APB arcade review

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Here is a video of a teen, reviewing APB, the arcade game. He can't even make it through the first training course, and he just mummbles obsentities. He needs to just go back to Call of Duty and leave the classics alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2QTVkK8HQ&feature=related

Another review by a different teen. Is there something wrong with today's youth. This is the second kid now who also can't complete the training course in APB. Then he has the nerve to say is a bad game. WOW.
Another teen that needs to put down the classics and go back to the mindless game of Halo(talk about bad games).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9IXGPieCM&feature=related
 
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Along with the fact that dodgeball is outlawed, even dead last kids get trophies, etc. Even video games are made nowadays to where even the worst player can beat the entire game.

I remember as a kid that there were very, very few games I could actually beat. Now every game is meant to be played all the way thorough, with stupid side quests separating the great players from the crappy ones.

It's no wonder the kid sucked and quit after losing the training level.
 
Along with the fact that dodgeball is outlawed, even dead last kids get trophies, etc. Even video games are made nowadays to where even the worst player can beat the entire game.

I remember as a kid that there were very, very few games I could actually beat. Now every game is meant to be played all the way thorough, with stupid side quests separating the great players from the crappy ones.

It's no wonder the kid sucked and quit after losing the training level.

Yep , games today are made for morons who have no hand eye coordination . I'm so glad theres still old school gamers around .
 
Another teen that needs to put down the classics and go back to the mindless game of Halo(talk about bad games).

Nothing personal, but you sound like an uninformed dinosaur making a statement like that. Even though the FPS genre was getting pretty damn tired when it came out, Halo was indeed a great game.

To insinuate that video games stopped being good after the classic arcade era came to an end is just asinine. We're like 25 years past that point in time, and there are still high-quality games being produced; games that will be considered "classic" a few years down the road.

Example: Batman: Arkham Asylum. That game released a couple of weeks ago and it's just all kinds of badass.
 
I have two teenage nephews. One loves my arcade games, and always asks me about my games and what games I am getting. The other one, will argue until your blue in the face, xbox is the best gaming system ever made. He told me the gamepad is far superior to the joystick, and even to the mouse and keyboard. All I see with xbox games is eye candy, no substance. Xbox players wont talk about how great thier xbox games are, they just talk about how fast they can get to the end of the game, and beat the game. And once they label a game as "beaten" they don't ever want to play it again.
 
>yawn<

I've not been impressed by a modern game since Battlefield 1942...

Halo was the weaksauce...
 
Xbox players wont talk about how great thier xbox games are, they just talk about how fast they can get to the end of the game, and beat the game. And once they label a game as "beaten" they don't ever want to play it again.

Sure, you have games that are that way, but there also games so rich that they are deserving of repeated play-throughs.

And if you just need classic-style games devoid of any plotline or grand objectives, there are plenty of new and great titles available through Xbox Live. Off the top of my head, I can think of Geometry Wars (which would have made for one of the most popular vector games of all-time if it had been released "back in the day"), as well as Pac-Man Championship Edition -- which, for my money, is THE best version of Pac-Man to-date.

I've been gaming consistently since the dawn of the classic arcade era, and I'm glad that I've evolved with it. If I hadn't, I sure would have missed out on a ton of wonderful gaming experiences over the years.
 
Bah - none of the above is as bad as this:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60180

Soon, very soon, games won't require ANY input by the user - and we'll all be back to watching movies - just on our console gaming systems.

And the only people - young OR old - who think a gamepad is a superior interface to either joysticks (or custom controls built for specific games) or KB/mouse for FPS games is either talentless or ignorant.
 
Nothing personal, but you sound like an uninformed dinosaur making a statement like that. Even though the FPS genre was getting pretty damn tired when it came out, Halo was indeed a great game.

To insinuate that video games stopped being good after the classic arcade era came to an end is just asinine. We're like 25 years past that point in time, and there are still high-quality games being produced; games that will be considered "classic" a few years down the road.

Example: Batman: Arkham Asylum. That game released a couple of weeks ago and it's just all kinds of badass.

Halo was not a good game. It was just Microsoft making thier version or copy of Quake III from the PC. It has better graphics, yes, but substance no. Quake III sold far more copies than Halo ever did, and was also used as a benchmark for years to come. Xbox has nothing that is intuitive. Nintendo broke way more boundries than Xbox will ever do. Mario went from the arcade to home console and never loss the his stride. Platform games evolved from this, which then morphed into 3D platform games. And now Nintendo has the Wii, which allows way more interaction from the player. What does xbox have, Grand Theft Auto series. It broken ground with open playground, that gave the player more freedom. But I really have a hard time thinking that there will be many people who want to collect xbox games years from now, because they have no real staying power to them. The new batman game maybe great now, but 5 years from now will that game be played like it is now? Will it have the substance that will allow gamers to see past the aged graphics and play the game?

I have been gaming since Pacman, and gone from arcade to Home Console to the PC. So I have more than enough room to talk about the state of gaming today. And as a PC gamer, I am seeing the decline on good games on there also. Most games that come out on the PC are just console ports, you get a gem every so often, like Empire Total War, but PC gaming like the xbox is losing to eye candy over substance also.
 
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Bah - none of the above is as bad as this:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/60180

Soon, very soon, games won't require ANY input by the user - and we'll all be back to watching movies - just on our console gaming systems.

And the only people - young OR old - who think a gamepad is a superior interface to either joysticks (or custom controls built for specific games) or KB/mouse for FPS games is either talentless or ignorant.

HAHA that basically sums up the new generation of video games .
 
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