Anyone Else Tired of AAA "Series" Games?

All of these gaming conventions have the same thing. A huge company coming out from the curtains to reveal their newest project; but it's always the same, the next installment of insert watered-down serieshere.Aren't people tired of Call of Duty, Borderlands, Halo, and other huge franchises that seem to beat on a dead horse? I guess the number of sales say otherwise for these games, but I can't be the only one desiring more standalone and story-driven games, right?

I want these bigger companies to make different games. I'm tired of shooting people with different guns on different maps or experiencing a new character that I can only unlock in the next installment of Borderlands. Can't we have more games that aren't just successors to a previous franchise. Can't we have games that operate off of the player's emotions and not their wallets? I hope that these newer games that come out in 2015 will be good. I'm hoping the big AAA franchises don't blow everything out of the water and continue to bog down great developers and wonderful new games. Anyone else tired of AAA companies and their "Series" games?

With some series', yeah. With others I don't mind so much.

No not me, I still love them.

yeah ignore most of them

I agree. AAA games can go die in a hole for a while

No. As with any media industry there a necessary evil. It's our equivalent to Pop music and Hollywood movies. I will however agree that the games industry has too much reliance on said AAA, as I said, they are a necessary evil, they keep the industry making money which is needed for developers and publishers to be able to work on other, more risky titles, but there does appear to be less and less of that money going back into funding these new projects and IP's than ever before.

@spike6958: You're right, but I was more talking about how some companies (the ones that literally have money falling out of there ass) aren't putting any effort into their games. *cough* Activision *cough*. I understand what you're saying, having these games is a gateway to riskier ones, but the thing is that most of these companies aren't taking any risk at all. Which just results in the same game coming out every year.

Yes.

Yeah, but they give me something to b*tch about.

Yes.

I agree to an extent... That's why I really appreciated Ubisoft for making games like Valiant Hearts & Child of Light. For a big AAA studio, that's pretty encouraging.

However I still can't do without a few of my fav AAA titles.

why you want to be hipster mang? hipster bad

@Krelian-co: Hmm. I sometimes think when people bad-mouth hipsters, they are perhaps confusing them with metrosexuals. Let's observe why hipsters = okay and metrosexuals = d*uchebag.

Hipsters...

* Like bacon. * Reinvigorated Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. * Appreciate modern music and classic authors in some cases. * And their plaid and beards harken back to America's roots. * Oh, and they craft their own beer.

Metrosexuals...

* All drive the same car. (Audi.) * Hypersocial phone apps so they don't ever have to shut up. * Invented the $300 drink (bottleservice.) * Sport just enough stubble that they can shave it for their nursing gig on Sunday night. * Are always talking about someone's boat. *And their musical tastes range all the way from DJ Eric to DJ Gigi, both of whom they will let you know they are close personal friends with. * Lastly, they absolutely panic about who and who is not in the VIP section. * Just when I'm done I think of another one. They actually know what a Black Label Giovanni Versace is. * Gossip. * Hair-perms (on men!) It goes on and on.

So, in defense of the hipsters, I don't mind 'em.

So anyone that's not sheep, is automatically a 'hipster'. Interesting.

There certainly is an originality problem in the game industry right now. For that matter, also in Hollywood.

i ignore all fps AAA releases now a days. Some AAA releases are still good, but for the amount of money they put into these games its suprising how boring they are.

Some of the smaller developers do a better job because they care how their game turns out and aren't just trying to release a certain amount of games per year to make their shareholders happy. EA, Activision, Ubisoft etc, they have gotten so big they have to dish out tons of crap just to keep their profits increasing or they look bad to their investors... but to us gamers they look like asses to release half finished games or clones of games we've already played or DLC that should have been included in the original game to begin with.

Well, I still love and play these kind of games, but it would be nice to see something different. Games are a bit repetitive as far as big name titles are concerned now, but I still think that there are some great original games out there. It would be nice to see a bigger publisher do something new, but that is a rare thing for some companies. Innovation isn't dead, it's just a bit harder to find sometimes

Anyone else tired of whining gamers who sit around complaining instead of gaming? Listen if you don't like modern day gaming then become a developer, talk to a publisher and vote with your wallet. I understand many people who love gaming might not be happy with the direction it's headed and there's some disturbing trends that I see, but how much of us sitting around complaining about it is doing one ounce of good?

Many of these "AAA" are glorified updates to existing games. But a big reason for that is the game itself isn't what makes it "AAA". It's the fanbase, or to a larger extent the online communities. They're the one's pushing dollars.

You have to purchase this update to keep pace with the community. I mean face it, be it MW, Halo, CoD or Madden, what have you, without the community, those games wouldn't have nearly the sales potential that they do. Online play has drastically driven the direction of innovation or a lack thereof.

MMOs are kind of a counter-point example of the same principal. For instance the amount of different MMOs and the different evolving pay structures or F2P, all represent a crazy saturation in the marketplace of that genre. But for the most part, they are all exactly the same experience. Why else is WoW, a game that's been around for a decade now, still the leading MMO in the marketplace? The community.

A lot of industries struggle with innovation, because what works and drives dollars, is still working. To a lesser extent, there's a technology barrier that generally has to be seen in a longer scope than 'quarterly' or 'yearly', or even 'next gen'.

When some fully immersive VR becomes commonplace, you'll see the methodology of game concept, design and story telling will also change.

All media is like this, TV, cinema, animation, even the News. Without, we wouldn't have the perspective to cherish true diversity.

you dont buy other games...next