I appear to have become a grumpy old man, impossible to be satisfied with anything the PC has had to offer recently. I find myself logged into steam, stareing at a reasonably large list of games, unable to come to a decision of what to play.
And not because I've burnt out playing too many games, it's been happening more and more recently, unable to build up enough enthusiasm to even launch the game and attempt to play, just left wishing games were like they used to be, back in the good old days.
"Hrmp!" I think to myself as I look at TF2, not like in the old days where the game seemed to be team based but allowed for some individual flair, where all the characters (except for the pyro ) were useful, and not every character had to be brilliant in combat to balance out the experience.
Well I could play L4D I consider, but everytime I play the game I can't ever seem to get a smoothly pinging server that doesn't have CPU lag, I give up attempting to play this game before I've even started. Whatever happened to picking your own server? Back in the old days we could pick our own server...I was great at picking my own server, nailed it every time...sigh
Maybe play some singleplayer? Maybe some Bioshock, that was a good game, enjoyed it quite a bit the first run through...oh but wait, the mouse acceleration made the feeling of the game awkward from start to finish...the tiny FoV mixed with the broken widescreen made the experience feel unnatural and even more awkward
Not like it used to be...back in the old days, when you turned your mouse and the viewpoint turned to match, and didn't glide about, where you could feel the tight responsiveness of the game...where FoVs were set to something reasonable...when we didn't evne have to worry about what an FoV was because it was just done right every time without having to worry about some rubbish 60 degree vomit enducing viewpoint.
Back when you applied AA and it worked, where you didnt fiddle for hours on end with sound issues, back when menus systems were built to be navigated by mice and not analogue sticks and A/B buttons...when gameplay had some depth and complexity. The time when you didn't have to worry about how many times you'd installed the game through fear of running out of installs.
When HUDS were minimal and tight, they scaled well with your resoltion and didn't flash up indicators in your face to tell you about the grenade near your feet, because we could all see there was a grenade at our feet and we had the ability to move away from it of our own accord....where there was some risk vs reward in the action you fought in, and health didnt automatically regenerate for you...ahh those times...those times when we could save our game whenever we god damn felt like it because quicksave is awesome and allows us to navigate areas of the game which we felt were too tricky for us, and we didn't want to play the same area through 20 times...I miss those times...back when you didn't need to create an online account just to save your game.
Back in the day...when you launched a game and it ran, it didn't take you to login screen 1 of 3 which you had to sign in, then further sign in again and then sign in again for the 3rd time, you went straight to the menu...you could skip the opening videos because no one wants to see that shit for the 4000th time.
Yeah, I feel like just an old man now, out of place in the current generation of games, saddened to see the quality, crisp, sharp, in foucs, well balanced, responsive games of old...slowly flushed down the toilet.
Am I just a cranky old sod who expects too much, or does anyone else feel more like this every day?
And not because I've burnt out playing too many games, it's been happening more and more recently, unable to build up enough enthusiasm to even launch the game and attempt to play, just left wishing games were like they used to be, back in the good old days.
"Hrmp!" I think to myself as I look at TF2, not like in the old days where the game seemed to be team based but allowed for some individual flair, where all the characters (except for the pyro ) were useful, and not every character had to be brilliant in combat to balance out the experience.
Well I could play L4D I consider, but everytime I play the game I can't ever seem to get a smoothly pinging server that doesn't have CPU lag, I give up attempting to play this game before I've even started. Whatever happened to picking your own server? Back in the old days we could pick our own server...I was great at picking my own server, nailed it every time...sigh
Maybe play some singleplayer? Maybe some Bioshock, that was a good game, enjoyed it quite a bit the first run through...oh but wait, the mouse acceleration made the feeling of the game awkward from start to finish...the tiny FoV mixed with the broken widescreen made the experience feel unnatural and even more awkward
Not like it used to be...back in the old days, when you turned your mouse and the viewpoint turned to match, and didn't glide about, where you could feel the tight responsiveness of the game...where FoVs were set to something reasonable...when we didn't evne have to worry about what an FoV was because it was just done right every time without having to worry about some rubbish 60 degree vomit enducing viewpoint.
Back when you applied AA and it worked, where you didnt fiddle for hours on end with sound issues, back when menus systems were built to be navigated by mice and not analogue sticks and A/B buttons...when gameplay had some depth and complexity. The time when you didn't have to worry about how many times you'd installed the game through fear of running out of installs.
When HUDS were minimal and tight, they scaled well with your resoltion and didn't flash up indicators in your face to tell you about the grenade near your feet, because we could all see there was a grenade at our feet and we had the ability to move away from it of our own accord....where there was some risk vs reward in the action you fought in, and health didnt automatically regenerate for you...ahh those times...those times when we could save our game whenever we god damn felt like it because quicksave is awesome and allows us to navigate areas of the game which we felt were too tricky for us, and we didn't want to play the same area through 20 times...I miss those times...back when you didn't need to create an online account just to save your game.
Back in the day...when you launched a game and it ran, it didn't take you to login screen 1 of 3 which you had to sign in, then further sign in again and then sign in again for the 3rd time, you went straight to the menu...you could skip the opening videos because no one wants to see that shit for the 4000th time.
Yeah, I feel like just an old man now, out of place in the current generation of games, saddened to see the quality, crisp, sharp, in foucs, well balanced, responsive games of old...slowly flushed down the toilet.
Am I just a cranky old sod who expects too much, or does anyone else feel more like this every day?