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I agree, but I think it's more a case of "been there, done that". In other words, maybe you've outgrown games as a full time hobby?
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You may be right. I do still play the odd game here and there though, but yes I think it is once you have seen and played the original type of genre, playing sequels with pretty graphics just doesn't do it for you anymore. I am sure there are tons of teenagers and such that absolutely love the current games - but we can't really blame them, seeing that this is all new to them. Of course many will just give you a cold shoulder if you try tell them about older games and such.
The last fairly new game that I played and really enjoyed was The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker. I thought that game was so cute
good for kiddies and adults.
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This judgement on Starship Troopers immediately disqualified this guy's article in my opinion. The only thing brain-dead I can see here is a whining, immature, passive consumer who is not ready to apply some intellect to what he sees or plays.
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Zarkumo, seriously :bleh: , are you going to try tell me that Starship Troopers was a great movie? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed that movie, but the word cheesy comes to mind... It was one of those movies you had to see, but once you have seen it, you never want it mentioned around you again.
Zarkumo to dismiss his opinion just because he didn't agree with a movie you liked is a little silly.
You may disagree with him, but you cannot deny anything he has said with regards to the industry. You just need to look at stats and trends to see for yourself.
On average below:
1 - Which games get the highest reviews .... FPS = FACT
2 - Which sequels get the highest reviews ... FPS = FACT
3 - Which games drive the industry ... FPS = FACT
4 - Which games make you have to upgrade or buy a new machine ... FPS = FACT
Now I am being biased towards FPS here (no secret they are on average not near the top of my list of favourite genres), but facts are facts.
Something similar can be said with RTS games. Warcraft 1,2,3 .... Age of Empires 1,2,3... and so on. He is right with what he said, with regards to only a few genres.
He wasn't arguing that there is nothing good left to play, merely that there is only so much people can take with regards to the same stuff being churned out.
Look at all the sequels ... same old most of the time just prettier
Look at the the gameplay ... same old thing
I don't think he was saying there needs to be a completely new genre - merely that it needs to be refreshed.
Look at RTS games - they were all pretty much the same thing (I am generalizing now, which is a wrong thing to do, but on average) until they decided to bring hero type characters in games. Now its the norm to have hero type characters. After a while this will get stale and it won't seem like a big deal. The same thing applies for all genres.
Granted there is only so much you can do to bring originality in a game - but you can at least stop with the trashy torrent of sequels. How many more Dooms/Quakes/The Sims expansion packs do you need.
One very simply solution is to stop with all the sequels. That way you would be bring originality back into the industry, not wholescale, but a start.
Besides its a fact that many developers have said this before, that they would love to try new ideas, but it's too much of a risk. Simple as that. They themselves admitted they wanted to do something else, but making a sequel is the safest thing in their eyes.
Gaming is a business now - not much of an art any more - pretty much everything in the world is now a business.
If it means food on your plate and a roof over your head, we can't really blame them for taking the easy way out can we. We would most probably do the same thing anyway.