 7 years old anymore and movies like Sky Captain roll off their chests as pure crap and games with the simplicity of Mario Bros just doesn\'t appeal to their meticulous ideas of flights of fancy. If anything else, the gamers of yesteryear, that being me and a handful of other people on this board, just have played so many games that everything has that been-there-done-that feeling and instead of apraising the games for their differences and their uniqueness, plenty of people are just concentrating on their similarities and hating how the changes have somehow killed their childhood favorites.
The absolute PERFECT example of this are those who love Final Fantasy VI but can\'t stand Final Fantasy VII. Both games are so incredibly similar and instead of applauding each for its differences, many of those who loved FFVI years before absolutely hate FFVII for being too similar. The hate in that sense is so widespread that it\'s just absolutely staggering. You can\'t enter a message board without encountering at least one of these people and that\'s just a fact of life. What they say is their reason is just that, but the truth is that they are unwilling to untie themselves from so many cliches and gaming standards that any deviation from such a course is absolutely unacceptable.
Look at you mm, just how many things have changed about you when it comes to playing games? You still play the same platform and consider it your favorite, for years and years. What\'s changed? Nothing. Keyboard and mouse. That\'s what it is for you. That\'s great. You\'re unwilling to appreciate or welcome change. That\'s your perogative, but what happens when those graphical effects you so cherish become moot? What happens when a console actually behaves moreso like a PC then an actual console? You shun the console for its changes. We\'ve seen this countless times in multiple threads from you. Harddrives are a mistake you say, patches are a mistake you say, and yet the systems without either you still don\'t approve of. There\'s no good middile ground.
I don\'t know whether I should be happy or sad for you for sticking by a platform years old and refusing to accept the new or the different. I guess that\'s not for me to decide really as I don\'t care either way. It\'s just humorous to me how people can blame gaming for changing when in fact, it\'s not the games that have changed, it\'s the people who have played games who have changed.
There was a quote for a review of a rather ingenius film called The Princess Bride and the quote went something like this--
"My only dissapointment is that I only get one chance to watch this film for the first time."
I think that just about sums it up for those who think the games have changed rather then the players.
