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#3.
We're on the Verge of Creative Bankruptcy
Let's go back to my graphic at the beginning. The reason every major game (that doesn't involve dragons) looks the same is because of the Modern Warfare series. So far we have two games and a spinoff that each took in as much money in the U.S. as Avatar. We already know what the best-selling game of 2011 will be: Modern Warfare 3, which was shown for the first time at E3.
Don't get me wrong, what they showed us was cool as shit. You're thrown right into the action, starting out under water ...
... emerging to see that, holy crap, New York is under attack!
Boats are burning in the harbor!
Look! There's Lady Liberty on the horizon, as if to remind us of what's at stake!
I can't wait to play it. But Modern Warfare 3 has some serious competition in the marketplace. Just earlier this year, maybe the best-looking console game ever made, Crysis 2, hit shelves. In the first level of that one, you're thrown right into the action, starting out under water ...
... emerging to see that, holy shit, New York is under attack!
Boats are burning in the harbor!
Look! There's Lady Liberty on the horizon, as if to remind us of what's at stake!
Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not shitting on game developers. I have friends in the industry, and they're each smarter and more talented than I am. I'm the one who wrote a novel about a man with multiple-personality disorder who, in a twist ending, finds out he was his own rapist -- I'm no one to throw stones.
But this isn't about any lack of creativity among game developers, artists, writers or anyone else. It's about money, and the fact that the market has trapped games in a fucking creative coffin (and developers will tell you the same). Everybody complains about sequels and reboots in Hollywood, but holy shit, it's nothing compared to what we have in gaming right now.
For instance, each of the Big Three game console makers took the stage at E3 to show off their biggest games of the upcoming year. Microsoft led off with the aforementioned Modern Warfare 3, which is really Call of Duty 8 (game makers like to switch up the sequel titles so the digits don't get ridiculous). Next was Tomb Raider 10 (rebooted as Tomb Raider). Then we had Mass Effect 3, and Ghost Recon 11 (titled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier). This was followed by Gears of War 3, Forza 4 and Fable 4 (called Fable: The Journey).
"Seriously, we have no goddamned idea what number we're on now. Just start over."
Next were two new games, both based on existing brands and both for toddlers (Disneyland Adventure -- a Kinect enabled game that will let your toddler tour Disneyland without you having to spring for a ticket -- and a Sesame Street game starring Elmo).
Then, finally, we reached the big announcement at the end (they always save cliffhanger "megaton" announcements for last, Steve Jobs-style) and they came out to announce that they were introducing "the beginning of a new trilogy." Yes! Something fucking new!
Then this came up on the screen:
Confused? So was the audience. By "new trilogy" they actually meant that there would be three more Halo games. Did I mention that Halo 4 is actually Halo 7? Which means they intend to put out at least nine Halo games before they're done? Oh, wait, they also announced they were doing a gritty reboot of the decade-old Halo to make it an even 10.
as it so happens, i DO enjoy looking down gun sights, so i found that to be a heartwarming image
:heart thank you for posting it!
i like looking down gunsights period, whether real or virtual, i don't discriminate.
Bring up a bunch of similar looking games, ignore unique games, complain about gaming being homogenous while ignoring unique games, go to message board to "troll", no one cares, plays unique games.
You could make a chart like that with JRPGs and it wouldn't be any less accurate.
Meanwhile in Nippon...
>Square-Enix Executive Embarrassed by Company's E3 Showing
:violin
wait wait wait! we had jrpg during e3? :o
Your OP header image says video gaming 2011, not Games at E3 in 2011....
And FFXIII-2, Devil Survivor 2 and Dark Souls were at E3
Mashin A... Mashin A... I dont like to try cause I play JRPGs mayne...
Givin a try... givin a try... I'm closet-minded and pathetic cause I'm a JRPG guy
Iwata’s full response:
In the case of the original Wii, our intent was to extend the gaming population, but of course we needed to think about how we were going to motivate non-gamers to play with video games, so we came up with Wii Sports and Wii Fit, as well as how the Wii system was designed.
For example, in the case of our products, approximately 50 percent of our users are a female audience, the other platforms are around 30 percent.
So, the Wii has already achieved very impressive things, but there were two things we were not able to realize: We could not keep up with the hardcore gamers and the Wii original was not compatible with HDTVs.
This time around, Wii U is compatible with HDTV, so we now expect the Wii console to be as powerful as any other console and all the necessary buttons are there [Iwata holds the new controller and demonstrates its use].
When we approached the third-party publishers to tell them about the Wii U, all the publishers volunteered to make advancements in the field of shooting games that they are very good at. For example, ordinarily when you are playing a shooter type of game, your main TV screen is the battlefield; however, oftentimes you have to open a new window to select items or weapons or to see the entire map.
But you don’t have to do that anymore with Wii U because you’ll have a screen that will show you that information.
But this is just one of the roles. It will also have another mission, as well. By having another screen, we believe it will pave a new way in the opposite direction to attract the non-gamers today. It’s no denying that we’ve expanded the so-called gaming population, but there’s still a number of people that have yet to be interested in the Wii at all, even after we introduced them to such applications as Wii Sports and Wii Fit.
Even those people, we want them to utilize Wii U one way or another.
For example, there’s video chat or they may want to do Web browsing while watching the screen on the big TV and managing operations with the screen in your hands.
For the past decade or so, many attempts have been made to link the TV and the Internet, but so far, nothing has been popular. So, the PC is still the strongest device to take advantage of the Internet, and now increasingly smartphones and tablets.
The ordinary TV sets in the household are located 10 feet away from yourself, and so it’s not the optimal solution to see the small letters of the Internet. You may also have problems with inputing and browsing.
On the other hand, when you look at this controller, it’s one foot away from your eyes — it has almost the same distance of the PC and other smartphones. In other words, this device is capable of handling such activities for you to input the letters in the palm of your hands.
In the future, if the TV and Internet can be used together, the TV will have a remote with a screen — and it will look very similar to how the Wii U controller is today.
what is it with weaboos and the FPS genre? It's like gaming kryptonite for them. I mean when you prefer 'love simulation' over anything, there is no hope left
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Great, more FPS garbage.
Whatever happened to playing games that help to stimulate the mind, stir the imagination?
Unreal Tournament music :rock
personaly i don't like FPS because i think they are all the samey game,put a gun below a camera,some terrorist/aliens and presto! you have your fps
Quotepersonaly i don't like FPS because i think they are all the samey game,put a gun below a camera,some terrorist/aliens and presto! you have your fps
would you say Doom and Bioshock are samey? Or Stalker and Half-Life? Fallout 3 and Bulletstorm?
Why dont you play Matt Hazard and see just how amazing a game it is then
i don't know,i haven't played a lot of these game but it's not a matter of game systems or what is a fps or what is not a fps....
if your whole idea is "shoot at some aliens" then i don't want to play it,you know what i loved? timesplitter and it's weird sense of humor with monkeys and hand puppets,that was a cool one
like i'm that kind of guy that would rather play that eat lead matt hazard game on the single premise that "FEATURES ACTUAL JOKES AND PARODIES!" than play any call of duty or halo game
magus just needs to download some Fallout 3 loli mods. He will become a FPS fan in no time. :bow2
Why do people have to like one genre exclusively at the cost of another... FPSes can be awesome, same with love simulations.
Magus your argument makes no sense. Once again you are harping on PREMISE rather than actual GAME DESIGN.
QuoteMagus your argument makes no sense. Once again you are harping on PREMISE rather than actual GAME DESIGN.
yes premise is way more important than something as vague as "game design",in fact premise is king and it is the reason i am a disgusting weeaboo
i wish people would stop talking about games like they are historical building ("the architecture of this level..." "it has awesome game design") and started talking about games like cat video's ("the bit where the cat chased the laser was so funny!")
the last fps i played was goldeneye on the wii,it was about somewhat cover based shooting,it had regenerating health,the weapon compartment consited of a shotgun,a gun,some things that went boom and too many machine guns,enemies consisted of soldiers,soldiers and more soldiers,and one level was an incredibly boring night club where this song looped infinitely "REMEMBA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-BA"
and this is how my twisted mind see fps,so much standardiness (i know i know it's not a real word,put down your gun grammar nazis) to stun a clown
What about Mirror's Edge and Portal? Dark Messiah: Might and Magic? Deus Ex? Penumbra/Amnesia? Metroid Prime? System Shock? The Chronicles of Riddick? Thief: Deadly Shadows?
would you say Doom and Bioshock are samey? Or Stalker and Half-Life? Fallout 3 and Bulletstorm?
Portal is not a first person shooter and neither is Mirror's Edge. We just tried suggesting he play Portal and now you're listing it as an fps. :wag
The western development pastures definitely aren't green... they're brown and grey and rendered in Unreal Engine 3 with excessive bump-mapping and shader effects. :D
smh Himuro... Uncharted, Saint's Row 2 and tuftoo do not run on UE3 engine.
Not getting a Mirror's Edge 2 is one of the worst things to happen this gen, second only to the Xenoblade/Last Story non-localization.
The western development pastures definitely aren't green... they're brown and grey and rendered in Unreal Engine 3 with excessive bump-mapping and shader effects. :D
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You guys make me ashamed of my hard on for Japanese games. Pathetic. Equally as annoying as anyone who is anti-Japanese gaming. Two extremes do not make a right.
magus does
Anything without an open map is getting ignored.
fps =/
Playing Metro 2033, I am enjoying most of it besides the "shooter" segments. I'm just tired of that gameplay.