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- god720, on 10/26/2008, -4/+53Diablo 3.
- MrFayce, on 10/26/2008, -3/+40WHAT GAMERS WANT....
Duke Nukem Forever?? - inactive, on 10/26/2008, -4/+30Starcraft 2
- coldkill3r, on 10/26/2008, -0/+24Mass Effect 2 (which EA doesn't screw up)
- GarmaZed, on 10/26/2008, -0/+21Or how about original games/series? You all just asked for sequels...
- robz0rz, on 10/26/2008, -2/+23I love how 3 of the 5 comments say a Blizzard game already
- RodBorn, on 10/26/2008, -0/+20I am/was an AVID gamer. Avid FPS'er.
BUT every time I get on Xbox live I have to deal with idiots. Team killing, ignorant "you suck you -insert immature slur here-"
..it's lame.
The kids today are watching to much "Paris Hiltons Next BFF" and have no social skills. - LedZepAddict, on 10/26/2008, -0/+18An actual KotOR III
- quakeIII, on 10/26/2008, -0/+17Answer: wife
- Bologner, on 10/26/2008, -1/+17Left 4 Dead
- khyberkitsune, on 10/26/2008, -2/+17I can tell you exactly why I don't buy and play games anymore.
DRM ***** up one of my optical drives. (1999)
DRM hosed my filesystem (2000)
DRM corrupted my OS install (2001-2004)
DRM said the key I was using was already in use, even though I bought the game that day. And the store wouldn't give me a refund or exchange. (2006)
DRM Usurped my administrative rights. (2008)
***** PROGRAMMING is currently preventing me from playing multiplayer STALKER, even though I own a ***** key. (I have the digital distribution version paid for from Direct-2-Drive. The digital version only has a patch up to 1.0005, the physical disc versions can be patched to 1.0006.) I paid for a game just to actually play multiplayer on it, and I'm AUTOMATICALLY LOCKED OUT OF DOING SO. And they have NO INTENTION (The game devs) of releasing a patch for my version. They're too busy working on Clear Sky.
Let's not forget about the rootkit present on many, many 'audio CDs'
I can't TRUST optical media any longer. - LexMortis, on 10/26/2008, -0/+11"One thing was clear -- they didn't see themselves as gamers, or even want to get back into gaming."
So they are not gamers at all, thus not exactly Missing Gamers. The article sounds more like ex-gamers who simply moved on because they found something else (like in the article they say Facebook and poker). Also, I reckon someone who calls Facebook a substitution for games was never ever a gamer to begin with. - Vosem, on 10/26/2008, -1/+11Definitely Fallout 3
- LexMortis, on 10/26/2008, -0/+10Obvious solution is obvious: Dont play on Xbox live.
Also, you are an avid FPS'er but play on Xbox live? Switch back to PC for FPS games, nothing beats keyboard+ mouse. Plus no Live idiots. I play BF2142, ETQW, TF2, no annoying kids or idiots in those games at all. - b0rg, on 10/26/2008, -0/+8Free time
A decent night's sleep
Games where an occasional player has a chance
fast load times (if I've got 15 minutes till I have to help out with homework, i don't want to spend 12 of them on "Loading, please wait..") - pastathellama, on 10/26/2008, -1/+8A life...
I remember playing quake 2 when I was 13...Most of the people in my clan were a lot older, either in college or married with kids. We played all evening every day.
After awhile without playing some of the ones who were married will pop up onto IM, we'll start talking and eventually they'll say how they've recently gotten a divorce. Sad really. - penguinofspades, on 10/26/2008, -0/+7i want fallout 1 and 2 re-released.
and my childhood back - staffell, on 10/26/2008, -1/+8Free games.
- Dustmuffins, on 10/26/2008, -0/+6A space sim like Freespace 2
- inactive, on 10/26/2008, -0/+6Meh. Not so much as Diablo III, Fallout 3, and Starcraft 2. And a few other obscure games.
- aftern9ne, on 10/26/2008, -0/+6So they find out what gamers want by asking... people who don't game?
- staffell, on 10/26/2008, -0/+5amen
- Philosomatika, on 10/26/2008, -0/+5System Shock 3
Max Payne 3 - RodBorn, on 10/26/2008, -0/+5well, that's not an obvious solution.
I gave up on PC gaming five years ago based on the constant bleeding edge technology ripoff. A, I loved keyboard/mouse, but B, I love the couch/huge screen mentality of Xbox live more. - BullHunter, on 10/26/2008, -1/+5Wolfenstein. Wasn't that the prerunner to Duke Nukem and Doom?
- Narcowski, on 10/26/2008, -4/+8WoW does suck, but not for those reasons. Indeed, it's most striking flaws are as follows:
1) Static world: Player actions should be able to shape the fate of a MMO world.
2) Balance issues resulting from releasing an incomplete game and attempting to fix content later.
3) Levels mean too much, and *player* skill means nearly nothing.
4) PvP is pointless and repetitive. Sure, there are minor rewards for victory, but where are teh penalties for defeat?
5) The game is oversimplified (this is why it has such a large install base, but that doesn't make it any less of an issue).
6) Similar to #3, gear means far too much. - wbbb617, on 10/26/2008, -0/+4This might be kind of morbid, but from the title I thought this was going to be about people you play with from either a steam buddy list or a WoW guild or w/e, but then they stop playing and you never see them again, how would you know if maybe they died? I always thought about this, im just weird, but I got plenty of ppl on my list who i never see, and I always wonder...
- Borgcube, on 10/26/2008, -0/+4What gamers want:
Lists on one page only. - maus56, on 10/26/2008, -1/+5Zork!
- angers, on 10/27/2008, -0/+4Buy from Steam then... problem solved.
- Vodd9, on 10/26/2008, -1/+5Games that have a decent level of difficulty (read: not piss-easy) like it was the case in the 8 and 16-bytes era. No more scalable AI for christ's sake.
Games that put money into developping an original gameplay with a large amount of possibilities instead of graphics.
Games that take AT LEAST 20 hours to complete. - playuhh, on 10/26/2008, -1/+51. Games that don't feel like a movie more than a game.
2. A True Focus on gameplay.
3. Adjacent Multiplayer: for reasons laid out almost perfectly in the article.
4. Make it worth my money: I will pay 25 cents for every hour of fun up to 200 hours (before sales tax)
An expensive game must prove its worthiness.
In fact yea... they should give the game for a nominal fee of like $5 and have you pay 25-35 cents an hour up until you reach the full price. So if the game was really worth it, then the developers will really get paid what they deserve. - rabidlemur, on 10/26/2008, -1/+4This gamer wants his wife to be interested in games other that World of Warcraft.
- daEvan, on 10/26/2008, -1/+4I know we're both gonna get buried, but screw it. I can't wait for Wrath!!
- Aurabolt, on 10/26/2008, -1/+4More Blizzard
- Exbzurq, on 10/26/2008, -0/+3@patm1987
Multiwinia was a sequel to Darwinia. - deadbaby, on 10/27/2008, -0/+3I almost never play games anymore. I just reached the point where I realized I wasn't really getting anything out of it. It wasn't fun anymore. The process of playing more than 15 minutes of a game started to feel like work, not entertainment. There's very rarely any story, characters, or acting to make these games worth my time. I just need something more satisfying than pressing buttons on a gamepad or twirling around a Wiimote to entertain me. One day I realized all I was doing was incrementing some values in RAM so I could earn the privilege of playing another level that was, more or less, the exact same thing. Repeat cycle.
I also started to become really disgusted with the "gaming community" online. Too many rude, racist, filthy mouthed, obsessive compulsive basement dwellers. These really aren't the type of people I want to spend my free time with.
Occasionally a game comes out that I am interested in playing -- mostly because it has an interesting story and stylistic graphics -- but I don't really want to spend $400-$500+ to play a few games. It's just not worth it.
Personally I want to see more interactive story telling. I don't really care that much about the gameplay elements these days but i really do love the graphics and interactive nature of the medium. - glitchbit, on 10/27/2008, -0/+3I am guessing one person disagreed? Could have at least left me with a comment..
- staffell, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2Diablo 3 is at the top of my list, certainly.
- fuse13, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2Why do you feel the need to attack others while defending your own choice?
- HyperJack, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2Have to agree with you there. UT is the greatest game i have ever played. The good servers are still there though. UT3 is also good but its not as fast-paced as it could have been. Playing the original UT got your heart pumping as you sped around the map at ridiculous speeds. As the series went on, graphics got better but the whole UT experience went down hill. I can barely manage an hour on UT3 but used to sit there night after night playing all the custom maps on UT.
- patm1987, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2@GarmaZed and Nitesmoke: here are a nice list of (Good) originals that in some cases may surpass the sequels (depending on your tastes, my own tastes put them over my perceived values for Duke, D3, SC2, and Fallout3).
Originals Comming Up:
Left4Dead
Mirror's Edge
Braid (I'm a PC Gamer)
Tag (https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=1506 , it's still being worked on and the latest build is awesome)
Mirror's Edge
Recent Originals:
Multiwinia
World of Goo
The Wonderful End of the World (maybe just a Katamari clone but still fun on pc)
Dead Space - Rally603, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2I think gaming was better off when it was just for nerds.
- jr8rulz, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2that is the exact reason i only play with friends, and some people i have come to know on gaming podcast forums and we establish groud rules up front that if violated get that person tossed out of the action. Gears of War was a big game for that kind of crap, and i hosted and had a great time with little cheaters and teenage kids messing up my fun!
- Ismith988, on 10/27/2008, -0/+2TF2 is your solution
- fredJdukes, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2Technically, Snake is ***** Samus there.
- DirtyVicar, on 10/26/2008, -1/+3The reason I don't do MMORPG anymore is the complexity and massive time-sink aspect of it. A couple of years ago I was going to play Eve, and after an hour of learning, I was like "***** this" and cancelled.
- qwertydvorak, on 10/27/2008, -0/+2there are idiots on those games on pc, but at least there you have !votekick / !voteban to get rid of idiots and mic spammers. at the very least with tf2 you can mute individual players also.
- AllButOneDay, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2The day Facebook is integrated into Xbox Live is the day I quit being a gamer.
- Rosco, on 10/26/2008, -0/+2No, but I used to play Unreal Tournament, a lot. Then came UT2003, crap. Then UT2004, better but still nerf compared to UT. I tried the UT3 demo and all I though was more of the same UT2004. I recently reinstalled UT and browsed the servers, nothing but Sniper Only, Face Only and Bunny Hop crap. No more fun CTF servers with wild-assed maps.
I sadly uninstalled UT, for me the best damn MP game I ever played. I still play CoD:UO once in a while if I find a good Base Assault server, but those are thinning out as well. As far as I am concerned the fun is gone in MP games. -
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