DevilRising said: The problem is, that this is what the industry has become. The reason that CoD and Madden and Halo, and Assasin's Creed, etc. sell so well every year, is because we now live in the "GameStop era" of gaming, wherein there is a whole new generation of what I refer to as "GameStop kids", who are gamers that literally only seem to care about the "big blockbuster AAA titles" that come out, that GameStop urges them to pre-order, which they do, then beat it, play it online for awhile, and then trade it back in towards their next pre-order. This is a generation of gamer that doesn't seem to value building up game collections you can be proud of. They don't seem to place high value on uniqueness, quirkiness, creativity, etc. in game design. They want the shiniest HD graphics possible, and they want the best online modes to play on XBL. That's basically what the issue many gamers have is. And I don't just say this making assumptions based on nothing. I've seen it, I know people that are like this personally. Buy a "AAA" game that everyone's talking about and is hyped up, play it, beat it, trade it in and never touch it again. And that's ALL they buy, Madden, CoD, Halo, Battlefield, AC, GTA, Saints Row, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, (now apparently) Elder Scrolls, etc. etc. etc.
The problem with these games, and why some refer to them as "dudebro" games, is because that's who they're aimed at, and that is their largest audience. These college age, "GameStop kids", as I said. It's a sad and unfortunate state of the industry, and quite frankly not sustainable. |
I really don't think that's a recent thing, or unique to gaming, or bad. People buy games that are hyped up? Well obviously. That's why they're hyped up. To really say that there's a stagnation in the industry when you've included five different genres of game in that list is a little bit ridiculous.
You're basically calling any non-Nintendo game that sells a dudebro game. What is remotely dudebro about Elder Scrolls or Uncharted or AC? Hell, even GTA doesn't really fit the pattern of "rehashed gameplay mixed in with some mindless violence and a generic action storyline" that really characterises dudebro games for me.