| LordTheNightKnight said: This has nothing to do with the game itself.* Also has nothing to do with the reviews (plenty have gone there already). It has to do with the cost. You cannot do a truly hardcore game with $100 million. You need some mainstream appeal. Fortunately, this series has it (I have all 5 of the PS2 GTA games). Yet what about others? If this expense trend continues, hardcore gamers will be in even worse shape than with the Wii around. On the contrary you can the MMORPG industry to cite an example , you just need to know where to invest the money. Why? Well hardcore gamers demand the most effort and production values, but of course that means the games cost more and more. That means the games need more mainstream appeal than hardcore appeal to ensure the costs will be made back. I'm guessing alot of the cost of GTA wasn't due to the quality of the game but the quality of the management and utilisation of the resources they had on offer to them , I'm pretty sure GTA IV of similar or equal quality could have been achieved with 25-40% less resources , I guess they just became lazier and more inefficient. Hardcore gamers is a very loose term. I know hardcore Age Of Empire gamers , it's not really the effort and production values *SNIP* ** Not that Nintendo would actually spend that much on a Mario game, but that it would be less of a risk than, say Fire Emblem (unless Nintendo was using most that $100 million for marketing). Throwing money at a game isn't simply about improving it's quality , granted there's things that you can't get without alot of money such as the technology , the employees etc etc but it can't buy you innovativness , originality etc. Spending 100 million on a pretty much restricted game ( set objectives , mission , times , storyline etc) would be pretty idiotic as you could pretty much make 4 mario games with that kind of money. GTA needs to be a much more open and deeper game than the average title. The developers aren't able to put as many restrictions on the gamer as you would do so in you Mario or Zelda games. |
