The latest game consoles are very impressive when it comes to graphics and sound. In fact, you will be forgiven for thinking that you are actually watching a movie. It takes a full team of programmers, graphic designers, musicians, and producers along with a lot of money to create the incredible images we see in console games today. However, I would ask the question: What about the gameplay?
Personally, I have found it difficult to enjoy any game console after the PlayStation 2. Being a fan of fighting games, I was instantly drawn to one that I was playing on a PlayStation 3 at my local game store and ended up buying it. Jumping over to Amazon to buy some PS3 fighting games, I was eager to start the battle with the new and improved fighters in all their graphical splendor. After spending a reasonable amount of time (including updates to virtually every game) I was beginning to wish I had never bought the PS3.
The graphics and sound were perfect, without question. However, I instantly hated the gameplay. The huge combination of gamepad controls was a nightmare to remember, just to perform various graceful movements. Not only that, but the season mode was gone so I couldn’t just sit there enjoying the stories and hitting the fighters one after another. It was bad enough that I had never heard of many of the new fighters and I was itching to control Hulk Hogan or SGT Slaughter.
Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 were among my favorite games on the PS2, so I was looking forward to the third installment. In the first two games, he could easily replenish his energy and heal all wounds with just one pack of rations. However, the company decided to make it “more real” by having the player undergo a series of treatments for each injury his character, Solid Snake received, and still had to take his ration pack to replenish energy.
The games of yesteryear were more entertaining, as you weren’t distracted by fancy images and more was left to your imagination. Hours can be wasted playing Pacman as you strive to beat your high score. Text adventure games would leave you emerged in a world described only by text descriptions, shaping the world in your imagination and becoming the main character of the game and feeling more involved.
Game companies, in my opinion, seem to be more interested in the sleek visuals of games than the gameplay. I have tried playing these Hack and Slash type games and found them boring after a while. Yes, the graphics are great, but all you have to do is cut and cut, watch a sequence of cut scenes, and then cut and cut again. Long cutscene sequences seem to be a part of many modern games to make them last longer. Not bad if there is an option to skip it.
Shooting a character in older games was pretty straightforward. No blood or guts spilled, characters simply vanish into thin air after a flashing fade. However, there were later games that became more violent as game companies decided to make violent deaths more real, giving players the desire for blood and gore more realistic.
CONCLUSION
Even though the latest consoles work to make games more like movies to please today’s audience, the joy of retro games is becoming increasingly popular as gamers young and old discover the attraction. of the simple but highly addictive games. A time when games would end when the player ran out of lives instead of continuing from the last point no matter how many times you die. The need to get back in the game to beat your high score and put your name on the scoreboard … uh, they don’t know your birth today.
