I know that my very first contact with video games was in the middle of 90's with a Mega Drive, but I only have clear memories about video games form the late 90's, when I had a Snes. That time, I most played video games alone, but I had friends and relatives that played whit me. Today is almost impossible for a young think about playing video games alone; the multiplayer must be there, and the singleplayer campaign doesn't even matters, if it exist. Obviously I'm not generalizing, mainly because I'm talking about the early times of playing video games and the way I'm seeing the youngs playing video games nowadays.
There was something in the old days of video games that happen very rare on these days. Everebody that played Snes (and even the 2 next generations, and the before of it) must have had the joy -- or pride -- of comming to your friend and claimmed: "look, man, I have finished it!", and showed the gamebox to him. He looked at it enviously because he never could finished that game, or maybe he was happy for you, if he was a really good friend.
You may think of hundreds of games like the ones above. The games that make you loose nights of sleep and had to start over again and again. I, for example, could give the plataforms of the Snes as example. But the kids today don't have this kind of experience on this generation of easy singleplayers campaign of games made to be multiplayer addictive competition.
If You look carefully on what I said, you'll find that there was also a competition in the times of singleplaying, but that time you had to beat the game. Now, you have to beat your friend (or someone from the other part of the globe that you even know the name). Again, I don't mean to generalize and I know that there is challenging games on this generation, but I want to talk about the specifics, to talk about how today the new players have not the experience we had before.
What I think most on these new generation of gamers are missing is the chance they haven't (or are wasting) of experience a lot of things. The games challenged ourselves back then in the form of ninjas, ninjas turtles, ninjas frogs an whatsover. But now, we only challenge other people, since the game itself isn't a challenge and the opportunity of knowing a lot of other worlds pass by and we don't care. We have to be better than the others.
This is the first entry I make here and I want to know your opinion about it. Do you miss the old way of gaming competition? Do you believe we are passing to much time on a single game? Futhermore, this entry give me opportuniy to talk about other subjects, like the simplicity of the old vs the complexity of today. And, if you liked it, I'll write more =)
There was something in the old days of video games that happen very rare on these days. Everebody that played Snes (and even the 2 next generations, and the before of it) must have had the joy -- or pride -- of comming to your friend and claimmed: "look, man, I have finished it!", and showed the gamebox to him. He looked at it enviously because he never could finished that game, or maybe he was happy for you, if he was a really good friend.
You may think of hundreds of games like the ones above. The games that make you loose nights of sleep and had to start over again and again. I, for example, could give the plataforms of the Snes as example. But the kids today don't have this kind of experience on this generation of easy singleplayers campaign of games made to be multiplayer addictive competition.
If You look carefully on what I said, you'll find that there was also a competition in the times of singleplaying, but that time you had to beat the game. Now, you have to beat your friend (or someone from the other part of the globe that you even know the name). Again, I don't mean to generalize and I know that there is challenging games on this generation, but I want to talk about the specifics, to talk about how today the new players have not the experience we had before.
What I think most on these new generation of gamers are missing is the chance they haven't (or are wasting) of experience a lot of things. The games challenged ourselves back then in the form of ninjas, ninjas turtles, ninjas frogs an whatsover. But now, we only challenge other people, since the game itself isn't a challenge and the opportunity of knowing a lot of other worlds pass by and we don't care. We have to be better than the others.
This is the first entry I make here and I want to know your opinion about it. Do you miss the old way of gaming competition? Do you believe we are passing to much time on a single game? Futhermore, this entry give me opportuniy to talk about other subjects, like the simplicity of the old vs the complexity of today. And, if you liked it, I'll write more =)
