tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7884985021932636599..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: 2000s were a quiet decade for video gamesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-40091960606018852882010-12-30T20:34:41.416-05:002010-12-30T20:34:41.416-05:00I downloaded the original Zelda's ROM and play...I downloaded the original Zelda's ROM and played it using the FCEUX emulator. It was still fun even though I had played Zelda decades ago, and I am now an "adult". The Zelda ROM is only 130 kilobytes! Despite being a featherweight, it still more fun to play than many games that weigh in the gigabytes. Sins of a Solar Empire, I am looking at you.<br /><br />It does seem that many "adult" games today are easier than the "kids" games of the 1990s/1980s. Do "safe times" make designers "decide" people actually want these easy games, or do people in "safe times" actually want easy games? Or *shudder* do the people in "safe times" lose their made-gamer skills, and actually find difficult games almost impossible to play?JohnDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-72845290803124163212010-12-27T20:48:47.636-05:002010-12-27T20:48:47.636-05:00Great take.
Donkey Kong Country would definitely ...Great take.<br /><br />Donkey Kong Country would definitely be near the top of a 90s contest, as would Chrono Trigger.<br /><br />As an avid RPGer in my youth and atavistically so today, it doesn't surprise me that the best performing RPG games in the FAQ tournament were released early in the decade as well. Final Fantasy IX hit in 2000, and FFX came the following year. Basically, the formula was the same that made the series <i>the</i> RPG series of the modern video gaming era, with all the enhanced cinematics, character development, and emotional investment that newer hardware systems allowed to enhance and expand on a core that existed as far back as the late 80s. The newer additions in the series (11 through 13), each deviating from the original formula, were all duds.<br /><br />Technically, it wasn't a round robin tournament btw (to be the nit picker).Audacious Epigonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495507254628580077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-26059162174127422992010-12-26T18:14:19.071-05:002010-12-26T18:14:19.071-05:00Lest it turn into a Miyamoto fest, I would add Str...Lest it turn into a Miyamoto fest, I would add Street Fighter II and the original Mega Man series as potential winners from the 90's. The former was ubiquitous entertainment at birthday parties and although there was basically no innovation within the Mega Man series, it was a pretty good concept (yes, the first two games were released in the 80's).<br /><br />I pretty much no longer keep up with video games at all but I was surprised that so much of the stuff developed for the Wii was ordinary activities that are more fun to do in real life. I would have thought there'd be great opportunity to develop more combat-oriented games that couldn't be safely duplicated in real life, but if there were any that achieved popularity, I have not heard about them.Jokah Macphersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185675633464395897noreply@blogger.com