Man I hope they patch the online because it's def. not pretty.

3d is a joke and its not something that really changes a game, or how it plays, so why bother mentioning it?

dxmcat

Yes because team bondi and many other dev studos are not closing:roll: This industry is very destructive because there is no space for lower budget games beause companies are fighing for first place. Casual gamers just want high budget games that are dumbed down and hold your hand the entire time ("cinematic"), without realizing that not all devs can compite on the same equall field. Just look at the japanese industry; they have just a select few dev teams that can produce games for hd consoles, the rest moved to handheld gaming.

Everything get impacted from originality to heck the ability to make a game at all. So people that say there's nothing wrong with this industry are the ones that are dillusional. Ironic because people here always act like bussiness experts lol.

edo-tensei

Yes because video games studios have never closed down until this gen. Come on, video games is a very tuff field to get in and it's a lot of work, a lot of initial investment for one possibly big payday or let down. There have and will always be studios closing down or devs that don't make it.

As for budget, gamers could care less about how much a game cost the dev or publisher. All we want is a very fun game with polished gameplay that interests us. The problem is devs want a fast way to show off a game and instead of working on creative gameplay or unique stories they focus on making a game as pretty as possible so they can show it off at game showsor invideo game trailers. Games don't have to cost Billions of dollars to sell or look as real as possible but it's an easy bragging right devs want to try to use to sell their games, whether the quality is crap or not.

Gaming difficulty is also a different discussion. Games are becoming less and less cheap and with save states it makes games easier. I don't necessarily think they have completely dumbed them down, heck we are using more buttons and sticks then every before.

Honestly, and I know I'm in the minority here, but I think that internet forum culture will eventually bring this industry down to it's knees more so than piracy, casualization, or used games ever could.

Dennis Dyack had mentioned this a few years ago, and while the guy hasn't made a decent game since Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube, I think he made a very strong point. Things like fanboys, haters, trolls, the whole "9.0 or bust" mentality that plagues gaming forums these days are all bad for the industry. It has become less about the games themselves and more about hype and whether "game X" is better than "game Y."

The System Wars metagame is a familiar example of this. If a game doesn't meet a certain "hype" set by the community then that game has "flopped." All this ever does is snowball into negative discussions about a particular game that, while still scored well, is now viewed by the majority of the community as a failure.

Again, I know I'm probably alone in this but I just think it's something to look out for.

But it comes and goes and that is what makes it a fad. What also makes it a fad is that people tire of it so quickly and it adds zero value to movies and videogames. Once you've experienced it a few times you're done and most people don't want to pay extra for it anymore.Bread_or_Decide

It does come and go, but not in the same form. It has improved significantly since the red and blue days. As for it not adding anything, I think that is subjective. It's a whole dimension to a game or movie that brings the audience one step closer to being in the movie. How does that add nothing? It doesn't cost extra in any video game so far and people are easily coughing up money for it in the theater. Heck Lion King got crazy sales for it's 3D presentation and more movies are being made in 3D in 2012.