Yeah I'm glad they left that one till last - it'll be cool to wrap it all up by getting some backstory. I wonder will we finally find out the meaning behind that mysterious Canyon Wreckage area...ChupathingyX said:
the #1 thing that you "worry" about in Gaming
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What worries me is the ever decreasing importance of the single player campaign. An immersive, detailed single player story is what makes the video game for me, without that, I don't like the game.
Online isn't an option since the entire area connection isn't any good and I live with 5 other people who all like to use the internet a lot. Poor connection just doesn't cover how hard it is to just stream a youtube video or look at emails at times.
Online isn't an option since the entire area connection isn't any good and I live with 5 other people who all like to use the internet a lot. Poor connection just doesn't cover how hard it is to just stream a youtube video or look at emails at times.
RPG's continually being turned into action games with less and less actual roleplaying. I honestly have no problem with games like Mass Effect, I enjoy them very much, but is it too much to ask for both kinds of games?
For me it's definitely the threat that multiplayer games vastly overtake the single player experience to the point where single-player games become a niche market in the industry.
For me, video games were among my very few true friends (sad but true), and I don't normally play online because I think people are dicks (present company excepted), so I'd hate to be forced to interact with them.
For me, video games were among my very few true friends (sad but true), and I don't normally play online because I think people are dicks (present company excepted), so I'd hate to be forced to interact with them.
I preferred the world in Fallout 3. The down-trodden, oppresive feeling that the New Vegas world just couldn't capture. The story was rather far-fetched but New Vegas' one was still pretty weird.ChupathingyX said:
People complaining about single player disappearing. It's more accurate to say that the SP/MP balance is shifting as online multiplayer gets more and more popular. There are still plenty of SP games out there that'll stay that way, and there will always be a market for single player stuff. Skyrim, Arkham City, Deus Ex... They're some (very) big-name single player games coming out this year. It's mostly the shooter genre leaning away from single player modes. That's been happening since Unreal Tournament.
The insistence of self-proclaimed gamers that no-one innovates any more, then outrage whenever anyone does try anything new. In the current market, that new thing tends to be multiplayer, or new ideas attempted experimentally as optional DLC.
But there was a total shitstorm of rage when Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was confirmed to have multiplayer; a completely different multiplayer to anything else on the market, some actual innovative thinking.
The community. Not just the 8-12 year olds screaming a selection of curses and racial slurs they shouldn't know at that age down the microphone, but also the elitist self-entitled douchebags who consistently lament the current state of gaming just because CoD's kinda popular. This group then goes on to complain about the amount of similar games constantly flooding the market, seemingly oblivious to the number of superhero films that appeared when Spiderman was a success, or the rash of conspiracy theory novels that popped up post-Da Vinci Code.
Video games are now mainstream. To compare this to another form of media that experienced this change, this means there will be more mindless action films in the future. Many of them will be fun, if not particularly engaging. However, there will also be more of the artsy emotional films, the niche stuff, the ambitious masterpieces made on a shoestring budget. Sure, there will be fewer of them as a percentage, but more as an actual number. Now, replace the word film with game in the above paragraph, and you see the industry's near future. Get used to it.
The insistence of self-proclaimed gamers that no-one innovates any more, then outrage whenever anyone does try anything new. In the current market, that new thing tends to be multiplayer, or new ideas attempted experimentally as optional DLC.
But there was a total shitstorm of rage when Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was confirmed to have multiplayer; a completely different multiplayer to anything else on the market, some actual innovative thinking.
The community. Not just the 8-12 year olds screaming a selection of curses and racial slurs they shouldn't know at that age down the microphone, but also the elitist self-entitled douchebags who consistently lament the current state of gaming just because CoD's kinda popular. This group then goes on to complain about the amount of similar games constantly flooding the market, seemingly oblivious to the number of superhero films that appeared when Spiderman was a success, or the rash of conspiracy theory novels that popped up post-Da Vinci Code.
Video games are now mainstream. To compare this to another form of media that experienced this change, this means there will be more mindless action films in the future. Many of them will be fun, if not particularly engaging. However, there will also be more of the artsy emotional films, the niche stuff, the ambitious masterpieces made on a shoestring budget. Sure, there will be fewer of them as a percentage, but more as an actual number. Now, replace the word film with game in the above paragraph, and you see the industry's near future. Get used to it.
So yeah, I agree with this guyStall said:
I'm worried that the fanbase may become overly hostile and create a schism. core gamers could in theory make trouble for casual gamers and cause a rupture that could collapse the whole industry. I'm also worried about people who treat making games the same way that they treat making shoes, as an assembly line and not as a work of art.
New Vegas wasn't trying to capture the feel of Fallout 3, it was trying to create a world where power hungry individuals forge armies out of ideals to take over a shining beacon of hope and power in a post-apocalyptic society.GamerAddict7796 said:
I agreeGamerAddict7796 said:
I mean in FO3 when somone said they were starving/desperate I BELVIED them
in NV I was like "naahhhhh I just stumbled out of a coma yet I already have alot of caps...youre just lazy!"
I had it in harcore mode which didnt make it much harder, and I had ALOT morecaps pretty early in the game
also I dont get why people think FO3 wasnt "funny" enough...NV wasnt THAT much more funny
I actually emailed the Extra Credits guys about this, but it goes without saying that they haven't gotten back to me yet.
I've been a hobbyist developer for about 15 years now (I'm 25) and quite frankly, over the past few months (basically ever since I've started going to school for game development) I've become terrified that my efforts in learning to develop games will be all for moot. It seems that just about every game mechanic there is to create has already been done. And done very well. So where does that leave me? Writing the tools to enable it's use? Done. Porting it to another platform? Done. And boring.
What's an aspiring game developer to do? Granted, I only got into game development because I know that in order to create performant(sp?) games you have to be intimately familiar with your platform and you language and I plan on taking that to the world of business applications, but after actually making some games for a while, I actually want to try doing it for a living. I want to facilitate the creation of those experiences you guys talk about so often.
My fear is that I don't know if there is any hope for someone wanting to not *design* the games of tomorrow, but create the engines behind them? Are there really areas of the code side of things that have yet to be tapped into? I don't know. But I'm not in the games industry. Yet.
I've been a hobbyist developer for about 15 years now (I'm 25) and quite frankly, over the past few months (basically ever since I've started going to school for game development) I've become terrified that my efforts in learning to develop games will be all for moot. It seems that just about every game mechanic there is to create has already been done. And done very well. So where does that leave me? Writing the tools to enable it's use? Done. Porting it to another platform? Done. And boring.
What's an aspiring game developer to do? Granted, I only got into game development because I know that in order to create performant(sp?) games you have to be intimately familiar with your platform and you language and I plan on taking that to the world of business applications, but after actually making some games for a while, I actually want to try doing it for a living. I want to facilitate the creation of those experiences you guys talk about so often.
My fear is that I don't know if there is any hope for someone wanting to not *design* the games of tomorrow, but create the engines behind them? Are there really areas of the code side of things that have yet to be tapped into? I don't know. But I'm not in the games industry. Yet.
1. 3D gaming: I have no idea if this is actually something gaming will explore beyond the 3DS (assuming the huge price cut means it was a fail), but I seriously hope not. 3D makes me very sick to watch and if gaming converts to it, I will have to stop gaming 
2. Real life money for in-game items: I think that if you want the really cool mounts and pets, you should have to grind out achievements and miserable quest lines. I find nothing exciting or rewarding about getting the new gear or whatever by shucking out 10 bucks from your wallet.
2. Real life money for in-game items: I think that if you want the really cool mounts and pets, you should have to grind out achievements and miserable quest lines. I find nothing exciting or rewarding about getting the new gear or whatever by shucking out 10 bucks from your wallet.
Too many to list.
Digital distribution would be number 1 far and away. There are so many negative consequences that stem from that one precedent.
The closest second would be DRM schemes because they are absolutely useless (not pointless) and these DRMs are opening other doors each time a new precedent is created.
Lastly the constant monetization of gaming. Between DLCs and vanity items the players get nickled and dimed to death.
Digital distribution would be number 1 far and away. There are so many negative consequences that stem from that one precedent.
The closest second would be DRM schemes because they are absolutely useless (not pointless) and these DRMs are opening other doors each time a new precedent is created.
Lastly the constant monetization of gaming. Between DLCs and vanity items the players get nickled and dimed to death.
