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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 20:25:39
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Might sound like a stupid question [yes, I just opened the door for a BIG mess of snarky comments, no worries ;-) ] but I'm not so sure.
This topic http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/435304.page got me thinking about it. I posted over there about a D&D group that broke up so that the members could play Everquest online with each other. However, I failed to mention that about six months later, they all got back together and started D&Ding with each other again, though they still played online games infrequently. Why? My thoughts:
1: Tabletop gaming gives you something that you can physically grasp and hold, and human beings like to be able to do that. If you don't believe this, take a 2 year old's teddy bear away some time, and watch the futile grasps and shrieks of "Mine! MINE!" Please also be prepared to do the rest of us a favor and pay for the kid's therapy in later years.
Now, I grant you that I was born in 1963, when the home computer was far in the future. Still, I wonder if this basic desire of man, to POSSESS physical STUFF will not always be with us, and affect our entertainment choices.
2: A real live GM can give you a lot more options than the finest AI and pre-programmed gaming software can achieve. With nothing more than a relatively simple set of rules and an imaginative group of players, you can do anything with roleplaying. WOW, on the other hand is, at some level, limited to waiting at the entrance areas and cracking people over the head to take their stuff. Yes, I grant that this is over-simplified, but an awful lot of it comes down to that. Even at the most sophisticated levels of diplomatic play, however, WOW becomes just sophisticated gang warfare.
A good rpg, otoh, can leave you never knowing what to expect, and literally anything is possible. Of course, there are not-so-good players and GMs, but that's part of being human.
3. Most important of all, however, is the fact that a tabletop rpg lets you sit down and have fun face to face with other humans. For me that is the deciding factor, and I hope it always will be. From the dim past our ancestors have congregated in groups, not just for mutual defense, but to enjoy themselves as well.
I have no doubt that, as long as we maintain our technological society, computer games will be with us, and that they can make valuable adjuncts to tabletop games, but I hope they will always be in second place, at least when the novelty wears off.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:23:32
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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You can play a tabletop RPG over something like Maptools. Thus meaning we can do our tabletop gaming online.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:30:29
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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[MOD]
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IMO one of the main draws of computer gaming is the capability to have an interactive experience without the requirement actually to interact with other people.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:31:48
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Fighter Pilot
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ZebioLizard2 wrote:You can play a tabletop RPG over something like Maptools. Thus meaning we can do our tabletop gaming online.
I guess...  and it certainly would be helpful if, for example, your best friend just joined the army and got posted to Korea, but is it as much fun as sitting with him and sharing a pizza?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:38:34
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
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Zinderneuf wrote:
I have no doubt that, as long as we maintain our technological society, computer games will be with us, and that they can make valuable adjuncts to tabletop games, but I hope they will always be in second place, at least when the novelty wears off.
Considering that videogames are bigger than tabletop games ever were, I'd call this viewpoint entirely shortsighted.
Tabeltop/P&P games and videogames have their own sets of hallmarks and advantages that set them apart. Your friends who came back to DnD after playing Everquest probably did because they tried to replace DnD with Everquest, when if they want to play DnD, they should have been playing DnD all along. If you were to find someone who played everquest who had no vested interest in DnD, and they were to move exclusively over to DnD, you'd find them wanting to go back to Everquest as well.
Tabletop gaming will continue to exist, but never to the level of public appeal that videogames have.
Furthermore, playing videogames does not mean you cannot interact socially with others. Playing a fighter or a game with splitscreen multiplayer in the same room as someone was great fun two decades ago, and is great fun now. It's the same kind of face-to-face interaction you'd get from DnD.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:43:36
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Since we've just hit the 4th decade of computerized gaming, I think it's safe to say the novelty's worn off by now.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 21:59:39
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
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I refuse to take this thread topic seriously. Are you really asking us if computer gaming is a passing fad?
It's been around for at least 3-4 decades. No, I don't think it's "just a fad", and I really don't see everyone getting bored with it and flocking back to tabletop RPGs and boardgames in a year or two.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 22:41:20
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
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Laughing Man wrote:Since we've just hit the 4th decade of computerized gaming, I think it's safe to say the novelty's worn off by now.
5th decade, actually. "Spacewar!" was made in 1962.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/10 23:46:14
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Sidstyler wrote:I refuse to take this thread topic seriously. Are you really asking us if computer gaming is a passing fad?
It's been around for at least 3-4 decades. No, I don't think it's "just a fad", and I really don't see everyone getting bored with it and flocking back to tabletop RPGs and boardgames in a year or two.
I was gonna write something, but just quoting this will get the point across.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 00:02:10
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 01:22:05
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
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Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play
lol, I like this brand of elitism. You try playing most online games with that mindset and see how long it takes before someone verbally hands your ass to you over a mic because you're playing like a fething moron and then come back and say "computer games require no thought".
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Desubot wrote:Why isnt Slut Wars: The Sexpocalypse a real game dammit.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 01:36:52
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
Well, these responses have forced me to reevaluate my position somewhat, but only somewhat.
Yes, I am sure sales of video games are larger by an order of magnitude, but when I'm talking about GAMERS, I guess I'm really talking about nutty folks like us who are willing to sit down with teeny tiny toy soldiers, and paint the damn things, read exhaustively over-written rulebooks, and then spend hours pushing them around a table, all in the name of what we call fun, and what ordinary humans would call torture.
But, certainly, not all video gamers are cut from that bolt of cloth. I'd guess that a very large percentage of these are not people who would be reading Osprey books or buying ooo paint brushes if there were no video games. Most such would be playing pinball or foos ball.
I guess I'm really asking about the nerdy, 'order of the stick' GAMER crowd, who have been drawn off by WOW.
That make any better sense?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 01:51:23
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Lit By the Flames of Prospero
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Zinderneuf wrote:Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
Well, these responses have forced me to reevaluate my position somewhat, but only somewhat.
Yes, I am sure sales of video games are larger by an order of magnitude, but when I'm talking about GAMERS, I guess I'm really talking about nutty folks like us who are willing to sit down with teeny tiny toy soldiers, and paint the damn things, read exhaustively over-written rulebooks, and then spend hours pushing them around a table, all in the name of what we call fun, and what ordinary humans would call torture.
But, certainly, not all video gamers are cut from that bolt of cloth. I'd guess that a very large percentage of these are not people who would be reading Osprey books or buying ooo paint brushes if there were no video games. Most such would be playing pinball or foos ball.
I guess I'm really asking about the nerdy, 'order of the stick' GAMER crowd, who have been drawn off by WOW.
That make any better sense?
Yea, im catching your drift now, i think people so into this hobby will always end up back at the table, speaking for myself, i play a few computer games, currently star wars, i used to play wow, and i find that when every game draws to an end, or loses its appeal, then i always end up back rolling dice and arguing about rules.
I agree with the people will always want to have physical goods too, you cant beat stuff, im still suckered in for the new minitures nowadays as i was twenty years ago and no computer game no matter how good will ever have the same long lasting appeal as actually collecting, modeling and painting an army, well for me anyway, and i suspect alot of people are like us.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 03:10:46
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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My thoughts as well. Cheers.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 03:43:25
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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I don't think that it is necessarily the "wave of the future" but I also don't think that computer gaming will be a "fad"...
I think that computerized gaming is riding a wave of "popularity" similar to a fad, but I think that it is fairly well rooted now, with the success of certain games, especially WoW.
Things like this, with certain successes may have a popularity level similar to a fad, but will eventually fade down to a more "normal" level, though they never truly go away. Things like baseball, boxing and other sports... fashion trends etc. all show high points and settle in to a "buzz" if you will (though, baseball may not be the best example)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 03:56:21
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Actually Dawn of War 1&2 drew me into the table top. And I now play SM, SW & Necrons and various online games as well.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 04:29:07
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Fighter Pilot
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Ensis Ferrae wrote:I don't think that it is necessarily the "wave of the future" but I also don't think that computer gaming will be a "fad"...
I think that computerized gaming is riding a wave of "popularity" similar to a fad, but I think that it is fairly well rooted now, with the success of certain games, especially WoW.
Things like this, with certain successes may have a popularity level similar to a fad, but will eventually fade down to a more "normal" level, though they never truly go away. Things like baseball, boxing and other sports... fashion trends etc. all show high points and settle in to a "buzz" if you will (though, baseball may not be the best example)
To the extent that computers become more and more a part of our daily lives, I would certainly agree with you.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 04:49:10
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Hacking Shang JÃ
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Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
You're joking, right?
Compare the sort of strategy and tactical thought that goes into Warhammer to the sort of strategy and tactical thought that goes into your average game of Rome: Total War and it's not the table top game that comes off as the game that removes your need to think. Warhammer and 40K are incredibly shallow as strategy games.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 06:34:45
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon
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Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
You're really going to do this?
Really?
I don't want to say 40k is a shallow, but it's hardly a deep game. There are plenty of computer games that require much more thought than a game like 40k.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 15:49:26
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions
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Fantasy demands more thinking than 40k as all armies are roughly balanced, same goes for some computer games. Granted there are those that remove all thought and others that you need to be brilliant to beat the computer at (chess)
I returned to the table after finishing Oblivion and the mods I added so yes, the tabletop is more long lasting fun, but computer games can give you a short gaming high like no tabletop can.
Think CoD...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 15:56:19
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Sergeant Major
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For me, computer gaming and tabletop gaming are two very different things. I enjoy playing tabletop games, and also playing video games. I don't think I would want to choose one over the other, or that either could replace the other.
I can't think of a computer game that could come close to offering the range of possibilities that a player has sitting around a table with a good RPG. I could see tabletop wargames translating better into a successful video game, but even then, a major part of the fun of miniature wargaming is collecting/assembling/painting the miniatures, and a video game could not replace that aspect of the hobby.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 18:40:56
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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Computer is a passing fad. I still have my hoola hoop and ball on a stick waiting for their comback..
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 18:49:56
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Fighter Pilot
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BuFFo wrote:Computer is a passing fad. I still have my hoola hoop and ball on a stick waiting for their comback..
Tomorrow.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/11 23:37:13
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Lit By the Flames of Prospero
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Fafnir wrote:Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
You're really going to do this?
Really?
I don't want to say 40k is a shallow, but it's hardly a deep game. There are plenty of computer games that require much more thought than a game like 40k.
I was not just refering just wargames on computers when i referred to computer games and i still stand by my statement.
I still think the majority of computer games on the whole require much less thought than the majority of wargames aye, apart from a few mmos, and srategy games (Which you can also just point and click if you dont even know what you are doing) most of the big selling games like wow, call of duty and battlefield require hand eye co-ordination at best, and basic computer knowledge, not even that if you are on a console.
Also i think 40k was a bit of a bad example, there are lots of different wargaming rulesets and not all are watered down as much as that one.
Theres also the imagination factor, when you play a computer game you need zero imagination nowadays as it basically draws and tells you everything, whereas with wargaming some imagination is almost necesary, as is a basic understanding of the rules and basic maths such as reading a table, you would be surprised how many youngsters nowadays do not want to do anything like this and the only thing they need to play a computer game is the correct equipment.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 00:04:41
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Rayvon wrote:Fafnir wrote:Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger. You're really going to do this? Really? I don't want to say 40k is a shallow, but it's hardly a deep game. There are plenty of computer games that require much more thought than a game like 40k. I was not just refering just wargames on computers when i referred to computer games and i still stand by my statement. I still think the majority of computer games on the whole require much less thought than the majority of wargames aye, apart from a few mmos, and srategy games (Which you can also just point and click if you dont even know what you are doing) most of the big selling games like wow, call of duty and battlefield require hand eye co-ordination at best, and basic computer knowledge, not even that if you are on a console. Also i think 40k was a bit of a bad example, there are lots of different wargaming rulesets and not all are watered down as much as that one. Theres also the imagination factor, when you play a computer game you need zero imagination nowadays as it basically draws and tells you everything, whereas with wargaming some imagination is almost necesary, as is a basic understanding of the rules and basic maths such as reading a table, you would be surprised how many youngsters nowadays do not want to do anything like this and the only thing they need to play a computer game is the correct equipment. Have you ever played or heard of any of the Total War games? If you try and point and click in those, you'll have your backside handed to you by the computer. There are many other games that require more advanced thinking, mostly in the RTS, TBS, and simulator genres. Edit: Though a lot of games don't require much thinking, your post comes off with an attitude of superiority and elitism . You should probably stop this insistance that computer games require no thinking before it turns into an argument, as you could be scene as insulting anyone who plays computer games.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 00:22:42
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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Computers ARE a fad.
Sometimes fads become mainstream and take over, though.
Remember when the cellphone was not common and only a$$hats had them?
[OK, bad example. A$$hats STILL have them, but so does everyone else and their dog.]
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 00:30:01
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Lit By the Flames of Prospero
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General Seric wrote:Rayvon wrote:Fafnir wrote:Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
You're really going to do this?
Really?
I don't want to say 40k is a shallow, but it's hardly a deep game. There are plenty of computer games that require much more thought than a game like 40k.
I was not just refering just wargames on computers when i referred to computer games and i still stand by my statement.
I still think the majority of computer games on the whole require much less thought than the majority of wargames aye, apart from a few mmos, and srategy games (Which you can also just point and click if you dont even know what you are doing) most of the big selling games like wow, call of duty and battlefield require hand eye co-ordination at best, and basic computer knowledge, not even that if you are on a console.
Also i think 40k was a bit of a bad example, there are lots of different wargaming rulesets and not all are watered down as much as that one.
Theres also the imagination factor, when you play a computer game you need zero imagination nowadays as it basically draws and tells you everything, whereas with wargaming some imagination is almost necesary, as is a basic understanding of the rules and basic maths such as reading a table, you would be surprised how many youngsters nowadays do not want to do anything like this and the only thing they need to play a computer game is the correct equipment.
Have you ever played or heard of any of the Total War games? If you try and point and click in those, you'll have your backside handed to you by the computer. There are many other games that require more advanced thinking, mostly in the RTS, TBS, and simulator genres.
Edit: Though a lot of games don't require much thinking, your post comes off with an attitude of . You should probably stop this insistance that computer games require no thinking before it turns into an argument, as you could be scene as insulting anyone who plays computer games.
What do yo you mean by coming off as having an atitude superiority and elitism ? That is not my aim, you totally missed the point.
I never anywhere insisted that computer games require no thinking as you claim, all i said was that the majoirity of games, the big sellers, wow, call of duty and battlfield do not require as much thought as playing a tabletop war game, and i still stand by that.
I play computer games alot myself, most of the big realeases, the games that make the most money are far from complicated, this is not to say that all of them are easy, i play Eve online for example, you need alot of thinking to get anywhere in that, as you do in quite a few games, but these strategy games and complicated mmos are no where near as popular as your big money fps games, and wow, which has become simpler with every major update since release.
Although im still pretty sure that most games (MOST is the key word here, not all ) require less thought than the average tabletop game, This argument was not even what the topic was about though, i got the wrong end of the stick, so i think we should get back on topic anyway.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 00:46:30
Subject: Re:Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Hauptmann
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Rayvon wrote:General Seric wrote:Rayvon wrote:Fafnir wrote:Rayvon wrote:Compter games will always be more popular becuase they removed the need to think in order to play most of them compared to a tabletop wargame, therefor imo the market for video games will always be much larger.
You're really going to do this?
Really?
I don't want to say 40k is a shallow, but it's hardly a deep game. There are plenty of computer games that require much more thought than a game like 40k.
I was not just refering just wargames on computers when i referred to computer games and i still stand by my statement.
I still think the majority of computer games on the whole require much less thought than the majority of wargames aye, apart from a few mmos, and srategy games (Which you can also just point and click if you dont even know what you are doing) most of the big selling games like wow, call of duty and battlefield require hand eye co-ordination at best, and basic computer knowledge, not even that if you are on a console.
Also i think 40k was a bit of a bad example, there are lots of different wargaming rulesets and not all are watered down as much as that one.
Theres also the imagination factor, when you play a computer game you need zero imagination nowadays as it basically draws and tells you everything, whereas with wargaming some imagination is almost necesary, as is a basic understanding of the rules and basic maths such as reading a table, you would be surprised how many youngsters nowadays do not want to do anything like this and the only thing they need to play a computer game is the correct equipment.
Have you ever played or heard of any of the Total War games? If you try and point and click in those, you'll have your backside handed to you by the computer. There are many other games that require more advanced thinking, mostly in the RTS, TBS, and simulator genres.
Edit: Though a lot of games don't require much thinking, your post comes off with an attitude of . You should probably stop this insistance that computer games require no thinking before it turns into an argument, as you could be scene as insulting anyone who plays computer games.
What do yo you mean by coming off as having an atitude superiority and elitism ? That is not my aim, you totally missed the point.
I never anywhere insisted that computer games require no thinking as you claim, all i said was that the majoirity of games, the big sellers, wow, call of duty and battlfield do not require as much thought as playing a tabletop war game, and i still stand by that.
I play computer games alot myself, most of the big realeases, the games that make the most money are far from complicated, this is not to say that all of them are easy, i play Eve online for example, you need alot of thinking to get anywhere in that, as you do in quite a few games, but these strategy games and complicated mmos are no where near as popular as your big money fps games, and wow, which has become simpler with every major update since release.
Although im still pretty sure that most games (MOST is the key word here, not all ) require less thought than the average tabletop game, This argument was not even what the topic was about though, i got the wrong end of the stick, so i think we should get back on topic anyway.
I was mainly stating that someone would likely come along and take insult to it, I have scene that happen in a lot of other topics and it doesn't end well. (usually with thread lock)
Back on topic, I do not think that computer gaming will replace tabletop gaming, as they are 2 seperate things. I play a lot of computer games, but none have replaced miniature wargaming for me, as I enjoy both separately.
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Italian Bersaglieri
German Heer Panzerkompanie
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 09:55:36
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Ghastly Grave Guard
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Video games will always be ahead of table top. For people who want instant gratification a video game gives you it while with tt its a lot of hours work for very little depending what system you play
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/03/12 12:37:35
Subject: Is computer gaming the wave of the future, or a fad?
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Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets
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My first console was a late 70's version of Pong. since then I've had various home computers & consoles. I've personally lost interest in computer gaming but from the look of the stores and consoles on the market computer gaming is still far from a fad.
Hoola-Hoops, they were a fad. Computer games, not even close.
Computer games really cannot be compared to table-top gaming. Industry wise computer gaming is much bigger business. It would be like comparing a car boot sale to Walmart. Enjoyment wise it's each to their own; I get little pleasure or gratification from computer games nowadays, I find them all boring to be perfectly honest. If I do play games they're usually retro ones like Pac-Man, Paperboy or Gauntlet.
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Apologies for talking positively about games I enjoy.
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