FadingBeano
Chieftain
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I thought he was serious as well.
my inet sarcasm detector must be faulty.
my inet sarcasm detector must be faulty.
Yeah, you pretty much can't be a serious PC gamer if you don't care for Strategy Games or Shooters.
I have to say that Swedishguy is right on that FPSs and RTSs are not necessarily about action. RTSs don't even need explaining (Real-Time STRATEGY, people?).
And as far as shooters go, you need strategy to win ANY shooter (actually, pretty much any game) or else you'll die easily or get stuck easily (which used to happen to me alot until I found IGN's game guides). And Half-Life is basically the Zelda of FPSs (meaning that it is more about puzzles than about combat).
Even simple games like Tetris or Pac-Man require some degree of "strategy" in order to perform well, but it often boils down to rote memorization of patterns more than anything else. Most FPS games don't feel particularly strategic to me, other than multi-player matches where team strategies and tactics are pretty instrumental to doing well. But I don't enjoy these type of matches either, as it starts to feel insanely repetitive very quickly (restarting on the same map a dozen times in a single game, for example). Not interested in playing the same handful of small maps dozens upon dozens of times so that I can memorize the layouts perfectly. The rare times that I do play in one of these matches, the players who excel seem to be the ones who know the level layouts as well as their own houses and can distinguish a 10-pixel high model of a teammate from an enemy at a glance.
As a player, I like to explore game worlds and just take in all of the new and interesting experiences that a game has to offer. Mastery holds very little value to me, as it generally requires a great deal of repetition and I don't really get off on being able to demonstrate great skill at playing a video game. I would much rather play something new (or play something that was really cool over again) than play segments of the same game over and over again just to get better at it. I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to achieve mastery; it just isn't my style. I never play Civilization beyond the "Noble" level; it ceases to be fun for me and mistakes and experimentation can become very costly. After that point, the game starts to feel (to me) like it's about optimization and not about just enjoying the experience.
That probably blew any remaining "nerd cred" that I may have had. I'd probably do a lot more PC gaming if it wasn't dominated by RTS, FPS, and MMO games. I can't handle the mind-numbing repetitiveness of MMOs, and the only FPS-type games that I have ever really enjoyed are Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Invisible War (first was way better but still liked the second), System Shock 2, Bioshock (the little bit that I played), and Metroid Prime.
Tetris especially!
Yeah, same here with RTS games. I still want StarCraft, though.
IMO does Metroid Prime refer to the entire trilogy or just the first one?
As for those games you mentioned, they're not really FPSs so much as they are Adventure Games (Metroid Prime trilogy) and/or RPGs (System Shock and Deus Ex series).
And thanks for bringing RPGs up! I don't think I've ever played (a great) one in my entire life! The ones that I would like to play the most are KotOR and WoW.
I just discovered that PC Zone Magazine's Top PC Game was NOT either a shooter or a strategy game (though it is a First-Person game). Here were the results of the poll, posted on January 2007.
1. Deus Ex
2. Half-Life 2
3. Civilization IV
4. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
5. Half-Life
6. Rome: Total War
7. System Shock 2
8. Battlefield 2
9. DOOM
10. The Secret of Monkey Island
I'm quite stunned that games like StarCraft, X-COM, Pirates!, and Star Control II didn't make the list.
IMO does Metroid Prime refer to the entire trilogy or just the first one?
As for those games you mentioned, they're not really FPSs so much as they are Adventure Games (Metroid Prime trilogy) and/or RPGs (System Shock and Deus Ex series).
And thanks for bringing RPGs up! I don't think I've ever played (a great) one in my entire life! The ones that I would like to play the most are KotOR and WoW.
Doom isn't. It's a good 14 years old now (and if you say "what about Doom 3" then god help me I will reach down the internet and beat you to death with your own keyboard! ).That's because PC Zone doesn't know a classic when they see one...you notice every single one of those other than System Shock and Monkey Island are less than 4 years old?
I like you. I agree with the entire quoted statement here. One beef: I never really think of Metroid Prime as a shooter. It's really an adventure game shown from a first-person perspective. Which is why I like it. I get bored of shooters outside of multiplayer.
I also dislike MMORPGs. They are far to incouraging of munchkinism for my tastes.
Doom isn't. It's a good 14 years old now (and if you say "what about Doom 3" then god help me I will reach down the internet and beat you to death with your own keyboard! ).