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Originally posted by Doubler@Apr 30 2005, 01:55 PM
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Back and White was nothing more then the continuation of Populas by newer means.
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Hmm, I do believe Populous placed it's accents a bit differently...
At any rate Black & White was a lot more pacifistic.
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B&W 2 won't be though, which should mean it gets boring less quickly, which is nice.
The Picard, when you said "gaming is the largest entertainment industry" did you mean "fastest growing"? Surely TV and film (and publishing, I imagine) are much bigger than gaming even now? I'd put myself in your "well-educated intelligent people" category and I enjoy a bit of fast-paced FPS or some hacking and slashing every once in a while, and I thought HL2 was excellent, although perhaps not as innovative as the first one was (remember how dull FPSs were before HL?) - though I certainly tend to get more longevity out of strategy and adventure type games like Civilization (about which you're absolutely correct), Total Annihilation or Monkey Island.
I think it's a bit too easy to bash the sequel trend - people make money that way, it's the market. If people actually went out and bought the innovative and exciting games like MDK, Battlezone, Sacrifice, Darwinia, Republic: The Revolution (although to be fair that one wasn't as good as it should've been) and so on then more of them would be made - as pointed out before, the cost of making a game is so huge that you can't afford to do it unless the publisher think they're going to make money on it.