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daredevil.shark on 22 August 2014
POE said:

Support Nintendo then.


I was also thinking that way. Nintendo games more are fun and less competitive garbage. I am actually looking for Wii U price drop in my country.



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toot1231 on 22 August 2014

Micro transactions and day 1 DLC will be the leading cause of video game deaths.



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Conegamer on 22 August 2014
Smear-Gel said:
Video Games Crash of 2015. Calling it now.

Looking at all the games coming next year, I doubt it.

Soon enough though. Before 2020 almost certainly.



 

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POE on 22 August 2014
daredevil.shark said:
POE said:

Support Nintendo then.


I was also thinking that way. Nintendo games more are fun and less competitive garbage. I am actually looking for Wii U price drop in my country.


You will enjoy it a lot.



exdeath on 22 August 2014
exdeath said:

Activision, EA, Microsoft are the three main culprits. The maximum profits at all costs and appealing to the widest possible audience, buying out the competition, buying popular niche games and ruining them and squatting on the IP so nobody else can take the torch, subscription services, all these things spearheaded buy the evil 3.

And not just those three but it's infected everyone else. Everybody wants in on the Cod/halo/Madden casual pie now and it has all but destroyed other genres and franchises. Resident Evil and Final Fantasy I'm looking at you.

I too yearn for the SNES and PS1 era when games were about games and not about investors and unsustainble record breaking quarterly statements.

Square was doing perfectly fine. The SNES Chrono Trigger one of the most revered games of all time I don't think sold over 500k but Square did just fine.

What happened?  Why does a game have to break 6 million sales to be successful now?  Where is the money going?  Not the developers.

PS no nostalgia about it either.  Has nothing to do with growing up either.

Absolute gems that appear far too infrequently like Ni no Kuni and The Last Us and Xenoblade Chronicles constantly reaffirm that I haven't changed at all.  Games are indeed just too commercialized and shitty these days.



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Smear-Gel on 22 August 2014
Conegamer said:
Smear-Gel said:
Video Games Crash of 2015. Calling it now.

Looking at all the games coming next year, I doubt it.

Soon enough though. Before 2020 almost certainly.

Yep. If not a crash, a very big change at least. I just hope Ninty handhelds survive.



ICStats on 22 August 2014
Michael-5 said:

This is the case with everything, the millenial generation is ruining everything. Just stick to classics (I'm looking foward to playing my 90's collection - PS1/Saturn/N64/SNES, via retail disks).

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I feel the exact same way about cars. They became really fast and sexy up until 5 years ago, now the switch is more fuel efficient. The Corvette (sexy as it is) has electronic steering which completely ruins the drive. Same with the 911, any BMW, Mustangs....everything. Plus V8's are becoming extinct, hybrids are more and more common (and believe me, even with power they are shit to drive because the engine is always off and not ready to go), CVT transmissions, less and less cars being available with manual transmissions (Porsche and BMW might remove it all together soon as well), AWD becoming a commonplace.....

It's not as fun driving as it used to be. This is why my next car is going to be 10 years old, RWD and manual with no GPS.

Model S is fun to drive.

Heh, I like driving for fun too but driving 12,000 miles a year in smog and traffic jams isn't fun and costs a lot.  This is why people are getting hybrids / all electrics, and I can't wait for self driving cars for that slog.

I want to drive a fun car for fun, not for commute.



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foodfather on 22 August 2014

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.......... Problem Solved. 



Puppyroach on 22 August 2014

When I had my nephew on visit I saw how he has become as much of a video game nerd that I was growing up. He plays alot more on touch based devices and is very into the whole magical gaming sphere. Personally, I have started gaming more on my emulator, old Mega Drive games, and I love them. But I also realize that they aren´t as magical as they were when I grew up.

Personally, I have always blamed Sony because they commersialised video games in a way that hadn´t been done before. Nowadays, I understand that they actually saved the industry because it needed to grow.

You grow up, and the magic slowly fades away. The industry is less innocent today and we who grew up with it has seen it all happen. But much of the magic is still there for those who are younger.



PullusPardus on 22 August 2014
Smear-Gel said:
Video Games Crash of 2015. Calling it now.


Western developers yes. But not eastern, they still have integrity.