krazykidd said:
There will be no nostalgia . This generation ( graphics asside) is the worst generation . We are going to forget it existed , save for a few titles such as DA:O , Dark/demons souls .
I like you, and for the most part I agree. I wasn't particularly fond of the last generation either, and if it wasn't for the PS2 and it's HUGE library of decent/great games, that gen would have been a failure as well (
lol at PS2s STILL selling today). I just wish the original Xbox and gamecube had a bigger selection of blockbusters.
Demon ID said:
You seem to have chosen a very limited spectrum of games, perhaps instead of 'we' you meant to put 'I'
No, I am with them to a degree. For people with gun fetishes this gen was probably a godsend, likewise for grandma and your little cousins with their wiis. But for people who liked everything inbetween -
the people the last gens were aimed at - we kind of got screwed this gen, at least if you're talking about games outside the indie scene. There were exceptions; games like Portal, LBP, etc., but nothing close to enough to make this gen feel
worth it. This was the gen of everything trying
not to be a video game, then touting thats a good thing because "
video games are stupid and we should be trying to achieve more cinematic experiences". This was the gen of the every-man protagonist where you play the same brown/black haired late twenties something in almost every single game. This was the gen where everything became Gears of War or Cod (R.I.P. Resident Evil/Dead Space). This was the gen of catastrophic hardware failures by design, because of cheap work and business ethics (RROD). This was the gen where a game publishing company showed it could be so anti-consumer it could be voted the worst company in America. This was the gen three of the greatest developers pulled a 180 and now only produce the poorest quality products: Capcom, Rare, Sega. This was the gen that Sony showed you could be as condescending as you want to your consumer base, even to the point of egging on that very consumer base to attack you through hacking; and that was after telling us all to get two jobs to afford their new console.
I could go on for a bit more, but I think that should be enough to convey the message. All that said, I hope (I really do) that the next gen will be much better. Nintendo found out the casual audience isn't sustainable, and the indi scene is about to become even more accessible for people to jump into and sell their games. If things like the Ouya succeed even a little, they will take some of the industry's profits and that should enrage a lot of publishers who think the CoD model is perfect. Maybe, just maybe we might see the frequency of great games we did in the SNES/PS1 era, once the industry decides they need to again start taking chances to also compete with the indie scene. Something is horribly wrong when the only thing to quench my gaming thirst
all year was a
furry game on XBL summer Arcade. I mean seriously, what the hell...