Well I guess the title says it all, I was just wondering who ya'll thought were the most active 'forumers' in this part of the AG forum. Opinions, that what this Forum is going to be, pure opinions, and yes you can say 'Me'.
i believe fluidity and seamless motion both fall under gameplay...
it's sad how today great games are so rare it's not funny. i believe the last good game i've played was kh2... a PS2 game... hopefully they keep making ps2 games because i don't want a ps3.
I'm actually one of those massive nerds that has the original Oregon Trail on my PC A throw back to my days in grade school. Except I don't have to deal with a box of the 5 1/4" floppy disks (and yes, for you kids that have never seen one, they really were floppy)
A lot of the older games are better than today's games, just because of the awesome gameplay. Now, games are really similar to each other, and none really stand out a whole lot.
Actually now that I think of it, I'd love to see a great studio, such as Bethesda or Rockstar, or someone with similar capabilities and ingenuity to take on Oregon Trail as a new game. Turn it into some sort of adventure/rpg game.
Yeah in the past people created games because they could and wanted to make good games. Now it's just a giant business and game developers are just trying to make as much money as humanly possible.
I agree with MRWalker... if some other game company took on Oregon Trail, and made it into an entirely new game, it would be amazing (as long as they redid it good).
If they redid it, and it was good, I would most likely buy it.
The main problem I'm seeing with a new Oregon Trail RPG is transportation speed. Games like GTA are fun because traveling is fun: high speed car chases, speeding through traffic, running over pedestrians... good times.
But a covered wagon is much, much slower. Especially the ones pulled by oxen, which were about as fast as walking (they averaged around ten miles per day).
Other games, such as Fallout 3, have successfully implemented slow speed transportation. But in most of these games, there is an option for instant (real time) travel. Furthermore, these maps are nowhere near as large as the Oregon trail.
Instant travel in the Oregon trail would kind of defeat the purpose. But could you imagine actually having to drive a wagon the whole way? Boring...
Besides having a ridiculously fast wagon, is there some other way around this I'm not seeing?
Graphics don't matter that much, as long as the gameplay is great, it's a very enjoyable game. Unless, of course, it's a sports game. Sports game graphics have to be state-of-the-art, because they have to look like you're watching it on television.
I hope they make surviving out on in the country, traveling along with a wagon, fun. Of course you can't have such ridiculously fast movement and we're talking about the 1800s here. You can't expect too much action.
