My dislike for modern PC games.

I used to enjoy simulator type games that were real big back in the day. For some reason the masses seem to prefer smash and grab stuff with a very fast pace. It seems that console kids are driving the market. I don't like consoles for gaming and use mine as a media station for streaming. With a PC you have a ton of options that go unused with modern games.
Sonar is heading down the same road. People want to see something new every month, so they pump it out and if it's not right they figure they'll catch it in the next release or 2.
 

Project Gotham Racing is my all-time favorite video game.  MY problem with games is the controllers.  Full left/full right, full throttle/no throttle will only go so far.  I got wheels/pedals for my X-Box (years ago), but they were still inadequate after a point.
 
PC games?  No thanks.  If I could get a game box with reasonable controls for driving and flying games I would have one.  Seems the only real development these days is FP shooter style games.  Meh.
 
 

#1 support response "try a clean reinstall".

Ah yes. The days of 'Leisure Suit Larry.' I miss them.

I was totally hooked early on with the sierra rpg and zork stuff.  Then it got way violent, shooting  all the time.  I just took a pass.  

Have you played the Myst series of games?  Awesome worlds there!  Plus they have a new one meant for 4k virtual reality - can't wait until I have the horsepower to play that!

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sharke
I stopped liking video games around 1995 when the emphasis started shifting toward 3D modeling instead of gameplay. I loved many of the old 8-bit games previous to this and much prefered bouncing around a surreal 2D world full of floating penguins and pieces of fruit. 
 
I don't play games on my phone much but when I do, I always gravitate toward the simple puzzlers and suchlike. Never felt the urge to download a fully featured 3D action game. To date, the most enjoyable phone game I've ever played is Blendoku. It's an amazing challenge (unless you're color blind in which case it's downright impossible) and the sense of satisfaction you get from completing a level is infinitely better than anything I've played on a modern console. 

My parents didn't have much money so I didn't really have access to video games until finances got better and my younger brother got his first Nintendo - I must have been 15 or 16 by then - so I never was a big gamer.  
 
For me, video games really were kid stuff in which I'd indulge every now and then. There were a couple go games I really liked, such as the whole Castlevania series, but I'd only play late at night after my brother went to bed when I had nothing better to do and he'd rented a game that I liked.
 
The shift to 3D meant the end of my gaming career. I never could play those games because I can't even watch without feeling dizzy - I am hyper sensitive to those things and I can give myself vertigo just thinking about it. One time I thought I was cured because it didn't immediately make me feel dizzy, so I watched a 3D game my girlfriend was playing for a while. I suffered from severe vertigo for 2 days afterwards.
 
All the better - the time I'd waste on game I spend reading books and learning things. Granted, people look at you kind of strange when you're sitting at the bar by yourself drinking diet cola and reading a big book before a rock show, but, CandyCrush really isn't my thing...

Right now I could really get into an old school text based game. They were very rewarding to play. Today's version could be audio based. Same premise, except the PC verbally describes the situation and you just say what you want to do. No typing, just cut scenes based on the story line.

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Some things are better than others, but the only games that are improving, seem to be the likes of WoW, EQ (though its lost its fanbase!) and maybe one or two other games out there. The guy at the Game Spot here near us, even has said that the sale of many of the games that some computer magazines love to tell you is great, is almost not worth discussing, and I asked him that if the download side of things is the part that hurts his business ... he thinks it's about 50/50 right now, as there are way too many folks that learn about the game from friends and the store and the pictures.
 
The best designed game, probably would be WoW, although there are portions of it that is repetitive, and you can see it, the color is the difference and the shading goes that way, instead of another way, but in general there are several issues that WoW is introducing to the game, that is disconcerting, and something that I think will be a part of the games in the future even if they are in the X-box (talk about copy!!!!).
 
Wow has created an intentional mouse mis-direction for your character when a mob/npc uses an AoE (area effect) and it changes your direction from 90 to 180 degrees, which means you can not do your next cast until you turn around, and no magazines are totally ripping this apart ... as inapropriate and bad code, and an intentional process to disable the abilities of each player enough for the fight to last longer ... which, of course, is a benefit to the mob/npc, not you, the player.
 
There are other small details that are really improper, and not checked or are left intentionally undocumented, so you have to go figure it out ... quests where the information is evasive and intentionally mis-directed ... which is OK to a point ... and fun in lower levels, but at high levels, this is not fun at all.
But perhaps, the worst of it all, is the amount of lies and mis-direction by many of the programmers themselves ... as was the situation with one guy proudly saying that Blizzard is very happy with how they setup the flying process in their new expansion, which was a continuation of many other factions and factors from the previous situation, when in the end, what he did not say was that 4 to 5 years ago, a player could BUY the flying ... and all that Blizzard did was ensure that you had to play for it ... but a kid thought it was far out that they had setup 1452 quests, so you could finally fly in this expansion!
 
In essence, they have turned the game over to the cheaters and the power players ... and will eventually lose the rest of the folks, just like EQ did, because the separation was horrendous, and the majority of the players could not achieve anything, including getting pieces for their epic armor, some of which would take months to drop ... no kidding! WoW might not be doing that, but they are saying that if you are not a full time, serious player, then you are not going to fly in this expansion, and if you do, you will finally get there some two expansions or 3 years behind everyone else ... you are no longer a serious player and probably will quit any time.
 
The hard part for me, is that I have not been able to record something, play it back on my ears, and be able to add another part to it ... and trying to get some help and someone to come over (and get paid for it) to show me, is worst than pulling teeth on an elephant, or I might as well not bother with music ... because it's become a world of geek'ery that is not interested in music ... in my days and time, this was something you shared with lots of love and affection ... but nowadays, it's become ... I know more than you and I'm not sharing my secrets ... like I would ever need any of your secrets!
 
Gaming, is for fun ... and something I enjoy still, and for an old foggie, it is magnificent for hand/eye co-ordination and maintaining a reasonable ability in your hands, some active movement that otherwise might not be there. But it also adds your brain, since you have to think a wee bit and then do, and this is a very good thing as you get old. I'm not saying that this does not happen in music, but I think that preventing and not helping people take their first steps in the DAW world, is about as bad as you just kicking your kid and tell him/her to go ahead and fall off the bike and get your knee scraped! I'm not helping you learn how to ride. Some kids need some help. Some kids don't.
 
And the gaming business is no different. And neither are the folks involved in it, anywhere else! Sonar is no different!

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Right now I could really get into an old school text based game. They were very rewarding to play. Today's version could be audio based. Same premise, except the PC verbally describes the situation and you just say what you want to do. No typing, just cut scenes based on the story line.

YES!

With a friend we ported that game from a Unix machine (written in B) to the HP-2000 (now in BASIC) back in the 70's.  It had one of the very first (if not the first) language processors in it.  I still have the code somewhere!
 
THROW AX AT DWARF
 
A Hollow voice says "Plugh."
 
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