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Cracked: The 6 Most Ominous Trends in Video Games
Topic Started: Monday Jun 13 2011, 11:54 PM (201 Views)
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-ominous-trends-in-video-games/

In short, it's basically about how the game industry nowadays seems to be more content with profit than actual innovation and advancement as a medium. You know, the same sort of shit we bitch about on a regular basis here.

Also of note are one commenter's remarks:

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To everyone complaining about the article and mentioning different fps's and describing how the game play is different, nice way to miss the entire point of the article.

The point is not that the game play isn't different it's that the concepts are f**king identical. If the game play was exactly the same then the article would focus on that as well (and the industry would have f**king collapsed by now). The fact that you have mentioned the few games that are new and innovative doesn't change the fact that literally 80 percent of new games coming out are some form of fps. They are only some form of fps because of Halo and CoD. If Cod 4 and the Halo series didn't end up taking giant wheelbarrows full of cash to the bank and lets for the sake of argument, Fallout or Oblivion did, we would be seeing 80 percent of the industry release RPG games. I'm not saying that Fallout and Oblivion weren't successful, but I'm talking about if they were CoD successful.

It's the fact that the industry is literally running out of ideas and is only releasing s**t that they know the customer will buy. "Shooting games in a war setting do really well, lets pump that s**t out like it's f**king chocolates" Instead of "You know what guys, lets make a f**king sick flight simulator game and we'll just work our f**king asses off so people will enjoy our game" That is evidence enough that the industry is thinking of profit instead of "How can we develop a new experience that isn't simply 'look down site, aim, fire, run to next guy, repeat". You can argue that it's what the kinect and wii are trying to do and while it f**king awesome that they're trying to innovate the gaming experience, they need to try and innovate the came concept instead of just how you control the game.

It's not that we've reached critical mass where we can't get any new ideas (though we're getting close) it's that we're f**king lazy about it. The evidence is in the fact that the majority of new titles being released are sequels to s**t that has already sold well or carbon copies of other games that have sold well so that the industries don't have to expand upon anything new and can just pump s**t out without thinking or working for s**t. Black ops is a great example, it was basically MW2 with a barrel roll in a new setting that they chucked a 60 dollar price tag on. They added a few new features but not enough for me to accept it as a whole new f**king games worth of content, especially when they focused it around the online play and only released DLC's for the online features and not the single player campaign. Black ops was basically a f**king expansion pack for MW2 only it had the full price tag of a normal game. That s**t isn't cool.

The article basically is trying to show that the video game industry is turning from a creative medium of "how can we make this s**t better and make the best game we can possibly make" to a medium of "So, guys, how do we make as much money as we can as fast as we can without putting much effort into it at all?".

I personally, as a gamer, am getting sick of the half assed efforts being put into games by their companies and them expecting me to pay full price for it (as well as for the DLC s**t they add which they make you buy). I find that a lot more insulting that they are only slightly changing the game play within each game so you can actually distinguish between the two games.

There are obviously exceptions to this like bio shock ect. But for every exception there is 5 other games that are the exact same premise and plot. YOU CANNOT IGNORE THAT FACT. Yes there are mutliple genre's and people like to play fps games leading to a huge market. That's not the point, the point is the industry isn't doing anything to innovate it. For instance I like FPS games but I was so god damn tired of the CoD format by the time Black ops rolled around I didn't give a s**t anymore. I played it and instead of spending days and days playing that s**t like I did for MW (because that s**t was a whole new design and completely changed the fps genre as we know it, as did Halo 3 another game that consumed months of my life I will never get back. No regrets). I also love fighting games, but because that s**t isn't the thing making money right now the only ones being produced are shoddy half assed efforts like the new MvC game. It was good, don't get me wrong, but it could have been so much better, they left out so many features that they could have easily added if they had have just kept developing it for another few months instead of going "f**k it" and releasing it. The fighting game genre is actually going backwards in their design and content. There is a genre everyone loves that the industry could easily innovate on, i mean hell, when they added the 3D environment into the fighting maps it completely revolutionized the genre, that was just making them be able to walk f**king side ways. Yet they won't, because the makers are too scared to take chances.

Figures that he instead gets a lot of "tl;dr" and "get a life" replies by people who apparently have ADHD or are advising the guy to get a life that they clearly don't have themselves.
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I added a quote from that article to my signature earlier in the day.
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David Wong has really good video game articles, but is also a douche.
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I read it last night. It was depressing.
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The whole bit about sequelism is something I really have noticed. Every big title is a sequel these days, especially Nintendo's big titles, but they've been doing that for 20 years now. Now that Activision, EA, and other big developers are riding the sequel train, every semi-successful game is given a sequel these days.
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for a second i thought you were theokhoth, nameless
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^Nintendo has brought more new IPs to the table in the last two generations than any other company. Nobody seems to want to give them credit for that just because they keep their old series running as well.

There is nothing inherently wrong with sequels, no matter what company they come from. The problem is when the sequel is the same fucking thing as the predecessor.
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Colorado Rockies: 75-87, missed playoffs
Colorado Avalanche: 11-18-1, next game 12/20 @ Minnesota Wild
Denver Nuggets: 12-16, next game 12/20 @ Los Angeles Clippers
Colorado Mammoth: first game 12/30 @ Buffalo Bandits
Denver Outlaws: defending champs, first game 4/22 @ Charlotte Hounds
Colorado State Rams football: 7-5, next game Idaho Bowl 12/22 vs Idaho Vandals
Colorado State Rams basketball: 8-4, next game 12/22 vs Long Beach State 49ers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 11-7, lost West Division Semifinal
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@Cube: Sequels in the console Mario series: Super Mario Bros. 2 (JP) and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Everything else is unique. I'd like to know what makes Yoshi's Island a "sequel" to Super Mario World. ICO is more of a sequel to Shadow of the Colossus than Yoshi's Island is to SMW.

Nintendo does successors/sequels right. They do something drastically different to change it all up, while still keeping the basic foundation solid. Even Twilight Princess isn't THAT similar to Ocarina. Just the artstyle.
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Yeah, Brad brings up a good point. Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pokemon, Metroid, etc are more "brands" than they are "series".

There are many different, unique series within the Mario brand. You've got 2D platformers, 3D platformers, racing games, baseball/golf/tennis/soccer/etc, party games, RPGs, music games, puzzle games...

That level of diversity is one of the reasons Mario has such longevity.
Denver Broncos: defending champs, 8-6, next game 12/25 @ Kansas City Chiefs
Colorado Rockies: 75-87, missed playoffs
Colorado Avalanche: 11-18-1, next game 12/20 @ Minnesota Wild
Denver Nuggets: 12-16, next game 12/20 @ Los Angeles Clippers
Colorado Mammoth: first game 12/30 @ Buffalo Bandits
Denver Outlaws: defending champs, first game 4/22 @ Charlotte Hounds
Colorado State Rams football: 7-5, next game Idaho Bowl 12/22 vs Idaho Vandals
Colorado State Rams basketball: 8-4, next game 12/22 vs Long Beach State 49ers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 11-7, lost West Division Semifinal
Denver Pioneers Lacrosse: first game 1/24 vs Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
#2 Denver Pioneers Hockey: 12-3-3, next game 12/30 @ Providence College Friars
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I think it is the main reason why the franchises have lasted as long as they have. I can almost guarantee that CoD is going to go the way of Guitar Hero as soon as Activision starts releasing these spinoff games.
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that dude was REALLY pissed off about the lack of a proper lightsaber game.
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whoozwah
Tuesday Jun 14 2011, 11:32 AM
that dude was REALLY pissed off about the lack of a proper lightsaber game.
The Wii version of Force Unleashed II was actually pretty good in that respect.

And it had like 2.5+ hours more content than the HD versions, which I believe is a first for Wii games.
Denver Broncos: defending champs, 8-6, next game 12/25 @ Kansas City Chiefs
Colorado Rockies: 75-87, missed playoffs
Colorado Avalanche: 11-18-1, next game 12/20 @ Minnesota Wild
Denver Nuggets: 12-16, next game 12/20 @ Los Angeles Clippers
Colorado Mammoth: first game 12/30 @ Buffalo Bandits
Denver Outlaws: defending champs, first game 4/22 @ Charlotte Hounds
Colorado State Rams football: 7-5, next game Idaho Bowl 12/22 vs Idaho Vandals
Colorado State Rams basketball: 8-4, next game 12/22 vs Long Beach State 49ers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 11-7, lost West Division Semifinal
Denver Pioneers Lacrosse: first game 1/24 vs Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
#2 Denver Pioneers Hockey: 12-3-3, next game 12/30 @ Providence College Friars
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that's interesting. Were they just extra missions not relevant to the story or what? BTW, I'm not a big Star Wars fan. I've seen the movies and thought they were okay.
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No, there are actual cutscenes and relevant gameplay sequences in the Wii version that the other versions do not have.

This is because with this game, development of the Wii and HD console versions took place simultaneously. The Wii development team basically mirrored the development of the HD versions, and when the HD team began dealing with porting and optimization the Wii team was already done and thus had time to add more content.

With most early Wii multiplatforms Wii consumers usually got the shaft in the form of an upscaled PS2 or PSP port, but with this one development was done from the ground up.
Denver Broncos: defending champs, 8-6, next game 12/25 @ Kansas City Chiefs
Colorado Rockies: 75-87, missed playoffs
Colorado Avalanche: 11-18-1, next game 12/20 @ Minnesota Wild
Denver Nuggets: 12-16, next game 12/20 @ Los Angeles Clippers
Colorado Mammoth: first game 12/30 @ Buffalo Bandits
Denver Outlaws: defending champs, first game 4/22 @ Charlotte Hounds
Colorado State Rams football: 7-5, next game Idaho Bowl 12/22 vs Idaho Vandals
Colorado State Rams basketball: 8-4, next game 12/22 vs Long Beach State 49ers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 11-7, lost West Division Semifinal
Denver Pioneers Lacrosse: first game 1/24 vs Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
#2 Denver Pioneers Hockey: 12-3-3, next game 12/30 @ Providence College Friars
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"Sequels are unfairly criticised. One regard is they're not original. You can do a lot of original things in a sequel as long as you're consistent and true to the universe that game comes up in. One of the great benefits of sequels is if enough people like the games you've been making and the universe they inhabit, they want to buy the next one. They weren't satisfying enough by it and wanted more of it. That means you've done something right. Why throw it all away and have to start all over every single time? Everything Mario started Donkey Kong. How many sequels would that even be? You're getting into high Roman numerals, like Ms or Us. Mario Kart, just because you're not calling it Donkey Kong 17, doesn't mean it still doesn't have Mario in it, right? The reason why Nintendo has been to a great extent inoculated from criticism along those regards is they execute very well in the games they make." - id CEO Todd Hollenshead
Denver Broncos: defending champs, 8-6, next game 12/25 @ Kansas City Chiefs
Colorado Rockies: 75-87, missed playoffs
Colorado Avalanche: 11-18-1, next game 12/20 @ Minnesota Wild
Denver Nuggets: 12-16, next game 12/20 @ Los Angeles Clippers
Colorado Mammoth: first game 12/30 @ Buffalo Bandits
Denver Outlaws: defending champs, first game 4/22 @ Charlotte Hounds
Colorado State Rams football: 7-5, next game Idaho Bowl 12/22 vs Idaho Vandals
Colorado State Rams basketball: 8-4, next game 12/22 vs Long Beach State 49ers
Winnipeg Blue Bombers: 11-7, lost West Division Semifinal
Denver Pioneers Lacrosse: first game 1/24 vs Johns Hopkins Blue Jays
#2 Denver Pioneers Hockey: 12-3-3, next game 12/30 @ Providence College Friars
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Tuesday Jun 14 2011, 10:45 AM
for a second i thought you were theokhoth, nameless
Who are you talking about there? That's not a name I recognize at all.

Anyway, good point on sequels. There are actually some games I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel to-for instance, Rocket Jockey, because it hasn't been followed up for a good 15 years and I feel it could be improved, such as having an arena editor, fixing the technical issues on modern computers, and online play (without removing LAN, mind you). Then there's the original Steel Battalion-no, Heavy Armor is too different to be a proper sequel. It's been many years, and I think the game can still be improved in several ways gameplay-wise without tainting the essence of what made it great.

But seeing a new fucking Call of Duty game every two or three years that hardly changes anything? That's milkage, plain and simple, just like sports games or fighting games (goddamn Capcom Sequel Stagnation).

And as you guys pointed out with Nintendo, they might be accused of whoring their franchises, but at least with Mario, they can still change up the gameplay enough to provide a fresh-yet-familiar experience. For Zelda, we've got Skyward Sword coming up, and it's finally going to realize what I've been waiting for in games with sword combat ever since Die By The Sword (in other words, making the direction of your swings actually mean something).
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Pokemans > some other thing that you ass ram
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Thursday Aug 18 2011, 07:18 PM
I'm not posting in this thread. This seems ass ram a scam.
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Hmm... I should download TFUII. Don't want to support Lucasarts, but I'd like to try the game.
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