Soleron said:
Exactly this. By buying their games, we sent a message that we were OK with their direction. So we get more HD, more bloom, and more cover based near future shooters. The way to ensure the 9th gen offers something very different is to not buy into the 8th. |
The culmination of all this 7th gen nonsense came today when I watched a gameplay video from the upcoming Thief game... Technology could add so much depth to gameplay but instead they foucs on hand-holding and stupid gimmicks as selling points and spend entire budgets on particle effects while booting out every employee that could have written a single interesting piece of dialogue or plot.
The development now is grim indeed for my part, the worst danger signs I'm seeing is developers like Bioware starting to go for chest high walls and cover-based shooting and removing RPG elements (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) and strategy games getting rid of the need to employ actual strategy (Might & Magic Heroes VI springs to mind as a perfect example).
