(Discussion) Video Games That FEEL Like Video Games - Retro Bird
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- This is one of those questions that might sound crazy.. what makes a video game FEEL like a video game? I share my perspective.
Video Games That FEEL Like Video Games - Retro Bird
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And when we needed him the most, he returned.
You know it's one of those things I wish I could give up a few of my relatives and have him that's all I want for Christmas
Glad to be back talkin' about video games with everybody :)
I had one of these vintage "Video Game" moments recently, about six days ago or so - I was playing Earthworm Jim on the SNES one night and thinking, "I'll just see how far I can get." To my surprise I got past the dreaded Tube Race, struggled but survived against Snot a Problem and wasted lots of lives on For Pete's Sake. I'm using continues but also earning them, and to my shock I got all the way to the last boss and used my last continue with my last few lives but I finally beat the game. It felt like I was riding on the edge throughout the journey of playing it but somehow never went over and came out on top. I felt like a very happy kid that night.
Yeah that's a hard game. The 2nd one is much easier. The Tube level there is a secret air valve that gives you plenty of time to make that level super easy. It's hidden through a wall. You'll notice it because the wall has 2 headlights on it.
I had a similar experience with Earthworm Jim. I really enjoy that game.
Earthworm Jim gave me a battletoads vibe with the great start followed by an impossible vehicle level to smack you across the face.
Happy I found your channel, you deserve a bigger audience!
Thank you Charles! Glad to have you around :)
My moment would be when me and my cousin were playing Wipeout and laughing at how broken the game was, while my little brother was trying to get us to stop because "it's mean to laugh at people getting hurt."
Glad to see your back! Love your videos, my friend!
I never mind misspelling but I had to do this because it just looks funny reading "glad to see your back!", meaning that you're glad to see the back of him!
*you're, as in "Glad to see you are back!". :D
I'm glad to be back as well :)
For me, it was playing Mario Bros. 3 at my best friend's house, before I had a Nintendo. Another time was playing the same game at my grandparent's house with my cousins and having to leave on world 8!
Ahhh, those moments when the game doesn't belong to you always seem to leave an impression :)
@@RetroBirdGaming They did, indeed :)
It's that moment when you forget you're actually playing a game. That moment in Subnautica when I was low on vitals in the middle of the ocean, miles away from base and swimming back, and a terrifying alien shark pursues me above the surface of the water, nipping at my flippers not 10 feet away, I legit real-life screamed and was shaking in my computer chair, afraid for my own safety. When I finally got close enough to base he stopped pursuit and I had a moment to catch my breath, and I thought to myself : now THAT is a video game!
My "This is a video game!" moment came in the aftermath of Christmas 99'. I was always late to the party and never owned any new consoles growing up, mostly because my parents refused to buy them for me. I had to rely on my best friend at the time to witness and play any new releases. He received a Playstation for Christmas that year with a copy of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Normally I would have been at his house boxing day to witness the wonder, but I had folks in from out of town that year and they were staying right past Millennium midnight until the 2nd of January. My mood was palpable as I had phoned my friend on boxing day and he could barely contain himself about quite possibly the greatest thing he had ever played. I was finally able to get to his place on the 3rd of January for a sleepover and we went through that game twice start to finish pulling an all nighter and messing around with the mercenaries mode. I was in awe that they could make a game with a seeker enemy that would chase you from room to room causing havoc. I knew from that moment on that gaming was only going to get better and better. It's the single moment that I can attribute to keeping me a gamer. Before that I was ready to give up as all I owned was a SNES that had been sitting neglected in the corner of my bedroom for a couple years. The next year I got my first part time job and started buying my own consoles (playstation and dreamcast). I look back with fondness on RE:3 Nemesis because it revived my hobby and a life long passion of mine. I still collect video games to this day.
Great story. Re 3 is an awesome game on PS.
Playing Starfox 64 multiplayer with my friends for the first time... after unlocking the mode where you can run around on foot. They were pretty cheesed at me that they could barely see me or hit me.
Just found your channel 2 weeks back after getting a mega drive, I wish I found you sooner, your content is amazing!
Thank you and glad to have you around :) I LOVE the Mega Drive.
Honestly, a game feeling like a game could mean one of two things: Either it means it drops you directly into the action, like most Kirby games, or it means it forcibly ejects you from your sense of immersion, like Chibi-Robo: Zip Lash.
This game blows!
A more recent but still very enjoyable gaming memory for me was while playing doom 2016 I was low on amo and heath. I basically had nothing left and there where a ton of barons of hell ,pinkys ,maincubises. And there was a few caco demons too they were all bunched up getting ready to finish me off, but then I realized that I still had one more shot from my BFG. I fired it and wiped them all out. I celebrated pretty hard for a minute
Definitely space harrier...but there's a hard-core element to it. It's like "whoa these enemies are so fast, it'll be easier when I get power ups" little do you know, there are no power ups.
My fondest memory, and a time when playing video games was my everyday after school event. My brother and I playing mx vs ATV unleashed on PS2 for a whole weekend until we unlocked all of the extra vehicles.
Super Mario world. In the 90s it took my sister and I years to actually wrap it. Every time one of us beat a hard level or castle 🏰 it was insane the celebration we had haha 😂 great video
Favorite Mario game. Probably the best one too.
When I'm stuck doing something and struggling to get past it but can't stop because that would mean defeat, that's when I know I'm playing a video game (by myself). And for multiplayer/co-op anytime we do something cool and are like "yeah this is good." So kind of like how you described.
5:47 "It's the same thing every single time." George Lucas would like to have a word...
I had an epic gamer moment when trying to complete the cabin in Celeste! I was doing the jumps over the stuff I have to avoid and I got to the very tight room and it was really annoying but when I finally made it to the other side of the platforming area, I was so happy!
Hey Retro Bird, love that you mention Up in this video. My favorite Disney/Pixar film.
As a kid, my cousins and I would always play rounds of the Mario Kart and the Mario Party games (mainly N64 and GameCube). There would always be crazy comebacks and heart-breaking losses. Whether it was an unfortunate event on a Chance Time Space, last-second steal in Double Dash's Shine Thief, or receiving a huge windfall from a Battle Game, they were some of the most memorable game-feeling moments!
Sounds like a blast. I would play those games with my friends back in the day as well :)
Old videogames can be frustrating, but there's nothing more satisfying than finally clearing a game you've been trying to beat for a long time.
I like Charles Muntz.
Would have to be my second Smash tournament. It was at an Anime convention in Atlanta, and my friends and I all entered it. At the time, Brawl was the latest one, and in the first round it was a four-player free-for-all. As Link on Green Greens, I planted myself in the middle and took no prisoners. I didn't lose a single stock, and after I won the match, I put my controller down and stepped away without saying a word. That was my video game moment.
Best video game moment for me was trying and then succeeding at unlocking the Angel racing car in Ridge Racer Revolution on PS1. Took me countless attempts with trying to get round the course without touching the sides whilst blocking him from overtaking. It was a real zen moment and i was so focussed on the game and being in the zone. That moment I crossed the line in 1st place I actually screamed out loud, so much so my parents thought I'd hurt myself. That was pure video game bliss 😊
One of the most important factors at least is related to the "game over screen" that you have mentioned. I remember when I first was playing REII my sister always wanted to watch me play, she enjoyed this more than watching a movie because the risk of the main character dying, was far more real than in movies.
Nice to have ya back!
As a kid, for me it was plunking that quarter or token into the machine and pressing start. After that, it would be getting farther in a game than ever before. Reaching the pie factory in Donkey Kong was always a special moment for me. I never measured my success by score even back when you were supposed to.
My daughter(she is 2 and a half) loves your theme song she always dances when she hears it
All right! Very cool to hear :)
Good to have you back RB 👋
One of my " We are playing a video game moment " is when a new game comes out glitchy and buggy sometimes then we hope a update comes out to fix this game. Cool video. ^_^
Good to see you back. Hope you had a good break.
Hitting that head shot in Halo 2 on LAN when it was 49 - 49. Everyone jumps and people pick up the shooter and carry him around like it's the championship finals. We were the video game that day. Comparative to seeing one of my kids for the first time, AMAZING!... And definitely Kevin!
Let’s a go he is back!
Hi Bird! For me the feel of a video game is actually the experience of holding a plastic controller and sitting on a couch looking at a TV screen, not sitting at a computer chair over a mouse and keyboard. That is work hahaha
He's the Retro Bird
Oh Yeah!
Warriors for PS2 is a great game and felt like I was playing the movie as well. Probably one of the best movie/games. Indiana Jones was also a fun one on PS2. Now I am missing my PS2 and games 😢
Retro bird comes to us with the turn of the tide
One memorable video game moment for me is when I was a kid playing Pokémon on game boy, connecting with my friends and battling and trading.
I want to commission some shirts for you that say "Quick Little Story for Ya."
I've gotten where I accept cutscenes and stories now and have grown to like them, but I remember thinking they kinda detracted from the experience when I was younger. punching, shooting and slashing is how I know I'm playing a video game, sure there's other things to do but nothing brings it home like those.
I skip cut scenes every chance I get.
Russel is the best character in Up.
Playing the Sonic 06 versus mode and hitting a spring in a weird way that made me shoot up so high it took a solid minute to go back down was such a memorable moment.
I feel like it’s really hard to define what makes a videogame feel like a videogame. Like I enjoy the occasional visual novel and other similar genres, but even if it’s a point and click or has light platforming and/or puzzle solving, I’ll tell someone to try and be in the mindset that you aren’t playing a game. You are interacting with a graphic novel.
Not saying visual novels are not games, I just feel it helps with the enjoyment of these experiences.
Midway Games (may you rest in peace) had many low scoring games before they died...but they were masters at creating 100% pure distilled video game magic. All three Cruis'n games for N64 are a good example of this. As the years pass I appreciate them more and more.
I usually accosiate almost any Zelda game to be the most "video game" video game ever. It just encapsulates (and created) most of the tropes we accociate with it. Epic quest to save the world, check, a legendary sword to aquire, check, hearts as a health bar, check, collecting gems/currency doitted around the place, check, satisfying audio cues, check, maguffins to eventually require all of in order to progress, check, boss battles, check, map, check, finding chests, check, saving the princess, check i mean i could go on and on. lol
No Zelda games allowed
For me, we are playing a video game moment would be me and my cousin finally beating Turbo Tunnel stage from BattleToads :)
You’re right, the dog lol
Playing the Atari 2600 in my friend Bob's basement every Saturday night until the wee hours. Connected to a huge console color TV. It wasn't about graphics or achievements. It was just guiding those simple cars, stick figures and shooters around the screen and having a blast!
OGs know the Mean Girls DVD
I remember getting the good ending on star Fox 64 for the first time. I had just defeated Brain Andross and the screen went blank and James McCloud pops and says “don’t ever give up my son” 10 year old me was so hype
That was a hype moment for me as a kid too!
Hype is an understatement. It was a spiritual realization. When I get a game over in real life and my screen goes black I imagine the voice of the Lord suddenly proclaiming from the darkness: *radio squeak*: Don't ever give up my son..." It brings a tear to my eye.
0:30 Tricky one! This could have been Sega CD, Sega Saturn, or PlayStation.
Yeah, I was proud of myself for getting it ;)
Also loved playing Colecovision at my cousins house, he had tons of great games and the action controllers that were so dang cool to use. Loved the Rocky boxing game and all the killer versions of classic arcade games that were still actually out in local arcades at the time, it was so awesome to be able to play such near perfect ports if greats like Donkey Kong & DK Jr., or Ladybug and Mr.Do, Rock’N’Rope, TimePilot, so many greats. I love old arcade games and the ColecoVision had em all it seemed like, but I didn’t have one so I didn’t get to enjoy that awesomeness unless my older cousin let me.
One of my favorite “this is a video game” feelings was unlocking characters. Especially in fighting games. Back before DLC you had to earn that expanded roster. It was so rewarding when you finally did it and then trying them out felt like test driving a car.
All great videos, and yet Doug (the dog” is my favorite Ip character!
I like the Devil May Cry games because they still feel like games, they have a a story and it's good, but it also doesn't fear to be a level based lineal story because it knows you're playing it to master it, it's like picking up an old arcade game for the nth time, the fact you already know all the combos and enemy placement doesn't make you feel bored but instead it enables you to wreck all the enemies as the force of nature that your character is supposed to be.
Beating Alma in Ninja Gaiden Sigma on the hardest difficulty for the first time! Epic celebrations were had! Also, Mario Kart Wii races with friends were never more heated than this!
Beating donkey 64 for the first time last year after coming back to it, was extremely enjoyable and made me feel like oh yeah this is a video game
Yea Man that’s a good game
Ya, the final battle is great, pretty challenging too IIRC.
I remember first playing it on a kiosk at Walmart, back in the day, and remember being extremely hyped to play it. One of the few games I played to 100% completion as a kid.
I know that game can be divisive, but the final boss is incredible.
Final battle was epic but I love the game as well definitely my second favorite game of all time
Why don’t you have a lot more views??? This is awesome
I just got done playing Killing Floor 2 on suicidal difficulty. Now THAT'S a video game! I like when a game plops me right in the action and it's totally up to me to keep my arse in one piece till the end. If KF2 was movie-like, like The Last of Us, the whole experience would be ruined. It would definitely be like ketchup + water; a play-it-once-and-forget-it kind of deal.
I think it's mainly down to how much a game adopts arcade or eighties-style design. A score counter, enemies who look like what they do and sound effects that repeat themselves constantly. I think a tone of complete earnestness is important too. When a game is being a game, it's likely being really stupid and obnoxious, but I love it. Lightgun games are some of the gamiest games, and I'm a huge fan of Time Crisis and The House of the Dead. Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros 2 is one of my favourite Mario games because it feels so gamey and dumb. The voice lines are so silly and endearing, and I particularly love the voices they gave to each of the bosses.
And I thought Kevin the Snipe was pretty good.
My video game moment was when I beat doom II on nightmare!.. On the GBA.
Then I got my Commodore 64 computer system and floppy disk drive for Christmas and man oh man was I in retro arcade ports Heaven!! Karate Champ exact port,Q-Bert exact port (on a cartridge), and everything my heart desired was so easily obtained thru trading files with friends, floppy disks full of hundreds of greats. Man I miss that thing, it was destroyed by a hot water heater leak that ruined it and a ton of old comics I had stored in my closet while I was gone to USMC boot camp. Sad news when I got home. But great memories.
Recently played TMNT: Shredder's Revenge online with 4 friends & had a random 6th player join in. There was so much action going on it was hard to tell the enemy corpses from one another, but it was one of those "wow this is crazy" moments.
Had these as a kid whenever I'd play fighting games in the arcade as well, regardless of if it was against a person or the CPU. One stands out though from several years back, there was a busted Capcom vs SNK machine at a movie theatre that I noticed after the movie. It was broken as only feirce attacks worked & I was unable to block, so I had to be extra aggressive & perfectly time movement out of range. I expected to lose pretty early despite being decent at fighting games, but to my future wife's surprise I ended up getting all the way to the last fight before losing off of a single credit. That's something I'll always remember.
Yeah, it turns into mayhem with that many players hahah.
That's an over hyped game. Not good. The older tmnt games & especially Hyperstone Heist are a lot better.
Man. Nice to see you back. Hope you have a great short story! Definitely a rare thing these days for games to just feel like a game. The new Ninja Turtles is perfection.
Nope.
I have many video game moments in my life span Thank Gooodness!! All the way back to the Atari 2600 with my cousin and most awesomely with my Grandma who loved to play so many 2600 games with me or solo, she was a true gamer lol and got me really into gaming big time.
your content is really good! keep the good work my friend, greetings from brazil!
Thank you and greetings to you all the way in Brazil!
uncharted 4, poster boy for this subject. when you forget basic controls during a cinematic, causing you to restart the checkpoint, and breaking immersion, that doesnt feel too good
I used to play a lot of primarily narrative driven games. Visual novels, point and click. Nowadays, I play more games that feel like games. Especially platformers.
Whatever gets me in the flow zone. I can feel it.
I would have thought Kevin the Snipe would be your favorite Character from UP. Okay, enough about you. Shoo Shoo Kevin....AAACCCKKK! Kevin want a piece of chocolate?
With that out of the way my favorite FEEL of a Video Game has to come from Mario Kart!! You could be 1st & still lose & you could be last & still win! Quick Little Story For Ya, on Baby Park I was dead last with 2 laps to go & I got Banzai Bill & I held onto it as I knew Bill only lasts for one lap, so I waited for the final lap & used Banzai Bill & won by less than a second! BANZAI !!!
Where’s the big 20minute video you mentioned you had in the works a while back, did I miss it. I’m lost , sorry, just love all your content and just now seen that for some reason TH-cam had unchecked the bell 🔔 icon on this channel so I haven’t been getting all the notifications like I should have been. Pisses me off when they do that.
Lovin the diddy kong background music
Metal Gear Solid are basically movies with some gameplay elements lol *tmnt shredder's revenge definitely has video game feels to everything you do lol
To me a game feels like a game when it adheres to traditional game design philosophies. When it presents you with some central game mechanic and then proceeds to test you in excedingly difficult ways. That may sound like every video game ever and to some extent that is true, but not every video game stays close to those ideals all the time. Like I wouldn't categorize as game mechanics to be tested riding a horse or climbing an uncharted wall, that is just pushing forward and most often require minimum input and are not meant to test you in any meaningful way. They are set pieces meant to show off another aspect of the game like the expansive world or the scenery or are meant to be a resting point from the rest of the action.
In a similar way I've always feel like traditional fps like doom feel more like video games than more modern shooters. Modern shooters still test your ability to shoot, but are not very interested in the player learning things like enemy patterns and weaknesses, or in the player's ability to dodge bullets and projectiles, that is impossible so hits have to lose importance and so your life generates automatically, and similarly to riding a horse or climbing a wall, hiding behind cover is not a test of some game mechanic, nothing to learn and master, is simply something you have to do ocassionally. A game like doom forces you to engage with its mechanics, to learn the enemy types, learn to dodge their projectiles, it wants to test you in almost every step.
Of course nothing wrong with one or the other, they have different objectives, often realism is the one that gets in the way from "feeling like a game".
For me it was getting past loopdeloop galaxy on 3D all stars handheld before I just could not do it, Today I did it in 2 attempts!
I'd say competitive multiplayer games best embody this idea. It's very distinct from film or film-like games, it has a definitive win/loss aspect, and you're intensely connected to the experience, plus it requires skill not only ample enough to overcome premade challenges inherently designed to be overcome, but you're battling another person.
And when you win against a good player in something like Street Fighter II, you feel it and you know you're playing a video game.
Single player can do it top, horror games specifically. You feel scared way more than if you're just watching something.
I had a playing a game moment last weekend playing lunar 1 ps1 boss fight cames down to the wier last character out of healing items only had one hit and one attack left the attack killed the boss it was awesome
notable video game moment: discovering how to get the blue gem in crash bandicoot 2 (SPOILER: it’s by not smashing any boxes in the entire level). nothing can compare to that lock and key feeling, and even though I would not have discovered it myself it was still a lot of fun to see play out
I was afraid you left us for good. Welcome back bird. Now Have a well deserved nanner.
Nope. All you got to do is read on his community part of the channel.
@@tonyp9313 thanks man. I actually never knew that area existed.
Some of my favorite video game moments come from fighting games 1 on 1, think Tekken, soul calibur, mortal Kombat, street fighter, when the round or the match comes down to the final seconds and the smallest possible amount of health left. A true nail-biter when you think you’ve won it or vice verse and then you or your opponent smash an excellent combo or super-move and the whole momentum of the fight is flipped within a split second. Honestly I don’t even care if I’m the winner or the loser in these moments, the sheer execution of perfect gaming in that moment is worth celebrating and often my friends and I have resorted to jumping up and down, screaming at the top of our lungs, controllers flying in astonishment, and mutual congratulations at the pure awesomeness that we have just created on screen. That’s video gaming. Then onto the next fight when we achieve pro-sports levels of rivalry and respect for the other. Oh yea and my favorite Up character is the wife because she is the ultimate motivator of the protagonist and the most loving person he ever knows while also being his greatest source of both joy and sadness, cinematic brilliance. Love you retro bird - awesome video!
Those fighting games create so much intensity haha :)
I never had an Saturn or see one back in the day. No one had one I know. I for me would also think I have an dvd in the hand. Also never ever had a dvd player outside of a pc and never did buy dvds😅
Feels like a video game, sounds like a video game, smells like a video game, it must be a video game!
I think for me and many people, any game that has that classic twitch based button mashing gameplay is what I consider "I'm playing a video game" moment.
My neighbors and my family watched a lot of wrestling in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and we played almost all the wwe games on ps2 for hours, like Hell in a Cell, Ladder, TLC, Elimination Chamber, Royal Rumble etc. Great times😝
Wrestling is garbage now.
Diddy Kong racing came out on Nov 24, 1997. So Unless your birthday falls between that & Dec 31, 1997 of whatever age you were going to be that year, I would say you most likely got this in 1998. You mentioned the Game over screens. So we are talking about any game before the PS1 era. For the retro games I play with save states now. So I don't get a game over screen. The games are far easier when you play with Save states.
So anything that's not F.M.V (Sega Cd) & before PS1. So we are talking Atari 2600 up to Snes & Genesis era. This to me is what I consider a video game. Anything PS1 to now are games that feel like movies (90% modern games).
Because of that this is why I like retro games more than modern games.
Edit: I just noticed you said Summer. So yeah it was 1998.
I think the perception of cinematics has changed due largely to that people don't remember a time where games didn't have them. You had to fill in the blanks of the story with manuals and stills. Starting in the 16 bit gen, my mind was BLOWN when I saw Crash Bandicoot 2 having fully animated and voiced cinematics. From then on, it registered in my mind that cutscene = reward.
People no longer see cutscenes as rewards, they now see them as impediments to playing the game. It kinda sucks because I enjoy moments where I get to put the controller down for a bit and watch more nuanced story beats unfold.
Good to see a full size upload instead of a short
Unrealized expectations can ruin an experience. I really like immersive games. Where the world just melts away and I suddenly realize that it is midnight.
Ahh so open World games. Yeah too many of those. We need to bring back the old style retro games a lot more
God of War's game over screen just saying YOU ARE DEAD used to make me so mad 😂
Bionic commando. By myself at 9 or 10 yrs old and I still remember the feeling of beating last bosses and basically Hitler… plus cussing in a nes game. My older brothers didn’t believe me.
Except when I played Back to the future on NES and was like hay!! This isn’t like the movie at all! I think at times we did want to play the movies, but in a 8bit world.
Pixar fanboy here
Carl will always be my King
"Get off of his Roof"
That said, the game that made me feel it was a game was Chew-Man Fu. Whimsical TG16 game that felt exactly how it was suppose to be. Challenge enough to keep your attention and a game you can rely on to frustrate the heck out of you.
Cool 😎
Anything that doesn't must be ignored or wiped off the face of the earth.
If it's plastic cartridge or a disk, those cases, easy guesses.
I'm fine not seeing the end. I need to work it out that's up to me or if it's not playable for me I'll consider stopping and taking a go later to work it out, put it on the shelf or sell it (I am picky what I buy though so I never really need to sell something and I branch out to all genres anyways to get a good enough idea of each one so it's not been hard to approach games nowadays). If a movie/tv series is bad I give up on it.
Licensed games were what they were for being like the movie, or a good standalone even if the movie name was on it still (had movie clips but was say the sequel like Monsters Inc and the Scare Island standalone game which I love but those Devs knew how to make platformers, Scaler as their original game or the licensed ones like the Bugs Bunny ones after doing Jersey Devil a Warner Bros animation inspired game) besides yes Toy Story 2, Spiderman 2 and other movie tie ins.
I agree with another commenter you have your Mario 3 with the stage play which was cool.
Others that can have theming or cutscenes with interesting angles and editing even in gamey games, which with that to me you don't need big actors unless the mainstream are idiots and expecting too much like needing big names in a video game movie to sell it levels of 'why bother at this point'. Other than business/money expanding. Otherwise games with old cool ideas could sometimes yes be awkward to play but I'd still prefer them than the safe rides that did cut out a lot and are really boring and the impacts are flat. Unless your a graphics/story/theming related to movies or reality type which is why I hate seeing the 'we need games to do what movies do industry wise'. Us gameplay focused players don't care and to most people must think we're weird for not caring about nonsense when we care about the interactive point of games playing them. Sure we may somewhat story but not the way big games do we want our fun old games magic and if new games do it too it's why I'll give up revivals of the platformer genre for example. Not the top 3 genres most people focus on. Gamey games in niche genres or old genres.
Kingdoms Hearts 1 has been hard to play without a guide besides 3 having a more safe accessible approach but I do question which is more fun, frustrating or boring compared to the content/experimental design decisions that seem cool but aren't there anymore.
QTEs never felt like playing a movie anymore than FMV games were. Though Night Trap has more gameplay than Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. Night Trap deserved a revival and it's great with the footage playing to switch cameras. The other is a slideshow and a answer questions game with nothing really good in it at all. I know which I would play if we're a choice of only a playable movie. Night Trap. A b movie that's a distraction and to focus on gameplay over a slideshow yes please.
I will buy platformers or rail shooters and non main three genres (shooter, action adventure, rpg) any day besides their story, presentation, MTX and so on. Because they offer gameplay first (how I can think Biomutant missed out on animals abilities for classes not a rather fine copy everyone but with slight changes to the formula it was still eh for me as a Darksiders 3 that wasn't Darksiders 3 the souls clone and otherwise while the barriers and vehicles and small animal details were there swap the characters for humans and it wouldn't be any different just more crude for peeing on the checkpoints for fast travel or running on all fours or the narrator translating what each one says but they play like an acrobatic human. Not a Bat, Turtle or otherwise to navigate the world but make it still possible for all abilities so it's still completeable as all classes by the end just the start isn't. It was a gameplay first somewhat game but the open world formula isn't compelling to me toner than what 4 games (Gravity Rush, Spiderman PS4's research missions otherwise no, Sunset Overdrive, I forget now but still). Knack is a kids movie like game and movie looks but I had fun playing that God of War clone with fun gameplay to the 2018 God of War new era focus trying to be a movie, was so boring and I could barely see what was on the screen the camera is too close besides the boring not convincing story no matter how hard they try and forget his old family they died so, new era.
But Space Station Silicon Valley's whole thing was that, animals with unique abilities and climbing the food chain, how times have changed and skins or not enough distinction is the case Besides yes it's a wish I have but I mean I came up with it in a few seconds how can the developers not).
But give me walking, drama, movie set pieces, realistic visuals and boring aspects and yeah I don't care anymore. I got PS2/3 doing it a small amount but so much no just no. Spiderman PS4 had side content I loved with the superhero powers used well for platforming and using the city as an obstacle course like Sunset Overdrive, the rest could not care less about was so boring.
Story based games make it feel not like a video game more than ever these days than the balance they used to have I find at least. As if just PS3/360 games the third generation regardless of the sequels being that for how long the brand's have been it just sucks when even the new IPs are still just focusing on that not 'standing out' just a formula you want to be over not going for 10 years or never ending.
I mean just because I like anime doesn't mean I want to play an anime or watch cutscenes with that or a cartoon or a western movie. Sony made their entire lineup now a reason for me to NOT buy their consoles now for this reason. Spiderman is fine, same with Uncharted but I am sick of them now and the rest I could not care less. I want interesting mechanics and while there is some the cores aren't engaging to me at all or the lengths are too long with boring stories by movie writers or Devs with no story skill sitting (cough or with Ratchet the first game has a character arc the temka ehad writers of movies have no arc just lazy kids film writing so 20 years old version by 20 year old game Devs based on 2000s kids movies is better than a 2016 piece of garbage what progress XD).
Ratchet is disappointing these days movie remake or Rift Apart feeling like a remix and 'we don't remember how to make these days vibe to it' so repeat what 2007-2099 did again the idiots,
GT games got worse and WipEout/Knack/Gravity Rush are fine but one is now a mobile game future, a studio division gone. So I can't even rely on their 10% not movie IP works besides them having a movie or TV series future too.
Yeah I have no reason to play their consoles then third parties and I don't like to have two third party machines (both PS4/One).
For my old consoles I am still picking up third parties AND first parties I never had as a kid and had more fun with them but these days I only have third parties to buy now and base it on if I want to use my Vita with it on my PS4, comfort of using my PS4, expand my Xbox One library that's really small, or instead care about for Switch as Switch is the only current gen consoles I care for not the PS4/Series consoles (not counting that they are still on old eighth gen either).
Seriously though yeah I do notice with old games limitations or misunderstanding a genre (Kingdoms Hearts 1 or Square's racing game Driving Emotion Type S are really awkward to play or understand without a guide it's bafflingly confusing and never come across anything else on the PS2 as confusing).
My favorite charicter in up is the two care home nurse guys very well developed charicters crucial to the story
A recent one and first time playing for me is Shinobi 3 on the genesis. When you start you think you just throw stuff and jump then you learn more attacks and jump combos by accident then the special ultra ability and when you change them. It also has that weird video game level design from a jungle to a lab to surfing. 2:20 Nailed my Shinobi experience
Shinobi 3 on genesis is the best Shinobi game.
For me it’s about immersion. Mobile games, free to play cash grabs, unintuitive controls, or just poorly made games all ruin the experience for me. The best way to get that “video game feeling” is in level design, art style, a sense of earned progression. I’m not even that picky with genre, just quality. My favorite up character is probably Russell :)
Storyline like Chrono Trigger, fighting like Mortal Kombat 2, or mindless entertainment like Diablo 2.
No thanks to ketchup water. I'm more of a ranch water guy myself.
Gunsmoke video game, red dead redemption 2 movie?
Where is the Gunsmoke game?!
agreed.
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Mine is when I am playing a sports game and can score every time I run the same play, where a real opponent would figure out that’s what I’m going to pick every time.
What sports game are we talking about & for what system?
@@tonyp9313 I haven’t played Madden games in a while, but I remember there usually being 1 or 2 passing plays in each game where the defense would always give a receiver that was going long too much space
playing TMNT II: The Arcade Game on NES with a school friend