3D! MOTION SENSING! CASUALS! YEARLY SEQUELS! WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO!

[mike_intellivision]

chazy13 said:

Is anybody else think gaming has just became a complete train wreck recently

I remember the good days in the 90s when i personally thought gaming was at its peak!

now look at it! its one of my biggest hobbies and its a great media but truthfully, i beleive that in around 10 years all of gaming will just be causuals jumping around to play cooking mama 5 or some crap

anyone esle just think that its went totally downhill

My problems mainly are:                                                                           

Gaming has benn completely taken over by causual gamers and now lots of companies like MS are trying to get into the causal market nintendo has created but at the expense of bascially there entire lineup

Aswell, all companies are just out to get profit: puting online passes in games(EA sports), releasing unfinished games(Assassins creed 2),Making pre-owned buyers pay extra(mass effect 2), putting dlc on the disc(bioshock 2),releasing yearly sequels which start to ruin the series(NFS and call of duty) ect

And games are just getting worse: PEOPLE NOW TAKE A 6 HOUR CAMPAIN FOR GRANTED!, games are also starting to just focus soley on he multiplayer side of games and all the franchises that were started last gen and were successful are now being milked like guitar hero and call of duty

And my final complaint is just the lack of originality or new ips. I remeber in the 80s and 90s there was new ips being created all the time and now basically every game people are hyping are sequels. Even earlier this week ubisoft said it is going to stop making new ips for the rest of this gen which is just rubbish

Now i know no-one is going to read this and ppull out a magical wand and improve the gaming industry in a flash but i'm just wondering what people thought of the curent gaming industry and what they think of it as compared to previous gens especially the the ps1 era

 

Companies are out to make money or they don't survive.  Sequels sell and are generally low-risk and lower cost. That's why they are made. Ironically, those casuals you decry may help change that -- the yearly sports sequels sell worse on the Wii than on other systems. (Maybe casuals aren't so stupid).

The 1980s and 1990s were also a more free-wheeling time. Licenses were non-exclusive (the NFL would let anyone who paid it make a game).  People were less likely to sue over IP issues (as past lawsuits had not been successful). It was also a less technologically advanced time -- no on-line play, no game updates, etc. -- so games had to have local multiplayer and actually work right out of the box.

 

Mike from Morgantown