Sunday, October 5, 2008

Computer Games

I have been playing computer games to relax and have fun for the last couple days. While I was doing this it occurred to me that all of my favorite games (and in fact nearly all my games) are five or more years old. My computer may not be top of the line but it is still capable of running newer games that don't have totally insane requirements without any problems. After I thought about it for a while I realized that practically every new PC game is a remake of something and almost all of them fall into the categories of First Person Shooter (FPS); Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), or Real Time Strategy (RTS). I have nothing against these genres of games but I would like to see new games that follow the style of games like Descent 1-3, Freespace, Freespace 2; Trackmania Sunrise, Nations; Rollcage; Star Wars Racer; or even Need for Speed: SE and Need for Speed 3 from when the NFS games were about racing to have fun and had nothing to do with car customization. Going even further back to games like Jet Fighter 2; Starfighter; Zone Raiders; Space Quest 1-6; Kings Quest 1-5; and Quest for Glory 1 would be great.

On the other hand my opinions of all the games that have come out in recent years mean that I am not tempted to spend huge amounts of money on new games which makes saving money for other things far easier.

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