LetalisK said:
Edit2: Meh, I wouldn't feel right not answering the rest of your post.
Mario games are a stile but only Galaxy 2 and New Mario Bros Wii are copies.
Homefront, BC 2, Black Ops those are copies of Modern Warfare.
They have similar control structures, environments, color palettes, etc, but they are not copies. I'm beginning to doubt you've even played these games, which, really, if you did it would be very hypocritical for supporting an industry that makes the "garbage" you rage against. You'd be part of your problem.
I actually have a friend who's part of the problem and he basically forced me to play them all back to back. So I have played them all without buying any of them.
Read your own comment before you post it. What was the last innovative title that sold well.
Was it on the PS2? Was it Limbo? Did it come out in Japan? The majority of the gamer market resist innovation like the plague.
Or maybe they're looking for innovation that is actually fun instead of innovation for innovation's sake.
How would they know if they don't buy it?
Innovation doesn't sell so developers don't innovate. It's like the chicken or the egg puzzle.
Have you not read the news about Activision? Their business model for producing sequels is called "Hit it and quit it" They followed that up by saying that CoD is too popular to die out the same way that Guitar Hero did. They're cheating you and they're not even trying to hide it.
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So on what ever planet you live on the purpose of Homefront was to make people happy?
It wasn't to hitch a ride on the Modern Warfare gravy train?
Again, for the millionth time, if those games don't end up making enough people happy, they do not sell well enough. If they don't sell well enough, then their line is killed and the company moves on to something else(Guitar Hero, for example). The fact that games of a certain theme keep selling decently shows that enough people are enjoying them to continue production on them, for the time being.
Trust me, I would love to believe that, but Modern Warfare gets sales so that's what every developer and their dog is making. Then the people who buy it find out it's a worse version of Modern Warfare but they already payed for it.
If you added up all the points against the Modern Warfare clones it would definitely out way the good points, but people still buy it, no matter what it's called.
Mikeyfell said:
"False equivalency, try again." is a sentence fragment and it's spelled wrong. So you're dumb on top of being wrong.
You have granted me much laughter. Edit: Actually, you're right, it was a typo. Though, the fact that you use that and your insult in a desperate attempt to grasp at straws to try to appear correct just proves to me that you know you're wrong since you evidently have nothing better to say. I can see now that you are chained to a narcissistic sense of entitlement and any further discussion is pointless. I hope for your sake you free yourself one day and expand your considerations beyond just yourself. Other gamers do exist and the industry doesn't revolve around you or your minority opinion. I'll leave you to your futile raging while myself and the rest of the gamers go enjoy ourselves.
Edit: Oh no, I made another typo! What ever shall I do?
I love the Escapist.
It's trolls beat out the trolls on 4chan any day of the week.
They do this really fun thing where part of their argument is so FUCKING stupid, invalid, wrong and annoying that you just can't help but troll right back by pointing out their idiocy to them and/or throwing in an insult for good measure.
Then inevitably, when they re-quote you they'll snip out as much context as humanly possible so no third parties know what's going on. and they'll use some big words just to make them selves seem all edumicated.
Don't get discouraged I've done it too.
So yes perhaps comparing people who commit fraud to people who famously committed fraud on a massive scale may have been harsh. The comparison I was trying to make between the people who sell the same game over and over, and the people who artificially inflated the price of electricity is this: they both tried to make as much money as possible with out any empathy for the people they're getting it from.
So there was no "Grasping at straws" happening there. I did have something better to say (which was snipped from the comment).
