Re: Can Games Get Any Better (2024 Ed)

On 3/26/2024 7:56 AM, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:09:16 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Justisaur wrote:
 

On 3/26/2024 4:47 AM, Werner P. wrote:

Am 26.03.24 um 12:47 schrieb Werner P.:

Am 22.03.24 um 17:54 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

In other words, are modern games better? More advanced? More fun? Do
you think games will be better or different in the future? Or are we
perpetually stuck in the doldrums?
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(And finally, do you think we'll all be around to revive this topic in
2035? ?

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well many games like movies have become formulaic spreadsheet todo
lists in game design, the bigger a game the more likely this is to be
the case.
Add on top that we are in phase agewise where we literally have seen
everything in this area just with less sophisticated graphics.
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So yes the games industry has gone the way of the movie industry,
formulaic games, indie games which try to do something new or are just
junk and from time to time a really good title which tries to break
new ground or at least does not feel formulaic, like BG3 for instance.
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PS I am slowly phasing out gaming as my hobby, i frankly do not have
time for it anymore, and the have seen everything effect is big on me.
So expect to hear and read from me less and less unless I got rid of my
gaming fatique!

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I feel like that to some extent, but physical limitations keep me from
doing too much else so I go back to it.  However I'm also at the point I
get fatigued much quicker than I used to and can't play as much, and
faster twitch games while I can keep up with them a little typically
leave me in a state that feels like it's getting close to death's door.
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My other hobby has mostly moved past me.  D&D I don't like the new
rules, I can't find a group that's like the old ones, kids make it
difficult to schedule, and our last move left me with nowhere to play it
at my place.
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Unfortunately that leaves me with two habits I'd really like to stop, or
at least curb considerably watching youtube and reading reddit which
just feels like waiting to die.

 You interested in a paid game? $25 a session, Pathfinder 1e with 3.5e
supplementation. Basically OP 3.5 with PF skills. Played over Roll20 and
Discord. Sessions meet every other Wednesday at UTC 18:00. Next session
is April 3rd. Traditional dungeon crawl.
 A good friend of mine went pro-GM a couple of years ago. He's put a lot
of work into it. Email me at my header address if you'd like to try it
out or join.

Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to DM, and PF just felt like 3.5 taken to 11, which was the wrong way to go in my opinion, it needed to be reigned in a bit.
The only game I ever payed to be in (well if you don't count paying for entry to a con of which I've only been to 3) ended quickly and very poorly with the DM tearing my character sheet up after targeting me for 1 damage from each of a hundred bees as the first encounter.  Back in the early days of Player vs. DM of course in 1e.  So I'm a bit shy of doing that.
I'm tempted to check into if WotC has 'living FR' or whatever it is now games at the local comic book store, as I ran a few of those games I had a blast at with a bunch of teens in the 4e days (Yes worst edition ever, but the kid's enthusiasm more than made up for it.) I tried running my own homebrew edition a couple times at meetups and the comic book store, but only had 2 newbie takers as overflow from one of the 5e games one time, it went o.k., but they were more interested in trying 5e.
I thought I was feeling some hostility from the 5e DMs there, but it could've just been me, or maybe it was from the comic book store as I wasn't using the books they were selling.
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