Romier S
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I'm not putting down rail shooters of 7 to 10 years ago. I'm putting down the fact that rail shooters (platformers, and sidescrollers) are even around anymore. They are very outdated and obsolete gaming concepts.
Now, today with better programming knowledge...more refined programming libraries and languages and the complete disappaerance of all of the hardware limitations that were imposed on developers back then, games like platformers, rail shooters, and side scrollers shouldn't even exist anymore.
Now, first and foremost let me go ahead and just remove the Panzer element here because the focus of these quotes is not to demonstrate someones dislike for Panzer or not. Its really a matter of getting to the bottom of what goes on in the minds of TODAYS gamers.
Or maybe I'm just what some would consider a gaming old fogie. Too nostalgiac and too stubborn to let go of the things that I grew up with. I can accept that. Maybe I'm even behind the times and again, thats something else that I can accept but whats written above is the kind of thing that truly makes me gag as a some one who has been holding a controller in my hand for 15+ years.
Ironically these views are comparable to one of our other favorite hobbies. Home Theater. How many have witnessed the posts/opinions of an individual here or maybe at another board that loves and cares about the alignment of his 5.1 setup, or the next piece of TV technology far more than the films and music that are supposed to be the driving force behind us purchasing these devices?
In the end I'm no one to judge either way (but I will), people will enjoy what they will enjoy and hell I spent a good long while in this thread arguing the very subject of technology.
When you stop to take a closer look though its really simple, the technology is a vehicle, its important as hell and there is no argument there, but games, man games are the gas! Without the games you'd be sitting in that vehicle watching the blue skies go by you with nothing to do and nowhere to go.