[Lethal Seraphim]

LocoColt, I hear you big daddy. I enjoyed Fable immensely when I played it through for the first time(I rented it). However, I too was disappointed by the overall shortness of the game. I figured it would be some intense game that you could spend hours and hours on doing absolutely nothing, so in depth that you could act out the most mundane tasks. I expected reactions to my choice of boxer shorts and whether or not I paid cash or credit. All these are valid choices but WHERE WERE MY CONSEQUENCES???? Ok so maybe I'm trying a bit hard to be funny...

Anyway, it let me down hard. I though there would be a lot more game than was there. Maybe I'd like to play it through again and be evil, since I was good the first time, but other than that... meh.... ya know? A friend of mine loads his up and starts to play it again and show his stuff to me talking about how he owns all of this town and has this many wives and all that and I'm like wow but that's just no fun at all.

Sorry to digress there...

I'm with valentine89 a lot on this matter though, I prefer older games any day. The last game I purchased was the Megaman X collection so that I could play all the old ones. Every now and then I run into a really fun new game, but I just find it hard to spot them.

Speaking of recent disappointments.... I recently rented and played Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Now, I've never been a big Castlevania fan, and the only other game I'd played was Lament of Innocence(which I loved, although a lot of people tell me they disliked it), but I thought I'd try this one out as well. The gameplay was mediocre and monotonous, with most of the focus put on leveling your summons differently, which I simply have no patience for. It was a good game, but not a great game, ya know? Kind of just riding on the franchise's previous successes.

And a more recent one: Last night me and 2 friends played Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer(not necessarily new, but dont we love games with like 3 titles?) for the Xbox. Now I've played a couple of the Hunter games and they're great fun in the way of hack and slash in my opinion, so naturally I enjoyed this one. However, the final boss was the easiest boss of the game. Not one of us died fighting him. We died the most fighting the first boss and it wasn't because we'd gotten a lot stronger since... So in a way it was kind of a cop out and a waste of about 4 hours of my life if I was playing for the satisfaction of beating a good game, which I was.

Point of my post is this: I am getting less and less of what I want out of newer games these days. (reference to my posts in Halo and Halo 2 in the gaming section) I've found that while some are good their replay values aren't as high as a lot of older games. Maybe that's because it was the era I grew up in though, ya know?