Anyone else find this Generation sorta...boring?

[QUOTE="CronoSquall"][QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

To disagree with alot of people on here, I've been gaming since the 80's and with this gen (with the exception of a couple games) I've been slowly losing interest. I don't own a 360 or PS3 and as of yet there's been nothing that's made me want to get either of them. The Wii's been decent up to this point but I have to say E3 wasn't all that encouraging. I'm kind of surprised more people don't feel this way; lowered expectations, maybe?

So yeah, I'm finding it boring.

svetzenlether

Different =/= lowered, I'm a gamer of the eighties too. The crap games to great games ratio is better now than it was when we started gaming. Well, on the PS3 and 360 anyway. The Wii is approaching the eighties Atari crap games surplus.

There were a LOT of crap games back in the NES era, for sure. But I think the bars have leveled off to the point where, now, instead of a crap-to-great game ratio, it's more of a moderately bad-to-moderately good game ratio, especially for the 360/PS3 IMO. The Wii may have a ton of crap, but the great games on it are in fact GREAT, just a bit too few and far between, which doesn't look to changing any time soon.

The great games on the 360 and PS3 are great too, and their are more of them, and far more frequently. I won't say it's a "fact" they are great, but they do have certain inherent qualities which any reasonable gamer not driven by an agenda can recognize, just as I can recognize the inherent quaity of a game like Mario Galaxy, while also mentioning that it does nothing for me personally.

Yes, this generation is missing something and I dunt know what. I think it might be the huge lack of variety. Thats the only explanation I can think of. Huge overload of shooters. Overall I haven't enjoyed this generation more than past gens. I find myself playing PS2/1 games more ever than before. Most of the games I buy for current gen consoles just get one playthrough and then get slung aside to collect dust. Not like lots of the master pieces from older gens that get about 20 playthroughs and still never get boring.Dahaka-UK

Shooters make up the minority of releases on all three platforms, fact. In fact, Mature games are the minority of releases on each platform. On my 360 I have JRPGs, RPGs, "Shooters" (FP and TP), Puzzle Games, RTS, Racing, Sports, 3-D Fighters, 2-D Fighters, Action, Adventure, Survival Horror, Rythm, Hardcore Shmups, and hybrid games that defy one broad genre. Thats plenty of variety.

[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]Yes, this generation is missing something and I dunt know what. I think it might be the huge lack of variety. Thats the only explanation I can think of. Huge overload of shooters. Overall I haven't enjoyed this generation more than past gens. I find myself playing PS2/1 games more ever than before. Most of the games I buy for current gen consoles just get one playthrough and then get slung aside to collect dust. Not like lots of the master pieces from older gens that get about 20 playthroughs and still never get boring.CronoSquall

Shooters make up the minority of releases on all three platforms, fact. In fact, Mature games are the minority of releases on each platform. On my 360 I have JRPGs, RPGs, "Shooters" (FP and TP), Puzzle Games, RTS, Racing, Sports, 3-D Fighters, 2-D Fighters, Action, Adventure, Survival Horror, Rythm, Hardcore Shmups, and hybrid games that defy one broad genre. Thats plenty of variety.

I'm confused where are all these amazing JRPGs, Survival Horror games, Adventure, & Platformers. Cause I'm definetaly not seeing them at all. Either that or I've been living under a rock these past few years. Sure I guess theres some variety if you count games off xbox live arcade/wii virtual console/PSN Store. Most of it is all shovelware crap to me. No interest in whatever select few racing games there are right now. Fighters are not my thing but even fighers there don't seem to be that many.

It can't really be denied that shooters this generation far out number any other genre.

Online integration is more important than ever, finally we have (at least on PS3 and 360) a unified online platform, tehre's been HUGE open world games that just couldn't be done last gen (Assassin's Creed), INCREDIBLE amounts of enemies on screen. And we have fresh experiences in Wii because of the motion sensing.

I think this generation has pushed the bar as far as any other before it has. But that's just my opinion.

of course its more boring

boring, brown and gray = next gen

get with the times! :roll:

I've found pretty much every huge, epic AAA, AAAA, AAAA/E release since this generation started are only engrossing for a couple of days at best, then I lose interest in them, if that's what you mean by boring.

In my house, only Halo3 and CoD4 have been getting more disc-tray time since their respective release(s)...

67gt500

I have been waiting for someone to say this because this is EXACTLY how I feel this gen. Except for mgs4...That I still love and will always love. Guilty as charged.

While I think they are too many shooters, and not nearly enough platformers, regardless of that, in my humble opinion, we are in the greatest generation in gaming history to date. Amount of sheer quality in this generation is ridiculous.

i dunno why, but there is something missing this generation, there are some great games out there, but then i dunno some games are just missing something that was there every other gen.

I find this gen is getting more boring as the months pass. Like MGS4 and Halo 3 were fun i actually couldnt stand GTA4, but there is just that "fun" factor missing in a lot of games this gen.

anyone else feel this way?

IkeandPit

I feel the same way, but I dont think it's the actual quality of games, but the pace of how things are going these days. Everything is so fast and naturally, our attention span is VERY short. So a game doesnt last as long.

This gen has great quality games, but the main problems are:

1) Games are shorter than last gen on average, especially FPS games. I wish we would stop seeing some 6-hour WW2 shooters please. Hopefully this will be resolved once the developers are more fimilar with current-gen technology. Its only the first game from each developer thats the shortest IMO, since they want to hurry up to make their current-gen debut. Once the transition from last-gen to current-gen is complete, it should be fine.

2) More expensive hardware. Ever wonder why the PS3 was $600 when first released, and why there are three current SKUs for the Xbox 360? It may take some time before the PS3 can phase out the PS2, since the current price different is too big.

3) For us PC gamers, we are worried than console multiplats are reducing the complexity of our games.

Pretty much all the games I want haven't even been released with the exception of Metal Gear Solid 4.

Bayonetta-2009
Blaze Blue-2009
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3-2009
Demigod-2009
Dragon Age: Origins-2009
Gray Matter-2009
Heavy Rain-2009
Final Fantasy XIII-2010
Final Fantasy Versus XIII-2011
Final Fantasy Agito XIII-2011 ?
InFamous-2009
Melty Blood: Actress Again-2009
Little Big Planet- October 2008
Parasite Eve: The Third Birthday- 2009
Star Ocean: The First Departure- 2008
Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes-2009
Tekken 6- December 2008
The Broken Hourglass- 2009
The King of Fighters XII-2009
Vampyre Story- 2009
White Knight Story- 2009

That's right...not a single shooter :o

For me, most of the 'big' games turned out to be a bit disappointing. There have been a few gems here and there, but we've mainly just seen a huge amount of uninspired sequels.

Unfortunately, graphics seem to be more important than gameplay this gen. :(

Anyone else find this Generation sorta...boring?IkeandPit