zgamer5 said:
damndl0ser said:
zgamer5 said:
Jadedx said:
This whole topic is ridiculous, and I notice that the only people who agree with this silly argument are the people with Sony Avys and Sigs.
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no its not, and most of those people witht he sony avys and sigs have a 360. what people are saying is that ms needs more 1st party studios which is true. yes they have fable gears and halo but you cant milk a franchise for 3 generations. i honestly dont know what more they can do with halo. if they do its going to become a cod and soon were going to be fighting mutent teddy bears.
with ms launching kinect, and with some of its 1st party studios making kinect games their resources for making hardcore new ips will be cut in half.
the op is ofcourse exagerating but wev seen with mass effect next with left 4 dead their are no such things as 3rd party exclusives. hence ms need more 1st party studios.
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Re-think what you just said, now that you have here is your answer. Yes you certainly can milk a franchise for even longer than that. Nintendo and Sony both do it, but I see what you mean there is a major difference here. Microsoft can't do it because most here don't like them.
Sony has milked a lot of its franchises, just off the top of my head here are a few that will be on PS4 almost for certain.
GT, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Socom, and I am certain I could go on.
Nintendo has even more, do I even need to list them? Lets just do a couple of the main ones just for fun. Zelda, Mario, Pokemon?
I am certainly not knocking either of these companies for doing sequals to our beloved franchises. And neither should you. I happen to love a lot of those games. So why can't Microsoft have a few too?
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true, most of those franchises are ruined for me because they milked them so much, i havent played a pokemon game, in ages, same thing with mario and zelda. i was mainly talking about halo,its true it could go on, but as a gamer i cant imagine what more they can do with it without it becoming ridiculous like call of duty. im not a halo fan, but il be sad if the franchise turns into a call of duty with people pulling a die hard and using kamikazi remote control cars. ofcourse im not a dev i dont have a wide imagination. same thing with socom they did so many games the only reason i might be interested in the next one is because of co-op.
franchises can go on forever, but the more they last the more damage they take. i dont know about you but i dont want to live the same experiences over and over again with minor changes.
mainly the point is everyone needs new ips.
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If its all about new ip's then I am certain Microsoft will do just fine next gen then. Because this gen MS has done relatively better than Sony when it comes to new IP's (IMHO). So this entire thread is useless if we take your example.
New Ip's are important but so are the franchises, and while I do agree that a franchise can be burnt out, I think it takes more than a game every 3 years to do it. Besides from what I have seen of Reach, its probably going to be better than Halo 2 and 3 so instead of getting worse like a lot of other franchises it is getting better.
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