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• 12Nov 09

  What is with all of the freakin' SEQUELS?

  HONEST

  TO

  FREAKIN

  GOD.

  WHY must we have ONLY sequels be coming out this holiday season? I'm sick of all of these! Let's look at the list, shall we?

  SEQUELS DUE OUT NOV. 09- FEB. 10

  Assasin's Creed 2

  Modern Warfare 2 (Released)

  Bioshock 2

  Mass Effect 2

  Lego: Rock Band(Released)

  Guitar Hero: Van Halen

  Left 4 Dead 2

  Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

  BILLIONS OF UBISOFT SPIN-OFFS

  Rabbids Go Home

  ---AND THERE'S STILL MORE! But of course I'm not going to list them all, it might take you an hour to read them. We have very few new IPs coming out, and while some of these sequels are actually going to be good, some are going to be the same ol' song and dance. EXAMPLE: CODMW2, L4D2, Assasin's Creed 2, RE: The Darkside Chronicles....the list goes on...

  Developers are getting more and more lazy, their putting minimum effort into their sequels and slapping a number on them. They put a $50-$60 price tag on it and BAM! You've been ripped off. Honestly. Take Madden for example. EA just puts some shiny new paint on it, adds or omits a mode, or sometimes adds an omitted mode, and puts it out as a new game.

  ...Honestly. Is that necessary? Do gamers REALLY have to buy the SAME game every year? Think about it. Buy every madden game for 5 years the day it's released and you have just spent $300 dollars on the same game. Three. Hundred. Dollars.

  Why is this so rediculous? Because it's becoming a PATTERN people. Think about it this way, there are two cliffs, on is ten feet high with $1,000 dollars on the bottom, and one is 50 feet high with $50,000 dollars on the bottom. It's obvious which cliff people would jump off of, because people prefer less risk and will deal with the lesser income. Even though with greater risk comes larger income.

  I'm afraid the gaming world is in for a shock when we hit Left 4 Dead X and Guitar Hero: Bob Dylan.

  I really hope I'm wrong.

  • Posted Nov 12, 2009 6:19 pm PT
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• 15Oct 09

  My next gaming system will be...

  So, my birthday is coming up really fast (Halloween is the day I turn 16!) and my party is a week from Saturday. I am expecting a bit of a large cash flow, so I was pondering what to get. Then it hit me.

  A PSP 3000 FF: Dissidia pack.

  It's only $30 more than a regular PSP, and it includes the Advent Children movie! It's also a PSP 3000, so we know that's a good thing

  But...I don't know what else to get. The selling factor here for me was the announcement of the marvel comics download store and over 100 new DL games...oh, and STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT ELITE SQUADRON!!

  So, I have a couple games on my list, but they're mostly *gulp* shooters, can some of you reccomend a few RPGs and such, I wouldn't mind a puzzle game or two, either.

  I do know about KH: BBS, thank you, in fact, a plot twist in KH: 358/2 days made me want to get BBS.

  So, yes, please, reccomend!

  • Posted Oct 15, 2009 6:41 pm PT
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• 12Oct 09

  Are we heading into a second "Golden Age of Gaming"?

  Ha, I didn't even blog about what new games I got. You know I must be busy. Oh well.

  So, without further ado...

  For those of you who know your video game history, the "Golden Age" of video games was when the Atari 3000 and Intellivision consoles were released and became a common household item, much like the Wii is today. Families were getting more and more into the video game industry, and they became a big hit. This is how video games as an entertainment item really got off the ground. Now, since every other family had a video game system, they need games to play it, right? This became a problem for the industry.

  It wasn't that the video game industry couldn't come out with games quick enough or they were too expensive, on the contrary, video games were relatively easy to make, and could be sold for a low price to make a lot of profit. This is where the problem came from. Since so many people had a gaming console at their house, video games were a very easy way to make a profit. Everybody and their brother wanted to make a game, and with about a day's worth of research (or training) anybody could make a half-assed game and put out for retail.

  Now we have a problem. People didn't know the difference between a good and bad game, and when they went to the store to buy a game, they saw two things. The first was shelf with good games lined up on it for $40 each, but if they looked to their right, they saw a bin filled to the brim with games for $4 each. People didn't realize that these games were cheap because they sucked, so they bought those games instead of the $40 ones on the shelf that were ten times better than the crap they were buying.

  In turn, since people were buying bad games at low prices, developers of more expensive but better games went bankrupt and closed down. Soon, people finally realized that the more expensive games were better, but it was too late, all of those companies who poured time and love into their games were closed.

  Gaming started to die down, it was being seen as a "fad" and people thought they would never come back.

  Until, of course, Nintendo, a Japanese playing card company, decided in their final dying breath of bankruptcy to make a video game console. The NES, bundled with Super Mario Bros.

  The rest is, literally, history. Nintendo saved the day.

  Does anybody find it ironic that who was once the hero of the industry is now being seen as tthe enemy? Everybody and their grandmother has a Wii now, and they are looking for games to play. So, when they go to the store and see "Boom Blox" and "Carnival Games" and seen "Boom Blox" is more expensive, they're going to buy the latter.

  Developers are starting to see this opportunity at hand, so in turn they're putting out shovelware with a nice box and selling it off as a good game.

  I don't hate the Wii. I love the Wii. In fact, Nintendo holds the rights to produce my favorite gaming system, the DS.

  But, if history repeats itself...who will save the industry?

  • Posted Oct 12, 2009 10:12 am PT
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