Dice might want to stop harping on graphics and start focusing on game-play mechanics. Seems they don't fully understand what made the original BF games tick (as they admitted they don't really know why people liked Bad Company games!). and so elements that really made the older games good seem to slowly get squeezed out by bigger explosions and more dramatic moments (which even based on their own polls during BF4, showed players generally were more interested in smaller game-play mechanics for which they had control of that might impact their experience vs bigger more scripted events for which individual players had very little individual control (levoution). Go back to all the standard game design literature over the years and the answer to that question has been answered many times over. Come on Dice, try to remember what it is about your game/game-play experience that people actually liked!
@jinzo9988 Ah, I was actually comparing contexts rather than using the same one for both. My point was businessmen shouldn't be making decisions about what gamers want, just like old people should be trying to figure out what young people want! Microsoft is looking more and more like a company pushing a 'business' console rather than a 'game' console
Let business men run anything related to games and this is what happens. You either get something that misses the boat completely or many many rehashes of something that at some point was made by developers that cared about games. Everything that Microsoft have said so far reminded me of a meeting I was in once where a bunch of old people tried to decide what 'cool' is (this was before I myself was old! haha)
Can't think of a better person for that award! Nice to see him sounding a bit nervous, shows a human side to an industry which is often run by evil business men. I've nothing but good things to say about this guy when I run game design and development lessons
Someday they should actually hire a GAME DESIGNER on one of these games and make something that isn't rubbish... watched the movie last night, thought about the worse possible game conversion you could do, and here today I see that is exactly what they've done...
Well, it is true that COD is getting most of its sales on previous success. There was a period where the old Infinity Ward wanted to remove COD from COD:MW2 to set up a new franchise called Modern Warfare, but Activision refused as by their statistical analyses, removing COD would result in fewer sales.
For a game to break into this market now, it has to be very good and very different. This results in a catch 22, because during times of economic recession, publishers are less likely to invest in something new and different and more likely to invest in a tried and tested formula that will guarantee success.
Another example in the history of Call of Duty, based on the original Infinity Ward having wanted to do Modern Warfare since Call of Duty 1, and not being allowed to because World War 2 was working. It didn’t mean a modern warfare game wouldn’t work, as clearly it did eventually, it just meant at that time the publisher wasn’t willing to take risks.
The interesting thing is that this climate does leave room for indie developers, as the best chance of finding something really original is from a small budget operation that may or may not require a publisher.
Sounds like a case of two wrongs not making a right to me. I mean I totally disagree with an option of skipping gameplay simply because these are video “games” by definition there needs to be a game in there. In fact I teach game design and development and one of the points I try to get across is that gameplay is the most important factor, many great games have had no story, but a game with no gameplay and a great story doesn’t work as well (sometimes it kind of works, but will never be out of this world, and yes, a game with both will work very well). Bottom line, if people want something that is all story and no gameplay, they are looking for a movie, not a game. The real issue is that the retaliation should have been in relation to the point made and not the person who made it. Likewise, this article takes a dig at the people who retaliated, which is also a step downwards, fighting at their own level and then adding insult to injury saying that gamers in no way own the product they buy, doesn’t that also hurt the gamers who weren’t involved in this mess? Games are nothing without gamers, and there are no gamers without games, so there are no winners to this fight, they all need each other and at this point we are left with a big mess which I feel this article may have made a bit worse.
No problem, no point taking sides when the two are basically at the same place, and yep heard about NVidia releasing their OpenGL update, they were pretty upset when dx10 updates messed with the 8800 special features. I hope Direct3D and OpenGL keep up the fight for a long time to come so the technology keeps moving forward at the rate it currently is! Competition is a great thing for the consumer :)
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