| d21lewis said: I'm scared shitless, too. My favorite genre is pretty much single player action adventures with high production values. Are they dying now? Both of these games are my cup of tea. They did everything right, didn't they? And yet nobody is buying them. Are we doomed to a future of rehashes and FPS's? Alan Wake suffered like this too and I love that game. Sucks that I'm in the minority. |
I counted four that made the 2010 yearly chart in North America: God of War III, God of War Collection, Assassin's Creed II and Darksiders (may get bumped off by year's end though).
As you know, God of War (if it wasn't for all the marketing hype, God of War would be just seen as yet another hack n slash with violence and sex. The Ninja Gaidens and Bayonettas are too Japanese and don't have the marketing budget so they don't sell as well) and Assassin's Creed have obscene marketing budgets. Darksiders is the only real triumph there.
Shocking that Alan Wake isn't even on there. I doubt Castlevania and Enslaved will make it. It seems like you need a big marketing budget or some luck (Darksiders) in order to get people to buy a single-player action-adventure.
And yet people wonder why games like No More Heroes and Madworld sold what they did on the Wii. Well duh. You take a genre that is dying, put out low production values, don't market the game and it's not a surprise what's going to happen.
