The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010 :(
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I was thinking of buying a console a few years ago to expand my gaming horizons but thought, "I'd like to be ahead of times, I'll wait till the new gen comes out so I'll save my money" Fuck that shit,sticking to PC like glue.VegetaPrinceofSaiyans said:
Seriously. It's something new, and to call this "death" is just overboard.
From my experience, having to sit glued to the screen (with a controller) is getting old and clunky anyway. Not that it doesn't deserve to exist... These types of games are also fun. But for casual things, not so much.
From my experience, having to sit glued to the screen (with a controller) is getting old and clunky anyway. Not that it doesn't deserve to exist... These types of games are also fun. But for casual things, not so much.
Heh I didn't even notice, my internet is slowed down(yay 25g caps in Australia) so the wallpaper didn't really load all that long agosnowfox said:
Really? You'll still need to ,you know, be at the screen to interact let alone see what you're playing. Besides I wouldn't call using wireless controllers while sitting on a couch 2 metres away 'glued to the screen'. And for FPS' I literally cannot imagine such a small aspect ratio to be playable, if I were to enjoy FPS at 2 meters the same as 1 foot away from the screen I'd need a 2x2m screen/holoprojecter. Ofcourse that's for PC's were you can interact with your game world more instead of having everything handed to you on a platter.gl1koz3 said:
Exactly. Cracked is known for hyping known problems into apocalyptic proportions. Did you notice that they haven't mentioned anything about non-motion control oriented games? That's because there's nothing wrong with those.IamQ said:
This is the exact fear of motion crap that gets pt up every day here. Sony and Microsoft see how well the wii is doing, and they want a piece of the pie, so they make their own motion controls. It's no big deal, it just goes to show they care more about money than innovating and improving what wii has. They are corperations, and no matter what you may think, it's about money.
This just comes off as a "hardcore" gamer fearing the rise of "casuals", neglecting to realize that he himself was once one of the "casuals". Just check out game overthinker if you don't believe me.
An we have to remember, no matter how bad things look, there's a good game on the horizon. When people began to lose faith for the wii, Mario Galaxy came out. In 2007, When the PS3 was still in a pit, God of War 3 became clear to announce. There's always a good game coming
This just comes off as a "hardcore" gamer fearing the rise of "casuals", neglecting to realize that he himself was once one of the "casuals". Just check out game overthinker if you don't believe me.
An we have to remember, no matter how bad things look, there's a good game on the horizon. When people began to lose faith for the wii, Mario Galaxy came out. In 2007, When the PS3 was still in a pit, God of War 3 became clear to announce. There's always a good game coming
Yeah, the video game industry is finding out the hard way how much it sucks to depend on gimmicks to artificially inflate sales. Back in the good ol' days, electronics technology was increasing exponentially, and so they could release a new system every once in a while with noticeable improvements without driving their costs through the ceiling. Now that's no longer a viable business model.
Now the systems are still expensive 5 years after they came out, but the shiny newness is wearing off of them. People aren't excited just to get the newest game. Nintendo's motion controls provided a new gimmick that didn't drive costs through the roof, but its shinyness is wearing off, so Microsoft and Sony jumping on the bandwagon now is completely doomed to failure.
Oddly, and people around here aren't going to like me for saying this, but oddly, Nintendo is in the best position to take over the industry now. Despite the gimmicky controller Nintendo still has a reputation for making excellent games, plus they have a huge install base already, and with the lower graphical capability of their system development costs are lower, so it should be a fairly simple matter for them to transition to making good games. Sony and Microsoft are still suck with monstrous development costs even after the perpetual bubble finally bursts, and the industry won't be able to support them.
PC games won't come to the rescue unless they completely change, because they're far too obsessed with the expensive graphic whoring, and their ideas about piracy are completely insane. They're still making what amounts to a coordinated effort to kill themselves off.
The only thing that might give any of the other options a chance against Nintendo is small, cheap, downloadable games. But Nintendo has those too, so good luck.
Now the systems are still expensive 5 years after they came out, but the shiny newness is wearing off of them. People aren't excited just to get the newest game. Nintendo's motion controls provided a new gimmick that didn't drive costs through the roof, but its shinyness is wearing off, so Microsoft and Sony jumping on the bandwagon now is completely doomed to failure.
Oddly, and people around here aren't going to like me for saying this, but oddly, Nintendo is in the best position to take over the industry now. Despite the gimmicky controller Nintendo still has a reputation for making excellent games, plus they have a huge install base already, and with the lower graphical capability of their system development costs are lower, so it should be a fairly simple matter for them to transition to making good games. Sony and Microsoft are still suck with monstrous development costs even after the perpetual bubble finally bursts, and the industry won't be able to support them.
PC games won't come to the rescue unless they completely change, because they're far too obsessed with the expensive graphic whoring, and their ideas about piracy are completely insane. They're still making what amounts to a coordinated effort to kill themselves off.
The only thing that might give any of the other options a chance against Nintendo is small, cheap, downloadable games. But Nintendo has those too, so good luck.
Don't know why, but I feel the gaming industry has been dying from like 2007, when the Withcher and Mass Effect were the only 2 good things, worth 2 shits(and even now I don't consider them to be more than "a little above mediocre").
That came out all wrong... what I meant to say about ME and the Witcher, is that they tend to be too close to the uncanny valley, imo.
Edit: OT: Oh, yeah, E3! Not such a big fan of motion control, but I'm hoping for a miracle in the form of "The Last Guardian"*
*although I'm a PC exclusive gamer at the moment, I still hone for good games on consoles(maybe one day I'll save enough money to buy the hardware and all the cool games that run on them)
That came out all wrong... what I meant to say about ME and the Witcher, is that they tend to be too close to the uncanny valley, imo.
Edit: OT: Oh, yeah, E3! Not such a big fan of motion control, but I'm hoping for a miracle in the form of "The Last Guardian"*
*although I'm a PC exclusive gamer at the moment, I still hone for good games on consoles(maybe one day I'll save enough money to buy the hardware and all the cool games that run on them)
Good lord, I left the states for a week and everything's gone to hell. The article is right, however, in that people do get bored with the industry. I'm actually quite bored with gaming at the moment and its mostly because I look at my library of games and realize that I spend months waiting for games that aren't of the XPS genre. Why do I pick on the XPS, its because that's really all that seems to come out now-a-days. The industry has developed itself into a corner when it comes to creativity.
Where are my brethren that remember the days when we had good platformer games and action/adventure games. It's absolutely maddening to even think about how many games have left the care-free fun that used to be games. Hell I'd go so far as to say Nintendo is the only company to have stuck by what made gaming good. (despite my standing boycott against the Wii).
I had a phone call mid rant interrupt my train of thought so this is all you guys are going to get. ><
Where are my brethren that remember the days when we had good platformer games and action/adventure games. It's absolutely maddening to even think about how many games have left the care-free fun that used to be games. Hell I'd go so far as to say Nintendo is the only company to have stuck by what made gaming good. (despite my standing boycott against the Wii).
I had a phone call mid rant interrupt my train of thought so this is all you guys are going to get. ><