LET'S AGREE TO DISAGREE...

[novasonic]

jetforcejiminy said:

Ezquimacore said:

novasonic said:
Atari by a long shot. Their business practices damn near erased the entire gaming industry from the face of the Earth. Constantly releasing broken clone after broken clone of the same 3 or 4 genres until customers just couldn't take it anymore. Frankly, I'm a little worried the same basic thing will happen with the PS4 and Xbone if they don't start getting some more unique games soon.

this sounds too familiar!

think about it. every game lately is some combination of gta 3 sandbox (gta iv, v, watch dogs, the crew)/call of duty 4 multiplayer-with-no-story (titanfall, ghosts, black ops i+ii, advanced warfare)/ac 2 map-clearing (ac unity, shadow of mordor)/es5 skyrim open-world rpg (witcher 3, dragon age inquisition)... it's disturbing.

better yet, each new iteration of the same old nothing comes with ever more win buttons, requiring essentially vegetative input from the "player" and no skill whatsoever. i mean, those assassin's creed acrobats who do all sorts of stuff after a single button press...

Essentially. An other point to add is that even in different games of the same genre, everyone is striving for the same atmosphere, the same controls, the same physics, etc. When a game comes out that does shake things up a bit, it's slammed by critics and gamers for not following the norm.

It's poison to the industry I say!