I agree on pricing. Wii (especially its controllers)is overpriced, PS3 is too expesnive for a game console, the 360 is relatively expensive + has extra costs, and it seems the best games coming out rely on the same gameplay as almost 10 years ago.
But we're also human beings. Beings that raise our standards too high and expect more and more with each gen. Eventually there is a breaking point. The problem is that ever since last-gen, gamers expect excellent graphics, and if the visuals are great or 'up-to-scratch' then the gameplay will follow and be awesome. What happened to "wow, I hope I can do 'such-and-such' in this level," or "imagine the addicitveness of this game!"? Stop being so demanding. It's because of your demand that we're getting sequel after sequel after sequel. And when do get what we want, we throw it back at their face saying "It's not as good as the original" or "where was THIS feature!!!???" or "Why are the graphics crap?" even though this gen has technically devliered better games than any other gen.
A huge problem I'm having with this gen is that games are becoming more like real life and less like games. One reason I prefer Excite Truck over Motorstorm is BECAUSE Excite Truck is more unrealistic. I want to catapult an entire vehicle like it's a piece of plastic into the great wall of China. I want to soarhundreds of metresthrough the air and deform the terrain beneath me BECAUSE there's no way I can do that in real life.
I blame the gamer who expects too much of this gen. Take a step back, realise how FUN the game is, and then see if this gen sucks.
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That's exactly what I'm complaining about, these games AREN'T fun. The games I listed none of them except a few were known for the graphics or tech, they were known for their gameplay and many are just flatout better then the games we get today. So no it has NOTHING to do with expectations.
What it has to do with is the sheer fact that we expect devs to live up for all the wrong reasons. Life-Life Like A.I., amazing physics, photorealisitic graphics, these things have NOTHING to do with the gameplay for the majority of the gaming genres. Do I need any of these things for an action-adventure game? adventure game? brawler? beat-em-up? platformer *advanced physics is something platformers shouldn't have*? The only genre that needs these things are 1 the shooter, which explains why there are so many. and not only that but gamers have slapped the devs in the face, who made the hardcore games the small developers. And how do we thank them for making these games? By buying multimillion dollar presentation built garbage by huge devs. that only care about profit instead of their games. And due to high dev. costs, small devs. are forced to go out of business or make some simple game on XBLA. Why do most gamers agree with this? Because they claim that these devs that create games just for the gamer are holding the industry back and that games that focus on making realistic looking environments are the wave of the future.That's why games suck the good devs get shuffled out and the focus of making games are all on presentation and none on substance or gameplay.
People shouldn't be talking about how high the production budget is for Too Human, they should talk about it's combat system.
People shouldn't be talking about Crysis's graphics, they should talk about how good it's level design is compared to Half-Life.
Expactations haven't raised they've lowered since nobody talks about gameplay anymore. I didn't remember people talking about whether or not they should put Capcom vs. SNK 2 online for the Dreamcast, I just heard how they should nail the controls down and have it play arcade perfect. Not so much today with the recently announced Soul Caliber IV, I have yet to hear someone mention it's combat system, all I hear is ONLINE ONLINE ONLINE GRAPHICS!
Gamers whine about how they wish there were original games like there use to, well where were you during the time when the devs made original games? Where you buying the original games? No you were buying some rehash or some stupid sequel.
Gamers whine about how Japanese devs. aren't as good as they use to be. Well when the Japanese core market crashed and the Japanese developer, the one who saved gaming and literally created hardcore console gaming, turned to us to keep it going and make profit what did we do? We brought Max Payne, Mech Assualt, or Dead to Rights instead, crud games built on presentation made by some talentless developers.
Gamers whine about how core gaming is getting dumbdowned recently. Well when Trokia made Vampires Blood of the Masquerade as the final testament of their work and there hopeful swan song did we buy it? No we brought Oblivion instead, because we all know how that game was solely made for the core gamer.
So you're right devs. aren't killing quality gaming, gamers are.
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