Sony studios:
Heavy Rain
Uncharted
Little big planet
Heavenly sword
Pixel Junk
Killzone
Resistance
Flow
Flower
Journey
Modnation racers
Last Guardian
etc.. etc...
Only 2 FPS franchises from sony..
| leo-j said: Sony studios: Heavy Rain Uncharted Little big planet Heavenly sword Pixel Junk Killzone Resistance Flow Flower Journey Modnation racers Last Guardian etc.. etc... Only 2 FPS franchises from sony.. |
good list. again it think if any company was innovative this gen it has to be sony. and again most of these games listed above come in a complete package.
Well I only agree with one part in that there seems to be less focus on new and innovative ideas and more focus on "safe" releases. Even the new ips seem to be just repackaging of other titles, or what I like to call same game new name titles. But I'd say a lot of this has to do with higher budgets and lack of consumer reception to unknown brands. Maybe newer brands should take on lower budgets and release at lower prices until they establish a brand name. Who knows.
As for the rest, you are pretty much arguing against the gaming industry itself. Entertainment as it may be, the main goal still is getting a profit. And everything you named you don't like them doing is essentially good business. If you want people to buy it new, give them a good reason to buy it new and not secondhand. Which in turn forces the secondhand dealers to cut better deals due to the lack of something. Could end up giving cheaper games to people who don't want those added functions such as online. And really trying to say that somehow in the past times were better, I severely doubt that. I mean gaming is so large right now, you generally are getting more releases in one year than over the entire course of a generation back in the older gens. And aside from maybe the earliest of gens where they only could make new and original ideas, creating long-lasting brands was generally what was done. Some like Nintendo and Square Enix still have those titles present til today and I doubt they or the gamers will come out and say that isn't a good thing. And sales would agree with that.
Personally I would say the path gaming is going down is probably a good one. The larger it gets, the more games release. The more mainstream it becomes the more sales it gets. More people in it means more opportunity for them to like games that you like. A game like Fallout or Elder Scrolls would never have sold as well as it did in the early 2000s which I would say is a good example of this. Maybe some titles will be lost in the mix as more developers want big hits and take out the cult hits, but that hasn't happened in gaming yet and I doubt it will in the near future. Enjoy the growth as it only benefits us.
Icyedge said:
As example, I didnt purchase dragon age DLCs because there already was on release date, WTF! But I did purchase DLC for other games like borderlands or little big planet. Maybe there was content left out of borderlands in order to sell them as DLC, I surely dont want to encourage that, but how am I suppose to know? |
I knew mentioning DLC was going to have it's arguments for and against, but I stated it anyways. 
I don't hate all DLC, just crap like extra characters, map packs, etc...
I like stuff like what we have seen in Oblivion, Fallout 3, Dragon Age (Awakening Expansion) and LBP water DLC. They actually add a lot of value to the games that they didn't have before.
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| Euphoria14 said: We can only blame ourselves for multiple sequels since we keep buying them. We can only blame ourselves for DLC since we keep buying them. We can only blame ourselves for Online passes when we keep paying for online.
Almost everything you mentioned isn't only to be blamed on these companies, but more so on ourselves as gamers for allowing them to do these things and not voting against it with our wallets. We are going to end up in an age where renting games from services like GamFly will be useless since renting a title effectively shuts down half of it's features, mainly online play. Blame yourself. |
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| Resident_Hazard said: I think you have a point that people (gamers) are much too whiny about "short" games these days. $60 for a 6-hour campaign isn't a bad deal when you think about the following two ways: Back in the 80's and 90's, we paid $50 for a game that could be finished in 20 minutes (like Contra). I'm not quite as offended by a focus on multiplayer--I'm far more offended by the growing lack of off-line co-op gameplay. Maybe I want to play Transformers: War for Cybertron or Crackdown 2 with, you know, the person sitting in the room with me. Fucking stupid.
I think you're way off about "the casuals" taking over, though. Casuals joining gaming is good because it brings in more revenue and keeps the industry alive. There are still ooodles of "hardcore" games being made. Gamers are the ones to blame for sequelitis--they (we) are the ones that buy sequels in numbers that blow away new, original titles. Look at some of the worst Nintendo fans--some of these kids never ask for anything new, they ask for more games with Mario, Zelda, and Pokemon. For that matter, they never ask for new takes on games, just returns to "glory days" like yet another Donkey Kong Country. Nevermind that there hasn't really been an original Zelda title plot-wise since Majora's Mask. Hell, a remake of Ocarina of Time is actually being made, and I've still seen one (so far, only one, thankfully) lackwit Nintendo fan whose only hope for the successor to the Wii was to see an Ocarina of Time remake on the thing!*
*not this site. |
Sounds more like Final Fantasy fans with 7.
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| Euphoria14 said: I knew mentioning DLC was going to have it's arguments for and against, but I stated it anyways. I don't hate all DLC, just crap like extra characters, map packs, etc... I like stuff like what we have seen in Oblivion, Fallout 3, Dragon Age (Awakening Expansion) and LBP water DLC. They actually add a lot of value to the games that they didn't have before. |
Overall, im not particularly impressed by DLCs myself. But, in this case, I dont think consumers are to blame. After all, DLCs can give more value to consumers. Anyway im sure we both agree. Your point was that more often then not people complain of what they are supporting and I agree ; ).
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Mr Khan said:
Sounds more like Final Fantasy fans with 7. |
They're the same thing, really. I've typically clumped those fan___ groups in together--Ocarina of Time worshippers and Final Fantasy VII worshippers.
I never understood why anyone would want a title they so love to be remade. They're never going to be happy with the remake, it's never going to live up to their standards, and it's never going to evoke the same feelings it did back when it was first played and absorbed.
I'm perfectly happy with my day-one purchased gold cartridge Ocarina of Time on the N64, and I'll be perfectly happy with it when I don't buy it on the 3DS.
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