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Stefan.De.Machtige said:
NKAJ said:
i think EA is improving,at least they made SOME original games e.g:mirros edge,dead space

Gamers say they want original IP's, but hardly support any new IP's. 

Yeah sad isnt it.



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bmmb1 said:

I like it how he didn't include the most obvious example, Dead Space Extraction, a game people REALLY didn't want as soon as they heard it was on rails (and said it very loudly). Probably because if he included that he would be detracting from what he considers one of the strongest cornerstones of the "3rd party core games don't sell on the Wii" argument. After all it has always a strong effect to say "look at dead space extraction - very good reviews yet only 9000 copies sold". So god forbid one should waste this in an "EA makes games people don't want" argument.

Seriously, this.  Patcher's cognitive dissonance constantly floors me.



NKAJ said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
NKAJ said:
i think EA is improving,at least they made SOME original games e.g:mirros edge,dead space

Gamers say they want original IP's, but hardly support any new IP's.

Yeah sad isnt it.

Yeah especially when someone agreeing with it has Modern Warfare, KZ2, MGS4, Ratchet, Resistance 2 and Uncharted 2 show in their collection ;)



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Zlejedi said:
NKAJ said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
NKAJ said:
i think EA is improving,at least they made SOME original games e.g:mirros edge,dead space

Gamers say they want original IP's, but hardly support any new IP's.

Yeah sad isnt it.

Yeah especially when someone agreeing with it has Modern Warfare, KZ2, MGS4, Ratchet, Resistance 2 and Uncharted 2 show in their collection ;)


hehe ...nah i would like if their was new shooter game for example  but i hate horror(too scared :O) and mirrors edge didnt look deep enough.However i dont really complain about new ip cos im happy with LBP :)



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"England expects that everyman will do his duty"

"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"

 

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richardhutnik said:
iLLmaticV3 said:
He's kind of right, I feel like the quality of EA games is dying, they used to one of the third party Publishers/Developers I bought games from the most. I don't even think I bought one EA game this gen...

No amount of quality will compensate for a type of game that people don't want to play.  Take Brutal Legend for example.  The game is high quality in what it does.  However, WHAT it did turned me off.  I do NOT want to do a rhythm mini-game in order to issue order to my troops in the game.  Can ANYONE here explain why doing this in an RTS part of a game is a great idea?  What does it add to the game, except annoyance when you are trying to fight a battle?  I don't see Patton or any other general playing a musical piece when ordering troops.

Well patapon wasn't that bad.



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When the bulk of your resources are allocated to a small set of genres where most of the games will be released to a small number of platforms you're setting yourself up for a fall when you make a mistake.



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NKAJ said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
NKAJ said:
i think EA is improving,at least they made SOME original games e.g:mirros edge,dead space

Gamers say they want original IP's, but hardly support any new IP's. 

Yeah sad isnt it.

There is very little originality about Dead Space, but Mirrors Edge gets them A- for trying.

Even Brutal Legend is pretty original.



Well they told UFC that the market for a UFC game wasn't there.. and look how that turned out.