dragonalumni Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Stormcrown, I'm neither the 60 or 20, I'm near the 40. I'm on the fence I suppose (gawd). You picked a strange place to knock people older than yourself. Everything good thing that you see in games today is a result of "old people". The reason "young people" are not upper level management is because they still haven't mastered stuff like commas. Every generation has it's great minds and people who can achieve great things, but I doubt many kids today take time to get lost inside of books and pure imagination instead of just computers. When I was in middle school people we doing all this with dice, pen and paper. We had to read books about King Arther, Beowulf, Lord of the Rings and of course Drittz Du'Urden for inspiration. Sadly, I feel the opposite of you, games are less creative, less unique these years. They are 5th generation rehashes on something written long ago. Even if a great creative mind was unleashed on the world, they would end up working at a game studio where all they would be doing is fulfilling market demand statistics. Lastly I hate to burst your bubble, but I suggest you get familiar with the history of computer science before making up quotes, everything today, is a result of progress made in mathematics starting hundreds of years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science Edited January 9, 2012 by dragonalumni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddagg Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The tough thing about being young is that you can never taste the wisdom that comes with age and experience until you get there yourself. The tough thing about being senior is that you loose a lot of the outgoing enthusiasm and vibrancy you had when you were young. The young tend have a lot of ideas that are 'outside the box' (to use that phrase) and the box is very big but not as yet very well defined. The more senior still have many ideas that are outside the box but the box is much better defined and more focused, which in essence tends to make the box smaller - so our experience and accumulated wisdom over our years refines the way we think but also tends to restrict the areas in which we apply that thinking. I look at this game. I tend to agree that a good deal of the design would have been done by senior designers, however I do suspect that much of the content within the end result came from the younger generation in inspiration and talent. I might be well wrong here but the game has a feel of youthfulness with an experienced grip on the overall production - or maybe it is just the way I play it LOL It is difficult to make a game that is outside the box because the public may not accept it and that in turn runs risk of a financial failure. So it is inevitable that the same old 'shoot-em-up' or 'cut-em-to-bits' games will come in various forms of that concept over and over again. They are popular and it would be difficult to prove otherwise I am sure. At least with Bethesda's games you can add covertness, stealth, tactic, diplomacy etc into your game play as you see fit and that I think is what makes this game series good games to play. My 10cents worth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrown Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Lastly I hate to burst your bubble, but I suggest you get familiar with the history of computer science before making up quotes, everything today, is a result of progress made in mathematics starting hundreds of years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science You are entitled to your opinion, but you should at least read something carefully after insulting the reading comprehension abilities of my generation. "commercial computer" I am completely aware that computers were technically around long before 1968. Although what the "first computer" is, is a subjective matter.Unfortunately, this question has no easy answer because of all the different classifications and computers. Therefore, this document has been created with a listing of each of the first computers starting with the first automatic computing engines leading up to the computers of today. Keep in mind that early inventions such as the abacus, calculators, tablet machines, etc. are not accounted for in this document. It is my personal opinion that the "first computer" is the commercial computer, or "Mass Market" computer. When they were first widely available to the public. And I'm 19, but when I was in middle school/high school I was reading The Wheel of Time series. Which is like, 1000 page books. I read the entire series (That was released at the time) in one semester. Which was pretty good for a 6-7th grader. And then I re-read it. Just because the infotainment media tells you that my generation lacks social abilities doesn't mean its true. There are like a stereotypes about my generation that I laugh at, because they are quite simply things that older people tell themselves for comfort, I suppose. Also. Everything good thing that you see in games today is a result of "old people" games are less creative, less unique these years.Enough said, bro? And saying that games are less creative compared to "back then" is a subjective matter. I'm sure there are plenty of people who think the opposite. I'd advise you to not mix your subjective opinions with facts. P.S. When i reference my generation, I mean Generation Y Closed on account of pointless bickering. Take it somewhere else. - Vagrant0 Edited January 10, 2012 by Vagrant0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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